Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on Dental Match residency applicant statistics in the United States of America: a cross sectional analysis by Vinayak M. Joshi, Eswar Kandaswamy, Sivaraman Prakasam, Veerasathpurush Allareddy, Andrew G. Chapple

“…The ratio of graduates who were not fresh out of dental school to total graduates has seen a small steady increase since 2021 (p > 0.06). Participants ranking more than one type of residency program saw an increase in 2021 which decreased in 2023 (p < 0.05). …”
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Are the Menstrual Characteristics Similar in Adolescent and Adult Women with Cerebral Palsy? by Hanife Dogan, Duygu Turker, Ozge Coban, Merve Basol Goksuluk, Nuriye Ozengin, Necmiye Un Yildirim

“…Among 74 women with cerebral palsy, women between the ages of 10-18 formed the adolescent cerebral palsy group (n= 36), and women between the ages of 19-30 formed the adult cerebral palsy group (n=38). …”
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Explainable deep learning approach for recognizing “Egyptian Cobra” bite in real-time by Elhoseny Mohamed, Hassan Ahmed, Shehata Marwa H., Kayed Mohammed

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Fatigue property evaluation of 7075/6061 aluminum alloy TIG welded overlap joints by LIAO Xiangyun, WANG Ruijie, LIU Guoshou, ZHAO Pinglin, CHANG Yaguang, WANG Zhongde

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Relationship between renal ultrasonographic, CD4 cell count and proteinuria findings in HIV infected adult patients in Jos, Nigeria by P. M., Gwom, D., Atsukwei, E. D., Eze, E. O., Igoh, E. A., Gabkwe, M. D., Adams, K. M., Rabiu, I., Ezekiel

“…Sixteen (3.2%) out of the 24 patients with abnormal renal ultrasound had enlarged kidneys, 24 (4.8%) patients had increased renal echogenicity while 19 (3.8%) had loss of corticomedullary differentiation. …”
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SARS-Cov-2 Incidence Monitoring and Statistical Estimation of the Basic and Time-Varying Reproduction Number at the Early Onset of the Pandemic in 45 Sub-Saharan African Countries. by Oduro, Michael Safo, Arhin‐Donkor, Seth, Asiedu, Louis, Kadengye, Damazo T., Iddi, Samuel

“…Several countries, including Sudan (R0: 2.03), Ghana (R0: 1.87), and Somalia (R0: 1.85), exhibited high transmission rates. …”
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Role of Electronic Banking on Performance of Financial Institutions: A Case Study of Pride Microfinance Limited Kabale Branch. by Kanyana, Ange Gentille

“…The study went ahead to find the types of electronic banking methods adopted in microfinance towards their performance and the responses were obtained from; mobile/SMS banking, electronic funds transfers, self-service (PC) banking, POS banking (Credit and Debit cards), internet banking and an automated teller machine and the study findings on relationship between electronic banking on the performance of microfinance institutions, the study findings revealed a correlation coefficient of 0.816**. Hence the study findings imply that there is a very high positive significant relationship between electronic banking on the performance of micro-financial institutions. …”
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Establishing Empirical Relationship Between Project Scheduling and Project Success in the Uganda Construction Industry. by Mukisa, John

“…The study identified the project scheduling practices that are commonly used as Gantt chart (RII = 0.992), CPM (RII = 0.940), Resource Levelling (RII = 0.860), PDM (RII = 0.759), and PERT (RII = 0.622), while Agile scheduling methods (RII = 0.614), and line of balance method (RII = 0.296) are least used. …”
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Relationship Between Attitudes, Academic Performance, Gender and Choice of Agricultural Careers Among Secondary School Students in Kanungu District Uganda. by Byaruhanga, Hillary

“…The study found a significant positive correlation (Spearman's rho = 0.506**, p < 0.01) between students' attitudes towards agriculture and their choice of agricultural careers. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Seasonal Variations in Quality of Gravity Flow Water in Kyanamira Sub-County, Kabale District, Uganda by Hannington, Ngabirano, Denis, Byamugisha, Emmanuel, Ntambi

“…Values of pH ranged between 3.78 and 4.84 from March to August in all study sites and they were consistently below the WHO permissible pH range of 6.5 - 8.5. …”
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Growth performance and meat quality of medium-growing chickens fed with live black soldier fly larvae by Cristina Tognoli, Sara Bellezza Oddon, Luisa Zaniboni, Ilaria Biasato, Niko Gioacchino Zeni, Manuela Renna, Laura Gasco, Stefano Paolo Marelli, Annalaura Lopez, Achille Schiavone

