A comparative study to estimate three commercial products of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on blood biochemistry, sexual hormones concentrations, reproductive indices, and lar... by El-Sayed I. Attia, Mohamed F. A. Abdel-Aziz, Habib Ul Hassan, Mohammad Z. Ahmed, Takaomi Arai, Hamed H. E. Saleh

“…The present study compared three common products of hCG on blood sexual hormone, reproductive performance, and fry production per kg female. Four groups were designed to be: Group1: Untreated group to (control), Group2, Group3, and Group4, the brood-stock was hormonally induced with Choriomon®, Chorionic Gonadotropin, and Epifasi®, respectively. …”
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EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION OF TOOTHPASTE BASED ON THE CEDAR ESSENTIAL OIL FOR PREVENTING TRUE ORAL PATHOLOGIC HALITOSIS by S. B. Ulitovsky, O. V. Kalinina, L. I. Pankratieva

“…By the end of the study, the indicators in the main group were higher than in control group almost in 2 times. …”
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Undergraduate dental students and dentists’ acceptability and knowledge about selective caries tissue removal by Luciana Lourenço Ribeiro Vitor, Eloá Cristina Passucci Ambrosio, Paula Karine Jorge, Natalino Lourenço Neto, Thiago Cruvinel, Maria Aparecida Andrade Moreira Machado, Thais Marchini Oliveira

“…Pearson’s Chi-square test and multivariate logistic regression compared the answers (p<0.05). Results: Total sample comprised 146 participants. Of these, 81.5% were female; 52.05% were graduates and the most prevalent age group was 18-29 years old (85.62%).  …”
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Inter-rater Variability in Malaria Microscopy at the LEKMA Hospital, Ghana by Andrew Nii Adzei Bekoe, Emmanuel Alote Allotey, Elliot Elikplim Akorsu, Albert Abaka-Yawson, Samuel Adusei, Godsway Edem Kpene, Precious Kwablah Kwadzokpui

“…A total of 200 confirmed malaria-positive samples were used in the study. Six thick and thin films were prepared from each sample and uniquely labelled. …”
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Bacteriological quality of Nono, a milk product sold at retail outlets in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria by George Onyemauwa Uzoaga, Chukwuma David Umeokonkwo, Aishat Bukola Usman, Grace Sabo Kia, Emmanuel Chukwudi Okolocha

“…Results: Total Aerobic Plate Count (±SD) ranged from 5.6 ± 1.7 - 7.0 ± 0.4 log10 cfu/ml while total coliform count ranged from 5.6 ± 0.5 - 6.5 ± 0.7 log10 cfu/ml. Out of the 300 samples, 37 (12.3%) tested positive for E. coli out of which 16% were of the 0157:H7 sero-group while 21(7%) were positive for Staphylococcus aureus. …”
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Inhibitory activity of Salvadora persica extracts against oral bacterial strains associated with periodontitis: An in-vitro study by Rasouli Ghahroudi Amir Alireza, Rezaei Afsaneh, Mohseni Salehifard Seied Hosein, Yaghoobee Siamak, Khorsand Afshin, Kadkhoda Zeinab, Moosavi Jazi Mahvash, Rokn Amir Reza

“…Their un-stimulated saliva samples were obtained in sterile tubes. While three bacterial genera, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and Lactobacillus were identified in all subjects, Enterococcus and Escherichia were only detected in Group I. …”
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Estimation of Remaining Insulation Lifetime of Aged XLPE Cables with Step-Stress Method Based on Physical-Driven Model by Yingqiang Shang, Jingjiang Qu, Jingshuang Wang, Jiren Chen, Jingyue Ma, Jun Xiong, Yue Li, Zepeng Lv

“…It is found that ageing activation energy stays almost the same in samples with different ageing time, showing that it is a material intrinsic parameter that will not change with the ageing; the electron acceleration distance increases with the ageing time, it makes sense that the ageing process may break the molecule chain of XLPE and increase the size of the free volume. …”
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The Features of Children with Tuberculosis at Sidawangi Pulmonary Hospital in Indonesia: Interactions within the Home as a Potential Transmission Risk by Witri Pratiwi, Iip Toipah, Yogi Puji Rachmawan, Winarto Reki

“…The proportion of male and female was almost same. Most pediatric TB patients had household contacts (73.7%), especially those <1 year old. …”
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Orthovoltage x-ray therapy significantly reduces disability risk in knee osteoarthritis patients: A decade-long cohort study by Maria V. Makarova, Mikhail Yu. Valkov, Andrey М. Grjibovski

