Assessment of sensory impairment in older adults with dementia by Nikol Gottfriedová, Martina Kovalová, Eva Mrázková, Ondřej Machaczka, Veronika Koutná, Vladimír Janout, Jana Janoutová

“…Color vision impairment was found in less than 8% of the sample, with no significant difference between the groups. …”
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Gene Set Enrichment Analysis in Zebrafish Embryos Is Susceptible to False-Positive Results in the Absence of Differentially Expressed Genes by John DH Stead, Hyojin Lee, Andrew Williams, Sergio A Cortés Ramírez, Ella Atlas, Jan A Mennigen, Jason M O’Brien, Carole Yauk

“…In toxicology and pharmacology studies, treatment groups are analysed against vehicle controls to identify DEGs and altered pathways. …”
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Micro-CT evaluation of marginal and internal fit of provisional fixed dental prostheses produced with additive and subtractive manufacturing by Bahar Kavafoğlu Yılmaz, Kübra Tokay Kızılırmak, Mert Ocak, Evşen Tamam

“…Shapiro Wilk normality test and Levene test for variance homogeneity were used for data distributions. The Independent Sample T Test was used for normally distributed data, and the Mann Whitney-U Test was used for those not normally distributed to compare the independent groups. …”
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Milk NIR spectroscopy and Aquaphotomics novel diagnostic approach to Paratuberculosis in dairy cattle by Saba Behdad, Reza Massudi, Abbas Pakdel, Sahereh Joezy Shekalgorabi

“…This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic ability of NIRS and Aquaphotomics for Paratuberculosis in dairy cattle by milk sample. Milk samples from dairy cattle were collected in the NIR range (1300–1600 nm) 60 days before and 100–200 days after calving in two groups, positive and negative, using the three same consecutive ELISA test results of blood plasma and milk, as a reference test. …”
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The holiday carbon footprint in tourism education: Learning from practice and experience by Bas Amelung, Eke Eijgelaar

“…The link to the students’ own experience makes the exercise effective, the group comparison makes it fun. As the exercise requires no prior knowledge and is suitable for almost any group size, it can be integrated into almost any tourism-related study programme.…”
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The effect of linguistic propositions on the collection of Arabic language norms and the development of critical thinking among middle-grade students. by Raed Rsim Younis Zaydi

“…The search sample (63) students reached. The final sum of the sample to which the test will be applied (30) became students for each of the two research groups, and rewarded the researcher between the two groups in a set of variables. …”
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Measuring Adherence in Hypertensive Patients—Pilot Study with Self-Efficacy for Appropriate Medication Use Scale in Bulgaria by Zornitsa Mitkova, Elena Dimitrova, Velislava Kazakova, Nikolay Gerasimov, Diyan Gospodinov, Javor Mitkov, Stamen Pishev, Guenka Petrova

“…The study showed that in half of the age groups studied (patients’ age: 40–49, 60–69, and 70–79), adherence in patients treated with FDCs was better or almost the same (patients’ age: 50–59) as those treated with several mono-products. …”
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Humoral and Cellular Immunity After Vaccination Against SARS-CoV-2 in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Patients Treated with Interferon Beta and Dimethyl Fumarate by Marcin Bazylewicz, Monika Zajkowska, Monika Gudowska-Sawczuk, Rafał Kułakowski, Jan Mroczko, Dagmara Mirowska-Guzel, Joanna Kulikowska-Łoś, Agata Czarnowska, Barbara Mroczko, Jan Kochanowicz, Alina Kułakowska

“…No differences were observed in the case of subgroups in which sample collection was less than 200 days after vaccination when compared to the control group. …”
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Self-esteem modulates the similarity of the representation of the self in the brains of others by Moriah S. Stendel, Taylor D. Guthrie, Victoria Guazzelli Williamson, Robert S. Chavez

“…Our results replicate the self-recapitulation effect in a sample almost ten times the size of the original study and show that these effects are found within distributed brain systems underlying self-representation and social cognition. …”
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Tannin removal from Persian gum and investigation of physicochemical properties: Comparing different methods by Pardis Ghasemi, Fatemeh Azarikia

