Diagnosis Profile and PTSD Comorbidity of Syrian Refugees Sample from Refugee Mental Health Branch Polyclinic by Ersin Uygun

“…Method: The Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) was applied in Arabic language to the Syrian volunteers who applied to the Bakirkoy Mental Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital (BRHSS) refugee mental health policlinic to get mental health service during 2017. Results: 107 participants included in the study and seven (6.5%) of them were not diagnosed in any disorder according to the DSM criteria. …”
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The Associations of Serum Uric Acid with Obesity-Related Acanthosis nigricans and Related Metabolic Indices by Cuiling Zhu, Ran Cui, Mingming Gao, Sharvan Rampersad, Hui You, Chunjun Sheng, Peng Yang, Hui Sheng, Xiaoyun Cheng, Le Bu, Shen Qu

“…Weight, body mass index (BMI), UA, lipid profile, liver function, and renal function were measured in all participants. Oral glucose tolerance tests were performed, and serum glucose, insulin, and C peptide were measured at 0, 30, 60, 120, and 180 min. …”
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Can We Trust the Literature on Risk Factors and Triggers for Low Back Pain? A Systematic Review of a Sample of Contemporary Literature by Emad M. Ardakani, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Bruce F. Walker

“…In 42 of the included 47 articles, it was not clear if the authors investigated RFs for the “disease” of LBP or triggers of new episodes. …”
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Utility of AD8 for Cognitive Impairment in a Chinese Physical Examination Population: A Preliminary Study by Yue Xie, Ya Gao, Jianjun Jia, Xiaohong Wang, Zhenfu Wang, Hengge Xie

“…The abnormal rate was 16.9%. All the participants were stratified into 9 groups by age; the prevalence of dementia was highly correlated with age (P<0.01). …”
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Modeling and Planning a Transmission Network Expansion System in a Regulated Electricity Market by Considering Demand-Side Management via a Developed Fuzzy-Salp Optimization Algori... by Yuying Zhang, Lei Xu, Ji Li, Long Zhang, Zhi Yuan

“…This is widely accepted: increasing the presence and participation of consumers in DR programs in the electricity market will benefit not only individual consumers but also the whole consumer community. …”
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Speech performance in language teaching-learning: Culturally textual and non-textual landscapes of Toba Caldera Geosites by Robert Sibarani, Mangatur Nababan, Wahyudi Wahyudi, Defri Elias Simatupang, Yessy Octavianna

“…The procedure covered (1) establishing the objectives of the study and bracketing, (2) locating participants or informants, (3) data collection, (4) transcription and data analysis, (5) coding and categorization, (6) phenomenological reduction, (7) descriptive and theoretical write-up, (8) interpretation and synthesis, (9) construction and reconstruction, (10) verification and validity, and (11) formulating the findings. …”
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ABORDAGEM POLICIAL EM JULGAMENTO: by Tiago Normanha Jara, Gustavo De Souza Preussler, Arthur Ramos do Nascimento

“…A pesquisa destaca, em conclusão, a discrepância entre os princípios internacionais de direitos humanos e a prática jurídica, evidenciando a necessidade de uma abordagem mais crítica e alinhada com os direitos fundamentais na jurisdição brasileira. …”
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Earnings Management and Valuation of Biological Assets by Ricardo Luiz Menezes da Silva, Paula Carolina Ciampaglia Nardi, Maisa de Souza Ribeiro

“…In this sense, only hypotheses 1 and 4 are partially accepted, demanding more research in this area. …”
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Ecopsychosocial strategies for the self-exploration of professional family caregivers to manage the behavioural and psychological symptoms of Alzheimer patients in Iran: a qualitat... by Kambiz Bahaadinbeigy, Parastoo Amiri, Zahra Niazkhani, Habibollah Pirnejad

“…Objective The aim of the present study was to explore the experiences and viewpoints of professional family caregivers in the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSDs) to identify the ecopsychosocial strategies applied by them.Design Qualitative study.Setting Kerman, Iran.Participants Stories were collected from 40 professional family caregivers of dementia patients.Measurement The guidelines of the National Consensus Project (NCP) of the USA served as the conceptual framework for the deductive thematic analysis of our qualitative data. …”
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Exploring Conditions for Designing Citizen Observatories in Sri Lanka: The Case of Air Quality in Rural Areas by Chaminda Rathnayake, Somya Joshi, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman

