Characteristics of the participants
A total of 915 participants were enrolled; three finally refused to complete the questionnaire, 16 reported being <18 years old, and 58 provided incorrect responses to the trap question, resulting in 840 valid…
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Building primary care capacity to treat tobacco dependence: Lessons from evaluating a Teach the Teacher programme in low- and middle-income countries
The TD TtT programme demonstrated clear value in increasing primary care use of VBA; although systematic data collection to evidence the impact on quit attempts and successful quits proved challenging. Several contextual factors contributed to this…
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Mid-infrared ellipsometry enhanced by means of localized electromagnetic states of a one-dimensional photonic crystal
Spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) is routinely applied across a broad spectral range from deep UV down to the IR1,2,3,4. In particular, infrared (IR)-SE5,6 in the range 4000 cm-1 to 200 cm– 1 (2.5 μm to 50 μm), which encompasses the Mid-IR…
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A cohort study on the association of dietary inflammatory index and a posteriori dietary patterns with lung cancer risk
Study participants
This study is based on data collected from UK Biobank, details of which can be found in previous research44. In brief, the UK Biobank is a large prospective cohort study that recruited over 500,000 participants aged 39–72…
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Heightened effective connectivity of DLPFC-mPFC and DLPFC-ACC circuits in major depressive disorder with suicidal ideation: evidence from a TMS-EEG study
Murray CJL, Vos T, Lozano R, Naghavi M, Flaxman AD, Michaud C, et al. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet….
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Development and validation of a predictive model for tuberculous pleural effusion with high adenosine deaminase
Participants
During the study period, 397 patients with PE and ADA levels > 25 IU/L were identified. Among these patients, 81 were excluded due to multiple PE samplings, and 79 were excluded due to meeting the exclusion criteria, including 26…
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Total synthesis and bioactivity investigation of a chiral diacylglycerol
Chemistry
The chemical reagents were purchased from Shanghai Aladdin Biochemical Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) or Shanghai Bidd Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) and used as received. IR spectra were recorded using KBr…
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Methylation of LINE-1 and Alu repetitive sequence in keloid
Sample collection
The current study was approved by Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine’s Ethical Committee under IRB number 1506/2023. All samples were obtained between January 2023 and January 2024 in the Plastic Surgery…
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Investigation of the influence of magnetic fields on the separation of selected substances in reversed-phase column chromatography
Comparison of chromatograms obtained with and without an induced MF
The effect of induced MF by positive and negative electric currents on the separation of three drug series can be seen in Fig. 3 and Fig. S1, respectively. It is noticeable that,…
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Temporal dynamics of CBT emotion regulation training in patients with major depression using ecological momentary assessment
Participant descriptives and demographics
In total, 4925 complete data entries from 40 patients could be included in the data analysis with a mean of M = 123.125 (SD = 26.452) data entries per patient. This corresponds to 72.67 % of all…
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