Sociodemographic Status, Dietary Intake, and Physical Activity in Relation to Body Mass Index Among Female Adolescents in Saudi Arabia by Leila Arfaoui, Afnan Alghanmi, Ruba Alamri, Nouf Aljehani, Areej Alkhaldy, Mourad Assidi

“…More than half of the participants (52.6%, <i>n</i> = 484) had a low physical activity and screen time score, with 36.5% (<i>n</i> = 336) never engaging in ≥60 min of physical activity per day and 61.4% (<i>n</i> = 565) reporting a daily screen time of >4 h. …”
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National serosurvey and risk mapping reveal widespread distribution of Coxiella burnetii in Kenya by Lillian Wambua, Bernard Bett, Hussein M. Abkallo, Mathew Muturi, Daniel Nthiwa, Richard Nyamota, Enock Kiprono, Lynn Kirwa, Francis Gakuya, Andrew W. Bartlow, Earl A. Middlebrook, Jeanne Fair, Kariuki Njenga, John Gachohi, Athman Mwatondo, James M. Akoko

“…The detrimental impact on public health is projected to be higher in the low- and middle-income countries given their lower capacity to sustain effective surveillance and response measures. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS IN CYTOKINE GENES AND CLINICAL LABORATORY PARAMETERS IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MYELOMA by A. A. Pavlova, I. E. Pavlova, L. N. Bubnova, S. S. Bessmeltsev, E. V. Karyagina

“…Multiple myeloma is the most common form of paraproteinemic hemoblastosis, which is characterized by variability of clinical manifestations, forms, and variants. …”
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Analytical methods for assessing the quality of sugarcane bagasse compost and improving the physicomechanical properties toward densification by Ehsan Sarlaki, Mohammad Hossein Kianmehr, Marzieh Ghorbani

“…In addition, due to the low energy density and bulk density, the composted biomasses face problems such as higher storage and transportation costs as well as overall costs in logistics management. …”
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Cytological evaluation of p16Ink4a in precancerous lesions of the cervix: Conventional papanicolaou smears by Seema Singhal, Vinod Kumar Arora

“…However, it fails into triage low grade lesions. HPV DNA test confirms infection by the virus, present in 99% of cases. …”
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Associations Between Psychosocial Influence, Positive Thinking, and Vaccine Attitudes in Patients with Schizophrenia During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Li DJ, Wang WC, Chou FHC, Hsu ST, Hsieh KY, Lin GG, Wu PJ, Liu CL, Wu HC, Huang JJ

“…Positive thinking moderated the overall effect of social influence on vaccine attitudes. Low levels of positive thinking intensified the effect of social influence on vaccine hesitancy.Conclusion: This study clarified the association of social influence with vaccine attitudes and the moderating effect of positive thinking on this association. …”
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UK poSt Arthroplasty Follow-up rEcommendations (UK SAFE): what does analysis of linked, routinely collected national datasets tell us about mid–late term revision risk after knee r... by Andrew Judge, Sarah R Kingsbury, Nigel K Arden, Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva, Lindsay K Smith, Cesar Garriga, Antonella Delmestri, Martin Stone

“…HRs and 95% CIs assessed association of sociodemographic factors, comorbidities, medication, surgical variables and PROMs with mid–late term revision.Results NJR-HES-PROMs data were available from 2008 to 2011 on 188 509 KR. …”
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Expression Analysis of COPB2 and Bcl-2 in Early Stages of Endometrial Carcinoma by Branko Andrić, Danijela Cvetković, Stefan Blagojević, Marko Stanković, Nenad Kokošar, Dragutin Sretenović, Dragiša Šljivančanin, Branislav Milošević, Danijela Milošev, Petar Arsenijević

“…This study showed that the expression value of these two genes in the early stages of endometrial cancer is low. Diagnostic potential in segregation of cancer from non- cancer patients is achieved through expression of these two genes, with COPB2 being more specific biomarker. …”
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Group Aerobic Exercise Improves Body Composition and Lipid Profile in Young Women with Elevated BMI: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Omer Špirtović, Ilma Čaprić, Borko Katanić, Karuppasamy Govindasamy, Vlad Adrian Geantă, Viorel Petru Ardelean, Zerina Salihagić, Aldina Ajdinović, Mima Stanković

“…High-density lipoprotein (HDL) increased by 7.4 mg/dL (<i>p</i> < 0.01), while low-density lipoprotein (LDL), total cholesterol, and triglycerides decreased by 12.1 mg/dL, 18.6 mg/dL, and 19.4 mg/dL, respectively (all <i>p</i> < 0.01). …”
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An economic analysis and seed yield assessment of alternative breeding strategies in a white spruce tree improvement program by Esteban Galeano, Simon Bockstette, Barb R. Thomas

“…However, this advantage of CC vs PM and OP only occurred on the highest quality sites (i.e., Site Index (SI) 13 and 18). On the low-productivity site (SI = 6), with the various scenarios, improved material did not show any financial benefit. …”
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Understanding African American/Black and Latine young and emerging adults living with HIV: a sequential explanatory mixed methods study focused on self-regulatory resources by Leo Wilton, Marya Gwadz, Charles M. Cleland, Stephanie Campos, Michelle R. Munson, Caroline Dorsen, Samantha Serrano, Dawa Sherpa, Shaddy K. Saba, Corey Rosmarin-DeStefano, Prema Filippone

