Anti-sperm Antibody Positivity in Men with Varicocele: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Marco Falcone, Kadir Bocu, Hakan Keskin, Jesus Fernando Solorzano Vazquez, Ravi Banthia, Tara Mahendran, Muslim Dogan Deger, Vinod Kv, Preto Mirko, Ahmed M. Harraz, Ramadan Saleh, Rupin Shah, Ashok Agarwal

“…Results: Out of 151 abstracts identified during the initial screening, 6 articles met the inclusion criteria and were included in the meta-analysis. …”

La figura de lo enjaulable: ciencia y ficciones, el caso de Britches by Deisy Carolina Benavides Agudelo

“…Para eso, cocieron sus párpados, le instalaron cascos en la cabeza y lo sometieron a interminables sesiones de decibelios, un dispositivo electrónico fue insertado en su cabeza como parte de un experimento que lo privaría de sus sentidos durante 3 años y que involucraba a 24 jóvenes monos más. Con ese punto de partida, Britches será el centro de análisis para una controversia sobre el sacrificio y el sacrificado, las asimetrías del terror y la imagen conducente, reveladora y radical. …”
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Pembrolizumab and Pemetrexed for Older Patients With Nonsquamous NSCLC and Programmed Cell Death-Ligand 1 Tumor Proportion Scores of Less Than 50% by Yoshihito Kogure, MD, PhD, Hiroya Hashimoto, PhD, Haruko Daga, MD, PhD, Yasushi Fukuda, MD, Akihiro Bessho, MD, PhD, Tadaaki Yamada, MD, PhD, Yukihiro Toi, MD, Tomoki Kimura, MD, PhD, Hiroshige Yoshioka, MD, PhD, Koichi Azuma, MD, PhD, Naoki Furuya, MD, PhD, Yasutaka Fukui, MD, PhD, Akiko M. Saito, MD, PhD, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, MD, PhD, Hideo Saka, MD, Masashi Kondo, MD, PhD

“…Methods: This multicenter, open-label, phase 2 trial involved 42 institutions across Japan. Eligible participants had metastatic or recurrent nonsquamous NSCLC without sensitizing EGFR or ALK alterations, were aged 75 years or above, had a programmed cell death-ligand 1 tumor proportion score of less than 50%, had not undergone systemic chemotherapy, and had an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1. …”
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Uncarboxylated osteocalcin induced miR-143-3p targets SP7 and activates PI3K/Akt signaling in TNBC cells to promote invasion and migration by Qian Du, Jiaojiao Xu, Miao Zhang, Jianhong Yang

“…Notably, concurrent administration of miR-143-3p agomir and GluOC partially abrogated the tumorigenic effects induced by GluOC alone. …”
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How drinking motives mediate associations between sexual orientation and indicators of alcohol use – a study among young Swiss men by Matthias Wicki, Matthias Wicki, Simon Marmet, Joseph Studer, Joseph Studer, Kim Bloomfield, Kim Bloomfield, Kim Bloomfield, Gerhard Gmel, Gerhard Gmel, Gerhard Gmel, Gerhard Gmel

“…They also reported more AUD symptoms, partially mediated through drinking motives, with comparable contributions from enhancement and coping motives. …”
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Risk Factors for Hospital Readmission Following Noncardiac Surgery: International Cohort Study by Michael H. McGillion, RN, PhD, Flavia K. Borges, MD, PhD, David Conen, MD, MPH, Daniel I. Sessler, MD, Brenda L. Coleman, RN, PhD, Maura Marcucci, MD, MSc, Carley Ouellette, RN, MSc, Marissa Bird, RN, PhD, Carly Whitmore, RN, PhD, Shaunattonie Henry, RN, PhD, Sandra Ofori, MD, MSc, Shirley M. Pettit, RN, Deborah M. Bedini, RN, MHS, Leslie P. Gauthier, MScT, Jennifer Lounsbury, RN(EC), MN, Nancy M. Carter, RN, PhD, Vikas Tandon, MD, Ameen Patel, MD, Teresa Cafaro, MD, MSc, Marko R. Simunovic, MD, John A. Harlock, MD, Diane Heels-Ansdell, MSc, Fadi Elias, MD, MS, Theodore Rapanos, MD, Shawn Forbes, MD, Elizabeth Peter, RN, PhD, Judy Watt-Watson, RN, PhD, Kelly Metcalfe, RN, PhD, Sandra L. Carroll, RN, PhD, Philip J. Devereaux, MD, PhD

“…Of 36,657 eligible participants, 2744 (7.5%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 7.2–7.8) were readmitted within 30 days of discharge. …”
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Determining and comparing the achieved competencies of graduating nursing students of public and private universities in Iran by Majid Purabdollah, Vahid Zamanzadeh, Akram Ghahramanian, Leila Valizadeh, Mostafa Ghasempour, Saeid Mousavi

“…A convenience sample of 721 graduating nursing students, including 301 from private universities and 420 from public universities, participated in the study. Data was collected using a nursing competence questionnaire developed in the Iranian cultural context and rated on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = dependent to 5 = independent). …”
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Comparison of specialist ataxia centres with non-specialist services in terms of care access and organisation, health services resource utilisation and costs in Germany using patie... by Julie Vallortigara, Julie Greenfield, Barry Hunt, Holm Graessner, Carola Reinhard, Andreas Nadke, Bart-Jan Schuman, Deborah Hoffman, Steve Morris, Paola Giunti

“…Results: We collected and analysed responses from 101 participants. For patients who visited both a SAC and a standard neurology clinic, 67.2 % reported that the care received at a SAC was better. …”
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Physiological changes induced by green fodder expansion into grasslands and croplands enhance water-use efficiency in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau by Xu Wang, Jilin Yang, Jie Wang, Tong Yang, Chuchen Chang, Yanbo Zhao, Xiaocui Wu, Geli Zhang, Xiangming Xiao

