Nonindustrial Family Forest Landowners' Stated Willingness-to-Participate in Forest Cooperatives in Southern China by Lifei Yang, Yali Wen, Francisco X. Aguilar

“…An understanding of NIFFLs' attitudes towards the development of cooperatives is instrumental for crafting policies and organizational structures that motivate landowners' participation. Three hundred and ten NIFFLs from Fujian and Jiangxi provinces in Southern China were interviewed to elicit their attitudes and willingness-to-participate in forest cooperatives. …”
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Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Pulsed Dye Laser Combined with Pingyangmycin on Hyperplastic Scar after Acne by Rong Guo, Wenxia Xuan, Xiao He, Kai Xu

“…This research analyzed the clinical effectiveness and safety of pulsed dye laser (PDL) combined with pingyangmycin (PI) in the treatment of post-acne HS. Methods. One hundred and nine patients with post-acne HS admitted in June 2020 were selected and divided into a research group (n=52) and a control group (n=57) according to the difference in treatment methods. …”
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Prevalence of PsychoSocial Problems and their Risk Factors among School-Going Middle Adolescents: An Exploratory Study by Basheerahamed J. Sikandar, K. Kavitha

“…The data collection tool for study participants consisted of three parts: (a) A sociodemographic proforma, (b) a pediatric symptom checklist-youth report, and (c) a checklist for assessing determinants of psychosocial problems. Results: Three hundred five (15.02%) of the 2030 respondents had significant impairment to internalizing problems, 350 (17.24%) to attention deficit problems, and 378 (18.62%) to externalizing problems. …”
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Students’ online educational engagement and social relationship through emerging technologies during Covid-19 pandemic by Emmalene Maldepena, Sherijane Tamblik

“…Following a descriptive-correlational research design, this study involved one hundred twenty (120) regular third-year Mindanao State University-General Santos City, students. …”
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Serum Calprotectin Level in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with and without Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Comparison Study by Israa Abdelmalik Salem, Sura Ahmed Abdulsattar, Haider Fadhil Alrubaye

“…Patients and Methods: one hundred and twenty-six patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus were randomly selected from those who attended the National Diabetic Center between December 2022 and July 2023. …”
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Clinical Observation on the Third-lumbar Transverse Process Syndrome Treated by Chiropractic Gun Combined with Pulse Edge Needle by Yuanyang ZHANG, CongShan CHEN, Xueping WU, Wen LIANG, Yu HUANG, Xiaoming RAO, Zhiwei QIU

“…Objective:To observe the clinical efficacy on the third-lumbar transverse process syndrome treated by chiropractic gun combined with pulse edge needle.Methods:One hundred cases of the third-lumbar transverse process syndrome were randomly divided into treatment group and control group, 50 cases in each group. …”
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Importance of fasting serum glucose, haemoglobin a1c and fructosamine in the diagnosis of diabetes by Bahadır Ersan, Mahmut Ok

“…The first group included 12 rabbits and the second group included 13 rabbits. Hundred and 175 mg/ kg dose of the alloxan solutions were given intravenously to the first group and second group, respectively. …”
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“Meaninglessness makes me unhappy”: examining the role of a sense of alienation and life satisfaction in the relationship between the presence of meaning and depression among Chine... by Xiaoxu Hou, Jinsheng Hu, Zhihong Liu

“…This study aims to explore the mediating effects of a sense of alienation and life satisfaction on the relationship between the presence of meaning in life and depression among Chinese high school seniors.MethodsSix hundred and twenty-one senior high school students (17.09 ± 0.45 years, 266 boys) were recruited from Shandong, China, to participate in the study. …”
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The Natural History of Pancreatic Cancer in Manitoba: A Population Based Study by Jack Martin, Brian H Weinerman

“…A retrospective review of the Manitoba Tumour Registry from January 1987 to December 1989 was performed. Two hundred and fourteen exocrine cases were identified, and known islet cell tumours, lymphomas and sarcomas were excluded. …”
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Blended Vision Achieved by Combining High and Low Addition Power Diffractive Intraocular Lenses with Micromonovision: A Clinical Outcome by Masayuki Ouchi, Takuya Shiba

