CORRELATION OF ADOLESCENT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FREE SEX PRACTICES WITH THE RISK OF CERVICAL CANCER ON THE MOTIVATION OF HPV VACCINATION AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 6 SURABAYA by Maria Agatha Arlean, Linda Dewanti, Dewi Setyowati

“…Results: The majority (83.1%) of adolescents in grades 7, 8, and 9 demonstrated good knowledge (83.1%) regarding free sexual practices with the risk of cervical cancer incidence. …”
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Mitochondria-Targeting and Oxygen Self-Supplying Eccentric Hollow Nanoplatform for Enhanced Breast Cancer Photodynamic Therapy by Jing Li, Yu Wang, Jun Tao, Xiaodan Su, Feipeng Zhu, Wei Lu, Xiaolin Han, Meng Dang, Lixing Weng

“…Hemolytic assays and in vitro toxicity experiments show that the EHMONs-Ce6-CTPP possesses very good biocompatibility and can target mitochondria of triple-negative breast cancer, thus increasing the accumulation of photosensitizers Ce6 at mitochondria after entering cancer cells. …”
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Analysis of causes of acute peripheral vascular lesion in neonates and individualized surgical treatment and nursing (新生儿急性外周血管病损的原因分析及外科治疗和个性化护理)... by MA Lijuan (马丽娟), CHENG Lili (程丽丽), XIE LI (谢丽)

“…Based on the analysis of cause analysis, implementation of individualized surgical treatment and nursing strategy may achieve good clinical outcomes in the treatment of acute peripheral vascular lesion in neonates. …”
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Efficacy of aerobic exercise for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders receiving ART: An RCT by Martins Nweke, Nombeko Mshunqane

“…Clinical Implications: For people with HAND, regular AE is a good way to manage AP restriction. Increasing AE participation may improve AP restriction.…”
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Evaluation of Digital PCR as a Technique for Monitoring Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplantation by Hyeseon Lee, Young-Mi Park, Yu-Mee We, Duck Jong Han, Jung-Woo Seo, Haena Moon, Yu-Ho Lee, Yang-Gyun Kim, Ju-Young Moon, Sang-Ho Lee, Jong-Keuk Lee

“…We found that donor DNA was almost undetectable in plasma DNA samples, whereas a high percentage of donor DNA was measured in urine DNA samples, indicating that urine is a good source of cfDNA for patient monitoring. We found that at least 24% of the highly polymorphic SNPs used to identify individuals could also identify donor cfDNA in transplant patient samples. …”
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Development and Testing of a Patient Outcome Measure for Interprofessional Tuberculosis Care: A Delphi Study by Bau D. Ardyansyah, Reinie Cordier, Margo Brewer, Dave Parsons

“…Conclusion:The findings indicate that the instrument content validity was good, fulfilling COSMIN requirements for items' relevance, comprehensibility, and comprehensiveness.   …”
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Energy-Based Aerodynamic Analysis on the Blended-Wing-Body Aircraft with Boundary Layer Ingestion by Wenyuan Zhao, Yanlai Zhang, Jianghao Wu

“…The grid refinement and domain size study shows that the calculated force coefficients and total dissipation coefficient have a good convergence characteristic with the mesh refinement and are insensitive to the variation in domain size. …”
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A Study of a Wide-Angle Scanning Phased Array Based on a High-Impedance Surface Ground Plane by Tian Lan, Qiu-Cui Li, Yu-Shen Dou, Xun-Ya Jiang

“…Floquet mode analysis is utilized to analyze the active impedance and the reflection coefficient. Good agreement is obtained between the theoretical results and the simulations. …”
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DNA Quality Assessment for Array CGH by Isothermal Whole Genome Amplification by Tineke E. Buffart, Marianne Tijssen, Thijs Krugers, Beatriz Carvalho, Serge J. Smeets, Ruud H. Brakenhoff, Heike Grabsch, Gerrit A. Meijer, Henry B. Sadowski, Bauke Ylstra

“…In gastric cancer samples, the isothermal amplification was a more accurate method for selecting good quality DNA for array CGH compared to using PCR product lengths. …”
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Salivary Levels of Interleukin-17 in Iranian Patients With Systemic Sclerosis by Ali Tadayon, Javad Moayedi, Mohamad Ali Nazarinia, Mahyar Malekzadeh, Sara Kazemi, Maryam Mardani

“…Based on the results, salivary levels of IL-17 could be considered a good marker to differentiate patients with SSc from healthy subjects. …”
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Anatomy-Informed Multimodal Learning for Myocardial Infarction Prediction by Ivan-Daniel Sievering, Ortal Senouf, Thabo Mahendiran, David Nanchen, Stephane Fournier, Olivier Muller, Pascal Frossard, Emmanuel Abbe, Dorina Thanou

