Health-seeking behaviors during an outbreak of acute conjunctivitis in Central India by Samrat Chatterjee, Anil B Gangwe, Deepshikha Agrawal

“…Individuals from families with high level of education of male members (OR: 2.70, 95% CI: 1.08–7.20, P = 0.039) or large family sizes (OR: 6.27, 95% CI: 2.42–19.09, P = 0.039) were more likely to use prophylaxis. The use of separate items of daily use reduced the risk of spread of conjunctivitis (OR: 0.24; 95% CI: 0.06–0.35, P = 0.035). …”
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An Efficient Blind Image Deblurring Using a Smoothing Function by Kittiya Khongkraphan, Aniruth Phonon, Sainuddeen Nuiphom

“…This paper introduces an efficient deblurring image method based on a convolution-based and an iterative concept. Our method does not require specific conditions on images, so it can be widely applied for unspecific generic images. …”
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The Impact of Spirulina Supplementation on Iraqi Obese Females: A Cohort Study by Abdullah Salim Al-Karawi, Ali Saad Kadhim, Ali Abdulmawjood Mohammed, Fakhri Alajeeli, Giuseppe Lippi

“…Background: Spirulina, a type of blue-green algae, has been recognized for its dense nutritional profile and purported health benefits. …”
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The Development of Drawdown Dolines and Subsidence Dolines with the Comparison of Their Bedrock Resistivities—A Case Study by Márton Veress

“…The passage below the doline develops into a shaft as a result of its concentrated water supply and the epikarst is separated into parts.…”
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The hidden face of Duchenne (Neuro)Muscular Dystrophy. Preliminary evidence of social cognition impairment as a feature of the neuropsychological phenotype of DMD by S. Parravicini, S. Parravicini, C. A. Quaranta, C. A. Quaranta, M. I. Dainesi, M. I. Dainesi, A. Berardinelli

“…Wechsler scales and a developmental neuropsychological assessment (NEPSY-II) were adopted.ResultsOur sample performed significantly worse than the reference scores in the “social cognition” sub-items of the NEPSY-II; the difference persisted even when splitting the sample by Dp140 depletion or cognitive deficit. …”
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中国H型高血压患者自述睡眠质量及其影响因素分析 by 王萍, 赵丹, 田泽众, 陈弘, 刘理顺, 宋昀, 王滨燕, 杨燕

“…H型高血压患者睡眠质量差的比例为19.0%，其中，女性睡眠质量差的比例明显高于男性（23.9% <italic>vs.</italic>14.8%， <italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001）。…”
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Robust Sliding Mode Control of Robot Manipulators Using the Fourier Series Expansion in the Presence of Uncertainty by Abdullah Hadipoor, Siamak Azargoshasb, Abdolrasool Ghasemi

“…Compared to previous related works based on the Fourier series expansion, the advantage of this paper is that it provides a matching law for the main frequency of the Fourier series expansion and thus eliminates the need for trial and error in its regulation. A case study of a Scara robot powered by DC magnet electric motors. …”
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Medicinal plants mediated the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their biomedical applications by Haajira Beevi Habeeb Rahuman, Ranjithkumar Dhandapani, Santhoshini Narayanan, Velmurugan Palanivel, Ragul Paramasivam, Ramalakshmi Subbarayalu, Sathiamoorthi Thangavelu, Saravanan Muthupandian

“…Silver has long been known for its antibacterial properties. Silver nanoparticles have taken a special place among other metal nanoparticles. …”
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Effect of Lingnan Painless Apitherapy combined with McKenzie Therapy on Patients with Lumbar Disc Herniation by Hongbo WU, Xinghua CHEN, Ruike ZHANG, Qinglu LUO, Yongming CHENG

