Intrahepatic Stones: The Percutaneous Approach by Horst Neuhaus

“…Definitive treatment should aim for complete elimination of bile stasis and removal of all stones. Hepatic resection promises the best long term results when the disease is limited to segments or the left liver lobe. …”
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Adaptation Of The Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait Into Turkish by Sadiye Akkurt, Gizem Kose, Aslihan Donmez

“…The questionnaires used comprise form of demographical data, food craving scale (including 39 articles) and eating attitudes test (including 40 articles). 39 articles and 9 sub-dimensions of Food Craving Scale were studied by confirmatory factor analysis and it was determined that factor loads and error variances of all articles are proper but fit indexes are not at allowable levels. …”
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Is the Recurrence of Fibroma of the Tendon Sheath Underestimated? An Instructive Case Report and a Review of the Literature by E. Lüdke, G. Kohut, H. C. Bäcker, M. Maniglio

“…Most recent studies show a low rate or no recurrence at all. We hypothesize that a lot of recurrences are missed because of a short follow-up and that the recurrence rate may be higher than thought.…”
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Pain at chronic pancreatitis: origin and treatment options by V. T. Ivashkin, K. V. Ivashkin, A. V. Okhlobystin

“…Direct toxic action of damaging factors (first of all — alcohol), pancreatic enzyme deviation phenomenon, parenchymal damage by overflow of free radicals, elevation of intraductal pressure, damage of nerves (neuropathic pain) and compression of adjacent organs play primary role in development of pain. …”
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Innovative Research on Teaching Method of Taekwondo in College Elective Courses under the Background of Big Data by Yahui Chang, Su Meng, Hong Chao

“…The application of “big data (B D A)” technology is causing changes in all walks of life, and the use of “B D A research methods” in the education field will inevitably become a trend. …”
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Harnessing traditional wisdom: Factors influencing jamu adoption as an infectious disease supplement among young generation by Muhammad Almanfaluthi

“…The results revealed that attitude (β = 0.12), perceived benefits (β = 0.12), health consciousness (β = 0.09), and convenience and accessibility (β = 0.16) all had significant positive impacts on the intention to use jamu, with p-values below 0.001. …”
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Bioactivity of Root Endophytic Freshwater Hyphomycetes Anguillospora longissima (Sacc. & Syd.) Ingold by S. C. Sati, Lokendra Singh

“…The applied fungus was found significant for all tested bacterial strains as showen by their zone of inhibition. …”
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MDMA. Un modèle pour l’identification et l’annotation des marqueurs discursifs « potentiels » en contexte by Catherine T. Bolly, Ludivine Crible, Liesbeth Degand, Deniz Uygur-Distexhe

“…We proceeded in three steps: (i) manual identification of all so-called “potential” DMs in a balanced corpus of spoken French (5,000 words; Belgium and France); (ii) automatic extraction from the corpus of every token corresponding to the candidate DMs previously identified (1,181 tokens) ; and (iii) parameter analysis of a random sample of 200 potential DMs (syntactic, formal and semantic-pragmatic variables). …”
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Comparative Studies on the Amylase and Cellulase Production of <i>Aspergillus</i> and <i>Penicillium</i> by Ibatsam Khokhar, Irum Mukhtar, Sobia Mushtaq

“…Ten fungal isolates of genera, Aspergilus and Penicillium were examined for their ability to produce industrial important enzymes. All fungal isolates exhibited high DCZ/DFC ratio in cellulase and amylayes activity. …”
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« Duplessis ne donne pas aux étrangers. » Le regard du caricaturiste Robert La Palme sur les politiques du gouvernement Duplessis en matière d’immigration, 1944-1959 by Alexandre Turgeon

“…In doing so, La Palme devoted an important part of his works to the sensitive topic regarding immigration issues, foreigners, the « other », that all ponctuate his narrative, echoing the ongoing debates in postwar Québec. …”
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When Analysts turn into Boxers: An Introduction to Pre-Sales Requirements Engineering by Christoph Oemig

