Effect of Soil and Water Conservation Measures on Runoff and Sediment Yield from Purple Soil Slopes Under Different Rainfall Patterns by ZHENG Yu, LI Li, DING Wen-feng

“…Considering both rainfall patterns and land characteristics, this study conducted a comparative analysis of runoff and sediment reduction effects under different soil and water conservation (SWC) measures on purple soil slopes in the reservoir area. …”
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Rhinopharyngitis and ENT morbidity among cement workers with long-term occupational exposure in Kongo Central Province, DRC by Marie Ditu Kula, Jean Paul Pholo Manzimbala, Papy Steve Mbelambela Etongola, Lema Gabriel, Gibency Mfulani Mpenda, Eddy Mbambu Mampuya, Christian Matanda Nzanza, Marie Catherine Mbutshu Okitambolo, Allen Kondi Makani, Richard Matanda Nzanza, Jerome Sokolo Gedikondele

“…NO₂ (µg/m³) and SO₂ (µg/m³) concentrations were measured. Multivariate analysis was performed to determine the association between occupational exposure to cement dust and ENT symptoms and diagnoses. …”
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Exosomal delivery of IL-10: Biodistribution, pharmacokinetics, and preterm birth prevention strategies by Brinley Harrington, Tilu Jain Thomas, Madhuri Tatiparthy, Awanit Kumar, Lauren Richardson, Ramkumar Menon, Ananth Kumar Kammala

“…Pharmacokinetic studies using non-compartmental analysis of plasma data, and the linear trapezoidal method establish key pharmacologic parameters for each drug. …”
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Progressive Response of Repeated Treatment with High-Concentration (179 mg) Capsaicin Patch in Peripheral Neuropathic Pain After Surgical or Traumatic Nerve Injury: Findings from t... by Michael A. Überall, Christian Simanski, Mike Zellnig, Mariëlle Eerdekens, Sylvia Engelen, Myriam Heine, Fabienne Percot, Rita Freitas, Lucia Garcia Guerra, Tamara Quandel

“…Methods CASPAR is a retrospective, non-interventional cohort study investigating patients with peripheral neuropathic pain treated with HCCP. The present analysis included 499 patients with PNI who received ≥ 1 HCCP with ≥ 12 months of follow-up. …”
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“Evaluating the effectiveness of the Saudi laboratory specialist licensure examination preparation program for the medical laboratory sciences interns: a quasi-experimental study”... by Ahd A. Mansour, Enas Gouda

“…Level 3 (Behavior): Preceptors rated interns’ clinical performance highly, achieving an average score of 4.6 out of 5.0, indicating successful application of knowledge in clinical settings. …”
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India’s Silent Struggle: A Scoping Review on Postpartum Depression in the Land of a Billion Mothers by Rajeev S. P., Gokul M. Nair, Krishna K. K., Chris Maria

“…The prevalence of PPD among women in India is estimated to be 18% based on the average score across all research. A study that evaluated the moms in the community found that PPD was prevalent in new mothers at a rate of 21.5%. …”
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Transmantle pressure under the influence of free breathing: non-invasive quantification of the aqueduct pressure gradient in healthy adults by Pan Liu, Kimi Owashi, Heimiri Monnier, Serge Metanbou, Cyrille Capel, Olivier Balédent

“…The relationships between aqueduct resistance and flow rates and ΔP driven by cardiac and breathing activity were analysed, including a sex difference analysis. Results The aqueduct resistance was 78 ± 51 mPa·s/mm³. …”
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Comparative evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of chemomechanical (Papacarie) and conventional mechanical caries removal methods in treatment of carious primary molars: a ran... by Bimbola Opeyemi Akindele, O. O. Orenuga, O. O. Olatosi, R. O. Oladele

“…The statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 25.0 IBM was used for data analysis. The significance level was set at p ≤ 0.05 for all statistical tests at 95% confidence interval. …”
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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLINICO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA IN THE NOVOSIBIRSK CITY by E. N. Voropaeva, A. A. Gurageva, T. I. Pospelova, M. A. Kolesnikova, M. I. Voevoda, V. N. Maksimov, O. V. Berezina, K. V. Khalzov, M. I. Churkina, I. N. Nechunaeva, E. V. Melnichenko

“…The calculated registered primary morbidity and mortality from DL BCL in Novosibirsk for the analyzed years fluctuated slightly. The average incidence and mortality rates were 2.85 and 1.98 per 100,000 population, respectively. …”
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Knowledge acquisition and student perceptions of three teaching methods: a randomized trial of live, flipped, and interactive flipped classrooms by Omar Al-Karadsheh, Huda Abutayyem, Ayeh Saidi, Abdelrahman Shqaidef

