Factors Associated with the Severity of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Elderly Women by Suting Li, Zhi Wang, Lian Yang, Shaoying Liu, Lili Jing, Li Hong

“…Methods: This study recruited elderly female patients with SUI, aged over 60 years old, from Wuhan, Hubei, China, between October and November 2020. …”
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A Hybrid Artificial Neural Network and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm for Detecting COVID-19 Patients by Alla Ahmad Hassan, Tarik A Rashid

“…Patients who test positive more often have mild to severe symptoms such as a cough, fever, raw throat, and muscle aches. Diseased people experience severe symptoms in more severe cases. such as shortness of breath, which can lead to respiratory failure and death. …”
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Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome and Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in the Era of COVID-19 by Khizar Hamid, Swaminathan Perinkulam Sathyanarayanan, Touba Naim, Muhammad Hamza, Mirza Omer Mahmood Baig, Emad Abu Sitta

“…We report a patient with a history of alcohol abuse and recent exposure to mice and sick kittens who presented with cough with sputum production, shortness of breath, orthopnea, and new-onset lower extremity edema. …”
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Burden and Associated Factors of Tuberculosis Among Household Contacts of Sputum Positive Tuberculosis Patients of Aligarh by Simon Jude, Ali J. Abedi, Saira Mehnaz, Mohammad Shameem

“…The predominant symptom observed in household contacts who tested positive during the screening process was a cough, with fever following closely behind. Among the 405 household contacts examined, 54 individuals (13.3%) exhibited symptoms associated with Tuberculosis. …”
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Characterization of the Beekeeping Value Chain: Challenges, Perceptions, Limitations, and Opportunities for Beekeepers in Kayonza District, Rwanda by Borden Mushonga, Landouard Hategekimana, Gervais Habarugira, Erick Kandiwa, Alaster Samkange, Basiamisi Victor Ernest Segwagwe

“…The majority of the hives were made from hollow tree logs (40%), tree barks (12%), banana leaves/bark (11%), cow dung (8%), mud (7%), grass (6%), tree leaves (6%), and the rest (20%) were improved beehives, particularly Langstroth hives. …”
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Yeni Ahitteki Tyanalı Apollonius -Apollonius of Tyana in New Testament by Kürşat Akalın

“…Her şey Apollonius ile İsa’nın mucizevi güçlerine boyun eğmiştir ve her ikisi de körlerin gözlerini açmıştır. Tıpkı çoğunlukla İsa’nın keskin bir bıçakla vücuda çizikler atarak akan kanın içindeki ruhu dışarı çıkardığı gibi, Apollonius da cin çıkarmıştır. …”
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AZIJSKI PACIFIK I AMERIČKO-KINESKO NADMETANJE by Stanislav Stojanović, Jovanka Šaranović

“…U tekstu se analizira američko-kinesko nadmetanje koje ima progresivnu tendenciju i svojom kompleksnošću teško je kontrolisano što čini realnim opasnost od dalje intenzivne radikalizacije njihovih odnosa. …”

Assessing the Effects of Land Use Practices and Environmental Conservation in Rubanda District: A Case Study of Hamurwa Sub-County. by Mutesigensi, Samuel

“…The study findings indicates that there were activities that degrades the environment which include; overpopulation with 16%, housing/settlement with 8%, land tenure with 4%, overgrazing with 12%, bush burning with 10%, over cultivation with 22%, mono cropping with 20% and other factors with 8%. …”
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Dysplasie faciale chez les chimpanzés sauvages de Sebitoli, parc national de Kibale, Ouganda : approches éthologiques, ethnographiques et agronomiques by Régine Gross, Francis Gumisiriza, Bernard T Kiremire, Andrew Seguya, Sabrina Krief

“…Afin de tester l'hypothèse d'une origine de la malformation liée à la pollution environnementale, des entretiens ont été effectués auprès d'agriculteurs cultivant du maïs et/ou du thé à la bordure du parc. Comme les chimpanzés pillent le maïs et pratiquent la géophagie, 123 échantillons de sol, sédiment et de maïs ont été récoltés dans le but de mesurer les résidus de produits chimiques. …”
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Impact of prior CAR T-cell therapy on mosunetuzumab efficacy in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas by Elise A. Chong, Elicia Penuel, Ellen B. Napier, Rachel K. Lundberg, Lihua E. Budde, Mazyar Shadman, Matthew J. Matasar, Nancy L. Bartlett, Ian W. Flinn, Francesc Bosch, Keith Fay, Andre Goy, Anita Kumar, Loretta J. Nastoupil, Michael C. Wei, Mei Wu, Shen Yin, Joseph A. Fraietta, Emeline R. Chong, Stephen J. Schuster

“…Nonresponders had a relative decrease in CAR transgene levels (n = 16; P = .04). This is, to our knowledge, the first study to assess changes in lymphocytes, T cells, and CAR transgene levels in patients treated with BsAbs after CAR-T. …”
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DIETETIKOS ABSOLVENTŲ KOMPETENCIJŲ ATITIKTIS DARBO RINKAI: EKSPERTŲ POŽIŪRIS by Irma Spiriajevienė

