Effect of JumpstartMD, a Commercial Low-Calorie Low-Carbohydrate Physician-Supervised Weight Loss Program, on 22,407 Adults by Sean Bourke, John Magaña Morton, Paul Williams

“…JumpstartMD produced generally greater weight loss than published reports for other real-food and prepackaged-meal commercial programs and somewhat greater or comparable losses to meal replacement diets. …”
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Determination of a normal orogenic palaeo-geothermal gradient with clay mineral and organic matter indices: a review by Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann, Meinert Rahn, Sébastien Potel, Lan Nguyen-Thanh, Rainer Petschick

“…Until now, despite the Alps in this study, systematic liptinite maceral studies have not been published in other orogenic settings.…”
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Outcomes Following Metabolic Bariatric Surgery at a Single Center in the United Arab Emirates by Allum M, Buckley A, Suliman SGI, Suliman M, Hamdan K, Al Hadad M

“…Matthew Allum,1 Adam Buckley,1 Sara GI Suliman,1 Mohamed Suliman,1 Khaled Hamdan,2 Mohamed Al Hadad2 1Department of Endocrinology, Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; 2Department of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Healthpoint Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesCorrespondence: Matthew Allum, Consultant Endocrinologist, Department of Endocrinology, Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, Abu Dhabi, PO Box 48338, United Arab Emirates, Tel +971 24040800, Email mallum@icldc.aeIntroduction: While the benefits of metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) are well described, only few studies have been published from the Gulf region, where the impact of regional patient characteristics on outcomes remains poorly understood.Methods: Data were reviewed for patients attending metabolic follow-up three or more months after primary MBS at our center in the UAE from 2016 to 2022. …”
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Sport values and sustainability? by Tess Kate Schweizer, Nicolas Margas

“…Methods Following PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a systematic review through Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and ERIC database using values of sport, sport values, sporting values, and athletic values keywords (n=7992). 32 studies published between 1990 and 2023 were retained. These papers comprised empirical qualitative and quantitative studies on sport values and their development in sport. …”
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"ANAPUS KANTO": M. FOUCAULT NAUJOJI MORALĖS GENEALOGIJA by Jūratė Baranova

“…This conclusion is also based on insight suggested by the reading Foucault books Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish. These books are based on tacit critique for absence of dialogue between two different groups : healthy and mentally sick, keepers of justice and criminals. …”
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Guidance and Counselling and Learners’ Discipline in Kasese District: A Case of Selected Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County. by Kule, Samson

“…Skinner (1938) observed that good behaviour is reinforced through rewards while bad behaviour is weakened through punishment. 3. Social Behaviour Theory: Albert Bandura (1966) posited that people learn from one another through observation, imitation and modelling. …”
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Guidance and Counselling and Learners’ Discipline in Kasese District: A Case of Selected Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County. by Kule, Samson

“…Skinner (1938) observed that good behaviour is reinforced through rewards while bad behaviour is weakened through punishment. 3. Social Behaviour Theory: Albert Bandura (1966) posited that people learn from one another through observation, imitation and modelling. …”
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Soviet Researchers on the Middle East: Ahead of Their Time by I. D. Zvyagelskaya

“…The review is primarily based on the publications of Soviet specialists published in the 1970’s. Among those who studied the new trends and tried to explain their further development were Soviet Arabists. …”
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The Establishment and Activity of Military Achievers Union (1937-1940) by Aušra Jurevičiūtė

“…The aim of the Military Achievers Union was to unite achievers to gather historical and museum material about their activities in Russia, to publish books, to cooperate with other organizations and to ensure the moral and material welfare of the members. …”
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Prevalence of common diarrheagenic enterobacteriaceae in Iran (2000–2023): a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mozhgan Derakhshan-Sefidi, Fereshteh Eidy, Somayyeh Nadi-Ravandi, Sareh Bagheri-Josheghani, Maryam Mirfakhraei

“…The focus was on observational published studies reporting the prevalence of diarrheagenic Enterobacteriaceae in Iran during 2000 and 2023. …”
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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…My analysis focuses on its rejection of the source legend’s central themes of guilt and redemption, both of which are not only absent from but unimaginable in the world of the novel. In both its published and draft forms, Beardsley’s narrative depicts only Venus’s realm. …”
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Advances and Prospects in Smart Border Studies Based on a Bibliometric Analysis by Yang Danxuan, Li Cansong, Hu Wei, Lai Zulan, Ge Xurui

