The External and Internal Shame Scale (EISS): Turkish Adaptation Study by Merve Gür, Burhan Çapri

“…Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficients were calculated as .77 for internal shame sub-factor, .76 for external shame sub-factor and .87 for total shame. …”
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Psychometric properties of Bull’s Mental Skills Questionnaire in a Turkish population by Bülent O. Miçooğullari, David J. Edwards, Rıdvan Ekmekçi

“…EFA results yielded a satisfactory seven-factor solution, the same as the English version. Cronbach alpha (α) reliability indices were as follows: concentration ability (0.71), anxiety and worry management (0.63), relaxation ability (0.69), imagery ability (0.73), self-confidence (0.72), motivation (0.64) and mental preparation (0.52). …”
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ACE2 : S1 RBD Interaction-Targeted Peptides and Small Molecules as Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics by Lennox Chitsike, John Krstenansky, Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes

“…In this study, we developed a proximity-based AlphaScreen™ assay that can be utilized to quickly and efficiently screen for inhibitors that perturb the ACE2 : S1 RBD interaction. …”
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Metagenomic Profiling of Oral Microbiome Dynamics During Chemoradiotherapy in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients by Dominique A. Torozan, Cédric Christian Laczny, Kirsten Roomp, Paul Wilmes, Jochen Fleckenstein, Jochen G. Schneider

“…Results Patients exhibited significantly reduced alpha diversity compared to controls at all times (p ⟨ 0.05). …”
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Norm Values of Head Circumference in Turkish Children by Haluk Yavuz, M. Akif Bakır, Saime Sündüs Uygun

“…Only the independent variables child’s school performance, birth weight, nutrition, smoking are significantly effective on the HC measures of boys at alpha=0.05 level. For girls, only the independent variables birth weight and nutrition form are significantly important in explaining the variability of HC at the level of alpha=0.05. …”
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Investigation of Aggression Levels of Secondary School Students Studying in Public and Private Schools, Playing and Non-Sports by İbrahim Bozkurt, Ayşegül Çelik

“…Personal information form was used for the socio-demographic information of the students, and the aggression inventory consisting of 30 items and the reliability of which was developed by İpek İlter KiPER was used to determine the aggression levels.For our study, Cronbach's Alpha value was determined as 0.87 for all of the items in the aggression inventory, while the Cronbach's Alpha value was determined as 0.81 for the Destructive aggression sub-dimension, 0.80 for the Assertiveness sub-dimension, and 0.79 for the Passive Aggression sub-dimension. …”
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Development of an educational and monitoring mobile application for pregnant women in Nigeria by Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde, Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde, Adejumoke Idowu Ayede, Amalia Colangelo, Tuan Dung Nguyen, Abdullahi Tunde Aborode, Charles Umeh, Maria Paula Hernandez, Oluwaseyi Iyanuoluwa Ayede, Oluwatobiloba Oluwadunni Ayede

“…Mobile applications increased the level of knowledge of preeclampsia by 179%. User feedback from alpha testing informed the development of a high-fidelity prototype for beta testing. …”
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Global boundedness in a Keller-Segel system with nonlinear indirect signal consumption mechanism by Zihan Zheng, Juan Wang, Liming Cai

“…In this paper, we study a quasilinear chemotaxis model with a nonlinear indirect consumption mechanism$ \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} v_{1t} = \nabla \cdot\big(\psi(v_{1})\nabla v_{1}-\chi \phi(v_{1})\nabla v_{2}\big)+\lambda_{1}v_{1}-\lambda_{2}v_{1}^{\beta},\ &\ \ x\in \Omega, \ t>0,\\[2.5mm] v_{2t} = \Delta v_{2}-w^{\theta}v_{2}, \ &\ \ x\in \Omega, \ t>0,\\[2.5mm] 0 = \Delta w-w+v_{1}^{\alpha}, \ &\ \ x\in \Omega, \ t>0 ,\\[2.5mm] \end{array} \right. …”
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Intravascular Leiomyomatosis as a Rare Cause of Nonthrombotic Pulmonary Embolism by Julie Van Maercke, Anne-Sophie Van Rompuy, Willy Poppe, Tom Verbelen, Marion Delcroix, Catharina Belge

“…Analysis demonstrated a lesion consisting of cells without atypia, showing expression of alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha SMA) and desmin with partial expression of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR), leading to the diagnosis of intravascular leiomyomatosis. …”
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HIV, smoking, and the brain: a convergence of neurotoxicities by Benjamin L. Orlinick, Shelli F. Farhadian

