The Impact of Chronic Low-Back Pain on Quality of Life among Samples of Iraqi Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study by Nadia Ayad Mohammed Jawad, Mohammad Hadi Alosami, Zainab Fadhil Mahdi

“…Data were collected using a questionnaire that consisted of the sociodemographic variables, the short form 36 score (SF-36), and the numerical pain score. …”
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Impact of an extended light regimen imposed during nursery period on the performance and lipid metabolism of weanling pigs by Guangfan Liu, Fen Su, Xingyue Zou, Xingming Yang, Liang Tian

“…Methods Twenty-four piglets weaned at 28 days of age were randomly dichotomized into two groups that were alternatively subjected to either long photoperiod (LP) group (16 L:8 D) or short photoperiod (SP) group (10 L:14 D) for 42days. …”
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Correlation between Parenting Style by Personality Traits and Mental Health of College Students by Minggui Ge, Xiaomeng Sun, Zhen Huang

“…Then, 300 college students in Anhui Province were selected as the research objects who answered the questionnaire on parenting style and the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Short for Chinese. Finally, statistical software was used to visually analyze the personality characteristics of college students, the overall situation of mental health, the impact of parents’ education on college students’ mental health, and the family parenting style of college students. …”
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Heart rate variability is more sensitive to stress than heart rate in specialist police undergoing selection. by Colin Tomes, Ben Schram, Elisa Canetti, Robin Orr

“…As illustrated by a time-series plot, HR values were generally unremarkable, but HRV values were potentially depressed, and tentatively indicated overstress when count data from consecutive short-term analyses were derived. The MSFT was significantly, positively, correlated with pRR50% (ρ (6) = 0.812, p = 0.050, Fisher's z = 1.132). …”
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Comparative Evaluation of fluoride releasing and recharging ability for various pit and fissure sealants (An in vitro study). by Vian O. Majeed

“…Conclusions: Within the limitations of this short term study, two glass ionomers were shown to have highest capacity in fluoride release and uptake, followed by Palfique and fluoride releasing composite. …”
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Perceived costs and benefits of companion dog keeping based on a convenience sample of dog owners by Laura Gillet, Borbála Turcsán, Eniko Kubinyi

“…Quantitative results showed that owners rated the short lifespan of dogs as the most negative aspect, while the belief that dogs brighten their lives was rated most positively. …”
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Elicitation of Health-related Quality-of-life Concepts Associated with Overactive Bladder: A Qualitative Study by Natalia Hawken, Zalmai Hakimi, Samuel Aballéa, Jameel Nazir, Isaac A. O. Odeyemi, Mondher Toumi

“…Factors which affected more than 50% of patients were going for a short walk, waking up at night, travelling/holidays, socializing/going out, embarrassment/shame, need to plan activities, and restriction of places visited. …”
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Catastrophe Mechanism of Stress-Fissure Coupling Field in Mining Close Distance Seams in Southwest China by Suo Jie, Li Zhen-hua, Huang Cun-han, Cao Zheng-zheng, Xu You-lin, Chen Zu-guo

“…When the 1402 working face advances to 480 m, the top slab of the working face comes under periodic weighting with the short step. Besides, the mining of 9# coal seam starts after 4# coal seam in mining close distance seams. …”
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Regional processes in Hungary - From PHARE to Smart specialisation by Viktória Józsa

“…PHARE programmes were introduced in the early 1990s, short after the change of regime, and following the EU accession, Structural Funds have become the main public financial instruments in these countries, accompanied with a massive foreign direct investment flow. …”
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The TikTok Addiction Scale: Development and validation by Petros Galanis, Aglaia Katsiroumpa, Ioannis Moisoglou, Olympia Konstantakopoulou

“…Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's Omega for the TTAS were 0.911 and 0.914, respectively.ConclusionThe TTAS appears to be a short, easy-to-use, and valid scale to measure TikTok addiction. …”
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The Nature of Global Income Inequality and Its Determinants by Debesh Bhowmik

“…It was found that there is one significant cointegrating equation which implied that the variables are associated in the long run where the cointegrating equation stated that income inequality is negatively related with unemployment rate and positively related with inflation and growth rates where all are significant except inflation rate. There is also a short-run causality from income inequality to the inflation rate. …”
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Loss of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) increases Lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2) expression enhancing the growth of fallopian tube epithelial cells as three-dimensional spheroi... by Angela Russo, Junlone Moy, Manead Khin, Timothy R. Dorsey, Alfredo Lopez Carrero, Joanna E. Burdette

