Determination of the Selected Heavy Metal Content and Its Associated Health Risks in Selected Vegetables Marketed in Bahir Dar Town, Northwest Ethiopia by Biset Asrade, Gebremariam Ketema

“…Fresh vegetables are of a great value and the most common foods in the human diet around the world. They contain minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, antimetabolites, protein, carbohydrates, and water. …”
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Immunoglobulin replacement therapy in patients with primary and secondary immunodeficiencies: impact of infusion method on immunoglobulin-specific perceptions of quality of life an... by Rajiv Mallick, Noemi Hahn, Christopher Scalchunes

“…Abstract Background Immunoglobulin replacement therapy (IgRT) is the current standard of care for primary antibody deficiency patients (majority of all primary immunodeficiency (PID) diseases), with growing real-world evidence supporting use for secondary immunodeficiency (SID) patients. …”
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Probing the Relationships Between Mandaeans (the Followers of John the Baptist), Early Christians, and Manichaeans by Brikha H. S. Nasoraia

“…Mandaean culture and the Mandaic Aramaic language was of high report in the so-called Patristic period covered by this Special Issue, even in the Arabian Peninsula up until the rise of Islam (634 CE onward), and Mandaeans were honored as a third “People of the Book”—the Sabians (<i>Ṣābeʾun; or ṣobba</i> in modern Iraqi Arabic)—in the Qur’an (2:62; 5:69; 22:17); in the Muslim world, many Mandaic speakers switched language to colloquial Iraqi Arabic and (Arabicized) Persian. …”
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Preventive and curative dental services utilization among children aged 12 years and younger in Tehran, Iran, based on the Andersen behavioral model: A generalized structural equat... by Elaheh Amirian, Samaneh Razeghi, Alireza Molaei, Ahmad R Shamshiri, Simin Z Mohebbi

“…World Health Organization invites the nations to progress towards universal health care coverage. …”
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Thomas Paine’nin Deizm Anlayışı ve Kelâm Açısından Değerlendirilmesi by Mahmut Yusuf Mahitapoğlu

“…Deizmi günümüzde temsil eden önde gelen kurumsal yapılarından biri, Dünya Deistler Birliği (The World Union of Deists)’dir. Bu çalışmanın amacı Thomas Paine’nin din, Tanrı, kutsal kitap ve ölümden sonraki yaşam hakkındaki görüşlerini esas alarak anlamaya çalışmaktır. …”
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Prevalence of Intestinal Schistosomiasis and Associated Factors among School Children in Wondo District, Ethiopia by Mustafa Geleto Ansha, Kemal Ahmed Kuti, Ephrem Girma

“…The prevalence of S. mansoni was moderate as per the World Health Organization standard, since it was in the range of 10%–50%. …”
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Radioisotope and Metal Concentrations in Borehole Water Samples of Umuahia and Umudike, Nigeria by J.C. Nnaji, O.U. Igwe, K.M. Onyedim, P. Okafor

“…Results showed that mean values for conductivity, total solids, total dissolved solids, hardness and nitrates were lower than recommended values by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON). …”
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The Effect of Coronary Artery Disease on the Prognosis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Multi-Center Cohort Study by Guoqing Hou, Qian Liao, Huihui Ma, Yan Shu, Shengzhi Zeng, Yongmei Zhou, Liangjun Luo, Gang Zhao, Tao He, Mingjiang Liu, Jianhong Tao, Wei Hua, Xiaoping Li

“…Background: There is a shortage of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with concurrent coronary artery disease (CAD), and the influence of CAD on the prognosis of patients with HCM is uncertain. This real-world cohort study was conducted to evaluate the prognosis of patients with patients with CAD. …”
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Risdiplam utilization, adherence, and associated health care costs for patients with spinal muscular atrophy: a United States retrospective claims database analysis by Anish Patel, Walter Toro, Min Yang, Wei Song, Raj Desai, Mingchen Ye, Nadia Tabatabaeepour, Omar Dabbous

“…This retrospective claims database analysis assessed real-world treatment adherence and persistence, and all-cause health care costs by adherence status, for patients with SMA receiving risdiplam. …”
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A Digital Tool for Clinical Evidence–Driven Guideline Development by Studying Properties of Trial Eligible and Ineligible Populations: Development and Usability Study by Shahzad Mumtaz, Megan McMinn, Christian Cole, Chuang Gao, Christopher Hall, Magalie Guignard-Duff, Huayi Huang, David A McAllister, Daniel R Morales, Emily Jefferson, Bruce Guthrie

