Characterizing Radon Among Public Buildings and Small/Medium-Sized Businesses in a Canadian Province by Lily X. Yang, Tracy L. Kirkham, Laura Boksman, Anne-Marie Nicol, Paul A. Demers

“…Using the Health Canada and Ontario labor guideline of 200 Bq/m³, 2.5% of participating workplaces had at least one measurement above this level; 7.2% were above the World Health Organization guideline. …”
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Post-COVID pain and quality of life in COVID-19 patients: protocol for a meta-analysis and systematic review by Yongxing Xu, Jianwen Gu, Mengrong Miao, Yitian Yang, Pule Li, Mengqi Jia, Zhaoyu Wen, Mengmeng Yu, Jiaqiang Zhang

“…Studies with less than 20 participants will be also excluded. We aim to investigate the prevalence of pain-related symptoms in patients after the acute phase of COVID-19. …”
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Digitalized co-production of emergency response: ICT-enabled dispatch and coordination of volunteers at the emergency site by Sofie Pilemalm, Anna Follin, Erik Prytz

“…It includes a variety of methods for data collection, including interviews with volunteers, document analysis and participation in workshops. Findings – The major themes identified are geofencing, dispatch coordination, dynamic resource allocation and communication and collaboration. …”
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Rethink of Individual Transferable Quota Fishery Management System in China: A Case Study in Zhejiang Province, China by Yuan Jiang, Zoe Qu, Huijuan Hao, Siying Wang

“…Based on the author’s own participation in the pilot reform of the fishery industry in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, this article analyzes the reasons for the failure of the reform through research methods such as interviews and investigations. …”
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Gum Arabic Reduces C-Reactive Protein in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients without Affecting Urea or Indoxyl Sulfate Levels by Sarra Elamin, Mariam J. Alkhawaja, Amina Y. Bukhamsin, Mohamed A. S. Idris, Muntasir M. Abdelrahman, Nasrulla K. Abutaleb, Abdulrahman A. Housawi

“…We randomly allocated 36 chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients to receive 10, 20, or 40 grams daily of GA for four weeks and studied the systemic effects of this intervention. Results. Thirty participants completed the study with baseline glomerular filtration rate 29.1±9.9 mL/min/1.7 m2. …”
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Place attachment, activation of personal norms, and the role of emotions to save water in scarcity by Peyman Arjomandi A., Masoud Yazdanpanah, Tahereh Zobeidi, Nadejda Komendantova, Akbar Shirzad

“…To ensure the effectiveness of institutional lake restoration plans, the consent, cooperation, and active participation of farmers are essential. The critical issue is to know how to persuade farmers and foster prudent water consumption as the prime strategy. …”
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Recent Advances in Pathogenesis and Anticoagulation Treatment of Sepsis-Induced Coagulopathy by Man C, An Y, Wang GX, Mao EQ, Ma L

“…Meanwhile, the non-anticoagulation effects of anticoagulants, especially heparin, which act in the pathogenesis of coagulopathy in septic patients, have been partially revealed. We believe that further insights into the pathogenesis of sepsis-induced coagulopathy will help physicians evaluate patient conditions effectively, leading to advanced early recognition and better decision-making in the treatment of sepsis.Keywords: sepsis, coagulopathy, endotheliopathy, immunothrombosis, thromboinflammation, anticoagulant…”
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Determining the Burden of Dysmenorrhea on Women's Quality of Life: The Dysmenorrhea Symptom Interference Scale by Syed Muhammad Ashraf Jahangeer, Meerab Fatima, Hifza Iqbal, Areeba Sheikh

“…The mean DSI score recorded was 2.75. Most participants (27%; n=75) were found in the mood component of DSI. …”
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Association between thyroid dysfunction and insulin resistance: a retrospective cohort study by Qi Song, Hari Krishnamurthy, Tianhao Wang, Karthik Krishna, Chithra Suresh, Thushani Siriwardhane, Vasanth Jayaraman, Kang Bei, John J Rajasekaran

“…Objective To evaluate the association between thyroid disease and diabetes markers.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting The study was conducted in a diagnostic setting where the primary care providers recommended the patients to test for thyroid and diabetes panels.Participants The thyroid and diabetes markers were tested in 32 787 subjects with suspected thyroid and related conditions who visited Vibrant America Clinical Laboratory between January 2015 and June 2019.Results Our general prevalence results showed that homeostatic model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was elevated in overt hypothyroid subjects (43.7%) and overt hyperthyroid subjects (42.2%). …”
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Anticancer and Free Radical Scavenging Competence of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized by Aqueous Leaf Extract of Phyllanthus acidus by Arunachalam Chinnathambi, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi, Deepika Joshi, Haiter Lenin

