Accuracy of Intensity and Inclinometer Output of Three Activity Monitors for Identification of Sedentary Behavior and Light-Intensity Activity by Lucas J. Carr, Matthew T. Mahar

“…To examine the accuracy of intensity and inclinometer output of three physical activity monitors during various sedentary and light-intensity activities. Methods. Thirty-six participants wore three physical activity monitors (ActiGraph GT1M, ActiGraph GT3X+, and StepWatch) while completing sedentary (lying, sitting watching television, sitting using computer, and standing still) light (walking 1.0 mph, pedaling 7.0 mph, pedaling 15.0 mph) intensity activities under controlled settings. …”
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Interleukin-15 and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α in Iraqi Patients with Alopecia Areata by Zainab A. Kamil, Galawish A. Abdullah, Haider Hashim Zalzala

“…Patients and Methods. Thirty-eight patients with AA and 22 individuals without the disease as controls were enrolled in this case-controlled study conducted in the Department of Dermatology in the Al-Kindy Teaching Hospital and Baghdad Medical City, Iraq, during a period from the 1st of April 2021 to the 1st of December 2021. …”
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Quelle couleur pour les frères ? Regards sur l’habit des Mineurs aux xiiie-xive siècles by Véronique Rouchon Mouilleron

“…Then, it deals with the terms and expressions used from the second half of the century, through which the habit got an indefinable colour, which should be neither color niger, nor albus, nor even griseus. Thirdly, a serial analysis of the representations of the early tunic, based on about thirty selected items, will provide with a pictorial corpus of this colour, which seems unspecified as much as instable. …”
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Empathy as a professional quality of a counselling psychologist by O. Dudar

“…At the same time, it was clear that the level of empathy depends on the way an individual thinks and is an incentive for prosocial behaviour, which, in turn, is an innate, evolutionary human characteristic. …”
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Methodology for Using Multi-Temporal Landsat Images to Monitor Urban Growth of Kirkuk Governorate by Tabark Y. Gehad, Nejat Q. Omer, Nada S. Abdulmajeed

“…Post-classification change detection analysis was also conducted to observe changes in urban growth, revealing that the studied city expanded from 46.96 km2 to 193.25 km2 over 30 years. Over the past thirty years, the urban area of Kirkuk Governorate has increased while the non-urban area has decreased. …”
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Challenges to patients’ rights during the COVID-19 pandemic: survey of public perceptions in North Macedonia by Katerina Kuzmanova, Aleksandar Dimkovski, Evgenija Mihajloska, Aleksandra Grozdanova, Katerina Anchevska Netkovska

“…Although 72.4% felt adequately informed about their care throughout all phases, just under half (47.6%) were aware of their healthcare and insurance rights and the procedures to secure them. Two-thirds (67.6%) reported that their autonomy was respected despite restrictive measures, and over 70% believed their privacy was maintained. …”
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Spinopelvic Dissociation: Comparison of Outcomes of Percutaneous versus Open Fixation Strategies by Jeffrey M. Pearson, Thomas E. Niemeier, Gerald McGwin, Sakthivel Rajaram Manoharan

“…All fractures were classified via the AO Spine classification system. Results. Thirty-one spinopelvic dissociations were identified: 15 treated with open and 16 with percutaneous techniques. …”
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Effect of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antagonist Dextromethorphan on Opioid Analgesia in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit by Mohammed Naeem, Hala Al Alem, Ali Al Shehri, Majed Al-Jeraisy

“…Pediatric multidisciplinary ICU in tertiary care center. Patients. Thirty-six pediatric patients 2–14 years of age in a multidisciplinary PICU requiring analgesia were randomized into dextromethorphan and placebo. …”
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Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other: making user and audience studies matter by Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn Reinhard

“…</b> Eighty-three international experts in the three fields were interviewed by phone; thirty-one local experts, public and academic librarians serving universities and colleges in central Ohio, were interviewed using self-journals and focus group reports. …”
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A Multiswarm Intelligence Algorithm for Expensive Bound Constrained Optimization Problems by Wali Khan Mashwani, Ruqayya Haider, Samir Brahim Belhaouari

“…The suggested algorithm integrates the SI-based algorithms to evolve population and handle exploration versus exploitation issues. Thirty bound constrained benchmark functions are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm. …”
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Association of CD24, CD27, and co-stimulatory molecules CD80 immunological marker expression on B-cells of human peripheral blood with development of celiac disease by Rahab Abd-Ali Al-Madany, Noor Abdulameer Oudah

