INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS IN QUASI-FEDERALISM: THE PLACE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION FOR EFFECTIVE SERVICE DELIVERY IN NIGERIA by CHIDI FRANKLIN UZOIGWE, ERNEST ARINZE UDALLA

Subjects: “…Intergovernmental Relations…”
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Gendered associations of situational and dispositional factors with exclusion from social relations and loneliness in older age by Georgios Pavlidis, Georgios Pavlidis

Subjects: “…exclusion from social relations…”
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Levels of IL-6 and IL-1β in Umbilical Cord Blood in Relation to Mode of Birth by Ebru Aslan Patlakoğlu, Sündüz Özlem ALTINKAYA, Mustafa Uğur, Cuma Taşın, Nezaket Kadıoğlu

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Higher Consumption of Carbonated Drinks and Fast Food Related to Depression and Quality of Life in Adolescent Girls by Abbas Ali Sangouni, Zahra Darabi, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan, Sayyed Saeid Khayyatzadeh

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Epidemiological Characteristics and Family Relatives among Thalassemic Patients in Sulaimani City, Kurdistan Region, Iraq by Kamal Jalal Rashid

Subjects: “…Epidemiology, Thalassemia, Sulaimani City, Family relation, Hereditary.…”
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Swallowing-related muscle inflammation and fibrosis induced by a single dose of radiation exposure in mice by Shuntaro Soejima, Chia-Hsien Wu, Haruna Matsuse, Mariko Terakado, Shinji Okano, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Yoshihiko Kumai

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Center-Related Variation in Hospitalization Cost for Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion by Shivaraj Patil, MD, Chaitanya Rojulpote, MD, Abhijit Bhattaru, BS, Avica Atri, MD, Krishna Vamsi Rojulpote, BS, Ola Khraisha, MD, Viha Atri, MD, William Frick, MD, Tarek Nafee, MD, Kishore Harjai, MD, Sumeet Mainigi, MD, Chien-Jung Lin, PhD, MD

“…Addressing variability of Watchman-related costs is necessary to achieve high-quality value-based care.…”
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Health-related quality of life in hemato-oncology patients: role of informativeness and doctor-patient communication by Stella Sremić, Lovorka Brajković, Vanja Kopilaš

“… # Objective This study aimed to determine whether certain facets of health-related quality of life of hemato-oncology patients in Croatia could be predicted based on patients' sociodemographic data, the disease's determinants, the patients' information about their disease and the quality of doctor-patient communication…”
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Beyond Crisis Talk: Making Time for Re-Searching New Narratives of Human Relations With Soil by Rita Giuffredi, Christian Colella, Laura Colucci-Gray, Andrea Caretto, Raffaella Spagna, Alba L'Astorina

“…In the second part, we draw on examples of practice from our project BRIDGES to highlight possibilities for re-framing research as a “practice of attention” and experimenting with different temporalities and modes of relation with soil. Findings point to the need to address the fundamental questions that such an approach poses for all research communities. …”
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Correction: Identification and validation of neutrophils-related subtypes and prognosis model in triple negative breast cancer by Shanqi Li, Yuzhou Qian, Wanchen Xie, Xinyu Li, Jiaying Wei, Long Wang, Guosheng Ren, Xuedong Yin

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Innovative use of space-based technologies to address climate change and related global health crises by Farhan M. Asrar, Helena J. Chapman

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Common and Distinct Genetic Architecture of Blood Pressure in Relation to Coronary Artery and Abdominal Aortic Calcium by Haozhang Huang, Huangtao Ruan, Xiaozhao Lu, Weipeng Zhang, Jin Liu

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Neurocognitive function and health-related quality of life among glioblastoma patients: A prospective study by Mohamed A Baba, Ahmed Kharbach, Mohamed Lmejjati, Nawal Adali

“…Background: Glioblastomas are aggressive brain tumours that significantly impact patients’ functional and psychological well-being, making the evaluation of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) essential. Aim: This study aims to assess the quality of life (QoL) and neurocognitive status of glioblastoma patients in Morocco. …”
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Social Media Use and Oral Health–Related Misconceptions in Saudi Arabia: Cross-Sectional Study by Rahaf Hamdan BinHamdan, Salwa Abdulrahman Alsadhan, Arwa Zohair Gazzaz, AlBandary Hassan AlJameel

“…The prevalence of oral health–related misconceptions was estimated using descriptive statistics, including counts and percentages. …”
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Hydrological Information related Existed Dam Sites Assessment using ArcGIS in Zawita District by Zahraa Mahmood Klari, Dadvan Hakeem Abdulrahman

“…It turns out that there are three finished dams that were built in relatively suitable places, they are: Botiya, Bari bhar, and Bhiri. …”
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Effectiveness of Single-Tablet Combination Therapy in Improving Adherence and Persistence and the Relation to Clinical and Economic Outcomes by Carly J. Paoli, Jörg Linder, Khushboo Gurjar, Deepika Thakur, Julie Wyckmans, Stacy Grieve

“…**Objectives:** We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to examine STCT-associated outcomes across 4 evidence domains: clinical trials, real-world evidence (RWE), health-related quality of life (HRQoL) studies, and economic evaluations. …”
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Subgenome asymmetry of gibberellins-related genes plays important roles in regulating rapid growth of bamboos by Ling Mao, Cen Guo, Liang-Zhong Niu, Yu-Jiao Wang, Guihua Jin, Yi-Zhou Yang, Ke-Cheng Qian, Yang Yang, Xuemei Zhang, Peng-Fei Ma, De-Zhu Li, Zhen-Hua Guo

“…Our results showed that gibberellin A1 was important for the rapid shoot growth of the world's largest bamboo, Dendrocalamus sinicus, and indicated that two gibberellins (GAs)-related genes, KAO and SLRL1, were key to the rapid shoot growth and culm size in woody bamboos. …”
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Characterizing Traffic-Related Ultrafine Particles in Roadside Microenvironments: Spatiotemporal Insights from Industrial Parks by Sultan F.I. Abdillah, Sheng-Jie You, Ya-Fen Wang

“…This study serves as reference for future epidemiological study related to roadside UFPs in typical urban microenvironments such as industrial park areas.…”
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The association of triglyceride-glucose and triglyceride-glucose related indices with the risk of heart disease in a national by Xiaodi Tang, Kexin Zhang, Rong He

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A crossover operator for objective functions defined over graph neighborhoods with interdependent and related variables by Jaume Jordan, Javier Palanca, Victor Sanchez-Anguix, Vicente Julian

“…The main goal of this work is to propose a crossover operator that is broadly applicable, adaptable, and effective across a wide range of problem settings characterized by objective functions that are expressed in terms of graph neighbourhoods with interdependent and related variables. Extensive experimentation has been conducted to compare and evaluate the proposed crossover operator with both classic and specialized crossover operators. …”
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