Nurses’ Experience of Using an Application to Support New Parents after Early Discharge: An Intervention Study by Dorthe Boe Danbjørg, Lis Wagner, Bjarne Rønde Kristensen, Jane Clemensen

“…The intervention took place on a postnatal ward with approximately 1,000 births a year. Participants. At the onset of the intervention, 17 nurses, all women, were working on the ward. …”
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Displasia septo-óptica: um relato de caso sobre síndrome de Morsier by Marina Bonagurio Julio, Brenna Marques Amorim Tenorio, Helen Vinco Secchin, Juliana Brizzante Ferreira, Marina Dall'Ara de Souza

“…INTRODUCTION: Septo-optic dysplasia, also known as Morsier Syndrome, is considered a rare congenital disease, with an estimated incidence of 1 in every 100,000 live births and is characterized by the triad: midline defects (corpus callosum agenesis and/or septum pellucidum), optic nerve hypoplasia and hormonal abnormalities of the hypophysis. …”
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Suppression of Proinflammatory Cytokines by Etlingera alba (A.D.) Poulsen Rhizome Extract and Its Antibacterial Properties by Rini Hamsidi, Wahyuni Wahyuni, Idin Sahidin, Evi Apriyani, Harsono Harsono, Nur Arsianti Azizah, Fadhliyah Malik, Agung Wibawa Mahatva Yodha, La Ode Muhammad Julian Purnama, Adryan Fristiohady

“…Antibacterial activity was performed with broth microdilution. The phytochemical screening of EA was detecting alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, steroids, and phenols. …”
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Formulation and evaluation of polyherbal anti-acne patch by Nilofar Khan, Anjali Prabhakar Pawar, Sakshi Patil, Prajakta Ravindra Patil, Payal Vinayak Patil, Prathamesh Navnath Patil, Sweety R. Dalvi, Shubhangi V. Kshirsagar, Mohan Kale

“…Effective against Propionibacterium acnes and Staphylococcus aureus, the patches demonstrated significant bacterial inhibition through agar well diffusion and broth microdilution methods, suggesting their potential as safe, natural acne treatments.…”
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Isolation and characterization of novel peptides from fermented products of Lactobacillus for ulcerative colitis prevention and treatment by Dong He, Wen Zeng, Yi Wang, Yifan Xing, Kang Xiong, Nan Su, Chong Zhang, Yuan Lu, Xinhui Xing

“…The alcohol-soluble components from fermentation broth by fresh wheat germ and apple (AC-WGAF) were found to be effective in UC prevention in dextran sulfate sodium-induced mice in vivo. …”
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Maternal Mortality Determinants in Rural Kenya: An Audit of Three Hospitals by Brian Barasa Masaba, Rose M. Mmusi-Phetoe, Bernard Rono, Daniel Kyalo Muthiani, Jonathan Taiswa, Stephenie Lydia Ojiambo, Damaris Moraa, John Kennedy Moturi

“…However, there are persistently high maternal mortalities in various regions with a current global maternal mortality ratio of 211/100,000 live births. This study sought to investigate the causes and determinants of maternal mortality. …”
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Structural characterization and prebiotic potential of polysaccharides from Polygonatum sibiricum by Zihan Qi, Tiexiang Gao, Jingjing Li, Shuhan Zhou, Zhigang Zhang, Mingzhu Yin, Haiming Hu, Hongtao Liu

“…Also, the PSP fermentation broth displayed an excellent scavenging effect on free radicals, including 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical, superoxide radical, and hydroxyl radical. …”
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Cicada Killer, Giant Ground Hornet, Sphecius hogardii (Latreille) and Sphecius speciosus (Drury) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Lionel A. Stange

“…The provisioning with cicadas is nearly specific to Sphecius in the family Sphecidae, but is known in a few other sphecids such as Liogorytes joergenseni (Brethes) from Argentina (Bohart and Stange 1976). …”
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Adhesion of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Biofilm Formation on Different Types of Orthodontic Brackets by William Papaioannou, Athanasios Panagopoulos, Haroula Koletsi-Kounari, Efterpi Kontou, Margarita Makou

“…The brackets were anaerobically incubated for 3 days in Brain Heart Infusion Broth to form biofilms. Bacteria were quantified by trypsin treatment and enumeration of the total viable counts of bacteria recovered. …”
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Historical Life Courses and Family Reconstitutions. The Scientific Impact of the Antwerp COR*-Database by Paul Puschmann, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“… The Antwerp COR*-database is a longitudinal micro-level database, which covers all entries from individuals whose last names started with the letters COR (and individuals who shared at some moment in time a household with a COR*-person) from the population registers and the vital registration of births, marriages and deaths for the 19th- and early-20th-century Antwerp district in Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. …”
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Impact of a Virtual Clinic in a Paediatric Cardiology Network on Northeast Brazil by Juliana Sousa Soares de Araújo, Adalberto Vieira Dias Filho, Renata Grigório Silva Gomes, Cláudio Teixeira Regis, Klecida Nunes Rodrigues, Nicoly Negreiros Siqueira, Fernanda Cruz de Lira Albuquerque, Felipe Alves Mourato, Sandra da Silva Mattos

