Prevalence and determinants of HIV testing-seeking behaviors among women of reproductive age in Tanzania: analysis of the 2022 Demographic and health survey by Jackson Micheal Asingwire, Isaac isiko, Kuli Faith Rombe, Aaron Mwesigwa, Emmanuel Asher Ikwara, Haron Olot, Lenz Nwachinemere Okoro, Manankong Jane Precious Izunwanne, Blessing Onyinyechi Agunwa, Abdul Aziiz Bwana, William Yiga Kalemba, Ebuka Louis Anyamene

“…Not employed [AOR:0.35, CI (0.20–0.61)] has lower odds of HIV testing than All-year employed status. Rural residents have reduced odds of HIV testing [AOR:0.43, CI (0.21–0.88)] compared to women living in urban areas. …”
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Studying the Beneficial Indicators of Intercropping of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) with Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik), and Bitter Vetch (Lath... by Amin Yari, Farzad Mondani, Alireza Bagheri, Hamid Reza Chaghazardi

“…Results and Discussion The results showed that the LER in intercropping with chickpeas and lentils was higher than that in other treatments. Regardless of legume species, among the cultivation patterns, the 50:50 ratio of safflower and legume was superior in terms of LER (1.26) and competition index (RCC=4.6) compared to other intercropping patterns. …”
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Spine surgery and readmission: Risk factors in lumbar corpectomy patients by Julius Gerstmeyer, MD, Anna Gorbacheva, August Avantaggio, Clifford Pierre, MD, Emre Yilmaz, MD, Thomas A. Schildhauer, MD, Amir Abdul-Jabbar, MD, Rod J Oskouian, MD, Jens R Chapman, MD

“…Medical comorbidities differed significantly between the groups with a variety of them being identified as risk factors. Conclusions: We established an all-cause 90-day readmission rate of 20.8%, which is in range of other procedures in spine surgery but underscores the severity of lumbar corpectomy. …”
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Designing a Model for Credit Risk Assessment of Customers for Guarantees Issued by the Export Guarantee Fund of Iran via Artificial Neural Network Model by Farshid Ahmadi Sartakhti, Kambiz Hojabr Kiani, Seyed Shamsoddin Hoseini, Abbas Memarnejad

“…ResultsBased on the neural network model, the best models were extracted with three methods: Bayesian, Levenberg, and Conjugate Gradient, and with one to 30 neurons in the hidden layer. …”
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Analisis Klasifikasi Sentimen Ulasan pada E-Commerce Shopee Berbasis Word Cloud dengan Metode Naive Bayes dan K-Nearest Neighbor by Josua Josen Alexander Limbong, Irwan Sembiring, kristoko dwi hartomo

“…This indicates that positive or negative reviews left by users greatly influence other users in choosing the services or products they are looking for. …”
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Current Enzooticity of <i>Dirofilaria immitis</i> and <i>Angiostrongylus vasorum</i> in Central and Southern Italy by Donato Traversa, Simone Morelli, Angela Di Cesare, Chiara Astuti, Alessandra Barlaam, Mariasole Colombo, Fabrizia Veronesi, Barbara Paoletti, Raffaella Iorio, Raffaella Maggi, Alessandra Passarelli, Alessia Pede, Linda Rossi, Manuela Diaferia

“…Additionally, <i>A. vasorum</i> is stably enzootic in the study areas, as also are other extraintestinal nematodes (i.e., <i>D. repens</i> and <i>C. aerophila</i>) that are more frequently detected today than in the past. …”
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Evaluation of Root Canal Diameters and Radicular Wall Thickness of the Human Primary Molars by using Multidetector Computed Tomography: A Cross-sectional Study by Piyali Datta, Shabnam Zahir, Kaushik Dutta, Pratik Kumar Lahiri, Sudipta Kar, Biswaroop Chandra, Trishik Basak, Shreya Tripathi

