Patient’s Perception of Diabetes Care Services in Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Ramaiah Itumalla, Rakesh Kumar, Bilesha Perera, Mohamed Tharwat Elabbasy, Shashi Kumar CG, Ramadevi Kundur

“…Analyzing the data was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS-22). As far as Cronbach's Alpha is concerned, it was 0.717, and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) was 0.705. …”
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The Public Health Surveillance Well-Being Scale: Reliability and validity study of the Turkish version by Selma Infal Kesim, Fatih Kara

“…Results: The scale showed a high internal consistency, as the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.83 for the total score and 0.66, 0.76, and 0.69 for the physical, social and mental subscales, respectively. …”

BRM Immunotherapy of Orthotopically Implanted Murine Bladder Tumours: Treatment Response by Monitoring MRI by Salam A Kadhim, Joseph L Chin, Bertha M Garcia, Peeyush K Lala, Chris J Norley, Barbara A McLean, Stephen J Karlik

“…The authors evaluated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for monitoring orthotopic bladder tumour growth and treatment response to intravesical immunotherapy with the biological response modifiers (BRMs): recombinant tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), combination of TNF-α plus interferon gamma (IFN-γ) and interleukin-2 (IL-2). …”
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Cocaine-Induced Giant Bullous Emphysema by Steven Douedi, Vandan D. Upadhyaya, Ishan Patel, Usman Mazahir, Eric Costanzo, Mohammad A. Hossain

“…Emphysematous bullae, defined as airspaces of greater than or equal to one centimeter in diameter, have a variety of etiologies such as tobacco use and alpha-1 antitrypsin being the most common. Emphysematous bullae have also been reported in patients using cocaine usually involving the lung periphery and sparing the central lung parenchyma. …”
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Impact of self-evaluation strategy on mathematical achievement: An empirical study among undergraduate mathematics education students by Basil Chinecherem Oguguo, Clifford O. Ugorji, Loveth Ohwoavworhua

“…The internal consistency reliability index obtained using Cronbach Alpha was 0.77. Data collected were analyzed using simple linear regression analyses through SPSS version 26.0 as well as regression analysis through Process model 1 procedure IBM SPSS version 4.00. …”
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Modern modes of chronic hepatitis B treatment in daily clinical practice by M. V. Mayevskaya, M. A. Morozova, S. A. Ondos, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The modern modes of AVT have several variants: treatment for the limited term by interferon-alpha or nucleotides/ nucleosides analogues and long-term treatment by nucleotides/nucleosides analogues. …”
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Together throughout the year: seasonal patterns of bacterial and eukaryotic microbial communities in a macrotidal estuary by Vincent Hervé, Jérôme Morelle, Josie Lambourdière, Pascal Jean Lopez, Pascal Claquin

“…Biotic associations were also significant drivers of both alpha and beta diversity. Throughout the year, we identified a diverse and abundant core microbiota composed of 74 bacterial and 41 eukaryotic OTUs. …”
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Identification of Key Genes and Pathways Associated with Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Junyu Zhang, Yu Zhou

“…As expected, several ophthalmic disease-related molecules, including RHO, PDE6A, 3′,5′-cyclic-GMP phosphodiesterase, and G protein alpha, were in the central nodes of disease network. …”
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Potential role of CTNNA3 and FRMPD4 in vascular tumorous thrombosis of colon adenocarcinoma by Bin Liu, Yu Xiang, Weihua Guo

“…Two downregulated genes, catenin alpha 3 (CTNNA3) and FERM and PDZ domain-containing 4 (FRMPD4), were selected by analyzing the differential expression of vascular tumorous thrombus in colon adenocarcinoma and paracancerous tissues. …”
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The histological studies in spleen and bursa of fabricius of hormonally thymectomised chickens by Mustafa Sandıkçı

“…At 2, 4, 6 days following the HCA treatment, it was demonstrated that spleens reduced Ihe size, the frequency of lymphocyte decreased and germinal centers disappeared. In these periods, alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase (ANAE) positive lymphocyles lound in peri arteri olar lymphatic sheath in the control group, but the ANAE-positive cells were not observed in the HCA treated group. …”
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Tryptophan metabolism-related gene CYP1B1 serves as a shared biomarker for both Parkinson’s disease and insomnia by Xin-Yu Li, Wen-Kai Yu, Jing-Hao Wu, Wen-Jun He, Yu-Nan Cheng, Kai Gao, Yi-Han Wei, Yu-Sheng Li