“…The slaughter weight was significantly higher (p = 0.016) in the BSFL10 group compared to CTRL group, while the BSFL20 group showed intermediate values. …”
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Middle hepatic vein incorporation in live donor liver graft transplantation; implication and safety by Mahmoud Ali Abdi, Tayeb Sabir Kareem, Assad Abidon Hassoun

“…Results: The donor age (28.5 ± 6.9) year, male/ female 19/ 21, intensive care unit stay (1.2 ± 0.43), floor stay (5.2 ± 1.4) days, their portal vein velocity (43.5 ± 18.4 ml/sec), hepatic artery resistive index (0.6 ± 0.09) and triphasic/ continuous venous outflow 30/10, their postoperative day one and at the discharge total serum bilirubin were  (2.8 ± 1.8) and (2 ± 1.4), their postoperative day one and at the discharge international normalization ratio were (1.7 ± 0.5) and (1.2 ± 0.2) respectively. …”
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Temporal relationship between hospital admissions for pneumonia and weather conditions in Shanghai, China: a time-series analysis by Yuan Liu, David Rogers, Yue Zhang, Haidong Kan, Weibing Wang, Jianming Xu, Renjie Chen, Xiaofang Ye, Li Peng

“…Hospitalisations for pneumonia increased by 15.99% (95% CI 0.06% to 34.46%) in the cold period.Conclusions Cold temperature may be one of the important risk factors for pneumonia hospitalisations. …”
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Bullying in adolescents across three years in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional and prospective analysis by Bruno Nunes de Oliveira, Marcus Vinicius Veber Lopes, Bruno Gonçalves Galdino da Costa, Gabrielli Thais de Mello, Gabriel Pereira Maciel, Kelly Samara Silva

“…Results Bullying victimization decreased from 46% (95% CI: 40-52%) in 2019 to 30% (95% CI: 24-36%) in 2022 (OR: 0.46, 95% CI: 0.30–0.69, p < 0.05) in the longitudinal sample. …”
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Causality Analysis of Air Quality and Meteorological Parameters for PM2.5 Characteristics Determination: Evidence from Jakarta by Tri Istiana, Budhy Kurniawan, Santoso Soekirno, Alberth Nahas, Alvin Wihono, Danang Eko Nuryanto, Suko Prayitno Adi, Muhammad Lukman Hakim

“…The highest causality values (ρ) for air quality parameters are 0.74 (PM10), 0.68 (SO2), 0.52 (wind speed), and 0.51 (temperature). …”
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Effects of wire diameter on mechanical and microstructural properties of Inconel 625 fabricated by wire arc additive manufacturing by Fakada Dabalo Gurmesa, Hirpa G. Lemu, Wakshum Mekkonen Tucho, Adugna Deressa Akessa

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Sport and policy. German Sports organisations in Klaipėda region in 1923-1939 by Ingrida Jakubavičienė

“…German sport clubs in Klaipėda had a big number of members (in 1931 - 28 clubs with 2199 members, in 1936 - 52 clubs with 2907 members, in 1938 - 75 clubs and more than 3000 members), a lot of various sport clubs, good material basis and financial support from Germany. …”
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Clinical outcomes of asynchronous telerehabilitation through a mobile app are equivalent to synchronous telerehabilitation in patients with fibromyalgia: a randomized control study by Eren Timurtaş, İrem Hüzmeli, İlkşan Demirbüken, Mine Gülden Polat

“…Significant effects of time and interactions between groups and time were observed in the neck (p = 0.010, ES = 0.19) and back region (p = 0.039, ES = 0.19) of the Visual Analog Scale, left rotation score of the LI-RATT (p = 0.008, ES = 0.36), and HADS Anxiety Score (p = 0.029, ES = 0.31). …”
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Strategy Design of PM2.5 Controlling for Northern Thailand by Karuna Jainontee, Prapat Pongkiatkul, Ying-Lin Wang, Roy J. F. Weng, Yi-Ting Lu, Ting-Shiuan Wang, Wang-Kun Chen

“…The backward trajectory demonstrated that air mass transported through the Northern Thailand or nearby mountain areas (categorized as long- or short-transport-distance) contributed up to 21.6% and 75.9% of the total air mass, respectively. …”
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The association between cognitive frailty and the risk of fall occurrence in older adults: a meta-analysis of cohort studies by Jian Liu, Jian Liu, Jian Liu, Yu Wu, Yu Wu, Yu Wu, Zongke Long, Simeng Zhang, Shicai Wu, Shicai Wu, Shicai Wu

“…Meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.4 software after evaluation of the quality of the included studies by 2 researchers.ResultsA total of five studies including 16,962 patients were included. The results of Meta-analysis showed that the cognitive frailty group increased the risk of occurrence of falls in older adults [OR = 1.38, 95% CI (1.09, 1.73), p = 0.006]. …”
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