“…Descriptive statistical analysis (Student’s t-test) was performed. A p-value less than equal to 0.05 was considered statistically significant. …”
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Investigating variability of craft microbreweries spent grains for classification and incorporation into precision diet formulation through multivariate analyses by Arturo Macias Franco, Aghata E.M. Silva, Tio Brody, Graham Holton, Macy Rockwell, Nelcino F. De Paula, Leilson R. Bezerra, Mozart A. Fonseca

“…This study aimed to evaluate the variability in the nutrient composition of BSG from craft microbreweries and classify them for precision diet formulation using multivariate analyses. …”
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Large language models for pretreatment education in pediatric radiation oncology: A comparative evaluation study by Dominik Wawrzuta, Aleksandra Napieralska, Katarzyna Ludwikowska, Laimonas Jaruševičius, Anastasija Trofimoviča-Krasnorucka, Gints Rausis, Agata Szulc, Katarzyna Pędziwiatr, Kateřina Poláchová, Justyna Klejdysz, Marzanna Chojnacka

“…Conclusions: LLMs can be valuable tools for educating patients and their families before treatment in pediatric radiation oncology. Among them, only GPT-4 provides information of a quality comparable to that of a radiation oncologist, although it still occasionally generates poor-quality responses. …”
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Strategies and resources used by public health units to encourage COVID-19 vaccination among priority groups: a behavioural science-informed review of three urban centres in Canada by Tori Langmuir, Mackenzie Wilson, Nicola McCleary, Andrea M. Patey, Karim Mekki, Hanan Ghazal, Elizabeth Estey Noad, Judy Buchan, Vinita Dubey, Jana Galley, Emily Gibson, Guillaume Fontaine, Maureen Smith, Amjad Alghamyan, Kimberly Thompson, Jacob Crawshaw, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Trevor Arnason, Jamie Brehaut, Susan Michie, Melissa Brouwers, Justin Presseau

“…Understanding barriers and facilitators to vaccine uptake, and which strategies/resources have been used to address them to date, may help identify areas where further support could be provided. …”
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A cross-sectional study on the knowledge, attitude and practice of ICU nurses to ICU acquired weakness in grade-A tertiary hospitals in Beijing (北京市三甲医院ICU护士对ICU获得性衰弱的知信行现况调查及影响因素分... by KUANG Lu (旷璐), SHAO Xin (邵欣)

“…Methods A total of 210 ICU nurses from 8 grade-A tertiary hospitals in Beijing were selected by cluster sampling, and a self-designed questionnaire was used to survey them. Results The scores of knowledge, attitude and practice of ICU nurses were (5. 21+-2. 03), (28. 64 +-4. 12) and (26. 06+- 7. 23) respectively. …”
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Atherosclerotic Risk Factors in Children with Celiac Disease by Anna Rybak, Aldona Wierzbicka, Piotr Socha, Anna Stolarczyk, Bożena Cukrowska, Łukasz Obrycki, Zbigniew Wawer, Roman Janas, Beata Oralewska, Anna Szaflarska-Popławska, Barbara Iwańczak, Elżbieta Cyrta-Jarocka, Urszula Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk, Wojciech Cichy, Grażyna Czaja-Bulsa, Jerzy Socha

“…In children with CD treated with a GFD, decreased level of folic acid together with increased BMI, sedentary behavior, and an improper lipid profile may predispose them to atherosclerosis in the long run. This data suggests the need of further studies to determine the need for metabolic cardiovascular risk screening in children with CD.…”
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CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF CHICKPEA by S. Sots, I. Kustov, I. Butsenko, I. Solonytska

“…Both varieties are valuable components of a healthy diet, offering a rich set of nutrients and beneficial properties in the production of cereals and other food products.…”
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Loose cigarette purchase and adolescent smoking in Indonesia: a mixed-methods study by Vid Adrison, Dian Kusuma, Gea Melinda, Fariza Zahra Kamilah, Syifa Rizki Amelia, Sofwatun Nida

