Weight Change and Predictors of Weight Change Among Patients Initiated on Darunavir/Cobicistat/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide or Bictegravir/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamid... by Bruno Emond, Carmine Rossi, Aurélie Côté-Sergent, Keith Dunn, Patrick Lefebvre, Marie-Hélène Lafeuille, Prina Donga

“…**Methods:** The Symphony Health, IDV® database (July 17, 2017 – September 30, 2019) was used to identify treatment naïve or virologically suppressed stable switchers who initiated DRV/c/FTC/TAF or BIC/FTC/TAF (index date) on or after July 17, 2018, were ≥18 years of age on the index date, and had ≥12 months of continuous clinical activity pre-index (baseline period). To account for differences in baseline characteristics, inverse-probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) was used. …”
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Non-medical treatment for late age-related macular degeneration by A.K. Drakon, A.G. Kurguzova, V.M. Sheludchenko, N.B. Korchazhkina

“…It is estimated that late AMD accounts for half of blindness and low vision cases in European countries. …”
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Association between Food Insecurity, Socioeconomic Status of the Household Head, and Hypertension and Diabetes in Maputo City by Elias M. A. Militao, Olalekan A. Uthman, Elsa M. Salvador, Stig Vinberg, Gloria Macassa

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Maladie, médecine et migration au prisme de l’écriture migrante sino-française: une contribution à la médecine transculturelle? by Julia Pröll

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Optimizing boron application methods and dosages to enhance jute (Corchorus olitorius) seed yield and quality under sub-tropical climate by Tapan Kumar, Pritthee Mallick Tama, Syed Aflatun Kabir Hemel, Ranjit Kumar Ghosh, Md Imran Ali, Abdullah Al-Bakky, Abdul Alim

“…The experiment, using the jute variety BJRI Tossa Pat 8, was conducted in a randomized complete block design to account for environmental variability and enhance treatment comparison. …”
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Impact of HACOR Score on Noninvasive Ventilation Failure in Non-COPD Patients with Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure by Min Ding, Xiaoli Han, Linfu Bai, Shicong Huang, Jun Duan

“…A rating scale that takes into account heart rate, acidosis, consciousness, oxygenation, and respiratory rate (the HACOR score) has been used to predict noninvasive ventilation (NIV) failure in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …”
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Evaluation of the Clinical Efficacy of Prednisolone in the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases with Different Dosage Methods by O. P. Alekseeva, S. V. Krishtopenko, A. A. Alekseeva

“…When two graphs in mg and mg / kg of weight were superimposed, it is shown that when an initial dose of 40 mg is prescribed without taking into account the patient's weight, the effect of therapy will be 25 % lower. …”
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Body composition is associated with changes in health-related quality of life in patients with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis by Jérémie Sellam, Francis Guillemin, Bernard Mazières, Anne-Christine Rat, Patrice Fardellone, Willy Ngueyon Sime

“…Body composition variables were fat mass index (FMI (kg/m²)), percentage of fat mass, trunk to leg fat mass ratio (TFM/LFM) and skeletal muscle mass index (SMI (kg/m²)). To account for the correlation of repeated measures in each individual, GEE models were used.Results 290 patients with knee and 114 patients with hip OA were included in the analysis. …”
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A qualitative study on the motivations to bariatric surgery of patients with obesity (肥胖症患者寻求减重手术动机的质性研究) by XU Mengyu (徐梦瑜), LIANG Xiaoyu (梁晓宇), SUN Longhao (孙龙昊), HU Fang (胡芳), ZHANG Yan (张妍)

“…When giving patients the choice of obesity treatment and outcome education, these factors should be taken into account, which will help to individualization encourage obese patients to better accept bariatric surgery. …”
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Investigating the Feasibility of Behavioral Nudges to Reduce the Phenomenon of Escape from Responsibility in Public Sector by Seyed Kamal Vaezi, Mahboubeh Hosseini

