Association of Serum Melatonin Level with Mild Cognitive Impairment in Type 2 Diabetic Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study by Jichen Zhang, Jiancan Lu, Hongling Zhu, Xinglu Zhou, Xijuan Wei, Mingjun Gu

“…The multivariable analysis indicated that fewer years of formal education, longer diabetes duration, higher serum HbA1c, higher serum hs-CRP, and lower serum melatonin are the predisposing factors for MCI. …”
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O2-self-supplying and glutathione-depleting scaffold for synergistic cancer therapy by Jiajia Zeng, Chongxian He, Xinna Bai, Cijun Shuai, Hao Pan

“…On the other hand, the photothermal effect of scaffold can not only generate heat to kill tumor cells, but also enhance the activity of nanoenzyme, and the catalase activity enhanced by photothermal effect is fed back to PDT, forming a two-way promotion. The results indicated that the concentration of oxygen in PLLA/Ti3C2-CeO2 scaffold group was 9.76 mg/L higher, and the concentration of singlet oxygen (1O2) and hydroxyl radical (·OH) was respectively increased by 60 % and 170 %, compared with the PLLA/Ti3C2 scaffold. …”
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Digital libraries and World Wide Web sites and page persistence. by Wallace Koehler

“…Again based on the Web document samples, very nearly all Web pages and sites undergo some form of content within the period of a year. Some change content very rapidly while others do so infrequently (Koehler, 1999a). …”
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The Effect of Volitional Preemptive Abdominal Contraction on Biomechanical Measures During A Front Versus Back Loaded Barbell Squat by Joseph B. McCormick, Alexander S. Drusch, Darragh J. Lynch, Gesine H. Seeber, Katherine F. Wilford, Troy L. Hooper, Brad S. Allen, Dennis G. O’Connell, Maria J. Mena-Iturriaga, Kinyata J. Cooper, Phillip S. Sizer

“…This finding is associated with decreased detrimental force potential on the lumbar spine. # Conclusions Findings could help guide practitioners and coaches to choose squat variations and incorporate VPAC strategies during their treatments and/or training programs…”
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Temporomandibular Joint Ankylosis among Patients at Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia: A 9-Year Retrospective Study by Dereje Mekonnen, Andamlak Gizaw, Bruktawit Kebede

“…Out of this, 95 were included in the study. Forty-two (44.2%) of the TMJA cases were males, while the remaining 53 (55.8%) were females with a male to female ratio of 0.79 : 1. 20–29-year-old patients were the most affected, 36 (37.9%), followed by the 30 to 39 years age group, 33 (34.7%). …”
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The assessment of environment protection cooperation in the South China Sea by Satyawan Ignatius Agung

“…Using historical perspective and qualitative approach and also utilizing primary and secondary sources, this article finds that cooperation carried out by several parties both informally and formally has not been maximized. However, this cooperation is able to become a confidence building measure to ease tensions and enable as an entry-point for political solution.…”
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High-dose dual therapy for Helicobacter pylori eradication inducing less impact on the gut microbiota by Jia-Lun Guan, Ting-Ting Xu, Ya Lin, Yan-Shuai Mo, Bi-Yu He, Ying-Ying Han, Ji-Yan Li, Su-Hong Xia, Ya-Ni Zhou, Jia-Zhi Liao, Pei-Yuan Li

“…The diversity and composition of the gut microbiota were compared and analyzed in both groups using 16 S rRNA gene sequencing. Results Forty-nine H. pylori positive patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to either the HDDT (n = 24) or the BQT group (n = 25) group. …”
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Imputation of missing land carbon sequestration data in the AR6 Scenarios Database by R. Prütz, R. Prütz, R. Prütz, R. Prütz, S. Fuss, S. Fuss, S. Fuss, J. Rogelj, J. Rogelj, J. Rogelj

“…This makes scenario analyses focusing on CO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> removal challenging. …”
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The Lyapunov Stability for the Linear and Nonlinear Damped Oscillator with Time-Periodic Parameters by Jifeng Chu, Ting Xia

“…Moreover, based on the computation of the corresponding Birkhoff normal forms, we present a sufficient condition for the stability of the equilibrium of the nonlinear damped oscillator x′′+b(t)x′+a(t)x+c(t)x2n-1+e(t,x)=0, where n≥2,c(t) is a continuous T-periodic function, e(t,x) is continuous T-periodic in t and dominated by the power x2n in a neighborhood of x=0.…”
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Discusión acerca de modelos para la estimación de la humedad relativa: estudio de caso de la costa brasileña frente la influencia en la durabilidad del hormigón by Ronaldo de Medeiros-Junior, Maryangela de Lima, Marcelo de Medeiros

