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

“…A questionnaire with 53 questions titled: Experts validated the Online Learning and Learners' Academic Achievement in National Open University of Nigeria Scale (OLLAAS), and Cronbach's alpha yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.76. To test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance, data were analyzed using Multiple Regressions and the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. …”
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Associations of prognostic nutritional index with cardiovascular all-cause mortality among CVD patients with diabetes or prediabetes: evidence from the NHANES 2005–2018 by WenYi Xu, Li Zhang, Li Zhang, QianKun Yang, Ying Cao, Rui Rao, Li Lv, Qin Cen, Qiong Wei, LuLing Yang

“…Additionally, weighted multivariable Cox regression models, subgroup analyses, and interaction tests were employed to examine the relationship between PNI and all-cause and CVD mortality. …”
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Quality of routine malaria data captured at primary health facilities in the Hohoe Municipality, Ghana by Christopher Ayisah, Thywill Worlase Kpenu, Edem Kojo Dzantor, Clement Tetteh Narh

“…The study assessed three (3) malaria indicators: suspected malaria cases, tested malaria cases, and confirmed OPD malaria cases. …”
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Pilates exercise in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yuxuan Li, Heran Lu, Liuwei Zhang, Yijia Ren, Xiaotong Dai, Lin Lin

“…The quality of evidence was assessed using the Cochrane RoB Tool, and STATA 17.0 software was utilized to perform tests for heterogeneity, publication bias, and sensitivity analysis. …”
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Analisis Pengaruh Faktor Teknologi, Organisasi, dan Manusia Terhadap Kesuksesan Penerapan E-voting System pada Aspek Penggunaan Sistem, Kepuasan Pengguna, dan Manfaat (Studi Kasus... by Muhammad Rosyid Mubarok, Aditya Rachmadi, Satrio Hadi Wijoyo

“…The collected data of respondents were tested for validity and reliability first before carrying out descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. …”
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Exploratory study on the ascending pain pathway in patients with chronic neck and shoulder pain based on combined brain and spinal cord diffusion tensor imaging by Zhiqiang Qiu, Tianci Liu, Chengxi Zeng, Maojiang Yang, HongYing Yang, Xiaoxue Xu

“…Additionally, these differences were subjected to partial correlation analysis in relation to Visual Analog Scale (VAS) scores, duration of pain, Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS).ResultsCompared to HCs, CNSP patients showed decreased mean FA values and increased mean MD values in bilateral intracranial STT compared to the HC group, but two-sample t-test results indicated no statistically significant differences (p > 0.05). …”
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First report of serological, molecular detection, and characterization of human parvovirus B19 infections among sickle cell anaemia patients in Khartoum State, Sudan by Khalid Salman, Sittna Hayder El Nagar, Abdel Rahim M. El Hussein, Mohammed A. El Hussein, Hadi M. Yassine, Hebah A. Al Khatib, Mashael Ali Al- Badr, Ibrahim Farah, Khalid A. Enan

“…Children under 5 years of age exhibited a higher nucleic acid detection rate compared to older age groups, suggesting the importance of molecular testing in younger patients particularly in the early detection of Parvovirus B19 during the acute phase of infection, before the body has developed detectable antibodies and also in immunocompromised children, who may not mount an antibody response detectable by serological methods. …”
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Path model explaining the association between fear of falling and health-related quality of life in (pre-)frail older adults by Tjard Sattler, Sophie Gottschalk, Hans-Helmut König, Tobias Braun, Gisela Büchele, Michael Denkinger, Tim Fleiner, Corinna Nerz, Kilian Rapp, Martina Schäufele, Christian Werner, Judith Dams

“…The proposed model should be tested on an alternative sample, using longitudinal data, and extended to include additional explanatory factors (e.g. activity avoidance). …”
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Genetic parameters and parental and early-life effects of boar semen traits by Pedro Sá, Rodrigo M. Godinho, Marta Gòdia, Claudia A. Sevillano, Barbara Harlizius, Ole Madsen, Henk Bovenhuis

“…A repeatability model accounting for effects at collection was used to (1) estimate heritabilities and repeatabilities for semen traits and genetic and phenotypic correlations between traits, (2) test the significance of early-life effects, (3) quantify the contribution of exclusive dam and sire inheritances to the phenotypic variation, i.e., mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome, identified using a pedigree-based approach, and (4) quantify the contribution of maternal and paternal environment effects to the phenotypic variation of semen traits. …”
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CD4 T cell dynamics shape the immune response to combination oncolytic herpes virus and BRAF inhibitor therapy for melanoma by Victoria Jennings, Kevin Harrington, Hardev Pandha, Alan Melcher, Adel Samson, Fiona Errington-Mais, Victoria Roulstone, Eva Crespo-Rodriguez, Galabina Bozhanova, Shane Foo, Emmanuel C Patin, Martin McLaughlin, Malin Pedersen, Richard Vile, Joan Kyula, Jehanne Hassan, Lizzie Appleton, Charleen ML Chan Wah Hak, Gabby Baker, Edward Armstrong, Matthew Chiu, Masahiro Ono

