Monitoring of environmental gases and calf health in Italian Mediterranean buffalo herd by Simona Leonetti, Monica Ambrosio, Mirko Scamardella, Chiara Caso, Angelo Coletta

“…The m 2 available per calf varies on each farm, and all the calves are housed individually. On average, the available space is approximately 100 cm x 1.40 cm. …”
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Modeling Factors Influencing Project Financing Risk by Gholamreza Sharafi, Kiamars Fathi Hafashjani, Faegh Ahmadi

“…From this pool, a sample of 220 individuals was randomly selected to ensure robustness and representativeness in the analysis. …”
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Awareness of Sexual Partner’s HIV Status Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in China: Cross-Sec. tional Survey Study by Qian Ma, Tingting Jiang, Wanjun Chen, Shaoqiang Jiang, Jinlei Zheng, Hui Wang, Lin He

“… Abstract BackgroundMen who have sex with men (MSM) constitute a significant proportion of individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus. …”
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Gamified Web-Delivered Attentional Bias Modification Training for Adults With Chronic Pain: Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial by Julie F Vermeir, Melanie J White, Daniel Johnson, Geert Crombez, Dimitri M L Van Ryckeghem

“…ConclusionsThese findings suggest that gamification, in this context, was not effective at enhancing engagement, and they do not support the widespread clinical use of web-delivered ABMT in treating individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain. The implications of these findings are discussed, and future directions for research are suggested. …”
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Evaluation of the efficacy of transpupillary hexagonal pattern laser coagulation of the retina in the treatment of active stages of retinopathy of prematurity by A.V. Tereshchenko, I.G. Trifanenkova, Yu.A. Sidorova, V.V. Firsova

“…The hexagonal pattern shape is convenient for performing treatment close to the extraretinal proliferation ridge, as a topographically oriented LСR session can be performed on a case-by-case basis, considering individual characteristics of the pathological process location. …”
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Desórdenes abióticos asociados con palmas ornamentales en la Ciudad de México by Dionicio Alvarado Rosales, Luz de Lourdes Saavedra-Romero, Alejandra Almaraz-Sánchez, Andrés Quezada-Salinas, Silvia Edith García-Díaz, Sergio Aranda-Ocampo, Carlos Fredy Ortiz-García, Armando Equihua-Martínez, José Abel López-Buenfil, Roberto Quintero-Campos

“…Para priorizar su importancia individual y, en conjunto, se requiere de más investigación. …”
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Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico: a neglected challenge in the search for universal health coverage by Edson Serván-Mori, Sergio Meneses-Navarro, Rocío García-Díaz, Diego Cerecero-García, David Contreras-Loya, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Arachu Castro

“…Decomposition analyses revealed that during the analyzed period, 30.8% of the gap in ECMH was due to individual characteristics, 51.7% to ethnic-racial discrimination, and 17.5% to their interaction. …”
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Differentiating Latent Tuberculosis from Active Tuberculosis Through Activation Phenotypes and Chemokine Markers HLA-DR, CD38, MCP-1, and RANTES: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analy... by Chaimae Kadi, Narjisse Ahmadi, Anass Houdou, Imad El Badisy, Oumnia Bouaddi, Zakaria Mennane, Nouhaila Najimi, Maryam Benlamari, Saber Boutayeb, Mohamed Khalis, Noureddine EL Mtili, Fouad Seghrouchni

“…Results: Sixteen studies involving 1696 participants were included in the analysis. Among them, 925 individuals were diagnosed with aTB, while 771 were classified as having LTBI. …”
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Occurrence of Alternaria Toxins, Ochratoxin A and Aflatoxins B1 in Green Arabic Coffee (Coffea arabica) in Saudi Arabia: Risk Assessment on HepG-2 Cell Line and Male Albino Rats by Ahmed Hashim Almusallam, Ahmed Mahmoud Ismail

“…The studied organs (liver, kidney and spleen) exhibited significant damage, with the most severe alterations observed in the Mix1 and Mix2-treated group in comparison with the groups receiving individual treatment. This indicates that the mixture of AFB1, ALT-Ts and OTA had an enhanced toxic consequence against treated HepG-2 cell line and rats. …”
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Advanced Fractional Mathematics, Fractional Calculus, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence with Applications in Complex Chaotic Systems by Dumitru Baleanu, Yeliz Karaca

“…These entailments demonstrate that chaos and complexity theory provide a synthesis of emerging wholes of individual components rather than the orientation of analyzing systems in isolation. …”
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Dietary and lifestyle patterns identified through reduced rank regression and their association with insulin-related disorders: a prospective analysis from the Tehran Lipid and Glu... by Ebrahim Mokhtari, Hossein Farhadnejad, Farshad Teymoori, Mitra Kazemi Jahromi, Mehrnaz Nikkhah, Parvin Mirmiran, Fereidoun Azizi