“…MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 60 male children, whose ages ranged between 8 and 14 years, participated in this study. Thirty-five were identified as having celiac disease, while the control group comprised 25 children with anti-tissue transglutaminase (TG) (immunoglobulin G [IgG]), anti-tissue TG (IgA), and deamidated gliadin peptide (DGP) IgG levels normal. …”
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Rare histological presentation of adenomatoid odontogenic tumor: A series of three unique cases by Bhanu Priya, Priya Kumar, Jeyaseelan Augustine, Rewa Malhotra, Aadithya B. Urs

“…Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (AOT) is a benign neoplasm or hamartomatous lesion predominantly affecting females in the second decade, involving maxilla and often associated with unerupted maxillary canine, earning the epithet “two-thirds tumor”. The present case series illustrates unusual presentations of AOT including a peripheral AOT with calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor-like areas (PAOT with CEOT-like areas), AOT associated with ossifying fibroma (AOT with OF) and AOT associated with cemento-osseous dysplasia (AOT with COD). …”
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Role of Cyclosporine in Crohn's Disease by CN Williams

“…The mean age, proportion with prior surgery, disease location, presence of complications and cotreatment was the same in both groups. At 12 weeks, two-thirds of the patients on cyclosporine A had responded, compared to one-third on placebo. …”
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Some Gastrointestinal Tract Characteristics of Karayaka Ram Lambs Slaughtered at Different Weights by Arda Yıldırım, Yüksel Aksoy, Nuh Ocak, Zafer Ulutaş

“…Thirty-one Karayaka ram lambs were slaughtered at different body weights (30 n=7, 35 n=6, 40 n=7, 45 n=6, and 50 n=5 kg of body weight at fast) to evaluate the growth of their gastrointestinal tract (GIT) characteristics, to determine the relationship among slaughter body weight (SBW) and empty body weight (EBW), whole GIT and segments, and the influence of slaughter weight on the pH of rumen, jejunum, and cecal contents. …”
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Cardiovascular Malformations in CHARGE Syndrome with DiGeorge Phenotype: Two Case Reports by Kazushi Yasuda, Eiji Morihana, Naoki Fusazaki, Shiro Ishikawa

“…CHD7 gene mutation is identified in approximately two-thirds of patients with CHARGE syndrome, and chromosomal microdeletion at 22q11.2 is found in more than 95% of patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. …”
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An In Vitro Comparative Study of the Push-out Bond Strengths of Various Endodontic Sealers to Radicular Dentin by Mohamed Abdelaziz El Sayed, Safiya Saeed Alderei

“…The highest sectional bond strength was observed in the apical thirds. The failure mode was mostly cohesive for AH Plus/LC and adhesive for sealers used with the single-cone obturation technique.…”
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Investigating the diagnostic accuracy of vertebral heart score, vertebral left atrium score and thoracic width measurement in cats with suspected cardiac problems by B. Ozdil, T. M. Parlak, M. Arican

“…This study aimed to evaluate vertebral heart score (VHS) in terms of sensitivity and accuracy of ra-diographic heart examination for early diagnosis of cardiac diseases in cats and to compare vertebral left atrium score (VLAS), N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (Nt-proBNP) with thoracic width measurement (TWM). Thirty cats were used. Ten of these cases were used as the control group. …”

Groundwater Quality and Suitability Assessment in Tirupur Region, Tamil Nadu, India by Kumar G., Saravanan Kothandaraman, Kathiresan Karuppanan, Sajjad Hussain

“…The results indicate groundwater samples were alkaline with fresh to moderate saline in nature, sixty-eight percent of the samples were suitable for drinking in accordance with WHO, and thirty-two percent of the samples were unsuitable due to the excess amount of different ionic concentrations derived from natural and various anthropogenic sources. …”
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A Comparative Study: The Use of Collagen Implant versus Mitomycin-C in Combined Trabeculotomy and Trabeculectomy for Treatment of Primary Congenital Glaucoma by Alaa Abdel Sadek Singab, Osama Ali Mohammed, Mohammed Iqbal Hafez Saleem, Mortada Ahmed Abozaid

“…A prospective comparative study. Methods. Thirty-four eyes of twenty-one patients with primary congenital glaucoma were included in this study. …”
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Comparison of intra articular autologous platelet-rich plasma with steroids in osteoarthritis knee: Experience from a North Indian tertiary care center by M N Arjun, Vivek Vasdev, Kunal Kishore, Arun Hegde, Krishnan Shanmuganandan, Abhishek Kumar, Uday Bhanu Kovilapu, Roopa Shivashankar

“…Methods: Open labeled prospective observational study was conducted on 60 patients with Kellgren-Lawrence Grade 2 and 3 OA knee, who fulfilled the ACR classification criteria for knee OA. Thirty patients were given IA PRP (6 ml) and 30 received IA methyl prednisolone (80 mg) at baseline line, which was repeated at 12 weeks. …”
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