Accreditation of primary health care services: A systematic review by Babak Rastegarimehr, Ahmad Ahmadi Teymourlouy, Hasan Abolghasem Gorji

“…Accreditation of health services is one of the criteria for achieving the predetermined standards for health organizations. …”
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Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy by Claire Kennedy, Carol Traynor, Patrick O'Kelly, Anthony Dorman, Peter J. Conlon

“…It remains difficult to identify those that will develop recurrent membranous nephropathy. Almost one third of patients in this cohort developed clinically significant recurrent disease at 10 years.…”
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Lasers in Esthetic Dentistry: Soft Tissue Photobiomodulation, Hard Tissue Decontamination, and Ceramics Conditioning by Karen Müller Ramalho, Patrícia Moreira de Freitas, Ana Cecília Correa-Aranha, Marina Stella Bello-Silva, Roberta Marques da Graça Lopes, Carlos de Paula Eduardo

“…Low and high power lasers can be cited as one of these new technologies. Low power lasers act at cellular level leading to pain reduction, modulation of inflammation, and improvement of tissue healing. …”
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Weakened Effective Connectivity Related to Electroacupuncture in Stroke Patients with Prolonged Flaccid Paralysis: An EEG Pilot Study by Yi-Fang Lin, Xin-Hua Liu, Zheng-Yu Cui, Zuo-Ting Song, Fei Zou, Shu-Geng Chen, Xiao-Yang Kang, Bin Ye, Qiang Wang, Jing Tian, Jie Jia

“…Electroacupuncture treatment is one of the most widely used TCM therapeutic interventions for poststroke flaccid paralysis. …”
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Water Management of Arabica Coffee Seedlings Cultivated with a Hydroretentive Polymer by Mateus Oliveira Silva, Vanessa Reniele Souza de Arruda, Francisco Raylan Sousa Barbosa, Michel Wakim Mendes Firmino, Adriene Woods Pedrosa, Fernando França da Cunha

“…In this context, the use of hydroretentive polymers, particularly biodegradable ones, emerges as a promising alternative to optimize water use, reduce the environmental impact associated with synthetic polymers, and improve the agronomic traits of seedlings. …”
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An Analysis of Meteorological Anomalies in Kamchatka in Connection with the Seismic Process by Alexey Lyubushin, Galina Kopylova, Eugeny Rodionov, Yulia Serafimova

“…A comparison with the earthquake sequence is made using a parametric model of the intensity of two interacting point processes, which allows one to quantitatively estimate the “measure of the lead” of the time instants of the compared sequences. …”
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Marginal Zone Lymphoma Complicated by Protein Losing Enteropathy by Nadine Stanek, Peter Bauerfeind, Guido Herzog, Henriette Heinrich, Matthias Sauter, Daniela Lenggenhager, Cäcilia Reiner, Markus G. Manz, Jeroen S. Goede, Benjamin Misselwitz

“…Repetitive endoscopies were normal with only minimal lymphangiectasia in biopsies. Further evaluations revealed an indolent marginal zone lymphoma with minor bone marrow infiltration. …”
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Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanorods with the Thickness of Less than or Equal to 1 μm through Zinc Acetate or Zinc Nitrate for Perovskite Solar Cell Applications by Albertus Bramantyo, Kenji Murakami, Masayuki Okuya, Arief Udhiarto, Nji Raden Poespawati

“…After the seed layer had grown, ZnO NRs were grown with a growth solution made by combining one zinc source with one hydroxide source. There were two different zinc sources, i.e., zinc acetate dehydrate and zinc nitrate hexahydrate and, for comparison, zinc acetate (ZA) and zinc nitrate (ZN) were each combined with the same hydroxide source, hexamethylenetetramine (HMT). …”
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Clinical Outcomes in Diabetic Females Presenting with STEMI: A Cohort Study by Anjana Ajith Beena, Priya Shanmukhan, Veena Felix, Alummoottil George Koshy, Kunjukrishnapilla Sivaprasad

“…Cerebrovascular accidents were noted in 0.5% and renal dysfunction was present in 13.2%. At one and three months, heart failure occurred in 7.6% and 5.8%, respectively. …”
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The Electrochemical Variation of a Kind of Protein Staining and Food Dye as a New Corrosion Inhibitor on Mild Steel in Acidic Medium by Demet Özkır

