The Effectiveness of Pre- and Postoperative Infliximab in Controlling Behçet’s Disease Posterior Uveitis in Patients Undergoing Vitrectomy: A Preliminary Study by Hossam El Din Mohamed Khalil, Heba A. El Gendy, Hala Ahmed Raafat, Hazem Effat Haroun, Tamer Atef Gheita, Hossam Mahmoud Bakir

“…Infliximab was given in a dose of 5 mg/kg intravenous infusion once every two weeks for 3 treatment sessions before the intended vitrectomy followed by 3 treatment sessions at two-week intervals, after vitrectomy. …”
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Sample size calculations based on day-to-day variability of stress biomarkers in persons with dementia and their family caregivers by Azita Emami, Jeehye Jun, Gabriella Engström, Lars Berglund, Töres Theorell

“…Salivary cortisol and DHEA-S samples were collected five days a week, for eight consecutive weeks. From this data, we created formulas and graphical tools for the number of required sampling days needed to detect effect differences, and we calculated number of days needed for regression coefficients to be estimated with<10% bias. …”
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Nitrogen Management in a Maize-Groundnut Crop Rotation of Humid Tropics: Effect on N2O Emission by M.I. Khalil, A.B. Rosenani, O. Van Cleemput, C.I. Fauziah, J. Shamshuddin

“…The mineral N retained for 2–4 weeks depending on the type and amount of N application. …”
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Acute Portomesenteric Venous Thrombosis following Laparoscopic Small Bowel Resection and Ventral Hernia Repair by Bhradeev Sivasambu, Meera Yogarajah, Thomas Wilson

“…A 51-year-old lady had laparoscopic small bowel resection and primary anastomosis with ventral hernia repair 4 weeks earlier for partial small bowel obstruction. …”
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Persistence of Retinopathy of Prematurity in an Infant with Tetralogy of Fallot by Murat Gunay, Taner Yavuz, Gokhan Celik, Gunay Uludag

“…Follow-up ophthalmic examinations were done at 2, 3, and 4 weeks of age. A demarcation line in Zone II was noticed on the first ocular examination done at 4 weeks of postnatal age. …”
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Channa striata (Ikan Gabus) Extract and the Acceleration of Tuberculosis Treatment: A True Experimental Study by Isa Ma’rufi, Khaidar Ali, Ign Arya Sedemen, P. Purwanto, Abu Khoiri

“…The result is the proportion of respondent classified in negative category in intervention group within week 0, week 1, week 2, week 3, and week 4 being 10.7%, 35.9%, 56.3%, 70.9%, and 90.3%, respectively. …”
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Adaptive Just-in-Time Intervention to Reduce Everyday Stress Responses: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Jillian A Johnson, Matthew J Zawadzki, Martin J Sliwinski, David M Almeida, Orfeu M Buxton, David E Conroy, David Marcusson-Clavertz, Jinhyuk Kim, Robert S Stawski, Stacey B Scott, Christopher N Sciamanna, Paige A Green, Emily M Repka, Meynard John L Toledo, Nicole L Sturges, Joshua M Smyth

“…After a 1-week run-in period, participants will be randomized into the JIT intervention or an active control condition for 2 weeks. …”
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Consecutive prediction of adverse maternal outcomes of preeclampsia, using the PIERS-ML and fullPIERS models: A multicountry prospective observational study. by Guiyou Yang, Tünde Montgomery-Csobán, Wessel Ganzevoort, Sanne J Gordijn, Kimberley Kavanagh, Paul Murray, Laura A Magee, Henk Groen, Peter von Dadelszen

“…These women, admitted to maternity units in the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Europe, and Oceania, were diagnosed with preeclampsia at a median gestational age of 35.79 weeks between year 2003 and 2016. The risk differentiation performance of the PIERS-ML and fullPIERS models were assessed for each day within a 2-week post-admission window. …”
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Evaluating Benefits and Risks of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Methyl Mercury from Fish and Seafood Consumption in Peninsular Malaysia by Nurul Izzah Ahmad, Noraishah Mohammad Sham

“…Long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (LC ω-3 PUFA; DHA and EPA) data were obtained from locally published articles. The estimated weekly intake (EWI), provisional tolerable weekly intakes (PTWIs), hazard quotient (HQ), and maximum safe weekly consumption (MSWC) were calculated for each seafood studied. …”
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Impact of Continuous Assessment on Pupils’ Academic Performance in Primary Schools in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Tibasiima, Margret

“…Findings indicated that in the selected primary schools in Kabale Municipality, written tests were done on a weekly basis and half-term. Take-home assignments were done on a daily and weekly basis and examinations were done termly. …”
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Impact of Continuous Assessment on Pupils’ Academic Performance in Primary Schools in Kabale Municipality, Kabale District by Asaph, Aturinzire

