A Systematic Review of Self-directed Learning in Medical Education in Undergraduate Medical Students by Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, Arunima Chaudhuri, Dip Gaine

“…Two reviewers independently extracted the data, evaluated its quality, and synthesized the results thematically. In all, twenty-three papers were covered in this study. The findings indicate SDL positively impacts students’ academic performance and clinical skills, with many students reporting increased engagement and motivation. …”
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Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 2-Hydroxy-3-[(2-aryloxyethyl)amino]propyl 4-[(Alkoxycarbonyl)amino]benzoates by Jan Tengler, Iva Kapustíková, Matúš Peško, Rodney Govender, Stanislava Keltošová, Petr Mokrý, Peter Kollár, Jim O'Mahony, Aidan Coffey, Katarína Král'ová, Josef Jampílek

“…A series of twenty substituted 2-hydroxy-3-[(2-aryloxyethyl)amino]propyl 4-[(alkoxycarbonyl)amino]benzoates were prepared and characterized. …”
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Patient-centred care and quality of life and hope among Japanese patients receiving home medical care: a multicentre, cross-sectional study by Nobuhiro Ikeda, Michiko Hinata, Noriaki Kurita, Tomoka Nakamura, Takashi Fujii, Chihiro Tsuchiya, Yukio Tsugihashi, Hidekazu Iida, Shinu Hayashi, Masakazu Yasunaka, Misaki Hirose, Yutaka Shirahige, Shinsuke Muto, Tatsunobu Natsubori, Wataru Nakagawa, Akihiko Yonenaga, Lina Inagaki, Shioto Itakura, Naoya Miyashita, Takuya Furugen, Takafumi Abo, Sadayuki Okudaira, Kazuhiko Takuma, Masahiro Deguchi, Yoshitaka Harada, Seiji Matsuo, Motomichi Nakagawa, Ken Tanigawa, Yoshio Ochi, Sadanobu Ogasawara, Kazuhiko Hoshino, Momoko Aruga, Yoshinori Nakamura, Nobuhiro Sawa, Yosuke Akashi, Nobuyuki Miyagi, Toyohiro Terasaki, Kunihiro Kinoshita, Masaji Kikukawa, Hisakazu Kato, Masayuki Amano, Kentaro Asakura, Naoto Fukui

“…This study examined the association between the quality of patient-centred care and both QOL and hope.Design Multicentre, cross-sectional study.Setting Twenty-nine home care clinics in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Nara Prefecture and Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan.Participants 200 patients receiving home medical care.Exposure Patient-centredness was measured using the Japanese version of the Primary Care Assessment Tool-Short Form (JPCAT-SF).Outcome measures The primary outcome measures were QOL, assessed using the QOL-Home Care (QOL-HC) scale, and hope, measured using the Health-Related Hope (HR-Hope) scale. …”
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Effects of the physical form of starter feed on the intake, performance, and health of female Holstein calves by Í.R.R. Castro, G.B.C. Leite, I.F. Carrari, L.N.C. Silva, J.C.C. Chagas, D.D. More, M.I. Marcondes

“…Thus, this study aimed to investigate the effect of the PFSF on feed intake, growth performance, blood metabolites, and the health of dairy calves. Twenty-four female Holstein calves (5-d-old; 40.4 ± 3.86 kg BW; mean ± SD) were used in a completely randomized block design. …”
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Des poussières et du temps, notion de temporalité hétérochrone chez Jacques Rancière et Jean-Marc Desgent by François Gagnon

“…Repeated evocation of dust and dizzy ellipsis characterize this heterochronous temporality of the twenty-first century, which experienced a jerky time with multiple accents that do not ignore the repetition and the duplication, as already indicated by the use of the plural in the title of the collection, Vingtièmes siècles.…”
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Incidence and Risk Factors of Surgical Site Infection After Knee Arthroplasty; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ayub Bagheri, Alireza Sharifi Niknafs, Bahar Farhadi, Seyed Amirhossein Mazhari, Parnia Karimian, Nafiseh Hekmati Pour, Hamid Hojjati, Iman Nosratabadi, Azadeh Emami, Reza Salehi

“…Results: The study incorporated a collective participant group of 1,366,494 knee arthroplasty procedures from twenty-three chosen studies. The pooled incidence rate of SSI after knee arthroplasty was 1.7% (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1% to 2.6%; I²=99.687%; P<0.001). …”
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Stress-Strain Relationships of Fiber Reinforced Phosphogypsum under Uniaxial Compression by Li Zhou, Bo Chen, Yong Huang

