Ecological stoichiometry comparison of the plant-litter-soil system of Quercus rehderiana in different rocky desertification habitats by Xiaolong Bai, Shun Zou, Tu Feng, Bin He, Wangjun Li

“…Multivariate analysis indicated that forests in rocky desertification areas maintained strong soil nutrient coupling, whereas non-rocky desertification forests exhibited more pronounced litter decomposition-mediated nutrient coupling. …”
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Impact of Multimorbidity on Symptom Burden and Symptom Clusters in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy by Carolyn Harris, Marilyn J. Hammer, Yvette P. Conley, Steven M. Paul, Bruce A. Cooper, Joosun Shin, Kate Oppegaard, Lisa Morse, Jon D. Levine, Christine Miaskowski

“…Methods Using the Self‐Administered Comorbidity Questionnaire, patients were classified into low and high multimorbidity groups. …”
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Elucidating the causal relationship between gut microbiota, metabolites, and diabetic nephropathy in European patients: Revelations from genome-wide bidirectional mendelian randomi... by Siyuan Song, Li Ning, Jiangyi Yu

“…However, the exact causal relationship among these factors remains unclear.MethodWe conducted a two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization study using summary statistics from the IEU OpenGWAS Project database to investigate gut microbiota, metabolites, and diabetic nephropathy. …”
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Association between night shift work and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cohort-based meta-analysis by Fei Xie, Kangshuo Hu, Rongrong Fu, Yueming Zhang, Kaiqi Xiao, Jieni Tu

“…There may be gender differences (greater harm in women, but the male sample size is small) and obesity differences.…”
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Assessing cardiovascular disease risk and social determinants of health: A comparative analysis of five risk estimation instruments using data from the Eastern Caribbean Health Out... by Jeremy I Schwartz, Christina Howitt, Sumitha Raman, Sanya Nair, Saria Hassan, Carol Oladele, Ian R Hambleton, Daniel F Sarpong, Oswald P Adams, Rohan G Maharaj, Cruz M Nazario, Maxine Nunez, Marcella Nunez-Smith

“…Mean estimated 10-year risk in the sample was over 2.5 times higher using Framingham non-lab vs WHO non-lab (17.3% vs 6.6%). …”
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Acidification in Distillation Technology by Ludmila N. Krikunova, Elena V. Dubinina, Violetta A. Peschanskaya, Olga N. Obodeeva

“…The study featured fermented wort samples from wheat bread, a mix of wheat and rye-wheat bread, and distillate fractions obtained by a single fractionated distillation of fermented wort. …”
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Preconceptual administration of doxycycline in women with recurrent miscarriage and chronic endometritis: protocol for the Chronic Endometritis and Recurrent Miscarriage (CERM) tri... by Martin Underwood, Siobhan Quenby, Joshua Odendaal, Naomi Black, Georgios Bouliotis, Jonathan Guck, Joanne Fisher

“…Women with a history of two or more consecutive first trimester losses with evidence of CE on endometrial biopsy (defined as ≥5 CD138 positive cells per 10 mm2) will be randomised to oral doxycycline or placebo for 14 days. …”
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Determinants of acceptability of schistosomiasis mass drug administration among primary school children in Busega District, Northwestern Tanzania. by Irene Yunzu Edward, Patricia Maritim, Choolwe Jacobs, Adam Silumbwe, Hussein Mohamed, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Hikabasa Halwiindi

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Slightly more than half of primary school children recorded high acceptability of MDA. …”
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Pharmacognostic studies of Trifolium fragiferum L. flora of Southern Ukraine by O. V. Grechana, A. H. Serbin, O. O. Salii, A. M. Rudnyk, I. M. Shevchenko, L. A. Fukleva

“…The aim of this research is to investigate the representative of Southern Ukraine flora Trifolium fragiferum L. which has a sufficient raw material base and use in folk medicine. Materials and methods. Samples were grown in the suburbs of Zaporizhzhia and harvested during full flowering (May – June). …”
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Evaluation of the Clinical Nursing Effects of a Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Program Based on Care Pathways for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: Protocol for a Randomized Con... by Yanchun Zhao, Ting Huang, Yanli Chen, Songmei Li, Juan Zhao, Xu Han, Qing Ni, Ning Su

