Protocol for project recovery after cardiac surgery: a single-center cohort study leveraging digital platform to characterise longitudinal patient-reported postoperative recovery p... by Harlan M Krumholz, Erica Spatz, Sanket S Dhruva, Yawei Zhang, Makoto Mori, Cornell Brooks, Bobak J Mortazavi, George C Linderman, Lawrence A Grab, Arnar Geirsson, Sarwat I Chaudhry

“…We will apply group-based trajectory modelling to the time-series PROM and device data to classify patients into distinct categories of recovery trajectories. …”
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Spectrum-specific encephalography standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography network and gray matter correlations in vascular dementia patients by Yan Lv, Huijuan Chen, Zhiyan Sui, Yingliu Huang, Shixiong Huang, Feng Chen, Guoqiang Wen

“…Compared with healthy group, voxel-based morphometry analysis showed a decrease in gray/cerebrospinal fluid ratio ( p  < .05) in mild dementia group; the energy power of gamma band decreased ( p  < .05) in mild dementia group; and electroencephalography standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography analysis showed wider frontal and temporal lobe involvement in mild dementia patients ( p  < .05). …”
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Identifying, categorizing and ranking performance indicators of schools using Q method by Seyed Mahmoud Jalilian, Shahnaz Naibzadeh, seyyed hasan hataminasab, seyed ali almodaresi

“…Content analysis was used in qualitative data analysis, and SPSS software and Q method were used in quantitative data analysis. …”
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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

“…Conclusion: The data suggest that serum zinc levels were found to be lower in PCOS subjects as compared to normal controls and evaluation of these levels may indicate that zinc has a vital role in PCOS pathophysiology.…”
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Pengembangan Tes Bentuk Soal Pilihan Ganda dan Uraian Berbasis Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) pada Ranah Kognitif Mata Pelajaran Pemrograman Dasar (Studi pada SMK Negeri 12 Ma... by Meilita Dwi Aryati, Satrio Hadi Wijoyo, Admaja Dwi Herlambang

“…The results of the cognitive analysis of students have a fairly good average, while the results of HOTS analysis on indicators of analyzing, evaluating, and creating are very lacking. …”
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Fingolimod and risk of skin cancer among individuals with multiple sclerosis: a population-based cohort study protocol by Lisa Kuramoto, Larry D Lynd, Amir Khakban, Jacquelyn J Cragg, Anthony Traboulsee, Jiwon Oh, Analisa Jia, Weng Sut Sio, M A De Vera, Jonathan Loree, Roger Tam

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Contrastive Study of Brain Activation Regions during Verb Production in Uyghur and Chinese Broca Aphasia Patients after Stroke by ZUHERE Rouzi, MENG Shikai, MA Xiaoting, XI Yanling

“…SPM 8.0 software was used for statistical analysis, language and aphasia factors were used for double factor variance analysis to compare the interaction at the whole brain level of the four groups. …”
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The plight of Ukrainian refugees staying in Sweden under EU:s mass refugee directive: a brief trauma-focused, participatory, online intervention as a pilot feasibility study by Solvig Ekblad, Oksana Gramatik, Yuliia Suprun

“…A mixed-methods design with participatory methodology and evaluation were used. Data was collected with a short questionnaire in Ukrainian. …”
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Methodologische Probleme in der phonetischen Forschung des Polnischen als Fremdsprache by Alicja Derych

“…The analysis may serve as a starting point both at the stage of planning one’s research, and evaluation of specific problems that were already encountered.…”
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Co-occurrence of depression, anxiety and increased alcohol use during the late stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan, Canada: a cross-sectional survey by Erika Dyck, James Dixon, Nazeem Muhajarine, Daniel A Adeyinka, Md Sabbir Ahmed, Ali Bukhari, Jim Clifford, Gabriela Novotna

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Program of functional instruction in reading comprehension of poems in elementary school students by Néstor Miguel Velarde Corrales, Aldo Bazán-Ramírez

