The prevalence of substance use and its associations amongst students attending high school in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town by A.K. Hamdulay, R. Mash

“…In particular, the study evaluated the use of tik (crystal methamphetamine), a relatively new drug. Method: A cross-sectional study was performed amongst 12 secondary schools in Mitchells Plain; Grade 8 and Grade 11 classes were randomly selected to produce a sample of 438 learners. …”
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eTEP-PP for repair of primary midline ventral hernias by Abhimanyu Kapoor, Sutrave Tarun, Rahul Kumar, Azharuddin Ansari, Suraj Subhash Sakhare

“…This technique combines the benefits of eTEP and TAPP, avoids specific drawbacks such as the need to divide the posterior rectus sheath or close the peritoneum, and ensures safer and more effective repair. The eTEP-PP method shows promise as a future standard for small-to-medium primary ventral hernia repairs. …”
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Pathway analysis of GWAS provides new insights into genetic susceptibility to 3 inflammatory diseases. by Hariklia Eleftherohorinou, Victoria Wright, Clive Hoggart, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, David Balding, Lachlan Coin, Michael Levin

“…Studying the cumulative variation of polymorphisms in multiple genes acting in functional pathways may provide a complementary approach to the more common single SNP association approach in understanding genetic determinants of common disease. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE IN NIGERIAN OIL AND GAS SECTOR by Adeoba Asaolu Adepoju

“…Tasks: Ultimately, the outcome of this study would benefit the Oil and Gas companies in making their capital structure decisions on preferred source of capital (loans or equity or a combination), the sector as a whole in terms of capacity and the regulatory authority in their assets performance monitoring. Method: The investigation has been performed using panel data procedure for a sample of seven Oil and Gas companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange during 2008–2019. …”
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The Importance of Urban Greening Spaces for Avian Communities in an Urbanized Landscape by Grzegorz Kopij

“…The line transect method (43 transects with a total of 37.4 km) was employed to count all bird species breeding in different landforms distinguished in the city: coastal land, urbanized land, rural land, and urban greening space. …”
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Potential of ethyl acetate and ethanol extracts of Bintaro (Cerbera manghas L.) seeds as bioinsecticides against Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) by Alkausyari Aziz, Bintal Amin, Dedi Afandi, Efriyeldi Efriyeldi, Fitria Gusfa, Masnun Masnun, Ahmad Dahlan, Slamet Wardoyo

“…Botanical insecticides are derived from plants that have bioactive compounds (toxic to insects) that readily break down in the environment, do not pollute the ecosystem, and are more selective and safer than conventional pesticides. …”
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Evaluation of interleukin-6 level in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and its correlation with the stage of the disease by Nuha Abd Ali Al-Sarai, Noor Noaman Nafea, Abbas Hashim Abdulsalam

“…BACKGROUND: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is not an uncommon hematological malignancy which affects elderly individuals primarily. It is more common in developed world. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a soluble mediator with a pleiotropic effect on inflammation, immune response, and hematopoiesis. …”
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Evaluation of Salivary and Serum Alpha Amylase Level in Dental Caries of Adolescence by Fatemeh Ahmadi- Motamayel, Mohammad Taghi Goodarzi, Zohreh Jamshidi, Ali Mahdavinezhad, Nasrin Rafieian

“…This study was implemented in order to investigate the interrelation between level of salivary and serum alpha- amylase and dental caries. Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional investigation, un-stimulated whole saliva  and serum sample was collected from 118 high school students  who were divided to four groups: Caries free female (N= 28), caries active females (N=35), caries free males(N= 28) and caries active males(N= 27). …”
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Identifying selected regions from heterozygosity and divergence using a light-coverage genomic dataset from two human populations. by Taras K Oleksyk, Kai Zhao, Francisco M De La Vega, Dennis A Gilbert, Stephen J O'Brien, Michael W Smith

“…Our study was replicated especially well in those regions confirmed by three or more studies. These validated regions were independently verified, using a combination of different methods and different databases in other studies, and should include fewer false positives. …”
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Prognostic and therapeutic implication of residual timorous tissue in cervix conizate by Živadinović Radomir, Lilić Vekoslav, Petrić Aleksandra, Tubić Aleksandra

