Water Budget on Various Land Use Areas Using NARR Reanalysis Data in Florida by Chi-Han Cheng, Fidelia Nnadi

“…1992 to 2002 data from North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) were used to investigate water budget on five land use areas: urban, forest, agriculture, lake, and wetland in the state of Florida, USA. …”
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NATIONAL ROMANTICISM IN WALT WHITMAN POEMS by Tomi Arianto

“…The role of the idea of romanticism has evolved in American territory because it shares the same pattern and state of affairs as revolutions against noble, social, and political norms and rationalization of nature. …”
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Genotypic Investigation of Clostridium difficile in Prince Edward Island by H Martin, LP Abbott, DE Low, B Willey, M Mulvey, J Scott Weese

“…The most common ribotype, ribotype W, was a North American pulsotype 2 (NAP2), toxinotype 0 strain, which represented 18% of isolates. …”
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Cryotherapy for Primary Treatment of Prostate Cancer: Intermediate Term Results of a Prospective Study from a Single Institution by S. Alvarez Rodríguez, F. Arias Fúnez, C. Bueno Bravo, R. Rodríguez-Patrón Rodríguez, E. Sanz Mayayo, V. Hevia Palacios, F. J. Burgos Revilla

“…Criteria of biochemical recurrence were unified according to the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO). …”
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Short and stout as she was : relations inter-propositionnelles avec la structure « adjectif + as + sujet + be » by Bénédicte Guillaume

“…. + as” and the main clause deserves special attention, as it can be interpreted either in terms of a cause and effect relationship or of concession (paradoxical relationship); more importantly, the study of a corpus of about 240 examples (mostly sampled from the “Corpus of Contemporary American English” – COCA) confirms the intuition according to which the paradoxical interpretation of the relationship between the two clauses is overwhelmingly more frequent than the causal one (by a proportion of about ten to one in my corpus). …”
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Peritoneal Equilibration Test in Costa Rica: Discrepancies from Other Populations by Marta Avellan-Boza, Fabio Hernández, Allan Ramos-Esquivel

“…Peritoneal permeability among Costa Rican CAPD patients is different from the original population described by Twardowski et al. and from other Latin-American population. This supports the theory that ethnical differences could be responsible for such variations and they validate our statement that each region should possess value references of their own.…”
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Anterior and posterior tibial anesthetic block in diabetic foot surgery. by José Julio Ojeda González, Evangelina Dávila Cabo, Remberto González Enoa, Obdulio Rodríguez García

“…The variables measured were: age, weight, height, surgical time, type of surgery, cardiac frequency medium arterial pressure, and classification of patients according to the American Association of Anesthesiology All the patients were applied a scale for assessing pain in three different moments.…”
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Spirometric reference equations and lung function testing in adults from Southwestern Tanzania by R. Wenzel, E. Siyame, O. Ivanova, A. Bakuli, J. Lalashowi, F.C. Zekoll, M. Hoelscher, I. Sabi, A. Rachow, N.E. Ntinginya

“…RESULTS: Out of 400 recruited participants, 343 had usable spirometry results with respect to the American Thoracic Society (ATS)/European Respiratory Society (ERS) reproducibility and acceptability criteria. …”
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Characterization of Cellulolytic Bacterial Cultures Grown in Different Substrates by Mohamed Idris Alshelmani, Teck Chwen Loh, Hooi Ling Foo, Wei Hong Lau, Awis Qurni Sazili

“…Nine aerobic cellulolytic bacterial cultures were obtained from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Culture (DSMZ) and the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). The objectives of this study were to characterize the cellulolytic bacteria and to determine the optimum moisture ratio required for solid state fermentation (SSF) of palm kernel cake (PKC). …”
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Effects of epidural dexmedetomidine on patient-controlled epidural analgesia after total knee arthroplasty: a single-center, prospective, double-blind, randomized controlled study by Seong Min Han, So Young Kwon, Jaesuk Kim, Jae Hyuk Kang, Jin Deok Joo

“…Methods In this double-blind study, American Society of Anesthesiologists I to II patients undergoing TKA were assigned to receive 0.125% bupivacaine + fentanyl 4 µg/mL (group R) or 0.1% bupivacaine + fentanyl 2 µg/mL with an epidural injection of dexmedetomidine 1 µg/kg (group D). …”
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Decoding substance use disorder severity from clinical notes using a large language model by Maria Mahbub, Gregory M. Dams, Sudarshan Srinivasan, Caitlin Rizy, Ioana Danciu, Jodie Trafton, Kathryn Knight