“…The purpose of the present study was to develop reading comprehension skills of poems in sixth grade students of a public rural school in the State of Morelos, Mexico, who had low levels of achievement indicators, at the end of the fifth curricular block of the program of sixth grade of primary, called Leer y escribir poemas para compartir. A prior evaluation of the group showed that 28 of the 30 students had a low level of reading comprehension, therefore, it was formed in a random manner, a group of eleven students who took a training course for reading comprehension, which consisted of six sessions. …”
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"If we work as a team, there are success stories." Unpacking team members' perceptions and experiences of what impacts team performance in a maternal and neonatal quality improveme... by Willem Odendaal, Ameena Goga, Mark Tomlinson, Yages Singh, Helen Schneider, Solange Mianda, Shuaib Kauchali, Carol Marshall, Terusha Chetty, Xanthe Hunt

“…We interviewed 47 team members from the 14 facilities consenting to participate in the evaluation, over three time points. We conducted 21 individual interviews and 18 group interviews. …”
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Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Functional Connectivity of Amygdalar Subregions in Patients with Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain by CHEN Xiaolin, LIU Hong, GAO Zhen, WU Mengjiao, FAN Cheng, JIANG Zheng

“…The correlations between functional connectivity values of brain regions with significant differences in the CNLBP group and clinical evaluation results were also analyzed.ResultsCompared with the healthy control group, the scores of BDI-Ⅱ and BAI in CNLBP group were observably higher, and the difference was statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001). …”
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Reduction of Multidimensional Image Characteristics Based on Improved KICA by Jia Dongyao, Ai Yanke, Zou Shengxiong

“…Dimensionality reduction and optimization of characteristic parameter model based on improved kernel independent component analysis are proposed in this paper; the independent primitives are obtained by KICA (kernel independent component analysis) algorithm to construct an independent group subspace, while using 2DPCA (2D principal component analysis) algorithm to complete the second order related to data and further reduce the dimension in the above method. …”
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Relation between Headache and Mastication Muscle Tone in Adolescents by Ewa Wozniak, Jolanta E. Loster, Aneta Wieczorek

“…Results. The statistical analysis of data showed that there was a significant relationship between the presence of headache and a change in the mastication muscle tone, expressed as the predominant activity of the temporal muscles, only in the group of sick individuals during maximum clenching. …”
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Investigation on the effectiveness of a new hoof care product to sustainably reduce and prevent digital dermatitis in dairy cow herds by K. Grimm, A. Fiedler, C. Kröger

“…Results A: Mean area under the curve of the numerical score that summarizes development over time was substantially and significantly smaller in the treatment group. Results B: Two-step regression analysis for the outcome category at evaluation day (with exclusion of the first baseline evaluation) showed that during the trial, compared with the treatment group, odds of having a lesion rather than none was 4 times higher in the control group and the odds of having an active lesion compared with an inactive one were almost 6 times higher in the control group. …”
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Predicting the Risk of Fundus Lesions in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Nomogram Model by Huan Xie, Fangfang Sun, Huimin Yang, Jin Li

“…The data of the two groups were compared, and the prediction model was established using binary logistic regression analysis. …”
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Intensity of water consumption in separate water collection points of internal water supply system by D. E. Polivanov, A. A. Semenov

“…The data were processed and analyzed using methods of probability theory and mathematical statistics. …”
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Social Forestry in West Sumatra: A Review on Regulation and Its Implementation in Hutan Nagari Salibutan by Nurwansyah, Hariadi Kartodihardjo, Iin Ichwandi

“…Therefore, this research aimed to analyze West Sumatra Governor Regulation No. 52/2018 on the Implementation of Social Forestry Facilitation and its practical application in Hutan Nagari Salibutan. Data collection in this research included in-depth interviews and a literature review, while data analysis used descriptive qualitative methods, content analysis, and policy implementation. …”
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The Effects of a Professional Development Program on the Classroom Practices of Physics Teachers by Ozlem Oktay, Ali Eryilmaz

“…Thematic coding was used in every dimension. The data were evaluated using a frequency analysis and displayed in tables. …”
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