“…Students reported the extensive selling of loose cigarettes and such a situation persuaded them to buy tobacco products more frequently, thus spending at least half of their weekly allowance on tobacco products, ranging from 30 000 to 200 000 Indonesian rupiah or equivalent to US$2–13 per week. …”
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Screening potential antileukemia ingredients from sweet potato: integration of metabolomics analysis, network pharmacology, and experimental validation by Lianling Xu, Lianling Xu, Kaixuan Zeng, Kaixuan Zeng, Zuoyue Duan, Zuoyue Duan, Jing Liu, Yan Zeng, Miao Zhang, You Yang, Qulian Guo, Yanling Jin, Wenjun Liu, Ling Guo

“…Then, nine active ingredients were selected for validation of their anti-leukemia effects. Subsequently, three of them underwent network pharmacology analyses and in vitro experimental verification. …”
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Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses reveal the mechanism of color difference between two kinds of Cistanche deserticola before and after drying by Tiantian Zhu, Tiantian Zhu, Tiantian Zhu, Jing Zhang, Tianle Liu, Shuai Zhang, Baimei Yang, Li Xu, Lei Zhao, Lei Zhao, Mengfei Li, Ling Jin, Ling Jin, Ling Jin

“…However, the mechanism underlying the color difference of oil cistanche and cistanche remains unclear.MethodsThis study evaluated the total flavone contents in oil cistanche and cistanche and compared the differential metabolites and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and the contents of iridoid of dried oil cistanche and cistanche samples were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography, and finally the polysaccharides contents of them were determined to comprehensively analyze the formation mechanism of color difference between oil cistanche and cistanche.ResultsThe results showed that the total flavonoid content in oil cistanche was significantly higher than that in cistanche. …”
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EIF1AX mutation in thyroid tumors: a retrospective analysis of cytology, histopathology and co-mutation profiles by Noha Elsherbini, Dong Hyun Kim, Richard J. Payne, Thomas Hudson, Véronique-Isabelle Forest, Michael P. Hier, Alexandra E. Payne, Marc P. Pusztaszeri

“…The most prevalent mutation was the A113_splice mutation at the junction of intron 5 and exon 6 (48%). All other mutations, except one, were located at the N-terminal in exon 2. 7/31 cases (22.6%) harbored ≥ 1 co-mutation(s), including 4 RAS, 3 TP53, 1 TERT and 1 PIK3CA, with 86% of them being malignant. …”
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Effects of housing conditions on health and gut microbiome of female cynomolgus monkeys and improvement of welfare by checking menstruation under socially housed condition by Yunpeng Yang, Yong Lu, Changshan Gao, Yanhong Nie, Hongfei Wang, Yufei Huang, Haiyan Dong, Qiang Sun

“…Besides, training female monkeys to detect menstruation under socially-housed condition could increase their body weight change and adjusting their immune status, thus attenuating the adverse effects of separating them to single cages. …”
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Facing migration under adverse conditions: challenges and resilience in the Colombo-Venezuelan border area by Gloria Omaira Bautista, Axel Kroeger, Nelly Rosero Castillo, Eduardo Gabriel Osorio Sanchez, Dianne Sofía Gonzales Escobar, Rafael Olarte, Sonia Diaz Monsalve

“…Results Venezuelan migrants were younger than their Colombian neighbours (22.04 and 28.69 years respectively). …”
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Les aqueducs de Rome : les activités de la Surintendance capitoline, une contribution essentielle à la recherche by Marina Marcelli, Massimiliano Munzi

“…In addition to the Acqua Felice, built by pope Sixtus V (1585-1590), two still functioning Roman aqueducts were concerned: the Aqua Virgo (19 BC), probably the only ancient aqueduct which, flowing mainly in underground channels, has remained in continuous operation to the present day, and the Aqua Traiana (109 AD), which was reactivated by pope Paulus V in 1612.The complexity of these structures, of considerable height and tens of kilometres long, makes monitoring, protection and conservation particularly difficult.This is why the Municipality of Rome, when drawing up the New Master Plan for the city in the 1960s, included the aqueducts as part of the city's protective cultural heritage. …”
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