Speech recognition index of workers with tinnitus exposed to environmental or occupational noise: a comparative study by Soalheiro Márcia, Rocha Lucelaine, do Vale Diane Francis, Fontes Viviane, Valente Daniel, Teixeira Liliane Reis

“…There was a significant difference in workers with hearing loss, who showed a mean speech recognition index (SRI) of 85%, as compared to healthy workers with a mean SRI greater than 93.5%. Signs and symptoms, speech perception, and interference in sound localization with the type of noise exposure (environmental versus occupational) comparisons found no significant differences.…”
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Methods and logistics of an oral health cohort of university students from Pelotas, a Brazilian Southern city by Luiz Alexandre Chisini, Mariana Gonzalez Cademartori, Kauê Collares, Sandra Beatriz Chaves Tarquinio, Marília Leão Goettems, Flávio Fernando Demarco, Marcos Britto Corrêa, Marina Souza Azevedo

“…Of these, 2,089 (64.5%) signed the consent form to participate of the study and answered the general questionnaires, and 2,052 (63.4%) students answered the confidential questionnaire. …”
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Would cat owners intend to treat their cats if diagnosed with heart disease? by Kuan, Hua Khor, Kuan, Siew Khor, Yong, Chong Lee, Yi, Jun Lim

“…Sixty-nine respondents (49.6%) were aware that cats are susceptible to heart disease, of which forty-six respondents (66.7%) identified at least five signs of heart disease. While cost- and time-related reasons topped the list on barriers to owners in seeking treatment, fewer than half of the owners indicated that they would not find it troublesome to commit to the lifelong treatment regime. …”

Signs of heavy Higgs bosons at CLIC: an $$e^+ e^-$$ e+e- road to the electroweak phase transition by J. M. No, M. Spannowsky

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Differences in diagnosis, management, and outcomes of acute febrile illness by health facility level in southern Ethiopia by Shimelis, T, Vaz Nery, S, Schierhout, G, Tadesse, BT, Dittrich, S, Crump, JA, Kaldor, JM

Association of metabolic syndrome with oral and systemic conditions in morbidly obese patients by Gerson Aparecido Foratori-Junior, Francisco Juliherme Pires de Andrade, Victor Mosquim, Matheus de Carvalho Sales Peres, Elinton Adami Chaim, Silvia Helena de Carvalho Sales-Peres

“…MS was diagnosed in patients presenting at least three of five signs: abdominal obesity, high triglyceride level, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) level, hypertension, and altered fasting glycemia. …”
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Knowledge of Diabetes Mellitus among Students of a Public Secondary School in Southern Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study. by Otovwe Agofure, HonourGod Oghenerume

“…Besides, the majority of the respondents do not know the causes of DM 324(45.5%), signs and symptoms of DM 403(55.7%), risk factors of DM 582(81.3%), and complications of poorly managed DM 603(85.2%). …”
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Reproductive capacity and milk production of cows depending on their physio-logical status during lactation by Maria V. Kornelaeva, Galina G. Karlikova

“…The research materials were 1234 records of diseases - endometritis, mastitis and limb diseases - obtained from veterinary outpatient logs (2015-2021) of the breeding organization. Information about 5 signs of milk productivity and 3 signs of fertility of the studied population of black-motley Holsteinized dairy cattle was taken from Seleks database. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of hand hygiene reminder signs on the use of antimicrobial hand gel in a clinical skills center by Andy Wearn, Harsh Bhoopatkar, Miriam Nakatsuji

“…Baseline hand gel use was measured using before and after weighing of the bottles. An A5 sign was created to remind the students to hand cleanse and was used as an unannounced intervention. …”
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SIGNS OF PHYSICAL ABILITY OF 11-12-YEAR OLD STUDENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN 2020/2021 SCHOOL YEAR by Marina Petrova

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Endoscopic and morphometric analysis of the reduction of acute inflammatory process in the gastric mucosa after therapy with Regasthym Gastro by Natalia V. Baryshnikova, Yury P. Uspenskiy, Yulia A. Fominykh, Sergey V. Petlenko, Vasiliy A. Zaplutanov, Vera A. Apryatina, Alexey A. Krasnov