“…Pearson’s correlation analysis examined the relationship between academic performance and GPA of the students. …”
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Degradation and Migration Characteristics and Water‐Inrush Mechanism of Overburden Roof Under High‐Intensity Mining by Min Cao, Shangxian Yin, Xu Wang, Shuqian Li, Qixing Li, Yulong Di

“…For 90% of the predicted data, the error rate of the BP neural network model was less than 0.5%, with an average error of approximately 3%. (2) Through two similar simulation tests, where only the mining height of the coal seam (3 and 6 m) was varied while controlling other variables, it was concluded that higher mining heights lead to more severe damage and obvious fracture development in overlying rock. …”
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Understanding the effect of holding time on interfacial microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of Ti3AlC2/Zr-4 brazed joints by Bo Yang, Chun Li, Xiaoqing Si, Mingshen Li, Hao Yuan, Hao Jiang, Runjie Wang, Junlei Qi, Jian Cao

“…A detailed fracture analysis was conducted to determine the failure mechanism. …”
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Depathologizing Queer Adults’ Dating App Use in Canada: Convergent Mixed Methods Study by Jad Sinno, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Paul A Shuper, Daniel Grace

“…ResultsParticipants used an average of 3.22 (SD 1.78) dating apps, most commonly for casual sex (208/249, 83.5%). …”
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Burden of low birth weight and short gestation from 1990–2021 and projection to 2050: assessment against 2030 malnutrition reduction targets by Bengui Jiang, Bengui Jiang, Kelly Lin, Kelly Lin, Kelly Lin, Nicholas Buys, Yanfei Qi, Jing Sun

“…To assess the progress in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals of a 30% reduction in LBWSG, average annual percentage change (AAPC) was calculated on a global, regional, and national level. …”
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Identification and quantification of muscular cocontraction for ankle rehabilitation through variational mode decomposition in surface electromyography by Sania Yasmeen, Asim Waris, Faisal Amin, Javaid Iqbal, Syed Omer Gilani, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Fawwaz Hazzazi, Ahmed Imran, Umer Hameed Shah, Muhammad Adeel Ijaz

“…The present study compares VMD with the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) approach and shows that VMD outperforms CWT in terms of both SNR and RMSE. On average, the increase in SNR in case of VMD (−17.65 ± 8.1dB to 2.98 ± 2.2dB) was greater than that of CWT (−17.65 ± 3.7dB to 1.34 ± 1.5dB). …”
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Revisiting agroecological transitions in Rwanda a decade later: the role of local knowledge in understanding the crop diversity–food security–land degradation nexus by Anne W. Kuria, Anne W. Kuria, Tim Pagella, Catherine W. Muthuri, Fergus L. Sinclair, Fergus L. Sinclair

“…This study also showed that farmers have become more dependent on sourcing food off-farm, with food produced on-farm supporting farmers for an average of 6.6 months annually in 2015 compared to 10.1 months in 1995. …”
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Mangrove biomass productivity and sediment carbon storage assessment at selected sites in Mauritius: the effect of tidal inundation, forest age and mineral availability by M D D Doodee, S D D V Rughooputh, S Jawaheer

“…Soil texture was determined using granulometric analysis. Our findings show that in both natural and planted forests, the zones that were more inundated were first established. …”
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Effectiveness of using autologous platelet cryolysate after knee arthroscopy by S.I. Gerasymenko, M.V. Poluliah, A.M. Babko, A.S. Gerasymenko, D.M. Poluliah, R.M. Ostpchuk, D.S. Yarosh, O.M. Lushchii, N.Y. Marchenko

“…Functional indicators on the Lysholm scale improved to 88, while the average time to full recovery was reduced to 43 months. …”
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Efficacy of Shock Wave Therapy Combined with Core Stability Training on Non-Specific Low Back Pain after Stroke by DAI Yayuan, WANG Xiaojun, YIN Jie, ZHU Wenjuan, SU Min

“…Additionally, gait parameters were measured using footprint gait analysis to compare the therapeutic effects of the two groups.ResultsCompared with those before treatment, VAS scores of both groups decreased at rest and during walking after the first treatment and after 3 weeks of treatment, with the experimental group showing significantly lower VAS scores than the control group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Immunogenetic profile of MIC (A, B) HLA loci linked to MHC antigenic complex in Russians of the Chelyabinsk Region by A. L. Burmistrova, M. N. Vavilov, D. S. Stashkevich, T. A. Suslova

“…As based on scatterplot obtained by the MDS approach for MICA gene frequencies, using the data of cluster analysis, we have found that the population of Russians from Chelyabinsk Region belongs to a cluster of typical European populations.The obtained patterns could be used for practical purposes to create a registry of stem cell donors in Russia. …”
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