Physicochemical Characterization of Mining Waste from the Betare-Oya Gold Area (East Cameroon) and an Adsorption Test by Sabga Smectite (North-West Cameroon) by Mambou Ngueyep Luc Leroy, Mache Jacques Richard, Ayiwouo Ngounouno Mouhamed, Takougang Kingni Sifeu, Abende Sayom Reynolds Yvan, Roukaiyatou Said

“…The results of physicochemical characterization of water samples reveal that waters of this gold mining zone are slightly acidic to neutral (6.3 pH < 7.1), mineralized (18.54 EC < 43 μs.cm−1), turbid (60 SS < 237.67 NTU), and polluted by suspended solids (50.5 < SS < 666.6 mg L−1).The determination of heavy metals in water samples shows that manganese, iron, arsenic, and lead concentrations are above the World Health Organization (WHO) limits. …”
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Self-esteem and social media addiction level in adolescents: The mediating role of body image by Mehmet Colak, Ozlem Sireli Bingol, Ali Dayi

“…Aim: This study aimed to examine the relationship between self-esteem and social media addiction levels in adolescents and the mediating role of body image in the relationship between these two variables. Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 204 adolescents, 67 (32.8%) girls and 137 (67.2%) boys, with a mean age of 15.90 ± 1.20 years, who were high school students. …”
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A literary-historical analysis of Daniel 2: two powers in opposition by M. Nel

“…In Daniel 2 the Babylonian king, shortly after being enthroned, dreams about his political insecurity. …”
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Patients’ Experience of Anxiety and Pain during Retrobulbar Injections prior to Vitrectomy by Michael Mimouni, Hamza Abualhasan, Kamal Mtanes, Fares Mazzawi, Yoreh Barak

“…This prospective observational, noninterventional study included consecutive patients who received a retrobulbar block by a single surgeon prior to undergoing 25G PPV at the Department of Ophthalmology, Rambam Health Care Campus, between April 2016 and August 2017. …”
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Mitral Valve Repair in Pediatric Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Mitral Insufficiency: Single-Center Experience and Results by Mustafa Yılmaz, Başak Soran Türkcan, Ata Niyazi Ecevit, İbrahim Ece, Hazım Alper Gürsu, Atakan Atalay

“…Methods: Pediatric patients with DCM and mitral insufficiency who underwent mitral repair procedures between 2019 and 2023 were retrospectively investigated. …”
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Association between the Angle of the Left Subclavian Artery and Procedural Time for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome by Masatsugu Miyagawa, Daisuke Fukamachi, Katsunori Fukumoto, Masaki Monden, Kurara Takahashi, Shohei Migita, Saki Mizobuchi, Yudai Tanaka, Akihito Ogaku, Yutaka Koyama, Hidesato Fujito, Riku Arai, Norio Takei, Keisuke Kojima, Korehito Iida, Nobuhiro Murata, Yasuo Okumura

“…Of 245 ACS patients (from November 2019 and May 2021), 79 who underwent PCI via a left radial approach (LRA) were included. …”
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Analgesic Effect of Passive Range-of-Motion Exercise on the Healthy Side for Pain after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Prospective Randomized Trial by Shuichi Eto, Motoki Sonohata, Yasuo Takei, Masaya Ueno, Norio Fukumori, Masaaki Mawatari

“…We enrolled 40 patients aged ≥60 years who were scheduled to undergo unilateral TKA. …”
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Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on Dental Match residency applicant statistics in the United States of America: a cross sectional analysis by Vinayak M. Joshi, Eswar Kandaswamy, Sivaraman Prakasam, Veerasathpurush Allareddy, Andrew G. Chapple

“…Abstract Background The purpose of this paper is to do a cross-sectional analysis to evaluate the impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic on Dental Match Residency statistics from the year 2019–2023. …”
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Prevalence and economic costs of diarrheal illness among adult slum dwellers in Khulna City, Bangladesh by Faijan Bin Halim, Mohammed Ziaul Haider

“…Results: The highest prevalence of diarrheal illness was at the age group 30-39 (31%), among illiterate (46%) and married (92%) slum dwellers who were living in small families with ≤ 4 household size (66%), and with a household income level ≤ 5,000 BDT per year. …”
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Large-scale prospective serum metabolomic profiling reveals candidate predictive biomarkers for suspected preeclampsia patients by Yan Cao, Lanlan Meng, Yifei Wang, Shenglong Zhao, Yuanyuan Zheng, Rui Ran, Jie Du, Hongqiang Wu, Jiaqi Han, Zhengwen Xu, Yifan Lu, Lin Liu, Lu Chen, Jing Wang, Youran Li, Yanhong Zhai, Zhi Sun, Zheng Cao

