Effect of free medicine distribution on ability to make ends meet: post hoc quantitative subgroup analysis and qualitative thematic analysis by Nav Persaud, Hannah Woods, Ri Wang, Aine Workentin, Margaret Hess

“…The main theme in the qualitative analysis was insufficient income, and there were three related themes: out-of-pocket medication expenses, cost-related non-adherence and the importance of medication coverage. …”
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Factors affecting caregivers' HPV vaccination decisions for adolescent girls: A secondary analysis of a Chinese RCT. by Ying Yang, Yajiao Lu, Yifan Li, Chuanyu Qin, Yu He, Wenfeng Gong, Shenglan Tang, Dan Wu, Jing Li

“…Daughters of caregivers who were previously unaware of the HPV vaccine were three times more likely to be vaccinated (OR=3.01,95%CI:1.27-7.14). …”
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Spatial and Temporal Change Analysis of Urban Built-Up Area via Nighttime Lighting Data—A Case Study with Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces by Qian Jing, Armando Marino, Yongjie Ji, Han Zhao, Guoran Huang, Lu Wang

“…The results showed the following. (1) Due to the complementarity between data types, such as NTL, EVI, NDBI, and NDWI, ENUI has better performance in expressing urban characteristics. (2) Influenced by national and local policies, such as “One Belt, One Road”, transportation infrastructure construction, geographic location, the historical background, and other factors, the urban expansion rate of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in general showed a continuous advancement from 2013 to 2021, and there were three years in which the expansion rate was positive. (3) The center of gravity migration distance of most cities in Guizhou Province shows a trend of increasing and then decreasing, while the center of gravity migration distance in Yunnan Province shows a trend of continuous decrease in general. …”
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Short-distance seed and pollen dispersal in both hunted and intact forests in the lower canopy African rainforest tree, Coula edulis Baill. (Coulaceae) by Narcisse Guy Kamdem, Bonaventure Sonké, Saskia Sergeant, Vincent Deblauwe, Olivier J. Hardy

“…The mean dispersal distances were relatively short for seeds (105–219 m) and pollen (173–358 m), both shorter in the most intact forest. Immigration rates were three to four times higher for pollen (33–71%) than for seeds (7–28%), indicating some long-distance pollen dispersal. …”
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Factors Associated with Anemia among Pregnant Women of Underprivileged Ethnic Groups Attending Antenatal Care at Provincial Level Hospital of Province 2, Nepal by Umesh Kumar Yadav, Prabesh Ghimire, Archana Amatya, Ashish Lamichhane

“…The odds of anemia were three times higher among pregnant women who had not taken deworming medication compared to their counterparts. …”
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Ascitic ovarian cancer is an adequate preclinical model of carcinomatosis to study intraperitoneal chemoperfusion treatment by G. S. Kireeva, O. A. Belyaeva, K. Yu. Senchik, V. G. Bespalov, A. N. Stukov, E. A. Gubareva, M. A. Maydin

“…In our study, the model of peritoneal carcinomatosis in rats with ascitic ovarian cancer was used. material and methods. There were three groups of rats with ascitic ovarian cancer: 1 – the control group (n=15) having no treatment; 2 – rats receiving normothermic intraperitoneal chemoperfusion with cisplatin, 40 mg/kg (n=12); 3 – rats receiving hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemoperfusion with cisplatin, 20 mg/kg (n=14). …”
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Monitorização vídeo-EEG prolongada em crises não epilépticas: semiologia clínica Prolonged vídeo-EEG monitoring in nonepileptic seizures: clinical semiology by Lúcia Helena Neves Marques, Sérgio José Alves de Almeida, Adriana Barbosa Santos

“…Either EP or NES was observed in 9% of the patients. There were three groups according to the cluster analysis: hypermotor NES of the extremities with tonus alteration; NES with automatism; and axial NES with eye movements. …”
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Health inequalities at the intersection of multiple social determinants among under five children residing Nairobi urban slums: An application of multilevel analysis of individual... by Eliud Kibuchi, Ivy Chumo, Caroline Kabaria, Helen Elsey, Penelope Phillips-Howard, Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira-Filha, Lana Whittaker, Alastair H Leyland, Blessing Mberu, Linsay Gray

“…The main outcome variables were three health conditions: 1) whether a child had diarrhea or not, 2) whether a child had fever or not, and 3) whether a child had cough or not in the previous two weeks. …”
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Development of a revised Jalowiec Coping Scale for use by emergency clinicians: a cross-sectional scale development study by Ogilvie Thom, Eric Carlström, Marianne C Wallis, Amy Johnston, Daniel Wilhelms, Louisa Abraham, Hui (Grace) Xu, Elizabeth Elder, Monica A Magnusson

“…The JCS-ED was developed in three stages: 1) item reduction through content matter experts, 2) exploratory factor analysis for further item reduction and to identify the factor structure of the revised scale and 3) confirmatory factor analyses to confirm the factors identified within the exploratory factor analysis.Setting Six Emergency Departments (EDs) in Australia and four in Sweden. There were three tertiary hospitals, five large urban hospitals and two small urban hospitals.Participants Participants were eligible for inclusion if they worked full-time or part-time as medical or nursing staff in the study EDs. …”
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Excimer Laser Correction of Myopia in Patients with Visually Intense Work — Is It Necessary to Determine the Form of Accommodative Asthenopia? by E. I. Belikova, D. V. Gatilov, I. G. Ovechkin, E. N. Eskina

