Previous Intestinal Resection Is Associated with Postoperative Complications in Crohn’s Disease: A Cohort Study by Yantao Duan, Yifan Liu, Yousheng Li

“…Patients who had previous surgery had a longer duration of operation (P=0.003), greater estimated blood loss (P=0.001), and longer hospital stay (P<0.001) and were more inclined to develop postoperative complications (P=0.047), particularly anastomotic leak (P=0.021) and severe (Clavien–Dindo grade III/IV) complications (P=0.038). After multivariate analysis, previous intestinal resection (P=0.019), preoperative use of steroids (P=0.026), and ASA score of more than II (P<0.001) were determined to be the independent prognostic risk factors for postoperative complications. …”
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Neural Density Functional Theory of Liquid-Gas Phase Coexistence by Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt, Robert Evans

“…., the crossover of the asymptotic (large distance) decay of g(r) from monotonic to oscillatory, (ii) the (Widom) line of maximal correlation length, (iii) the line of maximal isothermal compressibility, and (iv) the spinodal by calculating the poles of the structure factor in the complex plane. …”
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Deterioro cognitivo, ¿indispensable evaluar en una comunidad tercermundista? by Ana Consuelo Tascón de Peñaranda, Gloria Inés Rodas Muñoz, María José Lozano Peñaranda, Juan David Peñaranda Meléndez

“… El objetivo de la presente investigación fue encontrar el déficit cognitivo aplicando el cuestionario SAGE en una población ≥ 60 años de edad, cuyos factores de inclusión fueron: i) saber leer; ii) saber escribir; iii) entender y firmar el consentimiento informado; iv) ser residente en el municipio de San Pedro-Valle del Cauca, Colombia; v) no presentar antecedentes psiquiátricos o estar en manejo psicológico y/o tratamiento psiquiátrico. …”
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Consequences of violence experienced in childhood by Danutė Klokmanienė, Loreta Klokmanienė, Audronė Rimkuvienė

“…It has been determined that in their childhood, the respondents who participated in the research experienced all four forms of violence distinguished in the scientific literature: physical, psychological, sexual, and neglect. …”
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The Spirit and Holy Spirit in The Quran and its Exegeses by Mohammad Makdod

“…The term ‘Holy Spirit’ is referenced four times in the Quran, with three instances directly related to Jesus Christ, while the broader term ‘spirit’ or “the spirit” (al-Rūḥ) appears eighteen times, some of which pertain to Mary, the mother of Jesus. …”
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Some complex probabilistic hesitant fuzzy aggregation operators and their applications to multi-attribute decision making by Yanpo Yang, Baoquan Ning, Fengjuan Tian, Guihui Lu

“…Moreover, we establish four basic operations for complex probabilistic hesitant fuzzy element(CPHFE) and a series of useful operational laws are also developed. …”
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Ecolinguistic dynamics of English loanwords in Chinese: a case study on terms for cement by Ruifeng Mo, Hao-Zhang Xiao

“…As these loanwords undergo continuous evolution, a lexical ecocontinuum emerges: (i) extinct in the wild—ShiMinTu; (ii) critically endangered—HongMaoNi; (iii) endangered—ShuiMenTing; (iv) vulnerable—YangHui; (v) least concerned—ShuiNi.…”
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Evaluation of Effective Bond Strength of Composite Resin to Etched Dentin after Dentin Pretreatment: An In-vitro Study by Muhammed Bilal, Shiraz Pasha, Arathi S. Nair

“…Teeth were divided into four groups according to the deproteinizing agents used, which are 5% NaOCl, 2% doxycycline, 17% EDTA, and 1% chitosan. …”
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Life Stage‐ and Sex‐Specific Sensitivity to Nutritional Stress in a Holometabolous Insect by Leon Brueggemann, Pragya Singh, Caroline Müller

“…We exposed individuals to four nutritional regimes, either no, larval, adult starvation or starvation periods as larvae and adults. …”
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Can a low-threshold check-up motivate older adults to schedule a dental visit? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Aster De Vleeschauwer, Louise Poppe, Roos Colman, Barbara Janssens