“…<italic>Results:</italic> The results of our framework on a clinical study of 445 patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes confirms that multimodal learning increases the predictive power and achieves good performance (AUC: <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.67\pm 0.04$</tex-math></inline-formula> &amp; F1-Score: <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.36\pm 0.12$</tex-math></inline-formula>), which outperforms the prediction obtained by each modality independently as well as that of interventional cardiologists (AUC: 0.54 &amp; F1-Score: 0.18). …”
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Assessment of Accuracy of COSMIC and KOMPSAT Radio Occultation Temperature and Pressure by Descalzo Karl Philippe A., Macalalad Ernest P.

“…COSMIC-2 and KOMPSAT-5 temperature and pressure have good agreement with radiosondes in the stratosphere. …”
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Examination of Self-Care Behavior Profile and Self-Care Management in Hypertension Patients by Esra Türker

“…Self-care management in chronic diseases increased the total level of self-care behavior (ß = 0.702).Conclusion: As a result of the research, it was revealed that hypertension patients with good self-care behavior were able to control their condition better and had less diffilty in managing the disease. …”
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Development and Validation of an UHPLC-QqQ-MS Technique for Simultaneous Determination of Ten Bioactive Components in Fangji Huangqi Tang by Xiaoli Wang, Xiao Liu, Tingting Zhu, Baochang Cai

“…All the compounds showed good linearities (r≥0.999). The LOQs of the ten components were 0.36, 0.18, 0.09, 0.43, 0.02, 1.89, 0.26, 0.18, 0.61, and 0.48 ng/mL for tetrandrine, fangchinoline, atractylenolide I, atractylenolide III, calycosin-7-O-β-D-glucoside, glycyrrhizin, liquiritin, isoliquiritin, liquiritigenin, and isoliquiritigenin, respectively. …”
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The Role of the High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein in Patients with Stable Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis by Meng-Heng Hsieh, Yueh-Fu Fang, Guan-Yuan Chen, Fu-Tsai Chung, Yuan-Chang Liu, Cheng-Hsien Wu, Yu-Chen Chang, Horng-Chyuan Lin

“…Conclusion. There was a good correlation between serum hs-CRP and HRCT scores in the patients with stable non-CF bronchiectasis.…”
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Characterization of Acoustic Emission Parameters during Fracture Process of Siltstone with Prefabricated Void by Xiaorong Liu, Lulin Zheng, Hengyi He, Qing Qiu, Ziqi Liu, Xuefeng Li, Lin Yan, Gang Huang

“…The research results show that there are multiple stress drops before the deformation and failure of the rock sample with prefabricated drill holes; there is a positive correlation between the diameter of the drill hole and the power law index of the stress drop distribution; the acoustic emission activity of the rock during the deformation and failure process can be indirectly reflected the evolution of microfractures; the energy probability density function under different borehole diameters conforms to the power law distribution; the critical exponent obtained by the maximum likelihood estimation has an optimal plateau value, which can accurately characterize the power exponent of the energy distribution; the launch waiting time and aftershock sequence have a good power-law distribution in logarithmic coordinates. …”
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Measuring Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector by M. A. Shchepeleva

“…In addition, due to insufficient statistical database existing models are good at predicting crises with hindsight, but cannot identify stressful episodes ex-ante. …”
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REVISIT OF BAKASI PENISULA NIGERIA CAMEROUN RESOURCE CONFLICT by ODE AGI OKO, AWUDU SHEKARAU MASA-IBI

“… The discovering of huge natural oil deposit in the waters surrounding the Bakasi Peninsular changed the good harmonious relations between Nigeria and Cameroon commencing from 1981. …”
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Geomagnetically Induced Current Model Validation From New Zealand's South Island by T. Divett, D. H. Mac Manus, G. S. Richardson, C. D. Beggan, C. J. Rodger, M. Ingham, E. Clarke, A. W. P. Thomson, M. Dalzell, Y. Obana

“…However, the model significantly underestimates the magnitude of these peaks, even for a transformer with good spectral match. This is because of the limited range of frequencies for which the thin‐sheet model is valid and severely limits the usefulness of this modeling approach for accurate prediction of peak GICs.…”
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An enriched environment promotes cognitive recovery and cerebral blood flow in aged mice under sevoflurane anaesthesia by Wenfeng Gao, Wenji Xie, Wenqin Xie, Changcheng Jiang, Zhenming Kang, Naizhen Liu

“…Sevoflurane is an inhalation anaesthetic agent widely used in clinical settings. Despite good surgical outcomes using sevoflurane, patients frequently develop postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). …”
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