Lung Middle Lobe Laceration Needing Lobectomy as Complication of Nuss Bar Removal by Brice Henry, Valérie Lacroix, Thierry Pirotte, Pierre-Louis Docquier

“…In our experience, adhesions between the bar and the pleura are always present, and those with potential risk for bleeding or inducing intrathoracic organ lesions are suppressed prior to the bar removal.…”
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International trade through the prism of statistics: problems of accounting, evaluation and analysis by N. E. Grigoruk, G. A. Galkin

“…This kind of research is based on the materials of official statistics of countries and international organizations, which are not always published on a comparable basis, making it difficult, and sometimes impossible to do an objective analysis of processes taking place both in bilateral economic relations and in international trade in general. …”
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Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses by Jingxu Chen, Chengxin He, Xinlian Yu, Wendong Chen

“…Numerical experiments show that the elderly pricing surcharge scheme is not always applicable to all the demand scenarios, which owns a certain effective interval.…”
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Is Objective Structured Practical Examination a Better Option than Conventional Practical Examination in Assessing Students’ Competency? An Analytical Research by Arup J. Rout, Pallabi Dasgupta, Tushar K. Saha, Daliya Biswas

“…Background: There was always a need for some innovative assessment method like an objective structured practical examination (OSPE) which is objective, reliable, and valid over conventional practical examinations (CPEs), which lack objectivity and reliability and carries risk of teachers’ bias as learning is assessment-driven. …”
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Hearing Nasser Khosrow's Intentional Silence in the Travelogue in the Light of Antoine Berman's View on the Necessity of Re-reading a Work by Mahdi Farrokhi

“…Accordingly, the literary work will become a fragmented truth that always needs to be re-read so that its unheard voices, or in other words, "pieces" of this fragmented truth, that the theorist calls the "lost pages", can be heard. …”
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Balancing E-Commerce Platform and Manufacturer Goals in Sustainable Supply Chains: The Impact of Eco-Friendly Private Labels by Zhiheng Liu, Xiangcheng Cui, Yuanyuan Ji

“…Conversely, when the platform employs the agency selling format, the manufacturer’s decision to establish an online direct marketing channel depends on the relative strength of consumers’ eco-friendly and channel preferences. (2) The platform’s choice of selling format is affected by the manufacturer’s channel strategy, leading the platform to modify its selling format based on varying manufacturer channel approaches. (3) The choices of the platform’s selling format and the manufacturer’s channel strategy are not always in conflict. When consumer preferences for the manufacturer’s direct channel are strong and the cost of introducing it is moderate, the platform’s decision to adopt the agency selling format can create a win-win outcome for both the platform and the manufacturer. …”
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THE CORRELATION OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT SOCIALIZATION TOWARD THE CHANGING OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH BEHAVIOR OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CRAFTSMEN by Muhammad Zakwan Hamdani, Edwina Rudyarti, Sisca Mayang Phuspa

“…Conclusion: Socialization of personal protective equipment can boost of knowledge and attitude for the workers to always use personal protective equipment in each work.…”
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URBAN POPULATION DYNAMICS IN USA AND THE ECONOMICS by Valentin Gabriel CRISTEA

“…As someone who has lived in both rural and urban areas, I have always been fascinated by the growth of urbanization. …”
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Analysis on Deformation Failure and Structural Mechanical Characteristics of Multistage Loess Slope Supported by Frame Structure with Anchors by Kui-bin Yang, Yan-peng Zhu, Lin-ping Wu, Xin-guo Duan, Duo-bang Shi, Xiao-tao Du

“…The research results show that the frame anchor supporting structure and soil can always maintain coordinated deformation during centrifugal loading, and the failure process has certain toughness characteristics. …”
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A Task Allocation Algorithm Based on Score Incentive Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks by Feng Wang, Guangjie Han, Jinfang Jiang, Wei Li, Lei Shu

“…A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of many resource constraint sensor nodes, which are always deployed in unattended environment. Therefore, the sensor nodes are vulnerable to failure and malicious attacks. …”
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Peculiarities of Grammatical Properties in Nominal Word Combinations by I. B. Klienkova