“…The primary outcome is whether or not the participants will contact a dental professional within four months after the intervention. Discussion This study examines the efficacy of a low-threshold dental check-up intervention to motivate older adults to contact a dental professional and reactivate them into primary oral care, addressing barriers to oral care such as low health literacy, subjective treatment need, and dental anxiety. …”
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Definitions of Frailty in Qualitative Research: A Qualitative Systematic Review by Deborah A. Lekan, Susan K. Collins, Audai A. Hayajneh

“…Synthesis of the findings yielded four themes: Time, Vulnerability, Loss, and Relationships. …”
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Comparative analysis of organizationalculture transformation models by I. V. Groshev, Menin He

“…., have been considered. Four main sources of change have been determined, three of which are relatively independent of management actions, and the fourth is directly related to management actions: survival, evolutionary, revolutionary processes, and managed changes. …”
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STEM Applications in Turkish Science High Schools by Mustafa Hilmi Colakoglu

“…MoNE created the "Science High School Project Advisory Board" with six members from Ankara University and four members from METU to contribute to the scientific and curriculum aspects of the project. …”
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Religious Practices and Its Impacts on a Sustainable Urban Environment in Nigeria: The Way Forward by Timothy Oyebamiji Ogunbode, Funke Elizabeth Oyekan

“…Of the 11 variables, the first six alone offered 45.248%, namely, (i) contribution to climate change, (ii) night worships, (iii) noise pollution caused, (iv) use of the public address system, (v) quest for expansion, and (vi) religious uses of natural resources, especially water. …”
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Manipulating Propagule Type and Interrow Ground Cover to Influence Flowering Time, Yield, Fruit Quality, and Harvest Dates in the Day-neutral Strawberry ‘Albion’ by Mykala Robertson, Marvin Pritts

“…Plants were selected from the following four propagule types from different developmental stages: standard bare-root plants set in early May; bare-root plants started in the greenhouse in February and planted in early May; bare-root plants started in the greenhouse in March and planted in early May; and plug plants set in the field in fall (Aug 2021 and Oct 2022) of the previous year. …”
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Simulation of Daily Rainfall from Concurrent Meteorological Parameters over Core Monsoon Region of India: A Novel Approach by Utpal Misra, Atri Deshamukhya, Sanjay Sharma, Srimanta Pal

“…Daily rainfall is found to be optimally dependent on four concurrent meteorological parameters, namely, geopotential height, specific humidity, zonal, and meridional wind at 1000 mb, 925 mb, 850 mb, and 700 mb pressure levels during 00, 06, 12, and 18 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). …”
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Assessing the Filariasis Causing Parasites in Adult Mosquitoes and the Vector Mosquito Larval Breeding in Selected Medical Officer of Health Areas in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka by S. A. S. Pilagolla, L. D. Amarasinghe

“…The present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of filariasis causing parasites in adult mosquitoes and vector mosquito larval breeding in four Medical Officer of Health (MOH) areas in Gampaha district, Sri Lanka. …”
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Integrated Serosurveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Multiplex Bead Assays: A Systematic Review by Selina Ward, Harriet L. S. Lawford, Benn Sartorius, Colleen L. Lau

“…In November and December 2023, four databases were searched for studies utilising MBAs for the integrated serosurveillance of infectious diseases. …”
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L’agrobiodiversité végétale au sein des paysages forestiers utilisés par les communautés Baka et Konabembé au Sud-Est Cameroun by Évariste Fongnzossie, Thomas Mbang Nkongo, Didier Dibong Siegfried, Marlene Ngansop

“…Floristic surveys allowed the identification of 170 species grouped in 61 families. Thirty four of them are cultivated crops mostly of Solanaceae family (9 espèces) and 136 are native forest species accompanying crops in farms, with a great richness of individuals of Sterculiaceae family. …”
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Numerical Test Research on Loading Rate Effect of Rock Mass with Transfixion Sawtooth Structural Plane by Dongsong Li, Yanhong Du, Feng Chen, Tianhui Ma

“…When the loading rate is 0.002 mm/s, the residual strength of sample C is lower than that of samples A and B, and the other four kinds of loading conditions are higher than those of specimens A and B. …”
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