Comparative efficacy of sleep positional therapy, oral appliance therapy, and CPAP in obstructive sleep apnea: a meta-analysis of mean changes in key outcomes by Yunjun Gao, Sixiang Zhu, Wenjun Li, Youqing Lai

“…Sleep positional therapy (SPT) offers a potential alternative, especially for positional OSA (POSA). …”
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Argentina: Between Animal Rights Recognition and Animal Farming Intensification by Silvina Pezzetta

“…Although the environmental danger raised the most important concerns among the public, the opposition also came from animal rights advocates. This paper will offer a theoretical analysis of intensive pig farming from animal ethics and animal welfare perspectives. …”
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Peripheral oxygen saturation levels as a guide to avoid hyperoxia: an observational study by Renate Stolmeijer, Jan C. ter Maaten, Jack Ligtenberg, Ewoud ter Avest

“…In the prehospital setting where partial arterial oxygen (PaO2) values are often not readily available, titration of oxygen is based on peripheral oxygen saturations (SpO2). …”
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Pathophysiology of Penetrating Captive Bolt Stunning in Horned and Polled Sheep and Factors Determining Incomplete Concussion by Troy John Gibson, Anne Lisa Ridler, Georgina Limon, Christopher Lamb, Alun Williams, Neville George Gregory

“…The results indicated that damage to the reticular activating system, bolt velocity and penetration depth are crucial for inducing irreversible unconsciousness, with depths less than 37 mm often resulting in incomplete concussion. MRI provided detailed insights into brain injuries, aligning well with gross pathological findings. …”
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Etiopathogenic theories of nervous system diseases in Vilnius in the early 19th century: “insanity and epilepsy exacerbate when the moonlight shines” by E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė

“…In addition, the astrological causes of NS diseases were also believed to be of great importance (“somnambulism, insanity, and epilepsy exacerbate when the moonlight shines”). Finally, cutting off the Polish plait (plica polonica) was considered to be an essential etiological factor of various NS diseases in Vilnius in the early 19th century. …”
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Analysis of Inflammatory Mediator Profiles in Sepsis Patients Reveals That Extracellular Histones Are Strongly Elevated in Nonsurvivors by Tanja Eichhorn, Ingrid Linsberger, Lucia Lauková, Carla Tripisciano, Birgit Fendl, René Weiss, Franz König, Gerhard Valicek, Georg Miestinger, Christoph Hörmann, Viktoria Weber

“…The overall in-hospital mortality of the study population was 56.7% (57.1% vs. 56.3% for high cut-off vs. standard filter). The two filter groups differed regarding most of the mediator levels at baseline, prohibiting conclusions regarding the effect of standard filters versus high cut-off filters on mediator depletion. …”
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Complete mitochondrial genome sequence analysis revealed double matrilineal components in Indian Ghoongroo pigs by Pranab Jyoti Das, Satish Kumar, Manasee Choudhury, Seema Rani Pegu, K. Meera, Rajib Deb, Sunil Kumar, Santanu Banik, Vivek Kumar Gupta

“…Furthermore, examination of tRNA genes and nucleotide composition of different genes namely rRNAs, COX1, COX2, ATP6, ND4, ND5, ND6, Cytb offered insights into genetic diversity within these pigs. …”
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Weber’s Law as the emergent phenomenon of choices based on global inhibition by Marcin Penconek

“…Weber’s Law states that the ability to recognize the difference in intensity values is proportional to the reference intensity. The law is often generalized to the ratio principle which states that the proportionality also holds above the discrimination threshold. …”
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THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION OF 1917 AND SERBIA by A. Yu. Timofeev

“…The exceptions were only some analytical works of the officers of the Serbian General Staff.…”
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Assessment of Management Factors Influencing Vaccination Against Cholera in the Health District of Katana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Irène Ntererwa-Nsimire, Leonid M Irenge, Paulin B Mutombo, Eric M Mafuta, Jean-Luc Gala, Dosithée Ngo-Bebe

