Analysis of quality of life and periodontal health with an eight-unit maxillary fixed retainer through a prospective clinical trial by Mohamed H. Abbas, Essam M. Abdalla, Nadia M. El Harouni, Eiman S. Marzouk

“…A single-arm prospective clinical trial with only twenty-eight test group patients (6 males, 22 females) who finished active orthodontic treatment were recruited. …”
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Geospatial Analysis of COVID-19 Death Rate and Influencing Factors in the MENA Region by MUSTAFA SHEBANI ABOALYEM, Mohd Tahir Ismail

“… The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with over twenty-eight million cases and 800,000 deaths reported as of August 2023. …”
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Protéger le patrimoine hospitalier au titre des monuments historiques by Dominique Perrin, Frantz Schœnstein

“…Today, however, if we limit ourselves to the monuments which are ‘classés’, nineteenth and, even more, twentieth-century hospitals are still poorly protected. …”
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Efficacy of Dental Bleaching with Whitening Dentifrices: A Systematic Review by Bruno G. S. Casado, Sandra L. D. Moraes, Gleicy F. M. Souza, Catia M. F. Guerra, Juliana R. Souto-Maior, Cleidiel A. A. Lemos, Belmiro C. E. Vasconcelos, Eduardo P. Pellizzer

“…The outcome was tooth color change. Twenty-two articles from 703 data sources met the eligibility criteria. …”
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Primary Repair versus Reconstruction in Patients with Bilateral Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries: What Do Patients Prefer? by Harmen D. Vermeijden, Edoardo Monaco, Fabio Marzilli, Xiuyi A. Yang, Jelle P. van der List, Andrea Ferretti, Gregory S. DiFelice

“…Furthermore, the Subjective International Knee Documentation Committee, Forgotten Joint Score-12, and Anterior Cruciate Ligament-Return to Sport after Injury were completed. Results. Twenty-one patients were included. All patients underwent ACL reconstruction first, which was displayed at younger age at surgery (24 vs. 33 years, p=0.010) and longer follow-up (10.2 vs. 2.3 years, p<0.001), respectively. …”
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Botulinum Toxin Injection with Conjunctival Microincision for the Treatment of Acute Acquired Comitant Esotropia and Its Effectiveness by Hongjia Xu, Weifeng Sun, Shuying Dai, Yanyan Cheng, Jing Zhao, Yuan Liu, Juan Wang, Ya’nan Wang, Yu Gao, Huifang Han, Aijun Han

“…Success was defined as total horizontal deviation ≤10 prism diopters (PD) and evidence of binocular vision. Results. Twenty-nine patients were included, of whom 22 were male and 7 were female. …”
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Insula Volume and Salience Network Are Associated with Memory Decline in Parkinson Disease: Complementary Analyses of Voxel-Based Morphometry versus Volume of Interest by Yan-Ting Lu, Wen-Neng Chang, Chiung-Chih Chang, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Nai-Ching Chen, Chi-Wei Huang, Wei-Che Lin, Ya-Ting Chang

“…We investigated structural brain change in subjects with a clinical diagnosis of Parkinson disease with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) and examined its relationship with memory impairment. Methods. Twenty-three PD-MCI patients were enrolled and underwent cognitive evaluation and 3-dimensional T1-weighted imaging. …”
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Feasibility of integrated, multilevel care for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and HIV in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): A scoping review. by Temitope Ojo, Lynette Lester, Juliet Iwelunmor, Joyce Gyamfi, Chisom Obiezu-Umeh, Deborah Onakomaiya, Angela Aifah, Shreya Nagendra, Jumoke Opeyemi, Mofetoluwa Oluwasanmi, Milena Dalton, Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Dorice Vieira, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Bernadette Boden-Albala

“…Evidence from the articles was synthesized by level of integration, the chronic care continuum, and stages of intervention development.<h4>Results</h4>Twenty studies, reported in 18 articles and 3 conferences abstracts, reported on feasibility of integrated CVD-HIV care interventions. …”
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Topographie et restitution du chantier de l’aqueduc d’Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) by Robert Fabre, Philippe Leveau, Vincent Dumas

“…The deep depression of the Vallée des Baux was crossed by a bridge more than 1 km long comprising around sixty arches more than twenty metres high. Water crossed the subhorizontal plain of La Crau in a deep trench. …”
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Livio Sacchi. Metropoli il disegno delle città 2. Roma: Gangemi Editore International 2018 by Paolo Giandebiaggi

