Enhancing physical activity during pregnancy using a multi-theory model: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial in China by Wei Zhang, Yu Shen, Le Zhang, Ying Jin, Ningning Liu, Suwen Feng, Xuesong Zhang

“…Participants will receive clarification regarding the study objectives, procedures and will be asked to sign informed consent in written form before the start of the study.Trial registration number ChiCTR2400080843. …”
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Accuracy of Two Methods in Estimating Target Muscle Force During Shoulder Submaximal Isometric Contractions by Sean F. Griech, Christos Karagiannopoulos

“…Both methods (NR and RR), direction of force (IR and ER), and starting test-side (right or left) were randomized. …”
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The Fake Diary of a Historical Figure: Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa’s Journal of Countess Françoise Krasińska (1825) by Magdalena Ożarska

“…The Journal of Countess Françoise Krasińska (1825) was one of her early works, designed for adolescent readers (first serialised in Rozrywki [Amusements], a youth magazine which she had started but a year earlier). Françoise (Polish: Franciszka) Krasińska was a historical character: born into a Polish aristocratic family of the Corvin-Krasińskis in 1742, she set her mind on rising above the social station originally allocated to her. …”
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EQ-5D-5L and SF-6Dv2 utility scores in people living with chronic low back pain: a survey from Quebec by Thomas G Poder, Liang Wang, Nathalie Carrier

“…The EuroQol Five Dimensions (EQ-5D-5L) and the Short Form Six Dimensions version 2 (SF-6Dv2) are two generic preference-based measures used to evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and provide quality-adjusted life-year utility values.Results The number of subjects who agreed to participate was 610, but 41 were excluded because 8 had low back pain for less than 3 months and 33 did not start the survey. A total of 569 subjects were analysed, but only 410 completed the survey up to the EQ-5D-5L or SF-6Dv2 sections. …”
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Indications for an antidepressive effect of thymosin alpha-1 in a small open-label proof of concept study in common variable immune deficiency patients with depression by Daniël G. Aynekulu Mersha, Sarah E. Fromme, Frank van Boven, Gara Arteaga-Henríquez, Annemarie Wijkhuijs, Marianne van der Ent, Raf Berghmans, Bernard T. Baune, Hemmo A. Drexhage, Virgil Dalm

“…Five depressed CVID patients (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, HDRS >12) could be treated with Tα1 (8 weeks, 1.6 mg daily subcutaneously, 1st week, thereafter 1.6 mg twice weekly). At the start, at 8 weeks and 8 weeks after the last injection, the HDRS was recorded and blood samples drawn for measuring naïve and memory T cells, Th17 and Treg cells, hsCRP, IL-6 and IL-7. …”
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PSYCHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTICS OF STUDENTS ADAPTATION TO UNIVERSITY STUDIES by Olga A. Molokova

“…Timely detection of difficulties which are experienced by students, starting training in higher education institution, helps improve educational process. …”
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Understanding the impact of racism on surgical outcomes in settler nation-states USA and Canada: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mary Brindle, Oluwatomilayo Daodu, Tyara Marchand, Saffa Aziz, Ifeoluwa Adedipe, Mirna Matta

“…Identifying preventable adverse outcomes for equity-deserving patient populations is an important starting point to begin to address these gaps in care. …”
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Quality control and safety management of oil and gas pipelines during its whole life cycle by Changliang JIANG

“…The development history and technical change of oil and gas pipeline quality management in China were reviewed focusing on pipeline quality control in the whole life cycle, on the basis of quality improvement of oil and gas pipelines in the construction period. Starting with the construction of the "8.3" pipeline, China's long-distance oil and gas pipeline construction has undergone four major stages of leap-forward development, forming a new pattern of oil and gas strategic channels "running north-south, crossing east-west, covering the whole country and connecting overseas". …”
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Shaking Table Test on the Seismic Response of Buried Oil and Gas Pipelines under the Bidirectional Nonuniform Seismic Excitation by Jianbo Dai, Chengtao Hu, Li Wang, Guidi Zhang

“…The soil displacement curve starts to smooth out when the loading level reaches 1.0 g, and the axial displacement decreases, which indicates that the interaction between the pipe and soil is more intense and the relative motion between the pipe and soil is more obvious under the nonuniform excitation, and the soil is more likely to be damaged and enter the nonlinear stage. …”
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Cimetidine Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics in Healthy Subjects: A Comparison of Tablets and Suspension by ABR Thomson, P Kirdeikis, L Zuk, RE Samuels, P Zarevics

“…The intragastric pH of each subject was measured over 6 h starting immediately before dosing on each of five study days. …”
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Coverage and effectiveness of conditional cash transfer for people with drug resistant tuberculosis in Zimbabwe: A mixed methods study. by Collins Timire, Charles Sandy, Rashida A Ferrand, Regina Mubau, Peter Shiri, Obert Mbiriyawanda, Fredrick Mbiba, Rein M G J Houben, Debora Pedrazzoli, Virginia Bond, Nicola Foster, Katharina Kranzer

“…The End TB strategy recommends social protection to mitigate socio-economic impacts of tuberculosis. Zimbabwe started implementing a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme for people on drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) treatment in 2013. …”
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Photodiagnosis and photodynamic recognition of cervical cancer with SEM and AFM images. by Sevcan Aytaç, Gürkan Özbey