“…Objective:To observe the clinical efficacy of Lingnan painless apitherapy combined with McKenzie therapy on patients with lumbar disc herniation(LDH).Methods:A total of 80 patients with LDH who were treated in the department of rehabilitation medicine of the fifth affiliated hospital of Guangzhou medical university from February 2019 to June 2020 were randomly divided into the control group and the observation group according to the random number table method, with 40 cases in each group.The control group received magnetic thermal-vibration therapy and McKenzie therapy.The Japanese magnetic thermal-vibration therapy instrument(TM-3200)was used in the magnetic thermotherapy, the appropriate intensity(high, hot, warm and low temperature)was selected according to the patient's feeling and symptoms, 20 minutes each time, once a day, seven times a week, continuous treatment for two weeks.In addition, the patients with LDH received McKenzie therapy, which was assisted by the therapist or the patient actively completed the flowing training, such as prone position stretching, prone position stretching combined with compression, standing position lateral movement and so on.Each step rested for one minute, once every two days, continuous treatment for two weeks.The observation group received Lingnan painless apitherapy on the basis of treatment in the control group after half an hour's rest.Before treatment, the patients were given apitherapy tolerance test, performing apitherapy with one bee on each Zusanli acupoints on both sides.After apitherapy for 15 minutes, if there was no adverse reaction, the patients were given painless apitherapy with a quiet and comfortable environment, every other day.In this treatment, both sides of Huatuo Jiaji acupoints on the lumbar spinous processes were selected, and Huatuo Jiaji acupoints on both sides of the 5th lumbar spinous process were selected in the first treatment, one acupoint on the left and one on the right.After that, two acupoints were added each time, and each acupoint was treated by one bee.According to the order of Jiaji points on the 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st lumbar vertebrae, the number of bee needles increased to 10 bees.Before treatment and two weeks after treatment, visual analogue scales(VAS)was used to evaluate the pain degree, Oswestry disability index(ODI)was used to assess the lumbar spine dysfunction, and TCM syndrome score was used to evaluate the therapeutic effect, and the clinical efficacy was evaluated by <italic>the diagnosis and curative effect standards of TCM diseases</italic>.Results:Before treatment, there was no significant difference in the VAS score, ODI score and TCM syndrome score between the observation group and the control group(<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05).Compared with treatment before, the VAS score, ODI score and TCM syndrome score after treatment for two weeks of the two groups were significantly reduced, with a statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Compared with the control group, the VAS score and TCM syndrome score of the observation group were lower than those of the control group, with a statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05), but there was no considerable difference in ODI score between the two groups(<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05), and the clinical efficacy of the observation group(95%)was significantly higher than that of the control group(80%)(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Lingnan painless apitherapy combined with McKenzie therapy can significantly improve the pain degree and lumbar spine dysfunction of patients with LDH, which have a good effect and it is worthy of clinical promotion.However, it's necessary to develop large-sample randomized controlled trials and follow-up, to provide more reliable basis for clinical treatment of LDH.…”
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Why India is struggling to feed their young children? A qualitative analysis for tribal communities by Sanjay Sharma, Monica Lakhanpaul, Logan Manikam, Priti Parikh, Lorna Benton, Shereen Allaham, Rajesh Khanna, Susrita Roy, Marie Lall, Virendra Kumar Vijay, Neha Santwani, Hanimi Reddy, Hemant Chaturvedi, Satya Prakash Pattanaik, Tol Singh, Pramod Pandya, Priyanka Dang

“…We explicate the complex phenomena and emergent model focusing on: mother’s role and autonomy, knowledge and attitude towards feeding of young children, availability of services and resources that shape these practices set against the context of agriculture and livelihood patterns and its contribution to availability of food as well as on migration cycles thereby affecting the lives of ‘left behind’, and access to basic health, education and infrastructure services.Conclusions This interdisciplinary and participatory study explored determinants impacting feeding practices across political, village and household environments. …”
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Du Transperceneige de Jacques Lob et Jean-Marc Rochette à Snowpiercer de Bong Joon-Ho : une inspiration mutuelle entre arts visuels dans le domaine de la science-fiction. by Suk Hee Joo

