Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Screening in Healthcare Workers and Its Correlation with Clinical Presentation in Tertiary Care Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal, from November 2020 to January 2... by Suraj Aryal, Sanskriti Pandit, Sushant Pokhrel, Mandira Chhusyabaga, Pabitra Bista, Mahendra Psd. Bhatt, Dharma Datta Subedi, Basista Psd. Rijal

“…A total of 185 HCWs were enrolled in this study. Their serum samples were screened for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, and a structured questionnaire was administered to collect further information. …”
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Pusiau struktūruotas interviu asmenybės funkcionavimo vertinimui STiP-5.1: lietuviškosios versijos psichometrinių savybių tyrimas paauglių imtyje by Rasa Barkauskienė, Elena Gaudiešiūtė, Agnė Saročkaitė, Ugnius Binkauskas, Ieva Gerliakaitė, Kristina Pliučienė

“…Rezultatai atskleidžia vieno faktoriaus, t. y. viendimensę, STiP-5.1 struktūrą bendroje tiriamųjų imtyje. Nustatytas bendros STiP-5.1 skalės didelis vidinis patikimumas ir geras vertintojų tarpusavio suderintumas. …”
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FREQUENCY OF IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA IN PREGNANCY, AND ITSASSOCIATED MATERNAL AND PERINATAL OUTCOMES by Naila Qamar, Farukh Naheed, Nazish Ali, Nikhat Ahsan, Farah Liaquat, Sadia

“…All pregnant women with iron deficiency anemia attending Fatima hospital at any trimester were enrolled. Patients were categorized into anemic (Hb<10 g/dL) and non-anemic (Hb> 10 g/dL) patients based on their Hb levels. …”
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The Feature of Distribution and Clonality of TCR γ/δ Subfamilies T Cells in Patients with B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma by Liang Wang, Meng Xu, Chunyan Wang, Lihua Zhu, Junyan Hu, Shaohua Chen, Xiuli Wu, Bo Li, Yangqiu Li

“…Four newly diagnosed B-NHL cases, including three with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and one with small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), were enrolled. The restrictive expression of TCR Vγ/Vδ subfamilies with different distribution patterns could be detected in PB, BM, or LN from all of four patients, and partial subfamily T cells showed clonal proliferation. …”
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Albumin-to-Fibrinogen Ratio Independently Predicts 28-Day Mortality in Patients with Peritonitis-Induced Sepsis by Huiyu Tai, Zhiyun Zhu, Haifeng Mei, Wenbin Sun, Wei Zhang

“…A total of 246 eligible patients who were scheduled to undergo surgical treatment for peritonitis-induced sepsis were enrolled in this study. The primary observational endpoint was 28-day hospital mortality. …”
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Predictors of Alcohol Use, Alcohol-Related Problems, and Substance Use Following Adolescent Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery by Gretchen E. White, PhD, Richard E. Boles, PhD, Anita P. Courcoulas, MD, MPH, Thomas H. Inge, MD, Susan Z. Yanovski, MD, Todd M. Jenkins, PhD, Meg H. Zeller, PhD

“…This study includes 217 adolescents (aged 13–19 years) enrolled in a 5-center prospective cohort study who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or vertical sleeve gastrectomy between 2007 and 2011 and were followed for up to 8 years. …”
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Characterization of the Effects of a Six-Month Dancing as Approach for Successful Aging by Maria Grazia Vaccaro, Giulia Izzo, Alessandro Ilacqua, Silvia Migliaccio, Carlo Baldari, Laura Guidetti, Andrea Lenzi, Aldo Quattrone, Antonio Aversa, Gian Pietro Emerenziani

“…Thirty experienced dancers (age: 71.2±5.1 years, 18 females/12 males) were enrolled from the dance school “NonSoloLiscio” of Catanzaro. …”
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Caracterización de trabajos finales de graduación de Licenciatura en Educación Especial, Universidad de Costa Rica 2013-2023 by Julieta Solórzano Salas, Eugenia García Artavia, Leonora Herrera Ulloa, Jorge Montero Segura

“…Se utilizó una revisión documental sistematizada, descriptiva con 8 categorías de interés, durante los meses de octubre 2023 a mayo 2024. Dentro de los principales hallazgos, se rescata la importancia de motivar TFG la investigación interdisciplinaria como interés del estudiantado, utilizar diferentes niveles de la taxonomía de Bloom, coherentes con las temáticas que se investigan, promover la implementación de metodologías mixtas en la investigación, así como incorporar temáticas poco analizadas, como lo es el trabajo con familias y la autonomía de personas adultas en situación de discapacidad, y otras actuales referentes a espacios educativos inclusivos. …”
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Prevalence, comorbidities, and disease-related complications of rheumatoid arthritis in Colombia: a national cross-sectional study based on administrative claims data by Kevin Maldonado-Cañón, Giancarlo Buitrago, Gerardo Quintana-López

“…We aimed to analyze the prevalence patterns of comorbidities and disease-related complications of RA patients enrolled in Colombia’s contributory healthcare regime. …”
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La tutoría universitaria y el desarrollo de competencias interculturales en los estudiantes griegos by Georgios NIKOLAOU

“…Por ello, la Europa contemporánea busca ciudadanos que sepan seleccionar y sacar provecho de las informaciones útiles dentro del océano de conocimientos que tienen a su disposición. …”
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Prevalencia del virus de la rinotraqueitis infecciosa bovina en el departamento del Caquetá, Amazónia Colombiana by A. L. Muñoz, P. A. Motta-Delgado, W. Herrera, R. Polania, L. C. Cháves

