Urban Noise Annoyance Between 2001 and 2013 – Study in a Romanian City by Diana Ioana POPESCU, Iuliana Fabiola MOHOLEA, Radu Mircea MORARIU-GLIGOR

“…The paper presents results of three socio-acoustic surveys conducted in an interval of twelve years, between 2001 and 2013, in a large Romanian city, Cluj-Napoca. …”
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Influence of natural tail streamer asymmetry and tail length on annual apparent survival of adult Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) by Mónica González-Jaramillo, José Luis Rangel-Salazar, Horacio de la Cueva

“…Life-history strategies such as flight pattern, breeding behavior, and tail moult may constrain any negative effects. …”
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Evaluation of ciliary functions and ciliary beat frequency via cell culture method in patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia by Nagehan Emiralioğlu, Nural Kiper, Deniz Doğru, Ebru Yalçın, Mina Gharibzadeh Hızal, Sanem Eryılmaz Polat, Gökçen Dilşa Tuğcu, Önder Günaydın, Pergin Atilla, Elif Bilgiç, Bengisu Kaya, Rümeysa Hekimoğlu, Uğur Özçelik

“…The mean age of the patients was 15.5±4.2 years (8.5-18 years). Mean beat frequency was found to be 7.54±1.01 hz (6.53-9.45 hz) before cell culture, and 7.36±0.86 hz (6.02-7.99 hz) after cell culture in the nasal biopsy of patients. …”
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Preparation of dental and nursing professionals within Swedish higher education: navigating to confidence in literacies and professional knowledge by Nikolaos Christidis, Jakob Tomasson, Armin Rataghi, Maria Christidis

“…The first time was immediately after graduation (degree evaluation), and the second time was five years after graduation (alum evaluation). Approximately 30% of the dentists and the nurses responded both times. …”
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The neural signatures of the psychological construct “flow”: A replication study by Martin Ulrich, Filip Niemann, Georg Grön

“…The inverted U-shaped pattern of neural activation is characterized by greater neural activation during the flow condition relative to boredom and overload, while the U-shaped pattern is the reverse, that is, lower neural activation during flow relative to its boundary conditions. …”
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Outcome in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Center by Arti Dhingra, Sonia Bhatt, Rajesh Kashyap

“…Methods: Critically ill children aged 1 month to 12 years of age, who received mechanical ventilation and developed VAP, were included in the study. …”
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Kinetic Model of Chemical Organic Matter Removal in Facultative Pond Set A in Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) Bojongsoang, West Java by Fanny Novia, Erika Herliana, Jeni Saepurohman

“…Data series of COD influent and effluent concentration were collected from field data of water quality monitoring monthly from years 2019 to 2022. The kinetic models used in this study were the first-order kinetic model combined plug flow pattern, the first-order kinetic model with continuous stirred tanked reactor flow pattern, the plug flow k-C* model, and the Stover-Kincannon model. …”
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Gonadal axis hormones heterogeneity in obese adolescent boys by I. L. Nikitina, I. A. Kelmanson, N. I. Vtornikova, E. Yu. Vasilyeva

“…The study involved 84 adolescents aged 14-17 years: 57 with obesity (code E66.0, ICD-10) and 27 practically healthy individuals. …”
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Extreme restructuring of cis-regulatory regions controlling a deeply conserved plant stem cell regulator. by Danielle Ciren, Sophia Zebell, Zachary B Lippman

“…Here, we investigated these questions using a plant stem cell regulator conserved in expression pattern and function over ~125 million years. Using in-vivo genome editing in two distantly related models, Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) and Solanum lycopersicum (tomato), we generated over 70 deletion alleles in the upstream and downstream regions of the stem cell repressor gene CLAVATA3 (CLV3) and compared their individual and combined effects on a shared phenotype, the number of carpels that make fruits. …”
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Unprecedented female mutation bias in the aye-aye, a highly unusual lemur from Madagascar. by Richard J Wang, Yadira Peña-García, Muthuswamy Raveendran, R Alan Harris, Thuy-Trang Nguyen, Marie-Claude Gingras, Yifan Wu, Lesette Perez, Anne D Yoder, Joe H Simmons, Jeffrey Rogers, Matthew W Hahn

“…Although male-biased mutation has been studied for more than 75 years, its causes are still debated. One obstacle to understanding this pattern is its near universality-without variation in mutation bias, it is difficult to find an underlying cause. …”
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Association between Severity of Anemia and Maternal Factors During Pregnancy in Maternity Teaching Hospital/Erbil City by Hamdia Mirkhan Ahmed, Warda Hassan AboaAllah, Awaz Aziz Saeed

“…The majority of the study sample aged between 18-35 years, resident in urban area and were housewives. …”
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Age-Related Features of Reactive Catecholamine Shifts in the Spinal Cord in Acute Somatic Pain: Experimental Study by V. G. Ovsyannikov, A. V. Kapliyev