“…., a limited duration, a steadily moving target or the supplier’s pre-investment) having a tremendous impact on all of these activities. With their conventional approach requirements engineering professionals are doomed to fail. …”
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L’ixeutique, un exemple de gestion empirique de la biodiversité végétale par la communauté traditionnelle Tsaaya du massif du Chaillu, Congo by Victor Kimpouni, Jean Pierre Makita-Madzou, Ernest Apani, Marcel Motom

“…The object of this study is to highlight the knowledge of the Tsaaya community of Chaillu through the ixeutic. Secular practice all over the world, the ixeutic of Tsaaya is made conspicuous by the (i) technical known ones nowhere elsewhere of cold transformation of latex into lime, (ii) the product conservation for the future hunting parties and (iii) the manufacturing of instrument of hunting like the bird calls. …”
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Universal slip detection of robotic hand with tactile sensing by Chuangri Zhao, Yang Yu, Zeqi Ye, Ziyang Tian, Yifan Zhang, Ling-Li Zeng

“…In this study, we explore slip detection for five-finger robotic hands being capable of performing various grasp types, and detect slippage across all five fingers as a whole rather than concentrating on individual fingertips. …”
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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

“…Wells ironizes and aestheticizes these mechanical models of belief, both in his eponymous ‘time machine’ (1894–95) and in ‘The Lord of the Dynamos’ (1894), which restages Paley’s analogy with a ‘savage’ worshipping the industrial engine. Seeking, above all, to feel the machine, these two works portray communities of intense spiritual affect, supported through sound, sight, and touch. …”
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Droplet Trajectory Movement Modeling Using a Drop-on-Demand Inkjet Printhead Simulations by Tim Tofan, Sergejus Borodinas, Raimondas Jasevičius

“…The conclusions summarize all the factors responsible for the trajectory shift of the droplet during vertical fall.…”
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Effect of Seed Inoculation with Actinomycetes and Rhizobium Isolated from Indigenous Soybean and Rhizosphere on Nitrogen Fixation, Growth, and Yield of Soybean by Asmiaty Sahur, Ambo Ala, Baharuddin Patandjengi, Elkawakib Syam’un

“…The isolated rhizobacteria were grown in N-free media, and twelve of them showed a good growth on the Burk’s N-free media. Almost all strains produced siderophores; however, the production level was very low, and only the strain AK 10 released considerable amounts of this metabolite. …”
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Distributed filtering in sensor networks based on linear minimum mean square error criterion with limited sensing range by Teng Shao

“…However, in the majority of the existing distributed filters, it is assumed that typically all sensors possess unlimited field of view to observe the target states. …”
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National Defense as fiscal policy during the Mauricio Macri administration (2015-2019) by Sergio Gabriel Eissa

“…The article establishes that, although the security-oriented discourse was apparently predominant, in the end, a fiscal adjustment rationale prevailed over all the other proposals. In consequence, economic priorities resulted that, at the end of the Macri administration, the capabilities of the Argentinean armed forces were further degraded from their 2015 level.…”
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Social Responsibility and Consensus Orientation in Public Governance: a Content Analysis by Nina Tomaževič

“…Similarly, in the public sector, the latest public governance models (PGMs) are based on the selected public governance principles (e.g. consensus orientation, participation, equity and inclusiveness) directed at connecting and including all types of stakeholders in decision-making and carrying out the activities of public sector organisations. …”
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Export of Higher Education: Innovations in Physical Education Practice by M. G. Minin, E. O. Frantcuzskaia, A. S. Minich, K. A. Smyshlyaev, A. V. Smyshlyaev

“…Creating conditions for the export potential is one of the drivers for the development of the domestic higher education. All the factors of socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students are to be identified in order to build a world-class educational background in Russian universities. …”
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