Acceptability of self-administered acupressure for knee osteoarthritis in middle-aged and older adults: A mixed-method secondary analysis by Shu-Cheng Chen, Nicole Nok Leung, Hui-Lin Cheng, Min-Ru Wu, Denise Shuk-Ting Cheung, Jia-Yin Ruan, Jing Qin, Ge Ren, Wing-Fai Yeung

“…Future research should focus on optimizing intervention implementation by providing professional support and efficient monitoring to address identified challenges.…”
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Light Stable Isotopes and Their Ratios in Honey Components by Lev A. Oganesyants, Alexander L. Panasyuk, Dmitriy A. Sviridov, Mikhail Yu. Ganin, Alexey A. Shilkin, Oksana V. Serebryakova

“…Nitrogen isotope ratios in honey proteins proved to be an efficient tool for determining honey authenticity and an additional criterion for identifying bee products. …”
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Trends in research on relationship between root exudates and soil phosphorus: a bibliometric analysis by Yijie Ding, Yijie Ding, Jiabao Yao, Fengqing Li, Shiyou Chen, Shiyou Chen, Hui Wang, Hui Wang, Lingyu Hou, Lingyu Hou, Lei Liu, Lei Liu, Qiwu Sun, Qiwu Sun

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Proyectos de Aprendizaje Tutorados y autoevaluación de competencias profesionales en la formación inicial del profesorado (Project Oriented Learning and self-assessment of professi... by Lurdes Martínez-Mínguez

“…The tools used to gather quantitative and qualitative data were: a questionnaire, a self-perception scale of the students’ competencies and two professors’ teaching reports. …”
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Australian Aboriginal techniques for memorization: Translation into a medical and allied health education setting. by David Reser, Margaret Simmons, Esther Johns, Andrew Ghaly, Michelle Quayle, Aimee L Dordevic, Marianne Tare, Adelle McArdle, Julie Willems, Tyson Yunkaporta

“…In health professional training, however, there remains a large corpus of information for which memorization is the most efficient means of ensuring: A) that the trainee has the required information readily available; and B) that a foundation of knowledge is laid, upon which the medical trainee builds multiple, complex layers of detailed information during advanced training. …”
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Geochemical characterization and evaluation of shale oil bearing characteristics of Permian Pingdiquan Formation in eastern Junggar Basin by Yuchen Liu, Weibiao Zhang, Xin Yang, Huixi Lin

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Conversion from clinically isolated syndrome to multiple sclerosis: what paraclinical tests findings are the most characteristic? by M. Malciūtė, I. Čelpačenko, R. Stankevičiūtė, R. Balnytė

“…The association between two quantitative variables was determined using Spearman correlation co-efficient. …”
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Landscape changes have driven the coordination of human-land relationships in coastal wetlands under ecological restoration in a short term by Yuan Chi, Jingkuan Sun, Zhanyong Fu, Xinyang Zhang, Rui Hu, Yao Zhang

“…Under prevalent ecological restoration worldwide, quantitative spatiotemporal variations of human-land relationships in coastal wetlands remain to be unveiled, and effects of landscape changes on these relationships under ecological restoration in a short term are to be explored. …”
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El caso sede México: Formación en Educación Física en e-entornos universitarios durante la contingencia de la COVID-19 (The México heartquarters case: Physical Education Teacher E... by Ana Maria de Guadalupe Arras-Vota, José Luis Bordas-Beltrán, Fernando Mondaca-Fernández, Juan Manuel Rivera-Sosa

“…Analytic-synthetic, theoretical – deductive, and hermeneutic methods and quantitative and qualitative techniques through online questionnaires were used. …”
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Sustainable Design of a Tiny House: Using a Life Cycle Assessment Approach to Compare the Environmental Performance of Industrial and Earth-Based Building Systems by Letizia Dipasquale, Giada Giuffrida, Natalia Jorquera Silva, Riccardo Maria Pulselli, Rosa Caponetto

