Seropositivity and coinfection of hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses in Central India: A hospital-based study by Rajeev K. Jain, Rakesh Shrivastava, Shailendra K. Jain, Deepti Chaurasia, Anamika Jain, Swati Jain, Kamlesh K. Ahirwar, Nagaraj Perumal

“…Coinfection of HBV and HCV can lead to more severe liver disease and an increased risk for progression to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). …”
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A New Hjorth Distribution in Its Discrete Version by Hanan Haj Ahmad, Ahmed Elshahhat

“…A key feature of this study is the incorporation of Type-II censored samples. We also derive key statistical properties, including the quantile function and order statistics, and then employ maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference methods. …”
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Evaluating the Side Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines Available in Al-Diwaniyah Province by Meraim Attyah Kazaal, Roaa Abid Jaythoom, Noor Dakil Mahdi, Doaa Yousief Mohammed

“…Objectives: The study aimed to detect the side effects that caused by immunization with Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines. Materials and Methods:286 samples were collected from individuals immunized with Corona vaccines (Pfizer, Sinopharm, and AstraZeneca) of different ages, whether they were previously infected with COVID-19 or not. …”
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Convergence Insufficiency, Accommodative Insufficiency, Visual Symptoms, and Astigmatism in Tohono O’odham Students by Amy L. Davis, Erin M. Harvey, J. Daniel Twelker, Joseph M. Miller, Tina Leonard-Green, Irene Campus

“…To determine rate of convergence insufficiency (CI) and accommodative insufficiency (AI) and assess the relation between CI, AI, visual symptoms, and astigmatism in school-age children. Methods. 3rd–8th-grade students completed the Convergence Insufficiency Symptom Survey (CISS) and binocular vision testing with correction if prescribed. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Hypoglycemic Activity of <i>Cucumis sativus</i> and <i>Cucurbita pepo</i> Whole Plant Extracts in Normal and Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats by Vikas Gautam, Anand Murari Saxena

“…<b>Background</b>: Crude extracts are easily available and considered safe and cost-effective in comparison with synthetic extracts and are more accessible compared with purified compounds, making them suitable for initial screening and exploratory studies in drug discovery. …”
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DISEASE COPING STYLES IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE OR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS by Y. K. Galetskayte, B. A. Volel, D. F. Pushkarev, E. A. Las

“…Objective: to study the types of response to illness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Subjects and methods. The sample consisted of 100 patients (mean age 59.2 ± 14.4 years) from University Clinical Hospital One, I.M. …”
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Disparities in Hearing Aid Use Among Those With Hearing Loss in Rural and Urban Settings by Paul Johnson, Emmanuel Garcia Morales, Nicholas Reed

“…Study Design Cross‐sectional analysis. Methods We used pooled data from the 2017 and 2018 rounds of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS). …”
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Predictors of intention to stay in the profession among novice nurses: a cross-sectional study by Bella Savitsky, Rachel Shvartsur, Ilya Kagan

“…This study aimed to examine the relationship between employment characteristics and job satisfaction of novice nurses and their willingness to stay in the nursing profession in the next 5 years. Methods Novice nurses’ intention to stay in the profession was assessed, considering demographics, employment characteristics, and components of job satisfaction. …”
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Microbiological profile and antimicrobial resistance profile of patients admitted to the Burn Unit of Hospital Geral “José Pangella” in Vila Penteado in... by Adriano Fernandes Araújo, Elaine Marlene Tacla

“…Introduction: Burns are responsible for about 180,000 deaths per year worldwide and about 1,000,000 accidents, more than 100,000 hospital admissions and 2,500 deaths per year in Brazil. …”
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A comparative study to know the effect of ropivacaine 0.5% and a mixture of bupivacaine 0.5% and lidocaine 2% on intraocular pressure following peribulbar block in cataract operati... by Rekha Ramesh Mudhol, Lingamaneni Sneha

“…To demonstrate the advantage of this low-concentrated ropivacaine over the other most commonly used medications in the peribulbar block, more research with a larger sample size and 0.5% ropivacaine is needed.…”
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Trends, Clinical Profiles, and Demographics of Psychiatry Referrals: A Retrospective Record-based Study with Insights into Age-related Trends by Yogender Kumar Malik, Adwitiya Ray, Anwesha Chatterjee, Sujata Sethi

“…Hence, this study aimed to assess the 3-year trend in the pattern and utility of CLP services in a tertiary care center in North India. Methods: This is a retrospective, descriptive study of 3-year referral records maintained by the CLP services in a multispecialty tertiary care teaching hospital. …”
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Inference of population structure using dense haplotype data. by Daniel John Lawson, Garrett Hellenthal, Simon Myers, Daniel Falush

