Impact of Human Activities on Woody Vegetation in Gallery Forests in the Mandara Mountains (Far North, Cameroon) by Hinémé Fanday, null Tchobsala

“…Secondly, the survey was conducted in 18 administrative structures made up of delegations (MINFOF, MINADER, MINEPDED, and MINEPIA) and town halls. One hundred woody species, grouped into 63 genera and 30 families, have been inventoried, in which 45 species showed at least one sign of damage caused by human being. …”
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Movement of the South Russian Frontier in the 17th – First Half of the 19th Centuries as the Development of the “Wild Fields” by Valery V. Kanishchev, Yuri A. Mizis

“…In particular, it concerns the economic development of apicultural and other areas, hundreds of which at the end of the 16th – 17th centuries were located in the part of the “Wild Fields” that had not yet been subordinated to the Russian state, as well as the traces of agricultural hike on the territories south of the frontier of the 17th century developed there long before the construction of fortresses and defensive ramparts, – the facts identified recently in collaboration with soil scientists.…”
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Perceived psychological distress and learning barriers on emergency remote education: association with students’ motivation and resilience by Shyra Grace Bauya, Mary Princess Cacayan, Diane Mae Ulanday

“…The respondents of the study were the two hundred thirty- eight (238) BEED students of Mindanao State University, General Santos City who were officially enrolled during the S.Y. 2021-2022. …”
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The Problem of Recurrent Injuries in Collegiate Track and Field by Chris Hopkins, Samantha Kanny, Catherine Headley

“…Comparisons of recurrent injury proportions by T&F discipline were made using Injury Proportion Ratios (IPR) and injury-associated time loss comparisons by injury type and sex were made using Negative Binomial Regression. # Results Four hundred and seventy-four injuries were reported, 13.1% of which were classified as recurrent injuries. …”
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Amniotic Fluid β2- Microglobulin Measurements by Emine Aydın, Alp Tuna Beksaç, Ergün Karaağaoğlu, M. Sinan Beksaç

“… OBJECTIVE: To determine β2-microglobulin levels in amniotic fluid during the course of second trimester. STUDY DESIGN: One hundred patient’s amniotic fluid β2-microglobulin levels had been evaluated retrospectively (March-October 2009). …”
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Predictors of Diabetes Self-Management among Type 2 Diabetes Patients by Azylina Gunggu, Chang Ching Thon, Cheah Whye Lian

“…Face-to-face interview using questionnaire was used to collect data. Four hundred respondents with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) were recruited. …”
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Cellular Debris in the Anterior Vitreous in Silent Eyes of Behçet Patients as a Clue of Asymptomatic Ocular Involvement by Abdullah Kursat Cingu, Fatih Mehmet Türkcü, Bariş Yeniad, llknur Tugal-Tutkun

“…To investigate if there is a prognostic implication of the presence of cellular debris in the anterior vitreous in patients with Behçet's disease (BD) without any ocular symptoms. Methods. One hundred and twenty eyes of 60 patients with BD were included in the study. …”
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The Effect of Nano Hydroxyapatite on the Bond Strength of Acrylic Teeth Repaired to an Acrylic Resin Denture Base Using Two Types of Auto Polymerized Acrylic Resins by Hawraa khalid Aziz

“…This research has been conducted to assess various concentrations of Nano hydroxyapatite addition on the shear bond between repaired acrylic teeth and polymer. One-hundred specimens of resin were split into two main subdivisions. 50 specimens were repaired with cold cured Duracryl Plus and the other 50 were repaired with a special type of acrylic O-cry1. …”
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Estimates of Total Dietary Folic Acid Intake in the Australian Population Following Mandatory Folic Acid Fortification of Bread by Jacinta Dugbaza, Judy Cunningham

“…In June/July 2010 one hundred samples from seven bread categories were purchased from around the country and individually analysed for the amount of folic acid they contained. …”
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Surgical treatment of hepatic Echinococcus granulosus by Waldemar Patkowski, Maciej Krasnodębski, Michał Grąt, Łukasz Masior, Marek Krawczyk

“…Material and methods : One hundred and nineteen patients treated in the period between 1989 and 2014 due to E. granulosus infection in the Department of General, Transplant, and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw were selected for this retrospective study. …”
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Frequency of Alcohol Use among Year 1 University Students and Its Affecting Factors by Sevinç Sütlü, Firdevs Savi Çakar

