Tobacco Use and Cardiovascular Diseases in Older Adults by María Gabriela Balarezo García, Karla Hurtado Serrano, Ximena Elizabeth Trujillo Romero

“…The average age was 80.9. 46.2 % of the participants were married and 35.3 % were widowed. A moderate significant association was found between smoking and the presence of cardiovascular diseases in older adults (Phi coefficient = 0.342; p < 0.01). …”
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Examining Internal and External Consent in Consensual and Non-Consensual Contexts in Women by Nieves Moyano, Antonio Rafael Hidalgo-Muñoz, María del Mar Sánchez-Fuentes, Kristen Jozkowski, Reina Granados

“…Then, among women who experienced nonconsensual sex (n = 252), we further analyzed situational factors associated with the encounter: setting (i.e., whether the participant was in a known vs. unknown location when the nonconsensual sex occurred), and whether the nonconsensual sex was sexual coercion or sexual assault. …”
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Comparison of physical fitness in elderly submitted to different physical exercise interventions by Leonardo Campos, Priscila Nakamura, Eduardo Kokubun

“…For the evaluation of physical skills (strength, agility, coordination and flexibility), the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) set of tests was performed. All participants were assessed at the baseline and after three months of interventions. …”
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Challenges and problems of petrochemical companies’ use of secondary resources by T. M. Gainochenko, M. V. Gainochenko

“…A comparative analysis of the policies of sustainable development of petrochemical companies showed that the policy of sustainable development of individual budinesses is currently focused on the use of the following tools: development of the product portfolio, participation in international initiatives, partnerships and forums; voluntary industry initiatives and private projects to implement the first steps towards the collective goals of sustainable development. …”
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The Association between Platelet Glycocalicin and High Microsatellite Instability in Colorectal Cancer by Zeng-yao Liu, Qing-chun Jia, Wen Wang, Yu-xi Liu, Rui-tao Wang, Jia-yu Li

“…The microsatellite status was determined with a polymerase chain reaction. The participants were separated into high microsatellite instability (MSI-H) and microsatellite stable (MSS) groups according to microsatellite status. …”
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Making sense of a pandemic: reasoning about COVID-19 in the intellectual dark web by Sean Doody

“…A key factor in this dynamic was Reddit’s scoring mechanism, which empowered users to publicly upvote contrarian affirming content while simultaneously downvoting anti-contrarian content. As users participated in sense making about COVID-19, they deployed Reddit’s scoring mechanism to reinforce a contrarian collective identity oriented around a practice of heterodox science. …”
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Cancer patients’ sense of coherence – psycho-oncological consultations and therapeutic alliance as salutogenic factors by Natalia Cecon-Stabel, Ibrahim Demirer, Holger Pfaff, Antje Dresen

“…We aimed to evaluate tension management and SoC in the context of PC by analysing whether PC consultations and therapeutic alliance influenced patients’ SoC over time. Participants and procedure Patients who received PC were surveyed twice (after 3 and 12 months) about their care experiences, including therapeutic alliance and SoC. …”
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Self-Regulated Learning and Academic Stress of Islamic School Students: Mediating Effect of Student Engagement by Shalsabilla Novarizka, Tri Na'imah, Retno Dwiyanti, Nia Anggri Noveni, Dian Bagus Mitreka Satata, Ayşenur Şen

“…The results of the inner model analysis showed that self-regulated learning had a significant effect on academic stress (β = 0.026; T = 2.239; P = 0.026), and student engagement entered as a mediator of the effect of self-regulated learning on academic stress remained significant (β = 0.023; T = 2.617; P = 0.009), which means it mediates partially. The R-Square results of self-regulated learning together with student engagement on academic stress showed a value of 0.994, which means that 99.4% of self-regulated learning and student engagement affect academic stress. …”
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BCI-Based Rehabilitation on the Stroke in Sequela Stage by Yangyang Miao, Shugeng Chen, Xinru Zhang, Jing Jin, Ren Xu, Ian Daly, Jie Jia, Xingyu Wang, Andrzej Cichocki, Tzyy-Ping Jung

“…Sixteen stroke patients in the sequela stage were randomly assigned to a BCI group and a control group. All of them participated in rehabilitation training for four weeks and were assessed by the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) of motor function. …”
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INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE ON NEWS CONSUMPTION AMONG UNDERGRADUATES IN ILORIN by VICTOR OLUSEGUN BABATUNDE, OLUWAJUWONLO EMMANUEL AYANWALE

