WEB-BASED LEARNING AND STUDENTS' SCHOLASTIC ACCOMPLISHMENT AT NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA by Taofeek Gbolahan Muibi

“…In light of the discoveries, it was suggested that administration ought to put more in training of this season of computerized age through satisfactory financing to empower schools obtain and introduce ICT foundation. …”
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Análisis temporal de sequías meteorológicas en la cuenca del Río Yaqui (México) y su relación con ENSO by Julián Cerano Paredes, Gerardo Esquivel Arriaga, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, Josué Raymundo Estrada Arrellano

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Comparing the Scores of The Functional Movement Screen™ in Individuals with Low Back Pain versus Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Khalid M. Alkhathami, Bijad Alqahtani

“…Further research is needed to assess the association of cofounders, such as age, gender, and body mass index, with the FMS™ score among LBP patients and controls…”
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Public satisfaction with Healthy China Action Plan implementation: a web-based cross-sectional survey in southwest China by Li Pan, Yi Chen, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Dongyang Liu, Wuzhao Chen, Xinyu Bai

“…Therefore, we intend to conduct an assessment based in southwest China.Design A population-based, cross-sectional survey was performed between 1 June 2023 and 31 July 2023.Setting Community members of all 14 prefecture-level cities within Guangxi, China, during June 2023 to July 2023.Participants A total of 62 4016 participants were included for analysis based on exclusion criteria, with 44.4% aged 18–35 and a male to female ratio of 3:2.Primary outcome measure ‘Public satisfaction with the Healthy China (Guangxi) Action Plan implementation’ was measured by the combination of ‘Willingness to join health promotion’ and ‘Satisfaction to overall medical implementation measures and services’ using a structural equation model with a multiple-indicator, multiple-cause approach in R software.Results The study proposed a comprehensive five-factor model to evaluate the public satisfaction with Healthy China (Guangxi) Action Plan implementation. …”
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Serum Zinc Levels in Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome are Lower as Compared to Those without Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: A Cohort Study by Swati Dhar, Reena Yadav, Akash Tomar

“…Settings and Design: In this cohort study, PCOS subjects were compared with normal subjects aged between 18 and 35. Materials and Methods: All the included subjects underwent measurement of anthropometric parameters, fasting insulin, luteinising hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, prolactin, progesterone, oestrogen and serum zinc levels. …”
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New Composite Indexes through Factor Analysis Simplifying the Interpretation of Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes of Surgical Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients Complet... by Wai-Wang Chau, Bobby Kin-Wah Ng

“…Results: There were 135 severe AIS patients recruited in this study, of which 74.1% were female, and the mean age at operation was 15.97. Two factors were yielded after factor analysis (KMO = 0.633 and Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity < 0.001) with orthogonal rotation. …”
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Prostate cancer screening knowledge and attitude among men over 50 at a referral Hospital in Oshana region, Namibia by Lonia Kashihakumwa, Daniel O. Ashipala, Yahaya Jafaru

“…There is no significant association between the respondents’ prostate cancer screening knowledge and all the respondents’ characteristics (age, level of education, marital status and religion), p  0.05, respectively. …”
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Dyslipidaemia in patients with chronic kidney disease – a neglected cardiovascular risk factor by M R Essop, F Seedat, F J Raal

“…The median (interquartile range) age of this cohort was 58 (46 - 69) years; 50.4% were males and 64.4% black African. …”
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Cross-sectional association between plasma aldosterone concentration and cognitive performance by mini-mental state examination in community dwellers by Aketilieke Nusufujiang, Mulalibieke Heizhati, Nanfang Li, Ling Yao, Wenbo Yang, Hui Wang, Mei Li, Lin Gan, Adalaiti Maitituersun, Miaomiao Liu, Qiaolifanayi Nuermaimaiti, Li Cai, Xiayire Aierken, Xiufang Li, Qin Luo, Jing Hong

“…Subgroup analyses also were performed by age, gender, BMI, living region, ethnicity and education attainment status.Results27,707 subjects were included, of whom, 12,862 were apparently healthy and 14,845 had disease. …”
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Optimizing Soft Tissue Emergence Profile Around One-Piece Dental Implants by Abduljaleel Azad Samad

“…The data was evaluated by means of descriptive statistics utilizing the SPSS (version 30) package of software. Results: The mean age of all cases was 32.10 years, with 78 (56.9%) male cases and 59 (43.1%) female cases. …”
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Loosened hip joint prosthesis-decision options by Byser Bonchev, Tsvetoslav Yordanov, Luben Stokov, Teodor Ivanov, Georgi Georgiev, Luben Lubenov Stokov, Kristian Nastev