“…By empowering managers and by being aware of cognitive biases, promoting collective accountability, and using nudges to change behavior, organizations can create a safer working environment in which managers are motivated and take an active part in fulfilling their responsibilities and duties. …”
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REGIONAL FACTORS OF MECHANISMS TRANSFORMATION FOR STRENGTHENING THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR OF UKRAINE by Tetyana Calinescu, Olena Zelenko, Serhii Pidmohylnyi

“…In order to achieve the goal, the following methods were used: analysis of theoretical sources (to determine the essence of the concept of economic security and the mechanism of its formation at the regional level, taking into account the existing ones), comparison and generalisation (to analyse the latest publications of Ukrainian scientists), graphic and statistical analysis (to determine modern trends in the development of entrepreneurship in the industrial sector of Ukraine), analysis of strategic programme documents (to identify modern strategic favourable and unfavourable factors for strengthening the economic security of entrepreneurial activity in the industrial sector at the regional level). …”
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Dynamiques socio-politiques et territorialités de l’immigration ivoirienne en Tunisie by Camille Cassarini

“…Indeed, beyond the change of regime, these Ivorian flows make visible a change in the political imaginary of success and of the figures of success in the country. Thus, our work accounts for the way in which, in a single movement, Ivorian migratory strategies, starting from socio-political dynamics, reconfigure the link and the possibilities between geographical mobility and social success. …”
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Sex-biased prevalence in infections with heterosexual, direct, and vector-mediated transmission: a theoretical analysis by Andrea Pugliese, Abba B. Gumel, Fabio A. Milner, Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez

“…Quantitatively, the ratio of final attack ratios generally will not exceed 1.5, if non-sexual transmission accounts for most transmission events (ρ ≥ 0.6) and the ratio of gender-specific susceptibilities is not too large (say, 5 at most).The third model considers vector-borne, instead of direct transmission. …”
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Criminal justice in a small Nordic country: The case of Iceland by Helgi Gunnlaugsson

“…This paper uses official data, previous research and media accounts to examine the response of Icelandic authorities to this trend. …”
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Introduction à « Convergences franco-chinoises: la valeur de la créativité transculturelle » by Rosalind Silvester, Guillaume Thouroude

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Long-Term Evaluation of Mid-Cost Optical Particle Counters for PM2.5 Monitoring in an Underground Subway Station: Insights from a 15-Month Study by Trieu-Vuong Dinh, Byeong-Gyu Park, Sang-Woo Lee, In-Young Choi, Da-Hyun Baek, Jo-Chun Kim

“…However, its long-term performance with respect to various monitoring environments should be taken into account. In this study, six mid-cost OPCs were used to measure PM_2.5 concentrations at an underground subway station and compared with a reference BAM over 15 months. …”
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Representativeness of the dabigatran, apixaban and rivaroxaban clinical trial populations to real-world atrial fibrillation patients in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional analys... by Gregory Y H Lip, Sally Lee, Brigitta U Monz, Andreas Clemens, Martina Brueckmann

“…Differences between trials should be taken into account when considering the applicability of findings from randomised clinical trials. …”
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Deformation of the Juan de Fuca Plate Beneath the Central Cascadia Continental Margin (44°-45°N) in Response to an Upper Plate Load by Anne M. Tréhu, Kathy Davenport, Christopher B. Kenyon, Suzanne M. Carbotte, John L. Nabelek, Douglas R. Toomey, William S. D. Wilcock

“…Although our simple analytical models do not include partial support of the load of the slab by the adjacent upper plate crust or time dependence to account for the motion of the slab beneath the load, incorporation of those effects should decrease rather than increase the apparent strength of the subducted plate. …”
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The financial character of policing in Tunisia: collusions, extraversion and the criminalization of informality by Daniela Musina

“…To advance the argument, the article first aligns with theoretical sociological accounts that deconstruct and overcome methodological nationalism and exceptionalism of analyses of coercive power in Tunisia and the region. …”
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Biaxial fatigue behavior of a powder metallurgical TRIP steel by S. Ackermann, T. Lippmann, D. Kulawinski, S. Henkel, H. Biermann

“…In the present study the biaxial-planar fatigue behavior of a powder metallurgical TRIP steel (Transformation Induced Plasticity) was studied by taking into account martensitic phase transformation and crack growth behavior. …”
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