Endoscopic Approaches to the Treatment of Variceal Hemorrhage in Hemodialysis-Dependent Patients by Xiaoquan Huang, Lili Ma, Xiaoqing Zeng, Jian Wang, Jie Chen, Shiyao Chen

“…The median age of the patients was 54 years (range 34–67 years) and the median follow-up period was 21.3 months (range 7–134 months). All the patients received a total of three times heparin-free hemodialysis 24 hours before and no more than 24 hours and 72 hours after endoscopic treatment. …”
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Improving the thermal performance of PVC windows with pultruded thermoplastic reinforcement by Kirill Minchenkov, Sergey Gusev, Ivan Sergeichev, Alexander Safonov

“…The microscopy results demonstrated full consolidation of all tapes in the material, thus confirming proper selection of pultrusion parameters. …”
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DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS SIMULATION ANALYSIS AND MICROSCOPIC MODEL OF RUBBER CONVEYOR BELT OF STEEL CORE by CHEN HongYue, ZHANG Kun, LI EnDong, LI YongHong, MAO Jun

“…The axial deformation amount of rubber covering exist little deformation amount in the middle port and large deformation amount all around. The average axial deformation of rubber is larger than the deformation amount of wire rope. which reveal mechanism of energy consumption about rubber conveyor belt of steel core, then that provide theoretical basis for research and development of green energy-saving belt conveyor.…”
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The potential impacts of climate and forest changes on streamflow for micro-, meso- and macro-scale catchments in Norway by Shaochun Huang, Stephanie Eisner, Wai Kwok Wong, Nicolas Cattaneo

“…Forest growth reduces the flood levels caused by climate by up to 3 % in all catchments except one with large clear-cutting areas. …”
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Loading-Rate Dependency of Young’s Modulus for Class I and Class II Rocks by Hailong Zhang, Seisuke Okubo, Cancan Chen, Yang Tang, Jiang Xu

“…In this study, four different types of rocks were tested, and the results were used to analyze the loading-rate dependency of Young’s modulus and explain the underlying mechanism. For all four rocks, Young’s modulus increased linearly with a tenfold increase in the loading rate. …”
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EMERGING GAMBLING MARKET OF GEORGIA (ECONOMIC DIMENSION) by Besik Bolkvadze

“…In a purely economic sense, gambling is as much a business as any other business in the business sector, but it differs radically from all other areas of business in the following specifics for the state and the society living in this field: 1. a «set» of extremely high social risks is created, the partial neutralization of which is possible only in case of its best organization;  2. …”
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Increasing the combat readiness and fighting capacity of police officers to act in extreme situations by I. V. Vlasenko, T. V. T. V. Shevchenko

“…There is also no doubt about the practical significance, all units of the National Police from the stage of professional selection to the system of professional training need improvement and a systematic approach to increasing combat readiness and fighting capacity, qualitative changes in the system of professional training. …”
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ADSORPTION OF HEAVY METALS FROM WATER USING MORINGA OLIFERA PODS MODIFIED WITH IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES by Mokete John Phele, Fanyana Mtunzi, David Shooto

“…The adsorption process fit the second-order kinetics well in all cases, and the Langmuir isotherm equation fit the experimental data well.…”
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THE CAUCASIAN DIMENSION OF THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP IN 2009-2016 by P. A. Barakhvostov

“…However, in order to promote the stable development of the region, the EU needs to rethink its foreign policy strategy and come up with a modernized framework of cooperation that would take into account the interests of all concerned parties, including the Russian Federation.…”
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Efficient constructions for large‐state block ciphers based on AES New Instructions by Rentaro Shiba, Kosei Sakamoto, Takanori Isobe

“…As a result, the authors reveal the constructions such that two rounds of the AES round function is executed in parallel at each step and its outputs are shuffled (called two‐round constructions) and are optimal in all CPUs with Skylake architecture or later versions. …”
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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Among Pregnant Women - A Cross-Sectional Study by Durghashree C, Sarojini ., Prathima S, Meghana C

“…The mean score in the practice section averaged 8plusmn2 out of a total possible score of 16. In all the three KAP sections the scores were significantly influenced by socioeconomic status method of conception and history of polycystic ovary syndrome PCOS.Conclusion This study highlights the poor knowledge moderate attitudes and practices among GDM patients in a resource-limited setting. …”
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Effect of Amino Acids on the Synthesis of NiFe₂O₄/Au Hybrid Nanoparticles by Diana Nemkova, Svetlana Saikova, Anton Krolikov

