Predictors of Sleep Apnea in the Canadian Population by Ina van der Spuy, Gaungming Zhao, Chandima Karunanayake, Punam Pahwa

“…Multivariable logistic regression analysis indicated that age (45 and older), loud snoring, sudden awakening with gasping/choking (rare/sometimes and once or more a week), and nodding off/falling asleep in driving in the past 12 months were significantly associated with diagnosed sleep apnea. …”
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Figurative Language, Emotion and Ideology in U.S. and Russian Geopolitical Narratives Towards Africa by Kante Issa

“…Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during their respective visits to Africa in July and August 2022. On the one hand, I examine to what extent the two antagonists combine figurative language with various discursive and psycho-cognitive strategies in order to sustain and convey their ideological standpoint and their geopolitical agenda in Africa. …”
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Transcriptional Regulation of the rsbV Promoter Controlling Stress Responses to Ethanol, Carbon Limitation, and Phosphorous Limitation in Bacillus subtilis by Soo-Keun Choi, Milton H. Saier

“…Induction in response to glucose limitation was largely abolished by loss of CcpA or the upstream region, while induction in response to phosphorous limitation was largely abolished only by the upstream mutations. The results suggest that CcpA directly influences the carbon starvation response and that both proteins exert indirect effects on all three stress responses. …”
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Quaternary Segmentation Characteristics of the Hunhe Fault, Northeast China by Bo Wan, Guanghao Ha, Xiaohui Zhao, Rui Suo

“…These findings aim to enhance the understanding of the seismic hazard potential associated with the Hunhe fault, highlighting the need for ongoing research to address its complexities and implications for regional seismic risk assessment.…”
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Comparative Analysis of Acral Melanoma in Chinese and Caucasian Patients by Kai Huang, Yu Xu, Emmanuel M. Gabriel, Subhasis Misra, Yong Chen, Sanjay P. Bagaria

“…Acral melanoma (AM) is a rare subtype of melanoma, which is one of the least common in Caucasian patients but is a common subtype of melanoma in Chinese patients. …”
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Outros olhares para outras Américas: cultura visual e fotografia na América Latina pós-tradicional by Sérgio Luiz Pereira da Silva

“…The photographic documentation, as one of the main artifacts of visual culture, has the power to provide an overview, through a non-verbal communication, between the registered fact, the cut-off of the Real, and the interpretations drawn on it, creating thereby art and realism. …”
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Hemşirelerin Yaşam Boyu Öğrenme Motivasyonlarının Belirlenmesi by Dicle Bakır, Gülden Basit

“…Yönetici hemşirelerin ve kurumların, hemşirelerin öğrenme isteklerini destekleyici bir yaklaşımı benimsemesi, hemşirelerin kongre, kurs gibi bilimsel etkinliklere katılımlarının sağlanması önerilmektedir…”
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Composition of Free and Bound Phenolics from Paeonia suffruticosa Andr. Flowers and Their Antioxidant and α-Glucosidase inhibitory Activities by CHEN Ling, WANG Xuefang, LI Zhining, ZHANG Lipan, LI Xiao, NING Erjuan

“…Each of the two FPs contained 17 components, with the major ones being resveratrol, 1,2,3,4,6-O-pentagalloylglucose and apigetrin. …”
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Efficient and Accurate Optimal Linear Phase FIR Filter Design Using Opposition-Based Harmony Search Algorithm by S. K. Saha, R. Dutta, R. Choudhury, R. Kar, D. Mandal, S. P. Ghoshal

“…The original harmony search algorithm is chosen as the parent one, and opposition-based approach is applied. During the initialization, randomly generated population of solutions is chosen, opposite solutions are also considered, and the fitter one is selected as a priori guess. …”
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Myelitis associated with glial fibrillary acidic protein IgG: characterization and comparison with aquaporin-4 IgG and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein IgG myelitis by Yinyin Xie, Wanwan Zhang, Aoya Han, Wenlin Sun, Xinru Zhou, Yi Xie, Yunqing Ma, Yajun Lian, Cui Wang, Nanchang Xie

