Nailfold Capillaroscopy Using Dermatoscope As a Tool to Assess Correlation of Vasculopathy in Nailfolds with Retinopathy in Diabetes Mellitus Patients by Abhirut Thakur, Gurkim Kaur, Nancy Sharma, Devraj Dogra, Suman Kotwal

“…All the participants were subjected to NFC and ophthalmological assessment. Results: Four NC parameters showed significant positive correlation with severity of DR i.e. age (years), duration of diabetes (years), tortuous capillary and avascular area with correlation coefficient of 0.28, 0.864, 0.364, 0.274 respectively. …”
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Enhancing Patient Safety Through Leadership: A Comprehensive Literature Review on the Role of Head Nurses in Hospital Settings by Linnik Ljudmila, Sepp Jaana, Reinhold Karin

“…After evaluating and analysing the articles, 28 remain, focusing on four main themes: nurse engagement and patient safety climate, the impact of management style on patient outcomes, challenges in implementing safety culture in practice, and innovative practices and general management skills. …”
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Autocratización a fuego lento: el caso de Nicaragua (2000-2024) by Macià Serra, Daniel Rodríguez Suárez, Salvador Martí i Puig

“…Methodology: The quarter-century period is divided into four stages. The first, from 2000 to 2006, during which a liberal democratic regime begins to shift due to spurious political interests; the second, from 2006 to 2011, when the system acquires elements of a hybrid regime and authoritarian elections are introduced; the third, from 2011 to 2019, when the modus operandi—based on co-opting the country’s most influential economic and social actors—abruptly and improvised shifts (following protests) to influence a highly repressive authoritarian system; and a fourth period in which the government deploys a legal framework aimed at curtailing and repressing any form of dissent, hollowing out all state institutions and establishing a closed authoritarian regime. …”
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Analysis on Invulnerability of Wireless Sensor Network towards Cascading Failures Based on Coupled Map Lattice by Xiuwen Fu, Yongsheng Yang, Haiqing Yao

“…The invulnerability and the cascading process of four types of network topologies (i.e., random network, small-world network, homogenous scale-free network, and heterogeneous scale-free network) under various attack schemes (i.e., random attack, max-degree attack, and max-status attack) are investigated, respectively. …”
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Tides of Time: The Dutch Delta Works as Time-Mediating Climate Adaptation Infrastructure by Huub Dijstelbloem, Victor Toom, Annick de Vries

“…Developing the notion of infrastructural compromises to describe how infrastructures connect to and mediate between different temporal regimes, the analysis examines four episodes, each of which involves a different relationship to time and exemplifies different compromises between temporal regimes. …”
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Splenic Abscess: An Uncommon Entity with Potentially Life-Threatening Evolution by Mei-Chun Lee, Chun-Ming Lee

“…One (6.2%) patient underwent splenectomy, four (25%) patients performed percutaneous drainage of their splenic abscess, and 11 (68.7%) patients received antimicrobial therapy alone. …”
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Decision experiences in joint replacement surgery for patients with haemophilic arthritis: A qualitative study by YaNan Kan, YunChun Bao, Fuying Ye

“…Results The decision experience for patients with HA regarding joint replacement surgery can be summarized into four themes: decision information conflict, decision support conflict, self-perceived conflict, and self-developmental conflict. …”
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ChirpArray: A low‐cost, easy‐to‐construct microphone array for long‐term ecoacoustic monitoring by Ryotaro Okamoto, Hiroyuki Oguma

“…The ChirpArray system features a four‐channel microphone array that estimates sound source directions, aids in identifying individual animals and provides a detailed behavioural analysis. …”
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Naître et mourir à Nîmes dans l’Antiquité. L’évolution d’un espace funéraire consacré à l’inhumation des nourrissons et des fœtus du Ier siècle avant notre ère au IIIe siècle de no... by Gaëlle Granier, Richard Pellé

“…They are highly selective: foetuses (sometimes between 5 and 6 months in utero) share the burial space with children who all died before the age of 6 months. The graves of four dogs were found together with the children’s tombs. …”
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Motor Recovery of the Affected Hand in Subacute Stroke Correlates with Changes of Contralesional Cortical Hand Motor Representation by Jitka Veldema, Kathrin Bösl, Dennis Alexander Nowak

