Low-dose ionizing radiation and the exposure–lag response: protocol for a prospective cohort study on The Health Effects of Chongqing Occupational Radiation Workers by Xiao-Ling Qin, Qiang Huang, Han-Wen Zhang, Yi Zeng, Xian-Shu Lin, Xiao-Yuan Fan, Jun Diao, Cheng-Zhi Chen, Shu-Qun Cheng, Fang Yuan, Jun-Lin He, Wei Li, Yin-Yin Xia

“…Furthermore, previous cohorts have not provided a broad-gauge assessment of the temporal relationship between low-dose occupational radiation exposure and the risk of health outcomes.MethodsA prospective cohort study will be carried out focusing on radiation workers in Chongqing. …”
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Women’s hospital birth experiences in Harar, eastern Ethiopia: a qualitative study using Roy’s Adaptation Model by Roseanne C Schuster, Nega Assefa, Maleda Tefera, Kedir Teji Roba, Letta Gedefa, Alex Brewis

“…Objective The aim of the study was to explore women's birth in public hospitals in the Harari Region of eastern Ethiopia.Design An exploratory phenomenological qualitative study design was used.Setting Two public hospitals (Hiwot Fana Specialized University Hospital and Jugal General Hospital).Participants and methods The study enrolled women who gave birth at the selected hospitals through purposive sampling. …”
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Oxidative Stress, Lipid Peroxidation, and Loss of Hyaluronic Acid in the Human Vitreous Affected by Synchysis Scintillans by Loredana Bergandi, Oleksii A Skorokhod, Rosalba La Grotta, Evelin Schwarzer, Raffaele Nuzzi

“…Human aqueous and vitreous humors were obtained during vitrectomy from thirty-seven otherwise healthy patients that were randomly chosen among patients that had to undergo a 25-gauge pars plana vitrectomy from the central vitreous cavity, for either synchysis scintillans (n = 16) or vitreoretinal disorders without synchysis scintillans (n = 21), such as idiopathic epimacular membrane (n = 12), macular hole (n = 5), or rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (n = 4). …”
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Quantum Vulnerability Analysis to Guide Robust Quantum Computing System Design by Fang Qi, Kaitlin N. Smith, Travis LeCompte, Nian-feng Tzeng, Xu Yuan, Frederic T. Chong, Lu Peng

“…For example, the estimated probability of success (ESP) is the state-of-the-art metric used to gauge quantum program performance. The ESP suffers poor prediction since it fails to account for the unique combination of circuit structure, quantum state, and quantum computer properties specific to each program execution. …”
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Determination of Hydraulic Properties of a Large Self-Propped Hydraulic Fracture in the Geothermal Research Borehole Horstberg Z1 in the Northwest German Basin by Reinhard Jung, Alireza Hassanzadegan, Torsten Tischner

“…The fracture had been created by injecting some 20,000 m3 of freshwater at 3800 m depth in borehole Horstberg Z1 of the geothermal research project GeneSys. Its main purpose is to study the hydraulic properties and mechanical behaviour of artificial fractures kept open by the so called self-propping effect which results from the misfit of the opposite fracture surfaces being sheared during fracture propagation. …”
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Sustainable Economic Growth and Land Management: A Case Study on the Role of Tax Legislation in Emerging Markets by Edith Pilar Quispe-Espinoza, Sonia Luz Barzola-Inga, Carlos Antonio Adauto-Justo, Carlos Samuel Borja-Mucha, Fabricio Miguel Moreno-Menéndez, Fredi Paul Gutiérrez-Meza, Jefrin Marlon Silva-Murillo, Vicente González-Prida

“…In this study, the research design was non-experimental, and since the data were descriptive–correlational in nature, a structured questionnaire with a Likert scale was used to gauge participants’ opinions about economic progress and tax benefits. …”
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Defining New Research Questions and Protocols in the Field of Traumatic Brain Injury through Public Engagement: Preliminary Results and Review of the Literature by Shumaila Hasan, Aswin Chari, Mario Ganau, Chris Uff

“…Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most common cause of death and disability in the age group below 40 years. The financial cost of loss of earnings and medical care presents a massive burden to family, society, social care, and healthcare, the cost of which is estimated at £1 billion per annum (about brain injury (online)). …”
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Perceived stress and coping strategies used by undergraduate dental students: An observational study. by Saira Atif, Nilofar Mustafa, Sarah Ghafoor

“…Item "overload feeling due to huge syllabus" had the highest mean stress score (3.49±0.76) and "language barrier" had the lowest mean stress score (1.75±0.92). …”
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Crystal structure modulating performances for 213-nm GeO2 solar-blind photodetectors via DC reactive magnetron sputtering method by Chengming Wei, Jiabao Liu, Xinru Lan, Cheng Yang, Shuiping Huang, Dongdong Meng, Zhengwei Chen, Hongguang Duan, Xu Wang

Subjects: “…GeO2 films…”
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Inclusion of non-medical interventions in model-based economic evaluations for tuberculosis: A scoping review. by Lauren C Ramsay, Marina Richardson, Rafael N Miranda, Marian Hassan, Sarah K Brode, Elizabeth Rea, Beate Sander

