Vision-Threatening Behcet’s Disease: Severity of Ocular Involvement Predictors by Mohammed A. Hussein, Iman M. Eissa, Ahmed A. Dahab

“…Certain findings in Behcet’s disease may act as predictors for the severity of ocular affection. …”
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Making outsourcing decisions based on activity costing and their role in achieving sustainable value by Amal Abdulhussain Kuhait, Haifa Kazem Ibrahim, Razzaq Mikhwir Dawood

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Can We Trust the Literature on Risk Factors and Triggers for Low Back Pain? A Systematic Review of a Sample of Contemporary Literature by Emad M. Ardakani, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Bruce F. Walker

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Low Cost Skin Segmentation Scheme in Videos Using Two Alternative Methods for Dynamic Hand Gesture Detection Method by Eman Thabet, Fatimah Khalid, Puteri Suhaiza Sulaiman, Razali Yaakob

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Predictors of anemia among infants at the age of one year attending health centers in the West Bank/Palestine: a retrospective study by Malakeh Z. Malak, Anas Shehadeh, Ahmad Ayed, Eman Alshawish

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Molluscicidal Activity of Some Solanum Species Extracts against the Snail Biomphalaria alexandrina by Gehad T. El-Sherbini, Rawia A. Zayed, Eman T. El-Sherbini

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On the Alpha Power Transformed Power Lindley Distribution by Amal S. Hassan, M. Elgarhy, Rokaya E. Mohamd, Sharifah Alrajhi

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Effect of Task Specific Exercises, Gait Training, and Visual Biofeedback on Equinovarus Gait among Individuals with Stroke: Randomized Controlled Study by Mohamed Elsayed Khallaf, Ahmed Maher Gabr, Eman Elsayed Fayed

“…All the patients were at stage 4 of motor recovery of foot according to Chedoke-McMaster Stroke Assessment without any cognitive dysfunction. …”
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Trajectories of self-rated health in an older general population and their determinants: the Lifelines Cohort Study by Barbara C van Munster, Nynke Smidt, Sophia E de Rooij, Marlies Feenstra, Janet L MacNeil Vroomen

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Factors Associated with Poor Asthma Control in Children Aged Five to 13 years by SL Mcghan, C MacDonald, DE James, P Naidu, E Wong, H Sharpe, PA Hessel, AD Befus

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Elimination Kinetics of Ethanol in a 5-Week-Old Infant and a Literature Review of Infant Ethanol Pharmacokinetics by Jonathan B. Ford, Mac T. Wayment, Timothy E. Albertson, Kelly P. Owen, Joshua B. Radke, Mark E. Sutter

“…After reviewing these reports, there appears to be variability in the elimination rates of ethanol in infants. Very young infants may not eliminate ethanol as quickly as previously described. …”
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Intrafamilial Genotyping of Helicobacter pylori from Faecal DNA by M. McMillan, W. G. MacKay, C. L. Williams, A. J. Shepherd, C. Malcolm, L. T. Weaver

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Supplementation of dairy cows with bovine somatotropin or omega-3 rich fish oil affects the endometrial expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors by Leslie A. MacLaren, Todd R. Bilby, Frank Michel, Aydin Guzeloglu, Charles R. Staples, William W. Thatcher

“…Treatment with bST is associated with increased PPARδ mRNA abundance in pregnant but not cyclic cows, suggesting that the effect may be mediated by the embryo. Increased abundances of PPARα mRNA are observed in response to bST during pregnancy in lactating cows but not in non-lactating cows, highlighting the importance of lactation status in determining bST response. …”
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Humanising nanotoxicology: replacement of animal-derived products in the application of integrated approaches to testing and assessment of nanomaterial inhalation hazard by Roma Fraser, Keira Campbell, Pawel Pokorski, Eve MacKinnon, Katie McAllister, Karla B. Neves, Fiona Murphy

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Functional outcomes in early (T1/T2) supraglottic cancer: a systematic review by Benjamin van der Woerd, Krupal B. Patel, Anthony C. Nichols, Kevin Fung, John Yoo, S. Danielle MacNeil

“…However, evidence suggests that OPS with a neck dissection may be associated with improved survival. Our objective was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to compare functional outcomes of OPS and RT for early SGC. …”
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Blastomycosis Presenting as Multiple Splenic Abscesses: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Sami Al-Nassar, Tracy MacNair, Jeremy Lipschitz, Howard Greenberg, Elly Trepman, Sate Hamza, John M Embil

“…A 31-year-old Canadian Aboriginal man from northwestern Ontario presented with left upper quadrant pain and a tender left upper quadrant mass. …”
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Effects of manual osteopathic interventions on psychometric and psychophysiological indicators of anxiety, depression and stress in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of... by Darren J Edwards, Jerry Draper-Rodi, Danny Miller, Josh Hope-Bell, Andrew MacMillan, Tom C Gordon

“…However, wide prediction intervals and moderate heterogeneity indicate uncertainty in true effect sizes, and limited studies and sample sizes restrict assessment of publication bias.Conclusions Osteopathic and related manual therapies may reduce depression and influence certain psychophysiological markers, particularly in pain populations, but uncertainty and heterogeneity limit confidence. …”
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Laboratory Diagnosis for Giardia Lamblia Infection: A Comparison of Microscopy, Coprodiagnosis and Serology by Marcel A Behr, Evelyne Kokoskin, Theresa W Gyorkos, Lyne Cédilotte, Gaetan M Faubert, J Dick MacLean

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"By God, I’ve lost my leg!" : la découverte de restes humains aux abords de l’ambulance des Alliés à Waterloo et le projet Waterloo Uncovered by Caroline Laforest, Gaille MacKinnon, Dominique Bosquet, Quentin Goffette, Mark Evans, Stuart Eve, Tony Pollard, Véronique Moulaert

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Lower Extremity Kinematics of the Y-Balance Test in Healthy and ACL Injured Adolescent Females by Alison Bulow, Alixandra Bellemare, Judy E Anderson, Jeff R S Leiter, Peter B MacDonald, Jason D Peeler

“…Ankle dorsi-flexion, knee flexion, and knee valgus angles were quantified via kinematic analysis. ANOVAs with a post hoc Bonferroni correction were used to compare YBT scoring (%LL) and kinematic data between groups. …”
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