Meaning and Practice of Palliative Care for Hospitalized Older Adults with Life Limiting Illnesses by Bethel Ann Powers, Sally A. Norton, Madeline H. Schmitt, Timothy E. Quill, Maureen Metzger

“…Consistent with reports by other researchers, study data support the need to move beyond equating PC with hospice or EOL care and the notion that EOL is a well-demarcated period of time before death. …”
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Dignity and Deferral Narratives as Strategies in Facilitated Technology-Based Support Groups for People with Advanced Cancer by Annette F. Street, Kate Wakelin, Amanda Hordern, Nicola Bruce, Dell Horey

“…Technology-based strategies provide opportunities for health professionals to provide social and emotional care to more people by moving beyond individualised care and facilitate peer-to-peer support at the end of life, especially to those with specific needs. …”
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Use of Surgisis for Treatment of Anterior and Posterior Vaginal Prolapse by Sara Armitage, Elvis I. Seman, Marc J. N. C. Keirse

“…The subjective success rate (no symptoms and no bulge beyond the hymen) was 92%, and the overall objective success rate (no subsequent prolapse in any compartment) was 66% (43 of 65). …”
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Purslane: The Reigning Champion of Vitamins A and E among Vegetables and a Potential Crop for Home Gardens by Xueyan Zhang, Mary Dixon, Guodong Liu

“…Sustaining this nutritional wealth hinges on the timing of harvest when purslane plants attain a height of 5 to 6 inches. Beyond this stage, purslane becomes excessively fibrous and aged, making it unsuitable for consumption and necessitating removal through weeding. …”
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Self-Expandable Metal Stent Placement for Closure of a Leak after Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: Report on Three Cases and Review of the Literature by Dario Raimondo, Emanuele Sinagra, Tiziana Facella, Francesca Rossi, Marco Messina, Massimiliano Spada, Guido Martorana, Pier Enrico Marchesa, Rosario Squatrito, Giovanni Tomasello, Attilio Ignazio Lo Monte, Giancarlo Pompei, Ennio La Rocca

“…In fact, in the treatment of leakage after total gastrectomy, plastic stents and totally covered metallic stents may not adhere sufficiently to the esophagojejunal walls and, as a result, migrate beyond the anastomosis. However, prospective studies with a larger number of patients might assess the real effectiveness and safety of this procedure.…”
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Aspects of the rhizospheric microbiota and their interactions with the soil ecosystem by El Amrani Belkacem

“…Under the influence of environmental conditions, microbial communities can change compositions in terms of abundance and diversity. Beyond the descriptive level, the current orientation of microbial ecology is to link these structures to the functioning of ecosystems; specifically, to understand the effect of environmental factors on the functional structure of microbial communities in ecosystems. …”
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Multiple blood feeding bouts in mosquitoes allow for prolonged survival and are predicted to increase viral transmission during dry periods by Christopher J. Holmes, Souvik Chakraborty, Oluwaseun M. Ajayi, Melissa R. Uhran, Ronja Frigard, Crystal L. Stacey, Emily E. Susanto, Shyh-Chi Chen, Jason L. Rasgon, Matthew DeGennaro, Yanyu Xiao, Joshua B. Benoit

“…Summary: Dry conditions increase blood feeding in mosquitoes, but it is unknown if dehydration-induced bloodmeals are increased beyond what is necessary for reproduction. In this study, we investigated the role of dehydration in secondary blood feeding behaviors of mosquitoes. …”
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PROTECTING THE HARMONY – THOUGHTS ON THE MARGIN OF ANGI ISTVÁN’S BOOK ABOUT AESTHETIC PIETY (ANGI ISTVÁN: A HARMÓNIA MARAD, PARTIUM KIADÓ, NAGYVÁRAD, 2013) by Attila FODOR

“…The sacred field of the sound art situated beyond the proper aesthetic, which became for Angi István a lifelong revelation in the catching beauty of the transcendence music experience from the childhood lauds to the practice of Gregorian chant in the recent past, gives birth to this book solely devoted to the aesthetic piety. …”
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Intraspecific epigenomics divergence in brown bears (Ursus arctos): insights from genome-wide DNA methylation patterns by Paolo Colangelo, Paolo Colangelo, Ian Marc Bonapace, Laura Gramolini, Emanuela Solano, Emanuela Solano, Elisa Desiato, Paolo Franchini, Leonardo Gentile, Roberto Guadagnini, Oddmund Kleven, Jonas Kindberg, Jonas Kindberg, Alexander Kopatz, Paolo Ciucci

