WHO/INRUD prescribing indicators with a focus on antibiotics utilization patterns at outpatient department of Adigrat general hospital, Tigrai, Ethiopia: a retrospective cross-sect... by Gebretekle Gebremichael Hailesilase, Brhane Gebrehiwot Welegebrial, Mezgebe Gidey Weres, Senait Abera Gebrewahd

“…This study aimed to evaluate the prescribing patterns in Adigrat general hospital, Tigrai, Ethiopia. Methods A retrospective cross-sectional study was done to evaluate prescription patterns. …”
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Child Abuse and Intention to Dropout Among Secondary School Students in Rubanda District. by Ninsiima, Patience

“…The study employed a cross-sectional design with both quantitative and qualitative methods. A sample of 285 respondents was selected from a population of 1100, and 250 respondents participated, resulting in an 89.6% response rate. …”
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Decentralization and Primary Health Care Service delivery in Local Governments in Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality by Julius, Kisembo

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Gamma-ray bursts and optical brightness: insights from Swift satellite by Istvan I. Racz, Yasmin Nehme, Lajos G. Balazs

“…However, after analysing more than 200 data points, we no longer see this association. …”
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Contamination Level, Distribution, and Inventory of Dechlorane Plus (DP) in the Surface Soil of Shenyang City, China by Hui Wang, Siyi Yu, Tony R. Walker, Hao Wu, Xiaoxu Wang, Yueli Yang, Yinggang Wang

“…The results also show that the health risks of DP are minimal, but children are more susceptible to the impacts of DP than adults, and oral ingestion is a more critical exposure pathway.…”
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Genetic diversity insights from population genomics and machine learning tools for Nordic Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) populations by Christos Palaiokostas, Khrystyna Kurta, Fotis Pappas, Henrik Jeuthe, Ørjan Hagen, José Beirão, Matti Janhunen, Antti Kause

“…Overall, our study affirmed the utility of the developed ddRAD-seq genotyping method and unveiled the genetic structure of the studied populations, both of which could contribute to their more efficient management by captive breeding.…”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on growth determinants in premature neonates: observational study in a secondary health service in Carapicuíba, São Paulo (2020–2023) by Vanessa Marques Leite Martha, Deborah Cristina Landi Masquio, Luiz Silva dos Santos, Julia Marques Leite Martha, Pedro Marques Leite Martha, Guido de Paula Colares Neto

“…Comparatively, the newborns in the group pre-vaccination against COVID-19 had more significant growth at six months and more prevalence of newborns born large for gestational age (LGA), while complications such as gastroesophageal reflux disease and viral bronchiolitis was more common in the post-vaccination group.ConclusionDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, non-nutritional factors, especially EUGR, significantly influenced the anthropometry of premature babies. …”
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Pea variety and dehulling effects on biorefinery efficiency and fraction quality by Busra Gultekin Subasi, Santanu Basu, Roger Andersson, Mehdi Abdollahi

“…Protein extraction efficiency, amino acid, and fatty acid profile did not show significant differences between whole and dehulled samples. Overall, these findings underscore the versatility of peas as a multiple-product biorefinery feedstock using the pH-shift method with the impact of variety being more pronounced on protein fraction quality, while preprocessing steps like dehulling play a decisive role in optimizing the composition and purity of fiber- and starch-rich fractions for targeted applications.…”
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SHOX2 and WT1 Promoter Methylation Correlates with the Lung Cancer in Iranian Patients by Mohammad taghi khatibi, shahla Mohammad Ganji, Somayeh Chavoshei, Arda Kiani, Seyed Mostafa Hosseini, Mahmoud Tavallaie

“…Since the disease is diagnosed in the middle or late stages of the cancer development a more efficient method for an early diagnosis of the disease is required. …”
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Dynamic Relationship between the Iranian Stock Market and Commodity Markets: A TVP-VAR Approach and Portfolio Optimization by Hadi Esmaeilpour, Emad Sharifbagheri

“…Furthermore, the Minimum Correlation approach calculates the weights of the investment portfolio using a conditional correlation matrix. A more contemporary method, known as Minimum Connectedness, has gained prominence as it allocates greater weights to assets that exhibit minimal connectivity and influence on other assets. …”
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Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing with Justice-involved People: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Teresa Pinto e Silva, Cláudia Gouveia, Faraj A. Santirso, Olga Cunha, Sónia Caridade

