Development of an Anatomy Attitude Scale for Medical School Students and Analysis of Their Attitudes by Mehmet Ali Can

“…Due to its importance, as mentioned above, it is known to be a course feared by students newly starting their medical education. A literature search showed that there was not an "Anatomy Attitude Scale" that questions the views of medical school students in our country about anatomy. …”
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Seasonal Pattern of Endo-β-Mannanase Activity During Germination of <i>Jeffersonia dubia</i>, Exhibiting Morphophysiological Dormancy by Young Hyun Kwon, Seung Youn Lee, Yong Ha Rhie

“…For the first three months after burial in May, endo-β-mannanase activity was undetectable, and the underdeveloped embryo exhibited minimal elongation. Starting in September, the embryo began to grow, accompanied by increased endo-β-mannanase activity in the micropylar endosperm. …”
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Predictive Role of IL-2R and IL-10 in the Anti-inflammatory Response and Antiplatelet Therapy of Kawasaki Disease: A Retrospective Study by Chun Zhang, Lun Chen, Sun Chen, Yan Bian, Jia Shen, Peng Zhang, JiaNi Song

“…These results suggested that children with KD who are ≥4 years old may benefit from IVIG but will not benefit from decreased platelet activation or suffer less cardiovascular complications. Additionally, starting clopidogrel usage earlier as an antiplatelet strategy should be considered based on the observed continuous rise in the PLT count in children with KD receiving IVIG. …”
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Design of a Process Control Laboratory Curriculum Incorporating Simulation Modules and Hands-On Training for Enhanced Learning Experience by Serene Sow Mun Lock, Irene Sow Mei Lock, Lam Ghai Lim

“…In response, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS has introduced an updated, simulation-focused curriculum, starting with the CEB3032 Chemical Engineering Laboratory III course for the January and May 2021 cohorts, which included 207 and 162 students, respectively. …”
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Business Incubators in Russia: 2020 Survey in International Comparative Perspective by M. A. Slesarev

“…Small innovative and venture enterprises face significant financial and managerial difficulties in the early stages of their development, which makes it necessary to provide them with sufficient support at the start. Different governments choose different ways to solve this problem. …”
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Research progress and perspectives on the application of tyramide signal amplification-based multiplex immunohistochemistry/immunofluorescence: a bibliometrics analysis by Xiaotong Yu, Xiaotong Yu, Chen Huang, Chen Huang, Yan Song, Yan Song, Chun Zhang, Chun Zhang, Debo You, Debo You, XuRan Dong, XuRan Dong, DeFu Wu, DeFu Wu, Alan Keith Meeker, Hao Feng, Yuqing Wang, Yuqing Wang

“…The number of annual publications started to increase rapidly since 2016. The United States (307, 35.17%) and the People’s Republic of China (297, 34.02%) are the top two listed countries for both the number of articles produced and the citations. …”
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SViG: A Similarity-Thresholded Approach for Vision Graph Neural Networks by Ismael Elsharkawi, Hossam Sharara, Ahmed Rafea

“…There have been multiple attempts to tackle this problem that were introduced in the literature, starting from traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to Vision Transformers and MLP-Mixers that were more recently introduced to represent images as sequences. …”
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Kombination und Rekombination in der Renaissance by Immanuel Ott

“…A distinctive feature of the music of the 15th and 16th centuries is the use of pre-existent music as the basis or starting point for a new composition. Such works can be distinguished by two fundamentally different compositional approaches, each of which entails its own problems: On the one hand there are compositions based on additive processes and contrapuntally sophisticated structures such as canons, on the other hand there are those in which a usually polyphonic model is fragmented and its components are recombined into a new composition. …”
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La «catena calda»: un’etnografia dell’allattamento a partire dai margini by Martina Riina

“…The ethnographic exploration through which these issues are addressed starts from the marginal neighbourhoods of Palermo and goes as far as Novara, with the intention of establishing a comparison through which it is possible to understand the elements that influence, favour or discourage the practice of breast-feeding, in relation to the dictates of the scientific health community which, today more than ever, insists on its centrality in maternal and child health, giving mothers specific indications, and sometimes pointing out those who do not follow them as incorrect, imprudent or irresponsible. …”
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Multiple Organ Failure Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Child with Down Syndrome: Is Trisomy 21 Associated with an Unfavourable Clinical Course? by Perla Idalia Vazquez-Hernández, Alan Cárdenas-Conejo, Manuel Alejandro Catalán-Ruiz, Karla Navar-Gallegos, Emilio Zenteno-Salazar, Jose Rafael-Parra-Bravo, Ranferi Aragon-Nogales, Maribel Ibarra-Sarlat, Juan Carlos Núñez-Enríquez

