Attitudes of Montenegrin Consumers Toward Advertising Through Sport Among the Question How Often They Participate in Sports Activities by Jovan Gardasevic, Gorica Zoric, Bojan Masanovic

“…These results are so important for the marketers, mostly due to the reason they can’t merge all the potential consumers who participate in various sports activities into one homogeneous group. …”
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Systemic treatment of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa with mesenchymal stromal cells: a scoping review of the literature and conclusions for future clinical research by Elke Niebergall-Roth, Kathrin Dieter, Markus H. Frank, Mark A. Kluth

“…Improvements were seen in skin manifestations, disease activity, pain, pruritus and quality of life, with considerable heterogeneity in reported outcome variables and measurement tools between studies, and large inter-patient variability within studies.Conclusions: Although the current evidence base is limited, reflecting the typical challenges of clinical research in rare diseases, the reported results suggest potential treatment benefits for patients and provide a rationale for continuing to pursue this therapeutic approach.…”
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A predictive analysis of risk factors contributing to low examination registration rate by secondary schools’ learners in Zimbabwe’s rural areas by Taruvinga Muzingili, Willard Muntanga, Laison Mwiinde, Quegas Mutale, Weston Chidyausiku

“…Analysis of sub-factors revealed that the low examination rate in rural areas was mostly explained by factors associated with affordability that were exacerbated by vulnerability associated with the learner’s characteristics. …”
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Percepción de la relación deporte-política desde las funciones de la economía política (Perception of the sport-politics relationship from the functions of political economy) by José Ramón Sanabria Navarro, Yahilina Silveira Pérez, William Alejandro Niebles Núñez

“…The main results show that the variables mostly meet the criterion of one-dimensionality. …”
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ddRAD sequencing of the endangered species Primula palinuri Petagna reveals high levels of inter-population diversity by Paloma Perez-Bello, Ilaria Panero, Emanuele De Paoli, Valentino Casolo, Fabio Attorre, Vito Emanuele Cambria, Sandro Strumia, Annalisa Santangelo, Costantino Bonomi, Giuseppe Fabrini, Fabio Marroni

“…In conclusion, our study shows that the sampled P. palinuri populations have low heterozygosity, low intra-population variability and high inter-population variability.…”
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Impact of frailty in older people on health care demand: simulation modelling of population dynamics to inform service planning by Bronagh Walsh, Carole Fogg, Tracey England, Sally Brailsford, Paul Roderick, Scott Harris, Simon Fraser, Andrew Clegg, Simon de Lusignan, Shihua Zhu, Francesca Lambert, Abigail Barkham, Harnish Patel, Vivienne Windle

“…Baseline measures Electronic Frailty Index score calculated annually and stratified into Fit, Mild, Moderate and Severe frailty categories. Other variables included age, sex, Index of Multiple Deprivation score, ethnicity and Urban/rural. …”
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A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of Portuguese by Acrisio Pires, Cecilia Solís Barroso

“…We conclude that there is mostly successful heritage language acquisition among the heritage speakers considered in each study, although one can still observe variability depending on the linguistic phenomenon, similarly to what happens in other speaker communities. …”
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Measuring four facets of emotion beliefs in Germany: A German-language adaptation of the EBQ and its comparability across gender and different emotion abilities. by Raphael Gutzweiler, David J Grüning

“…Notably, we demonstrate that the German EBQ is mostly strictly measurement invariant across central sociodemographic variables like age and gender. …”
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Detection of Mechanical Abnormalities in Induction Motors by Electric Measurements by Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski

“…Although the traditional non-invasive diagnostics has mostly been based on the signature analysis of the stator current, other media can also be employed. …”
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Innovations and income inequalities – a comparative study by Julia Włodarczyk

“…This paper presents a regression analysis based on the selected measures of innovativeness (gross domestic expenditure on R&D, number of patent applications, the Creative Economy Index), income inequalities (Gini coefficient, top 3% and top 1% shares of national equalized income) and various control variables retrieved mostly from the Eurostat Database for 30 countries (European Union countries, Iceland, Norway) for the study period of 2005-2014. …”
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Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications by Daleen Krige, Johann Cornelius de Wet

“…Quantitative readability assessments of selected PPIs revealed that the texts were mostly “difficult” or “very difficult”. However, readability relies not only on text variables, but also on interaction between reader and text. …”
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Treatment persistence and colectomy-free outcomes in patients with ulcerative colitis receiving golimumab or adalimumab: a UK experience by Sami Hoque, Christopher M Black, Amy Puenpatom, Simona Boccaletti, Chloe Green, Jenna Roberts, Ivana Rajkovic, Gary Milligan

