Prevalence and clinical impact of severe anaemia in referral hospitals in southern Benin by Landry Assongba, Oumou Boukari, Jules Maroufou Alao, Natacha Nouwakpo, Jeanne Perpétue Vincent, Adrian J. F. Luty, Feiko O. ter Kuile, Achille Massougbodji, Jenny Hill, Valérie Briand, Manfred Accrombessi

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First Results of Our Local Practice Guide Used During the Late Phase of Resuscitation in Patients with Refractory VF in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Slagt C, Van Kuijk SM, Bruhn J, Van Geffen GJ, Mommers L

“…Exact Clopper-Pearson and logistic regression analysis revealed non-inferiority of the local practice guide. …”
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Cross-national research on adolescent mental health: a systematic review comparing research in low, middle and high-income countries by Xiao Zhang, Anne Abio, David M Ndetei, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Wan Mohd Azam Wan Mohd Yunus, Yuko Mori, Zahra Kafami Khorasani, Sonja Gilbert, Meytal Grimland, Nikita Bezborodovs, Sanju Silwal, Minja Westerlund, Hitoshi Kaneko, Emmi Heinonen, Andre Sourander

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Efficacy of External Beam Radiotherapy with Concurrent Capecitabine versus Radiotherapy alone for the Treatment of Painful Bone Metastasis in Primary Breast Cancer Patients: A Pros... by Lucy Pattanayak, Tapan Kumar Sahoo, Manoranjan Meher, Pragyna Paramita Das, Tapas Kumar Dash

“…Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 21.0 (Armonk, NY: IBM Corp) was used for data analysis. Results: The mean age was 49.90 years for group A and 46.36 years for group B, respectively. …”
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Repression and Criminalization of the Ecologist Movement in the Basque Country: the Case of the High Speed Train Project by Carlos Alonso Cidad, Iñaki Barcena Hinojal, Izaro Gorostidi Bidaurrazaga

“… This article offers an analysis of the process of criminalization, which, in the authors’ opinion, the Basque Ecologist Movement (BEM) has suffered in its fight against the High Speed Train (HST). …”
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Optimizing the Construction Supply Chain Network Considering the Flow of Materials, Equipment, Manpower, Drawings and Technical Documents by Seyed Saeid Helli, Hadi Mokhtari, Saeed Dehnavi

“…The current study was influenced by limitations such as access to real data and the impossibility of handling a real case study, because the problem of designing the construction supply chain has wide dimensions and requires access to all dimensions of the construction industry chain, from upstream to downstream. …”
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Co-application of Funneliformis mosseae and salicylic acid ameliorates Pb toxicity in Salvia officinalis L. by modulating physiological responses by Mohammad Bagher Hassanpouraghdam, Samaneh Fathpour Jabari, Farzad Rasouli, Mohammad Ali Aazami, Lamia Vojodi Mehrabani, Małgorzata Szczepanek, Silvia Jimenez-Becker

“…Abstract Background Heavy metals toxicity threatens food safety by disrupting plant growth and development, ultimately reducing crop yield and quality. …”
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Resultados del uso de geodesia satelital para estudios geodinámicos en Colombia by Mora-Páez Hector, Trenkamp Robert, Kellogg James, Freymueller Jeff, Droonez-Villota Milton

“…Some results are showed using the GIPSY -OASIS II software, that is a precision package for the analysis of GPS data developed by JPL-NASA. INGEOMINAS has built a GPS network called GEORED to be occupied succesively in order to get information about intraplate deformation, under the institutional project named Survey, Compilation and Generation of Geodynamics Information. …”
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Exploring Ways to Reduce Heavy Drinking by Increasing Hope Among Midlife Women in Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study by Paul R Ward, Megan Warin, Sarah MacLean, Belinda Lunnay, Catherine Palmer, Samantha Meyer, Tonda Hughes, Antonia Lyons, Emily Nicholls

“…Stage 1 (0-18 months) will collect qualitative data using social media analysis, netnography, photo elicitation, and ethnography to understand the forces oppressing women and shaping their alcohol consumption. …”
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A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study about the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Food Safety Measures among Rural Households in Bangladesh by Mst. Rokshana Rabeya, Md. Hasan Bin Zihad, Md. Anis Fakir, Most. Sabina Khatun, Jinnat Jahan Rakhi, Ashraful Islam, Rashedul Islam, Md. Abdullah Saeed Khan, Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader

“…A total of 400 respondents were selected using the multistage cluster sampling technique. Data were collected using pretested and predesigned questionnaires based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) five keys for food safety. …”
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Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccination Intention and Behavior Among Young People in a European Union Country With Low COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: Cross-Sectional Study by Sara Atanasova, Tanja Kamin, Nina Perger

