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The World Health Organization declared coronavirus disease of 2019 as an epidemic and public health emergency of international concern on January 30th, 2020. Different factors during a pandemic can contribute to low quality of life in the general population. Quality of life is considered multidimensional and subjective and is assessed by using patient reported outcome measures.

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The aim of this review was to evaluate the risk of COVID-19 cytokine release syndrome (CRS) with HIV infection and meta-regress for indicator covariates. Electronic databases, including Google Scholar, Cochrane Library, Web of Sciences (WOS), EMBASE, Medline/PubMed, COVID-19 Research Database, and Scopus, were systematically searched till February 30, 2022. All human studies were included, irrespective of publication date or region.

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Background: COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, spreading to the rest of the globe, becoming a pandemic. Some studies have shown an association between pregnancy status and severe COVID-19 with a cytokine storm, whereas others have shown contrasting results.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between pregnancy status and the clinical COVID-19 severity characterized by the cytokine storm through a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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The experimental values of skin permeability coefficients, required for dermal exposure assessment, are not readily available for many chemicals. The existing estimation approaches are either less accurate or require many parameters that are not readily available. Furthermore, current estimation methods are not easy to apply to complex environmental mixtures.

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Mixture Touch: A Web Platform for the Evaluation of Complex Chemical Mixtures.

ACS Omega

April 2020

Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8569, Japan.

Risk assessment of chemical mixtures isRisk assessment of chemical mixtures is challenging because information about the chemical structure, concentration, properties, and toxicity, down to the individual compounds, is generally not readily accessible. To cope with this challenge, we think Mixture Touch- a web platform that offers a one-window solution, for free, for the risk assessment of complex mixtures that are analyzed with comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC × GC). GC × GC is a powerful analytical technique for target and nontarget analysis of complex mixtures.

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RE: Perceptions of confidence among Saudi nursing interns during internship program: a cross-sectional study The use of nonparametric statistical tests.

Ann Saudi Med

March 2019

Dr. Mustafa Afifi, College of Health Sciences,, Jumeira University, Al Qouz 4,, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ORCID: http:// orcid.org/0000-0002-9561-8318.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to explore how empathy, self-efficacy, and hope relate to medical students' readiness for lifelong learning.
  • It involved 221 students from all five years at a university in the UAE, using a self-report questionnaire to collect data.
  • Results showed that female students had higher empathy and self-efficacy scores, and there were significant positive correlations between self-efficacy, hope, and readiness for lifelong learning.
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