“…The tiny house is located in the Elqui Valley, in the Chilean region of Coquimbo, and it is designed to be compact, functional, comfortable, and efficient. The study uses a life cycle approach to assess the environmental impacts of building construction, maintenance, and end-of-life treatment, comparing the adopted <i>quincha</i> solution with four hypothetical scenarios using industrial, prefabricated, and/or synthetic construction materials currently adopted in the region. …”
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Nanopore-based random genomic sampling for intraoperative molecular diagnosis by Francesco E. Emiliani, Abdol Aziz Ould Ismail, Edward G. Hughes, Gregory J. Tsongalis, George J. Zanazzi, Chun-Chieh Lin

“…Methods We develop iSCORED, a one-step random genomic DNA reconstruction method that enables efficient, unbiased quantification of genome-wide CNVs. …”
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Improvement of osteogenic differentiation in umbilical cord-derived human mesenchymal stem cells through specific MiRNA inhibition by Ladda Meesuk, Pakpoom Kheolamai, Chairat Tantrawatpan, Jintamai Suwanprateeb, Sirikul Manochantr

“…Although they can be easily isolated from umbilical cord tissue, their osteogenic differentiation is less efficient than differentiation of bone marrow-derived hMSCs (BM-hMSCs). …”
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Establishing an induced pluripotent stem cell bank using urine cells from pediatric patients with neurogenetic diseases by Hien Bao Dieu Thai, WonWoo Jung, Sol Choi, Woo Joong Kim, JangSup Moon, ByungChan Lim

“…Conclusion Here we used UCs to successfully develop an early-onset neurogenetic disease iPSC bank that offers an efficient protocol for expanding patient accessibility in pediatric neurogenetic research.…”
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Liposome-encapsulated antibiotics and biosurfactants: an effective strategy to boost biofilm eradication in cooling towers by Marcus Vinícius Dias-Souza, Ihtisham Ul Haq, Sérgio Pagnin, Andrea Azevedo Veiga, Vera Lúcia dos Santos

“…Liposomes were produced with initial diameters of 100 and 200 nm, and encapsulation efficiencies were 56.7% for rhamnolipid, 47.3% for meropenem, and 31.25% for chloramphenicol. …”
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Charge transfer complexes: a review survey by Vahideh Hadigheh Rezvan

“…Additional techniques like electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), photo-titration, and the Benesi-Hildebrand equation provide quantitative insights into complex formation, binding constants, and photophysical behaviors. …”
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Correlations between expression levels of genes encoding multifunctional YB-1 protein, inflammatory cytokines and multidrug resistance P-gp protein in surgical material from patien... by M. V. Erokhina, E. N. Pavlova, E. A. Scherbakova, E. Yu. Rybalkina, L. N. Lepekha, R. V. Tarasov, E. K. Tarasova

“…Gene expression was determined by quantitative PCR in the samples obtained at surgery from 35 patients. …”
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Exploration of plasma exosomal miR-122-5p and its related targets KNG1 and C3 in the diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis by Xinyi Yao, Lahong Zhang

“…The RNA level of the miR-122-5p gene in plasma exosomes was detected by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR). The KNG1 level in the plasma of the subjects was measured by ELISA, and the clinical indicators of the patients were also collected. …”
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PENGARUH HARD-SOFT SKILL DAN DISIPLIN KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA TENAGA PENDIDIK DI SMK NEGERI 1 PASAMAN by Endang Tirtana Putra, Nur Anita

“…This type of causality is used in this study with a quantitative analysis approach. The population of this study was all teaching staff at SMK Negeri 1 Pasaman. …”
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Closing Gaps in Chronic Kidney Disease Detection: Evaluating At-Home Targeted Testing in a Safety-Net Population by Megan Schultz, Katelyn Laue, Nicole Bryer, Andrew Bzowyckyj, Anuja Java, Leslie Lake, Elizabeth Talbot-Montgomery, Brit Sovic, Bri’Anna Watson, Joseph A. Vassalotti

“…Methods: Through electronic health record (EHR) data analysis, eligible patients were identified to receive an at-home, semi-quantitative urine albumin-creatine ratio (uACR) testing kit. …”
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The Effects of New Selective PPARα Agonist CP775146 on Systematic Lipid Metabolism in Obese Mice and Its Potential Mechanism by Shengjie Tang, Fang Wu, Xihua Lin, Weiwei Gui, Fenping Zheng, Hong Li

“…The expression of genes related to lipolysis and synthesis in liver was detected by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). Results. The safe dose of CP775146 was <0.3 mg/kg. …”
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