The effect of geographic location and payor type on provincial-wide delivery of the GLA:D program for hip and knee osteoarthritis in Alberta, Canada by C. Allyson Jones, Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault, Ania (Anna) Kania-Richmond, Amy Metcalfe, David A. Hart, Lauren A. Beaupre

“…Design: The study population was adults with hip or knee osteoarthritis attending the 8-week GLA:D™ supervised exercise and education programme in Alberta between Sep 2017–Mar 2020. Outcomes of interest were joint-related pain and quality of life (HOOS/KOOS), health quality of life (EQ-5D-5L), and performance-based functional (30-s chair stand test; 40-m walk test) measures. …”
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Comparison of Distally Based Sural Fasciocutaneous Island Flap with a nd without Inclusion of Sural Nerve by Tabish Samuel, Shahid Hameed, Abdul Majid, Shahid Hussain Naqvi, Shah Faisal, Farman Mehmood

“…Study Design: Prospective comparative study Place and Duration of Study: Department of Plastic Surgery, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Jul 2017 to Mar 2020. Methodology: A total of 54 patients (27 in each Group) requiring distal lower limb flap reconstruction and meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included. …”
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Evaluating Skills and Confidence Status of House Officers in Managing Dental Patients: A Mixed Method Study in a Private Dental Institute of Karachi by Hudebia Allah Buksh, Ambreen Usmani, Sirajul Haque Shaikh

“…Place and Duration of Study: Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine, Karachi Pakistan, from Mar 2019 to Mar 2020. Methodology: A self-administered questionnaire was developed for the 1st phase of the study. …”
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Role of Serum Vitamin B12 and Glutathione Peroxidase during Third Trimester of Pregnancy with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Aasia Kanwal, Adeela Shahid, Aisha Bashir, Naveed Aslam Lashari

“…Place and Duration of Study: Physiology Department, University of Health Sciences, Lahore Pakistan, from Feb 2019 to Mar 2020. Methodology: Ninty pregnant women were recruited, fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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ENHANCED RECOVERY PATHWAYS (ERAS) IMPLEMENTATION IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE ESOPHAGECTOMY; AN EARLY EXPERIENCE by Aaishah Riaz, Bilal Umair, Asif Asghar, Muhammad Imtiaz, Raheel Khan, Azfar Bilal

“…Place and Duration of Study: Thoracic Surgery Department, Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Jul 2018 to Mar 2020. Methodology: A total of 80 patients who underwent minimally invasive esophagectomy were divided in two groups. …”
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Measurement of fs/fu Variation with Proton-Proton Collision Energy and B-Meson Kinematics by LHCb Collaboration, Boettcher, T., Craik, D. C., Weisser, Constantin, Williams, M.

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The logic of public–private partnerships : the enduring interdependency of politics and markets by Kwa, Kai Xiang, Kim, Soojin

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The COVID-19 Pandemic in Chiba Prefecture, Japan and Viet Nam: A Lesson-learned in COVID-19 Pandemic Control in These Two Populations by Furuuchi KANA, Yumi Ono, Limeng CHHEANG, Okada YUMA, Nagai YOUSUKE, Miu TAKEUCHI, Kuga HIROTOSHI, Le Hoa Duyen, Thaingi Hlaing, LE Tran Ngoan

“…In Chiba, there were two waves of COVID-19 occurrence; the first wave reached a peak on 28 Mar. 2020 with 64 positive cases and the second wave reached a peak on 11 Jul. 2020 with 29 positive patients. …”
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Experience sampling methods for the personalised prediction of mental health problems in Spanish university students: protocol for a survey-based observational study within the PRO... by Gemma Vilagut, Jordi Alonso, Miquel Roca, Philippe Mortier, Beatriz Puértolas Gracia, Laura Ballester Coma, Margalida Gili, Marisa Rebagliato, Jose A Piqueras, Franco Amigo, Ana Portillo-Van Diest, Helena García-Mieres, Itxaso Alayo, Maria Jesus Blasco, Paula Carrasco Espi, Raquel Falcó, Ines Forteza-Rey, Patricia Garcia-Pazo, Cristina Giménez-García, Francisco H Machancoses, Juan Carlos Marzo Campos, Guillem Navarra-Ventura, Tiscar Rodriguez Jiménez, Lorenzo Roldan, Estefanía Ruiz-Palomino, Victoria Soto-Sanz

