Parenthood and all-cause mortality in older adults with schizophrenia: a multicenter 5-year prospective study by Katayoun Rezaei, Sandra Abou Kassm, María Sofía Garcés-González, Marina Sánchez-Rico, Mark Olfson, Charles Ouazana-Vedrines, Valentin Scheer, Mahdi Fayad, Pierre Meneton, Frédéric Limosin, Nicolas Hoertel

“…Here, we examined whether all-cause and cause-specific mortality rates significantly differ between older parents and non-parents with schizophrenia during a 5-year follow-up. Methods: We used data from a 5-year prospective multicenter sample of older adults with an ICD-10 diagnosis of schizophrenia (aged 55 years or more) recruited in France. …”
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Serum metabolite levels identify incipient metastatic progression of rectal cancer by Kine M. Bakke, Paula A. Bousquet, Sebastian Meltzer, Tonje Bjørnetrø, Frode Rise, Alistair L. Wilkins, Kathrine Røe Redalen, Anne Hansen Ree

“…We have assessed metabolites in serum sampled at the time of diagnosis by 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, using the internal reference trimethylsilylpropanoic acid for quantification. …”
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Corporate Governance, Disclosure Quality, and Cost of Equity: Evidence from Pakistan by Safia Nosheen, Naveed-Ul-Haq, Muhammad Faisal Sajjad

“…Using the Generalized Methods of Movements (Sys-GMM) model, a sample of 167 non-financial firms listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) for the period of 2011-2015was analyzed. …”
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Patient pathways of tuberculosis care-seeking and treatment: an individual-level analysis of National Health Insurance data in Taiwan by Simon Dixon, Chien-Chou Chen, Chu-Chang Ku, Hsien Ho Lin, Peter J Dodd

“…We applied this to patients with TB in a simple random sample of one million patients’ records in the Taiwan National Health Insurance database. …”
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In vitro effects of purified lacticin from whey isolated Lactococcus lactis culture on Staphylococcus aureus and MCF-7 breast cancer cells by Mahtab Hosseinzadeh‎, Monir Doudi, Ali Mohammad Ahadi

“…This study aimed to isolate bacteria which produce bacteriocins of the lacticin family from whey and to investigate their antibacterial and anticancer effects. Materials and Methods: Lactic acid bacteria were isolated from different whey samples. …”
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Gender gap in tooth brushing among Korean adolescents by Ichiro Kawachi, Jae-In Ryu

“…This study aimed to understand the gender gap in toothbrushing before and during the pandemic. Materials and methods Based on analyses of data obtained from the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey from 2017 to 2022, the nationally representative sample (n = 341,265) comprised middle and high school students. …”
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THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL HEALTH PERCEPTION ON CYBERCHONDRIA BEHAVIOR by Mustafa Filiz, Yalçın Karagöz

“…Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the effect of individual health perception on cyberchondria tendency and to identify differences in individual health perception and cyberchondria tendency according to various demographic variables.Material and Methods: The sample of the study consists of 400 individuals over the age of 18, residing in Istanbul, Turkiye. …”
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Influence of size and insertion depth of irrigation needle on debris extrusion and sealer penetration by Emel Uzunoglu-Özyürek, Hakan Karaaslan, Sevinç Aktemur Türker, Bahar Özçelik

“…Buccal roots of samples were irrigated with respective needle type inserted 1 mm short of the working length (WL), while palatal roots were irrigated with respective needle type inserted 3 mm short of the WL. …”
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for late-life depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Panpan Yang, Lin Li, Rui Zhang, Hailong Li

“…Future studies with larger sample sizes and long-term outcomes are still needed to provide more robust evidence. …”
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Quality of Life Among Natural Menopausal Women and Early Surgical Menopausal Women: A Study from Greece by Fotini Kavga, Anastasia Bothou, Christina Nanou, Giannoula Kyrkou, Victoria Vivilaki, Anna Deltsidou

“…This study aims to compare the effect of menopause on quality of life (QOL) in two groups of women undergoing natural and surgical menopause. Methods: The sample consisted of 100 female patients from a Greek hospital in Athens, with an average age of 44.5 years, half of whom had natural menopause, while the remaining women had iatrogenic menopause after surgery for any reason other than malignancy. …”
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Genome‐Wide Scan of Fifth Finger Clinodactyly by Myoung Keun Lee, Noah Herrick, Mary L. Marazita, John R. Shaffer, Seth M. Weinberg