“…The sample size was calculated as 955. Nine hundred eighty-one students participated. Of the participants, 39.4% stated that they had tried an alcohol product at least once, and 14.9% stated that they were still using it. …”
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Exploring barriers to parent-adolescent sexual-risk communication among adolescents in Port Harcourt Nigeria: Adolescents' and parents' perspective. by Chidinma Joycelyn Okpalaku, Chigozirim Ogubuike

“…A cross-sectional study design using explanatory sequential mixed methods approach was implemented. Three hundred and twenty nine in-school adolescents participated in the quantitative study and recruited using multi-stage sampling technique while 9 parents of adolescents and 16 adolescents participated in the qualitative study. …”
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Challenges in Assessing Outcomes among Infants of Pregnant HIV-Positive Women Receiving ART in Uganda by Barbara Castelnuovo, Frank Mubiru, Ivan Kalule, Shadia Nakalema, Agnes Kiragga

“…We included 700 pregnant women from January 2012 to August 2014 with a follow-up extended to August 2016; the median age was 31 years (IQR: 26–35), 36.3% in WHO stage 3/4; median CD4 count was 447 cells/μL (IQR: 301–651) and 73.3% were already on ART for a median time of 28 (IQR: 10–57) months; 52% infants were male and median weight was 3.2 Kg (IQR: 2.5–3.5). Five hundred and sixty-five (80.7%) infants had at least one test for HIV; 22 (3.1%) infants died, all with unknown serostatus; 3 tested positive at week 6 and one additional at months 12 and 18. …”
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Readability of informed consent documents and its impact on consent refusal rate by Yash V. Kamath, Yashashri C. Shetty, Ishita C. Lanjewar, Ankita Kulkarni

“…P <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Two hundred and ninety-three ICDs had complete information. …”
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Technology readiness and implications for higher education in Universities in North-Central Nigeria by Jumoke Iyabode Oladele

“…The sample comprised five hundred and seventy students across three types of institutions in Nigeria (i.e. private, state, and federal-owned institutions), drawn using proportionate and cluster sampling techniques. …”
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The role of candidate genetic polymorphisms in covid-19 susceptibility and outcomes by Anthony Yazbeck, Reem Akika, Zainab Awada, Nathalie K. Zgheib

“…Abstract Background This study aims to investigate the association between candidate host genetic polymorphisms and COVID-19 susceptibility, severity, hospitalization, hypoxia, and their combined effect, measured by the polygenic risk score (PRS). Methods Three hundred and seventy-six Lebanese participants, comprising 151 controls and 225 cases, were included. …”
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Naître et mourir à Nîmes dans l’Antiquité. L’évolution d’un espace funéraire consacré à l’inhumation des nourrissons et des fœtus du Ier siècle avant notre ère au IIIe siècle de no... by Gaëlle Granier, Richard Pellé

“…The rampart, which has been preserved over a length of several hundred metres, was excavated between 2014 and 2019 with a burial space extending from its base. …”
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BUSClean: Open-source software for breast ultrasound image pre-processing and knowledge extraction for medical AI. by Arianna Bunnell, Kailee Hung, John A Shepherd, Peter Sadowski

“…Development of artificial intelligence (AI) for medical imaging demands curation and cleaning of large-scale clinical datasets comprising hundreds of thousands of images. Some modalities, such as mammography, contain highly standardized imaging. …”
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Simulation-Based Neonatal Resuscitation Education for Undergraduate Anesthesia Students: A Pre- and Post-Evaluation of Knowledge and Clinical Skills by Debas Yaregal Melesse, Henos Enyew Ashagrie

“…Background. Nearly one in five hundred babies unexpectedly need resuscitation at birth, and the need for resuscitation is often unpredictable. …”
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Accurate assembly of full-length consensus for viral quasispecies by Jia Tian, Ziyu Gao, Minghao Li, Ergude Bao, Jin Zhao

“…Virus genomes are typically small, often composed of only a few thousand to several hundred thousand nucleotides. While constructing a high-quality consensus of virus strains might seem feasible, most current assemblers only generated fragmented contigs. …”
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