“…Data were collected in August 2021 via the online access survey panel JazVem (Valicon), targeting individuals aged 15-30 years in Slovenia. …”
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Cumulative behavioral and metabolic determinants of health are associated with higher inflammation-related indices: insights from a cross-sectional study (NHANES 2005–2018) by Anzhi Wang, Youping Zeng, Xiaoyan Gao, Xunge Lin, Shenshen Du, Ping Wang, Yun Pan

“…ObjectiveThis study innovatively investigates the cumulative associations between behavioral determinants of health (BDoH), metabolic determinants of health (MDoH), and systemic inflammation biomarkers in U.S. adults, using a novel cross-sectional framework to quantify their synergistic effects.MethodsUtilizing cross-sectional data from 18,500 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 2005–2018 cycle), we developed a composite exposure model integrating BDoH (smoking status, physical activity, dietary quality) and MDoH (obesity metrics, hypertension, diabetes) through standardized questionnaires and clinical measurements. …”
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A case-control study of the interaction of the eNOS gene polymorphisms rs1799983 and rs1800780 with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) risk factors by Liting Cai, Yufei Chen, Chunfang Shan, Qian Zhao, Junyi Luo, Xiaomei Li, Fen Liu, Yining Yang

“…Results This study included 718 patients with ACS and 1008 controls. The results of the analysis of the clinical baseline data after adjusting for confounders showed: age (OR = 1.025; 95%CI: 1.011–1.039; P < 0.001), gender (OR = 1.434; 95%CI: 1.012–2.032; P = 0.042), smoking (OR = 5.665; 95%CI: 3.954–8.117; P < 0.001), diabetes: (O R = 1.741;95%CI: 1.252–2.421,P = 0.001), NLR (OR = 1.387; 95%CI: 1.271–1.513; P < 0.001), PAR (OR = 1.269,95%CI: 1.177–1.369, P < 0.001), TyG (OR = 2.229; 95%CI. 1.847–2.689; P < 0.001), alcohol consumption (OR = 0.410; 95%CI: 0.292–0.577; P < 0.001), and the dominant model of the rs1799983 locus of the eNOS gene (TTvsGG + TG, OR = 3.157, 95%CI: 1.045–9.533, P = 0.042) were all significant influences on ACS. …”
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Landscape-level assessment of the distribution of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Sumatra by Wulan Pusparini, Hariyo Wibisono

“…Occupancy can serve as a robust surrogate for an index of abundance in a population-monitoring framework. Further analysis using the multi-season models of the technique on time series data and season/survey-specific covariates can provide management authorities with accurate information about changes in rhinoceros populations and assist in prioritizing conservation actions for the Sumatran rhinoceros in the region. …”
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A study on the prediction of targeted therapy efficacy in advanced lung adenocarcinoma patients with EGFR mutations using CT-based delta-radiomics model by Zekai Wu, Zekai Wu, Peiyan Hua, Xiuying Chen, Jie Lei, Laian Zhang, Peng Zhang

“…A delta-radiomics model was developed by quantifying feature changes between treatment phases. …”
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Neutralizing antibody responses over time in demographically and clinically diverse individuals recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United States and Peru: A cohort study. by Shelly Karuna, Shuying Sue Li, Shannon Grant, Stephen R Walsh, Ian Frank, Martin Casapia, Meg Trahey, Ollivier Hyrien, Leigh Fisher, Maurine D Miner, April K Randhawa, Laura Polakowski, James G Kublin, Lawrence Corey, David Montefiori, HVTN 405/HPTN 1901 Study Team

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>This analysis comprises an observational cohort of 329 HIV-seronegative adults in the United States (n = 167) and Peru (n = 162) convalescing from SARS-CoV-2 infection from May through October 2020. …”
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Results of microsurgical resection of glioblastomas under endoscopic and fluorescent control by A. Yu. Rynda, V. E. Olyushin, D. M. Rostovtsev, Yu. M. Zabrodskaya, G. V. Papayan

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Encapsulated sodium butyrate without or with a botanical extract for transitioning neonatal calves by Ting Liu, David P. Casper

“…Three calves were excluded from data analysis because 2 calves died and 1 was a statistical outlier. …”
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Left bundle branch block in coronary artery disease: toward novel electrocardiographic markers by Yuri N. Fedulaev, Irina V. Makarova, Alisa V. Grigorieva, Dzhamilya R. Kapitonova, Gulfiya A. Khairetdinova

“…These findings may be considered in the development of prognostic models for patients with coronary artery disease and initially abnormal QRS complexes.…”
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Calidad del cuidado de enfermería en la unidad de cuidados intensivos durante la COVID-19: estudio cualitativo by John Camilo Garcia Uribe, Susana Vallejo, Yuliana Cardenas Jaramillo

“…In-depth interviews were conducted with 9 nursing professionals. The analysis was carried out in parallel with the collection of information throughout the research using grounded theory analytical tools with the support of Atlas.ti qualitative data research software. …”
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