Investigating the effectiveness of ailurophobia treatment using virtual reality technique compared to metacognitive therapy: a randomized clinical trial by Alireza Ebrahimi, Farzad Akbarzadeh, Negar Asgharipour, Razie Salehabadi, Malihe Arjamandi

“…On the other hand, due to the fact that the two approaches of metacognitive treatment and behavioral therapy methods such as virtual reality are considered common treatment methods in anxiety disorders; It seems that it is necessary to examine the two approaches based on the effectiveness, durability and cost-benefit issue to present and introduce to therapists. …”
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Epidemiology and Treatment Patterns of Fistulizing Crohn’s Disease in a Large, Real-World Australasian Cohort by Jack McNamara, William Wilson, Joseph L. Pipicella, Simon Ghaly, Jakob Begun, Ian C. Lawrance, Richard Gearry, Jane M. Andrews, Susan J. Connor

“…Patients with current or previous fCD were younger compared to those without (P = .003 &amp; P < .001). Males were more commonly affected (P = .021). Current or prior fCD were more likely to be on biologic therapy (P < .001), with anti-tumor necrosis factor agents most frequently utilized. …”
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Quality improvement exercises in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) services: A scoping review. by Katie Ridsdale, Kajal Khurana, Azizat Temidayo Taslim, Jessica K Robinson, Faith Solanke, Wei Shao Tung, Elena Sheldon, Daniel Hind, Alan J Lobo

“…Many focused on vaccination, medication, screening, or meeting multiple quality measures. Common interventions included provider education, the development of new service protocols, or enhancements to the electronic medical records. …”
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Disulfidptosis-related gene SLC3A2: a novel prognostic biomarker in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Xinyi Zhang, Yiqi Lin, Liang Shi, Aixia Zhai, Chao Wu, Qian-Ying Zhu

“…IntroductionNasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), one of the most common malignancies of the head and neck, is characterised by a complex pathogenesis and an unfavourable prognosis. …”
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Implications of parental lifestyle changes and education level on adolescent offspring weight: a population based cohort study - The HUNT Study, Norway by Erik R Sund, Kirsti Kvaløy, Turid Lingaas Holmen, Marit Naess

“…Objective Obesity tends to cluster in families reflecting both common genetics and shared lifestyle patterns within the family environment. …”
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The Paradox of Religiosity–Secularism in Formal Religious Education by Meryem Karataş

“…Fiqh, from the perspective of Islamic theology, contains normative principles that govern personal and social practices. …”
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Attention Deficits in Stroke Patients: The Role of Lesion Characteristics, Time from Stroke, and Concomitant Neuropsychological Deficits by Simona Spaccavento, Chiara Valeria Marinelli, Roberto Nardulli, Luigi Macchitella, Umberto Bivona, Laura Piccardi, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Paola Angelelli

“…Attention deficits are common after a unilateral first stroke. In keeping with the hierarchical organization of attention functions, results confirm the important role of the right hemisphere for the intensive components of attention, also highlighting the involvement of left hemisphere functioning for the selective aspects, possibly indicating a role of its linguistic functions.…”
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Ketamine Use in Hysterosalpingography (the Jimah Procedure): A Follow-Up of Bilateral Tubal Evaluation of 27 Infertile  Women  at a Teaching Hospital, Ghana by Bashiru Babatunde Jimah, Anthony Baffour Appiah, Benjamin Dabo Sarkodie, Dorothea Anim

“…Pain, anxiety, and distress are common in radiological investigations including hysterosalpingogram (HSG). …”
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Development and Validation of an RP-HPLC Method for the Quantitative Analysis of Triclosan in Human Urine by Prince Karikari, James Oppong-Kyekyeku, Edmund Ekuadzi, Samuel Oppong Bekoe, Rita Opoku, Daniel Nimako Amprako, Emmanuel Addo-Yobo, Sandra Kwarteng Owusu, Bernard Arhin, Adegoke G. Falade, Ganiyu Arinola, Adeleye S. Bakarey, John I. Anetor, Kevin J. Mortimer

“…Triclosan (TCS), a synthesized chlorinated phenolic compound, is commonly utilized in consumable products as an antimicrobial agent. …”
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Prevalence, Spectrum, and Outcomes of Single Coronary Artery Detected on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA) by Rashid Al Umairi, Maryam Al-khouri