“…Female, 2 years old, karyotype 47,XX,+21[30], previously diagnosed with a cyanotic congenital heart disease (tricuspid atresia and infundibular pulmonary stenosis, type Ib) who started with diarrhea, developed shortness of breath, and cyanosis and was admitted to the hospital presenting low-oxygen saturation (33%) requiring invasive mechanical ventilation support. …”
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Metabolics-Based Study on the Therapeutic Mechanism Behind the Effect of Shenhuang Plaster Applied to the Shenque Acupoint on Gastrointestinal Motility in POI Mice by Yanan Shi, Chenglei Wu, Ting Liu, Rongyun Wang, Bin Ding, Qiuhua Sun

“…Materials and Methods: C57BL/6 mice were divided into three groups: blank control (Ctrl), model (POI), and intervention (POI + SHP) groups. SHP treatment was started 3 days before modeling. We employed several behavioral tests and gastrointestinal transit function measurements and performed qRT-PCR analysis, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and metabolomics analysis on serum metabolites. …”
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Political and Institutional Approaches to Advancing International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Foreign Policy in 1998–2020 by V. A. Shchipkov

“…The concept became popular after the end of the Cold War when the defense of religion against socialistatheist ideas had lost its relevance due to political (the collapse of the Eastern bloc) and cultural (the growing importance of religion in many non-Western countries of the world) reasons. The article starts by reviewing the history of the emergence and development of the institutional infrastructure (legal acts, administrative entities, public and political organizations, think tanks, expert platforms, interdepartmental coordination formats, human rights projects, funding and grant programs, and new international organizations) that supported the US foreign policy advancing international religious freedom. …”
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Changes in grocery shopping behaviour among low-income households during the COVID-19 pandemic by Angela CB Trude, Caitlin M Lowery, Gabriela M Vedovato, Shahmir H Ali, Josephine M Dudzik

“…Conclusions: Most participants who shopped online started during the COVID-19 pandemic and considered the pandemic a key motivator. …”
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Current Updates on Molecular Diagnostic Assays Used for Detection of <i>Candida auris</i>: A Systematic Review by River Chun-Wai Wong, Alfred Lok-Hang Lee, Ingrid Yu-Ying Cheung, Viola Chi-Ying Chow, Margaret Ip, Christopher Koon-Chi Lai

“…The findings were produced through narrative synthesis, with quantitative analysis conducted where applicable. <b>Results</b>: Starting from 1115 records, 28 studies that met the inclusion criteria were included in the analysis. …”
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Altered thermal preference by preoptic estrogen receptor alpha neurons in postpartum females by Nan Zhang, Meng Yu, Qianru Zhao, Bing Feng, Yue Deng, Jonathan C. Bean, Qingzhuo Liu, Benjamin P. Eappen, Yang He, Kristine M. Conde, Hailan Liu, Yongjie Yang, Longlong Tu, Mengjie Wang, Yongxiang Li, Na Yin, Hesong Liu, Junying Han, Darah Ave Threat, Nathan Xu, Taylor Smiley, Pingwen Xu, Lulu Chen, Tianshu Zeng, Yanlin He, Chunmei Wang

“…Results: We showed that female mice prefer a cooler environment starting from late pregnancy and persisting long term postpartum. …”
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Efficacy of MI Paste® on Bleaching-Related Sensitivity: Randomized Clinical Trial by Shaista Rashid, Mohamed ElSalhy

“…In Group 2, the mandibular arch was the control arch (only bleaching), while the maxillary arch was the intervention arch (bleaching and MI Paste®). Subjects started with the control arch and then switched to the intervention arch after two weeks. …”
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Wartime activities of the Vavilov Institute by I. G. Loskutov

“…Only in winter did the Institute start partial evacuation, although preparations had been going on for a long time. …”
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Vilnius bastion fortifications in 17th - 18th century by Linas Girlevičius

“… In 1648 the modernization of the defensive system of Vilnius town had been started. Preparing for a war with Moscow, it was planned to ring the capital of the Great Duchy of Lithuania with bastion fortifications. …”
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Is preoperative imaging of sentinel lymph node in breast cancer necessary? A retrospective case control study by Michael J. Reinhardt, Björn Ohmstede, Luz Angela Torres-de la Roche, Rudy Leon De Wilde

“…Due to the additional SLN imaging in group 2, the time between radiotracer injection and start of surgery was significantly prolonged (p < 0.001). …”
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Effect of Oral intake of Stevia Leaf Powder on Body Weight – An Experimental study by Amna Faruqi, Sikander Subuctageen, Irfan Afzal Mughal, Shahida Parveen, Tooba Zafar, Asma Irfan

“…Results: Body weights of rats in each group, at the start and end of the 6-week intervention period, when compared, showed a significant increase in group 1 (p=0.001), and group 2 (p = 0.001), while group 3 showed a non-significant increase (p = 0.248). …”
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