“…FTIR analysis declared that in the boiled sample, a decrease was detected in vibration intensity within the range of 3200–3500 cm−1 (-OH groups) which can be due to heat degradation. …”
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A Descriptive Analysis of Cancer Screening Health Literacy Among Black Women Living with HIV in Baltimore, Maryland by Chun-An Sun, Joyline Chepkorir, Kyra Jennifer Waligora Mendez, Joycelyn Cudjoe, Hae-Ra Han

“…We recruited a convenience sample of Black WLH (N = 123) who understand English and had no Pap testing in the prior 12 months. …”
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Comparison of two combined drug therapy regimens for renal damage in patients with metastatic kidney cancer after previously performed unilateral nephrectomy by K. S. Titov, M. V. Epifanova, A. A. Alimov, O. Yu. Nesterova, E. V. Shutov, S. S. Lebedev, G. M. Zapirov

“…In these groups, CKD was observed in 83.0% and 77.3% of patients, respectively (80.2% of the total sample). …”
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Effect of fire on the diversity and trophic levels of soil fauna in Hyrcanian forests after 5 years (case study: Galandroud forest) by Zeinab Ahmadi, Davoud Kartoolinejad, Mariam Molashahi, Masoumeh Shayanmehr

“…Statistical comparisons were done with independent sample t-test using SPSS software. Moreover, the trophic levels of the soil fauna were determined and the abundance and biomass of each five main trophic groups were investigated within two fired and control forests. …”
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Health risk assessment of cadmium, lead, iron, and zinc exposure from food and cigarettes in Pakistani smokers by Hamza Shafiq, Mamoona Amir, Aneela Hameed, Amir Ismail, Siti Suhaila Binti Harith, Areeba Usman

“…When considering all smoking individuals as a single group, blood Cd and Pb concentrations were 37 % and 28 % higher, respectively, compared to nonsmokers, and almost 53 % of samples exceeded blood-Cd from the safe limits of WHO (0.03−0.12 µg dL⁻1). …”
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Modified silica gel and cation-exchanger based on activated carbon for fullerenes separation by V. A. Diamant, L. M. Rozhdestvenska, K. O. Kudelko

“…It is shown that the modification of silica gel is carried out both through silanol and siloxane groups, in contrast to the commercial sample of silica gel. …”
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CORRELATIONS OF GIVING DESINFECTION (ALCOHOL SWAB) WHEN GIVING INTRAVEIN INJECTION WITH PHLEBITIS by Rindayati Rindayanti

“…The number of respondents in the control group who did not / without using alcohol swab almost all respondents had phlebitis (84.6%) and only a small number did not occur phlebitis (15.3%) while respondents who were given alcohol swab during injection via intravenous bolus almost all phlebitis did not occur (92.3%) and a small proportion occurred phlebitis (7.6%). …”
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School Refusal in Children of Parents with and without Alcohol Dependence – A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study by L. Shubhashree, R. Sharma Pranjal, NR Prashant, Kumar Shankar, Khazi Mohammed Shoyaib

“…They had higher internalizing and externalizing symptoms and SR was motivated almost equally by both positive and negative reinforcers unlike in the comparator group. …”
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Oral Colonization of Staphylococcus Species in a Peritoneal Dialysis Population: A Possible Reservoir for PD-Related Infections? by Liliana Simões-Silva, Susana Ferreira, Carla Santos-Araujo, Margarida Tabaio, Manuel Pestana, Isabel Soares-Silva, Benedita Sampaio-Maia

“…Staphylococci PD-related infections were recorded throughout the 4-year period following sample collection. Staphylococcus colonization was present in >90% of the samples from both groups (a total of nine species identified). …”
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The Effects of Multitasking and Tools Carried by Travelers Onboard on the Perceived Trip Time by Jamil Hamadneh, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss

“…The main findings are the following: almost all of the onboard activities and the tools carried by travelers impact the trip time positively (i.e., the perception is enhanced). …”
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Depression and anxiety in glaucoma patients using mono drug therapy vs polydrug therapy by Aaiza Tahir, Muhammad Waqas Ahmed, Summaya Khan, Omar Zafar, Muhammad Haroon Sarfraz, Muhammad Shahid Tarar

“…Results: The frequency of males (n=204, 54%) and females (n=173, 45.8%) in the two groups was almost the same (p=0.164). The mean age in the mono-drug group (mean= 48.81±10.58 years) was slightly lower than the polydrug group (mean=53.67±11.16years) (p=0.000018). …”
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