“…The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis confirmed that the aqueous extract contained significant numbers of functional groups, which were involved in reducing zinc nitrate into ZnONPs. Also, they participate in the capping and stabilization of synthesized ZnONPs and their size ranged from 27.14–35.74 nm with a spherical shape . …”
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Methylation sites of human papillomavirus 16 as potential biomarkers for cervical cancer progression by Sha Ji, Nannan Ji

“…A total of 107 women participated in this study, including 54 with cervical cancer (32 Uygur, 22 Han) and 53 with cervical inflammation (32 Uygur, 21 Han). …”
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Current virtual reality-based rehabilitation interventions in neuro-developmental disorders at developmental ages by Micaela Capobianco, Concetto Puzzo, Concetto Puzzo, Concetto Puzzo, Chiara Di Matteo, Alberto Costa, Alberto Costa, Walter Adriani, Walter Adriani, Walter Adriani

“…These cover a total of 8,139 participants with ADHD (ages 3–19), 458 with ASD (ages 4–19), and 162 with SLD (ages 7–11). …”
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Ethical challenges in palliative sedation of adults: protocol for a systematic review of current clinical practice guidelines by Cécile Jaques, Ralf J Jox, Martyna Tomczyk

“…Therefore, ethics approval and consent to participate are not applicable to this context. This study protocol is reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis for Protocols criteria and registered on PROSPERO. …”
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Interprofessional Collaboration amongst Healthcare Workers of a Tertiary Hospital in North-Eastern Nigeria by Solomon Daniel Halilu, Afisulahi Abiodun Maiyegun, Joshua Oluwafemi Aiyekomogbon, Yakubu Bababa Shirama, Yahkub Babatunde Mutalub, Funmilayo Jane Oyediji

“…Results: Two hundred and sixty-six participants responded to the questionnaire. Male and female respondents were 131 (49.2%) each. …”
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Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Chinese First-Generation Migrants and Italians in Prato, Italy: The CHIP Study by Pietro A. Modesti, Maria Calabrese, Ilaria Marzotti, Hushao Bing, Danilo Malandrino, Maria Boddi, Sergio Castellani, Dong Zhao

“…In both ethnic groups age and parental history of hypertension were predictors of awareness and treatment, body mass index being predictor of hypertension diagnosis. In Chinese participants, where the optimum cut-off point for body mass index was ≥23.9 kg/m2, the sensibility and specificity prediction for hypertension were 61.7% and 59.8%, respectively (area under the ROC curve = 0.629). …”
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ALCAM is an entry factor for severe community acquired Pneumonia-associated Human adenovirus species B by Yusang Xie, Hong Mei, Wei Wang, Xiao Li, Pengfei Hu, Xingui Tian, Rong Zhou, Jia Liu, Jieming Qu

“…Further investigation shows that ALCAM affects HAdV-B infection by participating in viral internalization. Transcriptomics data from human blood samples suggests that ALCAM expression is higher in SCAP patients with HAdV-B infection than in those with other infections. …”
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Communication barriers between gen Z and alpha in the cultural digitalization era by Bambang Wibisono, Titis Rizka Yusnita, Akhmad Haryono

“…The nine types of communication barriers are supported by explanations from sources or participants in the data. These findings show that there is a gap between Gen Z and Alpha, in this case in the context of cross-cultural communication. …”
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Donor site scar preference in head and neck free flap reconstruction: The patient point of view by Andrea Iandelli, Francesco Mazzola, Fabrizio Di Mari, Gilda Gaglio, Giulia Bianchi, Filippo Marchi, Giovanni Zoccali, Flaminia Campo, Giampiero Parrinello, Gerardo Petruzzi, Giorgio Peretti, Raul Pellini

“…This study aims to investigate the preference of the donor site in the light of esthetical and functional outcomes. Methods: The participants attended a one-to-one interview with a surgeon explaining a standardized head and neck oncological procedure requiring a soft tissue reconstruction. …”
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Exploring the relationship between motor development and entrepreneurial traits in childhood by Inês Peixoto Silva, Beatriz Pereira

“…Methodology: This is an exploratory case study using mixed methodologies. 37 students from the 1st and 3rd grade participated in this study. The Test of Gross Motor Development - 2 was used to determine the children's motor development. …”
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Pilot Study on AI Image Analysis for Lower-Limb Reconstruction—Assessing ChatGPT-4’s Recommendations in Comparison to Board-Certified Plastic Surgeons and Resident Physicians by Silke Graul, Michael A. Pais, Rafael Loucas, Tobias Rohrbach, Elias Volkmer, Sebastian Leitsch, Thomas Holzbach

“…We conducted a cross-sectional survey in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, where 52 participants reviewed images depicting lower leg defects within fictitious patient profiles and selected the optimal reconstruction techniques. …”
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