“…Our results clearly demonstrated that, beyond tissue-driven divergences, the methylation patterns of the three populations are significantly distinct. …”
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Unpacking the Area-Based Approach for Sustainable Urban Development in Europe: Policies and Challenges for Migrants Inclusion in the Metropolitan Area of Venice by Paola Briata, Carlotta Fioretti

“…In particular, the paper acknowledges the attention to broader scales ‘beyond the neighbourhood’ that frames current EU policies for urban areas, but considers it insufficient. …”
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Impacts of hunting cooperation and prey harvesting in a Leslie-Gower prey-predator system with strong Allee effect by Na Min, Hongyang Zhang, Xiaobin Gao, Pengyu Zeng

“…In this paper, we found that there existed critical thresholds for Allee threshold, prey harvesting, and hunting cooperation, beyond which both predator and prey populations faced the risk of extinction.…”
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Counteracting greenhouse gas and aerosol influences intensify global water seasonality over the past century by Fubo Zhao, Wenbo Shi, Yiping Wu, Yanqing Lian, Qiang Li

“…While many studies have focused on mean or extreme precipitation, the response of water availability seasonality, influencing yearly water distribution beyond individual extremes, to human-induced climate change remains underexplored. …”
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Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis Complicating Typhoid Fever in a Teenager by P. O. Okunola, G. E. Ofovwe, M. T. Abiodun, C. P. Azunna

“…She recovered completely with subsequent conservative management. Beyond neuropsychiatric complications of Typhoid fever, CSVT should be highly considered when focal neurologic deficits are present.…”
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Mitoxantrone and acquired Long-QT Syndrome. Case presentation. by Brandy Viera Valdés, Lázaro Enrique De la Cruz Aviléz

“…These drugs block potassium channels; particularly the IKr which extends the ventricular repolarization beyond 450 ms. This syndrome is associated with ventricular helical tachycardia that could potentially cause immediate death. …”
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Let’s talk about language—and its role for replicability by Xenia Schmalz, Johannes Breuer, Mario Haim, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung, Timo Roettger

“…Across disciplines within the social and behavioural sciences (and beyond), limitations in the implementation of the scientific approach have been identified in recent studies, showing low replicability of many results. …”
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Disentangling rural smartness in European policies: a critical overview of the Smart Village concept by Valentina E. Albanese, Teresa Graziano

“…From a methodological point of view, a qualitative policy document analysis (QPDA) and software-based content analysis were carried out on UE official documents, offering new theoretical insights and operational recommendations for understanding the concept of smartness beyond urban-centered perspectives.…”
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Genetic Risk Score Predicts Late-Life Cognitive Impairment by Mariegold E. Wollam, Andrea M. Weinstein, Judith A. Saxton, Lisa Morrow, Beth Snitz, Nicole R. Fowler, Barbara L. Suever Erickson, Kathryn A. Roecklein, Kirk I. Erickson

“…Logistic regression was performed to determine whether the genetic risk score predicted cognitive impairment above and beyond that associated with each gene. Results. An increased genetic risk score was associated with a nearly 4-fold increased risk of cognitive impairment (OR = 3.824, P = .013) when including the individual gene polymorphisms as covariates in the model. …”
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Influence and the Control of Shield Tunneling on Ancient Tower Vibration by Xu Liang, Jian Xu, Yapeng Zhang, Xinquan Gao, Xuetao Zhou, Zonghao Yuan, Min Zhang, Jian Wu, Long Liu

“…The study found that the frequency domain component of the White Tower bedrock vibration caused by shield tunneling is mainly 5–20 Hz, and the vibration response attenuates significantly beyond 40 m. Further, reducing the propulsive force can reduce the vibration response of the White Tower; therefore, controlling the propulsion and reducing the tunneling velocity can reduce the vibration response.…”
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Deep empirical neural network for optical phase retrieval over a scattering medium by Huaisheng Tu, Haotian Liu, Tuqiang Pan, Wuping Xie, Zihao Ma, Fan Zhang, Pengbai Xu, Leiming Wu, Ou Xu, Yi Xu, Yuwen Qin

“…The DENN might shed new light on the applications of deep learning in physics, information science, biology, chemistry and beyond.…”
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Quasistatic Cyclic Tests and Finite Element Analysis of Low-Aspect Ratio Double Steel Concrete Composite Walls by Kaize Ma, Yudong Ma, Boquan Liu

“…Moreover, the lateral load resisting capacity and deformation were significantly affected with axial compression ratio and steel ratio. Beyond that, the ductility coefficients of specimens reached 3.30. …”
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