“…The study contributes to discourses on conditions for designing COs by suggesting potential design features for community science participation and sense-making. Our findings indicate that most often, the citizen science practices identified and discussed by the literature on COs and human-computer interaction are at odds with rural communities’ priorities and sensing praxis in countries such as Sri Lanka. …”
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Foxtail millet supplementation improves glucose metabolism and gut microbiota in rats with high-fat diet/streptozotocin-induced diabetes by Xin Ren, Linxuan Wang, Zenglong Chen, Min Zhang, Dianzhi Hou, Yong Xue, Xianmin Diao, Ruihai Liu, Qun Shen

“…In addition, 4 weeks of 48% FM supplementation siginificantly increased the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium and concentration of butyrate, suggesting that the hypoglycemic effects of FM supplementation might be partially mediated by gut microbiota. Collectively, we found a dose-dependent relationship between FM supplementation and improvement of blood glucose metabolism, but did not find a synergistic effect between FM supplementation and metformin (Met) treatment. …”
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Urinary Sodium Concentration Is an Independent Predictor of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in a Type 2 Diabetes Cohort Population by Pierre-Jean Saulnier, Elise Gand, Stéphanie Ragot, Lise Bankir, Xavier Piguel, Frédéric Fumeron, Vincent Rigalleau, Jean-Michel Halimi, Richard Marechaud, Ronan Roussel, Samy Hadjadj, SURDIAGENE Study group

“…Improvement in prediction of mortality by the addition of UNa to a model including known risk factors was assessed by the relative integrated discrimination improvement (rIDI) index. Results. Participants (n=1,439) were followed for a median of 5.7 years, during which 254 cardiovascular deaths and 429 all-cause deaths were recorded. …”
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Relative Fat Mass, A Better Predictor of Erectile Dysfunction: Insights From the NHANES 2001–2004 by BoWen Yang, HanYu Wang, Luyi Tang, JiuHuan Feng, ShuFang Hou

“…A total of 3,947 American male participants were included in this retrospective study within NHANES. …”
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Theoretical issues of local government in modern conditions by Indira Kokhanovskaya

“…It is the local authorities, that ensure the organization and implementation of local government with the independent participation of social structures and their individual elements, when solving issues of local importance. …”
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A study on awareness regarding cigarettes and other tobacco products act (COTPA Act) among hospital staff of medical college, Kanpur: A mixed method study by Aradhana Yadav, Sonam, Samarjeet Kaur, Santosh K. Barman, Seema Barman

“…On qualitative analysis by in-depth interview framework analysis, decalogues were taken from the responses provided by the participants. After that, the decalogues were divided into three keynotes which were openers, hurdles, and recommendations. …”
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Therapeutic Approach of Adolescent-Centered Mindfulness (ACM) and Integral Deep Listening (IDL) on the Academic Vitality of Students with Anxiety Dis... by Elaheh Nekoie Isfahani, Mansoureh Bahramipour Isfahani, Mohsen Golparvar

“…Individuals in the experimental groups participated in parallel sessions of ACM and IDL, but there was no intervention for the control group. …”
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Mobile base station site as a virtual power plant for grid stability by Jussi Laimio, Mika Keski-Heikkilä, Matti Pärssinen, Roope Lahti, Olli Salmela, Topi Volkov, Jari Collin, Petri Rannikko, Henri Koskela, Jukka Manner

“…Our objective is to demonstrate that mobile operators could use their existing infrastructure to participate in the reserve market of a contemporary power grid. …”
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Regulation of local self-government bodies powers in health care by O. V. Batryn

“…The article is devoted to the issues of legal regulation of the powers of local self-government bodies in health care. …”
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Effect of Eel Biscuit Supplementation on Height of Children with Stunting Aged 36–60 Months: A Pilot Study by Dewi M. D. Herawati, Siti N. Asiyah, Siska Wiramihardja, Shifa Fauzia, Deni K. Sunjaya

“…The study was conducted in two villages in the Priangan Region, West Java Province, Indonesia. The participants were divided into two groups: intervention group (10 supplemented eel biscuit pieces) and control group (biscuits from the government’s biscuit programme). …”
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Defense against Feeding by Spring Aphid Parasitism in the Upper Leaf Parts of Host Plants by Yuuka Murakami, Hisashi Kawai, Akane Shindo, Eisuke Hasegawa

“…In a symbiosis, each participant gains more fitness benefits than is paid in maintenance costs for the symbiosis. …”
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