Indonesia’s Approach towards Myanmar’s Crisis: Understanding the Different Perspectives of the Democracy Process in Indonesia and Myanmar and the Role of the Military by Aswin Ariyanto Azis, Firstyarinda Valentina Indraswari, Annisa Ridhatul Khatimah, A. Qalbi Faathimah Azzahra

“…The recent military coup in Myanmar has shocked ASEAN countries, causing some to question ASEAN’s trajectory and approach to addressing the democratization issue. …”
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Prevalence and Severity of Dental Attrition in a Sample of Kurdish Patients in Erbil City by Rebaz Samir Ismail, Lana Burhan Ali, Reem Zeyad Naja, Iman Haider Mustafa, Anas Jamal Rashid, Trifa Sardar Adnan, Rupak Othman Saad, Yousif Hawar Mawlood

“…Furthermore, the mean attrition scores of males and females were 0.85 and 0.76, respectively. …”
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Men’s internet sex addiction predicts sexual objectification of women even after taking pornography consumption frequency into account by Pavla Novakova, Edita Chvojka, Anna Ševčíková, Lukas Blinka, Paul Wright, Steven Kane

“…Such users may, in response to internet sex addiction symptoms such as craving, have increased levels of sexual objectification.MethodsIn a sample of 1,272 male consumers of online video pornography (Mage = 32.93, SDage = 9.44), we examined whether internet sex addiction is linked to sexual objectification via an online survey.ResultsWe fitted a series of structural equation models and found that men who scored higher on internet sex addiction were more likely to objectify women. …”
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Multi-omic spatial effects on high-resolution AI-derived retinal thickness by V. E. Jackson, Y. Wu, R. Bonelli, J. P. Owen, L. W. Scott, S. Farashi, Y. Kihara, M. L. Gantner, C. Egan, K. M. Williams, B. R. E. Ansell, A. Tufail, A. Y. Lee, M. Bahlo

“…Analysis of common genomic variants, metabolomic, blood and immune biomarkers, disease PheCodes and genetic scores across a fine-scale macular thickness grid, reveals multiple novel genetic loci including four on the X chromosome; retinal thinning associated with many systemic disorders including multiple sclerosis; and multiple associations to correlated metabolites that cluster spatially in the retina. …”
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Intelligence and obesity during the obesity epidemic by Rebecca B. Clarke, Gunhild T. Okholm, Erik L. Mortensen, Merete Osler, Cathrine L. Wimmelmann, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

“…While the prevalence of obesity increased from 0.8% in the early to 6.7% in the late cohort, the two cohorts showed essentially the same pattern of relations between intelligence test scores (ITS), prevalence of obesity and overweight (including obesity), and BMI. …”
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Analysis of Damage due to the M6.4 Tuban-Bawean Earthquake using Remote Sensing by Tuasamu Siti Asmayanti, Cahyadi Mokhamad Nur, Komalasari Nilam, Nusantara Candida Aulia De Silva, Widodo Amien, Widjajanti Nurrohmat, Aprianti Evi, Kusumawardani Deni, Rahmawati Yessi, Azizi Iqbal Hanun

“…Thus strengthening the effects of earthquake shocks and causing more significant damage. On the other hand, volcanic rocks (Qv) composed of alternating lava, breccia and tuff tend to experience greater deformation because they are easily affected by tectonic forces. …”
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The dual impact: physiological and psychological effects of rapid weight loss in wrestling by Barış Sarıakçalı, Fatma Neşe Şahin, Burhan Başoğlu, Levent Ceylan, Özkan Güler, Bade Yamak, Gökhan Arıkan, Gizem Ceylan Acar, Gülşah Sekban, Mehmet Vakıf Durmuşoğlu, Sezen Çimen Polat, Hamza Küçük

“…IntroductionAthletes competing in weight-class sports often seek to gain an advantage by competing at lower weights. …”
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The diagnostic value of the combined application of blood lipid metabolism markers and interleukin-6 in osteoporosis and osteopenia by Liping Fan, Jiahao Chen, Chong Chen, Yongwei Zhang, Yeqing Yang, Zhe Chen

“…Patients were categorized based on their T scores for intergroup comparisons. Finally, the diagnostic efficiency of lipid metabolism markers and IL-6 for osteoporosis and osteopenia was assessed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. …”
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Creating National Weights for a Patient-level Longitudinal Database by Onur Baser, Li Wang, Jon Maguire

“…**Results:** The following variables were used in the logistic regression: Age group, gender, race, location, income level and health status (Charlson Comorbidity Index scores and chronic condition diagnosis). Relative to MEPS data, patients included in the private insurance data were more likely to be male, older, to have a chronic condition, and to be white (p=0.0000). …”
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ADAPTING TO A CHANGING WORLD: STRATEGIES FOR MITIGATING THE GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE by FRANK FUNKEYE SAPELE, AKUMKA JOSEPH YABAYANZE, KANYINSOLA AZEEZ