“… After the interest in the themes of the city was reduced at the end of the twentieth century, while at least until the end of the ’70s they were so popular, with the new millennium these issues exploded again and today the mutual relationship between urbs and cives, the physical and the relational reality, the infrastructures and the people are very relevant …”
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Literary and cultural chracter of Cemil Seitabla Kermenchikli (1891–1942) (part 2) by Ismail Kerimov

“…Cemil Kermenchikli is one of the brightest Crimean Tatar poets of the early twentieth century, who played a significant role in the development of the national poetic word in the Crimea. …”
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Current State and Future Trends: A Citation Network Analysis of the Orthokeratology Field by Miguel Angel Sanchez-Tena, Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina, Jose Sanchez-Valverde, Cesar Villa-Collar

“…Only articles cited at least twenty times were used. The computer software used was UCINET with two types of analysis, qualitative and quantitative. …”
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Le Parc des Caudreleux, malgré lui. Une défense et une illustration du concept de métaprojet by Denis Delbaere

“…The paper focuses on a park designed by the author himself, who describes its design, its building and its alteration over a period of twenty years. He shows the theoretical basis of his dissertation, in the field of anthropology, archaeology and landscape ecology, in order to give a scientific framework to the kind of critical studies he reclaims.…”
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Le Diable au xxe siècle by Jordi Luengo López

“…All the same, as early as the decline of the nineteenth century and the height of the Belle Époque, and during the twenties and the Spanish Second Republic, the literaturisation that was made of the devil revolutionised the ideas of the Bourgeoisie and the people of the time since newspapers were much closer to people than even the Church. …”
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The Pentagon Papers as History by Stephen J. Whitfield

“…In the past, for the sake of national security, limitations had sometimes been imposed on newspapers and magazines condemning the war that was being fought – most notoriously, in the twentieth century, during the First World War. But the case of the Pentagon Papers was peculiar, because the New York Times, and soon the Washington Post, and then about two dozen other daily newspapers reprinted top secret documents that the press was not authorized to possess. …”
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Hirudiniasis in Cattle in Mpwapwa District, Dodoma Region of Tanzania by Misheck A. Mulilo, Joyce Siwila, Philbert B. Madoshi, Richard S. Silayo

“…In this report, clinical cases of hirudiniasis in twenty-seven (27) cattle in Mpwapwa, Tanzania, are presented. …”
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The Effectiveness of β-glucan in the Treatment of Caprine Mastitis Induced by Candida albicans by Saddam H Mahmoud, Shaimaa N Yassein

“… This study evaluated the efficacy of β-glucan, extracted from Candida albicans isolated from mastitic goat milk using an alkaline-acidic method, in treating C. albicans-induced mastitis. Twenty lactating goats (2–4 years old, 25–30 kg) were randomly divided into five groups (Group I–Group V), with each group consisting of four goats. …”
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Lived-in experiences of health care professionals affected with COVID-19 by Radhakrishnan Govindan, Sailaxmi Gandhi, Prasanthi Nattala, Bingi Rajeswari

“…Materials and Methods: The sampling method was purposive. Twenty two HCPs (eight nursing educators, seven nursing officers, five contractual cleaning workers, and two laboratory technicians) participated in the interviews conducted by the researchers to obtain the lived-in experiences of HCPs who have recovered from COVID-19. …”
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Evaluation of the etiological spectrum of obstructive jaundice in patients attending the Al-Azhar Assiut University Hospital Endoscopy Unit in the last five years by Hamdy Mahfouz Moustafa, Ahmed Qasem Mohamed, Ali Sayed Zarea Nouh

“…The ERCP procedure was performed in the Endoscopy Unit of Al-Azhar Assiut University Hospital. Results Twenty patients (3.1%) had shrunken liver, splenomegaly, and calcular gall bladder suggesting that calcular obstructive jaundice could occur on top of liver cirrhosis. …”
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The Effect of Prebiotics, Alone or as Part of Synbiotics, on Cardiometabolic Parameters in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized... by Elham Razmpoosh, Mala S. Sivanandy, Alan M. Ehrlich

“…Bias was assessed using Cochrane risk of bias and evidence quality with GRADE. <b>Results</b>: Twenty RCTs with 1271 participants were included. …”
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