The Correlations of Disease Activity, Socioeconomic Status, Quality of Life, and Depression/Anxiety in Chinese Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Biyu Shen, Wei Tan, Guijuan Feng, Yan He, Jinwei Liu, Weijun Chen, Xiaoqin Huang, Zhanyun Da, Xujuan Xu, Hong Liu, Zhifeng Gu

“…Therefore, it is necessary to have psychiatric and psychological evaluations and formulate an integrated approach for managing mental health in Chinese lupus patients, especially those who have high disease activity, low SES, and poor quality of life.…”
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FTIR Analysis of Pesticide Active Ingredients into Seasonal Vegetables: Ensuring Food Safety and Raising Awareness by Md. Mejbah Uddin Mithu, Sadia Akter Shormela

“…However, improper use and unsafe handling practices can lead to the bio-accumulation of pesticide active ingredients in vegetables, causing high farmer exposure and adverse health effects. …”
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Successful desensitization of donor-specific antibodies in a single cord blood transplant recipient by Mégane Tanguay, Sandra Cohen, Isabelle Ménard, Marie-Christine Meunier, Jean-Sébastien Delisle, Jean Roy, Olivier Veilleux, Imran Ahmad

“…Existing literature on HLA desensitization has primarily focused on haploidentical transplants, and there is a lack of experience regarding the optimal strategy in UCB transplantation.Methods: We report our successful desensitization strategy in a 42-year-old woman with acute lymphoblastic leukemia receiving a single UCB unit. …”
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A Retrospective Study on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Adolescent Pregnancies at a Referral Hospital in Bengaluru by Ramegowda Chethana, Divyarajan Vinitha Kiruffi, K. S. Seema, Anwith Huluvadi Shivalingaiah

“…Participants who could not be contacted were excluded from the study. …”
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Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis as an unusual type of renal involvement in sarcoidosis: a case report by K. Graňák, M. Vnučák, P. Kleinová, T. Blichová, A. Kollár, I. Dedinská

“…Further, glomerular involvement is observed sporadically, mainly membranous glomerulopathy or focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Case presentation We describe the clinical case of a 49-year-old patient of Caucasian ethnicity with a history of sarcoidosis of the lungs and intrathoracic lymph nodes who was hospitalized for acute kidney injury, hypercalcemia, hypoxemic respiratory insufficiency, general weakness, weight loss, and fever. …”
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Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Presenting with Predominant Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction: Efficacy of Bromocriptine by Piercarlo Ballo, Irene Betti, Giuseppe Mangialavori, Leandro Chiodi, Gherardo Rapisardi, Alfredo Zuppiroli

“…Tissue Doppler (TD) is an echocardiographic technique that provides unique information on LV diastolic performance. We report the case of a 37-year-old white woman with heart failure (NYHA class II), moderate LV systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction 35%), and severe LV diastolic dysfunction secondary to PPCM, who showed no improvement after 2 weeks of treatment with ramipril, bisoprolol, and furosemide. …”
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Device-independent uncloneable encryption by Srijita Kundu, Ernest Y.-Z. Tan

“…In this work, we introduce a variant of uncloneable encryption in which several possible decryption keys can decrypt a particular encryption, and the security requirement is that two parties who receive independently generated decryption keys cannot both learn the underlying ciphertext. …”
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Stroke survivors’ health literacy is not associated with caregiver burden: a cross-sectional study by Andrea Hess Engström, Sebastian Lindblom, Maria Flink, Susanna Söderberg, Lena von Koch, Charlotte Ytterberg

“…Participants were 50 caregivers and 50 stroke survivors who were followed up in a longitudinal study on care transitions after stroke. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variations and Contributing Factors of Air Pollutants in Almaty, Kazakhstan by Aiymgul Kerimray, Eldar Azbanbayev, Bulat Kenessov, Pavel Plotitsyn, Danara Alimbayeva, Ferhat Karaca

“…Abstract In this study, spatial and temporal patterns of PM10, PM2.5, NO2, SO2, and CO in Almaty, the largest city of Kazakhstan, in the period between 2013 and 2018 are explored. …”
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Integrating socio-economic support into drug-resistant TB care to optimise treatment outcomes by J. Limo, C. Pahe, I. Kathure, L. Ndungu, A. Mahihu, C. Mwashumbe, E. Mueni, H. Momanyi