“…Secondly, it has been established that the choice of syntactic relations in word combinations of the above-mentioned type of word combinations greatly depends on the semantic meaning of the noun - the first component of the word combination - and does not always coincide with the grammatical properties in nominal combinations in Germany. …”
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Diagnostic Pitfalls in Newborns and Babies with Blisters and Erosions by Elke Nischler, Alfred Klausegger, Clemens Hüttner, Gabriele Pohla-Gubo, Anja Diem, Johann W. Bauer, Helmut Hintner

“…Establishing the correct diagnosis in newborns presenting with blisters and erosions is not always a straightforward process. Many different disease entities including acquired (i.e., infectious, immunobullous, traumatic) and inherited disorders have to be taken into consideration. …”
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A Genre Analysis of Science and Technology Scopus-Indexed Journal Articles: Does Impact Factor Project Different Rhetorical Moves? by Violita Zarkasih Suryawinata, Eri Kurniawan, Arif Husein Lubis

“…In the method section, recounting an experimental process was always present in both groups. Interestingly, the difference was shown in stating the research implications in the conclusion part, where high-impact frequently used the move more than low-impact articles. …”
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Key features and guidelines for the application of microbial alpha diversity metrics by Ignacio Cassol, Mauro Ibañez, Juan Pablo Bustamante

“…Most existing alpha diversity metrics are inherited from other disciplines and their assumptions are not always directly meaningful or true for microbiome data. …”
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Cross-border Cooperation in the Sphere of Education: Murmansk Region Youth Views by O. I. Ivanishcheva, A. V. Koreneva, I. V. Ryzhkova

“…As a result of the analysis of the questionnaire data collected from young residents of the Murmansk region, it was found out that the border has always been and remains a kind of barrier for Russians, but the desire to overcome this barrier is obvious. …”
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A Reappraisal of the Necessity of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt After Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury by Seunghan Yu, Hyuk Jin Choi, Jung Hwan Lee, Mahnjeong Ha, Byung Chul Kim

“…Conclusions Cerebrospinal fluid diversion is not always required for radiologically diagnosed ventriculomegaly in traumatic brain injury patients after decompressive craniectomy. …”
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Primordial Cause of Armament, Disarmament, Weaponry and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Effiong Ekpo

“…Also threats of war, whether explicit or implicit has always been an instrument of policy whereby one government dissuaded another from pursuing certain courses of action, be encouraged. …”
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Experimental Study on Damage and Gas Migration Characteristics of Gas-Bearing Coal with Different Pore Structures under Sorption-Sudden Unloading of Methane by Gang Wang, Yangyang Guo, Chang’ang Du, Lulu Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Yue Wang, Jianjun Cao

“…The results show that (1) the deformation of coal samples can be divided into three stages, namely, pressure-increase-induced compression, sorption-induced expansion, and sudden-unloading-induced deformation or failure stage; (2) with the increase of the number of diffusion pores in the coal sample, the amount of gas sorption gradually increases and the expansion and failure of coal samples become more obvious; (3) in the experiment, the damage of coal samples is mainly along the axial direction and rarely along the radial direction; (4) the radial strain is always greater than the axial strain.…”
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Exploring the Role of Mass Media in Enhancing Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Activities in Bosomtwe District, Ghana by Anthony K. Appiah, Enoch K. Tham-Agyekum, Fred Nimoh, John-Eudes A. Bakang, Fred Ankuyi

“…Farmer-to-farmer extension has always existed among farmers. It helps to strengthen information flow, reduce extension costs, and empower farmers playing a crucial role in enhancing their livelihoods. …”
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The Study of Cooperative Obstacle Avoidance Method for MWSN Based on Flocking Control by Zuo Chen, Lei Ding, Kai Chen, Renfa Li

“…Compared with the space fixed feature of traditional wireless sensor network (WSN), mobile WSN has better robustness and adaptability in unknown environment, so that it is always applied in the research of target tracking. …”
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