Assessment of serum cardiac biomarkers [cTn-1, hs-CRP, CKMB] in patients attending Federal Medical Center Owerri, Imo State, South-East Nigeria by Elendu Melford Uche, Ewa Ogbonnaya, Egwuregwu Jude Nnabuife, Ekweogu Celestine Nwabu, Ejiofor Dominic Chinedu, Samson Abanni, Obioha Kennedy Chinonye, Elizabeth Obioma Nweke, Victor Chukwuemeka Amoke, Nwuruku Olisa Alfred

“…Conclusion: This study found that hypertension was more prevalent among female attendees at FMC Owerri, as reflected by the elevated levels of the evaluated biomarkers in this group.…”
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Lightweight wavelet-CNN tea leaf disease detection. by Jing Yang, GaoJian Xu, MengDao Yang, ZhengPei Lin

“…The extracted frequency-domain features are fused with depth features from the Bneck structure, enabling a more comprehensive representation of disease characteristics. …”
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Real-Time Run-Off-Road Risk Prediction Based on Deep Learning Sequence Forecasting Approach by Yunteng Chen, Lijun Wei, Qiong Bao, Huansong Zhang

“…Current driving risk prediction methods typically establish a mapping between driving features and risk statuses. …”
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Enhancing EFL Students’ Speaking Skills Through the Debate Technique: A Classroom Action Research Study by Anggit Laesa Oktaviani, Tubagus Udong Rapiudin, Mahyati Mahyati, Edy Supriyanto, Asep Suryadi

“…Data was collected via observation, documentation, and speaking tests, and analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The population of this research is 180 students in the XI science classes, while for the samples, the researcher selected 36 students from XI A3 because this class is considered to be the most passive one compared to others . xxxxx The findings revealed that the debate technique was effective in enhancing students’ speaking performance, self-confidence, and classroom interaction. …”
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Italian adaptation of the Workplace Ostracism Scale: A psychometric analysis based on item response theory by Giusy D. VALENTI, Palmira FARACI

“…The current study aims to examine the psychometric properties of the Workplace Ostracism Scale (WOS), the most commonly used tool for WO evaluation. Methods: A sample of 441 Italian employees (53.3% males; Mage = 35, SD = 9.98) was recruited via the Prolific Academic platform. …”
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Asymmetric transfer between the learning of the complex stimulus by Yangyang Du, Hui Kou, Huijie Liu, Taiyong Bi

“…However, limited understanding exists regarding the plasticity of the representation of complex stimuli in visual working memory (VWM) and its specificity.MethodsTo address this question, we adopted a delayed match-to-sample task to train the working memory for faces and houses. …”
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Image-Based Malware Detection Using Deep CNN Models by hawraa omran musa, Muhanad Tahrir Younis

“…This research shows that CNN-based methods can have a high level of effectiveness in detecting obfuscated malware.…”
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Eating Disorders in Young Adults and Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Andrea Tomás, Tatiana Fernandes, Helena Loureiro

“…Results: The sample consisted of 47 participants, mostly female, with the age group between 26 and 35 years being most representative. …”
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An Overview of DHEA-S Levels in Chronic Stress and BMI - A Prospective Study by Tejashwini Huchannavar, Sunil Nayak, Shruthi H P, Rajesh Shenoy

“… Background Increased stress levels when chronic in nature may lead to diseases like hypertension cancer early ageing and fertility issues along with menstrual irregularities in females and lower sperm count in males as the age increases due to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal HPA axis dysregulation.Aim The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of perceived chronic stress and body mass index BMI in a subset of healthy population of male volunteers aged 18 to 45 years and female volunteers aged 18 to 40 years.Methods The selected male and female population were stratified into age and stress matched groups and one time dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate DHEA-S levels were ascertained to evaluate any changes DHEA-S levels were measured using Chemiluminescence method within six hours of collection of the blood samples randomly collected at different time points in the day and were then statistically evaluated using Mini Tab statistical tool.Results The lower levels of DHEA-S were more pronounced in males than in females in age and stress matched stratified groups. …”
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Foot and ankle angioleiomyoma: a systematic review by Michaël J. Matos, Sérgio Soares, Joseph M. Schwab, Moritz Tannast, Angela Seidel