“…Histopathologic analyses of the bioptic and cervical conizate and reconizate samples were performed in the same institute. The acquired data were analyzed and statistically processed. …”
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Comparative morphological characteristics for stable and progressive pulmonary tuberculoma by Natalia E. Gimaldinova, L. A. Lyubovtseva, A. V. Sergeev

“…The objective of the study was to identify a leading link in local and lung neuroendocrine immune during tuberculoma. Materials and methods. 60 cases of stable and progressive tuberculoma were studied. …”
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Analysis of Vicious Circle of Poverty, the Social Role of Micro Waqf Bank, and Permissiveness of Street Vendors in Rural Indonesia by Rahmat Dahlan, Aselina Endang Trihastuti, Raden Ali Pangestu, Ita Sitasari, Emmy Hamidiyah Syaiin, Muhamad Fauzi

“…Design/Methodology: The study employs a qualitative method with a descriptive approach, using a purposive sample of 100 consumers from Bita Amanah Ummat Micro Waqf Bank in Garut Regency, West Java. …”
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Long-Term Outcomes in Crosslinking Therapy for Patients with Progressive Keratoconus by Tevfik Serhat Bahar, Vedat Şahin, Yusuf Ayaz, Mustafa Ünal

“…Additionally, although epi-off and epi-on CXL methods were compared in our study, the sample size was limited, and more comprehensive and long-term studies are needed.…”
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Machine Learning-Based Harvest Date Detection and Prediction Using SAR Data for the Vojvodina Region (Serbia) by Gordan Mimić, Amit Kumar Mishra, Miljana Marković, Branislav Živaljević, Dejan Pavlović, Oskar Marko

“…It is shown that the separability of unharvested and harvested data in two-dimensional space does not depend on the selected method but more on the crop itself. Support Vector Machine and Multi-layer Perceptron were used as classification algorithms for harvest detection, with the former achieving higher accuracies of 79.65% for wheat, 83.41% for maize and 95.97% for soybean. …”
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Efficient Switched-Beam Detection for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in 6G Wireless Networks With Full Duplex Technology at the THz Band by Andrea Tani, Dania Marabissi

“…Numerical simulations show that the proposed SS method is feasible and robust. Compared to the recursive least squares (RLS) adaptive filtering benchmark, it offers a more robust false alarm probability, particularly in the low-AWGN regime, with detection performance similar to or slightly lower than the RLS detector, but with significantly lower computational complexity.…”
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Factors related to sickness absenteeism among Brazilian Nursing professionals before, during, and after the pandemic by Fernanda Seidel Pinheiro, Miguel Lucas Silva da Paixão, Gabriel Fernandes Gonçalves, João Lucas Campos de Oliveira, Daiane Dal Pai, Juliana Petri Tavares

“…Sick leave absenteeism resulted in an average of 54.1±2.5 lost days (p<0.001) and was more prevalent among professionals aged 41 years or younger (31.8%; p=0.003). …”
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A Hybrid Framework for Referring Image Segmentation: Dual-Decoder Model with SAM Complementation by Haoyuan Chen, Sihang Zhou, Kuan Li, Jianping Yin, Jian Huang

“…This strategy leverages SAM’s zero-sample learning capabilities to refine and optimize the segmentation outcomes. …”
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Enterotoxigenic coagulase positive Staphylococcus in milk and milk products, lben and jben, in northern Morocco by Abdrezzak Bendahou, Mohammed Abid, Nadine Bouteldoun, Dierick Catelejine, Mariam Lebbadi

“…Methodology: Eighty-one samples of milk and milk products were analyzed for the presence of Staphylococcus strains. …”
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Determination of Some Soil Properties with Near-infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy by Hüseyin Şenol, Mesut Akgül

“…NIRS method includes some features such as physically harmless analyses of the material, the rapidity, repeatability, allowing simultaneously analyses of more than one parameter and cost-effectiveness. …”
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Stacked-cup multiwall carbon nanotubes as components of energy-intensive suspension jet fuels by L. S. Karpushenkava, G. Ya. Kabo, A. V. Blokhin

“…The energy and enthalpy of combustion of a technical sample of MWCNTs in the crystalline state were determined. …”
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