Representation of Hispanic Patients in Clinical Trials for Respiratory Failure: A Systematic Review by Emily A. Harlan, MD, MA, MSc, Kaitlin Malley, BS, Grecia Quiroga, MD, Eman Mubarak, MD, Pema Lama, BS, Amanda Schutz, PhD, Adolfo Cuevas, PhD, Catherine L. Hough, MD MSc, Theodore J. Iwashyna, MD PhD, Mari Armstrong-Hough, PhD, Thomas S. Valley, MD, MSc

“…DATA EXTRACTION:. Two authors independently screened studies and extracted data for each included study. …”
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Adomas Jakštas - Dambrauskas (1860-1938) as a Lithuanian public figure and literary man by Vanda Stonienė

“…As a Catholic priest and public figure, he never accommodated himself to Tsarist policy; he encouraged the Lithuanian youth and priesthood to resist the Tsarist ban on the Lithuanian press and to fight for the right to teach children in the Lithuanian language (for such resistance, he was banished by Russian authorities from his native country for some years). …”
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Essence and Content of the Competitiveness of the Officers of the National Police of Ukraine by E. Yu. Podorozhnii

“…Besides, a significant number of problematic issues remain unresolved, for example in regard to ensuring the guarantees of competitiveness of individual employees, in particular those who work in public authorities (in our case – law enforcement agencies), where one of the most important is certainly the National Police of Ukraine. …”
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A systematic review and meta-analysis: prevalence and clinical implications of anatomical variants of the hepatic portal vein by Juan José Valenzuela-Fuenzalida, Benjamín Rodríguez-Osorio, Cristian Salgado-Torres, Pablo Nova-Baeza, Mathias Orellana-Donoso, Alejandro Bruna-Mejías, Roberto Avila-Sepulveda, Álvaro Becerra-Farfán, Macarena Rodríguez-Luengo, Juan Sanchis-Gimeno, Guinevere Granite, Héctor Gutiérrez-Espinoza

“…The databases Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences were researched until January 2024. Tree authors independently performed the search, study selection and data extraction. …”
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Study for Improving Maternal Pregnancy And Child ouTcomes (IMPACT): a study protocol for a Swedish prospective multicentre cohort study by Anders Larsson, Henrik Imberg, Marius Kublickas, Anna-Karin Wikström, Peter Lindgren, Lina Bergman, Bo Jacobsson, Anna Sandström, Stefan Hansson, Peter Conner, Ylva Carlsson

“…This study has been granted national ethical approval by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (Uppsala 2018-231) and national biobank approval at Uppsala Biobank (18237 2 2018 231). …”
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Risk Factors and Comorbidity in Childhood Specific Phobias by Abdurrahman Cahid Orengul, Yavuz Meral, Vahdet Gormez

“…Risk factors of specific phobia were further evaluated with a data collection tool, developed by the authors of the present study. The most common specific phobia subtype was animal phobia (n=48; 48%), which was followed by natural environment (n=27; 27%), blood-injection (n=25; 25%), situational (n=17; 17%) and other phobia (n=2; 2%). …”
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Reactogenicity and Immunogenicity Against MPXV of the Intradermal Administration of Modified Vaccinia Ankara Compared to the Standard Subcutaneous Route by Valentina Mazzotta, Pierluca Piselli, Alessandro Cozzi Lepri, Giulia Matusali, Eleonora Cimini, Rozenn Esvan, Francesca Colavita, Roberta Gagliardini, Stefania Notari, Alessandra Oliva, Silvia Meschi, Rita Casetti, Giulia Micheli, Licia Bordi, Alessandro Giacinta, Germana Grassi, Saba Gebremeskel Tekle, Claudia Cimaglia, Jessica Paulicelli, Alessandro Caioli, Paola Gallì, Giulia Del Duca, Miriam Lichtner, Loredana Sarmati, Enrica Tamburrini, Claudio Mastroianni, Alessandra Latini, Paolo Faccendini, Carla Fontana, Emanuele Nicastri, Andrea Siddu, Alessandra Barca, Francesco Vaia, Enrico Girardi, Fabrizio Maggi, Andrea Antinori

“…Intradermal (ID) administration of one-fifth of the standard modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA-BN) dose was temporarily authorized during the 2022 PHEIC. Studies conducted before 2022 provided evidence about the humoral response against the vaccinia virus (VACV) after vaccination but not against the mpox virus (MPXV). …”
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Prophylaxis of Pain and Fractures within Feet in the Course of Osteoporosis: The Issue of Diagnosing by Aleksandra Bitenc-Jasiejko, Krzysztof Konior, Kinga Gonta, Magdalena Dulęba, Danuta Lietz-Kijak

“…Considering the above, in the second part, the authors analyzed 11 exemplary patients with osteoporosis, referring to the assessment of foot and lower limb defects using traditional posturological methods and including pedobarography to diagnostic procedures that are used in the assessment of pressure distribution, standing and moving, and an attempt to balance. …”
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Higher Education for Global and Local Sustainable Development by O. V. Zinevich, E. A. Melekhina