“…The results of the study revealed that smart border research is still very much in its infancy, and although there has been a general upward trend in the number of published articles, the volume of relevant research is still comparatively low. …”
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Intimate partner violence among women of reproductive age during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Gizachew Yilak, Alemayehu Sayih Belay, Aychew Kassie, Befkad Derese Tilahun, Ambaw Abebaw Emrie, Mulat Ayele, Eyob Shitie Lake, Legese Fekede Abza

“…Therefore, this study aimed to assess the pooled prevalence of IPV and its determinants among women of reproductive age during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources The review was done as per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline using different search databases such as: PubMed/Medline, Cochrane Library, Virtual Health Library Regional Portal, HINARI (research4life), and Google Scholar.Eligibility criteria Those quantitative studies conducted in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 pandemic, that reported the prevalence of IPV among women of reproductive age, and were published in English from 13 March 2020 to 15 October 2025, were included for this study.Data extraction and synthesis All authors independently extracted data using the Joanna Briggs Institute manual for evidence synthesis. …”
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Editorial by Teddy Surya Gunawan

“…Teddy Surya Gunawan Executive Editor IIUM Engineering Journal ISSN: 1511-788X  E-ISSN: 2289-7860 Published by: IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Phone (+603) 6421-5014, Fax: (+603) 6421-6298 …”
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Perbandingan Metode Supervised Machine Learning untuk Prediksi Prevalensi Stunting di Provinsi Jawa Timur by M Syauqi Haris, Ahsanun Naseh Khudori, Wahyu Teja Kusuma

“…Therefore, this study aims to contribute to solving the stunting problem in East Java Province by analyzing the factors that are predicted to affect the stunting prevalence rate based on published secondary data from surveys from several official and trusted institutions in the health sector. …”
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Genetic testing of ocular manifestations of proliferative syndrome to provide pathophysiology-oriented treatment by M.E. Weener, N.A. Bakunina, J.M. Salmasi, G.V. Poryadin, D. Barh, Yu.D. Kuznetsova, L.M. Balashova

“…We summarize relevant published data and our 5-year experience in searching treatment tools for excessive non-productive proliferation.…”
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Development and validation of a model to predict cognitive impairment in traumatic brain injury patients: a prospective observational studyResearch in context by Xiaofang Yuan, Qingrong Xu, Fengxia Du, Xiaoxia Gao, Jing Guo, Jianan Zhang, Yehuan Wu, Zhongkai Zhou, Youjia Yu, Yi Zhang

“…These patients were selected from our previously published studies. Baseline characteristics, medical history, clinical TBI characteristics, treatment details, and vital signs during hospitalization were screened via least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and logistic regression to construct a predictive net risk score. …”
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A Nomogram Based on Circulating Inflammatory Factors for Predicting Prognosis of Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Patients by Wang M, Yue X, Ding Y, Cai Z, Xiao H, Huang H, He J

“…Our previous study and other published studies have shown that MM patients with higher neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) or interleukin (IL)-10 (IL-10), lower lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) or platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) frequently have inferior overall survival (OS) independent of current risk- stratification markers. …”
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Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine in prevention and treatment of anti-tumor drug induced hand-foot syndrome (中医药防治抗肿瘤药物所致手足综合征效果的Meta分析)... by ZHOU Qiaoli (周巧丽), ZHOU Fanhua (周樊华)

“…Methods The randomized controlled trials on the treatment of anti-tumor drug induced HFS by TCM published in PubMed, Cochrane library, CNKI, VIP and Wanfang Database were searched by computer according to the inclusion criteria. …”
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UltraTimTrack: a Kalman-filter-based algorithm to track muscle fascicles in ultrasound image sequences by Tim J. van der Zee, Paolo Tecchio, Daniel Hahn, Brent J. Raiteri

“…It also yielded similar or lower root-mean-square deviations from manual tracking for previously published image sequences (fascicle length: 2.3–2.6 mm, fascicle angle: 0.8–0.9 deg) compared with a recently-proposed hybrid algorithm (4.7 mm, 0.9 deg), and the recently-proposed DL_Track algorithm (3.8 mm, 3.9 deg). …”
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