Evaluation of Skeletal Variations and Establishment of Cephalometric Norms in a sample of Kurdish Population Using Bjork-Jarabak’s Analysis by Saya Salar Yousif, Brwa Khoshnaw

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School Context as a Predictor of Student Success in Mathematics by Dragana Radenović, Radovan Antonijević, Daliborka Popović, Fadilj Eminović, Kristina Ivanović

“…The research sample consisted of 600 students attending the 7th grade and 150 mathematics teachers. …”
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Differential Effects by Caring and Positive Empathy on Depression and Anxiety: Gender Differences in a Sample of Spanish University Students by Diego Gomez-Baya, Denisse Manrique-Millones, Arlen J. Garcia, Esther Lopez-Bermudez

“…The present study aimed to analyze the associations between caring and positive empathy with youth depression and anxiety, as well as examine gender differences. (2) Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out by administering an online self-report to a sample composed of 370 university students (67.2% women), aged 18–29 (M = 21.29, SD = 3.61), enrolled across 10 universities in the Spanish region of Andalusia; (3) Results: Women reported higher levels of the caring dimension of PYD, more positive empathy, but more symptoms of depression and anxiety. …”
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Aqueous Two-Phase Systems: A New Approach for the Determination of Brilliant Blue FCF in Water and Food Samples by Sabah Shiri, Tahere Khezeli, Shahram Lotfi, Sina Shiri

“…A novel, simple, and more sensitive spectrophotometric procedure has been developed for the determination of brilliant blue FCF in water and food samples by an aqueous two-phase system (ATPS). …”
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Identification of hypoxene metabolites in urine samples using gas chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry for anti-doping control by P. V. Postnikov, A. V. Polosin, N. B. Savelieva, S. A. Kurbatkin, Yu. A. Efimova, E. S. Mochalova

“…The aim of this study is to determine the possible metabolites of the drug and their chromato-mass spectrometric characteristics in urine samples using gas chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (GC–MS/MS) for doping control screening purposes.Methods. …”
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The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS-DPP): the DIPLOMA long-term multimethod assessment by Peter Bower, Claudia Soiland-Reyes, Carole Bennett, Lisa Brunton, Patrick Burch, Elaine Cameron, Tarani Chandola, Georgia Chatzi, Sarah Cotterill, David P French, Judith Gellatly, Mark Hann, Rhiannon Hawkes, Simon Heller, Fiona Holland, Elizabeth Howarth, Kelly Howells, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Eric Lowndes, Antonia Marsden, Thomas Mason, Emma McManus, Rachel Meacock, Lisa Miles, Manoj Mistry, Elizabeth Murray, Beth Parkinson, Rathi Ravindrarajah, David Reeves, Jamie Ross, Caroline Sanders, Jonathan Stokes, Helen Wallworth, Ruth Watkinson, Vasudha Wattal, William Whittaker, Paul Wilson, Adrine Woodham, Matt Sutton

“…Objective(s) The Diabetes Prevention – Long-term Multimethod Assessment research programme provided a comprehensive assessment of the delivery of the National Health Service Diabetes Prevention Programme and its effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. Design Mixed-methods research including qualitative methods, observations, patient surveys and secondary analysis of administrative and survey data using statistical and econometric methods. …”
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Designing Fuzzy Inference System by Learning from Training Samples to Measure the Participation of Operational Staff in the Health of Workplace by Saeed Malekinejad, Ahmad Tavakoli, Naser Motahari

“…Rules have been created by using modified CT08 method based on training samples. In the end, we created 17 rules and the system was tested with 5 prototypes. …”
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Evaluation of Fecal Sample Pooling for Real-Time RT-PCR Testing SARS-CoV-2 in Animals by Antonio Leonardi-Cattolica, Sandipty Kayastha, Megan Miller, Jake Guag, Andriy Tkachenko, James Lowe, Matthew Allender, Karen Terio, Leyi Wang

“…Given its sensitivity, real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is more suitable for employing this strategy, as compared to other less sensitive testing methods. …”
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Acute stress and fear scales during the COVID-19 pandemic: development and evaluation in a Costa Rican sample by Ana María Jurado-Solórzano, Gloriana Rodríguez-Arauz, Vanessa Smith-Castro, Mariano Rosabal-Coto, Sebastián Saborío, Henriette Raventós-Vorst, Benjamín Reyes-Fernández

“…Conclusion: In this order, the measures showed acceptable  psychometric properties with the evaluated sample. Future research is needed to gather more evidence of reliability and validity in probabilistic samples. …”
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Layer wise Scaled Gaussian Priors for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampled deep Bayesian neural networks by Devesh Jawla, John Kelleher