“…To investigate the stress-strain relationship of fiber reinforced phosphogypsum (PG) under uniaxial compression, a total of twenty-seven PG prism specimens were fabricated and tested. …”
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Horsing Around: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed by Stefan L. Brandt

“…In this sense, Mister Ed creates a scenario in which the “absolutely marginal” (Berger), indeed, returns the viewers’ gaze, inviting them to share and valorize this outside perspective, if only for the duration of one twenty-five minute episode at a time.…”
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Optimizing injection accuracy for Baxter’s nerve entrapment: an ultrasonography-guided approach based on anatomical surface landmarks by Jung-woo Choi, Hyung-Jin Lee, Yong-Seok Nam, Mi Young Shin, Sang-Hyun Kim, Jun-Ho Kim, In-Beom Kim

“…The OB distance was divided into four equal-length quadrants or zones. Twenty feet from 10 fresh cadavers (5 males and 5 females) underwent ultrasonography-guided injection using in-plane and out-of-plane techniques. …”
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Bioactive phytochemical compounds characterization, anti-oxidant and anti-microbial activity of the methanol and acetonitrile leaf extracts of Pithecellobium dulce by M. Kiranmayee, K. Riazunnisa

“…The antioxidant activity of extracts was conducted by using DPPH and hydrogen peroxide scavenging activity, and total antioxidant activity was performed by phosphomolybdenum assay. Results: A total of twenty-three compounds were tentatively identified through GC–MS; five of these were associated with the methanolic extracts, while eighteen were with the acetonitrile extract. …”
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Active withdrawal of corticosteroids using tocilizumab and its association with autoantibody profiles in relapsed Takayasu arteritis: a multicentre, single-arm, prospective study (... by Tsuyoshi Shirai, Tomonori Ishii, Tomonori Ishii, Soshi Okazaki, Yuko Shirota, Yusho Ishii, Hiroko Sato, Hiroshi Fujii

“…The primary endpoint was the difference in type A remission, defined by CW and the absence of inflammatory signs, according to the Ab profile at week 24.ResultsTwenty patients were included and 18 patients with a mean PSL dose of 4.9 ± 2.8 mg/day were analysed. …”
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Protective Mechanism of Blood-brain Barrier of Cerebral Hemorrhage Model Rats with Different Acupuncture Manipulation Duration by Xiaozhuo SUN, Zhuolin YANG, Zhihong MENG

“…Objective:To explore the effect of different acupuncture manipulation duration on the blood-brain barrier tight junction protein in rats with cerebral hemorrhage.Methods:A total of twenty SD male rats were divided into sham-operated group, model group, acupuncture 5s group and acupuncture 60s group by random number table method, with 5 rats in each group. …”
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Understanding compassion fatigue among social workers: a scoping review by Tian Wu, Chun-Rong Lu

“…Therefore, we performed a systematic scoping review by searching five electronic databases for studies published from 2001 to 2021, with the aim of identifying relevant literature. A total of twenty-nine studies were selected in the review following the systematic search strategy. …”
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A 903-year annual temperature reconstruction for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau from the tree ring widths of Juniperus saltuaria by Shanshan Xu, Chaogang Zheng, Zhiyuan Shang, Zhigang Zhang, Xinggong Kong, Iain Robertson, Zhijun Zhao

“…The chronology aligns with other temperature records from the TP, Asia, and the Northern Hemisphere (NH), indicating a marked temperature increase since the late twentieth century, with 1998–2017 CE identified as the warmest period. …”
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Understanding tinnitus symptom dynamics and clinical improvement through intensive longitudinal data by Milena Engelke, Jorge Piano Simões, Laura Basso, Nina Wunder, Berthold Langguth, Thomas Probst, Rüdiger Pryss, Winfried Schlee

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Une cave à amphores, une statue en pierre et une tête coupée de la fin de l’âge du Fer à Châteaumeillant (Cher) by Sophie Krausz, Caroline Millereux, Marion Bouchet, Fabienne Olmer

“…Traces of fire observed in the La Tène D2 habitat suggest that Châteaumeillant is likely one of the twenty Bituriges towns to have been burnt down at the behest of Vercingetorix (Krausz 2009a). …”
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