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The injectable contraceptives depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and norethisterone enanthate substantially and differentially decrease testosterone and sex hormone binding globulin levels: A secondary study from the WHICH randomized clinical trial

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by Chanel Avenant, Mandisa Singata-Madliki, Alexis J. Bick, Donita Africander, Yusentha Balakrishna, Karl-Heinz Storbeck, Johnson M. Moliki, Sigcinile Dlamini, Salndave Skosana, Jenni Smit, Mags Beksinska, Ivana Beesham, Ishen Seocharan, Joanne Batting, George J. Hofmeyr, Janet P. Hapgood

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Dexamethasone inhibited angiotensin II and its receptors to reduce sepsis-induced lung and kidney injury in rats

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by Zhuqin Zhan, Zhulan Lian, Haitao Bai

Objectives

To investigate the effect of dexamethasone (DXM) on acute lung and kidney injury with sepsis and its possible mechanism.

Methods

Control (NC), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and lipopolysaccharide + dexamethasone (LPS+DXM) treated groups were established by random assignment of 72 Wistar rats. The NC rats were injected with physiological saline, while the LPS group was injected with LPS (5 mg/kg) and LPS+DXM group was injected with LPS(5 mg/kg) first and followed by DXM (1 mg/kg). Читать дальше...

A study of spatial distribution and dynamic change in monthly FVC of urban parks

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by Yichuan Zhang, Yanan Ge, Lifang Qiao

The study on the spatial distribution and dynamic change in monthly Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) of parks provides a scientific basis for vegetation management and optimization in urban parks. This research focuses on two comprehensive parks located in Xinxiang, China—People’s Park and Harmony Park, using multi-spectral Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images as the data source and considering monthly periods. Monthly FVC data was obtained using the... Читать дальше...

Analyzing the diffusion of feminist discourses on Chinese social media: A case study of the 2022 Tangshan restaurant attack

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by Gege Fang, Zitong Hong, Guanting Chen, Jingwen Wang

Network platforms have ushered in a novel propagation model for feminist discourses. The emergence of oriental feminism in society has led to gender-based public opinions surrounding public events becoming a trending topic on Chinese social media. This study uses the 2022 Tangshan restaurant attack as a case study, an incident that sparked widespread discussions across China in 2022. The research gathered 366,602 network communication... Читать дальше...

Calculation and analysis of the efficiency of resource allocation for technological innovation in China

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by Ruying Chen, Lanyu Wu

The efficiency of resource allocation in technological innovation is a critical factor influencing the output level of technological innovation. By expanding and optimizing the Hsieh & Klenow (2009) framework for analyzing the efficiency of resource allocation and relaxing the assumption of constant returns to scale, this study utilizes sample data from Chinese listed companies from 2007 to 2019 to measure and analyze the resource allocation efficiency level in China’s technological innovation. Читать дальше...

Service providers’ perspectives on the challenges of informal caregiving and the need for caregiver-orientated mental health services in rural South Africa: A descriptive study

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by Olindah Silaule, Nokuthula Gloria Nkosi, Fasloen Adams

Informal caregivers of persons with mental disorders encounter various challenges in their role of caregiving. As such, they require support to enable them to cope with the demands of their caregiving. There is comprehensive evidence on the experiences of burden among informal caregivers in mental health; however, there is a limited number of studies that report on the mental health services aimed specifically at supporting informal caregivers in their role. Читать дальше...

Road safety attitude and behaviour among motorcycle riders in Ghana: A focus on traffic locus of control and health belief

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by Abdul-Raheem Mohammed, Buhari Gunu Yussif, Mustapha Alhassan

Road traffic accident is a leading cause of death and various life deformities worldwide. This burden is even higher among motorcycle riders in lower-to-middle-income countries. Despite the various interventions made to address the menace, the fatalities continue to be on the ascendency. One major area that has received little attention is the attitude and behaviour of motorcycle riders. The present study aimed to examine the... Читать дальше...

A multi-view representation technique based on principal component analysis for enhanced short text clustering

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by Majid Hameed Ahmed, Sabrina Tiun, Nazlia Omar, Nor Samsiah Sani

Clustering texts together is an essential task in data mining and information retrieval, whose aim is to group unlabeled texts into meaningful clusters that facilitate extracting and understanding useful information from large volumes of textual data. However, clustering short texts (STC) is complex because they typically contain sparse, ambiguous, noisy, and lacking information. One of the challenges for STC is finding a... Читать дальше...

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Nutrition and diet in the general U.S. Asian American population: A scoping review protocol

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by Sze Wan Chan, Gregory Laynor, Shahmir H. Ali, Stella S. Yi

Introduction

Asian American populations face unique structural/social inequities contributing to poor diet quality and health disparities. The current body of literature on diet and food consumption of Asian Americans mainly focuses on the health of Filipino and East Asian Americans, or those with pre-existing non-communicable diseases.

Objective

The aim of this review is to comprehensively compile all available literature... Читать дальше...

Susceptibility status of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) to public health insecticides in Southern Afar Region, Ethiopia

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by Mohammed Seid, Esayas Aklilu, Abebe Animut

Mosquito-borne viral diseases such as dengue fever, chikungunya, and yellow fever have been documented in Ethiopia since the 1960s. However, the efficacy of public health insecticides against Aedes aegypti that transmits these viruses remains poorly understood in the country, particularly in the Afar Region. Thus, the aim of the study was to assess the susceptibility status of Ae. aegypti to deltamethrin, permethrin, alpha-cypermethrin, pirimiphos-methyl... Читать дальше...

A somatic view of the genomic impact of mitochondrial endosymbiosis

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by Rose M. Doss, Martin W. Breuss

The endosymbiosis of mitochondrial ancestors resulted in the transfer of genetic material on an evolutionary scale for eukaryotic species. A new study in PLOS Biology expands this to the genome of somatic cells within individuals and highlights its correlation with aging and disease. The endosymbiosis of mitochondrial ancestors resulted in the transfer of genetic material on an evolutionary scale for eukaryotic species. This Primer explores a new study in... Читать дальше...


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