Astronomical Units to Merge as UK Cows Face Bloody Purge

“…Nature leads this week with a story about a proposal to fuse space-based astronomy funded by NASA with ground-based astronomy funded by the National Space Foundation (NSF). …”
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ANALYSIS AND RISKS FAST TRACK AND CRASH PROGRAM METHOD ON BUILDING PROJECT by A'izzatul Khiyana, Titin Sundari, Totok Yulianto, Meriana Wahyu Nugroho, Achmad Imam Agung

“…Building X’s construction project faced a 3rd-week delay, extending from 23 weeks (December 2022) to 25 weeks (January 2023). …”
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Healing of Benign Gastric and Prepyloric Ulcers: A Prospective, Endoscopy-Controlled, Randomized, Double-Blind, Canadian Multicentre Study of Omeprazole 20 and 40 mg Daily and Rant... by Pierre Paré, Robert J Bailey, André P Archambault, Henri Navert, C Noel Williams, ABR Thomson, Denis Levesque, Alain Farley

“…The healing rates at four weeks were 67, 79 and 54% and at eight weeks increased to 90, 97 and 71 % for the omeprazole 20 and 40 mg groups and the ranitidine group, respectively (P< 0.03 for the differences between each of the omeprazole groups and the ranitidine group at eight weeks). …”
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Generalized subcutaneous emphysema (pnenmoderma) in a dog by İlker Çamkerten, Arif Kurtdede, Abuzer Acar

“…In the anamnesis, ihe dog, being as a guard dog, was involved in a dog fighting wilh the owned dogs about two weeks ago, and had biting wounds on ils neck, back, and legs. …”
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Impact of a Traditional Dietary Supplement with Coconut Milk and Soya Milk on the Lipid Profile in Normal Free Living Subjects by R. A. I. Ekanayaka, N. K. Ekanayaka, B. Perera, P. G. S. M. De Silva

“…Sixty (60) healthy volunteers aged 18–57 years were given coconut milk porridge (CMP) for 5 days of the week for 8 weeks, followed by a 2-week washout period, subsequent to which they received isoenergetic soya milk porridge (SMP) for 8 weeks. …”
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A Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial of Recombinant Interferon-Alpha-2a in the Treatment of Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C by Masafumi Komatsu, Tsuyoshi Ono, Ko Nakajima, Itaru Toyoshima, Mitsuro Chiba, Osamu Masamune, Shunji Ohkubo, Tsukasa Yoshida, Hitoshi Yagisawa, Kanji Komatsu, Hideki Wakamatsu, Nobuo Yamada, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Mukojima, Mitsuo Goto

“…Sixty-one chronic hepatitis C patients were randomly assigned to receive either 6x106 or 9x106 U of recombinant interferon-alpha-2a (IFNα-2a) six days a week for the first two weeks of treatment, followed in both cases by 6x106 U three days a week for the next 22 weeks. …”
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The Effects of Vitamin E Application on Some Free Radicals and Lactate Levels in Acute Exercise by Ekrem Boyalı, Mustafa Nizamlıoğlu, Süleyman Patlar

“…The control group (Group 2) is the group who were only made to do acute taekwondo exercise till they got tired once a week for 4 weeks. Taekwondo exercises were carried outfor four weeks and once a week as acute exercises till they got tired. …”
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Walking for transport and all-cause mortality: a prospective cohort study of Australian community-dwelling older adults by Rory Wolfe, Neville Owen, Ben Beck, Yang Chen, David W Dunstan, Alice Owen, Robyn L Woods, Danijela Gasevic, Joanne Ryan, Shivangi Shah, Carlene Britt

“…Cox proportional-hazards models (HR and 95% CI) assessed the association between transport-related walking and all-cause mortality.Results Of participants, 44.1% reported walking every day, 31.5% more than once a week, 21.7% rarely or once a week and 2.7% never engaged in transport-related walking. …”
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A preliminary exploration of establishing a mice model of hypoxic training by Minglu Li, Zhijie Chen, Ziyang He, Xinjuan Zhang, Yanqiu Liu, Hui Zhou, Hang Yang, Tao Liu, Xiaochuan Wang, Ran Zhang, Jiaxing Zhang

“…All hypoxic mice were placed in a chamber filled with 16% O2 and N2, and hypoxic training mice were trained for two weeks. Then mice were removed from the chamber and tested at normoxic conditions weekly at the beginning of the experiment and the second, third, fourth, and sixth weeks. …”
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Study Comparison between Alcoholic Extract of Broccoli, Folic Acid and Ferrous Sulfate Against Damage of the Cardiovascular System Induced by Lead-acetate in Rabbits by Dina S Dheyab, Jawad K Arrak, Majida A J Al-Qayim

“…The results after the 4th week in the 2nd,3rd, 4th and 5th groups demonstrated a significant elevation (p≤0.05) in Troponin I, and platelets count while at the 8th week of the treatments, the mean values of Troponin I and platelets count reduced significantly(p≤0.05) .On the contrary, prothrombin time significantly (p≤0.05) decreased in the 4th week of exposed lead acetate  and significantly(p≤0.05) increased in T1F,T2FS,T3B at the 8th week of the treatments. …”
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Molecular mechanisms underlying age-dependent effects of rearing system on the goose testicular development and semen quality by Shenqiang Hu, Xiaopeng Li, Enhua Qing, Junqi Wang, Qingliang Chen, Yang Song, Jiasen Chen, Jiwei Hu, Liang Li, Jiwen Wang

