The impact of the U.S federal minimum legal drinking age law on alcohol involved firearm suicide: a regression discontinuity approachResearch in context by Vageesh Jain, Matthew Miller, David Hemenway

“…Accounting for age-related trends, the total alcohol positive suicide rate increased by 1.52 per 100,000 (p < 0.001) at the MLDA, mostly due to an increase in alcohol positive firearm suicide. …”
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Unveiling Sociocultural Barriers to Breast Cancer Awareness Among the South Asian Population: Case Study of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India by Fahmida Hamid, Tania Roy

“…According to the Global Cancer Statistics 2020 and 2012 reports, for BC (particularly female BC), the age-standardized incidence rate is approximately 22 to 25 per 100,000 people, and the age-standardized mortality rate is approximately 11 to 13 per 100,000 for these areas. …”
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Application of glycyrrhizinic acid in treatment of patients with alcoholic liver disease by I. G. Nikitin, I. Ye. Baykova, V. M. Volynkina, L. M. Gogova, G. I. Storozhakov, M. P. Prushkovskaya

“…Patients were randomized by random sample method in two groups: I group (n=58) – an abstinence in combination to placebo (intravenous injection 20 ml of normal saline solution 2 times per week), II group (n=48) – abstinence in combination to intravenous injection of 2,5 g of phosphogliv 2 times per week. …”
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Food needs and health behaviors in the COVID-19 situation: a case study of quarantined communities in densely populated areas of Bangkok, Thailand by Areeya Jirathananuwat, Suteera Saenmontrikul, Arunee Hengyotmark, Krittanan Pensirisomboon

“…Future food assistance programs should focus on the provision of nonperishable and long-lasting food, which will ensure the consistent availability of three meals per day.…”
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A multiresolution approach with method-informed statistical analysis for quantifying lymphatic pumping dynamics by Mohammad S. Razavi, Katarina J. Ruscic, Elizabeth G. Korn, Marla Marquez, Timothy T. Houle, Dhruv Singhal, Lance L. Munn, Timothy P. Padera

“…Generalizability studies were used to assess the reliability of measured parameters and how reliability improves as the number of repeat measurements per subject increases. This allowed us to determine the minimum number of repeat measurements needed per subject for acceptable measurement reliability. …”
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Farm gate profitability of organic and conventional farming systems in the tropics by Amritbir Riar, Eva Goldmann, David Bautze, Johanna Rüegg, Gurbir S. Bhullar, Noah Adamtey, Monika Schneider, Beate Huber, Laura Armengot

“…In the fourth system, the gross margins of the organic system were 13.13% lower, equivalent to $169.8 per hectare per year compared to the conventional system. …”
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Development of Coconut Milk-Based Spicy Ice Cream as a Nondairy Alternative with Desired Physicochemical and Sensory Attributes by K. D. S. S. Perera, O. D. A. N. Perera

“…Total phenolic content of the ice cream was expressed as 0.093±0.002 mg gallic acid equivalents (GAE) per gram of sample in dry weight (mg/g). DPPH radical scavenging activity was 60.39±0.02 mg ascorbic acid equivalents per gram of sample in dry weight (mg/g), and total antioxidant capacity was expressed as 0.36±0.04 mmol ascorbic acid equivalent (AAE)/g of dry weight. …”
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New digital drilling process monitoring: Instrumentation, validation and calibration by Yanpeng Sun, Zuyu Chen, Fangcai Xu, Yufei Zhao, Ruilang Cao, Dong Li

“…Extensive field tests conducted in a dam grouting area confirm a linear relationship between the thrust force and penetration per rotation, and between the torque and penetration per rotation. …”
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Association of caffeine intake and sleep duration with bone mineral density: a cross-sectional study from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 2011 and 2018 by Yuxue He, Wenjia Zou, Fei Xiao

“…In covariate-adjusted linear regression models, compared with those sleeping 6 h or less per night, the difference in BMD among those sleeping 6–7 h, 7–8 h, and 8–14.5 h per night were 1.81 (95% CI: 0.4122.71), 1.25 (95% CI: 0.55–2.93), and 0.87 (95% CI: 0.38–1.69). …”
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Rapid Increase in Ownership and Use of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets and Decrease in Prevalence of Malaria in Three Regional States of Ethiopia (2006-2007) by Estifanos Biru Shargie, Jeremiah Ngondi, Patricia M. Graves, Asefaw Getachew, Jimee Hwang, Teshome Gebre, Aryc W. Mosher, Pietro Ceccato, Tekola Endeshaw, Daddi Jima, Zerihun Tadesse, Eskindir Tenaw, Richard Reithinger, Paul M. Emerson, Frank O. Richards, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

“…Each survey used multistage cluster random sampling with 25 households per cluster. Household net ownership tripled from 19.6% in 2006 to 68.4% in 2007, with mean LLIN per household increasing from 0.3 to 1.2. …”
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Lettuce seedlings quality: The effects of white and blue light exposure by Luković Kristina, Adžić Slađan, Zečević Veselinka, Đurić Nenad, Perišić Vladimir, Gavrilović Bojana, Rakonjac Aleksandra