“…Hand motor function tests (Wolf Motor Function Test, Action Research Arm Test) and neurophysiological evaluations (resting motor threshold, motor evoked potentials, motor map area size, motor map area volume, and motor map area location) were obtained from both hands and hemispheres at baseline and two, four, and six weeks of in-patient rehabilitation. …”
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The semi-wild mariculture of Caribbean King Crab (Maguimithrax spinosissimus) for coral reef restoration by Samantha Glover, Mark J. Butler, IV

“…We examined whether this bottleneck could be alleviated by the semi-wild mariculture of the Caribbean King Crab (MaguiMithrax spinosissimus)in saltwater quarries for subsequent use in coral reef restoration in the Florida Keys, Florida (USA).We surveyed the physico-chemical characteristics of 16 saltwater quarries in the Florida Keys relative to conditions in the wild and, in four quarries where crabs occurred, we examined crab population dynamics in comparison to that in the wild. …”
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Short-Term Origin-Destination Based Metro Flow Prediction with Probabilistic Model Selection Approach by Xiaoqing Dai, Lijun Sun, Yanyan Xu

“…In the experiments, we compare the proposed model with four other prediction models, i.e., autoregressive-moving-average, neural networks, support vector regression, and averaging ensemble model, as well as the basic models. …”
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Influential factors in the competitiveness of mature tourism destinations by Margarida Custódio Santos, Ana Maria Ferreira, Carlos Costa

“…From the literature review, we concluded that the specific factors able to negatively influence the performance of mature tourism destinations can be grouped into four areas. The first area concerns the deterioration of the destinations’ infrastructure; the second is related to the destinations’ management, namely the lack of a shared strategic vision among stakeholders; the third area is associated with the loss of economic vitality in the destinations; finally, the fourth area includes the impact of tourism development over the years on the territory, specifically social, environmental and cultural impacts. …”
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Classification of Keruing (Dipterocarpus spp.) in Indonesia on the Basis of Fruit Characters by Dwi Tyaningsih Adriyanti, Soekotjo Soekotjo, Mochammad Na'iem, Anto Rimbawanto

“…However, Heim had a different point of view from four other experts as he divided the genus Dipterocarpus into 5 sections: sphaerales, tuberculati, angulati, alati and plicati, The classification done by Heim on Dipterocarpus were supported by Symington that the 5 sections could be detected from the fruit petals forming a tube. …”
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Modified French Osteotomy for Cubitus Varus Correction – Our Experience by P. Madhuchandra, K. M. Pawankumar

“…Superficial infection was seen in three patients and four patients had occasional negligible pain. There was no loss of correction and fixation failures in our study. …”
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Numerical Investigation on Flapping Aerodynamic Performance of Dragonfly Wings in Crosswind by Chao Wang, Rui Zhang, Chaoying Zhou, Zhenzhong Sun

“…The aerodynamic forces, the moments, and the flow structures of four dragonfly wings are examined when the sideslip angle ϑ between the crosswind and the flight direction varied from 0o to 90o. …”
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Resistance of the Nahdlatul Ulama Party towards the New Order 1967-1969 by Mahmud Mahmud, Dewi Yuliati, Alamsyah Alamsyah

“…This study uses historical research methods, which consist of four stages of historical research methods, namely: heuristics, source criticism, interpretation and historiography. …”
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How legitimate are urban climate planning processes? A comparative assessment of Accra, Ahmedabad, Bonn and São Paulo by Niklas Wagner, Minal Pathak

“…By analysing UCAPs of four cities from different regions of the world - Accra (Ghana), Bonn (Germany), São Paulo (Brazil), and Ahmedabad (India) - we unpack the quality of UCAP creation processes in terms of their legitimacy including whether and how key stakeholders were involved in shaping the plan. …”
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Organic compost in promoting growth and photosynthetic performance of Pereskia aculeata Mill. (Cactaceae) saplings by Nina Machado Suzigan, Gustavo dos Santos Cardoso, Nicole Almeida Barbosa, Giulianna Carolina Pincela da Costa, Geovana Gomes, Sara Dias Moura, Mônica Ellen Regis de Oliveira, Luiz Fernandes Cardoso Campos, Hyrandir Cabral de Melo, Letícia de Almeida Gonçalves

“…The saplings were obtained by cuttings and cultivated in four distinct substrates, comprising three treatments and one control group. …”
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« On est encore en vie, à la grande surprise de tout le monde… » L’expérience des personnes âgées trans vivant avec une démence dans une société âgiste, cisgenriste et cogniticiste... by Alexandre Baril, Marjorie Silverman

“…Narrative interviews were conducted with six participants (N= 6): four carers of trans and non-binary adults living with dementia and two trans (binary) people living with dementia. …”
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