Evaluation Of Educational Environment Based On Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure Inventory In Institute Of Nursing: A Cross-Sectional Study by Lubna Ghazal, Afia Ayyaz, Naila Iqbal, Saima Rafique, Aniqa Shoukat, Ayesha Afzal

“…All students (n= 216) enrolled in Generic and post-RN programs of BScN of the Institute of Nursing, Wah Medical College were given a DREEM questionnaire. …”
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Lateral Polydactyly of the Foot: Surgical Outcomes Based on a New Classification by Junko Otsuka, MD, Emiko Horii, MD, Shukuki Koh, MD, Hiroki Takeshige, MD

“…Methods:. This study enrolled 148 feet from 126 patients who underwent initial surgery at our hospital between January 2009 and July 2021. …”
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Turismos de interior y pandemia en España: del colapso a la resiliencia asimétrica. Un análisis de la ocupación hotelera by Ricardo Méndez Gutiérrez del Valle, Obdulia Monteserín Abella

“…El objetivo general del artículo es analizar el desigual impacto de la pandemia en la demanda turística entre enero de 2019 y diciembre de 2021 a diferentes escalas territoriales, aunque la escasez de datos a escala local redujo las posibilidades del análisis. …”
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“Eu sou do tipo que não desisto”: a construção de narrativas para pensar antropologia e a epidemia do Zika em Pernambuco by Barbara Marciano Marques

“…O  propósito é experimentar as possibilidades de afetação da narrativa dentro da antropologia da saúde por meio dessa história, que contará sobre os impactos da epidemia no cotidiano das mães e crianças que ainda sofrem suas consequências. …”
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The Safety and Tolerability of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Phosphate with Sodium Ferrous Citrate in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Bahrain by Feryal Al-Saber, Waleed Aldosari, Mariam Alselaiti, Hesham Khalfan, Ahmed Kaladari, Ghulam Khan, George Harb, Riyadh Rehani, Sizuka Kudo, Aya Koda, Tohru Tanaka, Motowo Nakajima, Abdulla Darwish

“…Fifty-three patients (n=53) from 3 sites at one center were enrolled by Dr. Feryal (Site #01), Dr. Hesham (Site #02), and Dr. …”
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Calculated Tumor Volume Is an Independent Predictor of Biochemical Recurrence in Patients Who Underwent Retropubic Radical Prostatectomy by Nobumichi Tanaka, Kiyohide Fujimoto, Akihide Hirayama, Yasushi Nakai, Yoshitomo Chihara, Satoshi Anai, Atsushi Tomioka, Keiji Shimada, Noboru Konishi, Yoshihiko Hirao

“…Between January 1997 and March 2006, 255 patients with clinically localized adenocarcinoma of the prostate (clinical T1-3N0M0) who had undergone retropubic radical prostatectomy were enrolled in this study. None of the patients received neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy. …”
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The Treg/Th17 Imbalance in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome by Jin Ye, Hui Liu, Gehua Zhang, Peng Li, Zhiyuan Wang, Shaotong Huang, Qintai Yang, Yuan Li

“…Fourty-four OSAS men and 20 healthy volunteers were enrolled. Twenty-three patients were classified into mild to moderate group and 21 cases were classified into severe group according to the severity of OSAS. …”
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Baseline Factors Predictive of SLT Response: A Prospective Study by Robin Bruen, Mark R. Lesk, Paul Harasymowycz

“…Methods. 74 eyes of 74 patients were enrolled in this study. Baseline characteristics were recorded for each patient. …”
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Clinical and Renal Biopsy Findings Predicting Outcome in Renal Thrombotic Microangiopathy: A Large Cohort Study from a Single Institute in China by Xiao-Juan YU, Feng YU, Di Song, Su-Xia Wang, Yan Song, Gang Liu, Ming-Hui Zhao

“…One hundred and nine TMA patients were enrolled in this study. The mean age was 34.0 ± 11.1 years. …”
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Elevated Serum IL-17 Expression at Cessation Associated with Graves’ Disease Relapse by Jianhui Li, Xiaohua Sun, Danzhen Yao, Jinying Xia

“…Consecutive newly diagnosed GD patients who were scheduled to undergo ATD therapy from May 2011 to May 2014 were prospectively enrolled. Risk factors for GD relapse were analyzed by univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazard analyses. …”
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Effect of Beverage Consumption Frequency on DMFT Index among Iranian Adult Population: An AZAR Cohort Study by Mahdi Hadilou, Mohammad Hossein Somi, Elnaz Faramarzi, Leila Nikniaz