“…Recent findings HIV and tobacco smoke can exert neurotoxicity through shared mechanisms such as brain volume changes, microglial dysregulation, and dysregulation of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway (CAP) through the alpha7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR). …”
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Zero Waste Attitude Scale Development Study by Fuat Ozcan, Ali Meydan

“…The reliability coefficient of the scale was 0.90 for both Cronbach Alpha and McDonald's Omega. The scores obtained from the scale are valid and reliable. …”
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Amino-Functionalized Wood Aerogel for Efficient Removal of Copper Ions from Water by Junwang Meng, Hao Guan, Xinjian Dai, Xiaoqing Wang

“…The amino-functionalized wood aerogel was prepared from natural balsa wood via a delignification treatment, followed by TEMPO-mediated oxidation of the delignified wood and then grafting polyethylenimine (PEI) onto the oxidized cellulose skeleton. …”
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Structural and Functional Characterization of Recombinant Interleukin-10 from Indian Major Carp Labeo rohita by Sweta Karan, Pujarini Dash, Himani Kaushik, Pramoda K. Sahoo, Lalit C. Garg, Aparna Dixit

“…Far-UV CD spectroscopy showed presence of predominantly alpha helices. The tertiary structure of the purified rLrIL-10 was verified by fluorescence spectroscopy. …”
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The Effect of Temperature on Physicochemical Properties of Moringa Leaf Ethanolic Extract (Moringa oleifera L.) Patch and Anti-Inflamatory Test by Dian Eka Ermawati, Astri Hidayati, Meta Kartika Untari

“…Previous research has developed a patch formula using a polymer combination of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and alpha-cellulose (1: 2) that meets the requirements for good patch preparation. …”
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Brain Oscillations Elicited by the Cold Pressor Test: A Putative Index of Untreated Essential Hypertension by Christos Papageorgiou, Efstathios Manios, Eleftheria Tsaltas, Eleni Koroboki, Maria Alevizaki, Elias Angelopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios Dimopoulos, Charalabos Papageorgiou, Nikolaos Zakopoulos

“…Positive correlations were noted between ABPM variables and Delta (1–4 Hz) oscillations during the tolerance phase; in high-alpha (10–12 Hz) oscillations during the stress unit and posttest phase; and in low-alpha (8–10 Hz) oscillations during CPT phases overall. …”
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The Safety of Infliximab Infusions in the Community Setting by James Ducharme, Cindy Pelletier, Ramesh Zacharias

“…BACKGROUND: Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) has an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and psoriasis. …”
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Herpetofauna del Parque Sierra de Nanchititla, estado de México, México. Lista, distribución y conservación by Gustavo Casas-Andreu, Xóchitl Aguilar-Miguel

“…Physiographically it is located in the Province of Sierra Madre del Sur, in the Subprovince of Depresión del rio Balsas, and represents a transition zone of climate, flora and fauna. …”
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Characterization of Lipschitz Spaces via Commutators of Fractional Maximal Function on the $p$-Adic Variable Exponent Lebesgue Spaces by Wu, Jianglong, Chang, Yunpeng

“…In this paper, the main aim is to give some characterizations of the boundedness of the maximal or nonlinear commutator of the $p$-adic fractional maximal operator $ \mathcal{M}_{\alpha }^{p}$ with the symbols belong to the $p$-adic Lipschitz spaces in the context of the $p$-adic version of variable Lebesgue spaces, by which some new characterizations of the Lipschitz spaces and nonnegative Lipschitz functions are obtained in the $p$-adic field context. …”
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Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Autosomal Dominant Osteogenesis Imperfecta by I. Mouna Ben Amor, Francis H. Glorieux, Frank Rauch

“…Osteogenesis imperfecta, discussed in Baldridge et al. 2008 is an inherited bone fragility disorder with a wide range of clinical severity that in the majority of cases is caused by mutations in COL1A1 or COL1A2, the genes that encode the two collagen type I alpha chains. Here we describe genotype-phenotype correlations in OI patients who have mutations affecting collagen type I. …”
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Primary Lymphoma of the Liver: A Case Report and Review by Franzjosef Schweiger, Rowen Shinder, Sheldon Rubin

“…The diagnosis of these rare tumours is suggested by the presence of a hepatic mass without lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly or bone marrow involvement, as well as normal carcinoembryonic antigen and alpha-fetoprotein levels. However, histological examination of tissue is essential to confirm the diagnosis. …”
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