“…Existing diagnostic coding systems used by insurance providers, like the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), lack granularity for certain diagnoses, but American clinicians will add this granularity (as that found within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classification or DSM-5) as supplemental unstructured text in clinical notes. …”
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Correlates of Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults with Diabetes by LaRita C. Jones, Olivio J. Clay, Fernando Ovalle, Andrea Cherrington, Michael Crowe

“…In bivariate analyses, African Americans, individuals with specific health issues (neuropathy, stroke, respiratory issues, arthritis, and cardiac issues), and those with higher levels of diabetes distress reported more depressive symptoms. …”
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Lipomatous/Extensively Vacuolated Ependymoma with Signet-Ring Cell-Like Appearance: Analysis of a Case with Extensive Literature Review by Miguel Fdo. Salazar, Martha Lilia Tena-Suck, Alma Ortiz-Plata, Citlaltepetl Salinas-Lara, Daniel Rembao-Bojórquez

“…Here, we would like to report the first ependymoma of this kind in a Latin American institution. A 16-year-old boy experienced cephalea during three months. …”
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Enlightening the black and white: species delimitation and UNITE species hypothesis testing in the Russula albonigra species complex by Ruben De Lange, Slavomír Adamčík, Katarína Adamčíkova, Pieter Asselman, Jan Borovička, Lynn Delgat, Felix Hampe, Annemieke Verbeken

“…A thorough molecular analysis based on four nuclear markers (ITS, LSU, RPB2 and TEF1-α) shows this traditional concept of R. albonigra s. lat. represents a species complex consisting of at least five European, three North American, and one Chinese species. Morphological study shows traditional characters used to delimit R. albonigra are not always reliable. …”
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Morphology and Immunoexpression of Selenoproteins in Term Placenta of Alpaca (<i>Vicugna pacos</i>) from the Peruvian Andes by Miluska Beatriz Navarrete Zamora, Francisco Acuña, Mônica Duarte da Silva, Thamires Santos-Silva, Matheus Henrique Herminio Garcia, Rodrigo da Silva Nunes Barreto, Alberto Sato Sato, Claudio Gustavo Barbeito, Maria Angelica Miglino

“…South American camelids inhabit high-altitude environments characterized by hypoxia, influencing embryonic, fetal, and placental development. …”
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Clinical Performance of the Spot Vision Photo Screener before and after Induction of Cycloplegia in Children by Konuralp Yakar

“…To compare the clinical performance of the Spot Vision Screener used to detect amblyopia risk factors (ARFs) in children before and after induction of cycloplegia; the children were referred because they met the screening criteria of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS). …”
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Knee pain in adults from the northeast of São Paulo, Brazil: prevalence, risk factors, and impact on quality of life by Alberto de Vitta, Nicoly Machado Maciel, Sandra Fiorelli Almeida Penteado Simeão, Matias Noll

“…Furthermore, several studies have shown the negative impact of knee pain on quality of life; however, there is a lack of knowledge about knee pain in Latin American populations. Objective: This study aims to investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and impact on the quality of life of knee pain in Brazilian adults. …”
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Limbitis Secondary to Autologous Serum Eye Drops in a Patient with Atopic Keratoconjunctivitis by Jeffrey David Welder, Pejman Bakhtiari, Ali R. Djalilian

“…A 32-year-old African American female with atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC) presented with chronic dry eye and diffuse punctate epithelial erosions refractory to conservative treatment. …”
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The effectiveness of corpus-based training on collocation use in L2 writing for Chinese senior secondary school students by Fang Liuqin, Ma Qing, Yan Jiahao

“…Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Word and Phrase were the main corpora that the participants used to learn various search functions. …”
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Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Amerikan Kütüphane Derneği’nin ABD Ordusuna Yönelik Hazırladığı Propaganda Posterleri Üzerine İnceleme by Mehmet Ali Gazi, Metin Işık, Caner Çakı, Gül Çakı

“…Diğer yandan savaş sırasında ABD askerlerinin okuma alışkanlıklarının geliştirilmesine yönelik de Amerikan Kütüphane Derneği (American Library Association, ALA) liderliğinde kitap seferberliği düzenlenmiştir. …”
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