“…The Russian universities’ contribution to the achievement of sustainable development goals is analyzed from the prospect of globalism crisis and transition to the global-local paradigm of the existence of a society. The authors proceed from the theoretical premise that the internationally recognized threefold concept of sustainable development encompassing economic development, social stability and environmental sustainability is based on the understanding of the development as a process and a result of subjective and objective factors that effective in activity aimed at building the future of the humankind. …”
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Local Hyperthermia Combined With Imiquimod Cleared Recalcitrant and Extensive Warts in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Wang GH, Wang YB, Cheng YA, Chen HD, Gao XH, Qi RQ

“…Gai-Hua Wang,1,* Yang-Bin Wang,2,3,* Yue-Ai Cheng,1 Hong-Duo Chen,2,3 Xing-Hua Gao,2,3 Rui-Qun Qi2,3 1Institute of Dermatology, Taiyuan City Centre Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Dermatology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China; 3Key Laboratory of Immunodermatology, Ministry of Education and NHC; National Joint Engineering Research Center for Theranostics of Immunological Skin Diseases, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Rui-Qun Qi, Department of Dermatology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China, Email xiaoqiliumin@163.com Yue-Ai Cheng, Institute of Dermatology, Taiyuan City Centre Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People’s Republic of China, Email 172915043@qq.comAbstract: Viral warts, a common dermatological condition caused by human papillomavirus infection (HPV) infection, present a particular challenge for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients due to their compromised immunity, which increases the susceptibility to HPV infection and complicates treatment efforts. …”
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Development and internal validation of prognostic models for event-free survival in newly diagnosed Ewing sarcoma patients based on routinely collected clinical characteristics fro... by Richard Riley, BERNADETTE BRENNAN, Kym Snell, Piers Gaunt, Laura Kirton

“…The EE2012 trial received ethical approval from the competent authorities (UK ethics reference approval number 12/NW/0827). …”
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Respiratory Virus Vaccines: Pathways to Recommendations and Enhanced Coverage for At-Risk Populations by Stefania Maggi, Odile Launay, Rachel Dawson

“…Despite the demonstrated benefits of immunization throughout the life course and recommendations by health authorities, coverage rates of at-risk populations against vaccine-preventable diseases remain suboptimal and vary considerably by country and demographic strata. …”
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Scopus Indexing Delays of Articles Published in Major Pharmacy Practice Journals by Samuel Adeosun

“… Background: Authors of bibliometric studies often wait for an arbitrarily prolonged period to allow for complete indexing of documents in the Scopus database after the end of the period to be studied (period-of-interest), thus negatively affecting recency (interval between publication date the date of the latest data reported) in bibliometric studies. …”
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Combined surgery for large macular hole in complicated cataract: case report (retracted article) by M.M. Bikbov, O.I. Orenburkina, A.A. Zinnatullin, A.L. Yarmukhametova, A.E. Babushkin, M.R. Kalanov

“…Meanwhile, good outcomes and a high recurrence rate of large MHs postoperatively remain challenges. The authors propose a surgical technique for MHs in complicated cataracts (patent of the RF No. 2731794 dated 09/08/2020) that involves vitrectomy, posterior hyaloid removal, ILM staining, ILM peeling, formation of a flap from the anterior lens capsule to close MH, and air tamponade. …”
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Effect of Yoga on Blood Pressure in Prehypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Janhavi Sandeep Khandekar, Vanamala Lakshmi Vasavi, Vijay Pratap Singh, Stephen Rajan Samuel, S. G. Sudhan, Bidita Khandelwal

“…Risk of bias was determined using the Downs and Black checklist by three independent authors. Results. The meta-analysis of the articles favoured yoga intervention over the control intervention. …”
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The First European Maps of Muscovy (1525) by O. F. Kudryavtsev

“…We must acknowledge their authors – in spite of a great number of mistakes – were able to cope with this task.…”
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Planning for the Pandemic by Joanne Embree

“…Over the past year, many of us have become involved in the development of strategic plans for the hospitals, health authorities and clinical practices in which we work in case an influenza pandemic occurs in the very near future. …”
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Awareness and Perception of Healthcare Providers about Proxy Consent in Critical Care Research by Rania Mahafzah, Karem H. Alzoubi, Omar F. Khabour, Rana Abu-Farha

“…Regarding the assessment of proxy consent, 65.5% of respondents believed that relatives are considered as an authorized legal representative for an informed consent decision on behalf of their ICU patients (65.5%) as they are knowledgeable about patients' values and preferences and have the desire to provide the necessary help. …”
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Neutrophil membrane biomimetic delivery system (Ptdser‐NM‐Lipo/Fer‐1) designed for targeting atherosclerosis therapy by Wei Li, Chang Liu, Sichuan Wang, Naifeng Liu

“…Inspired by the fact that neutrophils can be recruited to arterial plaques under the action of adhesion molecules and chemokines, the authors developed a neutrophil membrane hybrid liposome nano‐mimetic system (Ptdser‐NM‐Lipo/Fer‐1) that delivers Ferrostatin‐1 (Fer‐1) to the atherosclerotic plaque effectively, which is composed of Fer‐1‐loaded Ptdser‐modified liposomes core and neutrophils shell. …”
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Inaugural Lecture by Kabale University

“…He has edited 4 books and co-authored one. He loves teaching, and has supervised over 100 graduate students to completion. …”
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