“…Climate change globally has become one of the shocking certainties of the 21st era and it has made scientists to raise the need to drop worldwide temperatures further by 0.5 °C which makes a substantial difference in some areas of the world, particularly developing countries that are faced with the greater threat of climate change.  …”
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The effect of blended educational methods in communication skills in nursing with students’ interactions with patients: A quasi-experimental study by Seyed Hossein Kalati, Neda Ahmadzadeh Tori, Javaneh Kalati, Nastaran Norouzi Parashkouh, Hengameh Karimi

“…Results: The results of the paired sample t-test showed a significant difference in the scores for the pre-test and post-test (P < .001). …”
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Genome-wide association study reveals major loci for resistance to septoria tritici blotch in a Tunisian durum wheat collection. by Maroua Ouaja, Bikash Ghimire, Bochra Amina Bahri, Medini Maher, Sahbi Ferjaoui, Sripada Udupa, Sonia Hamza

“…A total of eleven QTL were identified using TUN06 isolate mean disease scoring (TUNMeanD and TUNMeanA) including threeQTL controlling resistance to both isolates TUN06 and TM220. …”
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Le sol, une ressource à considérer dans les stratégies d’aménagement des villes : mise en place d’une démarche collaborative pour construire un outil d’aide à la décision d’affecta... by Jean-Noël Consalès, Anne Blanchart, Geoffroy Séré, Laure Vidal-Beaudet, Christophe Schwartz

“…Although recent projects and landscape architecture designs attempt to address a variety of environmental issues relating to food autonomy, cooling, and water management, it is clear that they still give little consideration to the multifunctionality of urban soils regarding biomass, the water cycle, carbon storage, and biodiversity, and their role in the sustainability of the urban ecosystem. …”
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Time to intubation with McGrath™ videolaryngoscope versus direct laryngoscope in powered air-purifying respirator: a randomised controlled trial by Qing Yuan Goh, Sui An Lie, Zihui Tan, Pei Yi Brenda Tan, Shin Yi Ng, Hairil Rizal Abdullah

“…There were no significant differences in the median intubation difficulty scale scores, proportion of successful intubations at the first laryngoscopic attempt and proportion of intubations requiring adjuncts. …”
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Potential Risks of PM2.5 in Urban and Suburban Environments: A Dual Perspective on Chemical Constituents and Pollution Sources by Huarui Ren, Xiongping Wu, Wenchang Zhao, Jinping Cheng

“…The positive matrix factorization (PMF) receptor model and the analysis of absolute principal component scores-multiple linear regression (APCS-MLR) revealed that mixed sources and vehicle exhaust were significant contributors in both suburban and urban areas. …”
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The drivers of export product diversification in China: does natural resource endowments matter? by Jabbar Ul-Haq, Hubert Visas, Anatolijs Krivins, Rita Remeikienė, Qazi Muhammad Adnan Hye

“… Export product diversification (EPD) mitigates a country’s vulnerability to global trade shocks, contributes to its high-quality economic progress, and increases its resilience. …”
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Assessment of Quality and Aroma Characteristics of Kefir Produced by Using Grain and Lyophilized Culture by Yonca Yuceer, İrem Şen Dağ, Buket Güneşer

“…The main objective of this study was to compare the differences between some physical, chemical, microbiological, sensory attributes and volatile components in kefir fermented with kefir grains and lyophilized cultures during storage. The compositional characteristic of kefir cultured by both kefir grains and lyophilized starter were monitored during 21-day storage in this study. …”
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Parity-Driven Disparities in Placenta Previa: A Comprehensive Analysis of Obstetric and Perinatal Factors by Fikriye Karanfil Yaman, Sukran Dogru, Huriye Ezveci, Fatih Akkus, Ali Acar

“…Neonatal outcomes, including APGAR scores, showed variations between multiparous and nulliparous women. …”
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The Functional outcome of arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with hamstring graft by Muhammad Shahid Khan, Wael Azzam

“… Introduction Incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries is increasing owing to increased participation in sports. We are presenting our case series in which we have done ACL reconstruction (ACLR) with autologous hamstring graft. …”
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Is Physical Activity Related to Depression and Anxiety among Adults? Observations from a Noncommunicable Disease Screening Clinic in North India by Madhur Verma, Amandeep Kaur, Ankush Upneja, Preeti Dhoat, Jitender Aneja, Rakesh Kakkar

“…The mean total cholesterol and triglyceride levels were considerably higher in the HEPA active group, despite having lower GAD-7 and PHQ-9 scale scores. The prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms was 59.0% and 13.4%. …”
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