Methods were evaluated and approved by the institutional Commission of Bioethics of University of Extremadura (CBUE 49/2019) and by Junta de Extremadura Local Government (87/2019). Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Acknowledgements We ...
This cross-sectional study was conducted on 106 males attending the Urology Clinics of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja and Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta. Male patients 40 years and above with prostate cancer diagnosis served as cases while those with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH...
Core funding for ICES Western is provided by the Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario (AMOSO), the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry (SSMD), Western University, and the Lawson Health Research Institute (LHRI). This study was also supported by the Innovations Fund of the...
METHOD: A retrospective study was conducted in a population of adolescents (age <18 years) delivered at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria from January 2007 to November 2008. The birth register for the study-period was reviewed and socio-demographic data and labour records were ...
Yu X of Southwest University for providing historical documents. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41772170, 42011530078), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant Nos. XDJK2017A010, XDJK2020D005) to Li ...
whereAis the pre-exponential factor that is not sensitive to thermo-chemical conditions,nis the stress exponent and is a non-dimensional constant,\(\dot{\epsilon }\)is the strain rate,Eis the activation energy,Pis the pressure,Vis the activation volume,Ris the gas constant,Tis the temperature...
Prokaryotes contribute to the health of marine sponges. However, there is lack of data on the assembly rules of sponge-associated prokaryotic communities, especially for those inhabiting biodiversity hotspots, such as ecoregions between tropical and warm temperate southwestern Atlantic waters. The sympatric...
The Choiyoi Magmatic Province represents a major episode of silicic magmatism in southwestern Pangea in the mid-Permian-Triassic, the origin of which remains intensely debated. Here, we integrate plate-kinematic reconstructions and the lower mantle slab
This may be due to the fact that healthcare waste handlers in remote settings, as is the case in our study area, are probably a mix of youngsters who have completed secondary and college/university education, as compared to more urbanized settings, where the workforce is dominated by those ...
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