“…ConclusionsThis study seeks to integrate existing national standardized nursing protocols with clinical pathways to implement more efficient and higher-quality nursing practices. …”
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Association between DASH diet and metabolic syndrome in US adults: a cross-sectional study by Jianing Liu, Rui Yang, Pei Ma, Xiaobo Zhu, Xiaobo Zhu, Xiaobo Zhu

“…And we further explored the relationship between DASH and 5 particular MetS items in depth.ResultsThe final sample size was 8,780 individuals, with DASH scores ranging from 18 to 37. …”
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Association of composite dietary antioxidant index with high risk of prostate cancer in middle-aged and elderly men: insights from NHANES by Xuefeng Jin, Wenhui Tong, Li Sun, Sujue Lu, Pan Sun, Hangxu Li, Yan Liu

“…Participants were categorized as high risk for PCa if they had tPSA greater than 10 ng/mL or tPSA levels between 4 and 10 ng/mL with f/t PSA ratios of 25% or below; the remaining subjects were classified as being at low risk for PCa.ResultsThe sample represented approximately 75,984,602 American men. …”
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Rating of perceived exertion as a tool for managing exercise intensity during pregnancy: a scoping review by Christina Gjestvang, Lene A H Haakstad, Malin Landro Olsen, Emilie Mass Dalhaug

“…Due to limited and inconsistent research, more extensive studies are needed.…”
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Clinical profile of secondary glaucoma subtypes in patients attending ophthalmology department at Erbil Teaching Hospital, Erbil, Iraq by Harith Muhamed Ali AL-NEAMA, Eman Hussein Alwan, Ahmed Abdulgani, Ahmed Kareem Joma

“…The largest proportion of the sample (32%) were aged 60-69 years, and more than half (61%) were males. …”
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Performance of formal smell testing and symptom screening for identifying SARS-CoV-2 infection. by James W Keck, Matthew Bush, Robert Razick, Setareh Mohammadie, Joshua Musalia, Joel Hamm

“…We measured the ability of formal smell testing to identify SARS-CoV-2 infection and compared its performance with symptom screening.<h4>Methods</h4>A convenience sample of emergency department patients with COVID-19 symptom screening participated in smell testing using an eight odor Pocket Smell Test (PST). …”
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Development and FEM Modeling of a New Severe Plastic Deformation Process according to the Reverse Shear Scheme by Alexander F. Tarasov, Alexander V. Altukhov, Eduard P. Gribkov, Aleksandr R. Abdulov

“…New and modified SPD schemes are offered relatively often, so the methods for their creation, modeling, and ways of improvement are of particular interest. …”
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Experience in creating primary cultures of endometrial cancer and studying cells carrying phenotype of cancer stem cells by S. Yu. Filippova, I. V. Mezhevova, T. V. Chembarova, I. A. Novikova, E. V. Verenikina, O. E. Zhenilo, V. V. Polovodova, A. V. Shaposhnikov, E. V. Shalashnaya, A. A. Maslov, O. G. Ishonina

“…Was to investigate the possibility of applying the method of spheroid formation in culture for assessment of the endometrial cancer (EC) tumor stem cells (TSC) content in complex samples containing various tumor cells and microenvironment.Materials and methods. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental and physical health of Indian working women: A cross-sectional study of District Rajkot, Gujarat by Thakur Dev PANDEY, Jyoti PATHAK

“…The sample size was determined using Cochran’s Formula, resulting in 364 valid responses after excluding incomplete data. …”
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Clinical characterisation of human metapneumovirus infection in 525 patients with respiratory tract infections in Jilin province by Xiuhua Liu, Yang Liu, Jing Bian, Mengjuan Wang, Zhanxiu He, Huan Hu, Lei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Chaoying Liu

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Grain quality of spring wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.) cultivars developed in Western Siberia under the conditions of Northern Kazakhstan by M. U. Utebayev, T. V. Shelaeva, N. A. Bome, I. V. Chilimova, O. O. Kradetskaya, S. M. Dashkevich, V. N. Novokhatin, L. I. Weisfeld

“…Environmental testing is the first stage of wheat breeding, the purpose of which is to identify wheat samples suitable for local environments and capable of forming a fairly stable yield and high-quality grain. …”
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