Pretreatment Fatigue in Breast Cancer Patients: Comparison With Healthy Controls and Associations With Biopsychosocial Variables by Patricia Blickle, Martina E. Schmidt, Karen Steindorf

“…However, investigation of pretreatment fatigue is crucial to identify causal or risk factors other than cancer therapy and to enable timely fatigue management. Methods Two hundred and thirty‐two breast cancer patients (mean age = 55.6) and 41 healthy participants (mean age = 49.3) were recruited via the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg. …”
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THE WAY TO THE SELF: THE NOVEL «STEPPENWOLF» THROUGH THE LENS OF JUNGIAN PROCESS OF INDIVIDUATION by Tetiana V. Danylova

“…Actually, he consists of hundreds and thousands of them. This idea is based on Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious. …”
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Mechanical Percussion Devices: A Survey of Practice Patterns Among Healthcare Professionals by Scott W Cheatham, Russell T Baker, David G Behm, Kyle Stull, Morey J Kolber

“… # Methods A 25 question online survey was emailed to members of the National Athletic Trainers Association, Academy of Orthopedic Physical Therapy, and American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy. # Results Four hundred twenty-five professionals completed the survey. …”
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Clinical Trial Assessing the Efficacy of Gabapentin Plus B Complex (B1/B12) versus Pregabalin for Treating Painful Diabetic Neuropathy by Alberto Mimenza Alvarado, Sara Aguilar Navarro

“…Multicenter, randomized, blind study. Two hundred and seventy patients were evaluated, 147 with GBP/B1/B12 and 123 with PGB, with a 7/10 pain intensity on the Visual Analog Scale (VAS). …”
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Overnight oximetry in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy: a single center experience by C. Carrie Liu, Kathleen H. Chaput, Valerie Kirk, Warren Yunker

“…Results Data was collected from 389 children. Two hundred and seventy-one children underwent pre-operative oximetry (69.7%). …”
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Beliefs and outlook toward medications in Indian patients with very early rheumatoid arthritis: Cross sectional survey by Sakir Ahmed, Arup Mahapatra, Basanta Kumar Behera, Prasanta Padhan

“…Thus, we surveyed patients with very early RA to determine their initial outlook toward medicines. Methods: Two hundred and fifty patients fulfilling the American College of Rheumatology/European League against Rheumatism 2010 criteria for RA, who had developed arthritis within the past 3 months were surveyed using the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ). …”
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Status of the Multidrug Resistance-1 Gene of Plasmodium falciparum in Four Malaria Epidemiological Strata, Two Decades after the Abolition of Chloroquine as First-Line Treatment fo... by David Denis Sofeu-Feugaing, Fabrice Nkengeh Ajonglefac, Marcel Nyuylam Moyeh, Tobias Obejum Apinjoh, Marianne Elodie Essende, Gilchrist Destin Talla Kouam, Stephen Mbigha Ghogomu

“…DNA was extracted by boiling in Chelex and analysis of Plasmodium species. Four hundred P. falciparum monoinfected samples, 100 per study area, were amplified by nested PCR, and allele-specific restriction analysis of Pfmdr1 gene molecular markers was performed. …”
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Physics‐Based Approach to Thermospheric Density Estimation Using CubeSat GPS Data by Shaylah M. Mutschler, Penina Axelrad, Eric K. Sutton, Dallas Masters

“…In this work, Spire Global CubeSat data are used to demonstrate the method using only 10 satellites; the true strength of the method is its potential to exploit data already collected on large LEO constellations (hundreds of CubeSats). Precise Orbit Determination (POD) information from 10 CubeSats over 12 days is used to sense a global density field when Kp historical data show a minor and moderate geomagnetic storm in succession. …”
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Primary prevention of sexually transmitted infections in Switzerland: practices of family physicians and their determinants—a national cross-sectional survey by Hanna Vautrin, Nicolas Senn, Christine Cohidon

“…Objectives To describe the activities of general practitioners (GPs) pertaining to primary prevention in the field of affective and sexual life, studying the advice they provide as well as their vaccination practices.Design Cross-sectional national survey.Setting/participants The study was carried out using the Swiss Primary Care Active Monitoring GPs’ network, a national GP network created in 2012. One hundred and seventy Swiss GPs, from a random sample from professional lists stratified by canton, participated in the present study.Primary and secondary outcome measures Prevention practices against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) performed by GPs through advice provided as well as their vaccination practices. …”
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Impact of Number and Placement of High-dose Vertices on Equivalent Uniform Dose and Peak-to-valley Ratio for Lattice Radiotherapy by A. T. Bhagyalakshmi, Velayudham Ramasubramanian

