What are the health outcomes of trans and gender diverse young people in Australia? Study protocol for the Trans20 longitudinal cohort study by Monsurul Hoq, Michelle Anne Tollit, Carmen C Pace, Michelle Telfer, Janet Bryson, Nicholas Fulkoski, Charlie Cooper, Ken C Pang

“…Nevertheless, there are limited empirical data on the presentation and outcomes of these patients, and there is an urgent need for more evidence to ensure optimal medical and psychosocial interventions. …”
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Starch Grain Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.): Composition, Morphology and Physico-Chemical Properties by Tatiana V. Orlova, Mohammed Aider

“…Therefore, the review summarizes and presents foreign knowledge about the isolation, chemical composition, structure, and physicochemical properties of quinoa starch Study objects and methods. …”
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Marigold, <i>Tagetes patula</i>, a Trap Plant for Western Flower Thrips, <i>Frankliniella occidentalis,</i> in Ornamental Bedding Plants Under Controlled Greenhouse Conditions by Cheryl Frank Sullivan, Bruce L. Parker, Margaret Skinner

“…[Asterales: Asteraceae], have been shown to be attractive to WFT, implicating their suitability as a trap plant. However, functionality may vary in part due to crop variety, the growth stage of the crop in which the marigold trap plant is deployed and whether or not the crop plants have flowers present. …”
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A prevalent variant in PPP1R3A impairs glycogen synthesis and reduces muscle glycogen content in humans and mice. by David B Savage, Lanmin Zhai, Balasubramanian Ravikumar, Cheol Soo Choi, Johanna E Snaar, Amanda C McGuire, Sung-Eun Wou, Gemma Medina-Gomez, Sheene Kim, Cheryl B Bock, Dyann M Segvich, Bhavana Solanky, Dinesh Deelchand, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Nicholas J Wareham, Gerald I Shulman, Fredrik Karpe, Roy Taylor, Bartholomew A Pederson, Peter J Roach, Stephen O'Rahilly, Anna A DePaoli-Roach

“…However, the functional implications of the mutation were not known. …”
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Advanced Stability Analysis for Fractional-Order Chaotic DC Motors Subject to Saturation and Rate Limitations by Esmat Sadat Alaviyan Shahri, Yangquan Chen, Naser Pariz

“…The proposed methodology employs indirect, direct, and composite Lyapunov functions to derive sufficient stability conditions under four scenarios: unconstrained input, saturation-only, rate-limited-only, and combined constraints. …”
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The Development of Publications on Catheter-Related Bladder Discomfort: A Bibliometric Analysis by Jiang W, Chen X, Peng Y, Zhai W, Zhang X, Zhou Y, Zhou R

“…VOSviewer and Excel were applied to present the current status and hot spots of CRBD research. …”
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O mês de nascimento e a posição influenciam a utilização dos dois pés para jogar futebol em jogadores da categoria Sub-17? by Julia Castellano Marques da Cruz Anunciação, Davi Correia da Silva, Caique Andrade, Daniel Carnevale, Fabricio Vieira do Amaral Vasconcellos

“… O objetivo do presente estudo foi verificar as associações entre o efeito da idade relativa (EIR), a assimetria técnica funcional (ATF) e o estatuto posicional de jovens futebolistas da Copa do mundo Sub-17. …”
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Whole Exome Sequencing and Segregation Analysis Confirms That a Mutation in COL17A1 Is the Cause of Epithelial Recurrent Erosion Dystrophy in a Large Dominant Pedigree Previously M... by Benjamin R Lin, Derek J Le, Yabin Chen, Qiwei Wang, D Doug Chung, Ricardo F Frausto, Christopher Croasdale, Richard W Yee, Fielding J Hejtmancik, Anthony J Aldave

“…Identified variants were filtered for those that were: located in the linked interval on chromosome 10q23-q24; novel or rare (minor allele frequency ≤0.01); heterozygous; present in all affected individuals and not in controls; and present in genes that encode proteins expressed in human corneal epithelial cells (reads per kilobase per million ≥1). …”
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Evaluation of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony with phase analysis in end-stage renal disease patients with normal gated SPECT-MPI by Dharmender Malik, Bhagwant Mittal, Ashwani Sood, Ashish Sharma, Madan Parmar, Komalpreet Kaur, Ajay Bahl

“…Documented clinical history along with confounding factors such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, and alcoholism were evaluated. Left ventricle functional (end-diastolic, end-systolic, and LV myocardial volume) and phase parameters (phase standard deviation [PSD], phase bandwidth [PBW] and entropy) were calculated using the QPS-QGS program. …”
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Issues of diagnostics and treatment of abdominal pain at irritable bowel syndrome at outpatient stage of the healthcare by Yu. A. Kucheryavy, T. L. Lapina, M. A. Livzan, M. F. Osipenko

