Characterization of Biological Components of Leaves and Flowers in <i>Moringa peregrina</i> and Their Effect on Proliferation of <i>Staurogyne repens</i> in Tissue Culture Conditio... by Hamideh Khajeh, Bahman Fazeli-Nasab, Ali Salehi Sardoei, Zeinab Fotoohiyan, Mehrnaz Hatami, Alireza Mirzaei, Mansour Ghorbanpour, Filippo Maggi

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Socio-demographic and clinical factors affecting General Consent status and choice: insights from a cross-sectional study of University Hospital Zurich patients by Joëlle Roos, Annina Bauer, Alexandra Griessbach, Regina Grossmann

“…The General Consent concept allows patients to contribute their health-related data and biological samples for future research projects. However, General Consent is a complex, multi-disciplinary concept influenced by ethical and legal considerations. …”
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Immunomarker profiling in human chronic wound swabs reveals IL-1 beta/IL-1RA and CXCL8/CXCL10 ratios as potential biomarkers for wound healing, infection status and regenerative st... by Julian-Dario Rembe, Waseem Garabet, Matthias Augustin, Joachim Dissemond, Wiebke Ibing, Hubert Schelzig, Ewa K. Stuermer

“…Methods This observational, multi-center cohort study, part of the ‘Wound-BIOME’ project, analyzed 110 swab samples from patients with acute and chronic wounds using multiplex immunoassays. …”
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Post-COVID gambling habits of adolescents and young adults in Aragon, Spain: a cross-sectional study by Alberto Barceló-Soler, Carilene Armas-Landaeta, Adrián Pérez-Aranda, Alicia Monreal-Bartolomé, María Beltrán-Ruiz, Itxaso Cabrera-Gil, Loreto Camarero-Grados, Javier García-Campayo, Yolanda López-del-Hoyo

“…The overall prevalence of problem gambling in our sample was 3.5%. Among university students, 64.6% had gambled and 3.4% showed signs of problem gambling, which does not represent a significant increase compared to 2019 data. …”
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WORK EXPERIENCE INTERNSHIP THROUGH THE EYES OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS (ON THE MATERIALS OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH) by Alexandr Yu. Myagkov, Maria V. Grigorieva, Irina V. Zhuravleva, Svetlana L. Zhuravleva

“…While carrying out of sociological research, selection of respondents was occurred on the multistage combined (serially-nested) model of sample among students I, III and V courses of six faculties of full-time course of ISPEU. …”
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Mortality following adolescent substance treatment: 21-year follow-up from a single clinical site by Christian Thurstone, Christian Thurstone, Cassandra Etzig, Eileen Chen, Hayley D. Seely, Ryan Loh, Ryan Loh

“…The crude mortality rate per 100 person years was calculated for both samples for all 21 years. The standard mortality rate using death within one year of intake was also calculated. …”
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Most effective mean for lactate clearance in Olympic wrestling (Medio más eficaz en el aclaramiento de lactato en luchadores olímpicos) by César Augusto Mazuera-Quiceno, Albeiro Antonio Dávila-Grisalez, Juan Carlos Calderón-González, Yamir Mauricio Palacios-Ruales, Alexander Tobar-Gutiérrez

“…   This research project determined the most effective training mean for lactate clearance using the subaerobic functional area in Olympic wrestling athletes of the freestyle modality. …”
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Fast and Efficient Lunar Finite Element Gravity Model by Giaky Nguyen, Ahmad Bani Younes, Ahmed Atallah

“…The first application of this project is to substitute the globally valid classical spherical harmonic series of approximations with locally valid series of orthogonal polynomial approximations (i.e., using the FEM approach). …”
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Financial Management Practices and Performance of Private Universities in Uganda. by Habassa, Ivan Akatwijuka

“…The study surveyed a population of 280, with a sample of 162 respondents providing the quantitative data, while 16 key informants participated in the qualitative survey. …”
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Editorial by Joanna Krasodomska, Nadia Albu, Anna Szychta

“…We are pleased to announce that the Editorial Team of ZTR has completed a project under the “Development of scientific journals” program for the period 4 October 2022 – 4 October 2024 (Agreement RCN/SP/0062/2021/1; funding from the Ministry: PLN 80,000, total project amount: PLN 122,560). …”
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Effects of Long-Term Vegetation Restoration on Green Water Utilization Heterogeneity in the Loess Plateau Based on Field Experiments and Modeling by Long Wang, Xiaoyu Song, Yu Liu, Lanjun Li, Xinkai Zhao, Pengfei Meng, Chong Fu, Wanyin Wei, Xuwu Wang, Huaiyou Li

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Changes in life satisfaction, self-esteem, and self-rated health before, during, and after becoming a young carer in the UK: a longitudinal, propensity score analysisResearch in co... by Rebecca E. Lacey, Alejandra Letelier, Baowen Xue, Anne McMunn