“…Methods The current study was conducted on 1063 individuals aged ≥ 25 years old of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study who have complete data on fasting blood sugar, plasma insulin, anthropometric variables, and nutritional intakes. …”
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Clinical novel exploration of intractable fever in stroke rehabilitation: a single-center cross-sectional retrospective study by Huang Jingjie, Wu Bangqi, Qin Peng, Zhang Ziyi, Cheng Yupei, Wang Chaoran, Chen Yuyan, Bai Jing

“…Logistic regression analysis was performed to identify risk factors associated with intractable fever, while receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to assess the predictive performance of individual and combined risk factors. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. 15.7% of patients experienced intractable fever, which was significantly associated with brainstem lesions (P < 0.05). …”
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Outcome Mapping as a Monitoring and Evaluation Tool for Livestock Value Chain Interventions: The Case of imGoats by Hailemichael Taye Beyene, Kees Swaans, Birgit Boogaard, Ramkumar Bendapudi, Saskia Hendrickx

“…IS approaches rely on innovation platforms (IPs), which are spaces facilitated by local innovation brokers where individuals and organizations can come together to address priority issues related to development of value chains. …”
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Safety and efficacy of catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by Songbing Long, Yuanjun Sun, ShiYu Dai, Xianjie Xiao, Zhongzhen Wang, Wei Sun, Lianjun Gao, Yunlong Xia, Xiaomeng Yin

“…Importantly, CA in HFPEF patients showed comparable maintenance of sinus rhythm (SR) and safety outcomes when compared to CA in individuals with normal heart function.…”
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The production performance of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus and mineral balance in aquaponic, biofloc, and aquabioponic culture systems by Radi Ihlas Albani, Tatag Budiardi, Yani Hadiroseyani, Julie Ekasari

“…Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus with a length of 5.56 ± 0.13 cm and a weight of 5.92 ± 0.47 g totaling 200 individuals were monitored for 60 days in a fiber tank containing 500 L of water in each treatment. …”
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The relationship between social support and depression among older adults with hypertension in urban communities: mediating effects of coping styles by Dan Li, Jin-Hua Jie, Hong Li, Xue-Mei Xia, Yilin Zhang, Yilin Zhang, Yan Yang, Yan Yang, Jianjun Xiang, Jianjun Xiang, Jianjun Xiang, Hai-Lin Zhuang

“…Social support and coping style significantly influence this risk, with social cognitive theory suggesting that social support can affect an individual’s coping style, and coping style can affect the effective use of social support. …”
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Acaricidal and insecticidal activities of entomopathogenic nematodes combined with rosemary essential oil and bacterium-synthesized silver nanoparticles against camel tick, Hyalomm... by Bander Albogami, Hadeer Darwish, Akram Alghamdi, Ahmed BahaaEldin Darwish, Wafa Mohammed Al-Otaibi, Mohamed A. Osman, Zamzam M. Al Dhafar, Abeer Mousa Alkhaibari, Abadi M. Mashlawi, Fadi Baakdah, Ahmed Noureldeen

“…One day after G. mellonella was exposed to H. indica (1,000 infective juveniles (IJs)) together with EO at 60 or 40 mg/mL, all tested individuals died. We obtained the same results when H. dromedarii females exposed to the same level of EPN with 60 mg/mL EO, and when H. dromedarii larvae treated with H. indica at 500 IJs + EO at 25 mg/mL. …”
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Perspectives and experiences regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a community sample of Veterans with unhealthy alcohol use: overall and across sexual orientation and gende... by Olivia V. Fletcher, Kristine Beaver, Elizabeth J. Austin, Jenna van Draanen, E. Jennifer Edelman, Emily C. Williams

“…Across groups, > 25% of individuals were willing to take PrEP. Interventions targeting both alcohol use and HIV prevention should capitalize on this.…”
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Association and Interaction Analysis of Lipid Accumulation Product with Impaired Fasting Glucose Risk: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Jian Song, Xue Chen, Yuhong Jiang, Jing Mi, Yuyuan Zhang, Yingying Zhao, Xuesen Wu, Huaiquan Gao

“…In logistic regression analysis, individuals with LAP levels in the fourth quartile had a significant higher risk of getting IFG in comparison with that of the lowest quartile (crude OR: 4.58, 95% CI: 3.01-6.98; adjusted OR: 3.81, 95% CI: 2.33-6.23). …”
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Accelerated phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging with use of resolution enhancement generative adversarial neural network by Manuel A. Morales, Fahime Ghanbari, Ömer Burak Demirel, Jordan A. Street, Tess E. Wallace, Rachel Davids, Jennifer Rodriguez, Scott Johnson, Patrick Pierce, Warren J. Manning, Reza Nezafat

“…In a prospective validation study of 38 participants (57 ± 15 years; 14 men) and 16 healthy individuals (42 ± 16 years; 6 men), CRISPFlow was applied to phase-contrast images collected with 7.5 × 1.9 mm2 resolution with use of GRAPPA and was compared to GRAPPA-accelerated images collected with 2.3 × 1.9 mm2 resolution. …”
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