The Reliability and Validity of Adolescent Health Promotion Scale in Turkish Community Original Article by Ayla Bayık Temel, Fatma Başalan İz, Sema Yıldız, Derya Yetim

“…Results: Factor analysis yielded a six-factor instrument that explained 38.48% of the variance in the 40 items. The Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient for the total scale was calculated 0.86, and ranged from 0.50 to 0.74 for the subscales. …”
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Linking heartbeats with the cortical network dynamics involved in self-social touch distinction by Diego Candia-Rivera, Fabrizio de Vico Fallani, Rebecca Boehme, Paula C. Salamone

“…Our findings revealed that social touch led to an increase in the coupling between frontoparietal networks and parasympathetic/vagal activity, particularly in alpha and gamma bands. Conversely, as social touch progressed, we observed a decrease in the coupling between brain networks and sympathetic dynamics across a broad frequency range. …”
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ETHNOCENTRISM AND ANIMOSITY IN CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR COMPANIES by Nenad Brkić, Miralem Čorbo, Denis Berberović

“…Data was processed using ACNOVA, Cronbach alpha and hierarchical regression analysis. …”
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Two Synchronous Neonatal Tumors: An Extremely Rare Case by M. Rodríguez-Zubieta, K. Albarenque, C. Lagues, A. San Roman, M. Varela, D. Russo, G. Podesta, D. Steinberg, C. Schauvinhold, A. Etchegaray, M. T. G. de Dávila

“…Our patient had a large facial tumor associated with extremely high alpha-fetoprotein levels. Diagnosis of the tumors was made by surgical biopsy, showing typical features in both. …”
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Arabic version of Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ) by Wafaa Helmy Abd El-hakeem, Sara Ibrahim Sayed, Fatma Wafik Shahin

“…Results APSQ was highly reliable for each subdomain, and the total questionnaire used Cronbach’s alpha. It also shows high reliability for each questionnaire and each subdomain. …”
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Cardiac Failure after Liver Transplantation Requiring a Biventricular Assist Device by Rita Jermyn, Eiei Soe, David D’Alessandro, Julia Shin, William Jakobleff, Daniel Schwartz, Milan Kinkhabwala, Paul J. Gaglio

“…In this case report, we describe a cirrhotic patient with alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency and nonhereditary hemochromatosis (non-HFE) that developed cardiogenic shock requiring mechanical circulatory support for twenty days after liver transplant. …”
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Specific types of male infertility are correlated with T cell exhaustion or senescence signatures by Giada Amodio, Giorgia Giacomini, Luca Boeri, Massimiliano Raffo, Simone Cilio, Edoardo Pozzi, Federico Belladelli, Fausto Negri, Anna Maria Ferrara, Alessia d’Arma, Francesca Romana Santoni de Sio, Luca Pagliardini, Enrico Papaleo, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Massimo Alfano, Francesco Montorsi, Andrea Salonia, Silvia Gregori

“…Transcriptomic profiling confirms the upregulation of genes associated with the interferon-gamma and -alpha responses in peripheral blood T cells of infertile men with oligo-astheno-teratozoospermia or non-obstructive azoospermia, with distinct T cell signatures of exhaustion and senescence discriminating the two infertile conditions. …”
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Beneficial effects of the fructus Sophorae extract on experimentally induced osteoporosis in New Zealand white rabbits by CHAKULESKA LIDIJA, SHKONDROV ALEKSANDAR, POPOV GEORGI, ZLATEVA-PANAYOTOVA NADYA, PETROVA RENETA, ATANASOVA MARIYANA, KRASTEVA ILINA, DOYTCHINOVA IRINI, SIMEONOVA RUMYANA

“…The aglycones of the main active compounds of FSE, daidzin, and genistin, were docked into the alpha and beta estrogen receptors and stable complexes were found. …”
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Tareas de crianza de padres mexicanos con hijos adolescentes by Mariana Escutia Parra, Erika Robles Estrada, Hans Oudhof van Barneveld, Lourdes Gabriela Villafaña Montiel, Julieta Garay López

“…Con la confiabilidad de un Alpha de Cronbach 0.98, se aplicó el Cuestionario de tareas de crianza para padres de Rink y Knot-Dickscheit (2002). …”
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Deciphering Platelet Kinetics in Diagnostic and Prognostic Evaluation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Bibek Aryal, Munekazu Yamakuchi, Toshiaki Shimizu, Jun Kadono, Akira Furoi, Kentaro Gejima, Teruo Komokata, Teruto Hashiguchi, Yutaka Imoto