“…As part of the preoperative examination, 300 patients with VSW were under observation. There were three groups of equal age and gender, corresponding to weak (up to 3.0 diopters, 100 patients), moderate (3.25–6.0 diopters, 100 patients ) and high (6.25–8.0 diopters, 100 patients) degrees of myopia. …”
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Biomassa e nutrição mineral de forrageiras cultivadas em solos do semiárido adubados com esterco Biomass and mineral nutrition of forage grown in the semi-arid soils fertilized wit... by Eduardo R. Araújo, Tácio O. da Silva, Rômulo S. C. Menezes, Vânia da S. Fraga, Everardo V. de S. B. Sampaio

“…<br>Biomass production and N, P and K uptake by four forage species were compared in three soils from the semi-arid region of Paraíba, with or without organic manure. The species were three legumes (Desmanthus virgatus , Macroptilium martii and Macroptilium lathyroides) and one grass (Cenchrus ciliaris); the soils, a Fluvic Neosol, a Regolithic Neosol and Haplic Planosol; and cattle manure was applied at a dose equivalent to 20 Mg ha-1. …”
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Pola komunikasi organisasi pada UKM UMY e-sport arena (UMY e-sport) by Idham Azhar Alfarizi, Pratiwi Wahyu Widiarti

“…In determining sample, the technique used was purposive sampling with predetermined criteria and there were three people as main informants. The data validity technique in this research uses source triangulation techniques, as well as data analysis techniques using Miles and Hubberman Model. …”
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From counsel to consumption: examining sociocultural influences on perinatal nutrition in rural India by Faiz A. Hashmi, Cristine H. Legare

“…Education emerged as the strongest predictor of dietary behaviors; women with 14–17 years of education were three times more likely to adopt healthier diets during pregnancy than women with less education. …”
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Efficacy and safety of belimumab versus rituximab for refractory immune thrombocytopenia in patients with connective tissue disease by Min Wang, Yudong Liu, Tong Li, Xuan Zhang, Ying Jiang, Xiaoxia Zuo, Xiangning Yuan

“…The serum C3 level did not significantly change, whereas the serum immunoglobulin G level significantly decreased at week 4, 8 and 12 in both groups. There were three patients with serious adverse effects who died of severe pneumonia during weeks 12–24.Conclusions BLM may be a safe and effective alternative to RTX for CTD–ITP refractory to GCs plus ISAs.…”
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Health care providers' knowledge and associated factors towards the components of post abortion care service in hospitals of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. by Gidey Goitom, Balem Dimtsu, Abera Haftu, Solomon Weldemariam Gebrehiwot, Gebru Hailu Redae

“…Providers who used post-abortion care guidelines were three times more likely to be knowledgeable (AOR = 3.424 [1.09-10.72]) compared to those who did not. …”
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Study on the morphological changes of condyles before and after orthognathic surgery in patients with skeletal class Ⅲ malocclusion and mandibular deviation by SHI Hongli, SUN Xiumei, XIAO Yanju, LI Nannan, WANG Lin, WU Guomin

“…[Methods:] According to the value of menton deviation (MD), 20 patients with skeletal class Ⅲ malocclusion and mandibular deviation were selected, and then divided into group A (mild deviation group: 4 mm≤MD<10 mm) and group B (severe deviation group: MD≥10 mm), 10 cases in each group. Condyles were three-dimensionally reconstructed in Proplan CMF using the craniofacial spiral CT data from the T1 (before surgery) and T2 (six months after surgery) periods. …”
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High Compliance with the 11+ Injury Prevention Program Results in Better Win-Loss Records by Holly Silvers-Granelli, Mario Bizzini, Bert Mandelbaum, Amelia Arundale, Ryan Pohlig, Lynn Snyder-Mackler

“…Compliance and team performance were recorded. There were three compliance categories that were defined prospectively, low (LC, \< 1 dose/week), moderate (MC, \>1 and \<2 doses/week), and high (HC, \>2 doses/week). …”
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Impact of adding plant leaves powder on compressive strength and corrosion rate of steel mortar by Al-Jaaf Hyman Jafar Meerza, Al-Jadiri Rand Salih, Abdulghani Hadeel A.

“…All specimens were tested for compressive strength, and a weight-loss method was used to evaluate corrosion rates. There were three specimens for each test with a volume size of (5, 5, 5) cm3. …”
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Development of scalable coastal and offshore kelp farming for marine biomass production by Michael Stekoll, Scott Lindell, Clifford A. Goudey, Hauke L. Kite‐Powell, David Bailey, Kendall Barbery, Loretta Roberson, Tamsen Peeples, Nicholas Mangini, Alf Pryor, Alexandra Meyer, Charles Yarish

“…This project specifically looked at how Saccharina latissima can be grown in the Gulf of Alaska to reach that goal. There were three major aspects of the research: (1) optimize nursery production and seeding lines for outplanting; (2) design an economical, modular outplanting structure; and (3) develop methods to efficiently harvest the product. …”
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Simplified Medication Adherence Questionnaire (SMAQ) for People Living With HIV in a National Hospital in Mexico: Instrument Validation Study by Luis Eduardo Del Moral Trinidad, Luz Alicia González Hernández, Jaime Federico Andrade Villanueva, Pedro Martínez-Ayala, Adriana Valle Rodríguez, Vida Veronica Ruíz Herrera, José Adán Vizcaíno Résendiz, Melva Guadalupe Herrera Godina, Sergio Dominguez-Lara

“…Patients classified as adherent were three times more likely to be undetectable than nonadherent patients (odds ratio 3.31, 95% CI 1.13-9.64, P=.04). …”
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