Challenges and Issues in English Presentation Through Synchronous Online Conference Platforms in Higher Education by Aisah Apridayani, Abdul Kamaruddin, Nootchanat Sukkaew

“…The current study examined Thai university students’ perspectives on their English presentation abilities, the difficulties they encounter when delivering English presentations in an online environment, and their preferred mode of presentation. They enrolled in a 12-week online course on English presentation and communication skills through the Zoom application. …”
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Child Nutritional Status: A Representative Survey in a Metropolitan School by Paolo Rosati, Stefania Triunfo, Giovanni Scambia

“…Five hundred ninety-five children (289 males and 306 females) were enrolled, aged between 6 and 19 years old, in Italian school in Rome. …”
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Proyecto de catalogación por descriptores en serie de consultas en un archivo de gestión de titularidad pública by Edison Yamir Toledo Díaz

“…Después de explicar los primeros resultados obtenidos en la ejecución del proyecto por la empresa Pons Seguridad Vial en una institución de la Administración pública española, el informe concluye con la importancia de discriminar la información clave dentro del gran volumen informativo del que dispone una institución. …”
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Parques Nacionales y la configuración de un destino turístico: transformaciones socio territoriales en San Martín de los Andes, Argentina (1937-1955) by Gabriela Landini

“…La metodología consistió en el análisis de bibliografía especializada y fuentes de distintas procedencias: archivos de la Administración de Parques Nacionales, Censos Nacionales y de Territorios Nacionales; y guías de turismo y otras publicaciones que circularon durante el período de análisis. …”
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Role of Transforming Growth Factor-β1 and Smads Signaling Pathway in Intrauterine Adhesion by Umme Salma, Min Xue, Md Sayed Ali Sheikh, Xiaoming Guan, Bin Xu, Aiqian Zhang, Lihua Huang, Dabao Xu

“…The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of Smad3, Smad7, and TGF-β1 in intrauterine adhesion (IUA) patients and experimental rabbit models. 60 IUA patients, 30 control participants, and 18 female rabbits were enrolled in this study. We found that the plasma concentrations and protein expressions of TGF-β1 were significantly increased in patients and experimental rabbits compared to those in controls (P<0.05). …”
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Evaluating the fairness of a high-stakes college entrance exam in Kuwait by Fajer Shamsaldeen, Jue Wang, Soyeon Ahn

“…KUEAT scores and first-year college GPAs of 4033 students enrolled in KU were used for assessing the external evidence of bias. …”
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El (des)valor de la educación: voces de los futuros docentes by Bartomeu Mut-Amengual, Joan Jordi Muntaner-Guasp, Miquel F. Oliver-Trobat, Carme Pinya-Medina

“…El método utilizado para la consecución de la investigación realizada ha sido una entrevista semiestructurada en la que los participantes contestaban a la problemática planteada con relación a cuatro grandes bloques: la Administración educativa, los centros educativos, el profesorado y, por último, el alumnado. …”
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Predictive Factors of Early Recurrence in Patients with Distal Cholangiocarcinoma after Pancreaticoduodenectomy by Yasuhiro Ito, Yuta Abe, Tomohisa Egawa, Minoru Kitago, Osamu Itano, Yuko Kitagawa

“…Sixty-one patients with distal cholangiocarcinoma were enrolled. The clinical data and histopathological findings were collected retrospectively. …”
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Relative anterior spinal overgrowth in mild and moderate adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a retrospective study by Haoyang Zhang, Xin Ye, Hongjiao Wu, Yi Shen, Yingsen Pan, Xiaoming Ying, Jiaying He

“…A total of 125 AIS and 179 non-scoliotic adolescents were enrolled. The anterior vertebral body height (VBHa) and posterior vertebral body height (VBHp) were measured on lateral spine radiographs, and the VBHa/VBHp ratio was calculated. …”
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Asociaciones, educación y maestro en el Bolívar Grande (Colombia), 1870-1899 by Luisinho Eder Salas Martínez

“…El presente artículo tiene como objetivo central analizar las principales características de las asociaciones creadas en el tránsito del Liberalismo radical a la Regeneración en el Bolívar Grande entre 1870-1899. Inscrito dentro de la tendencia historiográfica en América Latina, que pretende examinar el tema de la formación del Estado-nación desde múltiples variables, que tiene en las sociabilidades y la educación pública, dos espejos muy relevantes como análisis de interpretación, estas líneas muestran que el mundo asociativo creado durante este periodo no solo fue un factor que coadyuvó a la popularización de la educación y difusoras de un mismo lenguaje instruccionista, sino que también se constituyen en un elemento de continuidad entre estos dos proyectos políticos. …”
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Correlation of Abdominal Fat Distribution with Different Types of Diabetes in a Chinese Population by Anhui Zhu, Bin Cui, Haodan Dang, Dan Yao, Haitao Yu, Hongmin Jia, Zhijun Hu, Xiaojin Zhang