“…The results indicate the successful synthesis of magnetic NiFe₂O₄/Au nanoparticles with all amino acids used, but the size of the gold crystals, their surface density, and the details of the NP structure (inlaid or a core–shell structure) depend on the amino acid used. …”
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Understanding geographical variations in health system performance: a population-based study on preventable childhood hospitalisations by Daniel Exeter, Pushkar Raj Silwal, Arier Lee, Tim Tenbensel

“…Objective To investigate interdistrict variations in childhood ambulatory sensitive hospitalisation (ASH) over the years.Design Observational population-based study over 2008–2018 using the Primary Health Organisation Enrolment Collection (PHO) and the National Minimum Dataset hospital events databases.Setting New Zealand primary and secondary care.Participants All children aged 0–4 years enrolled in the PHO Enrolment Collection from 2008 to 2018.Main outcome measure ASH.Results Only 1.4% of the variability in the risk of having childhood ASH (intracluster correlation coefficient=0.014) is explained at the level of District Health Board (DHB), with the median OR of 1.23. …”
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Self-Renewal Signalling in Presenescent Tetraploid IMR90 Cells by Anda Huna, Kristine Salmina, Elina Jascenko, Gunars Duburs, Inna Inashkina, Jekaterina Erenpreisa

“…At the presenescence stage, a small (2–7%) proportion of cells overcome the 4n-G1 checkpoint, simultaneously inducing self-renewal (NANOG-positivity), the DNA damage response (DDR; γ-H2AX-positive foci), and senescence (p16inka4a- and p21CIP1-positivity) signalling, some cells reach octoploid DNA content and divide. All of these markers initially appear and partially colocalise in the perinucleolar compartment. …”
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Le traducteur et les italiques. Omniscience et redressement dans Madame Bovary by Sophie Sarrazin

“…Some passages are also rectified (in all the meanings of the word, including the etymological one) by almost every translator. …”
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A novel Arabidopsis phyllosphere resident Protomyces species and a re-examination of genus Protomyces based on genome sequence data by Kai Wang, Timo Sipilä, Kirk Overmyer

“…We previously sequenced the genomes of all available Protomyces species, and P. arabidopsidicola sp. nov. strain C29, from Arabidopsis. …”
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Adsorption Study and Removal of Basic Fuchsin Dye from Medical Laboratory Wastewater Using Local Natural Clay by Fuad Hama Sharif Radha, Dler M. S. Shwan, Stephan Kaufhold

“…The thermodynamic parameters such as ΔG°, ΔH°, and ΔS° were determined, and the negative values of ΔG° indicated that adsorption was spontaneous at all temperatures. Furthermore, the values of ΔH° indicated an endothermic reaction. …”
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Carbamazepine Induced Stevens-Johnson Syndrome That Developed into Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis: Review of the Literature by Yousef S. Abuzneid, Hussam I. A. Alzeerelhouseini, Duha Rabi, Ihab Hilail, Hatem Rjoob, Abdelrahman Rabee, Naser Amro, Qutaiba Qafisheh, Mohammad Kharraz

“…We present a case of a 23-year-old female patient referred to our hospital after taking carbamazepine and developing high-grade fever and ulcers that appeared initially in her mouth and face but then progressed despite treatment, extending all over her body and involving about 90% of her BSA. …”
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COMMUNICATION OF THE CENTRAL BANK AS A DETERMINANT OF THE CREDIBILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MONETARY POLICY ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK by Piotr Misztal

“…Empirical analyses were conducted on the example of the European Central Bank, which, from the point of view of its monetary policy, is characterised by relatively high efficiency, relatively effectively stabilising inflation in the monetary union. All statistics used in the study were taken from databases of the International Monetary Fund (IMF World Economic Outlook), the European Union statistical office (Eurostat) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (OECD Data). …”
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Evaluation of Fish Biosolids as a Fertilizer for Organic Tomato Transplant Production by Cicely Schembri, Nicholas Kaczmar, John Osborn, Michael B. Timmons, Neil S. Mattson

“…We compared the fish biosolids treatment to several different organic fertilizers, along with a commonly used inorganic slow-release fertilizer (Osmocote). All treatments used a target N concentration of 400 mg/L incorporated into the substrate and we also included fish biosolids treatments of 200 and 800 mg N/L. …”
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