“…Time-to-event variables were evaluated using Kaplan-Meier curves and log-rank tests.Results The study included a total of 183 patients (96 (52.5%) prescribed adalimumab; 87 (47.5%) golimumab), and patients were mostly first line (79.8%). …”
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Estudio descriptivo del morfotipo raquídeo sagital en bailarinas de flamenco. Descriptive study of sagittal spinal morphotype in female flamenco dancers. by Sebastián Gómez-Lozano, Alfonso Vargas-Macías, Fernando Santonja Medina, Manuel Canteras Jordana

“…This one can assume a functional preventive supplement, mostly in the early years of training.…”
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Multiscale phytoplankton dynamics in a coastal system of the eastern English Channel: the Boulogne-sur-Mer coastal area by K. Robache, Z. Hubert, C. Gallot, C. Gallot, A. Epinoux, A. P. Louchart, A. P. Louchart, J.-V. Facq, A. Lefebvre, M. Répécaud, V. Cornille, F. Verhaeghe, Y. Audinet, L. Brutier, F. G. Schmitt, L. F. Artigas

“…This enabled detailed characterization of PFG successions, including MicroRED (mostly diatoms) and NanoRED (mostly haptophytes of the species <i>Phaeocystis globosa</i>) transitions in spring, as well as a summer dominance by PicoORG (picocyanobacteria, mostly of the genus <i>Synechococcus</i>) and PicoRED. …”
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Optimization of Microwave-Assisted Organosolv Cellulose Recovery from Olive-Tree Pruning with Three Different Solvents by Soledad Mateo, Giacomo Fabbrizi, M. Renee Chapeta, Alberto J. Moya

“…Based on the R² and R²_<i>adj</i> values (mostly above 0.97), the experimental data were adequately adjusted to four selected response variables: post-solids cellulose and lignin content apart from removal percentages of both structural components. …”
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Ocular Injuries in Patients with Zygomaticomaxillary Complex (ZMC) Fractures at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Lahore by Muhammad Zubair Ahmad Khan, Anum Abid, Asif Shehzad, Nabeela Riaz, Tooba Saeed, Syed Ahmad Rahim

“…Inferential statistics, such as chi-square tests (for categorical variables) and independent samples t-tests (for continuous variables), were used to identify significant associations. …”
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OVERCOMING SMALL HOLDER FARMERS’ FINANCIAL EXCLUSION USING ANCHOR BORROWERS’ PROGRAMME IN YOLA NORTH AND YOLA SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS, ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA by Dengle Yuniyus GIROH, Abubakar Ahmadu TAFIDA, Linus MORRIS, Grace Kulipanani MARCUS

“…The model also correctly predicted 73.68 % of the dependent variables. The estimated VIF suggested that the explanatory variables specified in the model do not cluster together or exhibit multicollinearity tendencies. …”
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Mental health needs in the acute and subacute phases of the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake: Emergency Medical Information System data analysis in Disaster Psychiatric Assistance Te... by Yasuto Kunii, Yumiko Hamaie, Mizuki Hino, Yusuke Utsumi, Yasuhisa Fukuo, Hiroaki Tomita

“…We compared the variables between the 2 weeks immediately after the disaster (Phase 1) and the following 2 weeks (Phase 2). …”
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Macroeconomic factors and venture capital market liquidity: evidence from Europe* by Fauna Atta Frimpong, Ellis Kofi Akwaa-Sekyi, Ibrahim Suleman Anyars, Akua Peprah-Yeboah, Ramon Saladrigues Sole

“…Interest rate is significantly inversely related to VC market liquidity. The result is mostly significant for some exit strategies such as trade sales and IPOs. …”
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Prediction of bloodstream infection using machine learning based primarily on biochemical data by Ramtin Zargari Marandi, Frederik Boetius Hertz, Jesper Qvist Thomassen, Steen Christian Rasmussen, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Niels Frimodt-Møller, Karen Leth Nielsen, Cameron Ross MacPherson

“…The dataset included 144,398 samples from adult patients, containing blood culture results, demographics, and up to 36 biochemical variables. Positive blood culture was observed in 6.4% of samples, mostly caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Enterococcus faecium. 80% of the samples (N = 43,351 patients) were used for ML model development and five-fold cross-validation, with 20% for independent testing (N = 10,837). …”
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