Patterns of eating behaviors, physical activity, and lifestyle modifications among Bangladeshi adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Most Zannatul Ferdous, Md Saiful Islam, Lakshmi Rani Kundu, Ummay Soumayia Islam, Rajon Banik, Shahina Pardhan

“…., modified version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form [IPAQ-SF]), as well as, pre- and during COVID-19 information on stress, and sleep.…”
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Working Capital Management Practices and Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Western Uganda. by Sunday, Arthur, Turyahebwa, Abanis, Byamukama, Eliab Mpora

“…Since cash is a component of working capital, then, SMEs owners need to separate business transactions from their personal transactions so as to have financial discipline which would ensure sustainable working capital thus meeting short term needs SMEs…”
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Role of Government Projects and Youth Employment in Kisoro District: A Case Study of Youth Livelihood Program. by Zaninka, Esther

“…Therefore, for the YPL to succeed, both short and long-term measures must be embraced. The study recommends that it is of significant importance that the Ministry of Gender, labor, and Social Development develops mechanisms that will enhance youth access to YLP by scrapping business registration costs, and business licensing costs, Equally, the age bracket for registration of businesses should be flexible from 17 years to 35 years old to ensure youth are encouraged early enough to venture into entrepreneurship, and also accessing YLP.…”
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Analyzing the Effect of Organic Manure in Comparison With NPK on Cabbage Growth and Yield. by Ainomugisha, Rabecca

“…In contrast, NPK fertilizers deliver high macronutrient concentrations for rapid absorption, resulting in faster growth rates and higher short-term yields. Nevertheless, excessive reliance on NPK may compromise long-term soil health and contribute to environmental degradation. …”
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Iconic Celebration of Charms and Friendship in Poetry: Fálétí’s “Adébímpé Ọ̀jẹ́dòkun” by Michael Oladejo Afoláyan

“…The second hunter finished off the animal with the shot right on target with a sniper’s propensity. …”
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Business targeting in Iran: a hybrid simulation-optimization approach by amir mansour tehranchian, Sogand Hoseinnia Chafjiri

“…After Keynes and in the 1950s, Phillips, using statistical data from England, showed that in the short run Keynes's idea about the substitution between inflation and unemployment is valid (Phillips, 1958). …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…We have invited several health experts, politicians and scholars alike to share their perspectives in short opinion pieces (instead of regular peer-reviewed articles). …”
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Behaviour of a speargun with a novel muzzle by V. Nigrelli, M. Mucera, T. Ingrassia

“…Since higher deflection values of the barrel make worse the accuracy of the shot, these results demonstrate the novel speargun can be more precise than the traditional one.…”
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Patient-centred care and quality of life and hope among Japanese patients receiving home medical care: a multicentre, cross-sectional study by Nobuhiro Ikeda, Michiko Hinata, Noriaki Kurita, Tomoka Nakamura, Takashi Fujii, Chihiro Tsuchiya, Yukio Tsugihashi, Hidekazu Iida, Shinu Hayashi, Masakazu Yasunaka, Misaki Hirose, Yutaka Shirahige, Shinsuke Muto, Tatsunobu Natsubori, Wataru Nakagawa, Akihiko Yonenaga, Lina Inagaki, Shioto Itakura, Naoya Miyashita, Takuya Furugen, Takafumi Abo, Sadayuki Okudaira, Kazuhiko Takuma, Masahiro Deguchi, Yoshitaka Harada, Seiji Matsuo, Motomichi Nakagawa, Ken Tanigawa, Yoshio Ochi, Sadanobu Ogasawara, Kazuhiko Hoshino, Momoko Aruga, Yoshinori Nakamura, Nobuhiro Sawa, Yosuke Akashi, Nobuyuki Miyagi, Toyohiro Terasaki, Kunihiro Kinoshita, Masaji Kikukawa, Hisakazu Kato, Masayuki Amano, Kentaro Asakura, Naoto Fukui

“…This study examined the association between the quality of patient-centred care and both QOL and hope.Design Multicentre, cross-sectional study.Setting Twenty-nine home care clinics in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Nara Prefecture and Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan.Participants 200 patients receiving home medical care.Exposure Patient-centredness was measured using the Japanese version of the Primary Care Assessment Tool-Short Form (JPCAT-SF).Outcome measures The primary outcome measures were QOL, assessed using the QOL-Home Care (QOL-HC) scale, and hope, measured using the Health-Related Hope (HR-Hope) scale. …”
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Evaluating the efficacy of multi-incision and tube-dragging therapy combined with laser closure for high horseshoe-shaped anal fistula: Protocol of a prospective, randomized, contr... by Min Yang, Zubing Mei, Qingming Wang, Ye Han, De Zheng

