Developing the university in Ukhta: an arctic turn by Nikolay D. Tshadaya

“…During the fifty five years Ukhta State Technical Univers ity has accumulated the considerable experience in training highly skilled personnel for the gas and oil industry. The article focuses on the creation of innovative territorial cluster «Oil and gas technologies» on the basis of USTU and the university participation in realization of Russia’s Arctic strategy…”
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NETWORK TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED TRAINING COURSE by Vyacheslav A. Starodubtsev, Antonina A. Kiseleva

“…The article examines the model of the blended process of the formal and non-formal professional growth of higher education instructors and the organization of the network course of teacher’s training with the participation of content’s curator. …”
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The effects of initial microstructure on the creep property of a 4th generation single crystal superalloy at mediate temperature and high stress by Huanchang Duan, Yuan Cheng, Xinbao Zhao, Lijie Qiao, Wanshun Xia, Quanzhao Yue, Jiachen Xu, Yuefeng Gu, Ze Zhang

“…Additionally, the fine γ′ particles embedded within the γ channel when aging at higher temperatures could not improve the creep performance significantly. …”
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RUSSIA IN THE EDUCATIONAL INTEGRATION OF THE ASIA- PACIFIC REGION by Tatyana L. Guruleva

“…The article is devoted to the processes of formation of educational space of the Asia2Pacific region. …”
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<i>Lady urologist</i> and male patients with prostate cancer by Rodolfo Montironi, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Meredith C. Wasserman, Alessia Cimadamore, Liang Cheng

“…The book starts with a letter written by the author while participating in a 2017 orientation session... …”
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A motor rally across Transbaikalia by Елена Григорьева, Анастасия Репина

“…The aim of the rally was small towns of the region, participation in the festival of these towns, author’s supervision of the implementation of the projects by the Siberian Laboratory of Urbanistics, several places of interest and personal reasons. …”
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Comparison of Active Aging Indicators and Associated Factors Among Urban and Rural Elderly in Behshahr, Iran (2023) by Nadia Khakzad, Ehteramsadat Ilali, AbolfazlHosein Nattaj, Tahereh Yaghoobi

“…Results: The mean age of the elderly participants was 70.96±13.8 years. Among the participants, 52% were men, and 61% were married. …”
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Differences in Lower Extremity Kinematics Between High School Cross-Country and Young Adult Recreational Runners by Mark F Reinking, Nina M Carson, Bridget M End, Olivia K Miller, Joshua D Munter, Thomas G McPoil

“…After a five-minute acclimation period in which the participants ran on a treadmill at their preferred running speed, video data were recorded at 240 frames per second for all participants while they continued to run on the treadmill…”
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Dietary lipids shape cytokine and leptin profiles in obesity-metabolic syndrome implications: A cross-sectional study. by Sakawrut Poosri, Karani Santhanakrishnan Vimaleswaran, Pattaneeya Prangthip

“…<h4>Results</h4>Obesity prevalence was 26.1% and 73.90% in males and females, respectively. Participants with obesity exhibited significantly higher inflammatory and hormonal marker levels. …”
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Patient Perceptions of Surgeon Attire, Professionalism, and Gender Bias in Pakistani Public Hospitals by Maham Arshad, Zara Ali, Talha Tariq, Kainat Raza, Fatima Hashmi, Tarim Nayab

“…Gender-balanced participants rated male and female doctors shown in photographs wearing various surgeon attires, including white coats with scrubs, business attire, fleece jackets, and casual clothing. …”
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Minimal Clinically Important Difference for 6-Minute Walk Distance in Singaporean Adults with Chronic Respiratory Diseases by Meredith T LYEUNG, Alan W P WONG, Katherine S L HUANG, Alice Y M JONES

“…Both the“anchor-based”and“distribution-based”methods were used to estimate the MCID of the 6MWD. Fifty participants(38 males and 12 females)with a mean age of 64.2 years(SD 12.3)diagnosed with CRDs involved in the“anchor-based”method for determination of MCID of 6MWD. …”
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Virtual reality-based eye examination at a community-free clinic: A pilot study by Jullian Valadez, Howard Zhang, Sylvia L. Groth

