Isokinetic Dynamometry for External and Internal Rotation Shoulder Strength in Youth Athletes: A Scoping Review by Ian Leahy, Erin Florkiewicz, Mary P. Shotwell

“…Volleyball and swimming were the most studied sports, with the most common testing position being the seated 90/90 position. Variations in testing speeds and outcome measures, such as peak torque and external rotation (ER) ratios, were identified…”
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Prevalence of Cholelithiasis and Associated Factors of Gallstone Formation after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Teaching Hospital-Baghdad by Abdulrahman M. Mohammed, Abdulnaser M. Mohammed, Tuka Y. Hassan

“…Methods: This was a cross-sectional study among 128 patients with morbid obesity, who were treated with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and followed up at two weeks, one month, six months, and one year after surgery between October 2018 and July 2020, at the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Teaching Hospital in Baghdad and the Dowaly Private Hospital. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Adding Dexmedetomidine as an Adjuvant to Bupivacaine for Postoperative Pain Management in Patients Undergoing Shoulder Rotator Cuff Repair – A Randomize... by Shahryar Sane, Alireza Mahoori, Ali Tabrizi, Hamed Koohsoltani

“…Materials and Methods: This double-blind, randomized clinical trial was performed on 80 patients aged 20 to 60 with ASA I and II who were candidates for elective shoulder rotator cuff repair. …”
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The Role of Neck Ultrasonography and Nuclear Imaging in the Diagnosis of Congenital Hypothyroidism by Soundararajan Sumathy, Sengottaiyan Palanivel, Kethipalli Nagaraju, Chidambaram N. B. Harisankar, Jeyaraj Ashokraja, Jayachandran Senthilkumar, Palaniyappan Sreenivasan, Subbiah Sridhar

“…Introduction: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is the most common preventable cause of mental retardation, and the two important causes of CH are thyroid dysgenesis and dyshormonogenesis. …”
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Factors Associated with the Utilization of Traditional Health Services among People with Non-Communicable Diseases in Indonesia: Findings from a Nationwide Survey by Iwan Abdi Suandana, Putu Ayu Swandewi Astuti, Pande Putu Januraga

“…Of the 127,198 people with NCDs included in the analysis, 38.7% of people with NCDs have ever used traditional health services, with the most common type being those that involve manual therapies. Compared to the reference group, likelihood of higher utilization of the traditional health service was among those aged 45-54 years (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.19; p <0.001), from highest socioeconomic (AOR = 1.13, p <0.001), employed (AOR> 1, p <0.05), married/divorced (AOR> 1, p <0.001), has two type of NCDs (AOR 1.06, p 0.023), knows the existence of the nearest doctor/clinic (AOR 1.36, p <0.001) and hospital (AOR = 1.13, p 0.002) and has very easy access to health facility (AOR 1.34, p <0.001). …”
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Comprehensive dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents in a juvenile correctional treatment center: a pilot evaluation by Johanna B. Folk, Phillip Yang, Anne Thomas, Jayme Lyon, Jaisal Patel, Clara Yoon, Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy

“…Youth received comprehensive dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents (DBT-A), including individual therapy, skills training groups, family therapy, multi-family skills training groups, and skills coaching in the milieu by direct care staff who participated in extensive training and ongoing consultation team meetings. …”
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ONLINE vs. FACE-TO-FACE group coaching to promote teachers mental health: an exploratory field study in German teachers by Sarah S. Lütke Lanfer, Ruth Pfeifer, Yannik Rieder, Alexander Wünsch, Alexander Wünsch, Matthias Braeunig, Claas Lahmann

“…The current study aimed at comparing the satisfaction with and effectiveness of TGP between both settings.MethodThe sample consisted of 104 teachers who voluntarily chose between face-to-face (n = 51) and online (n = 53) setting. …”
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Content Analysis of Food and Beverage Advertisements on TV, Radio, and Billboards in Iran by Maryam Amini PhD, Delaram Ghodsi PhD, Mehrnoosh Shafaatdoost MSc, Mohadese Borazjani MSc, Maryam Aghayan MSc, Nastaran Shariatzadeh BSc

“…All programs broadcast on two TV and radio channels were downloaded and saved 24 h daily for one week (November 10-16th, 2020). …”
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Development of a patient reported outcome instrument for chronic sialadenitis by Fatemeh Ramazani, Amr Hamour, Caroline C. Jeffery, Vincent Biron, Yaser Alrajhi, Daniel O’Connell, David W. J. Côté

