Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) From Coastal Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands: Species Descriptions and DNA Barcodes by Carl L. Thurman, John C. McNamara, Hsi‐Te Shih, Mariana V. Capparelli

“…National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. …”
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Statistical Analysis of the People Fully Vaccinated against COVID-19 in Two Different Regions by Abdullah Ali H. Ahmadini, Mohammed Elgarhy, A. W. Shawki, Hanan Baaqeel, Omar Bazighifan

“…Through this paper, we aimed to compare individuals who have been completely vaccinated against COVID-19 in two locations: North American countries and Arabian Peninsula countries. …”
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Causal analysis of dietary preferences and the risk of endometriosis using large-scale population data by Xin Cheng, Dan Ma, Xiuhong Wang, Meiling Li, Jinpeng Jiang

“…After FDR correction, IVW analysis revealed that asparagus preference was significantly protective against EM, including in American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) stages 1–2 and 3–4. …”
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Thulium laser enucleation of the prostate plus thulium fiber laser therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia combined with bladder stones by Chen Wang, Yuanwei Li, Yongjun Yang, Junjie Chen, Zhuo Li, Guangqing Song, Jia Chen, Liu Zhe, Yili Teng, Qiang Lu

“…Results: The patients in the observation group exhibited lower surgery duration, smaller postoperative decrease in Hb levels, shorter duration of postoperative indwelling catheterization, and proportion of American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) II patients, with a higher proportion of ASA I patients than the individuals in the control group (P <⁠0.05). …”
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A minimally invasive technique for correcting extra-articular malunions of metacarpal fractures by Zitao Han, Xu Zhang, Yadong Yu, Xiaoliang Yang, Wei Du, Guisheng Zhang

“…Range of motion of the fingers was assessed based on the total active motion scoring system of American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Range of motion of the joint was graded as excellent (85–100%), good (70–84%), fair (50–69%), and poor (< 50%) by comparing to the opposite uninjured finger. …”
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O Instagram sob o viés da desinformação: as hashtags e o compartilhamento de informações na área de Nutrição by Thaís Guimarães, Rosa Inês Cordeiro

“…Com base no conjunto de princípios e diretrizes desenvolvidos pelo Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Onthe Net Foundation–HONcode –e por Charnock e Shepperd –DISCERN,para ajudar a garantir a qualidade e a credibilidade das informações em saúde e medicina na internet,desenvolveramcritérios que integram um instrumento que foi aplicado no exame da amostra, a fim de analisar e identificar informações confiáveis ou não nas publicações da área de Nutrição no Instagram por meio da representatividade das hashtags, uma vezque incidem naqualidade darecuperação. …”
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Sunflower lines originated from varieties with high oil content in their seed by V. A. Gavrilova, I. N. Anisimova, T. G. Stupnikova

“…The genealogy of many domestic lines and also of the American line HA89 which served as the reference in breeding trials and genetic experiments is discussed. …”
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Concurrent Panniculectomy With Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: A Propensity-scored Matched Study of Quality Improvement Outcomes by Alexis M. Holland, MD, William R. Lorenz, MD, Matthew N. Marturano, MD, Rose K. Hollingsworth, BA, Gregory T. Scarola, MS, Brittany S. Mead, MD, B. Todd Heniford, MD, Vedra A. Augenstein, MD

“…A 1:1 propensity-scored matching was performed based on age, tobacco use, body mass index (BMI), American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score, wound class, and defect size. …”
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Associations between neutrophil-percentage-to-albumin ratio level and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease-cause mortality in diabetes population by Geng Shen, Yuting Liu, Can Zhou, Wei Luo, Yun-xiao Yang, Shuai Guo, Jiayi Yi, Lin Wang, Wei Li, Zhao-gong Zhi, Xiu-huan Chen, Chen Li, Yanyan Jin, Hai Gao

“…Methods This prospective cohort study included 3602 adults aged 20 or above who were diagnosed with diabetes by the American Diabetes Association criteria in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database from 1999 to 2016, and followed up until 2019. …”
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Risk of bias and confounding of observational studies of Zika virus infection: A scoping review of research protocols. by Ludovic Reveiz, Michelle M Haby, Ruth Martínez-Vega, Carlos E Pinzón-Flores, Vanessa Elias, Emma Smith, Mariona Pinart, Nathalie Broutet, Francisco Becerra-Posada, Sylvain Aldighieri, Maria D Van Kerkhove