“…A total of 176 diabetic subjects were enrolled, 92 with type 1 and 84 with type 2, with a mean age of 27.41 and 49.3 yrs. …”
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Estudantes universitários e pandemia por covid-19: impactos na saúde mental by Patricia Mendel, Sabrina Daiana Cúnico, Carmem Regina Giongo

“…Concluiu-se que são necessárias ações que ampliem o acolhimento e a escuta desse público dentro das universidades de forma mais efetiva, contribuindo para a promoção da saúde mental.…”
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The “Gender Factor” in Wearing-Off among Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Post Hoc Analysis of DEEP Study by Delia Colombo, Giovanni Abbruzzese, Angelo Antonini, Paolo Barone, Gilberto Bellia, Flavia Franconi, Lucia Simoni, Mahmood Attar, Emanuela Zagni, Shalom Haggiag, Fabrizio Stocchi

“…Results. Of 617 patients enrolled, 236 were women and 381 were men. Prevalence of WO was higher among women, according to both neurologists’ judgment (61.9% versus 53.8%, P=0.045) and the WOQ-19 analysis (72.5% versus 64.0%, P=0.034). …”
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School-Based Health Center Intervention Improves Body Mass Index in Overweight and Obese Adolescents by Alberta S. Kong, Andrew L. Sussman, Carolina Yahne, Betty J. Skipper, Mark R. Burge, Sally M. Davis

“…Sixty nondiabetic overweight/obese adolescents were enrolled. Measures included BMI percentile, waist circumference, insulin resistance by homeostasis model assessment (HOMA-IR), blood pressure, triglycerides, and HDL-C levels. …”
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Combination of Multifocal Electroretinogram and Spectral-Domain OCT Can Increase Diagnostic Efficacy of Parkinson’s Disease by Jiang Huang, Yi Li, Jianjiang Xiao, Qin Zhang, Guoxu Xu, Guanhui Wu, Tong Liu, Weifeng Luo

“…Fifty-three PD patients and forty-one healthy controls were enrolled. Subjects were assessed for retinal function using mf-ERG and retinal structure using SD-OCT. …”
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Prevalence of HIV Drug Resistance Mutations in HIV Type 1 Isolates in Antiretroviral Therapy Naïve Population from Northern India by S. Sinha, H. Ahmad, R. C. Shekhar, N. Kumar, L. Dar, J. C. Samantaray, S. K. Sharma, A. Bhargava, R. M. Pandey, R. L. Mitsuyasu, J. L. Fahey

“…Analysis was performed using Viroseq genotyping system based on sequencing of entire protease and two-thirds of the Reverse Transcriptase (RT) region of pol gene. Results. Seventy three chronic HIV-1 infected ART naïve patients eligible for first line ART were enrolled from April 2006 to August 2008. …”
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Clinical Validation of an Office-Based 14C-UBT (Heliprobe) for H. pylori Diagnosis in Iranian Dyspeptic Patients by Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei, Omid Sanaei, Farahnaz Joukar

“…To study the diagnostic accuracy of Heliprobe 14C-urea breath test (14C-UBT) for detection of H. pylori infection in an Iranian population. Study. We enrolled 125 dyspeptic patients in our study. All of them underwent gastroscopy, and four gastric biopsies (three from the antrum and one from the corpus) were obtained. …”
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Elevated Preoperative Serum CA19-9 Levels in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Is Associated with Poor Prognosis after Resection by Yu-Ling Chen, Chien-Hung Chen, Rey-Heng Hu, Ming-Chih Ho, Yung-Ming Jeng

“…A cohort of 304 patients undergoing surgical resection for HCC and having preoperative CA19-9 data was enrolled in this study. Serum CA19-9 levels were correlated with clinicopathologic factors. …”
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Prevalence of Malaria and TB Coinfection at a National Tuberculosis Treatment Centre in Uganda by Joseph Baruch Baluku, Sylvia Nassozi, Brian Gyagenda, Margret Namanda, Irene Andia-Biraro, William Worodria, Pauline Byakika-Kibwika

“…Using a cross-sectional study design we enrolled 363 bacteriologically confirmed adult TB patients, and data on demographics and medical history was collected. …”
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Improves Activities of Daily Living in Parkinson's Disease by Weidong Pan, Shin Kwak, Yun Liu, Yan Sun, Zhenglong Fang, Baofeng Qin, Yoshiharu Yamamoto

“…Among 115 patients with idiopathic PD enrolled (mean age, 64.7 ± 10.2 years old), 110 patients (M = 65, F = 45; mean age, 64.9 ± 10.7 years old) completed the study. …”
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