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The relevance of covenant theology to fatherlessness in Kenya: A youth and family ministry perspective by K.M. Ndereba

“…This article suggests that RCT offers a robust theology that can anchor practical interventions within the scope of the church’s ministry to its young people as well as its families. …”
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Modifiable Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in the Population Aged 20-49 Years by Francisco Carlos Valladares Mas, Francisco de Jesús Valladares Carvajal, Nicolás Ramón Cruz Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> a descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in 276 individuals from the doctor’s office No. 1 of the Fabio di Celmo Community Teaching Polyclinic in Cienfuegos. …”
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The Skin-Lightening Power of Tirbanibulin 1% Ointment by Federica Li Pomi, Andrea d’Aloja, Michelangelo Rottura, Mario Vaccaro, Francesco Borgia

“…Conclusions Our results suggest that tirbanibulin 1% ointment may offer the dual benefit of treating AKs while simultaneously lightening aesthetically bothersome and difficult-to-treat lesions like SLs with just 5 days of application.…”
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PRMT6 promotes colorectal cancer progress via activating MYC signaling by Xin Zhang, Mingxin Jin, Yali Chu, Fengjun Liu, Hui Qu, Cheng Chen

“…Our findings highlight PRMT6 as a key regulator of c-MYC stability and CRC progression, suggesting that targeting PRMT6 or its effects on c-MYC could offer a promising strategy for CRC treatment.…”
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A Machine Learning Approach for the Autonomous Identification of Hardness in Extraterrestrial Rocks from Digital Images by Shuyun Liu, Haifeng Zhao, Zihao Yuan, Liping Xiao, Chengcheng Shen, Xue Wan, Xuhai Tang, Lu Zhang

“…Understanding rock hardness on extraterrestrial planets offers valuable insights into planetary geological evolution. …”
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Stabbing Yourself in the Heart: A Case of Autoimmunity Gone Awry by Hari Vigneswaran, Leslie Parikh, Athena Poppas

“…Guillain-Barre Syndrome is autoimmune polyneuropathy that often results in transient paralysis. Simultaneous diagnosis of both entities is a rare but described phenomenon. …”
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Alternative models for cyclic lemming dynamics by Hao Wang, Yang Kuang

“…Many natural population growths and interactions are affected byseasonal changes, suggesting that these natural population dynamicsshould be modeled by nonautonomous differential equations instead ofautonomous differential equations. Through a series of carefullyderived models of the well documented high-amplitude, large-periodfluctuations of lemming populations, we argue that whenappropriately formulated, autonomous differential equations maycapture much of the desirable rich dynamics, such as the existenceof a periodic solution with period and amplitude close to that ofapproximately periodic solutions produced by the more natural butmathematically daunting nonautonomous models. …”
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Faculty Salary Structure for Publicly Funded Higher Education Institutions of the Russian Federation by Y. V. Dolzhenkova, A. L. Safonov, A. A. Chub

“…As a result, it was determined that: 1) unreasonably low official salaries established by professional qualification groups do not provide the reproduction function of wages in full; 2) the differentiation of official salaries for the lecturers of the same qualification level and the position held, due to the size of the financing of budgetary institutions and the remuneration policy of the university, leads to a violation of the principle of “an equal pay for an equal work”; 3) the presence of a large number of incentive payments in the salary structure leads to the “opacity” of wages. …”
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Impact of trapping on tritium self-sufficiency and tritium inventories in fusion power plant fuel cycles by Samuele Meschini, Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin, George R. Tynan, Sara E. Ferry

“…While state-of-the-art fuel cycle models offer valuable insights into the necessary design parameters for attaining tritium self-sufficiency, none of these models currently consider the impact of tritium trapping within fuel cycle components. …”
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Research on Dry Coupling Technology in the Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Testing of Concrete by Jun Li, Zeyu Chen

“…However, when used in inspecting irregular concrete surfaces, traditional planar ultrasonic transducers often encounter energy loss and signal attenuation induced by poor interface coupling, which significantly reduces the accuracy and reliability of the test results. …”
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