“…Results Thirty-four patients with GFAP-IgG myelitis were included (15 women, 12 children; median age at onset, 28.5 years). Over half experienced prodromal symptoms and required intensive care support. …”
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Various injury patterns due to combustion (typical but unfamiliar to physicians and easy to miss) in Korea: a case report by Hyung Il Kim

“…The inhalation damage was detected only in the lower airway tract and not in the upper airway. …”
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O KOM, O KOM, IMMANUEL – VENI, VENI EMMANUEL:

“… O come, o come, Immanuel, one of the oldest hymns included in the Liedboek van die Kerk (2001), is based on a Latin Advent hymn, Veni, veni Emmanuel, which, in turn, is based on five of the seven O antiphons that form part of the Roman Catholic liturgy for Advent. …”
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Decoding the physics of observed actions in the human brain by Moritz F Wurm, Doruk Yiğit Erigüç

“…Recognizing goal-directed actions is a computationally challenging task, requiring not only the visual analysis of body movements, but also analysis of how these movements causally impact, and thereby induce a change in, those objects targeted by an action. …”
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Efficacy of Dental Bleaching with Whitening Dentifrices: A Systematic Review by Bruno G. S. Casado, Sandra L. D. Moraes, Gleicy F. M. Souza, Catia M. F. Guerra, Juliana R. Souto-Maior, Cleidiel A. A. Lemos, Belmiro C. E. Vasconcelos, Eduardo P. Pellizzer

“…Electronic systematic searches of PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library were conducted for published articles. Only randomized clinical trials in adults that compared the use of so-called whitening dentifrices to the use of nonwhitening dentifrices were selected. …”
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Conflitti del lavoro, lavoro in conflitto. Trasformazioni aziendali globali e nuove forme di fragilità e precarizzazione by Fulvia D’Aloisio

“…The sense of the recruitment in FIAT, for the lucky ones who were hired in 1993 and 1994, was such as an existential turnabout, compared to a very contrary past; more recently, the long period of CIG (Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, from the end of 2011 to 2014), and then the new configuration of the multi-national enterprise FCA,  has increased uncertainty, precariousness, fear to loss the job. …”
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La désobéissance civile aux Etats-Unis contemporains : triomphe incomplet du libéralisme sur la gauche, routine et réactivation par les mouvements sociaux de l’immigration by Mathieu Bonzom

“…Secondly, drawing on examples from the immigrant mobilizations of the 2000 and 2010 decades, with a counterpoint to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, the article shows how the diversity of civil disobedience practices is structured by cyclical mutations, between routinization and defusing on the one hand, revival and reactivation on the other, where reactivation depends on the taking of certain forms of risk which is then turned against the authorities by drawing on mass mobilization.…”
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Common Sharks of Florida by Florida Sea Grant

“… Compiled from SGEB-25, A Tackle Box Guide to Common Saltwater Fishes of Southwest Florida Florida’s shark population is diverse and includes species that range in size from only a few feet to more than 40 feet in total length. …”
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The Use of Machine Learning Methods in Road Safety Research in Poland by Anna Borucka, Sebastian Sobczuk

“…The implementation of solutions supporting road safety analysis and management processes is necessary to reduce the risk of accidents and minimize their consequences. One of the rapidly developing tools that can play a key role in this area is machine learning. …”
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Indonesian Baha’i Community’s Perspective on Gender Equality by Samsul Hidayat

“…The work suggests that the followers of the Baha’i faith view the differences between men and women only from biological factors that exist in both sexualities. …”
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Telomere length varies with sex, hatching rank and year of birth in the Little Owl, Athene noctua by Criscuolo, François, Fache, Inès, Scaar, Bertrand, Zahn, Sandrine, Bleu, Josefa

“…There was also a negative effect of hatching rank but only for last-hatched nestlings in large clutches of 5 nestlings. …”
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