Survey of the pattern of antibiotic dispensing in private pharmacies in Nepal by Delia Hendrie, Suzanne Robinson, Anant Nepal, Linda A Selvey

“…High dispensing rates of antibiotics for selected conditions (eg, respiratory infections, diarrhoeal cases) appeared contrary to international recommendations. …”
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Assessing the service quality at health service facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in North Buton District, Indonesia by La Ode Ali Imran Ahmad, Muhammad Ikhsan Akbar, Nurmaladewi Nurmaladewi, Pitrah Aspian, Iriyanto Pagala, Muhammad Rustam

“…A total of 400 respondents were selected using accidental sampling. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and presented in the form of frequency distribution tables and narratives. …”
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Mass drug administration coverage and its determinants for the elimination of onchocerciasis in Ulanga District, Tanzania. by Ambakisye Kuyokwa Mhiche, Dinah Gasarasi, George Kabona, Ally Hussein, Upendo John Mwingira, Ahmed Mohamed Abade

“…However, there is preliminary evidence of persistent onchocerciasis transmission, which likely sustains the observed high prevalence of Onchocerciasis in both human and vector species. …”
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A subset of Orai1α and Orai1β subunits heteromerizes to form CRAC channels by Jose J. Lopez, Isaac Jardín, Vanesa Jiménez-Velarde, Sandra Alvarado, Alvaro Macías-Díaz, Joel Nieto-Felipe, Francisco J. Martín-Romero, Tarik Smani, Juan A. Rosado

“…Here we show that Orai1α and Orai1β exhibit different lipid raft distributions in resting cells when expressed individually, likely due to the presence of a caveolin-binding domain exclusively in Orai1α. …”
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The determinants of severe food insecurity in Africa using the longitudinal generalized Poisson mixed model by Adusei Bofa, Temesgen Zewotir

“…Generalized estimating equations were then applied to account for the overdispersion associated with the Poisson distribution. To make the interpretation of the results more meaningful, 10 PCA components were selected. …”
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Shrinking Behaviour of Badland Soil Under Different Soil Covers by Michele Perniola, Mariana Amato, Stella Lovelli, Teodoro Di Tommaso

“…Six treatments with different soil vegetation cover and aspect were selected on a badland site in Pisticci (Southern Italy). …”
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Insight on AGB Mass-Loss and Dust Production from PNe by Silvia Tosi

“…Planetary nebulae (PNe) offer a novel perspective, providing valuable insights into the dust production mechanisms and the evolutionary history of LIMSs. We selected a sample of nine PNe from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), likely originating from single stars. …”
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Associations of molecular genetic predictors of type 2 diabetes mellitus with hyperglycemia in extremely low birth weight infants by P. I. Mironov, N. N. Mingazov, R. R. Valiev, А. U. Lekmanov

“…Then, the distribution of allele frequencies of the genes was compared depending on the presence of hyperglycemia in newborns with ELBW. …”
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Higher thermal plasticity in flowering phenology increases flowering output by Aino Kotilainen, Anniina L. K. Mattila, Charlotte Møller, Susanna Koivusaari, Marko‐Tapio Hyvärinen, Maria H. Hällfors

“…In sessile organisms such as plants, phenotypic plasticity can help maintain fitness in variable and even novel environmental conditions and is therefore likely to play an important role in allowing them to survive climate change, particularly in the short term. …”
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Prevalence of Mendelian Kidney Disease Among Patients With High-Risk APOL1 Genotypes Undergoing Commercial Genetic Testing in the United States by Ronaldo da Silva Francisco, Jr., Sumit Punj, Lisa Vincent, Nina Sanapareddy, Vivek Bhalla, Glenn M. Chertow, Dianne Keen-Kim, Vivek Charu

“…Introduction: Among individuals with high-risk APOL1 genotypes, the lifetime risk of developing kidney failure is ∼15%, indicating that other genetic variants or nongenetic modifiers likely contribute substantially to an individual patient’s risk of progressive kidney disease. …”
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High Blood Pressure among Students in Public and Private Schools in Maceió, Brazil. by Haroldo S Ferreira, Glícia Maris A Lúcio, Monica L Assunção, Bárbara Coelho V Silva, Juliana S Oliveira, Telma Maria M T Florêncio, Amandio Aristides R Geraldes, Bernardo L Horta

