Determining whether weight status mediates the association between number of cigarettes smoked per day and all-cause mortality among US adults who smoke cigarettes. by Luis Miguel Mestre, Roger S Zoh, Cydne Perry, Julia Fukuyama, Maria A Parker

“…Public health interventions aimed to reduce mortality due to cigarette smoking at the population level should consider weight management programs as a harm reduction strategy to reduce mortality.…”
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Allocating treatment resources for hepatitis C in the UK: a constrained optimization modelling approach by Ru Han, Shuyao Liang, Clément François, Samuel Aballea, Emilie Clay, Mondher Toumi

“…The model was populated with UK local data applying linear programming and underwent internal and external validation. …”
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Effectiveness of Participatory Ergonomic Interventions on Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders, Sick Absenteeism, and Work Performance Among Nurses: Systematic Review by Guganesan Krishnanmoorthy, Sanjay Rampal, Sumitra Ropini Karuthan, Faiz Baharudin, Rama Krishna

“…MethodsA literature search was performed in four electronic databases, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and PsycNet, guided by the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis) guidelines to retrieve relevant papers published between 2017 and 2023. …”
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Safety and efficacy of sintilimab versus pembrolizumab in the treatment of advanced or recurrent pediatric malignancies: a real-world study in China by Lei Mao, Mengzhen Li, Linnan Wu, Juan Wang, Yi Que, Feifei Sun, Junting Huang, Suying Lu, Zijun Zhen, Jia Zhu, Mengjia Song, Yizhuo Zhang

“…BackgroundProgrammed death receptor 1 (PD-1) inhibitors have shown durable response and mild adverse events in adult malignancies. …”
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Optimization of bike-sharing repositioning operations: A reactive real-time approach by Enrique Jiménez-Meroño, Francesc Soriguera

“…First, its high computational cost, which prevents achieving direct solutions in realistically large systems. So, it has been necessary to develop heuristics and approximations. …”
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Analysis of functionality free CASE-tools databases design by A. V. Gavrilov

“…Evaluation of the functional characteristics of CASEtools for database design made exclusively empirically with the direct work with software products. Analysis functionality of tools allow you to distinguish the two categories CASE-tools database design. …”
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Early mechanisms of pathobiology are revealed by transcriptional temporal dynamics in hippocampal CA1 neurons of prion infected mice. by Anna Majer, Sarah J Medina, Yulian Niu, Bernard Abrenica, Kathy J Manguiat, Kathy L Frost, Clark S Philipson, Debra L Sorensen, Stephanie A Booth

“…Our findings suggest that prion replication results in the persistent stimulation of a programmed response that is mediated, at least in part, by synaptic NMDA receptor activity that initially promotes cell survival and neurite remodelling. …”
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Toward person-centred measures of contraceptive demand: a systematic review of the relationship between intentions to use and actual use of contraception. [version 3; peer review:... by Christine Galavotti, Kelsey Quinn Wright, Victoria Boydell, Shatha Elnakib

“…Background Understanding people’s interest in using modern contraception is critical to ensuring programs align with people’s preferences and needs. …”
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Systematic review of health disparities for cardiovascular diseases and associated factors among American Indian and Alaska Native populations. by Rebecca Newlin Hutchinson, Sonya Shin

“…<h4>Study eligibility criteria</h4>Published literature that were published within the last fifteen years and provided direct comparisons between AI/AN to non-AI/AN populations were included.…”
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The relationship between self-care and health locus of control in pregnancy: a cross-sectional study of Iranian women by Fatemeh Rezaei, Zahra Zardosht, Yaser Sarikhani, Tahereh Rahimi

“…Results The average age of pregnant women was 30.38 ± 5.96 years. A significant direct correlation was between self-care and the I-HLC (r = 0.35, p < 0.001) and P-HLC (r = 0.25, p < 0.001) dimensions of HLC. …”
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Macro-Modelling of Rib-Knitted Tubular Parts by Tetiana Ielina, Liudmyla Halavska, Nataliia Ausheva

