Effect of Intra-Articular Hyaluronic Injection on Postural Stability and Risk of Fall in Patients with Bilateral Knee Osteoarthritis by Nafiseh Khalaj, Noor Azuan Abu Osman, Abdul Halim Mokhtar, John George, Wan Abu Bakar Wan Abas

“…Fifty patients aged between 50 and 70 years with mild and moderate bilateral knee osteoarthritis participated in our study. They were categorized into treatment (n=25) and control (n=25) groups. …”
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Assessing the effectiveness of brief interventional group therapy on severity of illness, readiness for change, self-efficacy and motivation levels in patients with alcohol use dis... by Romesh Bagde, Adnan Kadiani, Janhavi Kedare, Smriti Shailly

“…Results: A total of 83.33% of the participants were in early remission, the SADQ scores decreased in all participants, and 60% were in the Action phase of Motivation. …”
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Uma lupa sobre a política agroalimentar do município de Anchieta sob a perspectiva da inovação social by Julie Rossato Fagundes, Silvio Antonio Ferraz Cario, Alexandre Marino Costa

“…The Anchietense experience can serve as a reference to other municipalities, since social innovation is triggered by an initial internal or external impulse, but the consolidation dynamics of this process mainly involves the alignment of interests of the participating actors, constituting a process evolutionary process of mutual learning and governance.…”
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Domain knowledge, search behaviour, and search effectiveness of engineering and science students: an exploratory study by Zhang X., Anghelescu, H.G.B. & Yuan, X.

“…<br><b>Method.</b> Participants were asked to rate their familiarity with 200 thesaurus terms to measure their level of domain knowledge. …”
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La institucionalización de utopías izquierdistas en América Latina: un estudio de caso by Guillem Compte Nunes

“…Ante la insatisfacción popular con la democracia liberal-capitalista, a principios del siglo XXI se produce un giro gubernamental a la izquierda en América Latina, del cual participa recientemente México, con la llegada del partido Morena al poder. Los movimientos sociales que impulsan estos proyectos políticos vehiculan utopías de cuño izquierdista que pretenden institucionalizarse en los sistemas políticos y las políticas públicas. …”
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Relationship Between Physical Activity Levels and Body Compositions of University Students by Şükran Arıkan, Serkan Revan

“…As a result, it can be said that there is no significant relationship between body composition variables and physical activity level variables of men and women participating in the research.…”
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Sustainable Economic Growth and Land Management: A Case Study on the Role of Tax Legislation in Emerging Markets by Edith Pilar Quispe-Espinoza, Sonia Luz Barzola-Inga, Carlos Antonio Adauto-Justo, Carlos Samuel Borja-Mucha, Fabricio Miguel Moreno-Menéndez, Fredi Paul Gutiérrez-Meza, Jefrin Marlon Silva-Murillo, Vicente González-Prida

“…The survey participants included 72 co-operatives drawn from a population of 88, and their awareness and use of tax incentives were targeted. …”
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Phubbing as a Social Norm: Effects on Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and Perceived Exclusion by Miguel Ángel Albalá-Genol, Edgardo Etchezahar, Talía Gómez-Yepes, Joaquin Ungaretti

“…The results confirmed that phubbing is perceived as normative behavior in most of the participants, representing a predictor of phubbing in their social interactions. …”
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Intestinal Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Patients with Bronchial Asthma by O. Yu. Zolnikova, N. D. Potskhverashvili, N. I. Kokina, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Materials and methods. 44 patients with asthma and 17 healthy volunteers participated in the study. All participants underwent a generally accepted range of clinical and laboratory studies, as well as functional respiratory tests. …”
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Influence of an Infectious Diseases Specialist on ICU Multidisciplinary Rounds by David N. Gilbert

“…Prior to multidisciplinary rounds (MDRs), 79-80% of the patients were receiving one or more antibiotic. IDS participation occurred in 61 multidisciplinary rounding sessions. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on COMPI Fertility Problem Stress Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Scale in Patients Undergoing IVF/ICSI by Arzu Yurci, Saban Karayagiz

“…In terms of socio-demographic characteristics of the participants and their responses in state-trait anxiety scale and ISS forms, the correlation coefficients were also so low. …”
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Beyond the embrace: a phenomenological qualitative exploration of the impact of kangaroo mother care (KMC) on couple relationships in China by Xin Ding, Yiyin He, Peizhen Chen, Chunmei He, Jufang Ding, Hongqing Guo, Wenying Yao

“…Objectives To explore the impact of kangaroo mother care (KMC), involving both mothers and fathers, on the dynamics of couple relationships.Design Qualitative phenomenological study.Setting A regional comprehensive centre for child healthcare.Participants 11 couples engaged in KMC with their infants. …”
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An investigation into the extent of, and reason for, the theory-to-practice disparity in Montessori early childhood settings in South Africa by Susanne van Niekerk

“…Data analysis showed that the majority of the participants experienced situational constraints from school man­agement, parent pressure, and statutory requirements, while some instances of personal bias and reservation towards the Montessori method were also noted. …”
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La comunicación empresarial en tiempos de COVID by Pedro Pablo Marín Dueñas, Diego Gómez Carmona

“…Objetivo: conocer cuál es la situación de partida de las empresas españolas desde una perspectiva comunicacional partiendo de la premisa de que las empresas que gestionen mejor su comunicación estarán en una mejor posición para enfrentar una crisis económica. …”
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RNA Polymerase RPOTp is Involved in C‐to‐U RNA Editing at Multiple Sites in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts by Nadia Ahmed Ali, Wenjian Song, Yayi Zhang, Jiani Xing, Kexing Su, Xingxing Sun, Yujia Sun, Yizhou Jiang, Dianxing Wu, Xiaobo Zhao

“…It is further shown that RPOTp participates in RNA editing by influencing the dimerization of MORF proteins. …”
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Stress Recovery Effects of High- and Low-Frequency Amplified Music on Heart Rate Variability by Yoshie Nakajima, Naofumi Tanaka, Tatsuya Mima, Shin-Ichi Izumi

“…We defined the stress recovery ratio as the value obtained after participants listened to music following scratching noise, normalized by the value obtained after participants listened to white noise after the stress noise, in terms of the HFnu, low-frequency normalized unit, LF/HF ratio, and heart rate. …”
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The Femoral Neck Mechanoresponse to Hip Extensors Exercise: A Case Study by Saulo Martelli, Hossein Mokhtarzadeh, Peter Pivonka, Peter R. Ebeling

“…We compared the proximal femur response with the femoral strain pattern generated by the hip extensor muscles. A healthy participant underwent a six-month unilateral training of the hip extensor muscles using a resistance weight regularly adjusted to the 80% of the one-repetition maximum weight. …”
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Higher Education of Latin America in the Trajectory of International Student Mobility by E. G. Ermolieva

“…Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC), with a student enrollment about 30 million, has its own space in the global inter-university exchange. And the article aims to observe current trends and specific features of the internationalization of LAC higher education systems. …”
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EXISTENCE OF WIFE BATTERY AMONG TRADERS IN UGEP COMMUNITY OF YAKURR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA by NNANA OKOI OFEM

“…The study engages 144 participants out of which 62 are males and 82 females. …”
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Rapid implementation of open-access pandemic education for global frontline healthcare workers by Jacqueline Christianson, Erica Frank, Stacen Keating, Susan Boyer, Miriam Chickering

“…Course participants gave positive feedback and several requested additional courses in similar formats. …”
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