Estimating the met need for emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services in three payams of Torit County, South Sudan: a facility-based, retrospective cross-sectional study by Pontius Bayo, Imose Itua, Suzie Paul Francis, Kofi Boateng, Elijo Omoro Tahir, Abdulmumini Usman

“…Objective To determine the met need for emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services in three Payams of Torit County, South Sudan in 2015 and to determine the frequency of each major obstetric complication.Design This was a retrospective cross-sectional study.Setting Four primary healthcare centres (PHCCs) and one state hospital in three payams (administrative areas that form a county) in Torit County, South Sudan.Participants All admissions in the obstetrics and gynaecology wards (a total of 2466 patient admission files) in 2015 in all the facilities designated to conduct deliveries in the study area were reviewed to identify obstetric complications.Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome was met need for EmOC, which was defined as the proportion of all women with direct major obstetric complications in 2015 treated in health facilities providing EmOC services. …”
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Potentials of transanal endoscopic surgery at early rectal cancer by Yu. A. Shelygin, S. V. Chernyshov, L. P. Orlova, E. G. Rybakov

“…Tumor-free resection edges have been obtained in all operation specimens. All tumors were removed en bloc. …”
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Ajouts, omissions, substitutions : la main fautive des copistes dans le texte de L’Éducation sentimentale by Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Déborah Boltz

“…It is thought that the copyist’s manuscript is incapable of revealing anything of interest since it is only the slavish reproduction of the definitive autograph Manuscript… In fact this is not the case at all. This manuscript constitutes an irreplaceable genetic document, all the more essential that we do not have access to the corrected proofs of the novel. …”
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Bodyblade™ Training in Athletes with Traumatic Anterior Shoulder Instability by Victor Pulido, Brent Alvar, David Behm

“…A repeated-measures ANOVA design evaluated within and between-group differences. # Results All three groups significantly (p=0.001, eta^2^: 0.496) exceeded WOSI baseline scores (at all timepoints) with training (Traditional: 45.6%, 59.4%, and 59.7%, Bodyblade™: 26.6%, 56.5%, and 58.4%, Mixed: 35.9%, 43.3% and 50.4% respectively). …”
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Poverty and Academic Performance of primary Schools in Kabale Municipality. by Justus, Niwagaba

“…Therefore the quality, quantity of food served, when and how much is served had a direct bearing on the pupil’s performance in all the schools. On inadequate scholastic materials, the study found out that most schools lacked the basic teaching and learning materials like text books, classrooms, desks, libraries, offices and good toilets, notebooks, pens, mathematical tools, maps, Graphs and other curricula copies in almost all the schools. …”
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Information Communication Technology and Employees’ Performance: A case Study of Faculty of Science at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. by Mackline, Atuhaire

“…This had been reflected in the provision of essential ICT gadgets (Computers, modems, in all departmental offices in the Faculty of Science to all employees in different offices to ease their work. …”
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Wildlife Authority Revenue sharing Scheme and Women Empowerment; A Case Study of Mghahinga Conservation area Kisoro District, Uganda by Iradunkunda, Sam, Moses, Agaba

“…Revenue sharing is currently a popular approach to wild life conservation in Uganda; it involves all communities around the national parks of Uganda and was introduced to change attitudes of communities around the national parks. …”
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Breaking the biofilm barrier: Juglone derivatives as dual-action inhibitors and anti-quorum sensing agents by Muhammad Abdullah Bhatti, Atif Ali Khan Khalil, Sayed Muhammad Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Faisal Hanif, Mi-Jeong Ahn, Sumra Wajid Abbasi, Nazir Ahmed Lone, Wen-Jun Li, Wasim Sajjad

“…Results: All the three juglone derivatives showed potent antimicrobial activity against clinical strains of MRSA. …”
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Update on long-term outcomes of a cohort of patients with TCF3::HLF positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with blinatumomab and stem cell transplantation by Aida Zeckanovic, Brice Mouttet, Luciana Vinti, Philip Ancliff, Benoît Brethon, Gunnar Cario, Sarah Elitzur, Volkan Hazar, Joachim Kunz, Anja Möricke, Jerry Stein, Yöntem Yaman, Jochen Buechner, Magnus Aasved Hjort, David O’Connor, Angus Hodder, Jack Bartram, Julia Alten, Draga Barbaric, Gabriele Escherich, Nicolas Boissel, Loïc Vasseur, Emmanuelle Clappier, Laure Farnault, Sarah Bonnet, Katharine Patrick, Martin Schrappe, Sema Anak, André Baruchel, Franco Locatelli, Martin Stanulla, Arend von Stackelberg, Nicole Bodmer, Jean-Pierre Bourquin

