Photoaging smartphone app promoting poster campaign to reduce smoking prevalence in secondary schools: the Smokerface Randomized Trial: design and baseline characteristics by Michael Kreuter, Fabian N Fries, Titus J Brinker, Ute Mons, David A Groneberg, Anil Batra, Werner Seeger, Felix Herth, Julia Holzapfel, Tanja G Baudson, Katharina Sies, Lena Jakob, Hannah Maria Baumert, Marlene Heckl, Ana Cirac, Janina L Suhre, Verena Mathes, Hannah Spielmann, Nancy Rigotti, Tobias Raupach, Henning Gall, Claudia Bauer, Pat Marek, Chase H Harrison, Lava Taha, Andreas Owczarek, Felix J Hofmann, Roger Thomas

“…The prospective experimental study design includes measurements at baseline and at 6, 12 and 24 months postintervention via a questionnaire plus a random cotinine saliva sample at 24 months postintervention. The study groups consist of randomised schools receiving the Smokerface poster campaign and control schools with comparable baseline data (no intervention). …”
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Microfinance Institution Services and Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Kabale District Uganda by moses Agaba

“…The study was descriptive in nature, and the data collecting and analysis methods used were quantitative. …”
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Efficacy and safety of Xiongzhitongluo granules in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Yunmeng Chen, Jingjing Wei, Xiao Liang, Yue Liu, Lina Miao, Di Zhao, Yunfan Zhang, Hongxi Liu, Yunling Zhang

“…Our team developed Xiongzhitongluo granules specifically for AIS and is conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to validate their effectiveness.Methods and analysisThis multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial includes 120 participants randomly allocated to the intervention or placebo group. …”
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Medication burden in patients with dialysis-dependent CKD: a systematic review by Xuemei Liu, Ping Chen, Yun Liu, Xiaoyan Jia, Dongmei Xu

“…Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) or Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) methodology checklist was used to evaluate quality and bias. Data extraction and combining from multiple groups of number (n), mean, and standard deviation (SD) were performed using R programming language (version4.3.1; R Core Team, Vienna, Austria). …”
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Predicting survival rates: the power of prognostic nomograms in distal cholangiocarcinoma by Jiangfeng Hu, Yuping Shi, Lihua Jin, Suhong Yi, Jinsuo Chen, Dadong Wan, Weixin Ye, Jingnan Chen, Yajing Zhang, Yang Jiang, Bensong Duan, Yuwei Dong

“…Decision curve analysis was used to evaluate the model and its clinical applicability.ResultsThe findings demonstrated that Grade, M stages, Surgery, and Chemotherapy emerged as autonomous prognostic factors for the survival of individuals with dCCA. …”
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Influence of COVID-19 Lockdown on Self-Efficacy in Endodontics among Dental Students by Jelena Vidas Hrstić, Ema Paljević, Ivana Brekalo Pršo, Ivana Vidović Zdrilić, Luka Šimunović, Elvis Božac, Romana Peršić Bukmir

“…The post hoc analysis confirmed the between-group difference (2.838; p < 0.05) in the arithmetic mean between the lockdown-affected and non-lockdown-affected groups. …”
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Enhancing predictive accuracy for urinary tract infections post-pediatric pyeloplasty with explainable AI: an ensemble TabNet approach by Hongyang Wang, Junpeng Ding, Shuochen Wang, Long Li, Jinqiu Song, Dongsheng Bai

“…Level of evidence IV Case series with no comparison group.…”
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Virulence diversity of the yellow rust pathogen population in Dagestan by E. I. Gultyaeva, E. L. Shaydayuk, R. E. Smirnova, K. M. Abdullaev, K. U. Kurkiev

“…‘Reichersberg 42’ and ‘Heines Peko Vilmorin 23’ were resistant in 2020 and 2022, and moderately affected (up to 10%) in 2021. Molecular analysis identified all three isolates belonging to the invasive PstS2 group on cv. …”
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Bibliometric Study of the National Scientific Production of All Peruvian Schools of Dentistry in Scopus by Frank Mayta-Tovalino, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Ana Diaz-Soriano, Fernando Perez-Vargas, Arnaldo Munive-Degregori, Silvia Luza

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Supporting self-management for patients with Interstitial Lung Diseases: Utility and acceptability of digital devices. by Malik A Althobiani, Rebecca Shuttleworth, John Conway, Jonathan Dainton, Anna Duckworth, Ana Jorge Da Ponte, Jessica Mandizha, Joseph W Lanario, Michael A Gibbons, Sarah Lines, Chris J Scotton, John R Hurst, Joanna C Porter, Anne-Marie Russell

