Chronic Lung Diseases and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults: Insights from Observational Studies and Mendelian Randomization by Liu H, Yao Y, Yang Y, Wang J, Yu J, Xu X, Luo X, Zhang Y, Song X

“…Huifang Liu,1– 5,* Yisong Yao,2– 5,* Yujuan Yang,2– 5,* Jianwei Wang,2– 5 Jingyi Yu,2– 5 Xinjun Xu,2– 5 Xianghuang Luo,2– 6 Yu Zhang,2– 5 Xicheng Song2– 5 1Second Clinical Medicine College, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai, People’s Republic of China; 3Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Neuroimmune Interaction and Regulation, Yantai, People’s Republic of China; 4Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Yantai, People’s Republic of China; 5Yantai Key Laboratory of Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Yantai, People’s Republic of China; 6School of Clinical Medicine, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Xicheng Song, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai, 264000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +865356691999, Fax +865356240341, Email drxchsong@163.com Yu Zhang, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai, 264000, People’s Republic of China, Email superzhang013@163.comIntroduction: To elucidate the currently unknown relationship between chronic lung diseases (CLDs) and depressive symptoms among older adults.Methods: A total of 8079 older adults from China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS) and 1119 individuals from a Sichuan Province cohort were included in this study. …”
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Combined Predictive Value of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and CHA2DS2-VASc Score for Cardiogenic Cerebral Embolism in NVAF Patients by Hu J, Wang JJ, Wang L, Cao YH, Wu JC

“…Jie Hu,1,2,* Jing-Jing Wang,2,3,* Long Wang,1,2 Yong-Hong Cao,2,3 Jun-Cang Wu1,2 1Department of Neurology, Hefei Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University (The Second People’s Hospital of Hefei), Hefei, Anhui, 230011, People’s Republic of China; 2The Fifth Clinical Medical College of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, 230032, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Endocrinology, Hefei Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University (The Second People’s Hospital of Hefei), Hefei, Anhui, 230011, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yong-Hong Cao, Department of Endocrinology, Hefei Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University (The Second People’s Hospital of Hefei), Hefei, Anhui, 230011, People’s Republic of China, Email fish1982cao@126.com Jun-Cang Wu, Department of Neurology, Hefei Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University (The Second People’s Hospital of Hefei), Hefei, Anhui, 230011, People’s Republic of China, Email wujuncang126@126.comAim: This study aimed to determine the identification role of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) combined with CHA2DS2-VASC score for cardiogenic cerebral embolism (CCE) in acute ischemic stroke patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF).Methods: From January 2019 to August 2024, a total of 402 acute ischemic stroke patients with NVAF were enrolled in this retrospective study and were divided according to the occurrence of CCE into the CCE or non-CCE groups. …”
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Factors related to the success in women's football–a systematic review by Sihang Wang, Miao Shen, Miao Shen, Pei Li, Pei Li, Hongyou Liu, Hongyou Liu

“…This study reviews the factors influencing the football success in women's football from macro (economy, politics, culture), meso (geographical environment, football tradition, talent development, gender equality, league prosperity), and micro (technical/tactical, physical performance, situational factors) perspectives.MethodsA systematic search was carried out in the Web of Science, Scopus, and Pub Med database, the search strategy included the terms for the population (“women” OR “female”), the sport (“football” OR “soccer”), the variables (determinant', “success”, “ranking”).ResultsA total of 62 studies were included in the analysis. …”
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Characterizing headache patients admitted from the emergency department: a retrospective study by Faisal AlGhamdi, Abdulelah A. Alzahrani, Khaleel I. Alwatyan, Reem A. Hariri, Abdullah A. Alhowaish, Rahaf F. Almobarak, Mohammed Almulhim, Faisal B. Alkhadra

“…The gender distribution was equal. The majority of cases (36%) were between 31 and 45 years old. …”
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Missed opportunities for delivering nutrition interventions in first 1000 days of life in India: insights from the National Family Health Survey, 2006 and 2016 by Rasmi Avula, Purnima Menon, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Vani Sethi, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Lan Mai Tran, Alok Kumar, Dinesh Baswal, Alok Ranjan

“…We examine the opportunity gaps over time for seven nutrition interventions and their associated delivery platforms at national and state levels. We assessed equality and changes in equality between 2006 and 2016 for opportunity gaps by education, residence, socioeconomic status (SES), public and private platforms.Results Coverage of nutrition interventions was consistently lower than the reach of their associated delivery platforms; opportunity gaps ranging from 9 to 32 percentage points (pp) during the pregnancy, 17 pp during delivery and 9–26 pp during childhood in 2006. …”
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Improvement of a long random skin flap survival by application of vascular endothelial growth factor in various ways of local administration in a rat model by Spyridon A. Vourtsis, Apostolos E. Papalois, George D. Agrogiannis, Petros K. Spyriounis, Efstratios Patsouris, Mihai Ionac

“…In group A, injections of saline were administered, in equally divided spaces, into flap′s fascia and transposed to a created skin defect. …”
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The Need for the Retina’s Surface “Drying” during Macular Hole Surgery by A. Yu. Kleymenov, V. N. Kazaykin, M. B. Matevosyan, G. V. Chashchin, A. V. Pestov, I. S. Puzyrev

“…Drop diameter calculated for ciliary body secretion and vitreous remnants dehydration equals 17.98 mm. Drop diameter calculated for ciliary body secretion alone equals 2.6 mm. …”
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Assessing sustainable urban development and its factors by using biomass energy by A. Jahanbakhsh mashhadi, S. Issa-Zadeh, M. García González

