Sociodemographic Profile of Severely Malnourished Children Admitted to a Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre in One of the Districts of Maharashtra: A Cross-sectional Study by Pratik Borkar, Rohan Sangam, Shalini Rawat, Ravindra Kembali

“…Educational status of parents was found to be low among majority of the study participants. Exclusive breast feeding was also lacking in majority of the children.…”
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J-shaped association between dietary thiamine intake and the risk of cognitive decline in cognitively healthy, older Chinese individuals by Yuanyuan Zhang, Xianhui Qin, Chengzhang Liu, Chun Zhou, Mengyi Liu, Panpan He, Ziliang Ye, Qiguo Meng, Yuanxiu Wei, Xinyue Su

“…Background The prospective association of dietary thiamine intake with the risk of cognitive decline among the general older adults remains uncertain.Aims To investigate the association between dietary thiamine intake and cognitive decline in cognitively healthy, older Chinese individuals.Methods The study included a total of 3106 participants capable of completing repeated cognitive function tests. …”
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Sex-Specific Brain Activations during Single-Leg Exercise by Kyoungyoun Park-Braswell, Dustin Grooms, Sandra Shultz, Louisa Raisbeck, Christopher Rhea, Randy Schmitz

“… # Study Design Cross-Sectional Study # Methods Thirteen males and seventeen females who were healthy and physically active participated in this study (Male: 23.7±3.8 years, 74.5±13.5 kg, 172.3±6.4 cm; Female: 20.6±1.6 years, 65.4±12.8 kg, 163±6.1 cm). …”
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Gestational diabetes mellitus and offspring’s carotid intima–media thickness at birth: MySweetHeart Cohort study by Umberto Simeoni, Antje Horsch, Arnaud Chiolero, Yvan Vial, Nicole Sekarski, Jardena J Puder, Pascal Bovet, Stefano Di Bernardo, Yvan Mivelaz, Adina Mihaela Epure, Sandrine Estoppey Younes, Bobby Stuijfzand, Leah Gilbert, Stefano Lanzi, Justine Gross, Stefano Di Bernardo, Dan Quansah, Jean-Benoît Rossel, Amar Arhab, Sandrine Estoppey Younes, Seyda Mayerat

“…We assessed whether GDM is associated with increased CIMT in the offspring at birth.Design and setting MySweetHeart Cohort is a prospective cohort study conducted in Switzerland.Participants, exposure and outcome measures This work included pregnant women with and without GDM at 24–32 weeks of gestation and their singleton live-born offspring with data on the primary outcome of CIMT. …”
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Rapid antigen testing by community health workers for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study by Mahbubur Rahman, Ayesha Sania, Seonjoo Lee, Tahmina Shirin, A S M Alamgir, Yael K Rayport, Ahmed Nawsher Alam, Joanna Andrecka, Eric Brum, Fergus Chadwick, Tasnuva Chowdhury, Zakiul Hasan, Davina L Hill, Farzana Khan, Mikolaj Kundegorski, Motahara Tasneem, Katie Hampson

“…Community health workers, who were trained and supervised by medical technicians, performed rapid antigen tests on symptomatic individuals, and up to two additional household members in their households and diagnostic results were calibrated against the gold standard RT-PCR.Setting Low-income communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Participants Between 19 May 2021 and 11 July 2021, 1240 nasal and saliva samples were collected from symptomatic individuals and 993 samples from additional household members (up to two from one household).Results The sensitivity of rapid antigen tests was 0.68 on nasal samples (95% CI 0.62 to 0.73) and 0.41 on saliva (95% CI 0.35 to 0.46), with specificity also higher on nasal samples (0.98, 95% CI 0.97 to 0.99) than saliva (0.87, 95% CI 0.85 to 0.90). …”
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Achieving Sustainability in Manufacturing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs’) in Tanzania Through Adoption of Solar Energy by Felichesmi Lyakurwa

“…The reliance on nonrenewable energy sources, not only threatens the efforts to achieve the stated Sustainable Development Goals but also affects community’s participation in the economic activities. The increased concern over resource depletion, and environmental impacts, has suggested future reliance on renewable energy. …”
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Transcriptome analysis of early pregnancy vitamin D status and spontaneous preterm birth. by Aishwarya P Yadama, Hooman Mirzakhani, Thomas F McElrath, Augusto A Litonjua, Scott T Weiss

“…<h4>Study design</h4>We conducted peripheral blood transcriptome profiling at 10-18 weeks of gestation in a nested case-control cohort of 24 pregnant women who participated in the Vitamin D Antenatal Asthma Reduction Trial (VDAART). …”
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‘Soglitude’- introducing a method of thinking thresholds by Tatjana Barazon

“…We hope to enlarge the notion in further issues on physics and chemistry, as well as mathematics. The articles in this issue introduce the method of threshold thinking by showing the importance of the in-between, of the changing of perspective in their respective domain. …”
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Causal analysis of dietary preferences and the risk of endometriosis using large-scale population data by Xin Cheng, Dan Ma, Xiuhong Wang, Meiling Li, Jinpeng Jiang

“…This study utilised genome-wide association study data from over 500,000 European participants for dietary preferences and 64,658 EM patients from Finland. …”
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Increased Interleukin-11 Levels Are Correlated with Cardiac Events in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure by Jing Ye, Zhen Wang, Di Ye, Yuan Wang, Menglong Wang, Qingwei Ji, Ying Huang, Ling Liu, Ying Shi, Lei Shi, Tao Zeng, Yao Xu, Jianfang Liu, Huimin Jiang, Yingzhong Lin, Jun Wan

