Mixed Germ Cell Tumor with Extensive Yolk Sac Tumor Elements in the Frontal Lobe of an Adult by Toshihide Takahashi, Eiichi Ishikawa, Yosuke Masuda, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Taiki Sato, Makoto Shibuya, Akira Matsumura

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed an enhanced mass lesion with a marked cyst component. The serum alpha-fetoprotein (αFP) level was extremely high. …”
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Short-Term Memory Impairment and Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction in the Orthostatic Position: A Single Case Study of Sinking Skin Flap Syndrome by Luca Sebastianelli, Verena Stoll, Viviana Versace, Sara Martignago, Stephan Obletter, Marco Lavoriero, Kathrin Malfertheiner, Gertraud Gisser, Leopold Saltuari

“…This deficit was examined by neuropsychological testing and associated with a posture-dependent increase in the delta/alpha ratio at the F3 electrode, an electroencephalographic (EEG) index related to brain hypoperfusion. …”
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Factors Affecting Hypertensive Treatment Adherence: Development and Preliminary Validation of a New Scale by Mahlagha Dehghan, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri

“…Face, content, and construct validity, Cronbach’s alpha, and test-retest reliability were used to validate the scales. …”
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Effects of Glucomannan on the Sacculus Rotundus and Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes in New Zealand Rabbits during Aflatoxicosis by Emrah Sur, Hasan Hüseyin Dönmez, Murat Boydak, Mehmet Bozkurt Ataman

“…When compared to control, AF-treatment caused significant decrease in alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase- (ANAE-) positive peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) percentages. …”
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Willingness to Adopt Telemedicine in Major Iraqi Hospitals: A Pilot Study by Mohd Khanapi Abd Ghani, Mustafa Musa Jaber

“…The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was utilized to verify the reliability of the questionnaire and Cronbach’s alpha test shows that the factors have values more than 0.7, which are standard.…”
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Uranium in the Surrounding of San Marcos-Sacramento River Environment (Chihuahua, Mexico) by Marusia Rentería-Villalobos, Manuel Reyes Cortés, Juan Mantero, Guillermo Manjón, Rafael García-Tenorio, Eduardo Herrera, Maria Elena Montero-Cabrera

“…Uranium activity concentrations were determined in biota, ground, and surface water by either alpha or liquid scintillation spectrometries. Major ions were analyzed by ICP-OES in surface water and its suspended matter. …”
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Microglia and Spinal Cord Synaptic Plasticity in Persistent Pain by Sarah Taves, Temugin Berta, Gang Chen, Ru-Rong Ji

“…Increasing evidence also suggests an important role of spinal cord microglia in the genesis of persistent pain, by releasing the proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα), Interleukine-1beta (IL-1β), and brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). …”
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Death of a 29-Year-Old Male from Undifferentiated Sepsis by Kathryn A. Trebuss, Samantha Buttemer, Jeffrey S. Wilkinson, Josie Xu, John P. Rossiter, Kieran M. Moore

“…Tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitors, such as infliximab, and other biologic agents are associated with increased risk of opportunistic infection, including tuberculosis. …”
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Comparison of Natural Radioactivity of Commonly Used Fertilizer Materials in Egypt and Japan by Nabil M. Hassan, Byung-Uck Chang, Shinji Tokonami

“…The radiological hazards of radium equivalent activity (Raeq), external (Hex) and internal (Hin) indexes, alpha and gamma indexes, and annual effective dose, due to the presence of these radionuclides, were calculated and compared with each other.…”
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Therapeutic Potentials of Silver Nanoparticle Complex of α-Lipoic Acid by Lakshmy Ramachandran, Cherupally Krishnan Krishnan Nair

“…Silver (SN) nanoparticles were re‐dispersed in aqueous solution of Pluronic F127 and complexed with the antioxidant, alpha‐ Lipoic acid (LA). The nanoparticle ‐ LA complex (SN‐LA) was characterized using SEM. …”
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Interactions between Phosphoric/Tannic Acid and Different Forms of FeOOH by Lefu Mei, Libing Liao, Zise Wang, Chunchun Xu

“…Alpha, beta, gamma, and delta hydroxyl ferric oxides (FeOOH), as the most common rust layers on iron surface, play different roles in iron preservation. …”
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Psoriatic arthritis: An up to date overview by Simon Hackett, Laura Coates