“…The study was conducted in Kenya’s two highest DR-TB burden counties between October and November 2023. …”
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Formation of the sound-syllabic structure of primary school pupils’ speech with intellectual disabilities in Ukrainian language lessons by V. Mykhailenko

“…The process of forming phonemic awareness is so important in the early stages of speech development that its disruption affects the further acquisition of syllable structure. …”
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Probing the Impacts of MBKM Programs on Students’ Soft and Hard Skills by Endah Anisa Rahma, Giovanni Oktavinanda, Zou Deping, Veni Nella Syahputri

“…The subjects of this study were Teuku Umar University students who had taken the MBKM program. The data were analyzed descriptively by using the percentage of each aspect of soft skills and hard skills. …”
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Cross-border Education: Students Exchange Programme Participants’ Perspective on ERASMUS by S. Yu. Pavlina

“…Internationalization in higher education is manifold, student academic mobility being one of its manifestations. It is often associated with ERASMUS, the programme that has been implemented in European higher education for almost 30 years. …”
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Nephrogenic Adenoma of the Urinary Bladder after Kidney Transplantation: Long-Term Follow-Up by Iftikhar Khan, Mahmoud Obeid, Nasreen Hasan, Fayyad Jaradat, Bodhisatwa Sengupta, Mahmoud Tabbal, Abdullah Alsaif, Mansour Tawfeeq, Mohammad Al Qahtani

“…The long-term outcome and potential to convert into malignancy are not established, and therefore, there are no recommendations on how to follow up these patients. We present a case of a patient who was found to have nephrogenic adenoma of the urinary bladder during his second kidney transplantation from a cadaveric donor. …”
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Effect of the Holiday Season on Weight Gain: A Narrative Review by Rolando G. Díaz-Zavala, María F. Castro-Cantú, Mauro E. Valencia, Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández, Michelle M. Haby, Julián Esparza-Romero

“…Among individuals with obesity who attempt to lose weight, an increase in weight was observed (0.3 to 0.9 kg, significant in some but not in all studies), as well as increase in weight in motivated self-monitoring people (0.4 to 0.6%, p<0.001). …”
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Association between frailty and hospital-related adverse events in older hospitalised patients: a systematic literature review protocol by Jay Banerjee, Brad Manktelow, Abdullah Alshibani, Faris Alotaibi

“…The majority of the available research puts a limited emphasis on those who live with frailty and examines the relationship between age alone and the occurrence of AEs. …”
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Associations between Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Treatment and Patient Nutritional Status and Height by Mariana F. Granato, Alexandre A. Ferraro, Denise M. Lellis, Erasmo B. Casella

“…Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been found to co-occur frequently with obesity, although the reasons for this association are unknown. …”
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El Tractado de caso y fortuna de Lope de Barrientos. El arte de gobernar bajo el signo de la suerte inescrutable by Mianda Cioba

“…Through these texts, the Fortune of humanists is identified, on the one hand, with a poetic category describing the dramatic condition of the individual who seeks to understand the mysterious character of human acts and their consequences, and on the other, with a political concept about a new way of approaching the experience of governance understood as a difficult negotiation between the manifestation of casualty and the rational intervention in the development of historical facts.…”
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A Case of Haematometra Secondary to Cervical Stenosis after Vesicle Vaginal Fistula Surgical Repair by Athanase Lilungulu, Willy Mwibea, Mzee Nassoro, Balthazar Gumodoka

“…However, any other cause that involved vaginal canal can be a predisposing factor of haematometra. We present a case of a 32-year-old female patient, who had obstetric fistula which was successfully repaired over the past two years. …”
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Le bien culturel de Tombouctou, une patrimonialisation discutée ? Conditions locales de réception de la notion de patrimoine de type UNESCO by Traoré Hadizatou

“…The initial hypothesis being the existence of divergences in opposing representations of the so-called patrimonial property in the current context of growing controversy over the issue of religion and of an intense international involvement, we must therefore provide additional information about the mosques and mausoleums and an understanding of the role and the legitimate place of these sites in Timbuktu.…”
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