Effects of Land Slides in Muko Sub-County Rubanda District. by Akampwera, Grania

“…The study was guided by three objectives and included; identifying the causes of landslides Muko sub-county, identifying the impacts of landslides in the Muko sub-county, and suggesting control measures for landslide occurrences in the Muko sub-county. A total sample of hundred (100) respondents was considered for the study. …”
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Antimicrobial resistance profile among bacteria isolated from patients presenting with wounds at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital, South western Uganda by Andrew, Baguma, Benson, Musinguzi, Kagirita, Atek Atwiine, Joel, Bazira

“…Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed and reported based on CLSI guidelines. Results One-hundred and ninety-five specimens were positive following bacterial culture (70.7%). …”
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No Contribution of GAD-65 and IA-2 Autoantibodies around Time of Diagnosis to the Increasing Incidence of Juvenile Type 1 Diabetes: A 9-Year Nationwide Danish Study by Steffen U. Thorsen, Christian B. Pipper, Henrik B. Mortensen, Flemming Pociot, Jesper Johannesen, Jannet Svensson

“…A robust log-normal regression model was used. Nine hundred children and adolescents had complete records and were included in the analysis. …”
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Study of Frequency and Characteristics of Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization in Thalassemic Patients: Multicenter Study from Palestine by Adham Abu Taha, Ahmad Yaseen, Sa’d Suleiman, Omar Abu Zenah, Hammam Ali, Rania Abu Seir, Khaled Younis

“…Antibody screening and identification was conducted using the microcolum gel technique. Results. Two hundred fifteen patients were included in the study. …”
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Abnormal Blood Glucose as a Prognostic Factor for Adverse Clinical Outcome in Children Admitted to the Paediatric Emergency Unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana by Emmanuel Ameyaw, Kwame Amponsah-Achiano, Peter Yamoah, Jean-Pierre Chanoine

“…This is a prospective case matching cohort study. Eight hundred subjects aged between 3 and 144 months were screened out of whom 430 (215 with euglycaemia and 215 with dysglycaemia) were enrolled. …”
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B-Flow Twinkling Sign in Preoperative Evaluation of Cervical Lymph Nodes in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Giuseppina Napolitano, Antonio Romeo, Andrea Bianco, Maurizio Gasperi, Pio Zeppa, Luca Brunese

“…We use a new technique, B-flow imaging (BFI), recently used for evaluation of thyroid nodules, to estimate the presence of BFI twinkling signs (BFI-TS), within metastatic LNs in patients with PTC. Two hundred and fifty-two patients with known PTC were examined for preoperative evaluation with conventional US and BFI. …”
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Dynamical analysis of a mathematical model on the spread of diphtheria disease with vaccination completeness factors by Nailul Izzati, Nanndo Yannuansa, Imamatul Ummah, Dian Anisa Rokhmah Wati, Elly Indahwati, Silviana Maya Purwasih, Nur Kholis

“…As a result of disruptions in these services, tens of millions of children worldwide are at risk of contracting diphtheria, hundreds of thousands of infants did not receive complete DPT immunization, and more than a million infants missed BCG vaccination at birth. …”
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Biphasic Chromatin Structure and FISH Signals Reflect Intranuclear Order by Jyoti P. Chaudhuri, Eva Kasprzycki, Mathew Battaglia, John R. McGill, Anton Brøgger, Joachim-U. Walther, Albrecht Reith

“…Materials and Methods: Slides from short term cultures or direct smears of blood, bone marrow and amniotic fluids were hybridized with FISH probes singly, combined or sequentially. Two to three hundred cells were examined from each preparation. …”
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Comparison of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Parasternal Block for Postoperative Pain Management after Cardiac Surgery by Nilgun Kavrut Ozturk, Elif Dogan Baki, Ali Sait Kavakli, Ayca Sultan Sahin, Raif Umut Ayoglu, Arzu Karaveli, Mustafa Emmiler, Kerem Inanoglu, Bilge Karsli

“…To compare the effectiveness of TENS and parasternal block on early postoperative pain after cardiac surgery. Methods. One hundred twenty patients undergoing cardiac surgery were enrolled in the present randomized, controlled prospective study. …”
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Specific Dysphoric Symptoms Are Predicted by Early Maladaptive Schemas by Roberta Trincas, Cristina Ottaviani, Alessandro Couyoumdjian, Katia Tenore, Grazia Spitoni, Francesco Mancini

“…As depression is a multifaceted phenomenon, we hypothesized that specific dysphoric symptoms would be predicted by different EMSs. Four hundred and fifty-six participants completed a measure of EMSs (Young Schema Questionnaire) and reported on the severity of the symptoms of criterion A for major depression in DSM-IV during the occurrence of a dysphoric episode in the previous 12 months. …”
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AfriSign: African sign languages machine translation by Kate Takyi, Rose-Mary Owusuaa Mensah Gyening, Shester Msouobu Gueuwou, Marco Stanley Nyarko, Richard Adade, Reindorf Nartey Borkor, Samuelson Israel Boadu-Acheampong, Linus Tabari

“…Abstract Research on sign language translation is ongoing with a high social inclusive goal of crossing the bridge between people with hearing disability using sign language as their basic way to communicate to others who do not understand sign language. Hundreds of different sign languages exist instead of a single universal sign language. …”
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Potential of a novel and thermostable recombinant phage endolysin of Escherichia phage KW1E_UTAR against Shigella spp. by Selvam Dharshini, Mohd Ismail Nor Ismaliza, Ng Michelle Y. T.