“…In addition to classification, treatment options for PsA have continued to expand over recent years, with the development of monoclonal antibody therapies targeting the underlying immunological mediators involved in PsA such as interleukin (IL)-17, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and IL-23. Therapies have shown that robust treatment in patients, achieving tight disease control, improves outcomes and overall quality of life. …”
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Selection of Superior Sugar Beet Genotypes using the Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Traits by Mahdi Hassani, Ali Saremirad, Hamed Mansouri

“…Notably, high heritability was observed alongside favorable genetic advance for alpha-amino nitrogen, suggesting additive genetic effects. …”
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The skin microbiota of preterm infants and impact of diaper change frequency. by Noelle E Younge, D Joshua Parris, Daniel Hatch, Angel Barnes, Debra H Brandon

“…Alpha-diversity of the skin microbiota was inversely correlated with skin pH, but not transepidermal water loss. …”
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Lasting and extensive consequences of left mesial temporal lobe seizures on electrical cortical activity by Mathieu Dhoisne, Nacim Betrouni, Sophie Hennion, Lucie Plomhause, Arnaud Delval, Philippe Derambure

“…We isolated a subnetwork that presented a decrease in connectivity strength in alpha band, primarily involving long-range left hemisphere connections (p = 0.042). …”
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The Bimanual Observation of The Hands (BOTH): Development, reliability, and validity for stroke rehabilitation. by Debbie Rand, Nitsan Omer, Amihai Levkoviz, Samar Assadi Khalil

“…<h4>Results</h4>Expert validity was established in two-rounds with 11 OTs. Cronbach's alpha was α = 0.923 for the asymmetrical items, 0.897 for the symmetrical items and 0.949 for all eight items. …”
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Developing a patient-centered measure to assess food-related and nutrition-related quality of life in patients with cancer by Seth Berkowitz, Mackenzie Kemp, Sara Beachy, Karla Martin, Brooke Worster, Richard W Hass, Iyaniwura Olarewaju, Kristin L Rising

“…Cronbach’s alpha confirmed adequate internal consistency (0.856) for the FN-QoL. …”
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Evaluación del Sistema Acuapónico de Pequeña Escala para la Producción de Tilapia y Lechuga by Delia Jazmín Sánchez-Morales, Juan Enrique Rubiños-Panta, Guillermo Crespo-Pichardo, Cándido Mendoza-Pérez, Ma. de Lourdes Pérez-Ávila, Maruja Peralta-Inga, Cesar Enrique Rubiños-Hernández

“…El sistema tuvo cuatro tanques de cultivo acuícola, un sistema de filtración de agua y balsas para hidroponía. Como resultado los valores de calidad del agua fueron 7.4 mg L-1 para oxígeno disuelto, 0.028 mg L-1 nitrógeno amoniacal, 29 mg L-1 nitrógeno de nitrato, 597 µS cm-1 de conductividad eléctrica, 15 mg L-1 de solidos suspendidos, 349 mg L-1 de solidos disueltos totales; en la demanda bioquímica de oxígeno en los tanques de peces fue de 7.1 mg L-1, en los filtros 8.9 mg L-1 y en las balsas 8.5 mg L-1 respectivamente. …”
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Adaptation of the disease‐related apathy scale in adults with epilepsy into Turkish: A methodological study by Gülcan Bahcecioglu Turan, Zülfünaz Özer, Seda Başak

“…The fit index values of the scale were X2 = 467.09, df = 245 (p <0.05), X2/df = 1.9, RMSEA = 0.073, CFI = 0.97, RMR = 0.046, SRMR = 0.057, TLI = 0.97, and AIC = 557.09. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients of the sub‐dimensions of the scale ranged from 0.880 to 0.992, and the total Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.928. …”
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The stability of anisotropic compact stars influenced by dark matter under teleparallel gravity: an extended gravitational deformation approach by Sneha Pradhan, Piyali Bhar, Sanjay Mandal, P. K. Sahoo, Kazuharu Bamba

“…To emphasize its compatibility, we highlight the predicted mass and radius in tabular form by varying both the parameters $$\alpha $$ α and $$\zeta _1$$ ζ 1 . Notably, our findings are consistent with the observation of gravitational waves from the first binary merger event. …”
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