“…To examine the prevalence, anatomical distribution, and outcome of the single coronary artery anomaly detected on coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) in a single center in Oman. Methods. Retrospectively, we reviewed 4,445 patients who underwent coronary computed tomography angiography between September 2012 and August 2018 at the National Heart Center, Muscat, Oman. …”
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SymbolNet: neural symbolic regression with adaptive dynamic pruning for compression by Ho Fung Tsoi, Vladimir Loncar, Sridhara Dasu, Philip Harris

“…Unlike most existing SR methods that struggle with datasets containing more than $\mathcal{O}(10)$ inputs, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our model on the LHC jet tagging task (16 inputs), MNIST (784 inputs), and SVHN (3072 inputs).…”
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Investigations on Free Span Rectification for a Submarine Pipeline on Sand Wave Seabeds by Xing Zou, Botao Xie, Xuechun Bai, Yuanyuan Guo, Qingqing Yuan, Zhipeng Zang

“…Sand waves are large-scale bed forms commonly occurring on the continental shelf seabed and can result in free spans of submarine pipelines, which may have an influence on the stability of the pipelines. …”
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Camptocormia in Parkinson's Disease by Kazuo Abe, Yutaka Uchida, Masaru Notani

“…Our findings indicate that camptocormia is a relatively common sign in PD and that patients with camptocormia scores on the PDQ-8 compared with PD patients without camptocormia. …”
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Fatigue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: protocol of the Dutch multicentre, longitudinal, observational FAntasTIGUE study by Mirjam A G Sprangers, Martijn A Spruit, Emiel F M Wouters, Daisy J A Janssen, Jean W M Muris, Judith B Prins, Yvonne M J Goërtz, Milou Looijmans, Melissa S Y Thong, Jeannette B Peters, Chris Burtin, Yvonne Meertens-Kerris, Arnold Coors, Jan H Vercoulen

“…Introduction Fatigue is the second most common symptom in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …”
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A Simplified Analysis Model for Predicting the Crack Width and Deflection of Reinforced UHPC Shallow T-Shaped Beams Under Four-Point Bending by Zhe Zhang, Yichuan Wang, Binchen Yuan, Ping Zhu

“…To obtain closed-form solutions, the proposed simplified analysis model directly incorporates the bond properties from bond tests, thereby eliminating the reliance on constant bond stress simplification and the subsequent necessity for member calibration, which is commonly required in existing design codes for UHPC-based structures. …”
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Development of a Simple and Powerful Analytical Method for Formaldehyde Detection and Quantitation in Blood Samples by Yong-Hyun Kim, Jeongsik Park

“…The pretreated samples were analyzed using a high-performance liquid chromatography-UV system, which is the most common choice for analyzing small-molecule aldehydes like formaldehyde. …”
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Operational Strategy for Low-Carbon Supply Chain under Asymmetric Information of Fairness Concerns by Guangxing Wei, Xu Zhang, Xinghong Qin, Binta Bary

“…Carbon emission reduction has become a common hot topic around the world. Although the previous literature has proven that the asymmetric information and fairness concerns would influence the operational strategy for low-carbon supply chain, it hardly touched the asymmetric information of fairness concerns, which contradicted practical observations and experimental evidence. …”
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Errors in Latin Inscriptions on Renaissance Works of Fine Art by Lazer-Pankiv Olesia, Korolova Nataliia

“…The analysis of the Latin inscriptions on paintings, frescoes and engravings of the Renaissance period shows that the most common errors are phonetic and orthographic. This reflects the peculiarities of the pronunciation of Latin letters and letter combinations in this period: use of digraphs (ae, ое), alternation of letters е-а, oe, o-u, а-о, replacement of y with i, simplification in writing doubled consonants, interchange of ti and ci, parallel use of letters k and c, substitution of Greek aspirates with single-grapheme counterparts etc. …”
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Doxycycline-integrated silk fibroin hydrogel: preparation, characterizations, and antimicrobial assessment for biomedical applications by Kranti Kiran Reddy Ealla, Chandra Sri Durga, Vikas Sahu, Neema Kumari, Jayachandran Venkatesan, Vishnu Priya Veeraraghavan, Pratibha Ramani, Kiran Kumar Bokara, Karthikeyan Ramalingam

“…Abstract Background Tooth extraction, a common dental procedure, is often accompanied by pain, trismus, and swelling due to alveolitis caused by oral bacteria. …”
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Outcomes of a Clinical Pathway for Pleural Disease Management: “Pleural Pathway” by Srinivas R. Mummadi, Peter Y. Hahn

“…Pleural diseases are common and accounted for 3.4 billion US $ in 2014 US inpatient aggregate charges (HCUPnet data). …”
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