“…However, such effects were mitigated in LD and even reversed in GE at week 43. Meanwhile, most testicular histological parameters of three goose breeds were higher under MRS than under CRS at week 30, while the converse was seen in some histological parameters of either GE or LD at week 43. …”
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Growth and survival of giant gourami juvenile immerse indifferent frequencies using recombinant growth hormone by Aras Syazili, . Irmawati, . Alimuddin, Komar Sumantadinata

“…Fish were kept in 7L aquaria during the first four weeks, transferred into 50L aquaria for two weeks, and then in hapa (2×1×1 m3 in size) for two weeks. …”
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Prediction of Preterm Birth by Maternal Characteristics and Medical History in the Brazilian Population by Enio Luis Damaso, Daniel Lober Rolnik, Ricardo de Carvalho Cavalli, Silvana Maria Quintana, Geraldo Duarte, Fabricio da Silva Costa, Alessandra Marcolin

“…Of those, 23 (1.7%) had a spontaneous PTB before 34 weeks of gestation, 87 (6.6%) had a preterm birth between 34 and 37 weeks, and 1,197 (91.7%) had a term delivery. …”
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Effect of Sling Exercise Therapy combined with Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training for Stroke Patients with Hemiplegia by Wenlin SUN, Dianhuai MENG, Yangyang LIU, Xiaoyong SU, Yang LIU, Fangfang ZHANG, Tiantian ZHAO

“…The above three exercises should be trained alternately, hold for five seconds at the end of each exercise, and then rest for five seconds, 20 minutes one time, twice a day, five days a week, contionus training for six weeks. The combined group received inspiratory muscle strength training on the basis of the sling group, 20 minutes one time, one time a day, five days a week, contionus training for six weeks. …”
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Therapeutic Potential of Social Chatbots in Alleviating Loneliness and Social Anxiety: Quasi-Experimental Mixed Methods Study by Myungsung Kim, Seonmi Lee, Sieun Kim, Jeong-in Heo, Sangil Lee, Yu-Bin Shin, Chul-Hyun Cho, Dooyoung Jung

“…MethodsA single-group pre-post study was conducted with university students who interacted with the chatbot for 4 weeks. Measures included loneliness, social anxiety, and mood-related symptoms such as depression, assessed at baseline, week 2, and week 4. …”
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Effect of Slit3 on kidney fibrosis in diabetic kidney disease rats by Huang Ming-fang, Dong Yang, Shadek-jiang Harinul, Gan Xin-yu, Shi Wen-li, Lu Chen

“…Forty Sprague-Dawley （SD） rats were randomly divided into the blank control group （control）， diabetes mellitus （DM） group， 4-week DKD group and 8-week DKD group， with 10 rats in each group by random number table method. …”
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Persistence of Retinopathy of Prematurity in an Infant with Tetralogy of Fallot by Murat Gunay, Taner Yavuz, Gokhan Celik, Gunay Uludag

“…Follow-up ophthalmic examinations were done at 2, 3, and 4 weeks of age. A demarcation line in Zone II was noticed on the first ocular examination done at 4 weeks of postnatal age. …”
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Corneal Astigmatism Alteration after Combined Silicone Oil Removal and Cataract Surgery with Intraocular Lens Implantation by Zhenyu Ji, Ting Su, Lu Li, Tao He, Yu Su

“…The results were compared to the outcomes at 3 days, 1 week, and 1 month postoperatively. Results. Compared to baseline, K1 decreased significantly at 3 days postoperatively (P=0.016), 1 week (P=0.009), and 1 month (P=0.035), while K2 increased significantly at 3 days postoperatively (P = 0.002), 1 week (P < 0.001), and 1 month (P = 0.001), as well as corneal astigmatism (all P < 0.001). …”
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A Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Two Novel Desensitising Dentifrices by Ashley P. Barlow, Jane He, Cindy Tian, Peter Jeffery, Stephen C. Mason, Bao-Jun Tai, Han Jiang, Gareth D. Rees, Min Quan Du

“…Subjects (N=110), stratified into two groups (N=55), brushed twice-daily for 60 s, over an 8-week period. Sensitivity status, compliance, and safety were determined at 1, 2, 4, and 8 weeks. …”
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Early plasma ferritin concentrations are not associated with time to red cell transfusions in extremely and very preterm neonates: a prospective single-site observational study by Naomi McCallion, Áine Fox, Fionnuala Ní Áinle, Claire Murphy, Lauren Murphy, Daniel O'Reilly, Anna-Claire Glynn, Grainne Kelleher

“…Objective To assess the relationship between plasma ferritin concentrations and (1) antenatal factors and (2) requirement for red cell transfusion.Study design This single-site prospective study recruited infants in the first week of life who were born &lt;32 weeks’ corrected gestational age and did not receive a red cell transfusion prior to sampling. …”
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