Prevalence and socioeconomic determinants of awareness and visitation of community clinic among ever married women: evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2017–201... by Md Akib Al-Zubayer, Hasibul Hasan Shanto, Rabeya Kumkum, Sk Tasnuva Alam, Benojir Ahammed

“…Moreover, male household heads and exposure to media were significantly positively related to visitation to CCs.Conclusion The study result highlights that more than half of the women were aware of CCs however, the CCs’ visit rates were comparatively low. …”
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Genomic characterization of foodborne Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli isolates from Saboba district and Bolgatanga Municipality Ghana. by Gabriel Temitope Sunmonu, Frederick Adzitey, Erkison Ewomazino Odih, Boniface Awini Tibile, Rejoice Ekli, Martin Aduah, Anderson O Oaikhena, Olabisi C Akinlabi, Akebe Luther King Abia, Daniel Gyamfi Amoako, Iruka N Okeke

“…Although antimicrobial resistance was not common among Salmonella strains, most (11/19) of the E. coli strains had at least one resistance gene, with nearly half (8/19) being multidrug resistant and carried plasmids. …”
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Context modulates evidence accumulation in split-second handball penalty decisions by Henrietta Weinberg, Florian Müller, Rouwen Cañal-Bruland

“…., contextual) information regarding the shot direction being manipulated in half of the trials. Results showed that contextual information systematically affected the drift rate, indicating faster evidence accumulation when context information predicts the subsequent action. …”
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Scrolling and Stress: Exploring Internet Usage for Social Media and Psychological Distress in Young Adults by P C Pradeep Kumar, M Kishor, Archana Anthony Raj, M. Murugappan, Dhanabal S. Palaniswamy

“…Excessive Internet users (P < 0.001) spend an average of 3.57 h on social media, while nonexcessive users spend 2.51 h. Over half of the excessive users had psychological distress (P < 0.001). …”
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Exploring menstrual hygiene management practices among displaced coastal women in Kerala, India by Jessy Prabhakar, Aswin MG, Asmi Fathima Nazar, Adarsh MS, Jibin Job PJ, Nisam AP, Krishna Priya MJ, Mini GK

“…Around 59 % had completed some school education, 41 % had completed college education, 30 % were employed, and 59 % belonged to lower socioeconomic status. Over half of the participants had poor menstrual hygiene practices (55 %). …”
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Donor age contributes more to the rheological properties of stored red blood cells than donor sex and biological age distribution by Olga Mykhailova, Mackenzie Brandon-Coatham, Sanaz Hemmatibardehshahi, Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh, Carly Olafson, Qi-Long Yi, Tamir Kanias, Jason P. Acker

“…Teen RBCs, regardless of biological age, were discovered to be more rigid (higher shear stress required to reach half the EImax). Donor variation in the age distribution of RBC subpopulations and its downstream effect on deformability serves as further evidence that factors beyond storage could potentially affect RCC quality and transfusion outcomes.…”
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Evaluation of Nurses’ Performance Regarding Personal Protective Equipment at Rania Teaching Hospital by Bayan Omar Sharif, Frishta M. Khdir, Padasht M. Khdir, Sarezh A. Rasul

“…The aim of the current study was performing to provide demographic data and to evaluate nurse’s performance regarding PPE at Rania teaching Hospital in Kurdistan region of Iraq, during the period of 10th October up to 7th of March. …”
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A Synoptic- and Remote Sensing-based Analysis of a Severe Dust Storm Event over Central Asia by Parya Broomandi, Kaveh Mohammadpour, Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Aram Fathian, Sabur F. Abdullaev, Vladimir A. Maslov, Amirhossein Nikfal, Ali Jahanbakhshi, Bakhyt Aubakirova, Jong Ryeol Kim, Alfrendo Satyanaga, Alireza Rashki, Nick Middleton

“…The prevailing high-pressure system and temperature gradients over Kazakhstan modulated the dominant anticyclonic wind pattern generated from the south Balkhash basin toward the Caspian Sea, causing a huge dust storm that covered the southern half of Kazakhstan and large parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. …”
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Preventive aspects and patient satisfaction with laser aided gingivectomy versus conventional method. An in-vivo comparative study by Aras Maruf Rauf, Ara Omer Fattah

“…Results: The mean age of the sample was 25.01 + 6.56 years, more than half (57.8%) of the sample were females. All the patients in the surgery group needed local anesthesia and periodontal pack compared to 23.5% and 0% of patients in the laser group respectively. …”
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Revisiting Near-infrared Features of Kilonovae: The Importance of Gadolinium by Salma Rahmouni, Masaomi Tanaka, Nanae Domoto, Daiji Kato, Kenta Hotokezaka, Wako Aoki, Teruyuki Hirano, Takayuki Kotani, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Motohide Tamura

