Spatial associations of Hansen's disease and schistosomiasis in endemic regions of Minas Gerais, Brazil. by Jessica L Stephens, Lucia A O Fraga, José A Ferreira, Laura De Mondesert, Uriel Kitron, Julie A Clennon, Jessica K Fairley

“…<h4>Results</h4>The average annual incidence of HD in the study area was 35.3 per 100,000 while Schistosoma mansoni average annual incidence was 26 per 100,000. …”
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Impact of Soft Drink Intake on Bone Development and Risk of Fractures in a Danish Cohort of Schoolchildren by Helene Hermansen, Mina Nicole Händel, Malene Søborg Heidemann, Niels Wedderkopp

“…Participants (<i>n</i> = 529) were recruited from intervention schools offering 270 min of physical education (PE) per week (active arm) and control schools with 90 min of standard PE. …”
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Determinants of Walking among Middle-Aged and Older Overweight and Obese Adults: Sociodemographic, Health, and Built Environmental Factors by Samuel N. Forjuoh, Marcia G. Ory, Jaewoong Won, Samuel D. Towne, Suojin Wang, Chanam Lee

“…Multivariate logistic regression identified factors predicting the odds of walking the recommended ≥150 minutes per week for any purpose. Results. Of 253 participants, the majority were non-Hispanic white (81.8%), married (74.5%), and male (53.4%) and reported an annual income of ≥$50,000 (65.5%). …”
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Enhancing health and well-being: unlocking the speed abilities of 9-year-old primary school children by Margarita Mameshina, Mirosława Cieślicka

“…Jumping Rope Results: 1) Boys - the average number of successful jumps per minute was 74.94 ± 13.85; 2) Girls - the average number of successful jumps per minute was 76.00 ± 28.16. 30-Meter Run Results: 1) Boys - the average time taken to complete the run was 6.64 ± 0.10 seconds; 2) Girls - the average time taken to complete the run was 6.63 ± 0.11 seconds. …”
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Unlocking genome-based prediction and selection in conifers: the key role of within-family prediction accuracy illustrated in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) by Victor Papin, Gregor Gorjanc, Ivan Pocrnic, Laurent Bouffier, Leopoldo Sanchez

“…Accurate within-family prediction is possible if 40–65 individuals per full-sib family are included in the genomic training set, from a total of 1600–2000 individuals in the training set. …”
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Comparative in vitro study of a new silicone mouth swab for soft tissue cleaning under wet and dry brushing conditions by Nutthawadee Engsomboon, Bhornsawan Thanathornwong, Siriwan Suebnukarn

“…The MC3 silicone head (n = 12) and the new silicone head (n = 12) were attached to a V.P.2000 tooth brushing machine, operating at 75 rounds per minute with a force of 2.45 N, and each was used to brush the surface 25 times under both wet (n = 12) and dry (n = 12) conditions. …”
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Dynamic heat transfer mechanisms of internal thermal mass: Effects of thermal conductivity and diffusivity under varied temperature conditions by Ru Yang, Liting Yuan, Dong Zhang, Taiquan Wu, Yihang Lu

“…The heat exchange is primarily related to the effective thermal capacity per unit area and the storage coefficient, which are determined by the physical properties of the internal thermal mass. …”
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Chokeberry juice affects membrane lipid status and cellular antioxidant enzymes in healthy women with aerobic training activity by Nevena Vidović, Ana Pantović, Vuk Stevanović, Ivana Šarac, Kristina Robal, Stevan Stevanović, Maria Glibetic

“…Participants were randomly assigned into the training group performing aerobic training three times per week; the chokeberry-training group followed the same training regime and additionally consumed 100 ml of chokeberry juice per day and the control group neither trained nor consumed the juice. …”
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Global Burden of Esophageal Cancer and Its Risk Factors: A Systematic Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Irena Ilic, Ivana Zivanovic Macuzic, Ana Ravic-Nikolic, Milena Ilic, Vesna Milicic

“…Results: Globally, in 2019, in both sexes and all ages, the ASR for the incidence of esophageal cancer was 6.5 per 100,000 and for mortality, 6.1 per 100,000. …”
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Precision livestock farming applied to the dairy sector: 50 years of history with a text mining and topic analysis approach by Lucia Trapanese, Giovanna Bifulco, Alfio Calanni Macchio, Francesca Aragona, Sissy Purrone, Giuseppe Campanile, Angela Salzano

“…The global dairy industry has been revolutionized by advancements in genetics, milking technology, nutrition, and farm management, leading to increased milk production per cow and a substantial rise in total annual milk output. …”
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Awareness About Diabetes And Its Complications Among Patients With Diabetes Mellitus by Faiza Batool, Kausar Malik, Lubna Meraj, Shazia Siddiq, Abbas Majeed, Sadia Khan