“…Using the digital tool can potentially improve evidence-driven guideline development through the availability of real-world data in real time.…”
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History of Pain Research and Management in Canada by Harold Merskey

“…Such contributions reflect work done in a country that would not want to claim that its efforts are unique, but would hope to be seen as maintaining some of the best standards in the developed world.…”
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Assessing the visibility and public engagement of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation research: An altmetric analysis by Mohammad Ahmadian, Shaban Alizadeh, Azadeh Omidkhoda, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei, Brenda Van Wyk

“…This study aims to investigate and analyze research in this field using altmetrics in a world outside the academic scholarly and publishing environment. …”
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Prevalence of nonrestorative sleep before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: based on a nationwide cross-sectional survey among Japanese in 2019 and 2022 by Kimiko Tomioka, Midori Shima, Keigo Saeki

“…Background: Japanese people sleep less compared to other countries around the world. Using a large nationally representative survey in 2019 and 2022, we investigated whether sleep duration and nonrestorative sleep (NRS) among Japanese people have improved or worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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I. KANT, T. PARSONS AND POSTPOSITIVISM IN SOCIAL THEORY by Zenonas Norkus

“…These dialectics are analogous to the dialectics of thinking about the world (nature) as a whole, which was brought to light by I. …”
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Health Services Availability and Readiness for Management of Hypertension and Diabetes in Primary Care Health Facilities in Ghana: a Cardiovascular Risk Management project by Thomas Hinneh, Bernard Mensah, Hosea Boakye, Oluwabunmi Ogungbe, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah

“…Methods: We adapted the World Health Organization (WHO) Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) tool to assess hypertension and diabetes management practices between June and July 2022 in four district hospitals in Ghana. …”
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A basis water quality monitoring plan for rehabilitation and protection by M. Enriquez, R. Tanhueco

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Safeguarding water resources became a major concern in many parts of the world as it aims to provide safe and healthy water for humans. …”
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Estimating whole-body centre of mass sway during quiet standing with inertial measurement units. by Liam H Foulger, Emma R Reiter, Calvin Kuo, Mark G Carpenter, Jean-Sébastien Blouin

“…Although typically performed in laboratory settings, the growing availability of low-cost inertial measurement units (IMUs) allows the assessment of balance in the real world. However, it is unclear how many IMUs are required to adequately estimate linear displacements of the centre of mass (CoM) at stance widths associated with daily activities. …”
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A Risk Management Approach to Global Pandemics of Infectious Disease and Anti-Microbial Resistance by Annie Sparrow, Meghan Smith-Torino, Samuel M. Shamamba, Bisimwa Chirakarhula, Maranatha A. Lwaboshi, Christine Stabell Benn, Konstantin Chumakov

“…Chlorine, our primary tool of public health, conquered cholera and transformed infection control in hospitals. The World Health Organization (WHO), part of the One Health alliance, focuses mainly on antibiotics and vaccines to reduce deaths due to superbugs and largely ignores the critical role of chlorine to control water-borne diseases (including polio) and other infections. …”
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Standardized Outcomes for Randomized Controlled Trials Targeting Early Interventions in Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Protocol for the Development of a C... by Raphael Cinotti, Yvan Derouin, Amandine Chenet, Lydia Oujamaa, Bertrand Glize, Yoann Launey, Claire Dahyot-Fizelier, Emmanuelle Cartron, Melodie Renvoise, Benedicte Sautenet, Veronique Sebille

“… Background: With more than 60 million new cases around the world each year, traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes substantial mortality and morbidity. …”
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Advances in the pilot point inverse method: Où En Sommes-Nous maintenant? by White, Jeremy, Lavenue, Marsh

“…., 2000], but with a particular focus on the incredible adoption and advancement of de Marsily’s PPM and related inverse techniques over the last twenty years in the field of predictive groundwater modeling.Much has been written about the vast array of inverse techniques developed by researchers and practitioners since the 1960s. de Marsily’s PPM, like many methods developed in the late 70s and early 80s, structured its approach to parameterization to overcome many of the challenges of applying inverse methods to real world problems, namely, limited head and transmissivity data relative to the number of unknowns to be estimated, measurement errors, inferred covariance structures of the state variables, and limited computational resources. …”
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