“…Background Combination herpes simplex virus (HSV) oncolytic virotherapy and BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi) represent promising immunogenic treatments for BRAF mutant melanoma, but an improved understanding of the immunobiology of combinations is needed to improve on the benefit of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI).Methods Using a BRAFV600E-driven murine melanoma model, we tested the immunogenicity of HSV/BRAFi in immunocompetent C57BL mice. …”
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Sero-epidemiological Study of Toxoplasma gondii among Pregnant Women in Akre City by Hogir Mohammed Shukri Saadi, Ahmed Jumaa Ahmed

“…The present study was carried out from the beginning of October 2018 to the end of March 2019 and included 90 pregnant women visited Akre general hospital. Out of 90 tested samples, 49 (54.46%) and 4 (4.44%) were positive for IgG and IgM respectively. …”
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Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy or Sacrohysteropexy with or Without Burch Colposuspension: The Results of 36 Patients in Our Clinic by İlknur İnegöl Gümüş, Önder Sürgit, Nilüfer Akgün, İkbal Kaygusuz, Deniz Hızlı

“…Burch colposuspension was added to patients if they had stress urinary incontinence proven with physically examination and urodinamic tests. Twenty two patients underwent laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy or sacrohysteropexy and 14 patients underwent laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy or sacrohysteropexy with Burch colposuspension. …”
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Real-World Health Care Outcomes and Costs Among Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in Spain by Jordi Antón, Estefania Moreno Ruzafa, Mireia Lopez Corbeto, Rosa Bou, Judith Sánchez Manubens, Sonia Carriquí Arenas, Joan Calzada Hernández, Violetta Bittermann, Carolina Estepa Guillén, Juan Mosquera Angarita, Lucía Rodríguez Díez, Estíbaliz Iglesias, Miguel Marti Masanet, Berta Lopez Montesinos, Maria I. González Fernández, Alfonso de Lossada, Carmen Peral, Mónica Valderrama, Noelia Llevat, María Montoro Álvarez, Immaculada Calvo Penadés

“…Direct costs included medication, specialist and primary care visits, hospitalizations, emergency visits or consultations, surgeries, physiotherapy, and tests. Indirect costs included hospital travel expenses and loss of caregiver working hours. …”
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A Framework for Analyzing Absorptive Capacity Using Social Network Analysis (Case Study: Sharif University Innovation Ecosystem) by Mahdi Mohammadi, Mahdi Elyasi, Azadeh Savehshemshaki

“…The absorption capacity and models of knowledge connection between technology sectors in the innovation cluster are tested by identifying and extracting the role of each sector of the innovation cluster to use the Social Network Analysis (SNA) method. …”
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Penentuan Jarak Karakter Pemain dengan Karakter Bukan Pemain yang Harus Mengikuti Pemain pada Pengembangan Game Simulasi Mitigasi Bencana Erupsi Gunung by Henny Widowati, Rachma Putri Widhowati, Sulistyo Puspitodjati, D.L. Crispina Pardede

“…NPC's animation: the character of cows and humans following players is part of the development of mitigation simulation games for volcanic eruptions. The test, by making the player character and the collider on the NPC collide,  succeeded in making the NPC follows the player character according to the specified distance, and succeeded in achieving the goal. …”
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Pengembangan Aplikasi Mobile Pengisian Daya Kendaraan Listrik Sesuai Standar OCPP 1.6 by Rachmawan Atmaji Perdana, M. Nurkhoiri Hindratno, Tanzi M. Santoso, Topan Try Harmanda, Friyogi Resvy Mahda, Yahya Andreas Lapian, Monica Dwi W. S., Dionysius Aldion Renata, Prasetyo Aji, Meidy Layooari, Kusnanda Supriatna, Rully Kusumajaya, Mohammad Hamdani

“…We have successfully created the SONIKApp mobile application which makes it easier for users to charge electric vehicles. SONIKApp has been tested for reservation and remote charging features based on OCPP 1.6, and the result is that the SONIKApp application has successfully implemented these features.   …”
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L-shaped association of body mass index with prognosis in individuals with sepsis: a multicenter cohort study by Kunping Cui, Xiangnan Teng, Wei liu, Xiaoxiao Zhao, Shanling Xu, Lang Bai

“…We performed the log-rank test to detect whether there is a difference in prognosis among different groups in two different cohorts. …”
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Pyrvinium Pamoate Synergizes with Azoles in vitro and in vivo to Exert Antifungal Efficacy Against Candida auris and Other Candida Species by Zhang J, Li G, Hu J, Tan J, Zhang H, Zhou Y

“…The antifungal efficacy of PP, either alone or in combination with azoles, was tested according to the reference method. Galleria mellonella larvae were employed to evaluate the antifungal efficacy of PP and/or azoles in the treatment of C. auris infections in vivo.Results: When used to treat these different fungal isolates in vitro, the single-agent efficacy of PP was relatively poor, with minimum inhibitory concentration values ranging from 2 μg/mL - > 32 μg/mL. …”
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Klasifikasi Presiden Republik Indonesia Menggunakan SVM Kernel Polynomial Dengan Fitur Ektraksi Gabor by Kristianingrum Kristianingrum, Aviv Yuniar Rahman, Istiadi Istiadi

“…The precision parameter has the highest value reaching 32.56 with a split ratio of 10:90 and Recall reaching 32.70 at a split ratio of 10:90. The results in this test show that SVM features a Gabor Polynomial kernel which is able to classify presidential photos well and accurately. …”
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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

“…The data was statistically analyzed using the Mann–Whitney U test, and P value 0.05 was considered significant. …”
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