“…Apskritojo stalo diskusijos-interviu būdu surinkti duomenys transkribuoti į kompiuterinę versiją. …”
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The Safety and Efficacy of Chemical Pleurodesis Agents in Patients with Malignant Pleural Effusion Admitted in Tertiary Care Hospital by Venkateshwaran Kathamuthu, Rajeshkumar Balakrishnan, Saravanavasan Rajendran, Prabhakaran Rathinam

“…Background: Pleurodesis alleviates symptoms such as dyspnea, chest pain, cough and prevents recurrent pleural collections which require repeated thoracentesis. …”
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Expanding the clinical spectrum of 19p13.3 microduplication syndrome: a case report highlighting nephrotic syndrome and literature review by Wenjie Sun, Hong Yan, Mengxin Sun, Jie Wang, Kunxia Li

“…Case presentations A 4-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital in December 2020 with a fever and cough that had persisted for 3 days. …”
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ŠALIES FINANSINIO SAUGUMO POVEIKIS PAJAMŲ NELYGYBEI by Rasa Bartkutė, Jurga Grikietytė-Čebatavičienė

“…Didėjant nestabilumui regione šalies finansinio saugumo tendencijos tampa glaudžiai susijusios su darbo jėgos ir verslo lankstumu, gebėjimu sparčiai prisitaikyti, persiorientuoti, diversifikuoti savo veiklą ir tokiu būdu užsitikrinti išlikimą. Kita vertus, sparčiai auganti migracija, infliacija, nedarbo lygis didina ir socioekonominių problemų mastą. …”
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Accelerated pseudo-transient method for elastic, viscoelastic, and coupled hydromechanical problems with applications by Y. Alkhimenkov, Y. Y. Podladchikov

“…Importantly, the results presented in this paper are fully reproducible, with MATLAB code, symbolic Maple scripts, and CUDA C codes made available in a permanent repository.…”
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Investigation of the Prevalence and Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Group of Elderly Individuals Residing in an Island Area of Ningbo by Wei Sheng, Youchang Huang, Zaichun Deng, Hongying Ma

“…Prevalence was higher in men (28.9%) than in women (8.3%) among the sample. (2) According to chi-squared test results, risk factors for COPD included sex, age, smoking history (pack-years), cough, and dyspnea. Body mass index, family history of respiratory diseases, and exposure to biomass smoke from cooking were not risk factors for COPD. (3) Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that age and smoking were independent risk factors for COPD. (4) Receiver operating curve analysis revealed that, at a cutoff of 19.5, the highest sum of sensitivity and specificity was 69.7% and 75.5%, respectively. …”
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Developing an automatic treatment record review system for quality assurance of patient treatment delivery in radiation therapy by Peng Huang, Yingjie Xu, Fukui Huan, Yanxin Zhang, Min Ma, Kuo Men, Jianrong Dai

“…Finally, this system is evaluated by 6 months patient treatment records collected in our institute and compared to the manual process on the same data. …”
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Climate Change-Induced Decline in Succulent <i>Euphorbia</i> in Namibia’s Arid Regions by J. J. Marion Meyer, Marie M. Potgieter, Nicole L. Meyer, Anika C. Meyer

“…In the current study, three ecologically important Namibian <i>Euphorbia</i> milk bushes were evaluated for their climate change response. …”
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Comparison of demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics between first and second COVID-19 waves in a secondary care hospital in Qatar: a retrospective study by Prem Chandra, Vamanjore A Naushad, Nishan K Purayil, Abazar Ahmad M Saeed, Pradeep Radhakrishnan, Irfan Varikkodan, Joe V Mathew, Jaseem Sirajudeen, Riyadh A Hammamy, Ahmad M Badi, Aasir M Suliman, Mohamed N Badawi, Saket Arya, Maryam AlMotawa, Aisha Al-Baker, Rania Alatom, Anand Kartha

“…Patients with a normal chest X-ray and those who had a negative PCR test despite a positive COVID-19 antigen test were excluded.Outcome Length of stay, need for mechanical ventilation, final disposition and mortality were the key outcomes studiedResults Influenza like symptoms (18.5% in the first wave vs 36.1% in the second wave, p 0.001), cough (79.2% vs 87%, p&lt;0.001) and dyspnoea (27.5% vs 38% p&lt;0.001) were more common in the second wave. …”
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Perceived Nuisance Caused by Air Pollution on Amateur Endurance Athletes/Exercisers: Development of a Psychometric Scale by George Koskinas, Ilias Mavroidis, Yiannis Giossos

“…The most significant inconveniences that these amateur athletes/exercisers have to deal with, are related to breathing difficulty, increased heart rate, cough or respiratory problems, and eye or nose discomfort. …”
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