“…Analyses were stratified by caring intensity (hours and recipient), age, gender, household income and ethnicity. Samples varied from 2320 (self-esteem by age-group) to 4606 (self-rated health by household income). …”
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of General Physicians towards Mild Cognitive Impairment amidst an evolving era of Interprofessional Collaboration: Insights from a small-scale s... by Aarushi Soni, Prajith Carthik, Manoj Kumar Devara, Aysha Rooha, Gagan Bajaj, Sheetal Raj Moolambally, Arun Shirali, Archith Boloor

“…In India, where cognitive impairment rates are projected to rise sharply, understanding GPs’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) is vital. …”
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Genetic transcriptional regulation profiling of cartilage reveals pathogenesis of osteoarthritisResearch in context by Wen Tian, Shan-Shan Dong, Feng Jiang, Jun-Qi Zhang, Chen Wang, Chang-Yi He, Shou-Ye Hu, Ruo-Han Hao, Hui-Miao Song, Hui-Wu Gao, Ke An, Dong-Li Zhu, Zhi Yang, Yan Guo, Tie-Lin Yang

“…Methods: We performed cis-eQTL analysis using genomics and cartilage transcriptomics data from 204 patients with OA (largest sample size to date). Cell type-interaction eQTL analysis (ci-eQTL) was conducted to explore the chondrocyte subtype dependency of eQTL effects. …”
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Community structure and diversity of plankton and fish in the Dazhangxi River by Zhengxuan Gu, Lei Wu, Chunxiang Yang, Huan Zhang, Yao Din, Jingchun Guan, Xiaoshuan Zhang, Maochun Liu, Longzheng Ran, Huajian Xu, Yibo Zhang

“…In order to understand the current status of plankton and fish population structure and diversity after the construction of the ‘One Dam and Three Routes’ project in the Dazhangxi River, plankton and fish samples were collected in the Dazhangxi River watershed in June and October 2023.A total of 149 species of phytoplankton from 7 phyla were found. …”
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Longitudinal immunogenicity cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines across individuals with different immunocompromising conditions: heterogeneity in the immune response and cruci... by Annalisa Ciabattini, Elena Pettini, Fabio Fiorino, Jacopo Polvere, Simone Lucchesi, Chiara Coppola, Simone Costagli, Gabiria Pastore, Anna Sicuranza, Monica Tozzi, Arianna Lippi, Francesca Panza, Monica Bocchia, Alessandro Bucalossi, Guido Garosi, David Bennett, Sonia Bernazzali, Massimiliano Fabbiani, Francesca Montagnani, Donata Medaglini

“…Data from participants who were immunocompromised were compared to a group of 123 participants who were immunocompetent. Blood samples were collected before and after each vaccine administration, up to 2 years. …”
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A pilot study of disulfiram for individuals with persistent symptoms despite prior antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease by Mara Kuvaldina, Mara Kuvaldina, Jessica Preston, Jessica Preston, Denise McClellan, Denise McClellan, Martina Pavlicova, Thomas H. Brannagan, Brian A. Fallon, Brian A. Fallon, Brian A. Fallon

“…Efficacy could not be assessed given the small sample size and the lack of a placebo-control group.Clinical trial registrationhttps://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03891667?…”
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High-resolution analysis of the treated coeliac disease microbiome reveals strain-level variation by Jelle Slager, Hanna L. Simpson, Ranko Gacesa, Lianmin Chen, Ineke L. Tan, Jody Gelderloos, Astrid Maatman, Cisca Wijmenga, Alexandra Zhernakova, Jingyuan Fu, Rinse K. Weersma, Gieneke Gonera, Iris H. Jonkers, Sebo Withoff

“…While recent data show that alterations in gut microbiome composition could play an important role, many current studies are constrained by small sample sizes and limited resolution.Methods To address these limitations, we analyzed fecal gut microbiota from two Dutch cohorts, CeDNN (128 treated CeD patients (tCeD), 106 controls) and the Lifelines Dutch Microbiome Project (24 self-reported tCeD, 654 controls), using shotgun metagenomic sequencing. …”
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Treated Wastewater Affects the Fertility and Geochemistry of Degraded Soil in the Brazilian Semi-Arid Region by Victor Junior Lima Felix, Salomão de Sousa Medeiros, Rodrigo Santana Macedo, Cristiano dos Santos Sousa, Renato Francisco da Silva Souza, Vânia da Silva Fraga, Alexandre Pereira Bakker, Robson Vinício dos Santos, Bruno de Oliveira Dias, Milton César Costa Campos

“…Projections for the Brazilian semi-arid (BSA) region estimate a reduction in water bodies and an increase in degraded areas. …”
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Determining the relationship between mobile phone network signal strength and radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure: protocol and pilot study to derive conversion functions... by Lea Belácková, Isabelle Deltour, Florence Guida, Marco Zahner, Arno Thielens, Nekane Sandoval-Diez, Anke Huss, Hamed Jalilian, Jürg Fröhlich, Martin Röösli, Adriana Fernandes Veludo

“…Two-minute aggregates were considered the sample unit for analyses (n=891 in NL, n=395 in FR). …”
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