“…In order to explore the global changes of serum metabolites in PE patients and identify potential predictive biomarkers for suspected PE patients (pregnant women who had already shown PE-related symptoms in the middle to late stages of pregnancy, but were not yet confirmatively diagnosed as PE.), a large-scale serum metabolomic analysis was conducted in this study with a prospective cohort of 328 suspected PE patients in the middle or late pregnancy stages, as well as a retrospective cohort of 30 healthy pregnant women and 30 PE patients. …”
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Parental stress and dedication to the education of their children among parents from eastern Peru by Jhomira Tucto-Claudio, Uriaz Navarro, Jessica Aranda-Turpo, Julio Cjuno

“…Results: Where it was found that there is no relationship between parental stress and dedication to the virtual education of children (rho = -0.096; p = 0.071). However, a highly significant relationship was found between the dimensions of parental rewards (rho = 0.384; p=0.000) and stress factors (rho = -0.270; p = 0.000) with the variable dedication to virtual education with moderate effect size and small respectively. …”
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A Profile and Three-Year Follow-Up of Patients with Basal Cell Carcinoma in the Western Cape, South Africa by J. C. Gallo, J. W. Schneider, J. de Wet, K. Moxley, H. F. Jordaan, W. I. Visser, B. Tod

“…This retrospective descriptive study reviewed the medical records of 149 patients with BCC who attended the dermatology clinic at Tygerberg Academic Hospital from September 2015 to August 2016. …”
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AdaMoR-DDMOEA: Adaptive Model Selection with a Reliable Individual-Based Model Management Framework for Offline Data-Driven Multi-Objective Optimization by Subhadip Pramanik, Abdalla Alameen, Hitesh Mohapatra, Debanjan Pathak, Adrijit Goswami

“…In such scenarios, due to the expensive cost and time required, we are only left with a small amount of labeled data to perform the optimization. …”
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Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Cesarean Delivery: A Survey of Anesthesiologists by Emily S. Reiff, Ashraf S. Habib, Brendan Carvalho, Karthik Raghunathan

“…For intrapartum cesarean deliveries, 141 (11.5%) administer azithromycin for unscheduled cesarean deliveries. Those who use cefazolin, 509 (42.5%) administer 3 g for morbidly obese women. …”
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The association between resilience and fatigue among mariners during ocean voyages: a chain mediating effect of coping style and psychological stress by Zhanying Sun, Nan Tang, Xueyang Gan, Jingru Chen, Qingqing Su, Jie Song, Yuan Gao

“…SPSS 26.0 was employed to perform correlation analysis, while Amos 21.0 was applied to establish structural equation model and demonstrate the mediator effects. …”
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Survival trends of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for pediatric emergency patients in regional and metropolitan areas in Japan by Noriyuki Kaku, Wakato Matsuoka, Kentaro Ide, Takaaki Totoki, Katsuki Hirai, Soichi Mizuguchi, Kanako Higashi, Kenichi Tetsuhara, Hazumu Nagata, Satoshi Nakagawa, Yasuyuki Kakihana, Akira Shiose, Shouichi Ohga

“…The clinical outcomes of patients of ≤15 years of age who received ECMO during 2010–2019 were investigated, targeting the survival and performance at discharge from intensive care units (ICUs), using medical charts. …”
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Records Utilization and Service Delivery in The Central Registry at Kabale District Local Government. by Namanya, Ovet

“…The researcher selected a sample of 3 7 respondents who represented the whole study Population using Purposive sampling. 4 staff members working in different departments, 2 records officers, and 31 clients will be selected from Kabale District Local Government Headquarters. …”
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Effect of Covid-19 on the Performance of Selected Hotels in Mbarara City. by Mukama, Gad

“…Hence the stakeholders especially hotel owners should be able to create different action plans for each scenario to be put into action after recovery.…”
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The Social-Economic Effect on the Well Being of Teenage Mothers in Rweikiniro Sub- County, Ntungamo District. by Katushabe, Ferester

“…It was found out Abstinence served all purposes for a fruitful marriage, the attitudes of adolescent mothers towards adolescent motherhood, sexual intercourse be done by old people only, children be guided on how to stay free from sexual intercourse, Children having a counselor who teaches them dangers of early pregnancy, the radio programs tuned for children listening. necessities availed to children at the right time and Tests carried out among children to reveal their sexual status were some of the attitudes of parents and society towards teenage motherhood in Rweikiniro Sub County, Ntungamo District.…”
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An Examination of Records Retention and Disposition Policy at Kabale University. by Nayakiira, Promise

“…Lack of security and privacy was also reflected by respondents who showed that the retrieved records may lack security and privacy since they are displayed for review and discussion hence affecting their privacy. …”
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