“…Results Angioleiomyoma is more prevalent in middle-aged women, and pain is the most common symptom. …”
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Chronic Renal Disease in the Older Adult by Maislete Gutiérrez Rufín, Chanel Polanco López

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> chronic renal disease was diagnosed in 90.3 % of the old patients, it was more frequent in stage 2, in the female sex, mixed race. …”
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Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance in Urinary Tract Infection Pathogens: Analysis in a Provincial Hospital in Zimbabwe by Mufaro Manyawu, Maibouge Tanko Mahamane Salissou

“…Results: More females (56.4%) than males (43.6%) had UTIs, with age groups 0–9 and 20–29 years most affected (16.6% each). …”
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The Relationship between the Need for Security and Its Personal Meanings among University Students by V.G. Tylets, T.M. Krasnyanskaya

“…The research possibilities of methods of associative experiment, analysis of products of activity, subjective scaling are used. …”
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Incorporating Family Function into Chronic Pain Disability: The Role of Catastrophizing by Fatemeh Akbari, Mohsen Dehghani, Ali Khatibi, Tine Vervoort

“…Three different models were examined. Methods. A total sample of 142 patients with musculoskeletal chronic pain was recruited to examine the role of fear of movement, pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, and depression in relationship to family functioning as predictors of disability. …”
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Corrosion measurement of thermally sprayed carbide coatings on stainless steel pipes by Roshan Kuruvila, Jayakrishnan R, Thirumalai Kumaran S

“…Traditional corrosion monitoring methods frequently fail to provide accurate and reliable results. …”
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Bacteriological profile in patients having chronic dacryocystitis presenting for cataract surgery in a tertiary care centre by Mrunal Dhiran, Hina Rahangdale, Rajesh Joshi, Sunanda Shrikhande Zodpey

“… Background: the clinical research specifies that patients with clogged Nasolacrimal Ducts (NLDs) are more likely to cause infectious endophthalmitis secondary to cataract surgery. …”
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Is cardiac autonomic control affected in major depressive disorder? A systematic review of heart rate variability studies by Federica Goffi, Eleonora Maggioni, Anna Maria Bianchi, Paolo Brambilla, Giuseppe Delvecchio

“…Aim The objective of this review was to provide any reproducible insights on autonomic regulation characteristics of MDD through the selection, revision, and joint interpretation of a restricted sample of studies based on systematic criteria. Methods The literature research resulted in thirty eligible articles that reported the comparison of short-term resting-state HRV measures between drug-free MDD patients and healthy controls, excluding subjects affected by cardiovascular diseases. …”
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Physiological Status of Some Selected Salivary Antioxidants in Dental Caries by Sulafa Khair Al-Deen Banoosh Alayoubi, Intesar Jasim Al-Kaysi, Hadeel Ayad, Esraa Azawi

“…Dental caries was divided into three categories based on scores: mild (0–10), moderate (11–20), and severe (21–and more). Salivary uric acid and salivary total protein concentration were assessed via chemical analysis of unstimulated saliva sample collection. …”
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Is Ventilator-associated Event Algorithm Ideal for Surveillance? – Experience from a Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit in Kerala by Lisha Pallivalappil, Daksh Sharma, P. S. Nishanth

“…Twenty-one patients had respiratory sample culture positivity and 14 were clinical VAP. …”
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Nutrition services by health providers during antenatal consultations in Senegal: a comparison of observed versus self-reported practices by Elhadji Alioune Badara Ningue, Isabelle Galibois, Sonia Blaney

“…This paper aimed to compare health providers’ self-reported practices to their actual provision of nutrition services during antenatal care (ANC) consultations. # Methods A comparative study was conducted in a random sample of 27 health providers in the Kolda region. …”
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