Your period and your pregnancy, a cohort study of pregnant patients investigating the associations between menstruation and birth outcomes in Australia: study protocol by Miranda Davies-Tuck, Billie Bradford, Adrienne Gordon, Beverley Vollenhoven, Kirsten Rebecca Palmer, Kirstin Tindal, Caroline E Gargett, Fiona Cousins, Stacey Ellery

“…Women will complete a menstrual history survey to capture menstrual cycle length, regularity, level of pain, heaviness of flow and other menstrual symptoms. Participants will consent to having the survey data linked with their pregnancy and birth outcome information. …”
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Electroencephalogram-Based Brain Connectivity Analysis in Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by Yuzhang Wu, Zhitao Li, Ruowei Qu, Yangang Wang, Zhongzhen Li, Le Wang, Guangrui Zhao, Keke Feng, Yifeng Cheng, Shaoya Yin

“…Prolonged disorders of consciousness (pDOC) are common in neurology and place a heavy burden on families and society. This study is aimed at investigating the characteristics of brain connectivity in patients with pDOC based on quantitative EEG (qEEG) and extending a new direction for the evaluation of pDOC. …”
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The Effect of Blood Flow Restriction Therapy on Shoulder Function Following Shoulder Stabilization Surgery: A Case Series by John H. McGinniss, John S. Mason, Jamie B. Morris, Will Pitt, Erin M. Miller, Michael S. Crowell

“…Blood flow restriction (BFR) may stimulate muscle growth without the need for heavy resistance training post-surgically. # Hypothesis/Purpose To observe changes in shoulder strength, self-reported function, upper extremity performance, and range of motion (ROM) in military cadets recovering from shoulder stabilization surgery who completed a standard rehabilitation program with six weeks of BFR training…”
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Global and China trends and forecasts of disease burden for female lung Cancer from 1990 to 2021: a study based on the global burden of disease 2021 database by Bilu Li, Yuyan Wu, Yanhong Zhang, Chengyun Hu, Xue Li, Shanshan Luo, Chenyu Sun, Iyad Yousef, Yefei Wang, Chaoliang Tang

“…Lung cancer not only poses a severe threat to women’s health but also places a heavy burden on families and society. Objective To conduct an in-depth analysis of the trends in disease burden for female lung cancer in China and globally from 1990 to 2021 and to forecast the next 15 years (2022–2037). …”
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Petrogenesis of REE-rich two-mica granite from the Indosinian Xiekeng pluton in South China Block with implications for REE metallogenesis by Defu Zhang, Defu Zhang, Tingting Lv, Xiangaung Wang, Xiangaung Wang, Mingxuan Cao, Xiquan Chen, Xiquan Chen, Yongwen Zhang, Liangxin Gong

“…The total rare earth element (ΣREY = ΣREE + Y) contents range from 224.7 to 353.12 ppm, with a relative enrichment in light rare earth elements (ΣLREE/ΣHREY) of 1.55–5.36, and significant fractionation between light and heavy rare earth elements with (La/Yb)N = 3.36–18.48, and pronounced negative Eu anomalies (Eu/Eu* = 0.08–0.41). …”
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Determining the impact of mobile-based self-care applications on reducing anxiety in healthcare providers: a systematic review by Mohammad Mahdi Askarizadeh, Leila Gholamhosseini, Reza Khajouei, Saeedeh Homayee, Fatemeh Askarizadeh, Leila Ahmadian

“…Abstract Background Healthcare providers (HCP) face various stressful conditions in hospitals that result in the development of anxiety disorders. However, due to heavy workloads, they often miss the opportunity for self-care. …”
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Statistical analysis based on a two-staged SEM-SVM approach for environmental noise annoyance prediction and identification of influencing factors by M. Rehman, M. Kamal, S. Tiwari

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Noise pollution is an environmental stressor that is mainly caused due to heavy transportation in urban scenarios. Traffic noise is a growing concern in urban environments, impacting public health and well-being. …”
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Parasitological and clinical correlates of Plasmodium–Schistosoma mansoni co-infection and its determinants among Plasmodium-infected patients in the Wolaita Zone, South Ethiopia r... by Kemal Mohamed, Tariku Belay, Ahmed Zeynudin

“…Plasmodium–Schistosoma mansoni co-infected with a heavy intensity of Schistosoma mansoni had the highest parasitemia and was also significantly associated with malaria attack. …”
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Occupational physical activity and cardiovascular disease mortality in the United States, 1988–2019 by Tong Xia, Liwei Chen, Jian Li

“…., lifting, pushing, or pulling heavy objects) was assessed at baseline by a questionnaire and categorized into 4 groups [i.e., none, low, medium, and high]. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of the impact of environmental degradation on women and the importance of women’s representation by Y.A. Pratama, M.Y.A. Kadir, A. Rivaldi, I.C. Mulya, S. Amirah, M. Iqhrammullah