“…However, the identified articles provided useful examples of how economic modeling can be used to explore non-traditional interventions using existing economic evaluation methods.…”
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CalciumZero: a toolbox for fluorescence calcium imaging on iPSC derived brain organoids by Xiaofu He, Yian Wang, Yutong Gao, Xuchen Wang, Zhixiong Sun, Huixiang Zhu, Kam W. Leong, Bin Xu

“…CalciumZero includes a graphical user interface (GUI), which provides end-user iconic visualization and smooth adjustments on parameter tuning. …”
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Occupational Exposure to Low Concentrations of Lead Dust and Oxidative Stress in Mine Workers by Fateme Kooshki, Masoud Neghab, Fatemeh Rahimian, Fereshteh Aliasghari, Esmaeel Soleimani

“…Blood samples were collected to determine OS parameters. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 21.0.Results: The mean exposure of workers to lead dust was 24 μg/ m³ (range: 1.5 to 185 μg/m³), which complied with the OSHAPEL and ACGIH TLV-TWA standards for lead dust. …”
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Cultural validation of the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination Version III Urdu for the British Urdu-speaking population: a qualitative assessment using cognitive interviewing by Nadine Mirza, Maria Panagioti, Waquas Waheed

“…Objectives Our research determined whether the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination Version III (ACE-III) Urdu eliminated cultural bias through a qualitative assessment of its understanding and acceptability within the British Urdu-speaking population, employing cognitive interviews.Method We aimed to recruit 25 participants fluent in speaking and writing Urdu, over the age of 60 years, able to give informed consent and who did not have a history of cognitive impairment. …”
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Para-Phenylenediamine Induces Apoptotic Death of Melanoma Cells and Reduces Melanoma Tumour Growth in Mice by Debajit Bhowmick, Kaushik Bhar, Sanjaya K. Mallick, Subhadip Das, Nabanita Chatterjee, Tuhin Subhra Sarkar, Rajarshi Chakrabarti, Krishna Das Saha, Anirban Siddhanta

“…Melanoma is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, usually resistant to standard chemotherapeutics. Despite a huge number of clinical trials, any success to find a chemotherapeutic agent that can effectively destroy melanoma is yet to be achieved. …”
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Identification of Potential Type II Diabetes in a Large-Scale Chinese Population Using a Systematic Machine Learning Framework by Mingyue Xue, Yinxia Su, Chen Li, Shuxia Wang, Hua Yao

“…An estimated 425 million people globally have diabetes, accounting for 12% of the world’s health expenditures, and the number continues to grow, placing a huge burden on the healthcare system, especially in those remote, underserved areas. …”
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MXene-Assisted NiFe sulfides for high-performance anion exchange membrane seawater electrolysis by Jiaqi Wang, Yue Liu, Ganceng Yang, Yanqing Jiao, Youming Dong, Chungui Tian, Haijing Yan, Honggang Fu

“…Abstract Anion exchange membrane seawater electrolysis is vital for future large-scale green hydrogen production, however enduring a huge challenge that lacks high-stable oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysts. …”
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Cytokines in Liver Cirrhosis (Their Importance in Assessing Activity and Decompensation) by G. K. Mirodzhov, S. D. Pulatova

“…The diagnosis of the underlying disease was established according to the clinical recommendations of the Russian Society for the Study of the Liver and the Russian Gastroenterological Association for the diagnosis and treatment of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis and their complications (2021); decompensated liver cirrhosis was established according to the 1996 Child — Pugh classification. The age of the patients ranged from 17 to 79 years (36.9 ± 0.8 years), there were 55 men and 54 women.Results. …”
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Study of Health-Related Quality of Life and Healthcare Utilization among Type 2 Diabetic Population in an Urban Area of Eastern Nepal by Sangita Shah, Nilambar Jha, Deepak Kumar Yadav, Prajjwal Pyakurel, Sanjib Kumar Sharma, Suman Bahadur Singh

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted among 270 participants of age ≥20 years with type 2 diabetes in Itahari using a semistructured questionnaire. …”
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Promoting Physical Activity in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: A Feasibility Study to Develop Intervention Tools for Delivery of Diabetes‐Specific Education by Daniel Crabtree, Sara Bradley, Jenni Connelly, Lynn Bauermeister, Trish Gorely, Sandra MacRury

“…Post‐intervention semi‐structured interviews were undertaken with both groups of participants to gauge perspectives of the initiative. Results There was a 56% total attrition rate from baseline to 3 months due to COVID‐19 and its impact on clinical research. …”
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Isolation of Cellulose from Wheat Straw Using Alkaline Hydrogen Peroxide and Acidified Sodium Chlorite Treatments: Comparison of Yield and Properties by Umair Qasim, Zulfiqar Ali, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, Sadaf Ul Hassan, Sikander Rafiq, Farrukh Jamil, Ala’a H. Al-Muhtaseb, Muzaffar Ali, Muhammad Bilal Khan Niazi, Nasir M. Ahmad, Sami Ullah, Ahmad Mukhtar, Sidra Saqib

“…Environmental concerns due to excessive use of synthetic or petroleum-based materials have encouraged scientists to develop novel, sustainable, and multifunctional material using abundant lignocellulosic biomass. …”
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