Designing multimedia patient education materials for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial of patient education videos. by Garett Van Oirschot, Cailbhe Doherty

“…Triple-masked three-armed feasibility parallel randomized controlled trial. Multimedia patient education materials are increasingly used in healthcare. …”
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Career Choices, Occupational Status, and Quality of Life of Agricultural Science Graduates by Maria Sheila D. Simon

“…Using descriptive correlational research design, data were obtained from 337 total population graduates of Capiz State University, Pontevedra Campus, Philippines. …”
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PROSPECTS FOR EUROPEAN UNION’S MEAT PRODUCTION IN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT CONSUMPTION CHALLENGES by Elena SOARE, Paula STOICEA, Carina-Andreea DOBRE, Adina Magdalena IORGA, Aurelia-Vasilica BĂLAN, Irina-Adriana CHIURCIU

“…Meat is an important element in human nutrition, and its consumption is expected to increase in the coming years in parallel with population growth. However, the livestock sector faces problems related to climate change, animal protection and welfare, and various epizootics, which have decimated livestock. …”
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The Proliferation of Yorùbá Religion in the Atlantic during the Nineteenth Century: The Portability of the Orisha by Sheneese Thompson

“…Orisha worship managed to eclipse the religious practices of a more populous and well-established group like the West Central Africans. …”
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Deemed as ‘Distant’: Categorizing Unemployment in Sweden’s Evolving Welfare Landscape by Maja Östling

“…Lastly, the paper discusses the categorization in relation to the current developments in the Swedish welfare system, arguing that the formalization of this category should be understood in relation to parallel political processes, such as proposals for a duty of activity for the unemployed, suggesting how this points to a way forward defined by neoliberal tendencies and welfare conditionality.…”
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Comprehensive FISH probe design tool applied to imaging human immunoglobulin class switch recombination. by Jakub Nedbal, Philip S Hobson, David J Fear, Rainer Heintzmann, Hannah J Gould

“…These allowed direct simultaneous detection of class switch recombination in both immunoglobulin-heavy chain alleles in single cells from a population of cultured primary B cells. It directly demonstrated asynchrony of the class switch recombination in the two alleles in structurally preserved nuclei while permitting parallel readout of protein expression by immunofluorescence staining. …”
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Management of Sickle Cell Disease: A Review for Physician Education in Nigeria (Sub-Saharan Africa) by Ademola Samson Adewoyin

“…Nigeria, being the most populous black nation in the world, bears its greatest burden in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Does the establishment of civilized cities promote urban inclusive development?--Quasi-natural experiment based on the selection of "National Civilized City". by Enguang Zhang, Jing Zhang, Xuesi Li, Yangyang Dai, Mingdou Zhang, Weilu Li

“…The findings are as follows: firstly, the establishment of civilized cities has significantly promoted the urban inclusive development, and then parallel trend test, placebo test and other robustness tests verify the reliability of the research conclusions. …”
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RNAi targeting of West Nile virus in mosquito midguts promotes virus diversification. by Doug E Brackney, Jennifer E Beane, Gregory D Ebel

“…West Nile virus (WNV) exists in nature as a genetically diverse population of competing genomes. This high genetic diversity and concomitant adaptive plasticity has facilitated the rapid adaptation of WNV to North American transmission cycles and contributed to its explosive spread throughout the New World. …”
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From climate to caribou: How manufactured uncertainty is affecting wildlife management by Julee J. Boan, Jay R. Malcolm, Mallory D. Vanier, Dave L. Euler, Faisal M. Moola

“…In this paper, we examine parallels with climate change rhetoric prolific in the 2000s and show that willful ignorance disguised as skepticism has resulted in public uncertainty despite robust scientific evidence. …”
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Opportunities for promoting open data in the Caribbean through biobanks by Sushant Saluja, Simon G. Anderson

“…H3Africa focuses on genomics research that addresses health disparities among African populations, which parallels the Caribbean’s challenges. …”
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Optimizing Vehicle Placement in the Residual Spaces of Unmarked Parking Areas: A Comparative Study of Heuristic Methods by Mustafa Hüsrevoğlu, Artur Janowski, Ahmet Emin Karkınlı

“…The experiments were conducted in two different parking areas, one designed for parallel parking and the other for perpendicular parking, under three scenarios allowing different levels of cars’ rotational flexibility. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Health Services and Management by Betül Akalın, Ülkü Veranyurt

“…Increasing chronic diseases and epidemics, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, shows a greater need in home care services of the elderly population due to the prolongation of the average human life span and changes in the expectations of individuals from health services in parallel with the development of health literacy. …”
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Patient-specific phantoms versus reference phantoms: a preliminary comparison on organs dose distribution by Isabelle Viviane Batista de Lacerda, José Wilson Vieira, Mércia Liane de Oliveira, Fernando Roberto de Andrade Lima

“…The absorbed dose estimation was performed using the EGSnrc Monte Carlo code and a parallel source algorithm. In this work were used an individualized-phantom for a man (1.73m/70.3kg) and another for a woman (1.63m/60.3kg) and the male and female ICRP reference phantoms. …”
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Évaluer ex ante la pertinence de projets locaux d’adaptation au changement climatique by Alexandre Magnan

“…(iii) Ex ante assessments are as necessary as currently dominating ex post assessments, as they contribute upstream and in parallel of projects’ monitoring and efficiency analysis, to the coherence and the optimisation of adaptation endeavours.…”
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Hepatitis C Variability, Patterns of Resistance, and Impact on Therapy by Cristina Simona Strahotin, Michael Babich

“…Although annual incidence of infection has declined since the 1980s, aging of the currently infected population is expected to result in an increase in HCV burden. …”
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Gene therapy randomised clinical trials in Europe – a review paper of methodology and design by Krassimira Ilieva, Borislav Borissov, Mondher Toumi

“…Of these, only nine CTs were randomised, double-blind, with or without parallel groups, and placebo-controlled. Conclusions: The analysed randomised CTs were conducted in accordance with Good clinical practice with low risk of bias across domains. …”
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THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM OF THE SOUTH AFRICA COUNTRIES by E. S. Romanchuk

“…However, it is worth noting that States are attempting to market expansion and filling their liquidity, including through the issuance of sovereign Eurobonds.The levels of financial markets development in the region vary because of different financial systems in these countries and different financial instruments.The banking sector dominates in all financial systems.Large proportion of the population has no access to the financial market in the region, resulting in parallel withexisting formal informal financial market not only in economically weak States, but in relatively stable. …”
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SELECTION OF OPTIMAL APPROACHES TO PREVENTION OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP CIRCUMSTANCES by G. Ya. Maslennikova, R. G. Oganov

“…Such commitments, accepted by the countries, are discussed on international meetings of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, the economics of Asia-Pacific collaboration, Northern Dimension countries in the areas of healthcare and social wellbeing. In parallel with these, the professional national and international guidelines are being developed, representing effective populational and individual actions for NCD prevention. …”
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Relationship Between Basal Mesiodistal Crown Widths of Deciduous SecondMolars and the Permanent First Molars by Akshata S H, Priya Nagar, Maithili Kulkarni, Sanjanadevi A

“…With the caliper positioned parallel to the occlusal surface the maximum mesiodistal width was measured by identifying the greatest distance between the mesial and distal contact points. …”
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