“…However, we found that green fodder planting also led to increased soil evaporation over the non-growing season, which partially offset its positive effect on water-use efficiency during the growing season. …”
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Schema Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Suicidal Behaviors in Depressed Patients with Bereavement by Maral Moraveji, Zahra Bagherzadeh Golmakani, Mahdi Akbarzadeh

“…After screening and conducting an initial diagnosis, 45 individuals were selected through purposive sampling and randomly assigned to three groups of 15 participants each: two experimental groups and one control group. …”
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Infective agents and polymyalgia rheumatica: key discussion points emerging from a narrative review of published literature by Ciro Manzo, Marco Isetta, Alberto Castagna

“…When papers reported data partially presented in previous articles, we referred to the most recent published data. …”
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Dynamic reconfiguration of default and frontoparietal network supports creative incubation by Ziyi Li, Ze Zhang, Tengteng Tan, Jing Luo

“…Using an incubation paradigm, we temporarily disengaged participants from the initial creative ideation task and required them to conduct two different distraction activities (moderately-demanding: 1-back working memory task, non-demanding: 0-back choice reaction time task), then returned them to the previous creative task. …”
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La Mélancolie et l’aspect spatio-temporel de l’identité dans Le pion sur l’échiquier d’Irène Némirovsky by Liudmyla Parfeniuk

“…As these mechanisms are inscribed in the spatial dimension, space becomes an additional device, participating in the configuration of time in the novel and supporting composition where the structuring function of emplotment is weakened. …”
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The importance of trunk motion in wearable based infant spontaneous movement analysis by María Marín-Palma, Ignacia Rojas-Sepulveda, Jessica Becerra-Caroca, José Carrasco-Plaza, Ramiro Zepeda, Pablo Ignacio Burgos

“…It was a cross-sectional study with 116 separate subjects divided into 3 groups: 0 M Group (N = 43), 3 M Group (N = 44), and 6 M (N = 29). Participants’ movements were recorded using 6 wireless inertial sensors (4 limbs, thorax, and pelvis). …”
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How Much Do We Know about the Biopsychosocial Predictors of Glycaemic Control? Age and Clinical Factors Predict Glycaemic Control, but Psychological Factors Do Not by Mohammad Farris Iman Leong Bin Abdullah, Hatta Sidi, Arun Ravindran, Paula Junggar Gosse, Emily Samantha Kaunismaa, Roslyn Laurie Mainland, Norlaila Mustafa, Nurul Hazwani Hatta, Puteri Arnawati, Amelia Yasmin Zulkifli, Luke Sy-Cherng Woon

“…Demographic data on social and clinical characteristics were collected from participants. Several questionnaires were administered, including the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) to measure depressive symptoms, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) to assess anxiety symptoms, the Big Five Inventory (BFI) to evaluate personality traits, and the WHO Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) to assess QOL. …”
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Student’s perception of hybrid team-based and case-based learning in undergraduate endodontics education by Lee Yuetqi, Galvin Sim Siang Lin, Rosnani Binti Mamat, Tahir Yusuf Noorani

“…Methods The final-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) students were invited to participate in a hybrid TBL-CBL session. They were randomly divided into six groups of six to seven students, and the session was conducted by one facilitator, supported by two lecturers. …”
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Evaluation of the implementation in primary care of genetic testing for the screening of MODY2 (iMOgene): protocol for an implementation pilot study by Marie-Ève Poitras, Luigi Bouchard, Samuel Legeay, Vanessa Tremblay-Vaillancourt, Amélie Fournier, Josianne Leblanc, Philippe Caron, Catherine Savard, Nathalie Bettez, Karine Tremblay

“…The informed consent of participants will be obtained orally. Dissemination of the study results will involve peer-review publications, presentations at major national and international scientific conferences.…”
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Midwives’ knowledge and perspectives on neonatal resuscitation and survival before and after Helping Babies Breathe training: a qualitative study in Uganda by Anna Bergstrom, Josaphat Byamugisha, Susanna Myrnerts Höök, Marielle Abrahamsson, Sarah Namusoko

“…A data-driven inductive content analysis approach was used for the analysis.Setting The high-risk labour ward and theatre at a National Referral Hospital, Uganda.Participants 45 clinically active midwives were enrolled; all had recently completed the HBB training programme.Intervention Semistructured individual interviews (n=2) and focus group discussions (n=43, distributed across seven groups) were held from 26 April to 4 May 2018. …”
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Saudi urologists’ treatment pattern for high-risk Bacillus Calmette–Guérin naïve and Bacillus Calmette–Guérin unresponsive nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer by Mohammad Alghafees, Mohamad Abou Chakra, Abdullah Alkhayal, Mohamad Moussa, Mohammad Alkhamees, Bader Alsaikhan, Ahmed Alasker, Abdulrahman Alsayyari, Abdullah Alsaghyir, Ali Alkahtani, Michael A. O'Donnell

“…The preferred course of treatment for these patients was a radical cystectomy, as advised by 79% of the participants. Other preferred options were intravesical chemotherapy (16%) and repeat BCG therapy (5%). …”
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Evaluation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Measures in Patients with Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain before a Definitive Diagnosis by Leila Farhad Mollashahi, Narges Farhad Mollashahi, Fahimeh Afzaljavan, Amir Hossein Saati

“…Investigating the relationship between diagnosis delay and qualitative variables was done using the Mann-Whitney U or Kruskal-Wallis tests, with a significant level of 0.05.Results:  A total of 56 patients, consisting of 42 females and 14 males, with an average age of 49.18 ± 14.86 years participated in this study. The average diagnosis delay was 22.37±17.45 months. …”
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