“…Lettuce seeds were sown in 9 styrofoam containers per genotype, filled with commercial substrate. …”
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Agrobiological characteristics of hulless barley cultivars developed at Omsk agrarian Scientific Center by P. N. Nikolaev, O. A. Yusova, N. I. Aniskov, I. V. Safonova

“…The seeding rate was 4 million viable seeds per 1 ha. Agricultural practice used in the experiments was conventional for West Siberia. …”
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Comparing a single dose of xylanase to a double dose or cocktail of non-starch polysaccharide-degrading enzymes in broiler chicken diets by N. Morgan, M.M. Bhuiyan, A. Wallace, R. Hopcroft

“…There were 108 pens, nine replicates per dietary treatment, with 10 birds per pen. Performance (total pen body weight, feed intake and feed conversion ratio corrected for mortality) was determined at d 0-35. …”
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Effects of peroxidized soybean oil on growth and energy digestibility in broilers by Brian J. Kerr, Victoria C. Wilson, Patrick C. von Schamburg, Carl M. Parsons

“…Diets consisted of ground corn with SO added at 0, 7.5 or 15 % of the diet at the expense of ground corn with 4 roosters per treatment. Relative bioavailability (RBV) was determined using slope-ratio methodology where it was determined that the reduction in the RBV of peroxidized SO ranged from 12 to 29 percent compared to the unheated SO sample. …”
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Association between D-dimer to lymphocyte ratio and in hospital all-cause mortality in elderly patients with sepsis: a cohort of 1123 patients by Xinguang Long, Zhenkui Hu, Chao Song, Jinhui Zhang

“…Multivariable Cox proportional hazards analyses revealed DLR as an independent predictor of hospital death [per 1 SD increase in DLR: HR (95% CI): 1.098 (1.020-1.181); p = 0.013] and ICU death [per 1 SD increase in DLR: HR (95% CI): 1.095 (1.017-1.180); p = 0.017] during the hospital stay.ConclusionsA higher DLR value was associated with hospital and ICU all-cause death in elderly patients with sepsis. …”
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Evaluating maternal drug use disparities, risk factors and outcomes in Northeast Arkansas: a pre, during, and post-COVID-19 pandemic analysis by Enrique Gomez Pomar, Johnna Berryhill, Sudeepa Bhattacharyya

“…An adjusted monthly positive rate (AMPR) was calculated by considering the expected number of positive MDS screenings per month and adjusting it based on the screening rate per month and the monthly birth count. …”
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Association of vaginal oestradiol and the rate of breast cancer in Denmark: registry based, case-control study, nested in a nationwide cohort by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Lina Steinrud Mørch, Nelsan Pourhadi, Amani Meaidi, Ellen Christine Løkkegaard

“…Results were similar in women who had long term use (≥four years) and with high intensity of use (&gt;50-70 micrograms per week) with an adjusted hazard ratio 0.93 (95% confidence interval 0.81 to 1.08).Conclusions Use of vaginal oestradiol tablets was not associated with increased breast cancer rate compared with never-use. …”
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Rice genotypes (Oryza sativa) respond to varying planting dates and environmental conditions by 1Asif Ali Kaleri, 1Danish Manzoor,1Rabia Laghari,2Muzamil Awan, 3Bina Khanzada, 4Hafsa Munir, 2Saba Solangi, 2Tameer Hyder Shah.5Ameer Jan, 6Laiba Ashfaq, 2Ghulam Sajjad Kaleri Kaleri

“…The interaction of genotype and sowing date was found to significantly influence plant height, panicle length, number of shoots per plant, seed index, biological yield, grain yield, and harvest index. …”
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility of <i>Salmonella typhi</i> and <i>paratyphi</i> among Pediatric Population at Tertiary Care Center of North Delhi: A Retrospective Study by Shekhar Biswas, Sulagna Tripathy, Arvind Kumar, Sanjay Chattree

“…Enteric fever remains a major concern in India with an estimated incidence from hospital surveillance ranging from 12 to 1,622 cases per 100,000 child-years among children between the ages of 6 months and 14 years, and from 108 to 970 cases per 100,000 person-years among those who are 15 years of age or older. …”
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Epidemiology of Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in a Teaching Hospital in Oman: A One-Year Hospital-Based Study by Abdullah Balkhair, Yahya M. Al-Farsi, Zakariya Al-Muharrmi, Raiya Al-Rashdi, Mansoor Al-Jabri, Fatma Neilson, Sara S. Al-Adawi, Marah El-Beeli, Samir Al-Adawi

“…Out of the total of 29,245 admissions, there have been 315 patients registered as MDRO patients giving an overall prevalence rate of 10.8 (95% CI 9.3, 12.4) MDRO cases per 1000 admissions. In addition, the prevalence rate of MDRO isolates was 11.2 (95% CI 9.7, 12.9) per 1000 admissions. …”
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