“…According to the gastroscopy, before therapy, hyperemia of the gastric mucosa was present in 82.5%, edema in 53.8%, erosion in 17.5%, signs of metaplasia in 12.5% of patients. After therapy with the investigated drug a statistically significant decrease in the severity of edema of the gastric mucosa (p=0.008), the total set of signs of acute inflammatory process (p=0.006), a decrease in the proportion of outcomes with negative dynamics of the inflammatory process (p=0.038) was revealed. …”
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Cross-sectional study of the association between a deepening of the upper eyelid sulcus-like appearance and wide-open eyes. by Shunsuke Nakakura, Etsuko Terao, Nozomi Nagatomi, Naoko Matsuo, Yoshie Shimizu, Hitoshi Tabuchi, Yoshiaki Kiuchi

“…Digital photographs of the subjects with natural open and wide-open eyes were taken with a flash. Five signs (a puffy eyelid, the presence/absence of the upper eyelid sulcus (UES), wrinkles on the forehead with natural open eyes and an increase in the number of wrinkles on the forehead and a DUES-like appearance with wide-open eyes) were judged to be negative or positive by three independent observers. …”
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SOCIAL EXCLUSION AS AN OBJECT OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS by Z. Halushka, М. Soboljeva

“…The analysis of distribution of housekeeping after the amount of the accumulated signs of the social tearing away gave an opportunity to set a limit after that the social tearing away begins brightly to show up, at the level of 5 signs. It is certain the limit of the sharp tearing away. …”
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Neuropsychiatric Lupus Erythematosus: Future Directions and Challenges; a Systematic Review and Survey by Yongwen Zhang, Huanhuan Han, Lanfang Chu

“…A total of 408 NPSLE patients had 652 NP events, of which 91.2% affected the central nervous system and 8.8% affected the peripheral nervous system. Five signs (manifestations, disease activity, antibodies, thrombosis, and skin lesions) showed that negative and positive predictive values were more than 70%, included in the diagnostic criteria. …”
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U.S. Traffic Calming Manual / by Ewing, Reid H., author, Brown, Steven J., author

Plasma membrane damage causes NLRP3 activation and pyroptosis during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection by Kai S. Beckwith, Marianne S. Beckwith, Sindre Ullmann, Ragnhild S. Sætra, Haelin Kim, Anne Marstad, Signe E. Åsberg, Trine A. Strand, Markus Haug, Michael Niederweis, Harald A. Stenmark, Trude H. Flo

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Development and validation of a prediction model to estimate risk of acute pulmonary embolism in deep vein thrombosis patients by You Li, Yuncong He, Yan Meng, Bowen Fu, Shuanglong Xue, Mengyang Kang, Zhenzhen Duan, Yan Chen, Yifan Wang, Hongyan Tian

“…The APE risk prediction model included one pre-existing disease or condition (respiratory failure), one risk factors (infection), three symptoms (dyspnea, hemoptysis and syncope), five signs (skin cold clammy, tachycardia, diminished respiration, pulmonary rales and accentuation/splitting of P2), and six ECG indicators (SIQIIITIII, right axis deviation, left axis deviation, S1S2S3, T wave inversion and Q/q wave), of which all were positively associated with APE. …”
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Lassa virus: characterization of infectious agent, biological models for pathogenesis studies and variants of vaccine by E. I. Kazachinskaya, V. S. Aripov, A. V. Zaikovskaya, A. M. Shestopalov

“…Among hospitalized patients with severe symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, this figure may be from 14 to 89.5%. Signs of an adverse outcome in LF are open bleeding and disorders of CNS (convulsions, tremor, disorientation and coma). …”
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A conceptual framework for asthma self-management in Ecuadorian children and adolescents: A qualitative study by Cristina Ochoa-Avilés, María Jose Peñaherrera, Diana Morillo, Susana Andrade, Katherine Peralta, Nelly Lazo, Signe Vargas, Denisse Vasquez, Claudia Rodas, Silvana Donoso, Angélica Ochoa-Avilés

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Reduced intrinsic connectivity of amygdala in adults with major depressive disorder by Rajamannar eRamasubbu, Rajamannar eRamasubbu, Rajamannar eRamasubbu, Rajamannar eRamasubbu, Nithya eKonduru, Fil eCortese, Signe eBray, Signe eBray, Ismail eGaxiola, Bradley eGoodyear, Bradley eGoodyear, Bradley eGoodyear, Bradley eGoodyear

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