“…The survey was open for participation between September 2021 and December 2022, and responses were collected anonymously. Data were analysed descriptively for quantitative aspects and through thematic analysis for qualitative input.…”
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Isolated anti-SS-B (La) antibodies: rare occurrence and lack of diagnostic value by Xavier Mariette, Gaetane Nocturne, Pascale Chretien, Claire Goulvestre, Paul Cioni, Eric Ballot, Dounia Khelifi-Touhami

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Performance and carcass characteristics of cattle with different castration practices by M. M. Anjos, V. S. Miler, B. N. Barboza, E. O. Queiroz, B. R. C. N. Pazdiora, G. A. Viana, R. D. Pazdiora

“…The total experimental period was 180 days. Data were hidden from the normality test, analysis of variance and mean comparisons were performed using the Tukey test, except for the variable degree of finishing, which was maintained at the chi-square test, at 5%. …”
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Vibrio Dynamics and Health Status of Pacific White Shrimp Fed with Cinnamaldehyde-Containing Feed by Dian Eka Ramadhani, Andri Hendriana, Dinamella Wahjuningrum, Muhammad Arif Mulya

“…Parameters included total bacteria (green and yellow Vibrio) in water, intestine, and hepatopancreas, as well as immune responses parameters, including total hemocyte count (THC), respiratory burst (RB), and phenol-oxidase (PO). All data were tabulated in Microsoft Excel 2016 and all statistical analysis was conducted in the SPSS v.22.0 software with one-way ANOVA followed by Duncan Multiple Range Test (DMRT (P=0.05). …”
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The clinical value of serum sirtuin-1 concentration in the diagnosis of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease by Farshad Amirkhizi, Mahdiyeh Taghizadeh, Banafshe Khalese-Ranjbar, Soudabeh Hamedi-Shahraki, Somayyeh Asghari

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was employed to evaluate the diagnostic value of serum Sirt-1 in the context of MASLD. …”
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Remineralising Effects of L-arginine Fluoride Mouthwash versus Sodium Fluoride Mouthwash: A Protocol of an In-vitro Study by Anjori Ajinkya Raut, Punit Ratnakar Fulzele

“…The teeth will be randomly divided into six groups with different concentrations of L-arginine fluoride, and a control group with sodium fluoride will also be evaluated. …”
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Anatomical and Functional MRI Changes after One Year of Auditory Rehabilitation with Hearing Aids by M. R. Pereira-Jorge, K. C. Andrade, F. X. Palhano-Fontes, P. R. B. Diniz, M. Sturzbecher, A. C. Santos, D. B. Araujo

“…In the present study, we used audiometric evaluations in 14 patients with bilateral hearing loss before and after one year of continuous HA use and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and cortical thickness analysis in 12 and 10 of them compared with a normal hearing control group. …”
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β-synuclein in cerebrospinal fluid as a potential biomarker for distinguishing human prion diseases from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease by Bing Xu, Kang Xiao, Xiaoxi Jia, Rundong Cao, Donglin Liang, Ruhan A, Weiwei Zhang, Chunjie Li, Liping Gao, Cao Chen, Qi Shi, Xiaoping Dong

“…Results The median of β-syn levels (2074 pg/ml; IQR: 691 to 4332) of all PrDs was significantly higher than that of non-PrDs group (504 pg/ml; IQR: 126 to 3374). The CSF β-syn values in the cohorts of sCJD, T188K-gCJD, E200K-gCJD and P102L-GSS were remarkably higher than that of the group of AD + PD, but similar as that of the group of VE + AE. …”
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Association between Admission Hyperglycemia and Culprit Lesion Characteristics in Nondiabetic Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomograp... by Jinying Zhou, Zhaoxue Sheng, Chen Liu, Peng Zhou, Jiannan Li, Runzhen Chen, Li Song, Hanjun Zhao, Hongbing Yan

“…Diabetes mellitus (DM) patients and non-DM patients have different culprit lesion phenotypes and few data are available on non-DM patients with admission hyperglycemia. …”
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Comparing myocardial perfusion scan findings in patients with and without Covid-19 by Bahar Moasses-Ghafari, Sahar Choupani, Sajed Jahanbin, Reza Lotfi, Khaled Rahmani

“…Data analysis was performed in SPSS using independent samples t-test and chi-squared. …”
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Factors affecting the design of the management dashboard framework with an emphasis on the components of human resources productivity by Hassan Barmaki, Farshad Faezy Razi, Ehtesham Rashidi

“…Delphi method was used to analyze the data. The findings of the research showed that after collecting data and conducting interviews and conducting the Delphi method, 15 dimensions and 53 indicators were counted in the final model in 4 main components. …”
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