“…To evaluate the clinical outcome of blended vision combined with micromonovision (MMBV) using a + 4 diopter (D) addition power (add) diffractive intraocular lens (MIOL) and a + 2.75 D add MIOL with a myopic target of −0.5 D. Methods. One hundred twenty eyes of 60 cases were enrolled. The +4 D add MIOLs were placed in the nondominant eye, the +2.75 D add MIOLs were placed in the dominant eye with a myopic target of −0.5 D in 30 cases (the MMBV group), and the +4 D add MIOLs were placed in both eyes in another 30 cases (controls). …”
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PLANT GENE PROMOTERS RESPONSIVE TO PATHOGEN INVASION by O. G. Smirnova, A. V. Kochetov

“…Gene networks controlling plant defense against pathogens are rather complex. They may involve hundreds of genes. Infection induces considerable changes at different levels: molecular-genetic, biochemical, physiological, and morphological. …”
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Identification of Risk Factors for Suicide and Insights for Developing Suicide Prevention Technologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Smriti Jha, Gerry Chan, Rita Orji

“…Suicide is a termite that engulfs close to seven hundred thousand people worldwide each year. Existing work on risk factors that predict suicide lacks statistical associations, does not consider most countries, and has a wide range of risk factor domains. …”
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The scrutiny of geomorphologic effects of Armaghankhane and Taham faults by gholam hassan jafari, Asghar rostamkhani

“…The extent of catchments upper the mount front is not in a situation that let to dig valleys that sometimes exceeded to hundreds meters deep. These valleys had kept their primary height differences than it’s around. …”
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Prenatal Acetaminophen Exposure and its Associated Risk for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder by Noah J. Spillers, Norris C. Talbot, Patrick M. Luther, Gianni H. Ly, Caylin J. Roberts, Shahab Ahmadzadeh, Sahar Shekoohi, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye

“…Acetaminophen is one of the most commonly used over-the-counter antipyretic and analgesic drugs on the market and has been relevant in the medical world for almost a hundred years. It has maintained an excellent reputation as a safe therapeutic in several types of patient profiles. …”
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Systematic Screening for SARS-CoV-2 to Detect Asymptomatic Infections: An Epitome of Taiwan’s Outbreak by Chih-Chien Cheng, Chia-Chen Liu, Ju-Chuan Yen, Ting-Fang Chiu, Yi-Ning Liu, Thomas Y. Hsueh, Sheng-Huang Hsiao

“…The local outbreak in Taiwan, especially in Taipei City, is unprecedented and paramount and has claimed hundreds of lives, tens of thousands of cases, and enormous economic costs. …”
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The right way to ride the wrong bike: An exploration of Klein's 'unridable' bicycle. by B D Coller

“…A prize was offered. Hundreds of students and cycling enthusiasts attempted it. …”
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Estime de soi, sentiment d’autoefficacité et intention de décrocher au collégial by Stéphane Thibodeau, Elisabeth Giguère, Sonia Lefebvre, Éric Frenette

“…More specifically, its purpose is to explore the relationships between self-esteem and intent to drop out among college students, as well as the role of self-efficacy on these relationships. Three hundred and ninety-one (391) students from three colleges (two public and one private) participated in the research. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic in Brunei Darussalam by Wei Shan Ang, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Yong Sze Ong, Yatinesh Kumari, Long Chiau Ming, Loh Teng-Hern Tan

“…As of 4th January 2023, over 2.6 hundred thousand confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 225 deaths, had been reported in Brunei. …”
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Re-Creation, Re-Membrance, and Resurgence: Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse by Celia Cores Antepazo

“…Wagamese finds inspiration in the testimonies and experiences of hundreds of victims of Canada’s residential school system, including those of his own family members. …”
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Public Trust in Dentists among Arabic Populations by Aceil Al-Khatib, Radwan Abed Alhaleem, Rama Qaffaf

“…We used an Arabic online anonymous survey to collect data from a random population of 838 adults to investigate public trust in dentists, the factors they perceive to affect trust, their perception of key factors in the dentist-patient relationship, fear of dentists, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of their trust in the dentists. Results. Eight hundred thirty-eight subjects with a mean age of 28.5 responded to the survey (595 (71%) females, 235 (28%) males, and 8 (1%) did not specify their gender). …”
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