“…Settings and Design: One hundred and eighty-eight RapidArc (RA) plans were created for a cohort of 15 patients. …”
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Choroidal Thickness in Chinese Children Aged 8 to 11 Years with Mild and Moderate Myopia by Ya Qi, Li Li, Fengju Zhang

“…To investigate macular choroidal thickness (CT), topographical variation, and associations between subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) and age, gender, spherical equivalent (SE), and axial length (AL) in Chinese healthy mild and moderate myopia children aged 8 to 11 years. Methods. One hundred twenty eyes from 120 healthy children were studied. …”
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Seroepidemiological Study of Human Toxoplasmosis in Females in Ardabil City, 2019-2020 by Roya Houshmandi Khaneghahi, Shahram Habibzadeh, Farhad Pourfarzi, Behnam Mohammadi Ghalehbin

“…Since the awareness of the prevalence of toxoplasmosis in different population groups and geographical areas and the risk factors involved in it, is one of the most important indicators which can be estimated the risk of infection in any society, this study aims to know the extent of prevalence of anti-toxoplasma antibody in  serum and some risk factors related to it in females in Ardabil city. Methods: Three hundred forty nine female of Ardabil city were randomly selected based on the files available in health centers. …”
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The Muscadine Grape (Vitis rotundifolia Michx) by Peter C. Andersen, Ali Sarkhosh, Dustin Huff, Jacque Breman

“…Bronze-fruited muscadine grapes are also found in the wild, and they are often referred to as scuppernongs. There are hundreds of named muscadine grape cultivars from improved selections, and in fact, one that has been found in the Scuppernong river of North Carolina has been named Scuppernong. …”
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Comparison of Outcomes of Colorectal Polypectomy Using Traditional Snare and Rotary Snare: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial by Lu Xu, Zhixing Zhang, Jiarong Xie, Lei Xu, Weihong Wang

“…Results. A total of two hundred participants were included in this study. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Intestinal Parasitic Infection among Primary School Children in Dera District, Northwest Ethiopia by Dires Tegen, Destaw Damtie

“…Of the 382 students who were examined for IPIs, 238 (62.3%) (61.8% males, 62.8% females) were positive for one or more IPIs. One hundred thirty-six (35.6%), 98 (25.7%), and 4 (1.05%) were single, double, and triple infections, respectively. …”
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Extended Use of The Spanner® Temporary Prostatic Stent in Catheter-Dependent Men with Comorbidities by Angelo J. Cambio, Richard M. Roach, Paul Arnold, Joseph Cambio, Clifford D. Gluck, Sean P. Heron

“…Voiding success was defined as PVR ≤ 150 ml at all visits. Results. One hundred seven men were enrolled at 8 US sites; 82/107 (76.6%) completed the trial, and 79/107 (73.8%) successfully maintained PVR ≤ 150 ml for the trial duration. …”
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Serum fatty acid-binding protein 3 levels differentiate active from inactive myositis and correlate with response to therapy by Latika Gupta, Sanjukta Majumder, Amita Aggarwal, Ramnath Misra, Able Lawrence

“…Nonparametric tests were used for analysis and results expressed as median and interquartile range. Results: One hundred and thirty two IIM patients (M:F 1:3.1) of age 38 (24.5–46.0) years and 0.9 (2.3–5.1) year long disease were compared with ten healthy controls. …”
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New-insight UVB Treatment for Psoriasis Vulgaris in Vietnamese Patients by Phuong Pham Thi Minh, Trang Trinh Minh, Phuong Hoang Thi, Giang Quach Thi Ha, Tra Bui Thi, Michael Tirant, Doanh Le Huu

“…Materials and Methods: One hundred and twenty-two patients with psoriasis vulgaris were included. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF UNMET HEALTHCARE NEEDS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES by Tatiana Gutium, Elmira Gojaeva

“…In most EU countries, except four countries, the number of hospital beds per hundred thousand inhabitants and hospitals has decreased in the last twelve years. …”
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Evaluating short and long term outcomes following pediatric Myringoplasty with Gelfoam graft for tympanic membrane perforation following ventilation tube insertion by Jin Soo Song, Gerard Corsten, Liane B. Johnson

“…Patient demographics, comorbidities, and graft material were correlated with audiometric and clinical outcomes on follow up examination. Results One hundred twenty patients underwent myringoplasty, with 61 (50.8%) males with a mean age of 8.9 years old. 101 (84.2%) of patients eventually underwent successful tympanic membrane (TM) closure, with 93 (77.5%) demonstrating closure at initial follow up. …”
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