Forest Fire Smoke Layers Observed in the Free Troposphere over Portugal with a Multiwavelength Raman Lidar: Optical and Microphysical Properties by Sérgio Nepomuceno Pereira, Jana Preißler, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Ana Maria Silva, Frank Wagner

“…The particle intensive optical properties showed features different from the ones reported for aged smoke, but rather consistent with fresh smoke. …”
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Diagnosis of Oral Hairy Leukoplakia: The Importance of EBV In Situ Hybridization by Luana L. Martins, José Henrique F. Rosseto, Natália Silva Andrade, Juliana Bertoldi Franco, Paulo Henrique Braz-Silva, Karem L. Ortega

“…The patients with OHL had a mean age of 41.9 years and were HIV-infected for 11.2 years, on average, including CD4 count of 504.7 cells/mm3 and log10 viral load = 1.1. …”
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The Status of Assessments and Treatments for Osteoporosis in Patients 5 Years after Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Cross-Sectional Survey of 194 Post-THA Patients by Keiji Kamo, Hiroaki Kijima, Koichiro Okuyama, Shin Yamada, Natsuo Konishi, Hitoshi Kubota, Hiroshi Tazawa, Naohisa Miyakoshi, Yoichi Shimada

“…Moreover, while 40% of post-THA patients over 40 years of age may require treatment for osteoporosis, only 29.9% were actually receiving treatment.…”
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Risk of Microvascular Complications and Macrovascular Risk Factors in Early-Onset Type 1 Diabetes after at Least 10 Years Duration: An Analysis of Three Population-Based Cross-Sect... by Thaddäus Tönnies, Anna Stahl-Pehe, Christina Baechle, Katty Castillo, Oliver Kuss, Rhuphine Yossa, Lena M. E. Lindner, Reinhard W. Holl, Joachim Rosenbauer

“…To estimate the risk of microvascular complications and macrovascular risk factors among persons with early-onset (diagnosed at ages 0 to <5 years) and long-duration type 1 diabetes and determine temporal trends and associations with potential predictors. …”
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Solo Sonographically Guided PCNL under Spinal Anesthesia: Defining Predictors of Success by Akbar Nouralizadeh, Hamid Pakmanesh, Abbas Basiri, Mohammad Aayanifard, Mohammad Hossein Soltani, Ali Tabibi, Farzaneh Sharifiaghdas, Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziaee, Naser Shakhssalim, Reza Valipour, Behzad Narouie, Mohammad Hadi Radfar

“…Logistic regression showed that a lower age and a larger stone burden significantly predicted positive residual stones. …”
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COGEVIS: A New Scale to Evaluate Cognition in Patients with Visual Deficiency by Claire Meyniel, Dalila Samri, Farah Stefano, Joel Crevoisier, Florence Bonté, Raffaella Migliaccio, Laure Delaby, Anne Bertrand, Marie Odile Habert, Bruno Dubois, Bahram Bodaghi, Stéphane Epelbaum

“…Thirty-eight individuals, 17 women and 21 men with a mean age of 70.3 ± 1.3 years and a mean visual acuity of 0.12 ± 0.02, were recruited over a one-year period. …”
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Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Rare Type of Lung Metastases—Two Case Reports and Review of the Literature by Rokana Taftaf, Sandra Starnes, Jiang Wang, Ralph Shipley, Tariq Namad, Rana Khaled, Nagla Abdel Karim

“…Benign metastasizing leiomyoma (BML) is a rare disease that usually occurs in women of reproductive age. They typically have history of uterine leiomyoma treated with hysterectomy. …”
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Propensity score matching analysis of valve-sparing versus aortic root replacement in type A aortic dissection patients by Ling Chen, Yichao Pan, Huaijian Zhang, Yi Chen, Chunsheng Wang, Zhihuang Qiu, Heng Lu, Liangwan Chen

“…Subgroup analysis indicated that patients aged less than 60 years and those with a BMI greater than 24 in the VSRR group exhibited significantly improved survival probabilities compared to the ARR group. …”
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Obstetricians’ Views for Reasons Decision-Making for Cesarean Section in Iran by Sedigheh Hantoosh Zadeh, Mamak Shariat, Azam-Sadat Mousavi, Leyla Sahebi, Raheleh Moradi, Nahid Farrokhzad