“…Due to its unique atomic structure involving the half-filled 4 f and the outer 5 d orbitals, Gd iii has one of the lowest-lying energy levels, between which relatively strong transitions occur. …”
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Excess costs of post-traumatic stress disorder related to child maltreatment in Germany by Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Falk Leichsenring, Manfred E. Beutel, Lila Feix, Harald Gündel, Andrea Hermann, Melissa Hitzler, Christine Knaevelsrud, Iris-Tatjana Kolassa, Johannes Kruse, Helen Niemeyer, Fatima Nöske, Simone Salzer, Karoline Sophie Sauer, Patrick Schuster, Christiane Steinert, Kerstin Weidner, Jörn von Wietersheim, Jürgen Hoyer, Judith Dams

“…Conclusions Excess health care and absenteeism costs associated with PTSD-CM were substantial, with absenteeism accounting for roughly half of the total excess costs. …”
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Our Experience of Managing Central Airway Tumors: Anesthesia Perspectives by Thushara Madathil, Devika Poduval, Tony Jose, Nagarjuna Panidapu, Don Jose, Tinku Joseph, Praveen Kumar Neema

“…These patients may remain asymptomatic until more than half of the airway diameter is obliterated. Anesthesia for debulking a central airway tumor is challenging. …”
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Development of an mPBPK machine learning framework for early target pharmacology assessment of biotherapeutics by Krutika Patidar, Nikhil Pillai, Saroj Dhakal, Lindsay B. Avery, Panteleimon D. Mavroudis

“….), and virtual target candidates with varying characteristics (baseline expression, half-life, etc.) to unravel rules for antibody drug candidate selection that achieve favorable drug-target interaction, which is defined by target occupancy (TO) percentage. …”
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VSIG4+ tumor-associated macrophages mediate neutrophil infiltration and impair antigen-specific immunity in aggressive cancers through epigenetic regulation of SPP1 by Zongfu Pan, Jinming Chen, Tong Xu, Anqi Cai, Bing Han, Ying Li, Ziwen Fang, Dingyi Yu, Shanshan Wang, Junyu Zhou, Yingying Gong, Yulu Che, Xiaozhou Zou, Lei Cheng, Zhuo Tan, Minghua Ge, Ping Huang

“…Moreover, the combination of VSIG4 blockade with a BRAF inhibitor synergistically enhanced anti-tumor activity in ATC-tumor bearing mice. …”
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A qualitative exploration of owner experiences following dog adoption by Bethany Joy Moyer, Helen Zulch, Beth Ann Ventura, Oliver Burman

“…Six themes were described: adjustment period duration; behavioural indicators during adjustment; behaviours indicative of adjustment; factors influencing adjustment; owner change in routine; and adjustment concerns. Over half of participants perceived the adjustment period to last longer than four months. …”
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Attractive lives on attractive pages. Polish illustrated biographical books for young readers by Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna

“…She wants to stress the expressive power of an image turning illustrations into independent works of art. …”
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Micro-computed tomographic analysis of the morphology of maxillary canines by Thomas Gerhard Wolf, Theodora Rempapi, Niccolò Giuseppe Armogida, Gianrico Spagnuolo, Andrea Lisa Waber

“…After representing the internal morphology by 3-D software imaging, the RCC results were described using a four-digit system code indicating the main root canal from coronal to apical thirds and the main foramina number. …”
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Main controlling factors of production and reasonable fracturing scale optimization of deep coalbed methane wells in Shenfu block, Ordos Basin by Lichun SUN, Jia LIU, Na LI, Xinze LI, Heng WEN

“…The results determined that the optimal well spacing for the Shenfu block was 300 m, the optimal cluster spacing was 20 m, and the optimal fracture half-length was 120 m. These findings provide technical support for the efficient development of deep CBM resources in the Shenfu block.…”
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Exploring offshore wind’s potential to enhance energy security in nations with limited land and fuel resources by Kenji Shiraishi, Umed Paliwal, Nikit Abhyankar, Daniel M Kammen, Amol Phadke, Won Young Park

“…In recognition of this, the Limited Onshore Resources scenario reduces direct land use by half but finds only a slight increase in overall costs. …”
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Awareness of medical students about standard isolation precautions In Sulaimani City by Bushra M. Ali, Saman A. Mohammed, Balen Tayb Abdullah, Osama Muhammed, Mutasam Fabian, Muhammed Rauf

“…Most of students had good knowledge regarding all aspects of Isolation Precaution, they had appropriate attitude toward it, high rate of medical students were lacking practice regarding the subject, in average college of Nursing had highest rate of all correct answers, About half of medical students have taken a vaccine for Hepatitis B. …”
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