Casual associations between frailty and nine mental disorders: bidirectional Mendelian randomisation study by Yong Zhou, Jiayue Duan, Jiayi Zhu, Yunying Huang, Tao Tu, Keke Wu, Qiuzhen Lin, Yingxu Ma, Qiming Liu

“…Results Genetically determined frailty was significantly associated with increased risk of major depressive disorder (MDD) (odds ratio 1.86, 95% CI 1.36–2.53, P = 8.1 × 10−5), anxiety (odds ratio 2.76, 95% CI 1.56–4.90, P = 5.0 × 10−4), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (odds ratio 2.56, 95% CI 1.69–3.87, P = 9.9 × 10−6), neuroticism (β = 0.25, 95% CI 0.11–0.38, P = 3.3 × 10−4) and insomnia (β = 0.50, 95% CI 0.25–0.75, P = 1.1 × 10−4). …”
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Notation publications in the context of musical life in Lithuania in the XVI-XVII centuries by Jūratė Trilupaitienė

“…The melodies of some were identical to those in hymnals printed in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, perhaps because they had sprung from the same source. Lithuania Major's first notated publications were prepared at the Vilnius court of Mikołaj Radvila the Black, printed on his presses in 1558 in Brest and entitled Pieśni chwały Bożych. …”
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The use of different 17β-estradiol hormone doses and water temperatures to control cannibalism in catfish Clarias gariepinus seed by Hylda Khairah Putri, Muhammad Zairin Jr., Odang Carman, Iis Diatin

“… Cannibalism is a major problem in the intensive catfish hatchery that caused high mortality. …”
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Internalizing and externalizing symptoms in individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Dan Liu, Liyan Yu, Xian Wu, Julia Moreira, Benjamin Felipe Mujica, Elora Shelly Mukhopadhyay, Angelena Novotney, André B. Rietman, Yang Hou

“…This hinders the overall attendance of their psychosocial needs and has a major impact on their quality of life. Thus, this systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to synthesize existing findings on the degree to which individuals with NF1 experience internalizing and externalizing symptoms, compared with the unaffected population, and explore moderators of the group disparities. …”
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Rates of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections in Hospitalized Non-Immunocompromised Pediatric Patients: A 9-Year Retrospective Study at a Lebanese Tertiary Medica... by Zakhour R, Khafaja S, Korman R, Boutros CF, El Zein Z, Chmaisse A, Haj M, Haddara A, El-Houry Z, Jbahi M, Chamseddine S, Bou Karroum S, Al Oweini D, Youssef YS, Youssef N, Nasser M, Fayad D, Abi Farraj F, El Nakib C, Isaac I, Lteif M, Araj GF, Dbaibo GS

“…Ramia Zakhour,1,2,* Sarah Khafaja,1,2,* Rawan Korman,1,* Celina F Boutros,1 Zeinab El Zein,1– 3 Ahmad Chmaisse,1 Magda Haj,1 Amani Haddara,1 Zeina El-Houry,1 Malak Jbahi,1 Sarah Chamseddine,1 Samer Bou Karroum,1 Dana Al Oweini,1 Yolla Salama Youssef,1 Nour Youssef,1,2 Mayse Nasser,1 Danielle Fayad,1 Farida Abi Farraj,1 Clara El Nakib,1 Imad Isaac,1 Mireille Lteif,1 George F Araj,1,4 Ghassan S Dbaibo1– 3 1Center for Infectious Diseases Research (CIDR) and WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Bacterial Pathogens, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; 2Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon; 3Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon; 4Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Ghassan S Dbaibo, Center for Infectious Diseases Research (CIDR), Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, 1107, Lebanon, Email gdbaibo@aub.edu.lbIntroduction: Multidrug resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacterial infections are considered a major public health threat. The objectives of this study were to describe the epidemiology, potential contributing factors, and antimicrobial resistance patterns associated with infections caused by MDR Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) in non-immunocompromised children and adolescents.Methods: This was a retrospective observational study conducted at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) from 2009 to 2017. …”
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Factors and Reasons Associated with Hesitating to Seek Care for Migraine: Results of the OVERCOME (US) Study by Robert E. Shapiro, Eva Jolanda Muenzel, Robert A. Nicholson, Anthony J. Zagar, Michael L. Reed, Dawn C. Buse, Susan Hutchinson, Sait Ashina, Eric M. Pearlman, Richard B. Lipton

“…These findings suggest that migraine’s social context (e.g., stigma) is a major determinant of hesitance to seek migraine care.…”
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The Mechanisms of Guaranteeing the Right to Clean Air in Iran and International Documents by Fatemeh Hamidi, Maryam Afshari, Ali Mashhadi

“…Introduction: Air pollution is a major global environmental problem that has various adverse effects on health and the environment. …”
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Using Health Utility Index (HUI) for Measuring the Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) Among Individuals with Chronic Diseases by Frank Mo, Bernard C.K. Choi, Felix C.K. Li, Joav Merrick

“…Food allergy, allergy other than food, asthma, migraine headaches, and other remaining chronic diseases have a relatively mild effect. It is concluded that major chronic diseases with significant health burden were associated with poor HRQL. …”
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East Asian Welfare Regimes 東アジア福祉制度 by Joseph Wong, Andrew DeWit, Ito Peng

“…Even though the region as a whole features a somewhat more restricted role for social spending by the state, the above numbers alone show the enormous differences among the major states within East Asia. A closer look at these countries is especially important since East Asia is now the locus of global growth (Japan aside).Peng and Wong show that there are two very distinct lines of social policy development evident in the region. …”
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Dispersion modelling of particulate matter concentrations of sand product plants in a mineral complex by Y. Zehtab Yazdi, N. Mansouri, F. Atabi, H. Aghamohammadi