“…Results: Fifty eyes across 25 participants were included. The participants were mostly female (84%) with a median age of 52 years (interquartile range [IQR] 12), and the majority spoke Spanish as their primary language (68%). …”
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Sex-specific prevalence, inequality and associated predictors of hypertension, diabetes, and comorbidity among Bangladeshi adults: results from a nationwide cross-sectional demogra... by Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Raisul Akram, Nausad Ali, Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh

“…A p value of &lt;0.05 was adopted as the level of statistical significance.Setting The study was conducted in Bangladesh.Participants A total of 7521 adult participants with availability of biomarkers information were included.Results The mean age of the study participants was 51.4 years (SD ±13.0). …”
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Distribution of Pupil Size and Associated Factors: Results from the Population-Based Gutenberg Health Study by Marian Kiel, Stephanie D. Grabitz, Susanne Hopf, Thomas Koeck, Philipp S. Wild, Irene Schmidtmann, Karl J. Lackner, Thomas Münzel, Manfred E. Beutel, Norbert Pfeiffer, Alexander K. Schuster

“…Results. 18,335 eyes of 9,559 participants aged 40 to 80 years were included in the analysis. …”
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Reliability and validity of the revised indebtedness scale in Chinese university students by Jing Zhang, Rui Feng, Zheyan Li, Hongyu Liang, Tonglin Jin, Yunna A, Xiaoyu Li

“…A total of 1057 university students participated in this study using a two-wave whole-group sampling method. …”
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Trazodone effectiveness in depression: impacts of trazodone extended release vs SSRIs on the health status and quality of life of patients with major depressive disorder by Marcin Siwek, Adrian Andrzej Chrobak, Anna Julia Krupa, Aleksandra Gorostowicz, Andrzej Juryk, Dominika Dudek

“…Compared to SSRIs, trazodone XR provided greater improvements in terms of the self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression measures and more often improved participant overall health status and HRQoL. More participants reported mixed changes in their health status and HRQoL in the SSRI group than the trazodone XR group.DiscussionHealth status and HRQoL improved in both treatment arms, with preferable scores in trazodone XR vs. …”
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Effects of a 12-week aerobic dance programme on diastolic blood pressure in stage one hypertensive adults by Lucy-joy Wachira, Mshilla Maghanga, Constance Adron Nakayiza Nsibambi, Edwin Kiptolo Boit, Loyce Nahwera

“…Our study used an experimental design to investigate the effects of aerobic dance programme on diastolic blood pressure levels in stage one hypertensive adults over a 12-week period. The study participants were randomly allocated into either the experimental or control groups. …”
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Renal Dysfunction among Ghanaians Living with Clinically Diagnosed Hypertension in the Asutifi-South District: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study at the St. Elizabeth Hospital, Hw... by Sylvester Yao Lokpo, James Osei-Yeboah, William K. B. A. Owiredu, Francis Abeku Ussher, Verner Ndudiri Orish, Felix Gadzeto, Paul Ntiamoah, Felix Botchway, Ivan Muanah, Romeo Asumbasiya Aduko

“…The 2012 Kidney Disease Improvement Global Outcome (KDIGO) Criteria were used to categorize renal function among study participants. Results. Renal impairment was observed among 25.00%, 9.50%, and 10.50% of study participants using CG, 4v-MDRD, and CKD-EPI equations, respectively. …”
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Student Mobility as a Form of Education Internationalization: A Systems Approach to Management by A. E. Godenko, G. V. Boyko, R. B. Gadgiev, N. Yu. Filimonova

“…The article gives an integral estimation of the efficiency forecast for the work of exporting higher educational institution with the population of a particular education-importing country. …”
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Six-month course and outcome of treatment-seeking individuals with alcohol dependence syndrome by Thenmozhi Sivaraman, Susan Solomon, Parthasarathy Ramamurthy, Pradeep Thilakan

“…The mean age of the participants was 43.98 years (standard deviation (SD) 10.68). …”
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