“…A total of 14,966 adults with the mean age of 49.64 ± 9.28 were enrolled. The participants’ mean DMFT value was 21.27 ± 8.95. …”
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Legitimación y deslegitimación de la violencia policial mediante racionalización en Twitter: el caso del paro nacional universitario en Colombia de 2018 by Serhat Tutkal

“…Para ello, analiza 8,421 tuits, recogidos a partir del hashtag #FuerzaEstebanMosquera, en los que se legitima o deslegitima la violencia policial en la Universidad del Cauca en diciembre de 2018. Ubicada dentro de los Estudios Críticos del Discurso (ECD), esta investigación se centra especialmente en los mecanismos discursivos y las referencias culturales específicas que se utilizaron en estos tuits. …”
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The factors impacting on Gleason score upgrading in prostate cancer with initial low Gleason scores by Tzu-Heng Huang, Wei-Ming Li, Hung-Lung Ke, Ching-Chia Li, Wen-Jeng Wu, Hsin-Chih Yeh, Yen-Chun Wang, Hsiang-Ying Lee

“…Methods: 341 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy from 2011/04 to 2020/12 were identified. 102 Patients with initial GS of six after biopsy were enrolled. Preoperative clinical variables and pathological variables were also obtained and assessed. …”
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Elevated Concentration of Defensins in Hepatitis C Virus-Infected Patients by Ehab H. Mattar, Hussein A. Almehdar, Abdullah A. AlJaddawi, Isam ElDin M. Abu Zeid, Elrashdy M. Redwan

“…The current study aimed to estimate the concentrations of total, α-, and β-defensins in serum taken from normal and HCV-infected patients. 12 healthy (noninfected) and 34 HCV-infected patients were enrolled. Standardized immunoassay kits were used to obtain serum concentrations of defensins. …”
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La intrincada relación del unitarismo con los sectores populares, 1820-1829 by Ignacio Zubizarreta

“…Sin embargo, al abordar un tópico menos estudiado, intentaremos analizar, de un modo general, cómo se gestó dicha relación con los sectores populares, y cómo fluctuó a través del tiempo. …”
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Influence of the “five‑in‑one” mode on complications and compliance behaviors of patients with ureteral calculi after minimally invasive surgery by Xixian Ou, Xuejing Wang

“…Materials and methods: A total of 92 participants were enrolled from among the patients hospitalized for ureteral calculi and treated with minimally invasive surgery between April 2022 and April 2023. …”
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Selected Biomarkers Correlate with the Origin and Severity of Sepsis by Michal Holub, Olga Džupová, Michaela Růžková, Alžběta Stráníková, Eva Bartáková, Jan Máca, Jiří Beneš, Heiko Herwald, Ondřej Beran

“…The etiology was established in 56 out of a total of 62 patients enrolled in the study. Plasma concentrations of MCP-1, sCD14, IL-6, and IL-10 were significantly higher in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP; n=10) and infective endocarditis (IE; n=11) compared to those with bacterial meningitis (BM; n=18). …”
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Nasal Carriage of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus among Health Care Workers in Tertiary and Regional Hospitals in Dar es Salam, Tanzania by Agricola Joachim, Sabrina J. Moyo, Lillian Nkinda, Mtebe Majigo, Sima Rugarabamu, Elizabeth G. Mkashabani, Elia J. Mmbaga, Naboth Mbembati, Said Aboud, Eligius F. Lyamuya

“…MRSA was detected using the cefoxitin disk. Among 379 HCWs enrolled, 157/379 (41.4%) were colonized with S. aureus, of whom 59 (37.6%) were MRSA carriers giving an overall prevalence of 59/379 (15.6%). …”
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Impact of Underweight after Treatment on Prognosis of Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer by Se Ik Kim, Hee Seung Kim, Tae Hun Kim, Dong Hoon Suh, Kidong Kim, Jae Hong No, Hyun Hoon Chung, Yong Beom Kim, Yong Sang Song

“…A total of 360 patients with stage III-IV epithelial ovarian cancer were enrolled and divided into three groups by body mass indexes (BMIs): underweight (BMI < 18.5 kg/m2); normal weight to overweight (18.5 kg/m2 BMI < 27.5 kg/m2); obesity (BMI ≥ 27.5 kg/m2). …”
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Impact of Urban Undersea Tunnel Longitudinal Slope on the Visual Characteristics of Drivers by Shoushuo Wang, Zhigang Du, Fangtong Jiao, Libo Yang, Yudan Ni

“…This study aims to investigate the impact of the urban undersea tunnel longitudinal slope on the visual characteristics of drivers. 20 drivers were enrolled to conduct the real vehicle test of the urban undersea tunnel. …”
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