“…The authors used the Analytic network process method and Super Decisions software to rank these criteria.FINDINGS: Based on the Super Decisions program, social benefits and losses have equal weight and are 1.0, the highest ranking. …”
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Life skills among school-going adolescents in South India: A gender comparison by Vaddar Thippeswamy, K Vishwesh, Arif Ali, Govindappa Lakshmana

“…The schools were selected based on the medium of instruction with equal representation of gender. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted to draw the sample, giving equal representation to domicile, gender, and medium of instruction. …”
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Responsibility for the legal costs in case of procedural complicity in civil and commercial proceedings by Julia V. Kaizer

“…The subject of the paper are basic principles for the responsibility for the legal costs in case of procedural complicity and consolidation of these principles in the procedural legislation.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that the basis of principles for imposing the responsibility for the legal costs on co-plaintiff or codefendant includes substantive criterion (the nature of the disputed material relationship) and procedural criterion (the procedural status of the co-participant).The methodological basis of the research is the dialectical method of cognition and the resulting private-scientific methods, in particular: the system-structural method and the method of comparative law.The main results and scope of their application. …”
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Comparison of popular sagittal cephalometric analyses for validity and reliability by Irfan Qamaruddin, Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Fazal Shahid, Sadaf Tanveer, Marvee Umer, Erum Amin

“…All measured analyses were found equally reliable in diagnosis of skeletal discrepancies. …”
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Analyzing Organic Electrolyte Solvents from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries as a Basis for Distillative Value Component Recovery by Martin Wolke, Kai Schröder, Konstantin Arnold, Pamina Mozumder, Till Beuerle, Katharina Jasch, Stephan Scholl

“…The findings highlight the necessity for advanced purification methods like a distillation process to remove these impurities and ensure the viability of recycled electrolytes in maintaining the performance and safety standards required for LIBs. …”
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DESIGNING LIGHTING CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR DEVELOPING IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE OF BULLET AND CARTRIDGE CASE TRACE by Hoang Cong Son, Le Duy Tuan, Nguyen Trong Hung, Mai Dang Linh, Dinh Thi Huyen Trang*

“…Besides using traditional optical methods for examining firearm marks, image scanning devices for bullet and cartridge case marks integrated with identification, management, and search software are widely. …”
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Comparative Cost Analysis of Four Interventions to Prevent HIV Transmission in Bandung, Indonesia by Eveline J.M. Verstraaten, Fenna M.M. Beeren, Jip L.C Janssen, Sophie Kemper, Adiatma Y.M Siregar, Noor Tromp, Rob Baltussen

“…Results: the total annualized costs for condom distribution, mobile voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), religious based information, communication, and education (IEC) and STI services equalled US$56,926, US$2,985, US$1,963 and US$5,865, respectively. …”
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Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Set Membership in Blockchain-Based Sensor Networks: A Novel OR-Aggregation Approach by Oleksandr Kuznetsov, Emanuele Frontoni, Marco Arnesano, Kateryna Kuznetsova

“…Extensive experimental evaluation demonstrates the superiority of our approach over existing methods, particularly for large-scale deployments. …”
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Interlaboratory comparison tests in mineralogical works by Elena G. Ozhogina, Maria I. Lebedeva, Elena A. Gorbatova

“…For unreliable and unsatisfactory results percentages total less than 11%, the percentage for unfulfilled results is equal to zero. Interlaboratory comparison tests in mineralogical works are an important means for controlling competence of testing laboratories.…”
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Latent and Asymptomatic Toxocara Infection among Young Population in Northwest Iran: The Necessity of Informing People as a Potential Health Risk by Tina Momeni, Mahmoud Mahami-Oskouei, Esmaeil Fallah, Abdolrasoul Safaiyan, Leyla Mahami-Oskouei

“…This study was designed to determine the frequency of anti-Toxocara antibodies in youngsters aging from 2 to 20 years in northwest Iran. Materials and Methods. 397 samples were taken randomly almost equally from four locations in Urmia, west Azerbaijan, during August 2014 to September 2015. …”
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Structure and Elemental Composition of Pb1 – xSnxS Films by P.V. Koval, А.S. Оpanasyuk, A.I. Turavets, I.S. Tashlykov, A.A. Ponomarev, P. Zhukowski

“…CSD sizes in the films are equal to L(040) = (35.5-47.5) nm, L(131) = (44.4-51.5) nm. …”
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RELATED KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF THE USE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN PATIENTS WITH DIARRHEA IN KENDARI INDONESIA by Alfrida Alik Langgesa, Ramadhan Tosepu, Hariati Lestari, Devi Savitri Effendy, La Ode Ali Imran, Pitrah Asfian, Hartati Bahar, Ambo Sakka

“…The negative impact of the use of antibiotics is the emergence and development of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, the emergence of diseases caused by bacterial superinfection, the occurrence of side effects of drugs Objective:  To determine the relationship between knowledge and attitude of people with diarrhea in the city kendari Methods: This research was analytic observational cross-sectional method with the entire patient population is diarrhea who came to visit in as many as 234 people Poasia Health Center and the study sample is equal to 148 people. …”
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Predicting fitness coaches’ intentions to include persons with disabilities in gyms: an application of the theory of planned behavior by Milan Dransmann, Michael Braksiek, Christopher Meier, Bernd Gröben, Lara Lesch, Pamela Wicker

“…IntroductionPromoting equal access to fitness offers implies the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in gyms. …”
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