Corporate Governance, Disclosure Quality, and Cost of Equity: Evidence from Pakistan by Safia Nosheen, Naveed-Ul-Haq, Muhammad Faisal Sajjad

“…Using the Generalized Methods of Movements (Sys-GMM) model, a sample of 167 non-financial firms listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) for the period of 2011-2015was analyzed. …”
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Patient pathways of tuberculosis care-seeking and treatment: an individual-level analysis of National Health Insurance data in Taiwan by Simon Dixon, Chien-Chou Chen, Chu-Chang Ku, Hsien Ho Lin, Peter J Dodd

“…Patient pathway analysis identifies mismatches between TB patient care-seeking patterns and service coverage, but to date, studies have only employed cross-sectional aggregate data.Methods We developed an algorithmic approach to analyse and interpret patient-level routine data on healthcare use and to construct patients’ pathways from initial care-seeking to treatment outcome. …”
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Gender gap in tooth brushing among Korean adolescents by Ichiro Kawachi, Jae-In Ryu

“…This study aimed to understand the gender gap in toothbrushing before and during the pandemic. Materials and methods Based on analyses of data obtained from the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey from 2017 to 2022, the nationally representative sample (n = 341,265) comprised middle and high school students. …”
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THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL HEALTH PERCEPTION ON CYBERCHONDRIA BEHAVIOR by Mustafa Filiz, Yalçın Karagöz

“…Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the effect of individual health perception on cyberchondria tendency and to identify differences in individual health perception and cyberchondria tendency according to various demographic variables.Material and Methods: The sample of the study consists of 400 individuals over the age of 18, residing in Istanbul, Turkiye. …”
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Influence of size and insertion depth of irrigation needle on debris extrusion and sealer penetration by Emel Uzunoglu-Özyürek, Hakan Karaaslan, Sevinç Aktemur Türker, Bahar Özçelik

“…ObjectivesTo determine the effect of size and insertion depth of irrigation needle on the amount of apical extruded debris and the amount of penetration depth of sealer using a confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM).Materials and MethodsTwenty maxillary premolars were assigned to 2 groups (n = 10), according to the size of needle tip, 28 G or 30 G. …”
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for late-life depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Panpan Yang, Lin Li, Rui Zhang, Hailong Li

“…Future studies with larger sample sizes and long-term outcomes are still needed to provide more robust evidence. …”
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Quality of Life Among Natural Menopausal Women and Early Surgical Menopausal Women: A Study from Greece by Fotini Kavga, Anastasia Bothou, Christina Nanou, Giannoula Kyrkou, Victoria Vivilaki, Anna Deltsidou

“…This study aims to compare the effect of menopause on quality of life (QOL) in two groups of women undergoing natural and surgical menopause. Methods: The sample consisted of 100 female patients from a Greek hospital in Athens, with an average age of 44.5 years, half of whom had natural menopause, while the remaining women had iatrogenic menopause after surgery for any reason other than malignancy. …”
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Genome‐Wide Scan of Fifth Finger Clinodactyly by Myoung Keun Lee, Noah Herrick, Mary L. Marazita, John R. Shaffer, Seth M. Weinberg

“…Further, there is epidemiological evidence that mild (typical‐range) fifth finger clinodactyly may have a different etiology than more severe forms. Methods In this retrospective cross‐sectional study, we carried out genome‐wide association mapping of common genetic variants for clinodactyly in three cohorts separately and combined results via meta‐analysis, treating the trait as either a continuous quantitative variable (nmeta = 631) or a binary outcome (nmeta = 1647). …”
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Determination of Knowledge and Views of Married Women Aged 18-49 About Breast Milk Banks by İlknur Yıldız, Zehra Gölbaşı, Ayten Şentürk Erenel

“…Objective: This study was performed descriptively to determine th eknowledge and views of married women aged 18-49 regarding breast milk banks. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out at two Family Health Centers (FHC) in Sivas city center. …”
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Interrelationship of Preschoolers’ Gross Motor Skills, Digital Game Addiction Tendency, and Parents’ Parenting Styles by Savaş Aydın, Ramazan Sak, İkbal Tuba Şahin-Sak

“…Young children’s physical activity is also declining as they spend more time on screens. Methods: This quantitative survey-based study examined the relationships among 252 preschoolers’ gross motor skills, their tendency to become addicted to digital games, and their parents’ parenting styles. …”
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The Power of Posing: Do Body Display Instructions Have an Impact on Behavior in Daily Life? by Mai Bjørnskov Mikkelsen, Emma Elkjær, Douglas S. Mennin, Johannes Michalak, Mia S. O'Toole