“…Finally, the simulated concentrations were compared with the United States Environmental Protect Agency and World Health Organization standards.FINDINGS: Results showed that hauling operations, with producing 70%, 86%, and 90% of total PM2.5, PM10 and total suspended particulates, respectively, were the major sources of dust emission in the sand and gravel product plants. …”
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Korelasi Kadar Hemoglobin dengan Kadar Nitric Oxide pada Preeklamsia dan Kehamilan Normal by Siska Helina, Ariadi , Delmi Sulastri

“…<br />Kata kunci:  hemoglobin, nitric oxide, preeklamsia, kehamilan normal</p><p> </p><p>Abstract <br />Endothelial cell activation or dysfunction becomes a major factor pathogenesis of preeclampsia. This mechanism is characterized by the decrease of Nitric Oxide (NO) level. …”
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Assessment of salicylic acid and potassium nitrate to mitigate frost stress in autumn-sown potato crop cv. Sutlej by Muhammad Wasim Haider, Syed Mohsin Abbas, Tanveer Hussain, Muhammad Tahir Akram, Umar Farooq, Mona S. Alwahibi, Mohamed S. Elshikh, Zaid Shakeel, Muhammad Nafees, Muhammad Rizwan, Rashid Iqbal

“…Abstract Potato is cultivated all the year round in Pakistan. However, the major crop is the autumn crop which is planted in mid-October and contributes 80–85% of the total production. …”
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Damage of Green Synthetic Cement Slurry to Clastic Rock Reservoir by Meng Xu, Xin Tan, Libo Yang, Hanlie Cheng, David Cofell

“…The high-pressure difference between the annulus and the formation, the high fluid loss, and the high solids content of the cementing slurry during the cementing process have also become major challenges. In order to solve this problem, this study takes a typical clastic rock block in an oilfield in western China as the research object and carries out a geological survey of fracture development, pressure deficit, and cement slurry permeability leakage in the reservoir. …”
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Analyzing the Influence of Managerial Traits and Financial Strategies on Corporate Risk-taking in the Tehran Stock Exchange by Gholamreza Karami, Ali Asghari

“…Also, risk is associated with managers when they do not make enough efforts to earn profits and attribute any failure in the company's performance to external factors from control or major shareholders. Therefore, based on this argument, the purpose of the current research is to investigate the impact of management characteristics and financial strategies on the risk-taking of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. …”
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« Paroles de flics ». Communications policières et actualité politique au Maroc (2005-2023) by Mériam Cheikh

“…In February 2005, an unusual press publication in Morocco appeared amid the profusion of titles (dailies, weeklies and monthlies) that had been appearing in Arabic and French on the newsstands of the country’s major cities since the 1990s. One of these is the new police journal, entitled Police Magazine, which has been heralded with great fanfare as a move away from the traditional institutional publications that have existed until now and which were not always aimed at the general public. …”
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Metformin Increases Protein Phosphatase 2A Activity in Primary Human Skeletal Muscle Cells Derived from Lean Healthy Participants by Aktham Mestareehi, Xiangmin Zhang, Berhane Seyoum, Zaher Msallaty, Abdullah Mallisho, Kyle Jon Burghardt, Anjaneyulu Kowluru, Zhengping Yi

“…Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), a major serine/threonine protein phosphatase, plays a pivotal role in cellular processes, such as signal transduction, cell proliferation, and apoptosis, and acts through dephosphorylating key signaling molecules such as AKT and AMPK. …”
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Genomic epidemiology of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli from companion animals and human infections in Europe by Adrien Biguenet, Benoit Valot, Farid El Garch, Xavier Bertrand, Didier Hocquet

“…Although it cannot rule out occasional transmission of bacteria between pets and humans within a household, it suggests that dogs and cats are not a major source of human infection with this antibiotic-resistant pathogen.…”
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Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Clinical <i>Escherichia coli</i> Strains from Livestock and Poultry in Shandong Province, China During 2015–2020 by Miaoli Wang, Shaopeng Wu, Yao Wang, Feng Chen, Zhangqi Shen, Zouran Lan

“…The co-existence of antimicrobial resistant genes (ARGs) in the same isolate presents a major challenge for the prevention and control of infection in multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative organisms. …”
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Sex Variations in the Oral Microbiomes of Youths with Severe Periodontitis by Ya-Qiong Zhao, Ying-Hui Zhou, Jie Zhao, Yao Feng, Zheng-Rong Gao, Qin Ye, Qiong Liu, Yun Chen, Shao-Hui Zhang, Li Tan, Marie Aimee Dusenge, Jing Hu, Yun-Zhi Feng, Fei Yan, Yue Guo

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Probing the Dual Role of Ca²⁺ in the <i>Allochromatium tepidum</i> LH1–RC Complex by Constructing and Analyzing Ca²⁺-Bound and Ca²⁺-Free LH1 Comple... by Mei-Juan Zou, Shuai Sun, Guang-Lei Wang, Yi-Hao Yan, Wei Ji, Zheng-Yu Wang-Otomo, Michael T. Madigan, Long-Jiang Yu

“…Crucially for the ecological success of <i>Alc. tepidum</i>, Ca²⁺-bound LH1 complexes were more thermostable than Ca²⁺-free complexes, indicating that calcium plays at least two major roles in photosynthesis by <i>Alc. tepidum</i>—improving photocomplex stability and modifying its spectrum.…”
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