“…In general, 67 gynecologists participated in the study. The average (SD) age and work experience of doctors was 42.95 (7.68), and 11.49 (8.35) years respectively. …”
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Macroanatomical and subgross studies on the brachial plexus of the angora goat by Memduh Gezici

“…In this study, ihe formation and distribution of the brachial plexus were investigated in Angora goat, for this purpose, eight Angora goat in different ages and sex were used. It was observed that the brachial plexus in the Angora goat was formed by the ventral branches of the sixth, seventh, eighth cervical and lirst thoracic spinal nerves. …”
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Pacing and Sensing of Human Heart for over 31 Years with the Same Apparatus (Generator and Lead) by Evangelos Papasteriadis, Panagiotis Margos

“…Several patients receive a permanent pacemaker in a relatively young age, with multiple subsequent reoperations for pacemaker replacement. …”
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Pacienti a zdravotnícky personál bratislavskej nemocnice milosrdných bratov v ranom novoveku by Ingrid Kušniráková

“… The study deals with the history of the Hospital of Brothers of Mercy in Bratislava in the Early Modern Time with to scope to describe it's staff and confessional, age and social structure of it's pacients. The Brothers of Mercy administered it's hospitals according to the orders observance, its personnel and admission of pacients also responded to its stipulations. …”
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Ganglion of the Sternoclavicular Joint: A Rare Location of an Uncommon Pediatric Mass by Jacob Musiol, Jacob Hansen, Jonathan Wood

“…Ganglia are rare in the pediatric population, with less than 2% occurring under the age of 2 years old. Additionally, sternoclavicular joint ganglia are also exceedingly rare. …”
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Urethral clear cell adenocarcinoma in an adult female: A rare case report by Yacob Sheiferawe Seman, Michael Teklehaimanot Abera, Fadil Nuredin Abrar, Tesfaye Kebede Legesse, Mesfin Asefa Tola, Tsiyon Nigusie Alemu

“…Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the urethra is an extremely rare malignancy with a poor outcome, mainly affecting females in old age. We present the case of a 42-year-old female patient who presented with progressively worsening lower urinary tract symptoms, leading to a cystoscopy-guided core needle biopsy diagnosis of clear cell adenocarcinoma of the urethra. …”
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Tuberculous Dactylitis: An Uncommon Presentation of a Common Infection by G. Nayantara Rao, Jayasri Helen Gali, S. Narasimha Rao

“…Tuberculous dactylitis is an unusual form of osteoarticular tuberculosis involving the short tubular bones of hands and feet, which is uncommon beyond six years of age. We report the case of a fifteen-year-old adolescent boy who was diagnosed with tuberculous dactylitis, involving contralateral hand and foot. …”
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Sleep Needs for Children by Suzanna Smith

“…“Does your school-aged child complain about being sleepy during the day, doze off in class, or yawn a lot? …”
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Dion and the Argead expansion by Diego Chapinal-Heras

“…Despite northern Pieria belonging to the core of the Macedonian realm, southern Pieria did not fall under Macedonian sway until the end of the Archaic Age. By using evidence from both literature and archaeology, this paper attempts to reconstruct the assimilation of southern Pieria into the Macedonian kingdom and the way that influenced the development of Dion. …”
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Practical Uses for Ultrasound in Managing Beef Cattle Reproduction by Mario Binelli, Thiago Martins, John Arthington, Kalyn Waters, Vitor Mercadante, Philipe Moriel, Angela Gonella-Diaza

“… This publication aims to discuss the use of ultrasound to assist with beef cattle reproduction, which includes evaluation of the pre-service status of heifers and cows, diagnosis of pregnancy, determination of fetal age and sex, and evaluation of reproductive fitness of embryo recipients. …”
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Sleep Needs for Children by Suzanna Smith

“…“Does your school-aged child complain about being sleepy during the day, doze off in class, or yawn a lot? …”
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Information Societies and Associations by Melih Ali Akın

“…The Turkish Librarians Association, as a professional organisation, is faced with a great responsibility which entails an important role in the formation of an information policy which will lead our society into the information age; and improvement of the economic and social status of professionals.…”
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