Natural biomaterial approach: Synergistic effects of cocoa and aloe vera in hydrogel-based bone regeneration: An in vitro study by Feni Istikharoh, Hidayat Sujuti, Edi Mustamsir

“…Aloe vera extract was obtained through the maceration method with 70 % ethanol. Samples were divided into four groups with different concentrations and sterilized using gamma radiation. …”
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Effects of Rh-Negative Blood Group on Pure Tone Thresholds and Immittance Test Results by Kamalakannan Karupaiah, Sundaresan Ramachandran, Delna Saji, Jerlin Xavier, Ann Rose Chiyezhan, Nilesh Jeevandas Washnik, Prashanth Prabhu

“…Hence, a study was needed to observe if the same trend is followed for those with Rh-ve blood groups. Methods: A cross-sectional group post-test-only design with a non-random convenient sample was applied. …”
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Control of glycaemia and its related factors in patients with type 2 diabetes, north of Iran: generalized linear mixed models and prevalence of overdispersion in patients by Samaneh Hosseinzadeh, Saeideh Davar

“…It is essential to implement more intensive diabetes management strategies within national healthcare plans.…”
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Reflective Practices among Postgraduate Medical Students to Improve their Learning Outcomes - A Qualitative Exploratory Study by Sahar Mufti, Brekhna Jamil, Ali Ahsan Mufti, Saman Baseer

“…Semi-structured interviews were carried out with a purposive sample of nine postgraduate students. All the interviews were audio recorded and transcribed onto otter.ai. …”
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Perceived neighborhood disadvantage and poor chronic health in Israel by Sharon Stein Merkin, Kathleen Abu-Saad

“…Few studies have focused on the impact of neighborhood disadvantage on health in a representative sample of the Israeli population while accounting for multiple socioeconomic factors. …”
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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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Assessing Perception of Role Transition among Nurse Interns by Amina A. Abd Elfatah, Samia M. Adam, Hanaa M. Abrabu, Galila M. Abd Elghafar

“…A convenient sample of all available nurse interns who started their internship in 2018 and their total number were100. …”
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Analysis of inpatient costs in patients with knee osteoarthritis treated by implantation of total condylar knee endoprosthesis by Pejčić Ana, Radunović Aleksandar, Vulović Maja

“…Total knee replacement is an elective and high cost surgical procedure which is performed more frequently as a result of increasing prevalence of knee osteoarthritis. …”
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Numerical Simulations of Carbon Dioxide Storage Efficiency in Heterogeneous Reservoir Models by Evgeniy M. Myshakin, Foad Haeri, Johnathan Moore, Dustin Crandall, Angela L. Goodman

“…Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE-NETL) has been developing methods and tools (the online Carbon Dioxide Storage prospeCtive Resource Estimation Excel aNalysis (CO2-SCREEN) tool) to estimate carbon dioxide (CO2) storage potential in subsurface reservoirs. …”
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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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Impact of intensive insulin treatment on the development and consequences of oxidative stress in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus by Kocić Radivoj, Pavlović Dušica, Kocić Gordana

“…The obtained results showed that the both plasma and lipoproteines apo B MDA increased significantly more in the patients on conventional therapy than in the patients on intensive insulin therapy, most probably due to intensified xanthine oxidase activity. …”
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Antibiotic Use among Patients Visiting Primary Hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Survey by Adeladlew Kassie Netere, Ashenafi Kibret Sendekie

“…A pvalue of <0.05 with 95% CI was considered significant. Results. More than half of the participants (57.2%) were males, and the mean age was 34.8 ± 13.4 years. …”
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Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Age Related Macular Degeneration in the EPIC-Norfolk Eye Study. by Jennifer L Y Yip, Anthony P Khawaja, Michelle P Y Chan, David C Broadway, Tunde Peto, Adnan Tufail, Robert Luben, Shabina Hayat, Amit Bhaniani, Nicholas J Wareham, Kay-Tee Khaw, Paul J Foster

“…<h4>Purpose</h4>To examine the cross sectional and longitudinal relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a large British cohort study.<h4>Methods</h4>The EPIC Norfolk Eye study is nested in a larger prospective cohort study. …”
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Fecal occult blood affects intestinal microbial community structure in colorectal cancer by Wu Guodong, Wu Yinhang, Wu Xinyue, Shen Hong, Chu Jian, Qu Zhanbo, Han Shuwen

“…Objective To analyze the effects of fecal occult blood test (FOBT) on gut microbes. Methods Fecal samples from 107 healthy individuals (FOBT-negative) and 111 CRC patients (39 FOBT-negative and 72 FOBT-positive) were included for 16 S ribosomal RNA sequencing. …”
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Stress exacerbates infectivity and pathogenicity of Blastocystis hominis: in vitro and in vivo evidences. by Samudi Chandramathi, Kumar Suresh, Sinnadurai Sivanandam, Umah Rani Kuppusamy

“…Lifestyles today are becoming increasingly stressed and the present findings suggest that the parasite which has been reported to be one of the most common organisms seen in stool surveys, namely in developing countries, may tend to be more pathogenic in stressful situations.…”
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Sharing health data for research purposes: results of a population survey in Germany by Caroline Dotter, Sonja Haug, Rainer Schnell, Georgios Raptis, Karsten Weber

“…Most studies are based on subsets defined by specific illnesses. Methods We commissioned a national computer-assisted dual-frame telephone survey (landline and mobile). …”
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<i>In Vitro</i> Evaluation of the Microleakage in Bioflex Crowns Luted with Two Different Cements by Harsh S Baldawa, Mahesh Ramakrishnan

“…Conclusion: RMGIC demonstrated superior resistance to microleakage, making it a more reliable option for luting Bioflex crowns compared to conventional GIC. …”
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College major decision making behavior of urban and rural students under cultural capital impact in China by Congbin Guo, Mengchao Guo, Chenchen Fang, Xiaowei Hao

“…This study investigates the behavioral patterns in educational choices, focusing on the impact of urban-rural background and family cultural capital on college students’ major selection in China. Employing a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed data from a nationwide sample of 19,772 college students across various institution types. …”
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The effect of official competition on blood leucocyte subsets and serum immunoglobulins in male karateka by Abdolhossein Taheri Kalani, Mahmoud Nikseresht

“…Purpose: Psychological stresses induced by competition, can cause immune system alternations, which predisposes the athletes to infectious diseases more than common exercises. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of official sports competition on leucocyte, and subsets counts, immunoglobulin A (IgA), G (IgG), and cortisol levels in male karatekas.Methods: Ten male karatekas (aged: 22.9±2.6 yr, height 176.4±8.3 cm, and body mass index 21.2±1.5 kg/m2), acceded to final competition of Ilam province, were selected. …”
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