“…In total, 9.5% of patients in the experimental group became disabled during the observation period vs. 17.8% in the control group. …”
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Survey Influencing Factors on Prenatal Care in mothers referring to health care ‎centers in Rasht city in ‎‏2008‏ by fataneh bakhshi, nasrin mokhtari, shahin jefruodi, jila shekani, moohamad abasi, zahra atrkarruoshan

“…&lrm; Conclusion: In existence of prenatal care in health centers, almost half of women do not use these &lrm;care provided. …”
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Pattern and Extent of Street Food Consumption in Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Survey by Winnifred Ekua Baidoe, Mark Kwame Ananga, Elorm Kwame Nyinaku

“…The dietary diversity score of most respondents was in the high tercile (77.7%) (≥6 food groups), whilst the cereals dominate the food group mostly consumed by respondents. …”
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Prevalence of malaria and associated risk factors among febrile under-five refugee children attending Panyadoli Health Centre III, Kiryandongo District, Mid-western Uganda by Dorcus Acan, Robert Opiro, Benson Musinguzi, Bosco B. Agaba, Simon Peter Alarakol

“…Abstract Background Malaria presents a big threat to the health of refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees and other such persons affected by humanitarian emergencies, with almost two thirds of these groups of persons living in malaria endemic regions. …”
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Morphological features of the major duodenal papilla in patients with cholelithiasis by V. M. Klymenko, D. V. Syvolap, S. I. Tertishniy

“…Biomaterial samples (n = 15) from the dead, which had no stones and signs of inflammation of the biliary system, were included in the control group. …”
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One Health intervention for elimination of animal to human disease transmission of Anthrax in an endemic district of Odisha: A baseline and endline study by Dr. Debaprasad Parai, Mr. Matrujyoti Pattnaik, Dr. Hari Ram Choudhary, Dr Arun Kumar Padhi, Dr. Niranjana Sahoo, Dr. Sanghamitra Pati, Dr Debdutta Bhattacharya

“…Almost 21.29% of livestock owners had vaccinated their animals against anthrax disease which increased to 66.5% during the endline survey. …”
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Research of distribution pattern of allelic genes and genotypes of C/A polymorphism of COL1A1_1 collagen gene (RS1107946) in children with nasal obstruction of allergic genesis and... by Т. Ye. Shumna, O. M. Kamyshnyi, Т. P. Zinchenko

“…A molecular-genetic study for determination of C/A polymorphism of COL1A1_1 collagen gene (rs1107946) was performed in 99 children at the age of 6 to 17 years, for 11 months and 30 days inclusive; 30 children of which had nasal obstruction due to allergic rhinitis without abnormal distal occlusion (the first group); 23 children had just the distal occlusion (the second group); 26 children had allergic rhinitis and distal occlusion (the third group); 20 almost healthy children (the fourth group). …”
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The subsets of blood circulating T-cells associated with the development and prognosis of coinfection in patients with critical COVID-19 by Xingming Li, Hongqiong Peng, Yunchuan Wang, Shiying He, Xueting Yang, Jiayue Chen

“…All patients were divided into two groups according to the presence of bacterial coinfection or absence of bacterial coinfection, which were then divided into two groups (survived group and deceased group) based on the outcome of the disease during hospitalization.ResultsPatients with coinfection had a higher mortality rate (83.3% VS 50.0%, P&lt;0.001) and longer hospital stays (25.15 VS 13.80d, P&lt;0.001). …”
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Stress, student burnout and study engagement – a cross-sectional comparison of university students of different academic subjects by Nils Olson, Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, Barbara Reiner, Thorsten Schulz

“…Nevertheless, most studies treat students as a homogenous group and do not differentiate between academic subjects. …”
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Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of the Daybreak Drink Tracker: Prospective Observational Study by Kathryn Fletcher, Dominique Robert-Hendren

“…ResultsFeasibility was demonstrated, with almost 70% (2847/4119) of those registering for Daybreak going on to access the Drink Tracker. …”
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Evaluating the performance of pixel-based and object-based multidimensional clustering algorithms for automated surface water mapping by Bohao Li, Kai Liu, Ming Wang, Yanfang Wang, Linmei Zhuang, Weihua Zhu, Chenxia Li, Linhao Zhang, Yanan Chen

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National cross-sectional survey of US adults to assess the reliability of current and lifetime cannabis smoking by Salomeh Keyhani, Marzieh Vali, Janet Tang, Emily Lum, Annie Ryder, Beth E Cohen

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