“…Objective The objective of this study was to create a PRO instrument for chronic sialadenitis, to assess the efficacy of sialendoscopy assisted treatments in improve patients’ QoL. …”
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INTERPASSIVITY AS A SUBJECTIVE EFFECT OF MODERN MEDIA-CULTURE: TO THE STATEMENT OF PROBLEM by Olena V. Khodus

“…Proposed research optics suggests that the person remains - the world-making being, who actively constructs their personal reality, however, when this reality is mediated by media representations, life world turns into a ready code, respectively, the active construction becomes superfluous. …”
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A Supervised Explainable Machine Learning Model for Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorder in Liver-Transplantation Patients and External Validation on the Medical Information Mart... by Zhendong Ding, Linan Zhang, Yihan Zhang, Jing Yang, Yuheng Luo, Mian Ge, Weifeng Yao, Ziqing Hei, Chaojin Chen

“…MethodsIn this retrospective study, data from 958 patients who underwent LT between January 2015 and January 2020 were extracted from the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. …”
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Serum resistin increases in gestational diabetes but does not differ among various trimesters by Tahmina Ferdousi, Tania Tofail, Sharmin Jahan, Kishore K. Shil, Hafsa Mahrukh, Muhammad A. Hasanat

“…This was also observed for all the trimesters [1st p < 0.001; 2nd p < 0.001; and 3rd p < 0.001 respectively] between the two groups. However, resistin showed no significant difference (p = NS for all) within each group among the three trimesters. …”
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Smart Sport Watch Usage: The Dominant Role of Technology Readiness over Exercise Motivation and Sensation Seeking by Gershon Tenenbaum, Tomer Ben-Zion, Yair Amichai-Hamburger, Yair Galily, Assaf Lev

“…Multiple followed by univariate analyses of variance (MANOVA, ANOVA) were performed for each of the study’s psychological dimensions and single variables. The two categorical factors (e.g., BS factors) were the use of SSW (yes/no) and walk/run (yes/no). …”
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Towards personalized immersive virtual reality neurorehabilitation: a human-centered design by Salvatore Luca Cucinella, Joost C. F. de Winter, Erik Grauwmeijer, Marc Evers, Laura Marchal-Crespo

“…Abstract Background Head-mounted displays can be used to offer personalized immersive virtual reality (IVR) training for patients who have suffered an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) by tailoring the complexity of visual and auditory stimuli to the patient’s cognitive capabilities. …”
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‘Bottom-up securitization’: A visual turn in security studies by M. A. Kucherov, M. V. Kharkevich

“…To this end, the authors refer to a resonant case of a Syrian migrant boy Aylan Kurdi, who died in 2015 while trying to immigrate to Europe. …”
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Effect of multiple counselling contacts along the continuum of care on use of postpartum family planning in a cohort of Ethiopian women: a dose-response analysis by Saifuddin Ahmed, Anne Pfitzer, Firew Ayalew, Gebi Husein Jima, Deborah Sitrin

“…The cumulative probability of PPFP uptake was higher for women who received FP information during at least one MNCH contact, regardless of place of delivery. …”
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Authoritarianism vs Democracy as a Key Contradiction in Approaching the Study of Political Leadership by Ilya E. Strelets

“…‘Democratic transit’ through ‘color revolutions’ in the context of intensive information exchange intensifies the multidirectional trends of globalization and glocalization, introducing into the sphere of public policy leaders with dubious subjectivity who do not justify the hopes of either foreign beneficiaries, or local elites, or the population. …”
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The Effect of Child Abuse on University Student’s Psychological Status: A Retrospective study by Pary M. Azize, Farida A. Kadir, Lavin Luqman Othman

“…And have the ones who have experienced abuse suffered from a degree of depression at the time of the abuse. …”
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Analysis of the Relationship Between Body Mass Index (BMI) and Dento-Skeletal Maturation: A Cross-Sectional Case-Control Study by Alessio Verdecchia, Inmaculada Coronado de la Torre, Ivan Menéndez Diaz, Veronica García Sanz, Yolanda García Mesa, Teresa Cobo, Vanessa Paredes Gallardo

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> The aim of this cross-sectional study was to establish if there is a relationship between body mass index (BMI) and skeletodental development in young obese patients in comparison with normal-weight patients. …”
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Effects of Apolipoprotein E Isoforms in Diabetic Nephropathy of Chinese Type 2 Diabetic Patients by YongWei Jiang, Liang Ma, ChengWu Han, Qian Liu, Xiao Cong, YaPing Xu, TingTing Zhao, Ping Li, YongTong Cao

“…There were differences (P<0.001) in HbA1c, creatinine, and urinary albumin between the two groups. …”
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