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Emily Moore, Wanda Gordon-Evans · 2022 · Veterinary Evidence
PICO question In dogs with acute gastroenteritis, is metronidazole faster, slower, or comparable in resolving clinical signs when compared to probiotic administration? Clinical bottom line Category of research question Treatment The number…
View details →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…
View details →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…
View details →Brian Erly, Parker Jackson, Therese Pilonetti · 2023 · The Journal of School Nursing
During the 2020–2021 school year, many schools adopted remote learning or a part-time in-person learning (“hybrid”) approach to reduce the risk of in-school transmission of COVID-19. The purpose of this work is to describe case rates of…
View details →Wayne Hall · 2013 · F1000Research
This article assesses the evidence for the hypothesis that a decline in all types of crime since the early 1990s in the USA was a consequence of removing lead from petrol between 1975 and 1985. It describes ecological and econometric…
View details →Ezra La Roi · 2020 · Philologia Classica
This paper traces the semantic and constructional development of the complement-taking verb εὑρίσκω ‘find’ from Homeric Greek to Post-Classical Greek. First, the paper details the semantic development of εὑρίσκω using characteristics such…
View details →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…
View details →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…
View details →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…
View details →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…
View details →Noah Lorincz-Comi, Yihe Yang, Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar et al. · 2024 · Bioinformatics Advances
Abstract Motivation Nearly two decades of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identify thousands of disease-associated genetic variants, but very few genes with evidence of causality. Recent methodological advances demonstrate that…
View details →George Hathaway, Lance L. Williams · 2021 · Physics
We report test results searching for an effect of electrostatic charge on weight. For conducting test objects of mass of order 1 kg, we found no effect on weight, for potentials ranging from 10 V to 200 kV, corresponding to charge states…
View details →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…
View details →Mukherjee, Watson, Wallbanks et al. · 2026 · Cureus
Obesity as the primary cause of acute hypercapnic respiratory failure (AHRF) receiving acute non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has doubled within a decade. We analysed the primary diagnoses for receiving home mechanical ventilation (HMV) upon…
View details →David Kyei‐Nuamah, Ziyue Ma, Lisha Chen et al. · 2026 · European Journal of Education
ABSTRACT Higher education institutions are increasingly promoting cross‐disciplinary learning between the natural sciences and humanities. Several institutions have enacted policies that allow students to choose courses across disciplines…
View details →Laurie M Jacobs, Laura A Schmidt, Dean Schillinger et al. · 2024 · Public Health Nutrition
Abstract Objective: Workplace sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) sales bans can reduce SSB consumption. Because stress and anxiety can promote sugar consumption, we examined whether anxiety among hospital employees during the COVID-19 pandemic…
View details →Ronny Johansen · 2024 · Acta Didactica Norden
This is a small-scale qualitative study investigating what influences teachers' design of beginner reading and writing instruction. Research on teachers’ planning practices and their use of teaching aids are scarce in research literature…
View details →M Chudzik, M Babicki, J Kapusta et al. · 2023 · Europace
Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Cardiac arrhythmias and cardiac damage (CD) are more common in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Many studies have shown that arrhythmias are an independent risk factor…
View details →Maaz Uddin, Zameer Khalid · 2023 · Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences and Management Practices
Researchers look closely at the resource curse and its effects on the economies of oil-exporting countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The primary objective was to learn whether or not the abundance of natural…
View details →Lauren T. Williams, Mari Somerville, Fiona Wright et al. · 2023 · Nutrients
In Australia, Indigenous children have rates of overweight and obesity 1.5 times those of non-Indigenous children. Culturally safe and effective nutrition interventions are needed for this group. This paper aims to describe a…
View details →Chris Patrick · 2018 · Scilight
High-precision measurements of the vibrational frequency and rotational structure of He 2 + disagree with current calculations from first principles.
View details →Alistair F. Holdsworth · 2024 · Histories
Flails are one of the most contentious and misunderstood classes of medieval weaponry, despite their prevalence in popular media: some researchers question their existence entirely and the bulk of historians are skeptical of widespread…
View details →Scanlin, Salazar · 2026 · Veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia
To compare postoperative analgesic efficacy between ropivacaine and liposomal bupivacaine when used for an erector spinae plane (ESP) block as part of analgesic management for hemilaminectomy surgery caudal to the eleventh thoracic…
View details →Geoffrey Joyce, Bo Zhou, Robert Kaestner · 2023 · Health Economics
Abstract To examine whether higher cost‐sharing deterred prescription opioid use. Medicare Part D claims from 2007 to 2016 for a 20% random sample of Medicare enrollees. We obtain estimates of the effect of cost‐sharing on prescription…
View details →Truc Bui · 2023 · Innovation in Aging
Abstract Covid-19 caused tremendous impacts on the health and employment status of older workers, while current literature shows that age discrimination increased during recessions. In this context, I examine whether stronger state age…
View details →Karen E Lasser, Chieh Chu, Danny McCormick et al. · 2012 · Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
Introduction: After Massachusetts (MA) health reform, the percent of uninsured residents fell, particularly among minorities. Studies have not examined the effect of this policy change on 30-day readmission rates, and disparities in such…
View details →G. Facchini, M. Wang, P. Marcus et al. · 2019 · EAS Publications Series
Without instabilities, the gas in the protoplanetary disk approximately a forming protostar remains in orbit rather than falling onto the protostar and completing its formation into a star. Moreover without instabilities in the fluid flow…
View details →N DeLellis, F Wilson, F Belsito et al. · 2020 · European Journal of Public Health
Abstract Background The US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) has several provisions to increase access to health insurance among Americans. Prior to ACA, emergency departments (ED) served as a safety net to uninsured…
View details →Stavang M · 2026 · Preprint
Attachment anxiety increases status striving, driven by greater competitiveness with same-sex peers (Gasiorowska et al., 2026). It is currently unknown, however, whether anxiously attached individuals’greater status strivings actually…
View details →Alice Milor · 2024 · Technology and Culture
abstract: Did the 1980s automotive standards reflect the European Economic Community's move toward a "technical democracy" or a broader democratic deficit? In the early 1980s, Europe's automotive sector faced multiple challenges: the…
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