“…Thereafter, the co-occurring keywords were utilized to trace the evolution of study themes, resulting in the identification of four main themes with well-established scientific evidence: (1) air pollution impact on pregnancy and its outcome, (2) pollution impact on women’s hormones, (3) environmental impact in urban settings, and (4) heavy metal pollution. Indonesia has never achieved 30 percent women representation in Parliament, highlighting the unsatisfactory participation of women in legislative elections. …”
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Complex Study of Settlements Dating from the Paleolithic to Medieval Period in the Ural Mountains on the Border of Europe and Asia by Valentina Prikhodko, Nikita Savelev, Vyacheslav Kotov, Sergey Nikolaev, Evgeny Ruslanov, Mikhail Rumyantsev, Elena Manakhova

“…Due to the above properties, chernozems have a high buffering capacity and a strong bond with heavy metals. Therefore, no inhibition of microbes was observed. …”
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Removing Excess Iron from Sewage and Natural Waters: Selecting Optimal Sorbent by Ludmila A. Ivanova, Irina V. Timoshchuk, Alena K. Gorelkina, Ekaterina S. Mikhaylova, Nadezhda S. Golubeva, Evgeny N. Neverov, Tamara A. Utrobina

“…Natural waters and wastewaters often contain heavy metals, e.g., iron. Iron ore mining contaminates groundwater with iron up to 30 maximal permissible concentrations (MPC) as this element gets washed out from rock and soil. …”
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Socially inclusive valorization of gold mill tailings from the small-scale gold mining sector by R.M. Balanay, R.P. Varela, A. Balbin, M.A. Lavapiez

“…A gap analysis was utilized to pinpoint the methods for enhancing a socially inclusive reuse strategy for the mill tailings.FINDINGS: The characterization of the tailings reveal that some heavy metals like zinc, titanium, copper, barium, and manganese, and hazardous substances like arsenic, mercury, and lead are present. …”
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Bio-reinforcement for improving shear strength in road embankments towards eco-friendly soil stabilization and sustainable infrastructure by S. Chezhiyan, K. Sudalaimuthu

“…Insufficient shear strength in soil can lead to slope failure, often exacerbated by vehicular loads and surface erosion from heavy, prolonged rainstorms. Traditional soil stabilization methods frequently involve synthetic materials, which may have adverse environmental impacts. …”
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Synergistic effect of magnetic magnetite and greigite nanoparticles dispersed pinewood biochar for aqueous lead(II) and cadmium(II) adsorption by Prashan M. Rodrigo, Raghava R. Kommalapati

“…Heavy metals such as lead and cadmium cause adverse effects on all living organisms. …”
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of labour protection measures by E. A. Korol’, E. N. Degaev

“…During construction, workers face various risks that can lead to injuries, including falls from a height, cuts from sharp objects, bruises from falling heavy objects, and others. Fatal injury rates increased by 6.3 % in relation to 2021. …”
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Risk factors for overtaking, rear-end, and door crashes involving bicycles in the United Kingdom: Revisited and reanalysed. by Chun-Chieh Chao, Hon-Ping Ma, Li Wei, Yen-Nung Lin, Chenyi Chen, Wafaa Saleh, Bayu Satria Wiratama, Akhmad Fajri Widodo, Shou-Chien Hsu, Shih Yu Ko, Hui-An Lin, Cheng-Wei Chan, Chih-Wei Pai

“…<h4>Results</h4>Significant risk factors for overtaking crashes included heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) as crash partners (AOR = 1.30, 95% CI 1.27-1.33), and elderly crash partners (AOR = 2.01, 95% CI = 1.94-2.09), and decreased risk in rural area with speed limits of 20-30 miles per hour (AOR = 0.45, 95% CI = 0.43-0.47). …”
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Color Confinement, Hadron Dynamics, and Hadron Spectroscopy from Light-Front Holography and Superconformal Algebra by Stanley J. Brodsky

“…The superconformal relations also can be extended to heavy-light quark mesons and baryons. This approach also leads to insights into the physics underlying hadronization at the amplitude level. …”
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Zmienność runa leśnego w grądzie wysokim rezerwatu Las Bielański pod wpływem ruchu turystycznego by Anita Grutkowska

“…The number of sprouts of this species is the highest in spring, and it decreases gradually, due to heavy mortality of seedlings and juvenile specimens, with the progressive light shortage. …”
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Astaxanthin mitigates doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity via inhibiting ferroptosis and autophagy: a study based on bioinformatic analysis and in vivo/vitro experiments by Bowen Yin, Jingyi Ren, Xuanyi Liu, Yadong Zhang, Jinshi Zuo, Rui Wen, Huanting Pei, Miaomiao Lu, Siqi Zhu, Zhenao Zhang, Ziyi Wang, Yanyi Zhai, Yuxia Ma

“…Specifically, ASX upregulates solute carrier family 7 member 11 (SLC7A11) and glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4), while downregulating the expression of transferrin receptor 1 (TFRC), ferritin heavy chain (FTH1) and ferritin light chain (FTL). …”
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