“…Implementation of diagnostic algorithm allows to distinguish the organic disease or to establishthe diagnosis of functional disease. Hyoscine butylbromide at short-term treatment will relieve abdominal spasm as a symptomatic agent. …”
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From Nasion to Sellion: repositioning landmarks for radioprotection-tailored 3D cephalometric analysis by Marco Serafin, Benedetta Baldini, Elisa Boccalari, Salvatore Bocchieri, Sergio Sambataro, Chiarella Sforza, Giuseppe Baselli, Gianluca Martino Tartaglia, Alberto Caprioglio

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Exhalation of Rn-219 by patients treated with Radium-223 by Carsten Wanke, Joerg Pinkert, Lilli Geworski, Bastian Szermerski

“…This Rn-219 can be exhaled by patients while Ra-223 is present in the blood. Hence, direct measurements for assessing the exhalation of Rn-219 were performed for the first time in the context of the non-interventional multicenter study “RAPSODY”, a substudy to the international early access program, which aimed at assessing the radiation exposure of relatives of patients suffering from castration resistant prostate cancer with bone metastases and treated with Ra-223 dichloride in an outpatient setting, in order to investigate if this kind of method is functional and tolerated by the patients. …”
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The Policy-Making Model Based on Conflict of Interest Management in Crisis Conditions in the Country\'s Health System (Case of Study: The Experience of COVID-19) by Mahnaz sabzi, abbas Monavarian, Tayebeh Abbasi

“…Background: Policy-making is one of the management functions in the health system, and according to the main goal of the health system, which is health promotion, health system approaches are advancing in the light of presenting a policy-making model based on conflict of interest management. …”
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Coerência espectral do eletrencefalograma em pacientes submetidos a transposição tendinosa: estudo pré e pós-operatório EEG spectral coherence at patients submitted to tendon trans... by Julio Guilherme Silva, Irocy Guedes Knackfuss, Cláudio Elidio Portella, Victor Hugo do Vale Bastos, Dionis de Castro Dutra Machado, Luis Basile, Roberto Piedade, Pedro Ribeiro

“…It can be assumed that coherence augmentation indicates that functional rehabilitation promoted by this specific surgery yields cortical alterations.…”
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Risk assessment in ensuring aircraft on-board systems safety by H. E. Fourar, B. D. Ogunvoul, V. D. Budaev, F. Lachi

“…I.e. the risk for threats from violators (cases of unlawful interference (UI)), vulnerabilities (functional hazards that contribute to UI and its development in a system) and loss (set of criteria that evaluates consequences of UI). …”
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Edible Coatings to Prolong the Shelf Life and Improve the Quality of Subtropical Fresh/Fresh-Cut Fruits: A Review by Farid Moradinezhad, Atman Adiba, Azam Ranjbar, Maryam Dorostkar

“…Furthermore, the integration of nanotechnology into edible coatings has the potential to enhance their functionalities, including improved barrier properties, the controlled release of active substances, and increased antimicrobial capabilities. …”
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Clinical features of patients with homozygous complement C4A or C4B deficiency. by Inka Liesmaa, Riitta Paakkanen, Asko Järvinen, Ville Valtonen, Marja-Liisa Lokki

“…<h4>Material and methods</h4>Thirty-two patients with no functional C4A, 87 patients with no C4B and 120 with normal amount of C4 genes were included. …”
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Resources, Potentials and Academic Achievements of Students. Part 1. Differentiation of Resources and Potentials by L. Ya. Dorfman, A. Yu. Kalugin

“…The external prerequisites include structural and functional organisation, educational environment. The internal prerequisites consist of cognitive factors – intelligence, creativity, and non-cognitive factors – self-efficacy, self-control, motivation, expectations and goal setting. …”
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Greenhouse gas emissions in the agricultural phase of wine production in the Maremma rural district in Tuscany, Italy by Simona Bosco, Claudia Di Bene, Mariassunta Galli, Damiano Remorini, Rossano Massai, Enrico Bonari

“…The international standards ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, and the Product Category Rules (PCR) Wine from Fresh Grapes (except sparkling wine) and Grape Must for the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certification, specifically for Climate Declaration, were used in order to carry out our analyses. The functional unit (FU) used here was one 0.75 L bottle of wine. …”
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Reliability of the Cutting Alignment Scoring Tool (CAST) to Assess Trunk and Limb Alignment During a 45-Degree Side-Step Cut by Lauren S Butler, Eryn K Milian, Amie DeVerna, Kevin Latz, Henry B Ellis, Alexa R Martinez, Kristin Hayden, Christian Gerstenkorn, Sara C Carpenito, Charles W Wyatt, Dai Sugimoto

“…Variables were scored as either present, which were given a score of “1”, or not present, which were given a score of “0”. …”
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