“…Shigella causes millions of cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, mainly affecting children in impoverished countries. …”
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Description and characterization of pneumococcal community acquired pneumonia (CAP) among radiologically confirmed CAP in outpatients by Josselin Le Bel, Juliette Pinot, Toni Alfaiate, Marie Ecollan, Fanny Cussac, Raphaël Pecqueur, Marie-Pierre Revel, Cyrille Vartanian, Emmanuelle Varon, Christian Theilacker, Xavier Duval, Henri Partouche, Cédric Laouénan, Serge Gilberg

“…To identify other pathogens, next to cultures, nasopharyngeal multiplex PCR was performed. Three hundred and forty-eight patients were included, of whom 144 had a positive CXR, 135/144 (93.8%) had not received antibiotics prior to inclusion, 21/144 (14.6%) had ≥1 positive microbiological test for SP, and 66/144 (45.8%) were negative for all four microbiological tests and were considered as non-pneumococcal CAP. …”
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Impact of Right-Sided Nephrectomy on Long-Term Outcomes in Retroperitoneoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy at Single Center by Kazuya Omoto, Taiji Nozaki, Masashi Inui, Tomokazu Shimizu, Toshihito Hirai, Yugo Sawada, Hideki Ishida, Kazunari Tanabe

“…To assess the long-term graft survival of right-sided retroperitoneoscopic live donor nephrectomy (RPLDN), we compared the outcomes of right- and left-sided RPLDN. Methods. Five hundred and thirty-three patients underwent live donor renal transplantation with allografts procured by RPLDN from July 2001 to August 2010 at our institute. …”
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Role of the IL-6 Gene in the Etiopathogenesis of Idiopathic Scoliosis by Svetla Nikolova, Milka Dikova, Dobrin Dikov, Assen Djerov, Gyulnas Dzhebir, Ventseslav Atanasov, Alexey Savov, Ivo Kremensky

“…We conducted a case-control study of eighty patients with idiopathic scoliosis (IS) and one hundred sixty healthy unrelated gender-matched controls trying to investigate the association between IS and the IL-6 promoter polymorphism at -174 position (rs1800795 G/C) in Bulgarian population. …”
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Association of Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Calcium in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients by Ghaith Hamza Kamil, Mohammed Mezher Hussein, Raya Ezzat Maroof

“…This study was designed to show the Correlation between FGF23 and Ca in chronic kidney disease patients. One hundred blood samples (57males and 43 females) from CKD patients have been gathered from Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, Baghdad Teaching Hospital and Al-Karama Teaching Hospital during the period from December 2021 to March 2022 besides 50 samples as apparently healthy control. …”
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Accuracy of Intraocular Lens Power Calculation Formulas for Highly Myopic Eyes by Yichi Zhang, Xiao Ying Liang, Shu Liu, Jacky W. Y. Lee, Srinivasan Bhaskar, Dennis S. C. Lam

“…The refractive prediction errors of IOL power calculation formulas (SRK/T, Haigis, Holladay, Hoffer Q, and Barrett Universal II) using User Group for Laser Interference Biometry (ULIB) constants were evaluated and compared. Results. One hundred seventy-one eyes were enrolled. The Barrett Universal II formula had the lowest mean absolute error (MAE) and SRK/T and Haigis had similar MAE, and the statistical highest MAE were seen with the Holladay and Hoffer Q formulas. …”
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Non-contrast enhanced MRI for efficiency evaluation of high-intensity focused ultrasound in adenomyosis ablation by Ma Si, Fajin Lv, Mingmei Tang, Yang Liu, Xueke Qiu, Chunmei Gong, Yan Hu, Yang Liu

“…Objective To investigate the value of T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in evaluating the therapeutic effect of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in adenomyosis ablation.Material and methods One hundred eighty-nine patients with adenomyosis were treated with HIFU. …”
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Projected loss of rock glacier habitat in the contiguous western United States with warming by Abigail C. Lute, John T. Abatzoglou, Andrew G. Fountain, Timothy C. Bartholomaus

“…While rock glacier climate equilibration may take hundreds of years, we find that equilibration to present climate will result in a 50% reduction in rock glacier habitat and equilibration to late 21st-century climate under a high-end warming scenario will result in a 99% reduction in rock glacier habitat across the western USA. …”
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Biochemical characterization of the Escherichia coli surfaceome: a focus on type I fimbriae and flagella by Devon W. Kavanaugh, Adeline Sivignon, Yannick Rossez, Zina Chouit, Christophe Chambon, Christophe Chambon, Louane Béal, Mathilde Bonnet, Michel Hébraud, Michel Hébraud, Yann Guérardel, Hang Thi Thu Nguyen, Nicolas Barnich

“…These large polymeric surface organelles are composed of hundreds to thousands of subunits, with their large size often preventing them from being studied in their native form. …”
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