“…This effect was specified by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), one of the most widely used measurement techniques. …”
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Ağır Hizmet Araçlarının Gürültü Kalkanı Parçasının Akustik ve Mekanik Dayanım Performansının İncelenmesi by Sena Arslan, Merve Çalışkan Akduman, Dilara Çay, İbrahim Aydın, Öznur İskender

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Renal Cell Carcinoma in Fistulizing Crohn’s Disease Patient Who Received Anti-TNF α Therapy by Abdullah Mohammed Albishi, Rafaat Chakik, Mohammed Bazeed

“…Colonoscopy was performed and showed only terminal ileitis. The patient was referred to a urologist for further action. …”
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Modelling Lake Ice Phenology with an Examination of Satellite-Detected Subgrid Cell Variability by Laura C. Brown, Claude R. Duguay

“…Lake ice was simulated for the province of Quebec, Canada, for both contemporary and future climate conditions using a one-dimensional thermodynamic ice model. The model was forced with NARR data (32 km) and both the daily IMS product (4 km) and the MODIS snow product (500 m) were assessed for their utility at determining lake ice phenology at the subgrid cell level (based on the 32 km NARR grid). …”
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Russia-China Relations: An Asymmetrical Partnership? by Sergei Lukonin

“…China has further solidified its position as Russia's primary supplier of high-tech equipment, while Russia continues to be one of China's primary sources of gas and oil. China accounts for around 20% of the total foreign trade volume of the Russian Federation, while Russia's share in Chinese foreign trade turnover is about 3%. …”
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S’unir au Prophète. L’expérience matérielle, esthétique et dévotionnelle du Dalā’il al-Khayrāt au Maroc. Approches codicologique et anthropologique by Hiba Abid, Anouk Cohen

“…This is why the Dalā’il quickly became one of the most popular devotional books in the Sunni Muslim world, and particularly in Morocco. …”
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Application of Simple Additive Weighting Method for Decision Making for Scholarship Recipients at SMA Angkasa Adisutjipto Yogyakarta by Yuliani Indrianingsih, Asih Pujiastuti, Uyuunul Mauidzhoh, Muhammad Leo, Edi Triono Nuryatno

“…The application of the SAW method not only increases the efficiency of selection, but also reduces the subjectivity that occurs in the evaluation. …”
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THE TEACHERS’ TECHNIQUES IN PROVIDING CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK ON STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION ERROR by Khairil Razali, Nurul Husna

“…The writer found that each of both teachers only used 3 kinds of corrective feedback. The first teacher used recast and  metalinguistic while the second teacher used elicitation and clarification request. …”
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Child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for child and adolescent mental health by Hannah McDowell, Sophie Barriault, Tracie O. Afifi, Elisa Romano, Nicole Racine, Nicole Racine

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Clinical Application of a Safe Blood Sampling Device with an Indwelling Needle by Yeqin Deng, Zhengbing Lv, Yue Cheng, Annuo Liu, Zhengling Huang

“…The traditional indwelling needle catheter is hard and can only complete one puncture at a time. The safety and indwelling needle catheter is soft, with a large lumen, with high success rate of blood collection, and one puncture completes two operations, so it is of important value and significance to study the new safety and indwelling needle. …”
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Dyslipidemia rather than Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus or Chronic Periodontitis Affects the Systemic Expression of Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Genes by Rafael Nepomuceno, Bárbara Scoralick Villela, Sâmia Cruz Tfaile Corbi, Alliny De Souza Bastos, Raquel Alves Dos Santos, Catarina Satie Takahashi, Silvana Regina Perez Orrico, Raquel Mantuaneli Scarel-Caminaga

“…We investigated the systemic expression of immune-related genes in T2D, dyslipidemia, and CP patients. One hundred and fifty patients were separated into five groups containing 30 individuals each: (G1) poorly controlled T2D with dyslipidemia and CP; (G2) well-controlled T2D with dyslipidemia and CP; (G3) normoglycemic individuals with dyslipidemia and CP; (G4) healthy individuals with CP; (G5) systemic and periodontally healthy individuals. …”
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