“…Congenital heart diseases (CHD) affect approximately 1% of live births and is an important cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. …”
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Effect of plant-based functional foods for the protection against salt-induced endothelial dysfunction by Sheung Yin San, Jennifer. M.F. Wan, Jimmy Chun Yu Louie

“…Ten healthy subjects were recruited, and on five separate occasions they received, in random sequence one of the following 5 treatments: 250 mL of plain water (control) alone, and with beetroot powder, celery powder, green tea extract or beetroot powder with green tea extract prior to consuming 150 mL of high-salt chicken broth. Flow-mediated dilation (FMD), blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) and pulse-wave velocity (PWV) were measured at fasting and at 30, 60, 90 and 120 min postprandial. …”
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Enteric coating of granules containing the probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus by Pyar Hassan, Peh Kok-Khiang

“…Capsule formulation of L. acidophilus in edible broth medium suspension serves as a cheap alternative to the expensive freeze-drying procedure for preparing L. acidophilus. …”
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Cicada Killer, Giant Ground Hornet, Sphecius hogardii (Latreille) and Sphecius speciosus (Drury) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Lionel A. Stange

“…The provisioning with cicadas is nearly specific to Sphecius in the family Sphecidae, but is known in a few other sphecids such as Liogorytes joergenseni (Brethes) from Argentina (Bohart and Stange 1976). …”
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Protocol for a multisite randomised controlled trial assessing the effect of the Telehealth for Early Developmental Intervention in babies born very preterm (TEDI-Prem) programme o... by Alicia J Spittle, Peter J Anderson, Angela T Morgan, Rachel Schembri, Li Huang, Kim Dalziel, Rod W Hunt, Katherine Lee, Anne E Holland, Karli Treyvaud, Abbey L Eeles, Stacey Dusing, Shaaron Brown, Susan M Fehring, Gillian Henty, Elizabeth Kozaris

“…Participants will be randomised, stratified by site of recruitment and multiple births, to TEDI-Prem plus usual care or usual care alone. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension among Women in Southern Ghana: Evidence from 2014 GDHS by Cyprian Issahaku Dorgbetor, Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Kenneth Setorwu Adde

“…Women aged 40–44 years (aOR = 8.04, CI = 4.88–13.25) and 45–49 years (aOR = 13.20, CI = 7.96–21.89] had the highest odds of hypertension relative to women aged 15–19 years. Women with two births (aOR = 1.45, CI = 1.01–2.07) and those with three births (aOR = 1.47, CI = 1.01–2.15) had a higher likelihood of being hypertensive. …”
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Establishment and application of a rapid new detection method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Klebsiella pneumoniae based on MALDI-TOF MS by Yapei Zhang, Fanghua Fan, Xuan Wang, Jie Zhu, Shilei Dong

“…Susceptibility profiles determined with our rapid method and the reference broth microdilution method were also compared. MICMS resulted in 97.9% (45/46) category agreement, 2.2% minor discrepancies, no major discrepancies, and no very major discrepancies. …”
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Immunomodulatory and growth-promoting effects of Rauwolfia serpentina root powder in broiler chicks challenged with Salmonella Gallinarum by Yingyu Zhang, Hiba Rehman, Farina Khattak, Maryam Tariq, Bushra Nisar Khan, Sadia Chaman, Ayaesha Riaz, Muhammad Ovais Omer, Aqib Ali, Qamar un Nisa, Muhammad Muddassir Ali, Gulbeena Saleem

“…On day 7, all the birds in the RSP-1, RSP-2 and SGC groups received 1 ml of BHI broth containing 2 × 108 CFU of Salmonella Gallinarum via oral gavage. …”
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A combined method for the evaluation of contributing factors to maritime dangerous goods transport accidents by Özge Eski, Leyla Tavacioglu

“…Specifically, maritime DG transport accidents are most likely to be caused by collisions during sailing, passage, maneuvering, and bunkering operations, as well as occupational accidents during cargo loading, anchoring, berthing, and mooring operations. The results of this paper can support stakeholders in developing the needed policies to guarantee the safety of maritime DG transport.…”
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The appropriate nutrient conditions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans dual-species biofilm formation in vitro by Pavlína Vávrová, Ondřej Janďourek, Adéla Diepoltová, Petr Nachtigal, Klára Konečná

“…To reflect the wound environment, Tryptic soy broth, RPMI 1640 with and without glucose, and Lubbock medium were supplemented with different amounts of host effector molecules present in human plasma or sheep red blood cells. …”
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