Smartphone-Based Telemonitoring for Better Oral Health With Toothbrushes: 6-Month Randomized Controlled Trial by Jaeyeon Kim, Yiseul Choi, Yoolbin Song, Wonse Park

“…The most effective feature in the ITT group was brushing training, while participants in the ORT group cited the brushing guide as most useful (P<.001). Satisfaction scores were higher in the ORT group (mean 7.90, SD 1.21) than in the ITT group (mean 7.15, SD 1.66; P=.004). …”
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Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio as a Predictor of Adverse Outcome in Patients with Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis by Valeriy D. Lunkov, Marina V. Maevskaya, Ekaterina K. Tsvetaeva, Ana G. Mendez, Maria S. Zharkova, Petr E. Tkachenko, Vladimir T. Ivashkin

“…In this retrospective study 36 patients with DC which were hospitalized in Hepatology Department of V.H. Vasilenko clinic of propaedeutics and internal diseases, gastroenterology and hepatology, Sechenov University from January 2009 to December 2017 were enrolled. …”
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Role of cognitive impairment in predicting the long-term risk of all-cause mortality: a 20-year prospective cohort study in China by Shuang Zhao, Han Yang, Haijuan Zhao, Miao Miao, Qingqing Wang, Yaru Wang, Yuying Yin, Xin Wang

“…Impairment in the subdomain of naming foods (AHR = 1.12, 95% CI 1.04–1.21), registration (AHR = 1.18, 95% CI 1.11–1.26), attention and calculation (AHR = 1.13, 95% CI 1.07–1.21), copy figure (AHR = 1.13, 95% CI 1.06–1.20), delayed recall (AHR = 1.14, 95% CI 1.07–1.20) and language (AHR = 1.14, 95% CI 1.05–1.24) were independently associated with increased mortality risk among participants. …”
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Hāloa: The long breath of Hawaiian sovereignty, water rights, and Indigenous law by Puanani Apoliona-Brown

“…My research is guided by the moʻolelo (oral histories) of nā kūpuna who were once the “radical” activists of the Hawaiian Renaissance. …”
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Evaluation of Barriers to Digital Transformation in Maritime Logistics Based on A Spherical Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Framework by Veysel Tatar

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The impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions and treatment management of ectopic pregnancy by Hande Gurbuz, Gulfem Basol, Mehmet Mustafa Altintas, Betul Kuru

“…The rupture was detected significantly higher during the outbreak (13/116 [11.2%]) than before the pandemic (16/57 [28.1%]) (P = 0.009). …”
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CAMPHORQUINONE AS A PHOTOINITIATOR IN THE POLYMERIZATION OF2-HYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION:A KINETIC STUDY by Iqbal Ahmad et al

“… The photoinitiated polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) (1–3 M) using camphorquinone (CQ) / triethanolamine (TEOHA) system has been studied in the pH range 6.0–9.0. …”
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Percepciones de estudiantes universitarios sobre las habilidades del pensamiento crítico by Dominga Elsa Velázquez, Lida Graciela Valenzuela

“…La población comprendió a 2950 estudiantes de siete unidades académicas. La muestra fue de 341 unidades, determinadas con un margen de error del 5 %, un nivel de confianza del 95 %, estratificadas y seleccionadas al azar mediante marcado telefónico. …”
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Grain orientation and temperature dependences of bubbles at tungsten surfaces upon helium plasma exposure by Mounir Alfazzaa, Federica Pappalardo, Andrea Campos, Gilles Cartry, Marco Minissale, Céline Martin

“…The results demonstrate a clear temperature dependence, with surface bubble density and size increasing at higher temperatures, and a dependence on grain orientation, with the (111) orientation giving slightly larger and denser surfaces of burst bubbles.…”
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Does TikTok Addiction exist? A qualitative study by Pasquale Caponnetto, Ines Lanzafame, Graziella Chiara Prezzavento, Abdulnaser Fakhrou, Vittorio Lenzo, Alberto Sardella, Mahmoud Ali Moussa, Maria C. Quattropani

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ENDOSCOPY IN LUMBAR ADJACENT LEVEL DISEASE - SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS by PEDRO FELLIPE DEBORTO RUDINE REMOLLI EVANGELISTA, ABGAIL GOMES SILVA, FELIPE DONATANGELO, LINA MARCIA DE ARAUJO HERVAL

“…The average ODI value at the last follow-up point was 12 points, with back VAS averaging 2.17 and leg VAS averaging 1.91. …”
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Risk analysis of PPP financing for toll road project by Suwandairi Y.D., Suratkon A., Amin M., Tsarwan O.T., HJ Wahyu

“…The Indonesian Government has limited funds to provide infrastructure facilities for its population of 261 million people, which requires an investment of US$ 6.445 trillion. …”
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Juego y función ejecutiva de planificación en niños de Nivel Inicial by Álvaro Federico Muchiut