“…Dynamic structural equation modelling and multilevel mixed-effects models will be considered to develop a series of explanatory models for the occurrence of mental health problems.Ethics and dissemination The project complies with national and international regulations, including the Declaration of Helsinki and the Code of Ethics, and has been approved by the IRB Parc de Salut Mar (2020/9198/I) and corresponding IRBs of all participating universities. …”
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Impact of Environmental Indicators on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Delhi, India by Sherry Mangla, Ashok Kumar Pathak, Mohd. Arshad, Doyel Ghosh, Prafulla Kumar Sahoo, Vinod Kumar Garg, Ubydul Haque

“…With this background, this study aims to evaluate the impact of air pollutants (PM_2.5, PM₁₀, CO, NO, NO₂, and O₃) and meteorological parameters (temperature, humidity, wind speed, and rainfall) on the spread and mortality due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Delhi from 14 Mar 2020 to 3 May 2021. The Spearman’s rank correlation method employed on secondary data shows a significant correlation between the COVID-19 incidences and the PM_2.5, PM₁₀, CO, NO, NO₂, and O₃ concentrations. …”
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescent mental health in-patient service use in England: interrupted time-series analysis of national patient records by Tsiachristas, A, Holland, J, Guo, B, Chitsabesan, P, Sayal, K, Abdul Pari, AA

“…<p><b>Aims</b></p> To investigate the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on CYP psychiatric admission trends during lockdown 1 (started 23 Mar 2020) and lockdown 2 (started 5 Nov 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic in England. …”

Search for heavy neutral leptons decaying into muon-pion pairs in the MicroBooNE detector by MicroBooNE Collaboration, Conrad, Janet, Hen, Or, Hourlier, Adrien, Moon, Jarrett S., Papadopoulou, Afroditi, Yates, Lauren Elizabeth

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Assessing overnight parking infrastructure policies for commercial vehicles in cities using agent-based simulation by Gopalakrishnan, Raja, Alho, André Romano, Sakai, Takanori, Hara, Yusuke, Cheah, Lynette, Ben-Akiva, Moshe E.

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Synthesis and evaluation of scalable D-A-D π-extended oligomers as p-type organic materials for bulk-heterojunction solar cells by Osw, Peshawa, Nitti, Andrea, Abdullah, Media N., Etkind, Samuel I., Mwaura, Jeremiah, Galbiati, Alessandro, Pasini, Dario

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Designing socially assistive robots for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia patients and their caregivers: where we are and where we are headed by Koutentakis, Dimitrios, Pilozzi, Alexander, Huang, Xudong

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Acoustic absorptions of multifunctional polymeric cellular structures based on triply periodic minimal surfaces fabricated by stereolithography by Yang, Wenjing, An, Jia, Chua, Chee Kai, Zhou, Kun

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Three-dimensional slope stability analysis incorporating unsaturated soil properties in Singapore by Ip, Sabrina Chui Yee, Rahardjo, Harianto, Satyanaga, Alfrendo

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Influence of different roof design parameters on classrooms' thermal performance in tropical savannah climate of Nigeria by Abba, Habu Yusuf, Abdul Majid, Roshida, Ahmed, Muhammad Hamdan, Abbas Said, El Nafaty

Health sector corruption in the times of COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: Newspapers as mirrors of society by Mahruba Khanam, Noshin Sayiara Shuchi, Raihana S. Kamal, Syed Masud Ahmed

“…Method: 2588 news articles on health topics were identified through scanning six leading newspapers in Bangladesh during Mar. 2020 to Mar. 2021. Of these, 97 news articles focusing on corruption in health system were selected for analysis. …”
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The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, sex, and age on temporomandibular disorders subtypes in East Asian patients: a retrospective observational study by Adrian Ujin Yap, Ji Woon Park, Jie Lei, Chengge Liu, Seong Hae Kim, Byeong-min Lee, Kai Yuan Fu

“…Methods Data were accrued from consecutive new patients attending two university-based TMD/orofacial pain clinics in China and South Korea, 12 months before (BC; Mar 2019-Feb 2020) and during (DC; Mar 2020-Feb 2021) the COVID-19 pandemic. TMD diagnoses were derived from pertinent symptoms, signs, and radiographic findings according to the Diagnostic Criteria for TMDs (DC/TMD) methodology. …”
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