Is There a Reversal in the Effect of Obesity on Mortality in Old Age? by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Rotem Perach

“…Findings suggest that the common emphasis on avoiding obesity may not apply to those advancing towards old-old age, at least as far as mortality is concerned.…”
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A árvore Carolina Maria de Jesus: uma literatura vista de longe by Gilmar Penteado

“…Siendo anteriormente personajes de escritores cultos de clase media, en un determinado momento histórico todos ellos se convierten en autores de sus propias historias. …”
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Genotype Distribution and High-Risk Factors Analysis of Group B Streptococcus in Late-Stage Pregnant Women in the Linyi Region by Weiping Zhou, Xiaoyan Chen, Jie Chen, Xiuhua Zheng, Xueqiang Zhang, Yubin Chen, Yuehua Pan, Chunling Ma

“…Having a college degree or above, absence of pregnancy vomiting, elevated levels of albumin, globulin, direct bilirubin, glutamyl transferase, and total bile acids, and decreased levels of alkaline phosphatase and lactate dehydrogenase are high-risk factors for GBS infection; ST10, ST19, ST529, and ST862 are the main genotypes prevalent in this region; there are regional differences in the distribution of GBS genotypes and CC groups; there are statistically significant differences in the distribution of virulence factors among GBS strains with different MLST genotypes (p<0.05); GBS shows high sensitivity to penicillin drugs and can still be used as the preferred medication for the prevention and treatment of GBS infection.…”
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Prevalence and risk implications of Hepatitis B and C Viruses in a University community in Lagos, Nigeria by Oluwaseyi Ashaka, Chinyere Ezeanya-Bakpa, Fehintiola Olukoya, Caleb Awodesu, Oluwademilade Abdulkadir, Philip Mbata, Faithfulness Yangs, Abimbola Orukotan

“… Objectives: This study determined the prevalence and risk implication of HBV and HCV in an asymptomatic university student group in Lagos, Nigeria. Methods: A total of 90 students (38 males and 52 females) aged 16-25 years were enrolled in this study. …”
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Embryotoxic and Teratogenic Effects of Norfloxacin in Pregnant Female Albino Rats by Mohamed Aboubakr, Mohamed Elbadawy, Ahmed Soliman, Mohamed El-Hewaity

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Upon the structure of comparative sentences in the language of Turkish mass media by K.A. Verkhova

“…This article is devoted to the analysis of the structure of comparative sentences in Turkish mass media texts of the 20th and 21st centuries. The interest in this topic has been triggered by the question of whether the language of Turkish mass media can be recognized as a form of literary Turkish, as well as by the potential for establishing the structural patterns of Turkish polypredicative and complex sentences. …”
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Blood transcriptome resources of chinstrap () and gentoo () penguins from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica by Bo-Mi Kim, Jihye Jeong, Euna Jo, Do-Hwan Ahn, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Jae-Sung Rhee, Hyun Park

“…In this study, high-quality de novo assemblies of blood transcriptomes from these penguins were generated using the Illumina MiSeq platform. A total of 22.2 and 21.8 raw reads were obtained from chinstrap and gentoo penguins, respectively. …”
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Ten years preceding a diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease in Europe and Australia: medication use, health conditions, and biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease, Parkins... by Dang Wei, Anna Freydenzon, Octave Guinebretiere, Karim Zaidi, Fen Yang, Weimin Ye, Niklas Hammar, Karin Modig, Naomi R. Wray, Maria Feychting, Nadine Hamieh, Bruno Ventelou, Beranger Lekens, Laurene Gantzer, Stanley Durrleman, Allan McRae, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Fang Fang, Thomas Nedelec, Stanley Durrleman, Bruno Ventelou, Thomas Nedelec, Octave Guinebretiere, Karim Zaidi, Fang Fang, Dang Wei, Fen Yang, Allan McRae, Naomi Wray, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Anna Freydenzon, Lydie Tran, Evans Cheruiyot

“…Findings: We included a total of 149,642 AD cases (mean age: 79.1–81.2 years), 252,696 PD cases (73.2–75.9 years), and 27,533 ALS cases (64.4–69.6 years). …”
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Feminism and androgyny: Gender politics in contemporary classical Chinese opera by Lisha Xu

“…It investigates how translation and performance as representational forms interrogate entrenched gender norms, and engage with themes of marked relevance today, such as domestic violence and the commodification of women’s bodies. …”
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Navigating Civic Agency and Civic Space Amid Authoritarian Realities in Myanmar: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Concept of Divine Mandate as Public Theology by Lap Yan Kung

