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No significant effect of frequent online sexual behaviour on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT): Implications for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder

Timothy J. Wells, Lucie Krejčová, Jakub Binter et al. · 2022 · PLOS ONE

Reward based learning is broadly acknowledged to underpin the development and maintenance of addictive behaviour although the mechanism in sexual compulsivity is less understood. Using a Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) task we…

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Video gamers demonstrate superior bronchoscopy skills among beginners

Masafumi Shimoda, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Kozo Morimoto et al. · 2024 · Scientific Reports

Abstract While previous research has explored the connection between video gaming and medical procedures, studies on the connection between video gaming and bronchoscopy techniques are lacking. This study aimed to investigate how video…

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Statistical Analysis of the Number of Infections with Corona Virus in Some Arab Countries Using the Method of Least Significant Difference

Hadeel Alkutubi, Rania Abod, Omaima Jabber · 2022 · Journal of Kufa for Mathematics and Computer


 
 
 In this research, we applied actual data related to the number of infections with the Corona virus for some Arab countries for the month of February of the year 2022, where the method of least significant difference…

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Significant Effect of Vacuum Bagging Processing on Inter-Laminar Shear Strength and Voids of Composite in Oven Cure

Nur Hafzareen Md Hanafiah, Abdul Rahim Othman, Mark Ovinis · 2024 · Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology

Autoclave had been constrained to longer time consumption, higher production costs and excessive residual stress. The challenges regarding with out-of-autoclave (OOA) cure involved the need to devise the techniques in preserving high…

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Lack of significant difference between internal spermatic vein and brachial vein ischemia modified albumin levels in patients with varicocele

Yuksel Aliyazicioglu, Emin Ozbek, Levent Ozcan et al. · 2013 · Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia

Varicocele is the most common and surgically correctible cause of male infertility in men attending to infertility clinics. Infertility affects 15% of all couples and male factor is the primary or contributing cause in 40% to 60% of cases.…

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Ukuran mesiodistal dan servikoinsisal gigi insisivus sentralis suku Bugis, Makassar, dan Toraja tidak menunjukkan perbedaan yang bermakna Size of mesiodistal and cervicoincisal maxillary central incisors between Buginese, Makassarese, and Torajanese showed no significant difference

Irene Edith Rieuwpassa, Nurlindah Hamrun, Fitrian Riksavianti · 2013 · Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science

Every tribe and race has size of tooth mesiodistal and cervicoincisal different from each other. The most obviousdifference is the size of the teeth between female and male. This study aimed to determine differences in size ofmesiodistal…

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Determining Outcomes in Patients With Large Vessel Occlusion and Mild Stroke Who Did or Did Not Receive Thrombolytics and/or Thrombectomy

Cleo Zarina A. Reyes, Ramiro Gabriel Castro-Apolo, Hope Kincaid et al. · 2024 · The Neurologist

Objectives: The utility of thrombolysis and/or thrombectomy in patients with mild stroke and large vessel occlusion (LVO) remains inconclusive. This retrospective study compared short-term and long-term outcomes in patients treated with…

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Detection of recurrent brain tumors in children: No significant difference in sensitivity between unenhanced and contrast-enhanced MRI

Yasmina Bouzidi, Emmanuel Barteau, Julien Lejeune et al. · 2019 · The Neuroradiology Journal

Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a gadolinium injection is currently used in the follow-up of children in remission of cerebral tumors (CTs). Intracerebral gadolinium deposition has been recently reported with unknown…

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Abstract P1-11-02: A comparison of models (physician, the Van Nuys prognostic index, the Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center DCIS nomogram)to predict ipsilateral breast events in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast after breast-conserving surgery failed to replicate results of the oncotype DCIS recurrence score

C Leonard, R Lei, A Antell et al. · 2017 · Cancer Research

Abstract Purpose: To compare ipsilateral breast event (IBE) risks in patients with DCIS of the breast post-lumpectomy, as estimated by breast radiation oncologists, the Van Nuys Prognostic Index (VNPI) studies, the Memorial Sloan Kettering…

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Bad Timing and Ulysses' s Failed Jokes

Marian Eide · 2013 · Novel

James Joyce's Ulysses is punctuated by bad jokes. While the novel is itself comedic, the scripted rhetoric of humor throughout the narrative fails, revealing fractures in an Irish community divided by shared colonial experience. Good jokes…

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There is no significant difference in the treatment of aspiration pneumonia in dogs with ampicillin-sulbactam versus ampicillin-sulbactam and enrofloxacin

Cody I. Riffe, Justin A. Heinz, Carly A. Patterson et al. · 2025 · Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Abstract Objective Describe outcomes for dogs with aspiration pneumonia (AP) initially treated with ampicillin-sulbactam (AS) alone (monotherapy [MT]), initially with AS and enrofloxacin (initial dual therapy [iDT]), or initially with AS…

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Optimization of Tempering Process Parameters of AISI 3140 Low Alloy Steel to Conserve Furnace Energy using Tukey’s Honestly Significant Difference Test

SK Lakshmana Moorthy, S Rajaram, PC Santhosh Kumar · 2020 · IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

Abstract Quenching and Tempering of AISI 3140 alloy steel is a necessary heat treatment process to attain desired hardness and toughness. However the tempering process consumes remarkable amount of energy in furnace. One of the usual…

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Autopsy of a failed extension policy

Bradley “Peanut” McCoy · 2022 · The Physics Teacher

There is a challenge as an instructor to balance the tension between flexibility and accountability in assignment due dates. I have long used an extension policy in my classes out of a desire to give students some flexibility on due dates.…

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