The relationship between gender, educational background, and learning environment with nursing student’s anxiety by Amelia Margaretha Simbolon, Jesika Sari Munthe, Mikar Syah Idaman Daeli, Ineke Patrisia, Chriska Roully Adeline Sinaga

“…ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify variables associated with nursing students’ anxiety-related clinical practice. Methods: this study used a correlational quantitative descriptive design with the STROBE equator instrument. …”
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COMPARISON OF A RAPID ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBANT ASSAY TEST WITH AN INDIRECT IMMUNOFLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TEST IN DIAGNOSING EHRLICHIA AND ANAPLASMA INFECTIONS IN DOGS by Kr. Gospodinova, G. Zhelev, V. Petrov

“…PURPOSE: The objective of this study is to compare the diagnostic value of commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFA) in detecting immunoglobulin-G (IgG) antibodies to Ehrlichia canis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. METHODS: Seventy-four serum samples, obtained from dogs believed to be naturally infected with E. canis or A. phagocytophilum, were analyzed. …”
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Effectiveness of the guided self-change intervention for reducing alcohol use in adolescents with and without history of cannabis use by José Luis Carballo, José Luis Carballo, Miguel Ángel Martínez-León, Ainhoa Coloma-Carmona, Ainhoa Coloma-Carmona, Virtudes Pérez-Jover, Virtudes Pérez-Jover, Álvaro García del Castillo-López, Clara Sancho-Domingo, Antonia Pelegrín-Muñoz, Carlos van-der Hofstadt-Román, Carlos van-der Hofstadt-Román, Carlos van-der Hofstadt-Román

“…The consumer profile, including whether they have consumed one or more substances, may be a key variable in analyzing the effectiveness of interventions.MethodsThis study consists in a secondary analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial (PREVENALC) to examine the effectiveness of a brief intervention based on the Guided Self-Change Program (GSC) and its interaction with substance use profile. …”
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WeCanWork study: well-being of male cancer survivors working physically demanding jobs by Natalie V. Schwatka, Miranda Dally, Amy Dye-Robinson, Liliana Tenney, Carol E Brown, Madison Goering, Brian Williams, Lee S Newman, Cathy J Bradley

“…We used descriptive statistics to describe the demographics and worker well-being of the study sample and pooled t-tests to determine whether there were differences between respondents who had more physically demanding work and those with fewer physical demands. …”
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Preliminary Testing of the Discussion of Patient Life Goals Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Dialysis Facilities by Claudia Dahlerus, Noelle E. Carlozzi, Katrina Price, Jennifer A. Miner, Richard A. Hirth, Garrett Gremel, Peisong Han, Wei Zhang, Jennifer Sardone, Jesse Roach, Wilfred Agbenyikey, Stephanie L. Clark, Golden Horton, Alexander Yaldo, Joseph M. Messana

“…The survey fills a need for more patient-reported outcome measures for people being treated for kidney failure.…”
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Myocardial inflammation is associated with impaired mitochondrial oxidative capacity in ischaemic cardiomyopathy by Julius Borger, Elric Zweck, Constanze Moos, Patrick Horn, Fabian Voß, Heinz‐Peter Schultheiss, Jacob Eifer Møller, Udo Boeken, Hug Aubin, Artur Lichtenberg, Malte Kelm, Michael Roden, Amin Polzin, Ralf Westenfeld, Julia Szendroedi, Daniel Scheiber

“…We aimed at establishing a relevant role of cardiac inflammation in the impairment of mitochondrial energy production in advanced ischaemic and non‐ischaemic HF. Methods We included 81 patients with stage D HF (ICM, n = 44; DCM, n = 37) undergoing left ventricular assist device implantation (n = 59) or heart transplantation (n = 22) and obtained left ventricular tissue samples during open heart surgery. …”
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Reduced-Order Models and Conditional Expectation: Analysing Parametric Low-Order Approximations by Hermann G. Matthies

“…This offers the possibility of having a combined view of these methods and also of introducing more general loss functions.…”
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Acculturation and wellbeing by Anne Tseu, Mitchell Clark

“… This mixed methods study investigated the acculturation status and wellbeing of a sample of first-generation immigrants to Canada. …”
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Risk factor prevalence in Ryazan Region patients with arterial hypertension by E. A. Smirnova

“…To study the prevalence of selected risk factors (RFs) in Ryazan Region men and women with arterial hypertension (AH), based on the results of the representative sample examination.Material and methods. As a part of the Russian multi-centre study “EPOCHA”, a representative sample from Ryazan Region (n=2098) was examined. …”
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ID-Migraine™ questionnaire and accurate diagnosis of migraine by Ana Carolina Musser Tavares de Mattos, Jano Alves de Souza, Pedro Ferreira Moreira Filho, Mauro Eduardo Jurno, Luis Guilhermo Coca Velarde

“…ABSTRACT Objective To analyze the applicability of the Portuguese version of ID-MigraineTM in a sample of Brazilian patients. Methods Patients with headache were recruited from the neurology outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital and submitted to the ID-MigraineTM questionnaire. …”
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Female motivation to lead: the impact of same-sex role models and female leadership strength awareness by Sabine Boerner, Miriam Schwarzmaier, Ioannis Tagos

“…By investigating female motivation to lead, we want to contest this finding.MethodsWe used five samples for validating our newly specified constructs (i.e., prosocial MTL and female leadership strength awareness) in Study 1 and a further sample of 248 students in Study 2.ResultsFirst, we propose a reconceptualization of MTL by introducing prosocial MTL as a fourth MTL type. …”
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The study of mother’s knowledge regarding their children, s Attention Deficit ‎Hyperactivity Disorder ‎ by fatemeh atar, zahra shojaee