“… For the period 2013-2015, 36 patients underwent revision surgery because of secondary developed complications after primary hip joint replacement surgery. 14 of them were male and 23 – female, with average age 73 years.  We examined 4 groups of patients depends on the complications type: - Aseptic loosening in 23 patients, appeared 10 years’ average following primary hip prosthesis surgery…”
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Characteristics and outcomes of the screening program of autism spectrum disorder in Primary Healthcare Centers in Bahrain by Muna A. Almohri, Mahmood A. Alawainati, Zahra A. Ayoob, Nayla A. Nasser, Noof A. Abdulaal, Ahmed A. Aldailami, Donya A. Aldailami

“…RESULTS: A total of 3729 MCHAT-R checklists of children with a mean age of 2 years were included. Most children were Bahraini (78.0%), half of whom were males (51.3%). …”
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Changes in the Structural and Functional Albumin Properties in Patients with Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis by A. A. Turkina, M. V. Maevskaya, M. S. Zharkova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The control group consisted of 12 healthy volunteers, comparable in gender and age, without liver diseases. To assess the structural and functional ability, serum albumin was analyzed by EPR spectroscopy.Results. …”
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Protocol for a meta-review of interventions to prevent and manage ICU delirium by Andrew Booth, Maria Pufulete, Ben Gibbison, Burak Kundakci, Katherine Louise Jones

“…We will include all critically ill adults (aged≥18 years) and any ICU delirium prevention or management intervention (pharmacological or non-pharmacological). …”
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Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the composite physical function scale in Chinese community-dwelling older adults by Jiaying Qi, Jing Xu, Hui Zhang, Mingshuai Feng, Hongyan Meng, Li Wang

“…Construct validity analysis revealed a significant difference in C-CPF scores amongst older adults in groups of different ages, regular exercise and physical activity habits (P < 0.01). …”
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Early childhood caries and their association with serum iron, serum ferritin, serum albumin, and Vitamin D by Vasundhara Megha, Jeevendra Nath Shukla, Rajat Kumar Singh, Chitrita Gupta Mukherjee, Siddharth Anand, Aparna Singh

“…A total of 200 children aged between 3–6 years were screened for ECC, according to the AAPD guidelines. …”
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Efficacy and safety of camrelizumab combined with chemotherapy as second-line treatment for locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Yinfang Gu, Xiaofang Zou, Junlin Zhu, Guowu Wu

“…Additionally, the median OS was significantly improved in the combination therapy group compared to the chemotherapy group (11.7 months vs. 6.5 months, P = 0.003). Age and history of radical surgery were significantly associated with OS in patients receiving camrelizumab combined with chemotherapy as second-line treatment (P < 0.05). …”
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Infestation of Ixodidae Ticks in Cattle: Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors in Ambo District, Western Ethiopia by Addis Kassahun Gebremeskel, Berhanu Mekibib, Bekele Dabesa

“…The difference in tick infestation was found to be statistically insignificant (P >0.05) between different age groups and kebeles but statistically significant (P <0.05) among sex groups, breeds, and different body condition scores (P <0.05). …”
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RESILSTIGMA. Resilience to self-stigmatization experienced by people living with HIV: Which self-reported factors improve awareness among health workers? by Christine Jacomet, Cécile Miele, Emilie Goncalves, Céline Lambert, Clément Belletier, Françoise Linard, Josiane Phalip-Le Besnerais, Pierre Dellamonica, Michaël Dambrun

“…<h4>Results</h4>Self-reports were collected from 45 hospital wards, 666 from PLHIV, of whom 71% were male with a mean age of 53 +/- 12.6 years, and 131 from health professionals, of whom 72.5% were clinicians. …”
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Comparative Pitching Biomechanics Among Adolescent Baseball Athletes: Are There Fundamental Differences Between Pitchers and Non-pitchers? by Garrett Bullock, Tessa C Hulburt, Gary Collins, Brian R Waterman, Kristen F Nicholson

“… # Results Sixty baseball players (pitchers = 40; non-pitchers = 20; Age: 15.0 (1.1); Left-handed: 15%; Height 1.77 (0.09) m; Weight: 70.0 (12.5) kg) threw 495 pitches (FB: 177, BB: 155, CH: 163) for analysis. …”
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