“…Substance use (tobacco, marijuana, alcohol) was prevalent, mainly at low- and moderate-risk levels. Drug screening indicated marijuana, methamphetamine, and MDMA were the most common recent substances. …”
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Grass pea dual purpose dry matter and seed yields in rainfed conditions across diverse environments by Hamid Hatami Maleki, Behrouz Vaezi, Askar Jozeyan, Amir Mirzaei, Reza Darvishzadeh, Shahryar Dashti, Mousa Arshad, Hossein Zeinalzadeh-Tabrizi, Mojtaba Kordrostami

“…The projection of geographical, climatic, and edaphic variables into yield measurements depicted remarkable divergence among the four studied environments. …”
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Development and validation of an Arabic questionnaire to assess the knowledge of neonatal danger signs (AQ-KNDS) and its possible determinants among Arab population by Esraa Abdellatif Hammouda, Suzan Abdel-Rahman, Marwa Abdelwahab Hassan, Marwa Abdelkarim, Engy Saad Abdelmoneim Elkaragy, Ayed A. Shati, Ramy Mohamed Ghazy

“…The best model was retained where its M2 statistics were comparatively low indicating that there was no significant difference between the model and the data (M2 = 84 with 88 degrees of freedom and a P = 0.688) with the following fit measures RMSEA = 0.001, AIC = 2650.04, BIC = 2825.7, and TLI and CFI were 1.0. …”
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Spatial Differentiation and Correlation of Ecological Stoichiometric Characteristics of Cynodon dactylon and Soil in the Water-level Fluctuation Zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir... by XU Liwen, ZHANG Yuewei, JIAN Chen, ZHANG Yuanyuan, WANG Xiaofeng

“…Notably, nitrogen content in the leaves demonstrated a degree of spatial stability, suggesting that C. dactylon could absorb nitrogen efficiently and meet its leaf nitrogen requirements preferentially under nitrogen-deficient conditions. 3) Generally low variations in the stoichiometric ratios in organs of C. dactylon were found. …”
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Four weeks of slow-paced breathing: a longitudinal, randomized, placebo-controlled study of the autonomic nervous system by Nicolas Bourdillon, Arnaud Rochat, Vanessa Hoop, Grégoire P. Millet

“…Before and after the interventional period, they performed baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) and heart rate variability (HRV) assessments in our laboratory (labPRE and labPOST). …”
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Hypertension and Elevated Pulse Pressure Responsive to Biomass Pollutants Exposures in Young Workers From the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Cross‐Sectional Analysis by Pierre Lofuta Olenga Vuvu, Malgorzata Klass, Nathalie Pauwen, Augustin Kipula, Silvia Perez Bogerd, Alain Van Muylem, Philippe Van de Borne, Gael Deboeck

“…Logistic regression, adjusted for confounding variables was used to identify the risk factors. Charcoal workplaces were more polluted than agricultural workplaces (P<0.01). …”
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Hybrid liquid–PCM thermal management for high–capacity lithium–ion batteries under fast charging: A parametric comparative study by Houssein Ammar, Mahdi Delbani, Farouk Fardoun, Bassem El Zoghbi, Hussein Mouzanar, Jalal Faraj, Mahmoud Khaled

“…A hybrid cooling system was created to combine the low peak temperatures of liquid cooling with the uniformity of PCM in order to maximize the benefits of both approaches. …”
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Phyllosphere mycobiome in two Lycopodiaceae plant species: unraveling potential HupA-producing fungi and fungal interactions by Liqun Lin, Cheng Li, Chiung-Chih Chang, Ran Du, Jiaojiao Ji, Li-Yaung Kuo, Ko-Hsuan Chen

“…The fungal communities in bulbils and apical shoots of H. asiatica were low in diversity and dominated by Sordariomycetes, a fungal class harboring the majority of reported HupA-producing fungi. …”
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Lower dietary folate intake increases the risk of autoimmune thyroiditis by Lijun Chen, Changjian Yan, Yingxuan Lin, Liqun Huang, Chunling Huang, Zhida Wei, Hongli Lin, Xiaohong Wu, Ruhai Lin, Zhengrong Jiang, Huibin Huang

“…Participants in the high dietary folate intake group showed a 52% lower risk of AIT compared to the low-intake group (OR = 0.48, 95%CI: 0.33–0.71, p &lt; 0.001) in the univariate analysis. …”
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Changes in the lifestyle behavior and anthropometrics of university students after the first year: a one-year prospective observational study by Héctor Gutiérrez-Espinoza, María Cassola-Cajiao, Emilia Garzón-Ulloa, Daniela Celi-Lalama, Felipe Araya-Quintanilla, Juan Valenzuela-Fuenzalida, José Francisco López-Gil, José Francisco López-Gil

“…In all patients' sociodemographic variables, anthropometric indices, adherence to 24-hour movement guidelines (i.e., physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep), diet, and alcohol consumption were assessed. …”
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