“…The moderating effects of motivational traits and symptoms of psychopathology were explored. Methods A sample of 127 adults identified personally relevant and challenging actions they wanted to take during each week for 12 consecutive weeks. …”
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Genotyping and phylogenetic analysis of human Papillomaviruses from women with genital warts by Ghufran M. Al Azzawi, Anmar A. AlTaie

“…The aims were to Investigation of the prevalence and genotypic distribution of HPV in women with genital warts in Mosul/Iraq, HPV-DNA sequencing and Phylogenetic analysis including minimum spanning trees of amplified HPV L1 gene comparison the present sequences with similar genotypes in GenBank – National Center Biotechnology Information (NCBI) using mega-7-software. Materials and methods. A total of 150 samples were collected from women with genital wart infections. …”
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Use of over-the-counter antiallergic products–analysis of sales data in Poland from 2020 to 2023 by Łukasz Dudziński, Marcin Weiner, Tomasz Kubiak, Julia Grochowska, Robert Gałązkowski, Lukasz Czyzewski

“…ObjectiveThe study aimed to analyse purchasing trends of pharmacological products used in allergy management based on data from in-person pharmacy sales across Poland.Materials and MethodsThe research involved an analysis of the sales of pharmacological agents used to alleviate symptoms of localized and systemic allergic skin reactions. …”
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Association between headache and tinnitus among medical students by Deborah Ribeiro Bessa, Marianna Andrade de Almeida Dunkel, Larissa Ribeiro Bessa, Luís Antônio Bahiana Cruz, Katia de Miranda Avena, Bruno Farias Lessa

“…Objective: To investigate the prevalence of the association between headache and tinnitus, and to describe the epidemiological profile of the study population and the chronological order of appearance of these symptoms. Methods: Cross-sectional, observational and analytical study on a sample representative of an academic center. …”
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Evaluation of workers’ perception about safety in roller and steel parts production factory based on the health belief model in 2011 by M Asghari, MH Taghdisi, M Haghighi, D Yekefallah, M Abbassinia, I Ahmadnezhad, H Aghaie

“…This study aimed to evaluate perceptions of workers to safety culture in roller and steel parts production factory based on the health belief model (HBM). Methods: This is an analytical-descriptive, applied and cross-sectional study. …”
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Deep Learning Approaches to Forecast Physical and Mental Deterioration During Chemotherapy in Patients with Cancer by Joseph Finkelstein, Aref Smiley, Christina Echeverria, Kathi Mooney

“…., feeling blue, trouble thinking) groups. <b>Methods</b>: The analytical dataset comprises daily self-reported symptom logs from individuals undergoing chemotherapy. …”
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Beyond the Surface and Exploring the Microscopic Landscape: Histomorphological Findings in Appendicectomy Specimens by Radhika C. Sasturkar, Pushpalatha Karumanchi, Pranathi Mahankali

“…More than half of the cases (n = 102, 65.4%) presented with right iliac fossa pain. …”
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Efficacy of Xuebijing injection on pulmonary ventilation improvement in acute pancreatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yuling Bin, Rumei Peng, Yaqian Lee, Zhijie Lee, Yang Liu

“…However, there is a high risk of bias and the quality of the included studies is low. More well-designed, large-sample, and high-quality trials are needed to be conducted in multiple centers.…”
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Sources of information influencing the state-of-the-science gap in hormone replacement therapy usage. by Fiona Chew, Xianwei Wu

“…The present study examined medical review journal articles, physician surveys and news media coverage of hormone replacement therapy (HT) to assess the relationship between the three information sources and whether/if they contributed to a state-of-the-science gap (a condition when the evaluation of a medical condition or therapy ascertained by the highest standards of investigation is incongruent with the science-in-practice such as physician recommendations and patient actions).<h4>Methods</h4>We content-analyzed 177 randomly sampled HT medical reviews between 2002 and 2014, and HT news valence in three major TV networks, newspapers and magazines/internet sites in 2002-2003, 2008-2009 and 2012-14. …”
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The Validity of the Danish Version of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure by Anette Enemark Larsen, Sonja Wehberg, Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen

“…The study included a total sample of 112 participants with more than half of the participants (56%) recruited from the hospital. 109 participants had measurements for both COPM and OSA (44% males) with a mean age of 64.7 years (range 16-96 years). …”
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