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Oral melatonin did not reduce anxiety before elective hernia repair: A randomised, double‐blinded, placebo‐controlled trial

Mikkel Andreas Holm, Anders Gram‐Hanssen, Bennedikte Kollerup Madsen et al. · 2022 · Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Abstract Background Preoperative anxiety is a common issue in surgery. Preoperative anxiety may lead to increased mortality, pain and dissatisfaction with surgery. Melatonin is a drug with only mild adverse effects and has previously been…

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Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Reduce Attention to Environmental Issues?

Sari Verachtert, Dieter Stiers, Marc Hooghe · 2025 · Politics of the Low Countries

Theories on issue competition assume that there is only a limited number of issues that a person prioritises simultaneously. In this research note, we test this mechanism by using a panel study that was conducted among Belgian parents in…

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DO WE REALLY HAVE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR JEWISH GLADIATORS?

Haggai Olshanetsky · 2021 · JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

In the past, it has been suggested that Jews were both participants and spectators in the gladiatorial games. Yet, all the materials presented to prove the existence of Jewish gladiators seem to be less conclusive than what the authors…

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Gabriel's Failed Revolution of 1800: Causes and Prerequisites

Andrey Shumakov · 2023 · Izvestia of Smolensk State University

This work is devoted to a very little-studied topic of the Virginia Slave Conspiracy led by Gabriel and is the first study of this issue in Russian historiography. The present article analyzes in detail the causes and prerequisites of the…

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Can Collective Action Institutions Outperform the State?

Max Harleman, Jeremy G. Weber · 2025 · Policy Studies Journal

ABSTRACT A core literature in the field of public policy seeks to understand whether decentralized collective action institutions will emerge to provide public goods. While some studies examine how they perform relative to public…

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Repeated Annual Health Risk Assessments With Intervention Did Not Reduce 10-year Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Nceba Hene, Paola Wood, Martin Schwellnus et al. · 2021 · Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Objective: To determine if repeat annual health risk assessments (RAHRAs) with intervention reduce 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in financial sector employees. Methods: Retrospective analysis from RAHRAs in 13,737 employees…

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A Mismatched Group of Items That I Would Not Find Particularly Interesting: Challenges and Opportunities with Digital Exhibits and Collections Labels

Mikala Narlock, Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon, Melissa Harden · 2022 · Evidence Based Library and Information Practice

Objective – The authors sought to identify link language that is user-friendly and sufficiently disambiguates between a digital collection and digital exhibit platform for users from a R1 institution, or a university with high research…

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Aerosol–Climate Interaction in the South Asian Region: A Focused Exploration of the Impacts of Ozone, Black Carbon, Optical Properties and Radiative Forcing in a Region of Significant Climate Change Dynamics

Kazi Rakib Uddin, Shahid Uz Zaman, Krishnakant B. Budhavant et al. · 2025 · International Journal of Climatology

ABSTRACT In South Asia, our understanding of atmospheric aerosols and their optical properties is limited, posing a challenge to comprehending climate change dynamics. This study characterises aerosol optical properties, radiative…

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On the most significant change of teachers’ evaluation: A descriptive-narrative research

Carina Seron, Betarmos Jr. Vicente, Melbert Hungo et al. · 2024 · Journal of Research, Policy & Practice of Teachers & Teacher Education

This study aimed to explore transformative shifts resulting from teacher evaluations. Employing a descriptive-narrative research design, sixteen teachers in Bontoc I and II districts, Southern Leyte, Philippines were purposively sampled…

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Whom did the karasuk people resemble?

A. G Kozintsev · 2023 · Etnograficheskoe obozrenie

To test Yuri Rychkov’s claim that the physical type of the Karasuk people was identical to that of the highlanders of Western Pamir, 24 male Karasuk cranial samples were subjected to a multivariate comparison with 59 samples representing…

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Why did Endurance sink?

Jukka Tuhkuri · 2025 · Polar Record

Abstract Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance , was crushed by Antarctic sea ice and sank in November 1915. Since then, it has been widely considered that Endurance was the strongest polar ship of its time and was lost because ice tore…

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School leadership and organizational change: does teacher innovative behaviour play a significant role?

Grace Damptey Manu, Michael Osei Aboagye, Seth Yeboah Ntim et al. · 2025 · International Journal of Educational Management

Purpose The implementation of school improvement initiatives – such as Ghana’s standards-based curriculum (SBC) – necessitates transformational and contextually responsive school leadership. In line with this, the recent primary school…

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“Simple mechanical devices did not improve pelvis positioning in AP pelvis radiographs for reliable assessment of the acetabular orientation”

Matthias Brockmeyer, Sebastian Lott, Jonas Stroeder et al. · 2019 · Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics

Abstract Background The aim of this study was to develop two simple positioning devices for anteroposterior pelvis radiographs and to evaluate their effect on accuracy of the radiographs for assessment of the acetabular orientation…

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Did Aristotle have a Doctrine of Existential Import?

Byeong-uk Yi · 2025 · Open Philosophy

Abstract Modern logicians hold that traditional logic makes a serious error by accepting the subalternation thesis , the thesis that universal affirmatives imply matching particular affirmatives. But some traditional logicians (e.g.,…

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Abstract 191: Alcohol Consumption Before Injury Did Not Improve Neurological Outcomes In Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Nationwide, Retrospective Cohort Study

Tsuyoshi Nojima, Hiromichi Naito, Takashi Hongo et al. · 2022 · Circulation

Introduction: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major global public health concern. Notably, alcohol may confer neuroprotective effects by inhibiting of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors; however, the impact of alcohol exposure before injury…

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