“…Through Protein–Protein Interaction (PPI) network analysis, Support Vector Machine-Recursive Feature Elimination (SVM-RFE) , and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) machine learning, we identified Cytochrome P4501B1 (CYP1B1) and Electron Transfer Flavoprotein Alpha (ETFA) as key hub genes. Subsequently, we employed CIBERSORT and single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) to further investigate the association between hub genes and peripheral immune activation and inflammatory response. …”
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Kannada translation and validation of Wellman and Liu’s theory of mind scale and children’s social understanding scale in preschoolers by Rashmi Vishwanath, Avinash G. Kamath, Nitha Thomas, Samir Kumar Praharaj

“…Results: The Cronbach’s alpha values for Wellman and Liu’s ToM and the CSUS were 0.769 (95% CI 0.698 to 0.828) and 0.983 (95% CI 0.978 to 0.987), respectively, indicating high internal consistency. …”
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Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Validity, and Reliability of the Patient-Rated Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire for Thai Patients by Jananya P. Dhippayom, Piyawat Trevittaya, Andy S. K. Cheng

“…The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of the test-retest reliability for the six domains ranged from 0.788 to 0.956, with excellent correlation (ICC = 0.953) for the total score. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.835 for the total score of the MHQ-Thai version, indicating good internal consistency. …”
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A Mutation in IL4RA Is Associated with the Degree of Pathology in Human TB Patients by Christoph Hölscher, Lisa Heitmann, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Rolf D. Horstmann, Christian G. Meyer, Stefan Ehlers, Thorsten Thye

“…The contribution of interleukin- (IL-) 4 receptor-alpha- (Rα-) dependent events in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis (TB) is controversial. …”
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Identifying the critical management aspects for diabetic patients A qualitative study by Farshad Falahati, Khalil Alimohammadzadeh, Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini, Ali Maher, Mehrnoosh Jafari

“…To ensure questionnaire validity and reliability, SPSS software was employed for Cronbach’s alpha, CVI, and CVR indices. Model validation was conducted through confirmatory factor analysis using Lisrel software version 8.8, with the chi-square test confirming the model. …”
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Estrogen-mediated modulation of sterile inflammatory markers and baroreflex sensitivity in ovariectomized female Wistar rats by Md. Iqbal Alam, Naba Sami, Aftab Alam, Sheema Wazib, Neha Dhyani, Sher Afghan, Mairaj Ahmed Ansari

“…Plasma levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and nitric oxide (NO) were measured, along with those of the inflammatory markers tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and high mobility group box-1 (HMGB-1). …”
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hUC-MSCs Attenuate Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease through Chi3l1 Repression of Th17 Differentiation by Weijiang Liu, Fulin Yuan, Haitao Bai, Yuanlin Liu, Xue Li, Yang Wang, Yi Zhang

“…We found that hUC-MSCs treated with interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) exhibited increased expression of Chi3l1 and concurrently repressed T-helper 17 cell (Th17) differentiation through inhibition of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) activation. …”
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Pharmacological Effects of Antioxidant Mycosporine-Glycine in Alleviating Ultraviolet B-Induced Skin Photodamage: Insights from Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Analyses by Kai Wang, Ling Qin, Huan Lin, Mengke Yao, Junhan Cao, Qing Zhang, Changfeng Qu, Yingying He, Jinlai Miao, Ming Liu

“…Furthermore, M-Gly reduced inflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and IL-1β, typically upregulated after UVB exposure. …”
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A Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Diverse Regulatory Networks That Respond to Cold Stress in Strawberry (Fragaria×ananassa) by Yong Zhang, Yunting Zhang, Yuanxiu Lin, Ya Luo, Xiaorong Wang, Qing Chen, Bo Sun, Yan Wang, Mengyao Li, Haoru Tang

“…Functional enrichment analysis showed that DEGs were significantly (adjusted P value < 0.05) overrepresented in six pathways including plant hormone signal transduction, flavonoid biosynthesis, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling, starch and sucrose metabolism, circadian rhythm, and alpha-linolenic acid metabolism. The cold signaling initiated expression of downstream cold-responsive (COR) genes with cis-acting element ABRE or CRT/DRE in the ABA-independent or ABA-dependent pathway to impel plant defense against the stress. …”
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Prediction of mental health among cadet football players based on the emotional intelligence and perfectionism by Miroljub Ivanović, Uglješa Ivanović

“…During the process of data analysis, metric characteristics of the measuring instruments were first tested using the method of internal consistency which was based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The empirical findings of the correlation analysis revealed that there is no link between emotional intelligence and mental health of football players, meaning that managing emotions is only linked to adaptive dimensions of perfectionism (p &le; 0,01). …”
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