“…In an effort to ensure that studies are comprehensive, both internally and externally valid, and with reliable results, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, Institut Pasteur, the networks of Fiocruz, the Consortia for the Standardization of Influenza Seroepidemiology (CONSISE) and the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) have generated six standardized clinical and epidemiological research protocols and questionnaires to address key public health questions on ZIKV.…”
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Lumbar Erector Spinae Plane Block for Total Hip Arthroplasty Comparing 24-Hour Opioid Requirements: A Randomized Controlled Study by Dahlia Townsend, Nasir Siddique, Atsumi Kimura, Yaacov Chein, Eli Kamara, John Pope, Mitchell Weiser, Singh Nair, Iyabo Muse

“…Sixty-three adult patients with an American Society of Anesthesiologists Status I–III who are undergoing elective primary total hip arthroplasty. …”
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The Impact of Selenium on the Physiological Activity of Yeast Cells Saccharomyces cerevisiae ATCC 7090 and Rhodotorula glutinis CCY 20-2-26 by Wioletta Sęk, Anna M. Kot, Marek Kieliszek

“…Background: This study investigated the selenium-binding capacity of the biomass of two yeast strains, Saccharomyces cerevisiae American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 7090 and Rhodotorula glutinis CCY 20-2-26. …”
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Music Theory, Historically-Informed Performance, and The Significance of Cities by Adam Krims

“…It isolates the feature of wind/string balance, widely touted at the time as an advantage of the HIP approach, and measures them at key points of the movement; the resulting similarities of two of the recordings, both from London-based performers, and their pronounced divergence from the third, featuring East-Coast American performers, suggests the possibility that music workers (performers, but also engineers, producers, etc.) informed each others’ aesthetic preference and priorities, whether implicitly or explicitly. …”
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Police/Militia in (Post-)Soviet Popular Culture (Towards a Historical Iconography of Power) by D. V. Popov

“…From constructing the myth of cooperation between the government and the population, militia cinema moves on to deconstructing the myth, achieving an effect of denigration. The fashion for American cinema brings elements of action, thriller, horror. …”
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A year of COVID-19: effects of a global pandemic on a hip fracture bundled care protocol by Khai Cheong Wong, Kenny Xian Khing Tay, Suang Bee Koh, Tet Sen Howe

“…The COVID group had a higher proportion of American Society of Anesthesiologists classification III and IV patients (61.4% vs. 50.2% in the PRE-COVID group; P = 0.004). …”
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Towards culturally inclusive healthcare in Peru: Mapping epistemic concepts in contemporary Indigenous Amazonian medicine-Traditional healers' perspectives. by Ilana Berlowitz, Maria Amalia Pesantes, Cynthia Cárdenas Palacios, Chantal Martin-Soelch, Ursula Wolf, Caroline Maake

“…Peru is among Latin American countries with the largest Indigenous population, yet ethnical health disparities persist, particularly in the Amazon region which comprises 60% of the national territory. …”
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Brazilian criminal organizations as subjects of non-classical wars in the form of criminal rebellion by K. S. Strigunov

“…In this regard, the case of Latin American and Caribbean countries and, in particular, Brazil is of special interest. …”
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Prevalence of Emergence Delirium in Children Undergoing Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy by Katie Liu, Christopher Liu, Seckin O. Ulualp

“…Data collection included demographics, body mass index, indication for T&A, Pediatric Anesthesia Emergence Delirium (PAED) score, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification, total anesthesia time, postanesthesia care phase I time, and postanesthesia care phase II time. …”
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Osteoperiosteal versus osteochondral for autologous transplantation in the treatment of large cystic osteochondral lesions of the talus by Lequan Liu, Jiangtao Jin, Jinping Pan, Huikang Guo, Sen Li, Jisheng Li, Zheng Zhang

“…Clinical outcomes were compared between both groups with the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) ankle-hindfoot score and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). …”
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Acute Coronary Syndromes and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: “Un Affaire de Coeur” by Abdulrahman Ismaiel, Stefan-Lucian Popa, Dan L. Dumitrascu

“…NAFLD patients are associated with an independently increased risk of developing ACS, mainly in Asian populations, with inconsistent results in North American and European individuals. Moreover, NAFLD and hepatic steatosis severity were both independently correlated with complex multivessel CAD, mortality, and in-hospital MACE in ACS patients.…”
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