Correction: A sialoadenectomy is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease: A three-year follow-up stu...
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199135.].
A Rasch analysis of emerging adults' health motivation questionnaire in higher education context.
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The College Students' Health Motivation Questionnaire (CSHM-Q) is used to measure motivation for a healthy lifestyle among emerging adults. This study sought to validate the CSHM-Q using the Rasch measurement model. 322 participants were recruited based on a convenience sampling method. The Rasch analysis was carried out using the RUMM2030 software...
Laboratory biomarkers of COVID-19 disease severity and outcome: Findings from a developing country.
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To identify laboratory biomarkers that predict disease severity and outcome among COVID-19 patients admitted to the Millennium COVID-19 Care Center in Ethiopia. A retrospective cohort study was conducted among 429 COVID-19 patients who were on follow up from July to October 2020. Data was described using frequency tables. Robust Poisson regression ...
Economic policy uncertainty and presidential approval: Evidence from Latin America.
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This paper analyzes the extent to which economic policy uncertainty affects presidential approval in four Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico). Using panel (time-series cross-sectional) estimation methods, we show that economic policy uncertainty has a negative impact on presidential approval in our sample. A one-standard-...
Characterizing the immune response of chickens to Campylobacter jejuni (Strain A74C).
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Campylobacter is one of the major foodborne pathogens causing bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. The immune response of broiler chickens to C. jejuni is under-researched. This study aimed to characterize the immune response of chickens to Campylobacter jejuni colonization. Birds were challenged orally with 0.5 mL of 2.4 x 108 CFU/mL of Campylobac...
Analysis of small and large subunit rDNA introns from several ectomycorrhizal fungi species.
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The small (18S) and large (28S) nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) introns have been researched and sequenced in a variety of ectomycorrhizal fungal taxa in this study, it is found that both 18S and 28S rDNA would contain introns and display some degree variation in size, nucleotide sequences and insertion positions within the same fungi species (Melinio...
A national COVID-19 quarantine survey and its impact on the Italian sports community: Implications and recommendations.
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The outbreak of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) created an international public health emergency, challenging the psychological resilience of the general population. Regarding this matter, a web-based survey was performed. Data were collected from the following 1,668 self-selected volunteers: 800 athletes (28.30 ± 10.93 years old); 558 coac...
Factors limiting youths' practice of preventive measures toward the outbreak of COVID-19 in Oromia special zone surround...
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious viral infection, and it has negative effects on public health. The practice of preventive measures of the disease supports containment processes of the spread of coronavirus. However, the practice of preventive measures is affected by several associated risk factors. This study aimed to inv...
Thriving during COVID-19: Predictors of psychological well-being and ways of coping.
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COVID-19 has led to global dramatic shifts in daily life. Following the biopsychosocial model of health, the goal of the current study was to predict people's psychological well-being (PWB) during the initial lockdown phase of the pandemic and to investigate which coping strategies were most common among people with low and high PWB. Participants w...
On the performance improvement of Butterfly Optimization approaches for global optimization and Feature Selection.
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Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA) is a recent metaheuristics algorithm that mimics the behavior of butterflies in mating and foraging. In this paper, three improved versions of BOA have been developed to prevent the original algorithm from getting trapped in local optima and have a good balance between exploration and exploitation abilities. I...