“…From our experiments on 8 classifications datasets of various complexity, the results indicate that using Layer wise Scaled Gaussian Priors makes the sampling process more efficient as compared to using an Isotropic Gaussian Prior, an Isotropic Cauchy Prior, or an Isotropic Laplace Prior. …”
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Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Symptoms in a Population Sample in The Initial Stage of The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Outbreak by Samah R. I Elrefaey

“…Methods: A cross-sectional design used to conduct the study on a convenience sample of 1010 subjects residing at Benha City, Qalyubiyah Governorate, Egypt. …”
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An Experimental Study of Locally Assembled Vacuum Chamber and Estimation of Sample Porosities from Various Formations, Northern Iraq by Bafren Kamil Raoof, Khabat Mohammed Ahmed, Rand Mohammed Othman

“…To meet the process development required, part of the samples was tested in a more sophisticated device to provide well-aimed results and decrease the margin of error where B (1,2) and S5 were measured using a nitrogen porosimeter to attain further accuracy and reliability and compare the results to a saturation method. …”
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Vitamin B12 Deficiency Among a Sample of Type 2 Diabetic Patients on Metformin in Erbil-City by Twana Mahmood Hamzah, Bushra Mohammed Ali

“…Methods:A cross-sectional study was carried out on a sample of 100 adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who attended the diabetic center and two General Teaching Hospitals in Erbil city during the period from the 1st of June to the end of December 2017. …”
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Bidirectional causal relationship between obesity and osteoarthritis: Insights from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Anne Kamps, Jos Runhaar, Katerina Trajanoska, William D. Thompson, Weiya Zhang, Bahar Sedaghati-khayat, Joyce B.J. van Meurs, Sita M.A. Bierma-Zeinstra

“…The study's aim was to investigate the causal relationship between obesity and OA. Method: This study employed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) approach to investigate the bidirectional causal relationship between obesity, using body mass index (BMI) as its proxy, and OA of the knee, hip, and hand. …”
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Using Small-Sided Games or Their Combination with Speed Endurance Training: Which Is More Effective for Improving Aerobic Capacity in Young Amateur League Soccer Players? by Feni Norrahmah, Shery Iris Zalillah, I Dewa Made Aryananda Wijaya Kusuma, Imam Syafii, Arif Bulqini, Muhammad Kharis Fajar, Muhammad Bagus Firzam Bharlaman

“…This study aimed to analyze the differences in the effects of Small-Sided Games (SSG) and a combination of Small-Sided Games with Speed Endurance Training (SSG+SET) on the aerobic capacity of young amateur league soccer players, as measured by total distance coverage and VO2max. Materials and methods. A total of 36 young amateur league soccer players were selected as samples and divided into two groups using the matching-group technique. …”
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Synthesis of O-tyrosine Phosphorylated Adducts of Methylphosphonic and Phosphoric Acid Derivatives as Reference Compounds for the Analysis of Biomedical Samples by V. I. Krylov, I. I. Krylov, V. A. Yashkir, I. V. Rybalchenko

“…We have elaborated methods for the synthesis and isolation of tyrosine adducts derivatives of methylphosphonic and phosphoric acids, used as reference samples. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Surface and Deep Aeration Methods on Density and Type of Airborne Bacteria and Fungi in Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant (Case study: Khin-Arab and Park... by Zohreh Abbasnia, Shadi Abbasnia, Mahdi Pahlevani, Masoud Rouhbakhsh, Maryam Ghasemzadeh, Saeid Amel Jamehdar

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Estimation of the prevalence of HPV-positive squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx on the example of a separate sample in the Russian Federation by B. G. Pkheshkhova, A. M. Mudunov, R. I. Azizyan, M. B. Pak, K. B. Ishchenko

“…The analysis of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma epidemiology appears to be highly relevant.Objective – to assess the incidence and prevalence of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma associated with human papillomavirus in Russia on the example of a certain sample of patients.Materials and methods. We analyzed medical records of 199 oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma patients treated in N. …”
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In-hospital mortality trends after surgery for traumatic thoracolumbar injury: A national inpatient sample database study by Michael McCurdy, Rajkishen Narayanan, Omar Tarawneh, Yunsoo Lee, Matthew Sherman, Teeto Ezeonu, Michael Carter, Jose A. Canseco, Alan S. Hilibrand, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Christopher K. Kepler, Gregory D. Schroeder

“…Research question: The aim of this study was to investigate trends and risk factors for in-hospital mortality after fusion for traumatic thoracolumbar injury. Materials and methods: Patients undergoing thoracolumbar fusion after traumatic injury were queried from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 2012 to 2017. …”
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Comparative evaluation of proteinase K and dithiothreitol as pretreatments for extracting nucleic acids from respiratory samples for multiplex PCR by Yanjun Chang, Ting Li, Yanfang Niu, Xiaodong Guan, Yarong Xie

“…Methods A total of 30 BALF samples and 20 sputum samples were collected. …”
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