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>This study represents the first randomized controlled trial evaluating the short-term outcomes of MITD-LaC, thereby aiming to contribute high-quality evidence to guide clinical practice. …”
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Real-World Treatment Patterns, Survival, and Costs for Ovarian Cancer in Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Provincial Administrative Data by Manjusha Hurry, Shazia Hassan, Soo Jin Seung, Ryan N. Walton, Ashlie Elnoursi, Jacob D. McGee

“…It is programmed to determine the costs of short-term and long-term episodes of health-care resources utilized. …”
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Postpartum depression in relation to chronic diseases and multimorbidity in women’s mid-late life: a prospective cohort study of UK Biobank by Yue Zhang, Yangyang Cheng, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Yaguan Zhou, Hui Wang, Xiaolin Xu

“…Abstract Background Maternal short-term outcomes of postpartum depression (PPD) were widely examined, but little is known about its long-term association with multiple chronic diseases (multimorbidity) in women’s later life. …”
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BeatProfiler: Multimodal In Vitro Analysis of Cardiac Function Enables Machine Learning Classification of Diseases and Drugs by Youngbin Kim, Kunlun Wang, Roberta I. Lock, Trevor R. Nash, Sharon Fleischer, Bryan Z. Wang, Barry M. Fine, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

“…To accurately classify between these biological signals, we apply feature-based ML and deep learning models (temporal convolutional-bidirectional long short-term memory model or TCN-BiLSTM). <italic>Results:</italic> Benchmarking against existing tools revealed that BeatProfiler detected and analyzed contraction and calcium signals better than existing tools through improved sensitivity in low signal data, reduction in false positives, and analysis speed increase by 7 to 50-fold. …”
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Interleukin-1 Gene Variability and Plasma Levels in Czech Patients with Chronic Periodontitis and Diabetes Mellitus by Petra Borilova Linhartova, Hana Poskerova, Marie Tomandlova, Jirina Bartova, Katerina Kankova, Antonin Fassmann, Lydie Izakovicova Holla

“…In T1DM patients, IL-1RN∗S “short” allele and IL-1RN 12 genotype were significantly less frequent than those in controls (P<0.01). …”
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Economic Burden of Contraception Management in Spain by Inmaculada Parra Ribes, Juan José Rascón Poza, Ezequiel Pérez Campos, Ignacio Bugella Yudice, Maria Jesús Rodríguez Domingo

“…There are differences in contraceptive use according to women’s age. Short-acting reversible contraceptives (SARC) such as COC, condom and vaginal ring, are most commonly used by younger women. …”
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Norepinephrine use in cardiogenic shock patients is associated with increased 30 day mortality by Xin Lu, Xue Wang, Yanxia Gao, Joseph Harold Walline, Shiyuan Yu, Zengzheng Ge, Mubing Qin, Huadong Zhu, Yi Li

“…Conclusions Cardiogenic shock patients treated with norepinephrine were associated with significantly increased short‐term mortality, while no significant difference was found on long‐term survival rates. …”
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Management of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell-related toxicity of a patient affected by cytokine release syndrome and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome, follo... by G. Menardi, A. Castellino, C. Castellino, M. E. Bersia, E. Grande, G. Fraternali, M. Massaia, C. Fruttero

“…Case presentation This article presents an analysis of the management of short-term chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy-associated toxicities, focusing on a specific case of a patient with refractory mantle cell lymphoma. …”
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Macular edema after retinal vein occlusions. Macular morphometry and chorioretinal hemodynamics by A.A. Fil', E.L. Sorokin, O.V. Kolenko

“…Impaired chorioretinal hemodynamics (as demonstrated by a significant reduction of vascular density in the superficial and deep vascular plexus, significant decrease in peak diastolic flow velocity, and increase in resistivity index in the ophthalmic artery and short posterior ciliary arteries) is also reported. …”
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Ginseng exhibits adaptogenic-like activity in mice exposed to hypoxic-anoxic stress through activation of antioxidant/BDNF protective mechanisms and inhibition of pro-inflammatory... by James Olukayode Oni, Divine Oluwaferanmi Oyenekan, Yetunde Olamide Olayemi, Osarugue Christabel Irabor, Precious Ogbuji, McCarthy Oritseweyinmi Tova, Paul Ademola Adeleke, Gbemisayo Adetomiwa Abbas, Solomon Umukoro

“…Ginseng is widely used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a tonic for healthy living due to its adaptogenic/rejuvenating properties and in mitigating chronic stress-related diseases including vertigo, depression, short-term memory loss, and lack of attention or vigilance. …”
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Low dose DNA methyltransferase inhibitors potentiate PARP inhibitors in homologous recombination repair deficient tumors by Romain Pacaud, Scott Thomas, Sibapriya Chaudhuri, Ann Lazar, Luika A. Timmerman, Pamela N. Munster

“…In contrast, the parental MDA-MB-231 cells and other HRR proficient cell lines produced smaller cell populations with short term treatment, but with much less cumulative DNA damage, and minimal cell death. …”
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