“…Platelet contribution to the liver pathophysiology is typically facilitated by the platelet-derived growth factors that are sequestered in different subsets of alpha and dense granules, and the release of these growth factors is synchronized according to the stage and type of liver disease or injury. …”
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Inhibitory effect of interferon-beta on mouse spleen-derived mast cells by S. Konno, M. Adachi, K. Asano, K. Okamoto, T. Takahashi

“…Preparations of murine recombinant interferon (Mu-rIFN)-alpha, -beta and -gamma were assessed for their influence on in vitro growth of mast cells from normal mouse spleen cells (Sp C). …”
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Exploring Fragment Adding Strategies to Enhance Molecule Pretraining in AI-Driven Drug Discovery by Zhaoxu Meng, Cheng Chen, Xuan Zhang, Wei Zhao, Xuefeng Cui

“…Consequently, we have developed a virtual screening protocol that focuses on identifying estrogen receptor alpha binders on a nucleus receptor. Our results demonstrate a significant improvement in the binding capacity of the retrieved molecules. …”
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Role of Carbamazepine in the Symptomatic Treatment of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Sandhya Ravikumar, John Ross Crawford

“…Combination immunomodulatory therapy with isoprinosine, ribavirin, and intra-Ommaya interferon alpha did not result in clinical improvement. Within days following the administration of carbamazepine, there was remarkable improvement in the myoclonus and he was able to ambulate independently for a period of 4 months at which time he unfortunately progressed to a vegetative state. …”
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EEG-based brain age prediction in infants–toddlers: Implications for early detection of neurodevelopmental disorders by Winko W. An, Aprotim C. Bhowmik, Charles A. Nelson, Carol L. Wilkinson

“…Feature importance analysis that combined hierarchical clustering and Shapley values identified two feature clusters describing periodic alpha and low beta activity as key predictors of age. …”
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Unexplained Findings of Kayser-Fleischer-Like Rings in a Patient with Cryptogenic Cirrhosis by Mahreema Jawairia, Miral Subhani, Ghulam Siddiqui, Apsara Prasad, Ghulamullah Shahzad, Kaleem Rizvon, Paul Mustacchia

“…Cryptogenic cirrhosis (CC) is defined as cirrhosis occurring in an individual without an identifiable cause of liver disease, such as excessive alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis infection, hemochromatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, chronic intake of medications that could induce cirrhosis, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson’s disease, or any other rare cause of cirrhosis according to the clinical context. …”
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Case of a CD3 Negative Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges by Laura Alder, Scott Graupner, Guanhua Lai, Victor Yazbeck

“…Immunophenotype was remarkable for negative CD3, gamma delta T-cell receptor, and alpha beta-T-cell receptor expression. She received 6 cycles of DA-EPOCH, had primary refractory disease and then underwent palliative splenectomy secondary to painful necrosis. …”
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Development of Instrument Transmitter Protecting Device against High-Temperature Condition during Severe Accidents by Min Yoo, Sung Min Shin, Hyun Gook Kang

“…Of these, high temperature apparently poses the most serious threat, since thin shielding can get rid of pressure, humidity, radiation (specifically, alpha and beta radiations), and missile effects. …”
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Analysis on the Susceptibility Genes in Two Chinese Pedigrees with Familial Parkinson's Disease by Changshui Xu, Jun Xu, Yanmin Zhang, Jianjun Ma, Hideshi Kawakami, Hirofumi Maruyama, Masaki Kamada

“…Fifty-one genomic DNA samples extracted from two Chinese pedigrees with FPD, the alpha-synuclein genes (SNCA), the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2(LRRK2), PINK1(PTEN-induced putative kinase 1), PARK7(Protein DJ1), PARK2(Parkinson juvenile disease protein 2), the glucocerebrosidase (GBA), and ATP(Ezrin-binding protein PACE-1), were sequenced by the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. …”
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Lymph Drainage in Pregnant Women by Sylvia Cataldo Oportus, Lilian de Paiva Rodrigues, José Maria Pereira de Godoy, Maria de Fátima Guerreiro Godoy

“…The paired t-test was used for statistical analysis with an alpha error of 5% being considered significant. Results. …”
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MicroRNA-Regulated Proinflammatory Cytokines in Sarcopenia by Jingjing Fan, Xianjuan Kou, Yi Yang, Ning Chen

“…Several proinflammatory cytokines, especially interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), play crucial roles in modulation of inflammatory signaling pathway during the aging-related loss of skeletal muscle. …”
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