“…Existing studies have focused mainly on social media usage and its impact on political participation, socialization, and academic performance. …”
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Navigating complex choices through legitimation: Narrative strategies in risk-reduction mastectomy decision-making among unaffected women with genetic risk for breast cancer in Swi... by Maria Caiata-Zufferey, Reka Schweighoffer, Monica Aceti, Carla Pedrazzani, Maria C. Katapodi, Souria Aissaoui, Mekdes Alemu, Murat Aykut, Fulvia Brugnoletti, Rachel Bunger, Nicole Bürki, Pierre O. Chappuis, Muriel Fluri, Rossella Graffeo, Karl Heinimann, Ashley Machen, Christian Monnerat, Olivia Pagani, Manuela Rabaglio, Eveline Schönau, Simon Wieser, Ursina Zürrer-Härdi

“…Narrative data were collected in Switzerland through biographical interviews with 38 unaffected women carrying BRCA pathogenic variants. Participants had either undergone RRM or were planning the surgery in the future. …”
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Delving into discrepancies, a single-center experience with Accelerate Pheno for gram-negative bacteremia, a rapid phenotypic susceptibility testing method by Zoe Freeman Weiss, Dimitar Zelenkov, Jon Englert, Maureen Campion

“…Setting: Academic teaching hospital. Patients (participants): All patients admitted to the hospital with gram-negative bacteremia from January 2020 to December 2022. …”
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Voluntary isometric contractions at maximal shortening as a new technique to achieve neuromuscular re-education in healthy subjects by Julio-Artemi Hernández-Trujillo, María-Dolores González-Rivera, Jorge M. González-Hernández

“…Methods: Sixty healthy, recreationally active participants (mean age: 46.4 ± 5.5), were randomly assigned to three groups (VICAMS, ballistic stretching, and control) who were trained for eight weeks. …”
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The Effect of Platelet-Rich Fibrin (PRF) in Accelerating Periodontal Regeneration: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial by Ashwini Dhopte, Konsam Bidya Devi, KS Pandaw, Anamika Rani, Sachin Chand, Hiroj Bagde

“…Materials and Methods: The randomized controlled clinical study included a cohort of 60 individuals diagnosed with chronic periodontitis. Each participant was randomly allocated to one of two groups: the experimental group (n = 30), which underwent PRF in combination with traditional open flap debridement (OFD), and the control group (n = 30), which received OFD alone. …”
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Mentoring in education: an analysis of international practices and their implementation in Russia by N. V. Tikhonova, F. L. Ratner, I. Y. Vergasova

“…The main challenges and shortcomings of the participants were identified, and their interactions with mentors were analysed. …”
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Human Trust in Robots: A Survey on Trust Models and Their Controls/Robotics Applications by Yue Wang, Fangjian Li, Huanfei Zheng, Longsheng Jiang, Maziar Fooladi Mahani, Zhanrui Liao

“…These include performance-centric algebraic, time-series, Markov decision process (MDP)/Partially Observable MDP (POMDP)-based, Gaussian-based, and dynamic Bayesian network (DBN)-based trust models. …”
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Desempleo y flexibilización: Alemania Federal y Chile frente a las transformaciones del capitalismo (Décadas de 1970 y 1980) by Claudio Llanos, José Antonio González, Joel Stillerman

“…La economía coordinada de Alemania Federal y la influencia de los sindicatos dentro de los dos grandes partidos políticos postergaron la aplicación de estas políticas hasta los 2000. …”
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Publication of studies registered in Clinical Trials Registry of India: An audit of mood disorder research protocols from 2009-2019 by Vikas Menon, Natarajan Varadharajan, Rini Joseph, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Chittaranjan Andrade

“…We also examined the frequency and nature of protocol deviations among the published articles. Methods: Using a systematic search strategy, we examined the publication status of all mood disorder-related research protocols registered in the CTRI database from inception till December 31, 2019. …”
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Association of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase C677T Gene Polymorphisms with Mild Cognitive Impairment Susceptibility: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jiahui Sun, Xuefan Jiang, Ming Zhao, Lina Ma, Hui Pei, Nanyang Liu, Hao Li

“…Forest plots of pooled odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were generated. Results. Eight articles with 2,175 participants were included in the present meta-analysis. …”
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Web-based intervention improving quality of life among patients with type 2 diabetes in southern Karnataka, India by Deepak Anil, D. Sunil Kumar, Rajendra Prasad Shivaswamy, Arun Gopi, G Hari Prakash, Deepika Yadav

“…Results: Comparing the QoL of the study participants before and after the intervention period, all four domains of QoL, i.e., the physical domain (53.10 ± 23.140–57.36 ± 17.276), the psychological domain (53.37 ± 23.200–61.32 ± 14.154), the social relationship domain (52.77 ± 25.116–58.22 ± 18.695), and the environmental domain (54.97 ± 24.665–60.12 ± 19.725) scores, improved, and this was found to be statistically significant. …”
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