“…Results: Results indicated that MI is more effective in increasing session attendance and reducing dropout than interventions without MI. …”
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Features of the profession loss crisis in older teachers by E. E. Symanyuk, G. I. Borisov, A. A. Pecherkina, V. V. Saveliev

“…Osin and E. I. Rasskazova; method of quality-of-life SF-36; T. V. Kornilova’s new questionnaire of tolerance to uncertainty; scale of psychological well-being by K. …”
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Etiological profile of early neonatal bacterial sepsis by multiplex qPCR by Walter P Silva-Junior, Almir S Martins, Paula C N Xavier, Kelly L A Appel, Silvio A Oliveira Junior, Durval B Palhares

“…Multiplex qPCR of patients with clinical sepsis matched with 8.1% of the blood samples that tested positive by the microbiological method. …”
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Evaluation study on gas-phase passivation inhibiting the spontaneous combustion tendency of ferrous sulfide compounds by Yuanyuan Zhang, HaSung Kong, Ruixuan Hao, Qin Xu, Long Zhao

“…The entropy-weight TOPSIS method was then used to evaluate the passivated samples and determine the optimal passivation conditions. …”
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In vitro evaluation of octenidine as an antimicrobial agent against Staphylococcus epidermidis in disinfecting the root canal system by Jia Da Chum, Darryl Jun Zhi Lim, Sultan Omer Sheriff, Shaju Jacob Pulikkotil, Anand Suresh, Fabian Davamani

“…There were no significant differences among the CFU measurements of 2% CHX, 3% NaOCl, and 0.1% OCT showing complete elimination of S. epidermidis in all samples.ConclusionsThis study showed that OCT was comparable to or even more effective than CHX and NaOCl, demonstrating antimicrobial activity at low concentrations against S. epidermidis.…”
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Nanopore-based targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS): A versatile technology specialized in detecting low bacterial load clinical specimens. by Chen Yang, Weiwei Gao, Yicheng Guo, Yi Zeng

“…Current tuberculosis detection methods have limitations, highlighting the urgent need to develop more convenient, effective, and widely utilized detection technologies in clinical settings to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment guidance for tuberculosis. …”
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Exploring the diversity of Gardnerella vaginalis in the genitourinary tract microbiota of monogamous couples through subtle nucleotide variation. by A Murat Eren, Marcela Zozaya, Christopher M Taylor, Scot E Dowd, David H Martin, Michael J Ferris

“…<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>To explore G. vaginalis diversity, distribution and sexual transmission, we developed a Shannon entropy-based method to analyze low-level sequence variation in 65,710 G. vaginalis 16S rRNA gene segments that were PCR-amplified from vaginal samples of 53 monogamous women and from urethral and penile skin samples of their male partners. …”
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Rapid alternative of the post-harvest process to enhance the irones content in Iris germanica L by Ghader Ghasemi, Mahdi Ayyari, Mohammad-Hossein Azimi, Mohammad-Taghi Ebadi

“…Interestingly, microwave drying not only reduced the time of drying but also, increased the irones content compared to the fresh samples. The negligible amount of cis-α-irone and cis-γ-irone in fresh sample (0.2 %), reached to more than 90 % in whole rhizome by microwave drying. …”
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Epidemiological and molecular characterization of Enterobius vermicularis cases in Mersin, Turkey: An analysis based on mitochondrial DNA cox1 gene sequences by Harun Gülbudak, Seda Tezcan Ülger, Taylan Bozok, Gönül Aslan

“…Between January 2017 and December 2023, 1496 samples were examined using the cellophane tape method, and 75 positives were identified. …”
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Between Volga and Ural River basins: concerning family ties of the Abashevo and Sintashta population of the Bronze Age in the context of genetic dat by Mednikova M.B., Kanapin A.A., Samsonova A.A., Morgunova N.L.

“…In a pairwise comparison of Pepkino caster with other samples, the probability of the occurrence of at least one IBD fragment in the genomes was more than 0.9 for both the Maloyldashevo sample, as well for a female (sample POST_131) from Southern Bavaria with close AMS date. …”
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