“…El objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar la prevalencia de IBR en 100 hatos del departamento del Caquetá, para lo cual, se muestrearon 960 bovinos mayores de 36 meses entre enero y marzo de 2016 en predios seleccionados a partir de los criterios: a) tamaño (50-180 hectáreas), b) con más de 10 vacas en ordeño, c) disponibilidad de los productores para cooperar y d) accesibilidad de las vías. …”
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Prevalence, Awareness, and Control of Hypertensive Disorders amongst Pregnant Women Seeking Healthcare in Ghana by Pauline Boachie-Ansah, Berko Panyin Anto, Afia Frimpomaa Asare Marfo, Edward Tieru Dassah, Constance Caroline Cobbold, Morrison Asiamah

“…The burden of HDPs was 37.2% among the 500 mothers enrolled with chronic hypertension superimposed with preeclampsia accounting for 17.6%, chronic hypertension, 10.2%, and preeclampsia 6.8% whilst gestational hypertension was 2.6%. …”
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors-related thyroid dysfunction: influencing factor analysis, prediction model development, and management strategy proposal by Xinya Li, Zaiwei Song, Yixuan Chen, Jingjing Wu, Dan Jiang, Zhen Zhang, Zeyuan Wang, Rongsheng Zhao

“…In the prediction model development phase, 621 participants were enrolled, with 36 patients developing ICI-TD. The model based on the LightGBM algorithm demonstrated superior performance, leading to the development of a web calculator. …”
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Dominant Arm Internal and External Rotation Strength is Related to Arm Pain in Youth Baseball Players by Jeffrey Paskewitz, Fred Breidenbach, Philip Malloy, P Michael Eckrich, Ryan Zarzycki

“… # Study Design Observational cohort study # Methods Sixty-five youth male baseball players between the ages of 12-15 were enrolled. Shoulder strength (ER, IR, ER/IR strength ratio, scaption) and passive ROM (ER, IR, flexion, horizontal adduction) were collected prior to the start of the spring 2021 baseball season. …”
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Dengue severity by serotype and immune status in 19 years of pediatric clinical studies in Nicaragua. by Federico Narvaez, Carlos Montenegro, Jose G Juarez, José Victor Zambrana, Karla Gonzalez, Elsa Videa, Sonia Arguello, Fanny Barrios, Sergio Ojeda, Miguel Plazaola, Nery Sanchez, Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer, Guillermina Kuan, Gabriela Paz Bailey, Eva Harris, Angel Balmaseda

“…Dengue cases were confirmed by molecular, serological, and/or virological methods, and study participants 6 months to 17 years old were followed during their hospital stay or as ambulatory patients.<h4>Results</h4>We enrolled a total of 15,833 participants, of whom 3,308 (21%) were positive for DENV infection. …”
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Cohort profile: maternal and child health and parenting practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ceará, Brazil: birth cohort study (Iracema-COVID) by Marcia C Castro, Márcia Maria Tavares Machado, Simone Farías-Antúnez, David Augusto Batista Sá Araújo, Ana Luiza Penna, Francisco Ariclene Oliveira, Camila Machado de Aquino, Antônio Silva Lima Neto, Geziel dos Santos de Sousa

“…Purpose Maternal and child health and parenting practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ceará (Iracema-COVID) is a longitudinal, prospective population-based birth cohort designed to understand the effects of the pandemic and social withdrawal in maternal mental health, child development and parenting practices of mothers and families.Participants A sample of mothers who gave birth in July and August 2020 (n=351) was enrolled in the study in January 2021. Interviews were conducted by telephone. …”
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CO2 levels and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in public schools: A retrospective cohort study in Montreal (Canada) by Olivier Séguin, Dorra Ghorbal, Gabrielle Denault, Karine Trudeau, Patrick Poulin, Catherine Dea, Stéphane Perron

“…Data on building ventilation types, CO2 measurements and school characteristics such as total enrollment and socioeconomic status (SES), were sourced from Ministry of Education’s administrative data for the 2020–2021 school year. …”
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Una metodología novedosa para identificar el origen y evolución del crecimiento de grietas de fatiga en acero by Federico Nunez, Sidney Guralnick, Thomas Erber

“…De los muchos microgramas obtenidos, se determinaron ocho tipos de grietas como los más típicos, que estaban en función de la localización dentro de la sección transversal de la muestra. Se asignó un color a cada tipo de microfisura, dependiendo de los parámetros geométricos que se midieron de manera aproximada (diámetro para los hoyitos y espaciamiento de las estrías de fatiga); lo anterior define la fractura equivalente en el Código de Colores - CC. …”
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Predictors of treatment outcome in higher levels of care among a large sample of adolescents with heterogeneous eating disorders by Erin E. Reilly, Sasha Gorrell, Alan Duffy, Dan V. Blalock, Philip Mehler, Harry Brandt, Susan McClanahan, Kianna Zucker, Naomi Lynch, Simar Singh, Catherine R. Drury, Daniel Le Grange, Renee D. Rienecke

“…Conclusions Data from our sample are consistent with past work suggesting that adolescents enrolled in higher levels of care report clinical benefit; however, these effects are heterogenous, and a significant portion of individuals may not report reliable change in symptoms. …”
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The diagnostic performance of indocyanine green for the sentinel node biopsy in prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Siyang Ma, Jianxuan Sun, Jinzhou Xu, Ye An, Mengyao Xu, Chenqian Liu, Sihan Zhang, Lintao Miao, Xingyu Zhong, Na Zeng, Haodong He, Shaogang Wang, Qidong Xia

“…Results: A total of 17 articles from databases are enrolled in this study. Using lymph node-based data, our results showed that the pooled sensitivity and specificity of applying ICG alone in PCa were 71% (95% CI 52%–85%) and 68% (95% CI 64%–72%), respectively. …”
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