“…We present multiple lines of evidence that, while many methods capture similar information among strongly differentiated groups, more subtle population structure in human populations is consistently present at a much finer level than currently available geographic labels and is only captured by the haplotype-based approach. …”
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Readiness, access, and use of facility childbirth care in Ethiopia: results from nationally representative linked household and health facility surveys by Elizabeth Stierman, Solomon Shiferaw, Saifuddin Ahmed, Mahari Yihdego, Assefa Seme, Linnea Zimmerman, Andreea Creanga

“…This study assesses the readiness of health facilities in Ethiopia to provide childbirth services, describes variations in geographic access to service-ready facilities, and evaluates how facility readiness relates to childbirth service usage with a lens on equity. # Methods The study used cross-sectional data from a nationally representative sample of households in Ethiopia linked with data from health facilities serving the same areas. …”
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Fusobacterium nucleatum and Bacteroides fragilis detection in colorectal tumours: Optimal target site and correlation with total bacterial load. by Marie S Rye, Kerryn L Garrett, Robert A Holt, Cameron F Platell, Melanie J McCoy

“…This study aimed to determine if there is an optimal site for bacterial detection within CRC tumours.<h4>Methods</h4>Presence of target bacterial species was assessed by quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) in 42 human CRC tumours. …”
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Epidemiological profile of tuberculosis in the prison population of Minas Gerais, Brazil by Marcos Vinicius Teixeira Martins, Márcio Cesário Cunha Sobrinho, Gabriel Machado de Souza, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira

“…Currently, it is estimated that the incidence of tuberculosis in the population deprived of liberty corresponds to approximately 11.2% of new cases in the country, and this group represents only 0.3% of the Brazilian population.  Methods: In this context, the present study aims to carry out an epidemiological analysis of tuberculosis in the prison population of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, based on secondary data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), in addition to identifying the main factors related to this type of involvement using measures of dispersion, central tendency and frequency, as well as Student’s T tests for independent samples and Mann-Whitney U tests in cases where the assumptions for parametric tests were not met, considering a 95 % confidence interval. …”
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Unveiling diversity in inhabited and uninhabited reefs of the Lakshadweep archipelago, India using eDNA by Bharath Subramanyam Ammanabrolu, Ramadoss Dineshram

“…Fish communities were more abundant in uninhabited reefs, and the number of detected taxa was also higher in uninhabited reef samples. …”
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Reliability and validity of Serbian version of children's dental fear questionnaire by Lalić Maja, Aleksić Ema, Milić Jasmina, Malešević Adam, Jovičić Bojan

“…The aim of this study was to determine the reliability of the Serbian version of Children’s Fear Survey Schedule Dental Subscale (CFSS-DS) and the relations between dental anxiety and oral health status in a sample of Serbian schoolchildren. Methods. The CFSS-DS scale was translated into Serbian and administered to 231 (12-year old) patients of the Pediatric Dental Department, Public Health Center Čukarica, Belgrade. …”
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Amoxicillin Resistance: An In Vivo Study on the Effects of an Approved Formulation on Antibiotic Resistance in Broiler Chickens by Ádám Kerek, Ábel Szabó, Ákos Jerzsele

“…<b>Objectives:</b> This study aimed to assess the in vivo effects of a veterinary-approved amoxicillin formulation on gut microbiome composition and ARG profiles in broiler chickens. <b>Methods:</b> A total of 120 Ross-308 broiler chickens were randomly allocated into 12 experimental groups (<i>n =</i> 10 per group), with three replicates per treatment. …”
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Fostering Religious Values in Early Childhood Through Big Book Media at TK Negeri 5 Banda Aceh by Rafidhah Hanum, Irwandi Irwandi, Silvia Azila

“…Many early childhood education centers still rely on traditional teaching methods that are less engaging for young learners. …”
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POLYPHARMACY IN MANAGMENT OF IN-PATIENTS WITH NOVEL CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19) by V. I. Petrov, A. Yu. Ryazanova, N. S. Privaltseva, D. A. Nekrasov

“…To identify polypharmacy cases and develop the ways to optimize pharmacotherapy of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in infectious disease facilities.Materials and methods. ATC/DDD analysis with calculation of DDDs/100 bed days and a sample analysis of 500 patients’ prescriptions were performed for presenting drug utilization statistics in the infectious disease facilities of Volgograd region, which had been reassigned to treat patients with COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021.Results. …”
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