“…Interleukin-11 (IL-11) is an important inflammatory cytokine and has been demonstrated to participate in cardiovascular diseases. However, there have been no studies about the role of IL-11 in heart failure (HF). …”
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Leader’s management decision-making style and emotional intelligence of higher education students studying in the speciality “Law Enforcement” by S. V. Kharchenko, O. V. Koldashov

“…Three styles of managerial decision-making were identified in the surveyed cadets: 35 % had a conniving style, 25 % had a marginal style, and 20 % had a situational style. The other participants of the study did not have a leading style of managerial decision-making. …”
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Depression among adult patients with primary brain tumour: a cross-sectional study of risk factors in a low–middle-income country by Adnan Abdul Jabbar, Anum Sadruddin Pidani, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Muhammad Shahzad shamim, Shameel Khan

“…Thus, we aim to study the factors associated with depression among adult patients with primary brain tumour at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.Study design A prospective cross-sectional study.Setting This study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital of Karachi, Pakistan.Participants This study included 132 patients with confirmed diagnosis of primary brain tumour (initially diagnosed on MRI of the brain with contrast and later confirmed on histology of surgical specimen) in various stages of treatment.Primary outcome The primary outcome of this study was to assess depression and its associated factors among adult patients with primary brain tumour. …”
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Comparing the Efficacy of Two Cognitive Screening Tools in Identifying Gray and White Matter Brain Damage among Older Adults by Paula Andreatta Maduro, Manoel Pereira Guimarães, Mateus de Sousa Rodrigues, Ana Paula Pereira Rolim Coimbra Pinto, Américo Alves da Mota Junior, Alaine Souza Lima Rocha, Juliana Magalhães Duarte Matoso, Bruno Bavaresco Gambassi, Paulo Adriano Schwingel

“…Cognitive impairment was observed in 56.7% of the participants (95% confidence interval (CI): 46.4–66.4%), with thirty-six older adults (40%) classified as MCI and 15 (17%) as MoCI. …”
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PYTHON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AS A MEANS OF TRAINING FUTURE TEACHERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE WHEN WORKING WITH ARDUINO by V. Kyslitsyn, L. Shevchenko, V. Umanets

“…Abstract. This article explores the possibilities and advantages of using the Python programming language together with Arduino robotics kits in the process of training future computer science teachers in pedagogical educational institutions. …”
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Association of Alzheimer’s and Lewy body disease pathology with basal forebrain volume and cognitive impairment by Julia Schumacher, Stefan Teipel, Alexander Storch

“…Cognitive performance was more impaired in AD pathology groups, with Braak stage being the strongest predictor. Hippocampal volume partially mediated this relationship between tau pathology and cognitive impairment, while basal forebrain volume had a limited role in mediating the relationship between pathological burden and cognitive outcomes. …”
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Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Lenabasum, a Cannabinoid Receptor Type 2 Agonist, in Patients with Dermatomyositis with Refractory Skin Disease: Follow-Up Data from a 3-Year Open-... by Caroline J. Stone, Geeta Ahuja, Lais Lopes Almeida Gomes, Joy Poroye, Daniella Forman Faden, Lillian Xie, Rui Feng, Barbara White, Victoria P. Werth

“…Subsequently, a follow-up retrospective chart review was performed on patients who completed the OLE as well as on control subjects with DM who did not participate in the lenabasum trial. Results: By week 68, patients exhibited reductions in Cutaneous Dermatomyositis Disease Area and Severity Index activity score (−21.8), Patient Skin Activity Visual Analog Scale (−3.0), and Skindex-29 (−28.0) from OLE baseline. …”
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Distinctive dust weather intensities in North China resulted from two types of atmospheric circulation anomalies by Q. Huo, Q. Huo, Z. Yin, Z. Yin, Z. Yin, X. Ma, X. Ma, H. Wang, H. Wang, H. Wang

“…A super dust storm that occurred on 15 March 2021 raised Beijing's PM<span class="inline-formula">₁₀</span> (particulate matter with a diameter less than 10 <span class="inline-formula">µ</span>m) concentrations above 7000 <span class="inline-formula">µ</span>g m<span class="inline-formula">⁻³</span>, while 2023 witnessed the highest spring dust weather frequency in nearly a decade. …”
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Prenatal labor analgesia education program on outcomes for primiparas: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Jiali Wu, Jing Chen, Weiwen Zhang, Jiangtao OuYang, Jia Li, Xujuan Zheng

“…Primiparous women will be recruited in the obstetrics department or midwife clinic of a tertiary hospital in Shenzhen, China. The participants (N = 196) will be randomly allocated to the intervention group (N = 98) that receives routine prenatal education and access to the online and offline prenatal labor epidural analgesia education program and the control group (N = 98) that receives routine prenatal education. …”
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Identification and expression analysis of P-type ATPase IIIA subfamily in Puccinia Striiformis f. sp. tritici by Yingjie Sun, Hong Tao, Hong Han, Yiping Zou, Yingyu Xue, Shiwen Chen, Fei Tao

“…In plant pathogens, P-type ATPases primarily participate in pathogen development and virulence regulation. …”
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Associations between dry eye disease and sleep quality: a cross-sectional analysis by Anat Galor, Kimberly Cabrera, Mohammad Ayoubi, Elyana Vittoria Tessa Locatelli, Simran Mangwani-Mordani

“…DE metrics were examined by PSQI scores and subscores.Results Most participants (76%) reported mild or greater DE symptoms (DEQ-5 ≥6). …”
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