“…En los resultados de los análisis estadísticos practicados, se observa que uno de los modelos ha demostrado ser mejor para estimar la humedad relativa de los medio ambientes marinos. De igual forma, se identificó la necesidad de desarrollar un modelo más apropiado para este tipo de ambiente.…”
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Promoting Preschool Pre-service Teachers’ Understanding of Food Additives Using the Debate Method by Ganime Aydin, Deniz Saribas

“…We used qualitative data instruments including pre- and post-reflective forms (RF), assignment papers and video recordings. …”
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Biocompatibility of new cement based capping material prepared from eggshell and biopolymer (chitosan). by Hemn M. Sarmamy, Dara H. Saeed

“…At 14 days time period, the edematous inflammatory reaction appeared to be reduced and the collagen fibers arranged closer to each other when compared with the previous time period this was the same for other the groups.At 21 days time period For control, Experimental, MTA and Biodentine group there were complete resolution of the edematous reaction with the formation of thick collagen bundles accompanied by typical fibroblast cells. …”
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Evaluation of fouling and chemical cleaning of reverse osmosis membrane after treatment of geothermal water by Aseel Zaid, Yakubu Abdullahi Jarma, Islam Rashad Ahmed Senan, Aslı Karaoğlu, Aslı Karaoğlu, Aydın Cihanoğlu, Aydın Cihanoğlu, Alper Baba, Nalan Kabay

“…The study concluded that scale formation on the membrane surface intensified as the number of cycles increased.…”
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Enablers of and barriers to ART adherence among female sex workers in mid-western Uganda: a qualitative study by David Friday Apuulison, Brenda Nabawanuka, Michael Muhoozi, Julian Aryampa, Pauline Irumba, Edson Katsomyo, Moses Asiimwe, Joshua Epuitai, Pardon Akugizibwe, Wasswa George, John Rubaihayo

“…Materials and methods A descriptive qualitative study was conducted in Fort portal City. We conducted 30 in-depth interviews among FSWs who had been taking ART for at least six months. …”
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Contribution of cooperative learning strategies to the improvement of the quality of students' native language knowledge by Semiz Marina Ž., Antonijević Radovan M., Čutović Mirjana M.

“…A successful application of cooperative learning in mother tongue teaching, from the point of view of improving the quality of students' knowledge, requires great didactic and methodical expertise of teachers in group forming, cooperative task structuring, basic principles of cooperative learning, etc. …”
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Dalla sovranità alla convivialità: strategie di sopravvivenza agroalimentare in Sardegna by Fabio Parascandolo, Maurizio Fadda

“…The 20th century was the decisive century of this radical transformation, and yet forms of rootedness to the land in settled and neighbourhood communities remained conspicuous on the island, especially in centres of less than 10,000 inhabitants. …”
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L’Italie au miroir : bilinguisme et auto-traduction dans la poésie de Christina Rossetti by Mélody Enjoubault

“…This article, through the detailed analysis of the series Il Rosseggiar dell' Oriente and of Rossetti’s translations of her own nursery rhymes gathered under the title Ninna-Nanna, aims at studying the complex relationships between ‘the same’ and ‘the other’ caused by these poems written in a language at once foreign and familiar, as well as focusing on the way the presence of otherness is eventually reintegrated by the poetical text.…”
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Convergence Analysis of H(div)-Conforming Finite Element Methods for a Nonlinear Poroelasticity Problem by Yuping Zeng, Zhifeng Weng, Fen Liang

“…More precisely, the flow variables are discretized by H(div)-conforming mixed finite elements, while the elastic displacement is approximated by the H(div)-conforming finite element with the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin formulation. Optimal a priori error estimates are derived for both semidiscrete and fully discrete schemes.…”
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Revisión actualizada de enfermedades pulmonares intersticiales en enfermedades autoinmunes by Daniela Itzel López, Gildardo Baldomero Zambrano Tobón

“…Las enfermedades del tejido conectivo (ECT) ocasionan daño orgánico, una forma común se presenta como enfermedad pulmonar intersticial (EPI), puede diagnosticarse simultáneamente a una enfermedad autoinmune o una tras el diagnóstico de otra. …”
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Evaluation of Tissue Tropism and Horizontal Transmission of a Duck Enteritis Virus Vectored Vaccine in One-Day-Old Chicken by Yassin Abdulrahim, Yingying You, Linggou Wang, Zhixiang Bi, Lihua Xie, Saisai Chen, Benedikt B. Kaufer, Armando Mario Damiani, Kehe Huang, Jichun Wang

“…However, due to limitations in loading multiple foreign antigens into a single HVT vector, other viral vectors are urgently needed. …”
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