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Alcohol abuse in gastroenterological patients by M. V. Mayevskaya, I. G. Bakulin, A. A. Chirkov, Ye. O. Lyusina, V. D. Lun’Kov

“…Overall 345 patients with various gastrointestinal diseases were enrolled in the study. Of all patients 162 (46,9%) were males, 183 (53,1%) were females, mean age was 43,18±13,04 years. …”
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The Association Between Mitral Regurgitation and Long-Term Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Retrospective Large Sample Cohor... by Yan N, Wu P, Zhu B, Ma A, Wang X, Hai X, Ma X, Jiang H, Yang S

“…Kaplan–Meier survival curves of MR with all-cause death and RHF were also plotted (log-rank p < 0.001). …”
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Comparison of PD-L1 tumor cell expression with 22C3, 28-8, and SP142 IHC assays across multiple tumor types by Jeffrey S Ross, Richard S P Huang, Jake G Maule, Lani K Clinton, Ryon P Graf, Jinpeng Xiao, Geoffrey R Oxnard

“…Here we present 22C3, 28-8, and SP142 analysis of 418 tumor specimens encountered in routine clinical practice.Methods All specimens were tested with 22C3, 28-8, and SP142 assays following the manufacturer’s established staining protocols.Results The same PD-L1 status (defined as tumor cell expression (TC) scores with all three assays ≥1% or all &lt;1%) was observed in 60.0% (251/418) tumor specimens (45.9% (192/418) were triple negative and 14.1% (59/418) were triple positive). …”
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Satisfaction by the certain subjective success in career by Janjić Ivana, Ilić Đurđijana

“…In order for an organization to successfully operate, it is necessary to know all employees and to establish an agreement between individual and organizational goals, which means that it should follow the following business philosophy: "Great performance and great satisfaction of the individual." …”
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Audience Study as Catalyst in Sustainable Nollywood Yoruba Film Industry by Adejoke Adetoun Ademuyiwa, Eunice Uwadinma-Idemudia

“…Most often, stakeholders in the film industry do not access, or are flagrantly ignorant of viewer’s feedback on the state of their production in all media of communication. Some determine this with the profit margins. …”
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Transitional justice and impunity for fascism in southern Europe: The case of Spain in a comparative perspective by Roque Moreno Fonseret, Pedro Payá López

“…In the same way, in all cases, reconciliation with the past has extended into the 21st century and it has also been in Spain where it has presented the greatest difficulties. …”
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B ¯ → D ¯ D $$ \overline{B}\to \overline{D}D $$ decays and the extraction of f d /f u at hadron colliders by Jonathan Davies, Martin Jung, Stefan Schacht

“…These results include all relevant suppressed contributions, thereby providing upper limits on subleading Standard Model (SM) effects like “penguin pollution”, enabling searches for physics beyond the SM. …”
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Nü Jidu in Matthew 24:27: An exegetical evaluation of Dongfang Shandian in China by Harman Z. Laia, Jimmy Sutrisno

“…This coming will be public, universal, clear, evident and witnessed by all humanity. Christ’s return has not yet occurred, but it will happen at the end of time, preceded by various terrifying events around the world known as the tribulation. …”
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An Economic and Agronomic Profile of Florida’s Sod Industry in 2003 by John J. Haydu, N. L. Satterthwaite, John L. Cisar

“…The in-field value for all varieties totaled $405 million, while harvested sod was valued at $307 million. …”
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A new twist on spinning (A)dS correlators by Daniel Baumann, Grégoire Mathys, Guilherme L. Pimentel, Facundo Rost

“…However, the commonly used kinematic variables for correlators do not make all of these properties manifest. In this paper, we introduce twistor space as a powerful way to satisfy all kinematic constraints. …”
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