“…<h4>Unlabelled</h4>The prevalence of hypertension in childhood is increasing, and investigation of its distribution is important for planning timely interventions. …”
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Sex and age differences in compliance to physician recommendations by surgical patients by S. N. Cherkasov, A. L. Gorbunov, S. S. Saidov, A. V. Fedyaeva, A. A. Sukhov

“…Most surgical patients surveyed according to their subjective perception followed the physician's recommendations (75 and 77 out of 100 male and female respondents, respectively), more frequently at a younger age, whereas after 45 years, adherence to the physician's recommendations declined and the proportion of those who were more critical of them increased, which was manifested in their selective implementation. Patients are much less likely to comply with the recommendations to observe the principles of a healthy lifestyle. …”
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Impact of Climate Variability on Coffee Production in Kambuga Sub-County Kanungu District. by Tumutegyerize, Vicent

“…The study used purposive sampling to select the sub-county chief and parish chief, household heads were selected using a simple random technique thus making a total of 99 respondents. …”
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Prevalence and associations of hypertension detection, treatment and control in Cape Town by Nasheeta Peer, Naomi Levitt, Carl Lombard, Jaya George, Andre-Pascal Kengne

“…Strategies are required to ensure equitable distribution of hypertension care. In-depth research is required to understand the contributors to suboptimal hypertension care, which likely differ by age, gender, socioeconomic status and level of care.…”
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Prevalence and associated risk factors of hypertension in rural and urban areas of Punjab: A cross-sectional study by Jasvinder Singh, Syed A. Iqbal, Tareq I. Mohammed, Prithvi Radhavan, Shreya Rajpal, Sahini Gajula, Shree Rath

“…Methods and Materials: Residents aged 20 years and older were selected, and their blood pressure was measured according to JNC-7 guidelines. …”
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ASSESSEMENT OF THE QUALITY OF BICYCLE PATHS AND ITS CORRELATION WITH BICYCLE USE IN FLORIANÓPOLIS by Alfredo Leopoldo Enrique Messenger Valenzuela, Adalberto Aparecido dos Santos Lopes, Marcos Rescarolli, Joris Pazin, Cassiano Ricardo Rech

“…The logistic regression analyzes showed that young people are less likely to use cycle paths classified as ‘good’ ones (OR: 0.40; 95% CI: 0.24-0.67). …”
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Evolution of carbonate platforms in the northeast Red Sea during the last 23 million years by Tihana Pensa, Guillaume Baby, Thomas Teillet, Antoine Delaunay, Antonio Delgado-Huertas, Abdulkader M. Afifi

“…Abstract The Midyan Peninsula between the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba is the only place along the Red Sea where Lower to Middle Miocene syn-rift sedimentary strata (Aquitanian to Langhian) are continuously exposed, including exceptionally preserved carbonate platforms. We selected four focus areas onshore and one offshore in the Duba Basin to explore the variations in platform morphology, structural setting, spatial distribution, and carbonate factory in the northeast Red Sea. …”
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Computational reconstruction of iron- and manganese-responsive transcriptional networks in alpha-proteobacteria. by Dmitry A Rodionov, Mikhail S Gelfand, Jonathan D Todd, Andrew R J Curson, Andrew W B Johnston

“…We used comparative genomics to investigate the distribution of conserved DNA-binding motifs in the regulatory regions of genes involved in iron and manganese homeostasis in alpha-proteobacteria. …”
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Applied research note: Determining the size and scope of USDA-exempted poultry processing in Pennsylvania by D.R. Boontarue, J.W. Boney

“…The ''Personal Use'' exemption category was most frequently selected (47.0 %), although many producers were unsure of their correct exemption category. …”
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Traffic Safety Performance Assessment and Multivariate Treatments for Intersection Locations by Yong-gang Wang, Han Bai, Wen-sen Xiang

“…For this purpose, this study attempts to quantify intersection related accidents and develop countermeasures to reduce injuries resulting from such accidents, using the selected data of 3520 casualties over the period 1992–2007 in Harbin. …”
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