“…Methods: In this study, we utilized clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CAS9) technology to delete LOXL2 in PTEN-deficient MOE cells to understand its role in mediating the oncogenic effects of PTEN loss. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA (1986-2018): AUTO-REGRESSIVE DISTRIBUTED LAG APPROACH by Isiaka Kareem JIMBA, Rosemary Bukola AJALA

“…It also found that in the short run, GFCF has a negative and significant effect on economic growth, CPCS and EXR have negative and insignificant effects on economic growth, while FDI and INF have positive and insignificant effects on economic growth. …”
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Ankyloglossia and breastfeeding self-efficacy in newborns: a birth cohort study by Carlos Alberto Feldens, Moréniké Oluwátóyìn Foláyan, Lívia Mund de Amorim, Elisa Maria Rosa de Barros Coelho, Gabriela Fernandes Kern dos Santos, Paulo Floriani Kramer

“…At 14 days of the children’s lives, the mothers were interviewed at home to collect data on breastfeeding self-efficacy using the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (BSES-SF). Poisson regression with robust variance was conducted to quantify differences in the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy scores between exposed and nonexposed newborns after adjusting for maternal sociodemographic variables (mother’s completed years of schooling, mother’s age, family structure, progenitor status of child, mother’s smoking status), the gestational variables (number of prenatal appointments, gestational age, comorbidities, type of childbirth), and child related variables (sex, birth weight, birth length) as confounders. …”
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An Interactive Clustering-Based Visualization Tool for Air Quality Data Analysis by Mahsa Ashouri, Frederick Kin Hing Phoa, Chun-Houh Chen, Galit Shmueli

“…All these cluster-based insights help EPA experts implement short-term zone-specific air quality policies (e.g., fireworks and traffic regulations, school closures) as well as longer-term decision-making (e.g., transport control stations, fuel permits, old vehicle replacement, fuel type).…”
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Effect of Community-Based Occupational Therapy on Health-Related Quality of Life and Engagement in Meaningful Activities of Women with Breast Cancer by Daiva Petruseviciene, Deive Surmaitiene, Daiva Baltaduoniene, Egle Lendraitiene

“…We aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of community-based occupational therapy on health-related quality of life and engagement in meaningful activities among women with breast cancer. …”
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The Collections of Miraculous Stories on the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra by Jing Liu

“…This paper reviews nine key collections associated with the Huayan jing, including: Record of the Transmission of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayanjing Zhuanji 華嚴經傳記), Account of Stimuli and Responses Related to the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Dafangguang fo huayanjing ganying zhuan 大方廣佛華嚴經感應傳), Account of the Search for the Profundities of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayanjing tanxuan ji 華嚴經探玄記), Commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Dafangguang fo huayanjing shu 大方廣佛華嚴經疏), Sub-commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Dafangguang fo huayan sui shu yanyi chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義抄), Account of Chengguan’s Commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayan xuantan huixuan ji 華嚴懸談會玄記), Short Record of Accounts of Stimuli and Responses Related to the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Dafangguang fo huayanjing ganying lüeji 大方廣佛華嚴經感應略記), and Causes of Stimuli and Response Related to the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayanjing ganying yuanqi zhuan 華嚴經感應緣起傳), as well as the Chronological Account of the Efficacies of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Lichao huayanjing chiyan ji 歷朝華 嚴經持驗紀). …”
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Faculty Perceptions on the Roles of Mentoring, Advising, and Coaching in an Anesthesiology Residency Program: Mixed Methods Study by Sydney Nykiel-Bailey, Kathryn Burrows, Bianca E Szafarowicz, Rachel Moquin

“…The survey incorporated quantitative Likert-scale questions and qualitative short-answer responses to assess faculty perceptions of the value, preferred formats, essential skills, and capacity for fulfilling multiple roles in these support practices. …”
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Why is the New York Times Writing so Much about Alzheimer's Disease Therapies? by Tamas Bartfai

“…However, it is now clear that companies and researchers alike are losing hope in finding an efficacious therapy rapidly that works in ad patients who are already cognitively impaired, and that people who staked their scientific and professional career on finding a cure for ad based on the amyloid hypothesis are shaken by the series of failed clinical trials within a short period of time. It is emerging that we may start to treat ad far too late to be able to make any significant slowing of the disease or postponing the onset of the symptoms of the disease. …”
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Effects of innovative modular prone positioning tools in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome due to COVID-19 during awake prone position: a prospective randomized con... by Dunbing Huang, Huan Tian, Wei Song, Jiaqi Wang, Zizhe Yao, Lize Xiong, Cai Jiang, Anren Zhang, Xiaohua Ke

“…However, the observation group experienced significantly fewer adverse events, including kinking NIRS circuit, pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, and pressure ulcers (P < 0.05). …”
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