“…When using threads of usual stretchability (with breaking elongation that does not exceed 10–12%), the stretchability of some rib stitch structures in the course-wise direction can reach up to 350% and even more. When stretched in the course direction, rib-knitted stitches undergo a number of stages. …”
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Development of agrotechnologies classification in the system of adaptive-landscape farming by L. K. Konovalova, L. I. Ilyin, V. V. Okorkov, I. Yu. Vinokurov

“…Development of the agricultural technologies classification in regional aspect allowed to formulate the directions for future research works in the field of technology management theory. …”
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The Role of Imagery in Film Creation (on the Example of Technical Images in Western Sci-Fi Films) by S. A. Pankratova

“…The analysis demonstrated that thanks to its implicit nature the image is able to render the emotional condition, to give direction to thought process, to provide wide program of information processing accompanied by the freedom of choice. …”
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THE RELEVANCE OF RAISING AWARENESS OF PHARMACEUTICAL WORKERS ON HIV INFECTION by Андрей Георгиевич Петров, Галина Тихоновна Глембоцкая, Ольга Владимировна Хорошилова, Сергей Николаевич Филимонов, Виктор Андреевич Семенихин

“…Qualitative and quantitative facts have been identified that allow us to conclude that pharmaceutical workers are not sufficiently aware of HIV infection, including various directions concerning ways of infection, prevention, treatment, and compliance with the drug regimen. …”
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Past and Present in the Media Environment: Value Resonance by Viktor A. Sidorov

“…Accordingly, a focus group program was drawn up from among students – future journalists specializing in media and society culture. …”
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The Links Between Community-Based Financial Inclusion and Household Food Availability: Evidence from Mozambique by Aweke Tadesse, Kenan Li, Jesse Helton, Jin Huang, David Ansong

“…However, few studies have examined how women’s participation in community-based financial inclusion opportunities, such as village saving and loan groups (VSLGs), relates to household food security. Using program data from central Mozambique, this study examined whether low-income women’s participation in VSLGs directly increases household food availability, as well as indirectly through increased asset ownership. …”
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Coupling Effect of Waves and Currents on Dynamic Responses of a Semi-Submerged Floating Wind Turbine by Bang Wu, Biswajit Basu, Lin Chen, Xugang Hua, Wenxi Wang

“…Waves traveling on positive and on opposite currents are examined in different cases with waves and currents propagating along the surge or sway direction. Waves consistently propagate along positive surge or sway direction. …”
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388 Subtyping social determinants of health in cancer: Implications for health equity policies by Suresh Bhavnani, Suresh K. Bhavnani, Rodney Hunter, Susanne Schmidt, Brian Downer, Jeremy Warner

“…Here we analyze how SDoH co-occur across all participants with a cancer diagnosis in the All of Us program. Methods/Study Population: Data: All participants (n = 3361) with cancer and their responses to 110 survey questions related to SDoH. …”
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Listeriosis meningoencephalitis as an opportunistic disease in HIV infection by M. V. Nagibina, T. R. Bessarab, Yu. Ya. Vengerov, A. I. Mazus, O. A. Tishkevich, T. Yu. Smirnova, T. S. Svistunova, B. M. Tuglanova

“…All patients were hospitalized in the boxed departments of neuroinfections (the diagnosis of HIV infection was not known) with a directional diagnosis of meningitis of unclear etiology, where, according to the Meningitis program, a PCR examination for L. monocytogenes was included. …”
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Edukasi Pelestarian Lingkungan Melalui Implementasi Gaya Komunikasi Punk di SDN Branggahan, Ngadiluwih, Kediri by Lailiyah Mas’udah, Ellyda Retpitasari, Lukman Hakim, Mia Widia S, Maudy Fatimatuzzahro, Afifatur Rohimah

“…This is shown by the students' understanding of how to plant by directly practicing directly at SDN Branggahan Ngadiluwih.…”
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