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Negative / Null Result Report

304 To Raise Awareness About the NHS Cervical Screening Programme and to Reduce the Number of Did-Not-Attend (DNAs) Cervical Screening Appointments Among Women Aged 25–35 Years Through a Collaborative Reward System with Local Businesses

S. Singh · 2022 · British Journal of Surgery

Abstract Introduction Cervical screening is offered free under NHS Cervical Screening Programme since 1988. However, compliance is dwindling in the last decade, especially among women aged 25–35 years who had the least awareness. NHS…

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185 OVIDUCTAL CO-CULTURE CELL DID NOT REDUCE THE RATE OF CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITIES IN IN VITRO-PRODUCED BOVINE EMBRYOS

S. Demyda-Peyrás, P. Peral-García, M. Moreno-Millán · 2016 · Reproduction, Fertility and Development

One of the major causes of embryo failure on in vitro-produced cattle embryos is their increased rate of chromosomal abnormalities. It was demonstrated that they can be increased by the pre- and post-environmental conditions of culture,…

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Negative / Null Result Report

Administering tolfenamic acid to gilts and sows before artificial insemination did not improve litter size but tended to reduce post-service serum prostaglandin F2α levels

Pachara Pearodwong, Nithitad Jiebna, Padet Tummaruk · 2024 · The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

This study examined the impact of intramuscular administration of tolfenamic acid 10 min before artificial insemination (AI) on serum PGF2α levels and reproductive performance in gilts and sows. In Experiment I, 20 gilts were divided into…

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Effect of Particle Size on Color of Ground Coffee

R. Mugabi · 2021 · Asian Food Science Journal

Introduction: Particle size is one of the main variables that influence coffee brewing process and also most obvious to the consumers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different particle sizes on the color of ground…

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Riesgo de extinción en función al nicho climático: ¿qué sabemos y qué necesitamos saber?

Marcela N. Jiménez Zacur, Pastor Enmanuel Pérez-Estigarribia, Alberto Esquivel Mattos · 2023 · Reportes científicos de la FACEN

Ante el cambio climático, las especies pueden perder representación de su nicho en el biotopo, viéndose afectado el riesgo de extinción. Esta breve revisión de la literatura pretende establecer las bases del estado del conocimiento sobre…

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176 Did Hand Washing and Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Reduce Transmission of Surgical Site Infections During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic?

A. Hunt, H. Nasr, H. Willmott et al. · 2022 · British Journal of Surgery

Abstract Aim A retrospective case-control study comparing Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) following primary hip and knee arthroplasty before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic across East Sussex NHS Trust (ESHT). The aim of this study was…

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Randomised, Multicentre Clinical Trial Found That Hypertonic Saline Did Not Reduce the Length of Stay of Hospitalised Patients With Acute Bronchiolitis

Sara Szupieńko‐Bujak, Karolina Bojarska‐Cikoto, Katarzyna Merdzik et al. · 2026 · Acta Paediatrica

ABSTRACT Aim Bronchiolitis is a major cause of hospitalisation in young children, but the effectiveness of inhaled hypertonic saline remains unclear. We compared treating hospitalised infants with nebulised hypertonic saline or normal…

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Human Valve Interstitial Cells Demonstrate Transdifferentiation Potential

Najma Latif, Padmini Sarathchandra, Adrian H Chester et al. · 2012 · QScience Proceedings

Abstract Aortic stenosis and valvular degeneration is characterized by lipid accumulation, presence of cartilage and calcification. The identity and cellular origins of the cells mediating these effects are unknown. We have investigated…

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Surgical debridement of low velocity ballistic traumatic arthrotomy did not reduce rates of early wound infection or septic arthritis

Vishal S. Patel, Max Yang, Andrew Duong et al. · 2026 · European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology

Abstract Purpose To compare the incidence of ballistic wound infection and septic arthritis after operative versus nonoperative management of low-velocity ballistic traumatic arthrotomy of a major or intermediate joint. Methods A…

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How Gödel Both Did and Did Not Steal from Schmidt

Jeske Toorman · 2026 · Erkenntnis

Abstract Research in experimental philosophy of language has been taken to show that non-philosophers do not uniformly assign reference in accordance with the causal-historical account of reference determination. The setup most frequently…

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Abandoned Hypothesis

The Failed Reader: Keats’s “Brain-Sick” Endymion

Jo-Anne Cappeluti · 2012 · Philosophy and Literature

John Keats’s subject in Endymion is the imagination operating on the failed reader: the neutral or adolescent intellect that ultimately denies the transcendence it experiences; failing to mature, willfully remaining adolescent. Keats’s…

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