“…This paper highlights that an ethic of responsibility towards others lies at the core of divine mandate. …”
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Blood-based epigenome-wide association study and prediction of alcohol consumption by Elena Bernabeu, Aleksandra D. Chybowska, Jacob K. Kresovich, Matthew Suderman, Daniel L. McCartney, Robert F. Hillary, Janie Corley, Maria Del C. Valdés-Hernández, Susana Muñoz Maniega, Mark E. Bastin, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Zongli Xu, Dale P. Sandler, Archie Campbell, Sarah E. Harris, Andrew M. McIntosh, Jack A. Taylor, Paul Yousefi, Simon R. Cox, Kathryn L. Evans, Matthew R. Robinson, Catalina A. Vallejos, Riccardo E. Marioni

“…Finally, we identified two novel CpG loci via a Bayesian penalized regression epigenome-wide association study of alcohol consumption. Together, these findings show how DNAm can objectively characterize patterns of alcohol consumption that associate with brain health, unlike self-reported estimates.…”
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Effect of Hesperidin as an Adjunct to Scaling and Root Planing on Clinical Parameters and Serum C-Reactive Protein Level in Chronic Periodontitis: A Randomized, Triple-Blind, Place... by Supriya Shirodkar, Amit Vasani, Tanu Sahney, Meet Modi, Salini Pattnaik, P. Ravi Tejeshwar Reddy

“…Materials and Methods: A total of 84 patients with moderate to severe chronic periodontitis were randomly assigned to either a test group receiving 500 mg of hesperidin daily or a control group receiving a placebo both alongside scaling and root planing (SRP). …”
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Interaction of Fullerenes with Organosilanes in the Ionization Chamber of a Mass Spectrometer under Electron Impact and the Reaction of C60 with Tetraphenylsilane in Solution under... by Yury I. Lyakhovetsky, Elena A. Shilova, Alexandra P. Pleshkova, Alexander I. Belokon, Sergey O. Yakushin, Boris L. Tumanskii

“…These results provide an additional support to the hypothesis formulated earlier that the homolytic reactive mass spectrometry of fullerenes (the reactions of fullerenes with other species in the ionization chambers of mass spectrometers and their mass spectral monitoring) can predict the reactivity of them toward the same reagents in solution to a significant extent.…”
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Understanding the structures of Pier Luigi Nervi: a multidisciplinary approach by Erica Lenticchia, Rosario Ceravolo, Paolo Faccio

“…The paper describes the strategies adopted to carry out the knowledge campaign on Hall C built by Pier Luigi Nervi at Torino Esposizioni, between 1949 and 1950, and belonging to the architectural heritage of the 20th century. …”
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Covid-19 ve Sosyal Reklamcılık: İzleyici Yorumları Üzerine Bir Araştırma by Fatma Yasa

“…İzleyicilerin reklam veren markalardan, sürece karşı duyarlı davranmalarını gerek toplumsal yaşamı gerekse bireylerin hayatlarını kolaylaştırıcı faaliyetlerde bulunmalarını bekledikleri tespit edilmiştir.…”
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Psychosocial Loads Caused by Covid-19 Pandemic on Obstetricians and Gynecologists. A Scale Study by Cetin Celik, Memduha Aydın, Ahmet Bilgi, Fazıl Avcı, Ersin Çintesun, Abdül Hamid Güler, Mete Can Ateş

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Energetics and phase diagrams of Fe-Cr and Co-Cr systems from first principles by Vreštzál J., Houserová J., Šob M.

“…The first principles computations of the total energies of complex phases have been addressed recently. …”
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Terahertz Resonant Emission by Optically Excited Infrared‐Active Shear Phonons in KY(MoO4)2 by Dmytro Kamenskyi, Kirill Vasin, Lilian Prodan, Khrystyna Kutko, Volodymyr Khrustalyov, Sergey G. Pavlov, Heinz‐Wilhelm Hübers

“…The remarkably long decay time together with the chemical stability of the employed material suggests a variety of possible applications in THz technology.…”
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Plasma Iron Levels at Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis Are Associated With Development of Secondary Metastases: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study by Jasmine De Troy, Sarah-Maria Fendt, Sigrid Hatse, Patrick Neven, Ann Smeets, Annouschka Laenen, Hans Wildiers

“…Cox proportional hazard models were applied to determine the association between iron levels and risk of metastasis. Results: In total, 1113 patients were included, 10% of them developed distant metastasis over a median follow-up period of 7 years. …”
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Os sons das palavras: possibilidades e limites da novela gráfica by Elvira Vigna

“…The graphic novel today aims to a literary status, but its attributes at the same time favor such possibility and frustate it. …”
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