“…Methods: A cross-sectional study included 200 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus as per the American Diabetes Association (ADA) criteria. …”
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Mortality in the families of children during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a repeated cross-sectional study of children in the United States by Kao-Ping Chua, Rena M. Conti, Nora V. Becker

“…Results From January 2016 through February 2020, the median monthly proportion of families with ≥ 1 adult death was 0.000076 (7.6 per 100,000 families). This rose to 12.1 per 100,000 families in December 2020, fell below the pre-pandemic median during March-July 2021, and exceeded this median for most months during August-December 2021. …”
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Calcium requirements in growing Japanese quail from 21 to 35 days post-hatch by Fahimeh Pourmollaei, Mahmoud Ghazaghi, Mohammad Rokouei, Farzad Bagherzadeh-Kasmani, Mehran Mehri

“…Five dietary treatments containing 0.45, 0.60, 0.75, 0.90, and 1.05 % Ca were evaluated in a completely randomized design with 6 replicates per treatment and 12 birds per pen. Body weight gain (BW gain; P = 0.04), tibia-Ca (P = 0.01), tibia ash (P = 0.01), and bone breaking strength (BBS; P = 0.01) increased quadratically with increasing dietary Ca levels, while feed conversion ratio (FCR) showed a tendency to decrease (P = 0.07). …”
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Determination of the Appropriate Blended Inorganic Fertilizer Rate Recommendation for the Optimal Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Grain Yield and Profitability in the Dawuro Zo... by Berhanu Bilate Daemo, Getahun Bore Wolancho, Dawit Dalga Wakalto

“…The combined location analysis of variance indicated that the application of NPSB fertilizer significantly influenced plant height, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, hundred-seed weight, biomass yield, grain yield, and harvest index. …”
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Study on the Establishment of Efficient Leaf Regeneration System in ‘<i>Yuluxiang</i>’ Pear by Xiaohua Cheng, Weilong Zhang, Yarui Wei, Yuxing Zhang

“…In summary, we successfully established an efficient leaf regeneration system for the ‘<i>Yuluxiang</i>’ pear that achieved a maximum regeneration frequency of 96.70% with an average bud number of 5.15 per explant. This system also proved effective for the ‘<i>Qiuyue</i>’ pear, yielding a regeneration frequency of 88.89% and an average bud number of 3.44 per explant. …”
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Mofette Vegetation as an Indicator for Geogenic CO2 Emission: A Case Study on the Banks of the Laacher See Volcano, Vulkaneifel, Germany by Hardy Pfanz, Frank Saßmannshausen, Christiane Wittmann, Benny Pfanz, Annika Thomalla

“…The total number of growing species was highest in low CO2 soils (max. 17 species per m2) and lowest at high CO2-emitting sites (one species per m2). …”
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Sodium Valproate Enhances the Urethane-Induced Lung Adenomas and Suppresses Malignization of Adenomas in Ovariectomized Female Mice by Donatas Stakisaitis, Raminta Mozuraite, Nomeda Juodziukyniene, Janina Didziapetriene, Saule Uleckiene, Paulius Matusevicius, Angelija Valanciute

“…No significant difference in the number of tumors per mouse was revealed while comparing the nonovariectomized urethane- and urethane-NaVP-treated groups (p=0.13). …”
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High-resolution imaging of organic and inorganic nanoparticles at nanometre-scale resolution by X-ray ensemble diffraction microscopy by Ning-Jung Chen, Chia-Hui Yeh, Huai-Yu Cao, Nai-Chi Chen, Chun-Jung Chen, Chun-Yu Chen, Yi-Wei Tsai, Jhih-Min Lin, Yu-Shan Huang, Chien-Nan Hsiao, Chien-Chun Chen

“…The core–shell density distribution of the silicon–gold NPs was successfully obtained with a radial resolution of 3.4 nm per pixel, while NV-LPs in solution were reconstructed at a radial resolution of 1.3 nm per pixel. …”
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Long-term changes in the dependence of <i>Nm</i>F2 on solar flux at Juliusruh by M. G. Tan Jun Rios, M. G. Tan Jun Rios, C. Borries, H. Liu, J. Mielich

“…Between SC20 and SC24, the observed decrease is consistently higher than 2.9 % per decade, reaching 4.4 % per decade at 90 sfu between 1964 and 2019.…”
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The effect of court surfaces on physiological responses and game activities of recreational senior tennis players by Bulent Kilit, Ersan Arslan, Yusuf Soylu

“…Video recordings revealed variables including effective playing time (EPT), rally duration (DR), strokes per rally (SPR), and rest time between rallies (RT). …”
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