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The Intrauterine and Nursing Period Is a Window of Susceptibility for Development of Obesity and Intestinal Tumorigenesis by a High Fat Diet in Min/+ Mice as Adults by Ha Thi Ngo, Ragna Bogen Hetland, Inger-Lise Steffensen

“…Body weight at 11 weeks was increased after a 45% fat diet during nursing, during both in utero and nursing, and throughout life, but had normalized at 23 weeks. …”
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A randomized controlled trial on the effect of smartphone-based mental health application among outpatients with depressive and anxiety symptoms: A pilot study in Malaysia by Sharon Tan, Mohammad Ayob Bin Ismail, Tuti Iryani Mohd Daud, Rozita Hod, Norfazilah Ahmad

“…There is no significant mean difference between-group comparison of PHQ-9 (1.31, 95% CI -1.35, 3.98) and GAD-7 (0.02, 95% CI -2.01, 2.05) scores at four weeks. However, for the intervention group, there was a significant improvement in the PHQ-9 score at four weeks [mean difference 2.58 (95% CI 1.16, 4.01), P = 0.001)]. …”
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Hematological effects of coenzyme q10 in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats by Ercan Keskin, Deniz Uluışık

“…Group 1 was fed standard rat pellets for four weeks. Group 2 was administered with 0,3 ml corn oil IP daily for four weeks, group 3 was injected IP with 10 mg/kg CoQ10 daily for four weeks, group 4 was made diabetic by SC injections of 40 mg/kg streptozotocin as single daily dose for two days, group 5 was made diabetic by SC injections of streptozotocin in the same way and then was injected IP with 10 mg/kg CoQ10 daily for four weeks. …”
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Eclampsia Characteristics and Outcomes: A Comparison of Two Eras by Mauro H. Schenone, Dorothy Miller, Jacques E. Samson, Giancarlo Mari

“…In addition to overall characteristics and outcomes, the cases were stratified by onset: antenatal versus postnatal and early (<32 weeks of gestation) versus late antenatal cases (≥32 weeks of gestation). …”
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The Effect of Different Doses of Botulinum Toxin on Masseter Muscle in Patients with Bruxism. by Kawa F. Dizaye, Sarezh Jamal Jalal

“…Parameters, as visual analogue scale (VAS), Bite force, patient’s evaluation of lower facial slimming were recorded for each patient before and after the injections of botulinum neurotoxin at 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 3 months. Results: The study showed a significant reduction in VAS, bite force and patient's evaluation of facial slimming for both groups after 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 3 months of follow up (P < 0.05) with no significant differences in both group doses. …”
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Healing of Benign Gastric and Prepyloric Ulcers: A Prospective, Endoscopy-Controlled, Randomized, Double-Blind, Canadian Multicentre Study of Omeprazole 20 and 40 mg Daily and Rant... by Pierre Paré, Robert J Bailey, André P Archambault, Henri Navert, C Noel Williams, ABR Thomson, Denis Levesque, Alain Farley

“…The healing rates at four weeks were 67, 79 and 54% and at eight weeks increased to 90, 97 and 71 % for the omeprazole 20 and 40 mg groups and the ranitidine group, respectively (P< 0.03 for the differences between each of the omeprazole groups and the ranitidine group at eight weeks). …”
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Protective Effects of Intravitreal Injection of the Rho-Kinase Inhibitor Y-27632 in a Rodent Model of Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (rAION) by Zuohuizi Yi, Liao Chen, Xiaoling Wang, Changzheng Chen, Yiqiao Xing

“…Optical coherence tomography (OCT) was performed at 2 days and 4 weeks after induction. Visual evoked potential (VEP) was used to evaluate the visual function at 4 weeks. …”
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Elective Cesarean Section during Preterm Prevents Pulmonary Hypoplasia Development in Potter Sequence by Yuya Kinoshita, Rieko Sakamoto, Yusuke Hattori, Keishiro Furuie, Shohei Kuraoka, Yuko Hidaka, Hiroshi Tamura, Hiroshi Mitsubuchi, Kimitoshi Nakamura

“…We experienced a case of Potter sequence, in which the patient was born by elective cesarean section at gestational age (GA) of 34 weeks. Fetal ultrasound at GA of 26 weeks 4 days showed oligohydramnios, multilocular cystic lesions in the left kidney, and an absent right kidney. …”
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Early Postoperative Outcomes and Medication Cost Savings after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Morbidly Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Bethany J. Slater, Nina Bellatorre, Dan Eisenberg

“…HOMA-IR improved after only two weeks following surgery (16.5 versus 6.6, 𝑃<0.001). …”
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