“…Objective: to study the age-related features of an adrenergic response of the central nervous system to acute somatic pain (ASP).Subjects and methods: The spinal cord (SC) levels of adrenaline (A), noradrenaline (NA), and dopamine (DA) were studied in albino male rats of five age groups: 1) neonatal (2—4-day) rats; 2) 17—18-day rats that began to see; 3) monthly rats; 4) sexually mature (3—4 month) ones; and 5) old ones aged over 2 years. ASP was reproduced by electrodermal stimulation of the rat tail; the levels of catecholamines (CA) were measured by spectrofluorimetric microassay.Results. …”
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Emergency Care for Suicidal Behavior Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Hospitals in Bogotá: a Longitudinal Analysis by Gutiérrez-Dajud, Sasha Stefany, Pastran-Cortés, Ana María, Mendivelso, Fredy, Rodríguez-Bedoya, Ingrid Milena, Moreno-Gómez, Jairo Enrique, Muñoz-Tamayo, Rodrigo

“…Introduction: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and confinement measures on the pattern of admissions for suicidal behavior in emergency departments is unknown. …”
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Seroprevalence of Hepatitis E Virus Among Schistosomiasis mansoni Patients Residing in Endemic Zone in Brazil by Cristiane Tiburtino de Oliveira Gomes, Carolline Araujo Mariz, Andrea Dória Batista, Clarice Neuenschwander Lins de Morais, Lílian Araújo, Ana Virgínia Matos Sá Barreto, Michele Soares Gomes-Gouvêa, Ana Lúcia Domingues, Edmundo Pessoa Lopes

“…Among the 286 patients (60.8% women; 56% 18–44 years), 116 (40.6%) had advanced PPF (Niamey pattern D/E/F). …”
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Low CD36 and LOX-1 Levels and CD36 Gene Subexpression Are Associated with Metabolic Dysregulation in Older Individuals with Abdominal Obesity by Perla-Monserrat Madrigal-Ruíz, Rosa-Elena Navarro-Hernández, Sandra-Luz Ruíz-Quezada, Fernanda-Isadora Corona-Meraz, Mónica Vázquez-Del Mercado, Eduardo Gómez-Bañuelos, Jorge Castro-Albarran, Flavio Sandoval-García, Luis-Javier Flores-Alvarado, Beatriz-Teresita Martín-Marquez

“…In this study, individuals over 30 years of age presented low soluble scavenger receptors levels pattern and CD36 gene subexpression, which suggest the chronic metabolic dysregulation in abdominal obesity.…”
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The Multifaceted Botanical Impact of the Invasive Common Milkweed (<i>Asclepias syriaca</i> L.) in a Protected Sandy Grassland in Central Europe by Sarolta Meinhardt, Dénes Saláta, Eszter Tormáné Kovács, Örs Ábrám, Edina Morvai, Orsolya Szirmai, Szilárd Czóbel

“…Simpson diversity showed a similar pattern to Shannon diversity, with one exception in spring 2022. …”
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FEATURES OF ADOLESCENTS TUBERCULOSIS AT A REFERRAL TB'S HOSPITAL IN TEHRAN, IRAN by Ferial Lotfian, Mohammad Reza Bolursaz, soheila Khalilzadeh, Noshin Baghaie, Maryam Hassanzad, Aliakbar Velayati

“…Abstract OBJECTIVE: To identify the pattern of the clinical, radiological, diagnostic procedures and loss to follow -up of the diagnosed cases of active tuberculosis (TB) adolescents. …”
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Evaluation of clinicopathological parameters and immunoexpression of heat shock protein -27 in breast carcinoma and metastatic lymph nodes by Saroha N, Adil SAK

“…Results: The study included 35 female patients aged 29 to 80 years, with a mean age of 50 years. Most cases (37%) were between 31–40 years. …”
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Dynamics of 137Cs concentrations in agricultural products after the Chernobyl accident: cereals, potato, and vegetables by S. V. Fesenko, P. V. Prudnikov, E. S. Emlyutina, I. E. Epifanova, O. A. Shubina

“…Effective half-lives during that period ranged 10.5-29 years depending on the peculiarities of application of countermeasures and soil characteristics. …”
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Outcome characteristics of surgical management of single-level junctional thoracolumbar fractures by short segment posterior transpedicular fixation in selected patients by Sajad Hussain Arif, Khurram Khan, Mohsin Fayaz, Abrar Ahad Wani, Sarabjit Singh Chibber, Nayil Khursheed Malik, Zulfikar Ali

“…Results: The male-to-female ratio in our study was 6.3:1 with a mean age of 32 years. Forty-eight percent were in the work-productive age group of 31–40 years. …”
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