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Zorana Stamenkovic, Julio de Araujo Gurgel, Nenad Popovic and Nemanja Marinkovic
Aim of the study was to show the effect of skeletal Class II treatment with the mandibular anterior repositioning appliance (MARA) on the sagittal posterior airway space (PAS) diameter. A total of 53 patients were selected retrospectively: 26 male patien...
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Tomasz Urbanowicz, Michal Michalak, Ewa Marzec, Anna Komosa, Krzysztof J. Filipiak, Anna Olasinska-Wisniewska, Anna Witkowska, Michal Rodzki, Andrzej Tykarski and Marek Jemielity
Background: The electrical properties of cells and tissues in relation to energy exposure have been investigated, presenting their resistance and capacitance characteristics. The dielectric response to radiofrequency fields exhibits polarization heteroge...
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Nompilo Moyo, Martin Jones, Shaun Dennis, Karan Sharma, Michael McKeown and Richard Gray
Higher levels of educational preparation for nurses are associated with lower mortality rates in both medical and surgical wards. In mental health inpatient wards, few studies have examined whether specialist mental health nurse training has any impact o...
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Yushan Hou, Chang Cai, Houlin Tang, Yichen Jin, Fangfang Chen, Dandan Niu and Fan Lv
Background: The proportion of elderly people living with HIV (PLHIV) is increasing in China. To advance targeted interventions and substantially improve their quality of life, we investigate indicators of loneliness and sexual behavior among elderly PLHI...
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Thobani Ntshiqa, Alfred Musekiwa, Riyadh Manesen, Hetani Mdose, Nqobile Ngoma, Lazarus Kuonza, Thomas Dlamini, Carl Reddy and Seymour Williams
Male circumcision (MC) reduces HIV transmission risk by up to 60% in heterosexual men. However, uptake of medical male circumcision (MMC) is low in traditionally circumcising communities of South Africa. We assessed knowledge, attitudes, and practices to...
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Zsofia Jokkel, Marcell Szily, Marton Piroska, Helga Szabó, Anita Hernyes, Gergely Szabó, Ildikó Kalina, Pál Maurovich-Horvat, David Laszlo Tarnoki and Adam Domonkos Tarnoki
Background: Recurrent upper airway obstruction during sleep is a common feature of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Risk factors for the development of OSA include obesity, male gender and smoking. In addition, anatomical factors contribute to the developm...
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Xinghui Li, Yang Yu, Cheng Zheng, Yue Zhang, Chuandao Shi, Lei Zhang and Hui Qiao
Studies on the prognostic significance of preoperative radiotherapy (PERT) and postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) in patients with advanced gastric cancer (GC) remain elusive. The aim of the study was to evaluate the survival advantage of preoperative and...
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Nicolas Lopez-Galvez, Jocelyn Claude, Patty Wong, Asa Bradman, Carly Hyland, Rosemary Castorina, Robert A. Canales, Dean Billheimer, Elmira Torabzadeh, James O. Leckie and Paloma I. Beamer
Background: There are growing health concerns about exposure to toxicants released from recycled tire rubber, which is commonly used in synthetic turf and playground mats. To better estimate children?s exposure and risk from recycled tire rubber used in ...
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Luciana Debs and Jamie Metzinger
The present research analyzes the impact of nine factors related to household demographics, building equipment, and building characteristics towards a home?s total energy consumption while controlling for climate. To do this, we have surveyed single-fami...
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Maria Pilar Plaza, Franziska Kolek, Vivien Leier-Wirtz, Jens Otto Brunner, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann and Athanasios Damialis
Airborne pollen monitoring has been an arduous task, making ecological applications and allergy management virtually disconnected from everyday practice. Over the last decade, intensive research has been conducted worldwide to automate this task and to o...
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