“…Further, there is epidemiological evidence that mild (typical‐range) fifth finger clinodactyly may have a different etiology than more severe forms. Methods In this retrospective cross‐sectional study, we carried out genome‐wide association mapping of common genetic variants for clinodactyly in three cohorts separately and combined results via meta‐analysis, treating the trait as either a continuous quantitative variable (nmeta = 631) or a binary outcome (nmeta = 1647). …”
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Patch-Based Surface Accuracy Control for Digital Elevation Models by Inverted Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Located on a Long Pole by Juan F. Reinoso-Gordo, Francisco J. Ariza-López, José L. García-Balboa

“…The vertical accuracy of both products has typically been evaluated using methods based on randomly sampled control points. …”
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Determination of Knowledge and Views of Married Women Aged 18-49 About Breast Milk Banks by İlknur Yıldız, Zehra Gölbaşı, Ayten Şentürk Erenel

“…Objective: This study was performed descriptively to determine th eknowledge and views of married women aged 18-49 regarding breast milk banks. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out at two Family Health Centers (FHC) in Sivas city center. …”
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Interrelationship of Preschoolers’ Gross Motor Skills, Digital Game Addiction Tendency, and Parents’ Parenting Styles by Savaş Aydın, Ramazan Sak, İkbal Tuba Şahin-Sak

“…Young children’s physical activity is also declining as they spend more time on screens. Methods: This quantitative survey-based study examined the relationships among 252 preschoolers’ gross motor skills, their tendency to become addicted to digital games, and their parents’ parenting styles. …”
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The Power of Posing: Do Body Display Instructions Have an Impact on Behavior in Daily Life? by Mai Bjørnskov Mikkelsen, Emma Elkjær, Douglas S. Mennin, Johannes Michalak, Mia S. O'Toole

“…The moderating effects of motivational traits and symptoms of psychopathology were explored. Methods A sample of 127 adults identified personally relevant and challenging actions they wanted to take during each week for 12 consecutive weeks. …”
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Genotyping and phylogenetic analysis of human Papillomaviruses from women with genital warts by Ghufran M. Al Azzawi, Anmar A. AlTaie

“…The aims were to Investigation of the prevalence and genotypic distribution of HPV in women with genital warts in Mosul/Iraq, HPV-DNA sequencing and Phylogenetic analysis including minimum spanning trees of amplified HPV L1 gene comparison the present sequences with similar genotypes in GenBank – National Center Biotechnology Information (NCBI) using mega-7-software. Materials and methods. A total of 150 samples were collected from women with genital wart infections. …”
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Use of over-the-counter antiallergic products–analysis of sales data in Poland from 2020 to 2023 by Łukasz Dudziński, Marcin Weiner, Tomasz Kubiak, Julia Grochowska, Robert Gałązkowski, Lukasz Czyzewski

“…The data were collected from a nationwide sample of 6,500 brick-and-mortar pharmacies over the period from 2020 to 2023. …”
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Association between headache and tinnitus among medical students by Deborah Ribeiro Bessa, Marianna Andrade de Almeida Dunkel, Larissa Ribeiro Bessa, Luís Antônio Bahiana Cruz, Katia de Miranda Avena, Bruno Farias Lessa

“…Objective: To investigate the prevalence of the association between headache and tinnitus, and to describe the epidemiological profile of the study population and the chronological order of appearance of these symptoms. Methods: Cross-sectional, observational and analytical study on a sample representative of an academic center. …”
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Evaluation of workers’ perception about safety in roller and steel parts production factory based on the health belief model in 2011 by M Asghari, MH Taghdisi, M Haghighi, D Yekefallah, M Abbassinia, I Ahmadnezhad, H Aghaie

“…Also 65.9% mentioned that have had injuries during the work. Further more, according to the Chi-square test there was a relationship between HBM dimensions such as perceived sensitivity with job, working unit, work-related injuries. …”
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Multiple entropy fusion predicts driver fatigue using forehead EEG by Renyu Yang, Ling Zhang, Renhuan Yang, Lixing Hou, Donglong Zhu, Boming Zhong

“…The leave-one-out cross-validation method was used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.ResultsOur proposed method yields stronger robustness and better recognition for detecting driver fatigue, demonstrating its potential to enhance current approaches for detecting driver fatigue.ConclusionThe proposed method can provide a more effective way to detect driver fatigue.…”
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