“…This article, Photodiagnosis and Photodynamics with SEM and AFM images are valuable in recognizing cervical cancer and starting treatment early. Simultaneous examination of the, Photodiagnosis and Photodynamics with SEM and AFM cervix images of patients will provide us with a far more powerful solution than a one-way solution. …”
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Late Onset of Antiretroviral Therapy in Adults Living with HIV in an Urban Area in Brazil: Prevalence and Risk Factors by Priscila Ribeiro Guimarães Pacheco, Ana Laura Sene Amâncio Zara, Luiz Carlos Silva e Souza, Marília Dalva Turchi

“…However, a significant number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) still start treatment late. Objective. This study aimed to analyze characteristics and factors associated with late initiation of ART among HIV-infected treatment-naïve patients. …”
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Achieving adherence to positive airway pressure in commercial drivers using an employer-mandated remote management programme by Elizabeth Kneeland, Nadia Ali, David G. Maislin, Yoon Hee Chang, Joyce Epelboim, Brendan T. Keenan, Allan I. Pack

“…Those with moderate–severe OSA were more obese (body mass index 36.2±6.3 kg·m−2) and had more comorbidities. Of 269 drivers starting PAP, 160 (59.5%) maintained participation in a care management programme, 80 (29.7%) resigned or were terminated, 23 (8.6%) were cleared to discontinue PAP and six (2.2%) were complex cases requiring transfer of care. …”
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Incompatible Aedes aegypti male releases as an intervention to reduce mosquito population-A field trial in Puerto Rico. by Liliana Sánchez-González, Jacob E Crawford, Laura E Adams, Grayson Brown, Kyle R Ryff, Mark Delorey, Jose Ruiz-Valcarcel, Nicole Nazario, Nexilianne Borrero, Julieanne Miranda, Sara N Mitchell, Paul I Howell, Johanna R Ohm, Charlie Behling, Brian Wasson, Craig Eldershaw, Bradley J White, Vanessa Rivera-Amill, Roberto Barrera, Gabriela Paz-Bailey

“…In 2021, we shifted to a phased release strategy starting in four clusters, reducing the mosquito population by 49% (CI 29-63%). …”
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Optimized Dehydrogenation of Magnesium Hydride with Fe and Cu Additives by Oluwashina Gbenebor, Abimbola Patricia Popoola

“…It took 18.8 min for as-received MgH2 to commence dehydrogenation while that for MgH2/Fe and MgH2/Cu composites started from 12.2 and 13.4 min respectively. The in-situ formed Fe and Cu in MgH2 after milling acted as active catalytic sites for its improved dehydrogenation with MgH2/Fe behaving better. …”
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Multistate Markov model application for blood pressure transition among the Chinese elderly population: a quantitative longitudinal study by Bin Zhao, Juan Xiong, Yuxin Wang, Xujuan Zheng, Yiqin Zhang, Liping Xu, Lina Zhou

“…The corresponding probabilities for elderly men were 21.73%, 38.56% and 51.70%, respectively. For elderly women starting in the elevated state, the probabilities of developing hypertension were 25.07%, 43.03% and 56.32% in the next 1, 2 and 3 years, respectively; while the corresponding changes for elderly men were 20.96%, 37.65% and 50.86%. …”
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Long-Term Safety and Effectiveness of Canakinumab in Patients with MKD/HIDS: Interim Analysis of the RELIANCE Registry by Prasad T. Oommen, Tilmann Kallinich, Juergen Rech, Norbert Blank, Julia Weber-Arden, Jasmin B. Kuemmerle-Deschner

“…Most patients received higher than the recommended starting dose of canakinumab throughout the study. …”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation for Low Back Pain(Herniated Lumbar Disc) by Working Group of Clinical Practice Guidelines of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation for Low Back Pain (Herniated Lumbar Disc), Wei ZHANG, Bidan LOU, Jinxiang LI, Rong LUO, Wenying SHI, Xiaoye LU, Jiang PAN, Jinzhong TANG

“…This guideline standardizes the diagnosis and treatment process of herniated lumbar disc from the aspects of scope, terminology and definition, diagnosis, syndrome differentiation, treatment and nursing, in order to provide guidance and reference for re-levant clinicians such as orthopedics and traumatology department of TCM, orthopedics department of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion department, massage department, rehabilitation department, etc.①The diagnosis part: the diagnosis starts from six aspects of medical history, symptoms and signs, imaging examination, diagnosis points, differential diagnosis, and syndrome diagnosis, reflecting the characteristics and advantages of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment.②Rehabilitation assessment: it mainly includes pain assessment, functional impairment assessment, neuromuscular function assessment.③Treatment: it is mainly divided into two parts: non-drug therapy and drug therapy, and the indications and recommended levels of various treatment methods were described in detail. …”
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Accelerating discoveries at DIII-D with the Integrated Research Infrastructure by T. Bechtel Amara, S. P. Smith, Z. A. Xing, S. S. Denk, A. Deshpande, A. O. Nelson, C. Simpson, E. W. DeShazer, T. F. Neiser, O. Antepara, C. M. Clark, J. Lestz, J. Colmenares, N. Tyler, P. Ding, M. Kostuk, E. D. Dart, R. Nazikian, T. Osborne, S. Williams, T. Uram, D. Schissel

“…For transport, we are looking at producing flux matched profiles and also using particle tracing to predict fast ion heat deposition from neutral beam injection before a shot takes place. Our starting point for evaluating plasma stability focuses on the pedestal limits that must be navigated to achieve better confinement. …”
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