“…Luego se trabajó con el grupo experimental únicamente mediante un programa de juego de roles sociales, en 20 sesiones de 1 hora dos veces a la semana. Al finalizar la intervención, se realizó una evaluación pos-test en ambos grupos con la BANPE.Los resultados de la comparación pretest-postest evidenciaron diferencias significativas (P<.001) a favor del grupo experimental, demostrando que el programa de intervención fue eficaz para mejorar los resultados en la ejecución de tareas del Subtest Planificación.Esta metodología es aplicable a cualquier niño que cursa el nivel inicial y puede ser llevada a cabo por el docente con la debida formación y práctica.…”
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Moda e economia criativa: políticas culturais no Brasil contemporâneo by Heloisa Helena de Oliveira Santos

“…As demonstrated by some authors who reflect on contemporary cultural policies in Brazil, the country finds itself in a unique moment with regard to the relationship between cul- ture and the state. …”
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The Effect of Vitamin D3 on Serum Creatine Phosphokinase Level in Patients with Multiple Trauma: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial by Mehran Kouchek, Niloufar Taherpour, Mahya Farasat, Mirmohammad Miri, Sara Salarian, Seyedpouzhia Shojaei, Rezvan Hassanpour, Hossein Amini, Mohammad Sistanizad

“…Unlike control groups, the significant steadily decreasing trend was seen only in the intervention group (P<0.001). This significant decrease in the intervention arm was observed on days 5 to 7 (P=0.001) and on days 8 to 10 (P<0.001) compared to the baseline.Patients in the intervention group had a lower number of AKI or need for dialysis (P=0.869 and P=0.670 for AKI and dialysis, respectively) than control group 2, although the differences were not significant. …”
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Efecto de la aclimatación a la intensidad lumínica en vivero sobre el desempeño postrasplante de plantines de Austrocedrus chilensis by Federico LETOURNEAU, G. NAMIOT, M. H. PERDOMO, J.G. BASIL

“…En el experimento a campo, no pudo rechazarse la Ho de que la tasa de mortalidad depende solo del factor micrositio (g.l.=3, AIC=112,35, x2 =0,00, P=1,00), y la covariable tamaño de planta mejoró la representación del modelo (P=0,001***, g.l.=4, AIC=114,11, x2=101,35), de acuerdo a la prueba de suma de rangos la distribución de frecuencia por tamaños de plantas muertas difiere por el grado de aclimatación en vivero (W=80, P=0,01*). …”
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Women's enrollment in community-based health insurance and its determinants in Sidama national regional state, Ethiopia, 2024: A multilevel analysis. by Kare Chawicha Debessa, Keneni Gutema Negeri, Mesay Hailu Dangisso

“…Individual-level factors such as older age (APR = 1.02, 95%CI: 1.01-1.03, p<0.001), larger family size (APR = 1.09, 95%CI: 1.03-1.16, p = 0.001), and moderate wealth index (APR = 2.72, 95%CI: 1.28-5.79, p = 0.009) showed positive associations with CBHI enrollment, depicted a higher likelihood of individuals joining the insurance scheme. …”
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Comparison study of bioelectrical impedance analyzers for measuring lower limb muscle mass in middle-aged and elderly adults by Ai-Chun Huang, Hsueh-Kuan Lu, Chien-Wei Liang, Kuen-Chang Hsieh, Kuen-Chang Hsieh, Yi-Sung Tsai, Chung-Liang Lai, Chung-Liang Lai

“…Their mean differences were −0.141, −2.731, −0.587, −1.613, and −0.625 kg, with LOAs of 4.3, 5.7, 4.0, 5.1, and 3.8 kg, respectively. …”
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Geographic and socioeconomic variation of sodium and potassium intake in Italy: results from the MINISAL-GIRCSI programme by Simona Giampaoli, Francesco P Cappuccio, Chen Ji, Luigi Palmieri, Diego Vanuzzo, Chiara Donfrancesco, Renato Ippolito, Pasquale Strazzullo

“…Participants living in southern Italy (eg, Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia &gt;180 mmol/24 h) had a significantly higher sodium excretion than elsewhere (eg, Val d'Aosta and Trentino-Alto Adige &lt;140 mmol/24 h; p&lt;0.001). …”
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Human Resource Practices and Employee Retention in Local Governments in Uganda: A Case of Kabale District Local Government. by Baingana, Alex

“…The study findings revealed that there was a very insignificant relationship between recruitment and selection on employee retention at (r = .026, P=0.781 > 0.01), there was a positive but insignificant relationship between development and training and employee retention at (r = .159, P=0.86 >0.01) and there was a positive and significant relationship between compensation and benefits and employee retention at (r = .430**, P=0.00 <0.01). …”
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