“…Although the movie’s plot and framework partly come from the original graphic novel, it also brings its own narrative and formal innovations, so that the new work becomes part of a series of narratives stemming from the same fictional world. …”
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Biosurfactant-Enhanced Remediation of Oil-Contaminated Environments by A. Shulga, E. Karpenko, R. Vildanova-Martsishin, A. Turovsky, M. Soltys

“…The development of new efficient cleaning technologies for the bioremediation of the environment and its cleaning from oil products has become a subject of great interest. …”
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Unveiling the Genetic Diversity and Demographic History of <i>Coffea stenophylla</i> in Sierra Leone Using Genotyping-By-Sequencing by Paul M. Lahai, Peter O. Aikpokpodion, Alieu Mohamed Bah, Mohamed T. Lahai, Lyndel W. Meinhardt, Seunghyun Lim, Ezekiel Ahn, Dapeng Zhang, Sunchung Park

“…This species faces increasing threats from climate change, deforestation, and habitat fragmentation in its West African homeland. Using 1037 novel SNP markers derived from Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS), we revealed the presence of three distinct natural populations (mean Fst = 0.176) in Sierra Leone. …”
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An Intelligent Crow Search Optimization and Bi-GRU for Forest Fire Detection System Using Internet of Things by Syed Abdul Moeed, Bellam Surendra Babu, M. Sreevani, B. V. Devendra Rao, R. Raja Kumar and Gouse Baig Mohammed

“…The proposed work involves object detection, which is facilitated by EfficientDet, a state-of-the-art object detection model known for its accuracy and efficiency. EfficientDet enables the system to accurately identify potential fire outbreaks by analyzing visual data from the sensors. …”
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Étude du développement de l’agglomération lyonnaise depuis 1950 by Nicolas Ferrand

“…This new tool allows tracking per hectare, the development of urbanization, based on its morphological characteristics since 1950. The aim is to track urban sprawl but also the renewal of the city to itself. …”
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The highly prolific phenotype of Lacaune sheep is associated with an ectopic expression of the B4GALNT2 gene within the ovary. by Laurence Drouilhet, Camille Mansanet, Julien Sarry, Kamila Tabet, Philippe Bardou, Florent Woloszyn, Jérome Lluch, Grégoire Harichaux, Catherine Viguié, Danielle Monniaux, Loys Bodin, Philippe Mulsant, Stéphane Fabre

“…In the Lacaune sheep breed, large variation in litter size is genetically determined by the segregation of a fecundity major gene influencing ovulation rate, named FecL and its prolific allele FecL(L) . Our previous work localized FecL on sheep chromosome 11 within a locus of 1.1 Mb encompassing 20 genes. …”
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Strategies to improve the quality of wheat flour in baking: a review by Mariana de Paula Kraüss Ferreira, Vitor Anselmo da Guia Ribeiro, Jefferson Henrique Tiago Barros, Caroline Joy Steel

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Small-Sized Clone of T Cells in Multiple Myeloma Patient after Auto-SCT: T-LGL Leukemia Type or Clonal T-Cell Aberration? by Giuseppe Mele, Marilena Greco, Maria Rosaria Coppi, Giacomo Loseto, Angela Melpignano, Salvatore Mauro, Gianni Quarta

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The urgency of addressing zoonotic diseases surveillance: Potential opportunities considering One Health approaches and common European Data Spaces by Nicola Riccetti, Serena Signorelli, Angela Fanelli, Emanuele Massaro, Manlio Bacco, Wojciech Szewczyk, Dolores Ibarreta, Juan Carlos Ciscar, Alessandro Cescatti, Sandra Coecke, Ilaria Capua

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Corrosion properties of aluminized 16Mo3 steel by Karpe B., Prijatelj K., Bizjak M., Kosec T.

“…Chromium-molybdenum steel (16Mo3) is widely used in petroleum, gas, automotive, and construction industries due to its good oxidation resistance and mechanical properties at moderately elevated temperatures. …”
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