“…‎ Objective: The goal of this study is to determine the level of mothers knowledge regarding ‎ADHD.‎ Methods: This is a descriptive study and its sample consisted of ‎‏60‏‎ mothers whose children ‎were diagnosed with ADHD during first three months of ‎‏2008‏‎ and were reffered to ‎Educational center of Shafa in Rasht. …”
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RASGEF1C methylation for the distinguishment and classification of benign and malignant thyroid tumors by Wenkang Yu, Yifei Yin, Mengxia Li, Haixia Huang, Junjie Li, Yi Zhang, Lun Zhu, Yifen Zhang, Xuandong Huang, Chenxia Jiang, Rongxi Yang

“…This study aimed to explore RASGEF1C methylation as a biomarker for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Methods Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples from a total of 363 PTC and 409 benign thyroid nodules from multiple centers were analyzed. …”
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Comparative Study between Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women Regarding Variation of Liver Function Tests: Assessment of Health Literacy by Amina I. B. Othman, Dalia M. A. Elsherbini, Hayam F. A. Eittah, Manal S. Hakami, Badria M. A. Mohammed

“…Three tools were used to collect data, socio-demographic and clinical data assessment sheet; assessment of liver function tests by Cobas c 311; and health literacy management scale. Results: The sample's age range was between 20-40 years. This study revealed that; serum albumin levels decreased from the first trimester (3.7-4.7), and this decrease became progressively more accentuated as the pregnancy advanced (3.35-4.36 decreased significantly to 3.19-3.81). …”
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STUDY ON RELIABILITY DISTRIBUTION MODELS OF FATIGUE LIFE OF ANTI-VIBRATION RUBBER MATERIALS (MT) by WANG XiaoLi, PENG XiaoYang, LIU XiangNan, DUAN XiaoCheng, XU Wei

“…Based on the test data of uniaxial tensile fatigue experiment of rubbers, the cumulative distribution function and probability density function of residual fatigue life corresponding to two typical probability distribution models of three parameters Weibull distribution（3 PWD） and logarithmic normal distribution（LND） were derived and applied to the prediction of residual life reliability, in order to determine the minimum required under different probability distribution model of sample number and working condition number. The results showed that 3 PWD was more suitable to characterize the probability distribution of rubber fatigue life. …”
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Lung Health of Early COPD (LHEC): A Multi-Center Cohort Study—Rational and Design by Li W, Lei J, Li B, Tang X, Peng Y, Huang K, Yang T

“…Comprehensive and follow-up questionnaires will be administered, and the participants will undergo physical examination, pulmonary function testing, high-resolution computed tomography (CT), routine blood tests, and biological sample collection. We will analyze the changes in lung function, CT images, symptoms, biomarkers, and other relevant parameters across the different groups.Discussion: There is an urgent need for a more precise definition of early COPD for intervention at an earlier stage. …”
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Retrospective analysis of children with 46,XX testicular/ovotesticular DSD: a 10-year single-center experience by Yan Gong, Xiaoqin Yin, Jing Xu, Yan Li, Qingxu Liu, Shasha Zhou, Fei Wang, Yiqing Lyu, Sheng Guo, Wenyan Huang, Pin Li

“…This study aimed to summarize the clinical characteristics and outcomes of 46,XX TDSD/OTDSD in childhood.MethodsThe sexual development characteristics, hormone profiles, chromosomal analysis, fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis (FISH) sex-determining region Y (SRY) analysis (peripheral blood and tissues), molecular genetic etiology, gonadal pathology, risk of gonadal tumors, and assigned gender of 52 patients were collected and analyzed.ResultsThe median age at initial presentation was 18 months, and external masculinization score(EMS) within the range of 3 < EMS ≤ 6 was more prevalent. …”
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Properties and sensory acceptability of creatine-fortified foods using ultra-micronized creatine monohydrate – the KREAFOOD Project by Julián Quintero-Quiroz, Sebastian Botero-Ramirez, Simon Jaramillo-Caro, Natalia Zuluaga, Diego A. Bonilla

“…Additionally, rheological analysis was conducted for the mocaccino, while texture profile analysis (TPA) was used to assess the pancakes.Results Creavitalis® was characterized by its smaller particle size and thermal stability, which facilitates more homogeneous dispersion and enhanced sensory texture in fortified food applications. …”
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Assessment of a set of microbiological and molecular genetic studies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis by E. V. Sevastyanova, V. A. Puzanov, T. G. Smirnova, E. E. Larionova, L. N. Chernousova

“…Much clinical material (more than 9,500 diagnostic samples) was used to evaluate the efficiency of using different microbiological and molecular genetic studies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in laboratory practice. …”
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Internet and telephone intervention to support patients discontinuing long-term antidepressants in primary care: the REDUCE research programme including RCT by Tony Kendrick, Beth Stuart, Hannah Bowers, Mahboobeh Haji Sadeghi, Helen Page, Christopher Dowrick, Michael Moore, Mark Gabbay, Geraldine Leydon, Guiqing Lily Yao, Shihua Zhu, Paul Little, Gareth Griffiths, Glyn Lewis, Carl May, Joanna Moncrieff, Chris F Johnson, Una Macleod, Simon Gilbody, Rachel Dewar-Haggart, Samantha Williams, Wendy O’Brien, Riya Tiwari, Catherine Woods, Tasneem Patel, Naila Khan, Emma Maund, Nadja van Ginneken, Amy Din, Claire Reidy, Rebecca Lucier, Bryan Palmer, Taeko Becque, Yumna Masood, Natalie Thompson, Ellen van Leeuwen, Marta Glowacka, Adam WA Geraghty

“…Our qualitative process evaluation suggested that implementation methods need to include: Creating opportunities for discussing antidepressant discontinuation (more active reviews of people on long-term treatment and fewer routinely repeated prescriptions). …”
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