How Does Preoperative Pure Tone Audiometry Relate to the Findings at Surgery to Explain the Hearing Status in Chronic Otitis Media? by Sharafali KADAMBOTT, Prasanta KUMAR GURE, Soumya GHATAK, Mainak DUTTA, Chandan SETH, Saumik DAS, Ramanuj SINHA

“…Conclusions: Hearing loss was significantly associated with the size but not the site of the central perforation. With ossicular discontinuity, hearing loss and ABG deteriorated significantly. …”
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Five lessons from a mid-level health manager intervention to increase uptake of tuberculosis prevention therapy in Uganda: ‘it is a completely different thing to implement what you... by Jason Johnson-Peretz, Canice Christian, Cecilia Akatukwasa, Fred Atwine, Elijah Kakande, Moses R. Kamya, Diane V. Havlir, Carol S. Camlin, Gabriel Chamie

“…Objectives The SEARCH-IPT trial led a series of mini-collaborative meetings, which provided business leadership and management training for an intervention group of mid-level healthcare system managers in rural Eastern, East-Central, and Southwestern Uganda to see whether this would increase uptake of isoniazid-prevention therapy (IPT) for people living with HIV (PLHIV) in intervention districts. …”
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Manometría de alta resolución en la acalasia de esófago by Tatiana Amable Días, Vivianne María Anido Escobar, Ludmila Martínez Leyva, Mildred Cecilia Armenteros Torres, Zunilda Días Drake, Raúl Antonio Brizuela Quintanilla, Eduardo Carlos Veitía Wilson, Juan Carlos Oliva Rey

“…Para el análisis de las variables cuantitativas se emplearon medidas de tendencia central, media y de dispersión, la desviación estándar. …”
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ABCD3-I and ABCD2 Scores in a TIA Population with Low Stroke Risk by Fredrik Ildstad, Hanne Ellekjær, Torgeir Wethal, Stian Lydersen, Hild Fjærtoft, Bent Indredavik

“…We performed a prospective, multicenter study in Central Norway from 2012 to 2015, enrolling 577 patients with TIA. …”
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Ensuring the Reliability and Efficiency of the Power Industry in the Agricultural Sector of the Republic of Belarus in Modern Conditions by I. V. Protosovitskii, E. P. Zabello, M. A. Prishchepov, V. A. Daineko

“…Improving values of the technical and economic indicators of centralized energy generation and its transmission through main and distribution grids cannot ensure high reliability of consumers of the first category, the number of which is constantly growing in agriculture. …”
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Results of studying wheatgrass (<i>Agropyron</i> Gaertn.) accessions from the VIR global genetic resources collection in Yakutia by V. M. Koryakina, A. A. Kochegina

“…As a result of a two-year study of 19 accessions of different wheatgrass species from the collection of VIR, undertaken in 2018 and 2019 in the collection nursery in Central Yakutia, plant forms were selected that exceeded the average green biomass yield for two cuts: k-52382 (wild crested wheatgrass, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan) by 43%, and k-48705 (wild-growing Kerch wheatgrass) by 40%. …”
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Blast‐Overpressure Induced Modulation of PARP‐SIRT‐NRF2 Axis in Stress Signaling of Astrocytes and Microglia by Vijaya Prakash Krishnan Muthaiah, Kathiravan Kaliyappan, Ramkumar Thiayagarajan, Supriya Mahajan, Krishnamoorthy Gunasekaran

“…Results As a result of NAD+ being a common substrate for PARP1 and Sirtuins, we found the decreased expression of SIRT1, SIRT3, and NRF2, a central transcriptional regulator for the expression of antioxidant genes. …”
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Divergent Responses of Grassland Productivity to Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulations Across Ecoregions on the Mongolian Plateau by Cuicui Jiao, Xiaobo Yi, Ji Luo, Ying Wang, Yuanjie Deng, Xiao Guo

“…Cloud cover affected ANPP in Sukhbaatar and central Dornod, Mongolia. (3) The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation affected ANPP by regulating temperature in the Ordos Plateau arid steppe ecoregion, whereas precipitation occurred in the other ecoregions. …”
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The use of methylene blue in adult patients with septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ka Ting Ng, Pei En Kwok, Wei En Lim, Wan Yi Teoh, Mohd Shahnaz Hasan, Mohd Fitry Zainal Abidin

“…Methods: Databases of MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CENTRAL were searched from their inception date until October 2023. …”
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Multi-criteria decision-making method for emergency shelter site selection considering flood risk: A case study of Zhuhai, China by Bo Liu, Yingbing Li, Yan Zhang, Zhichao Wu, Yansong Pan, Meiquan Li

“…Meanwhile, we found that the central part of Xiangzhou District in Zhuhai City has the greatest demand for emergency shelter construction and the best conditions for emergency shelter construction. …”
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Anatomical simulation analysis of pancreaticobiliary junction in occult pancreaticobiliary reflux: based on Fluent study by LÜ Beining, HOU Nianzong, XIANG Yukai, DA Xuanbo, YANG Yulong, TIAN Fuzhou

“…Different models were drawn for the pancreaticobiliary junction according to the following parameters: biliopancreatic ampullary diaphragm (with/without), opening direction of duodenal papilla(biased to the side of bile duct/central/biased to the side of pancreatic duct). A total of 6 models were used to analyze the risk factors for OPBR. …”
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Transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair <i>versus</i> medical therapy for secondary mitral regurgitation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Emídio Mata, Bárbara Lage Garcia, Mariana Tinoco, Margarida Castro, Luísa Pinheiro, João Português, Francisco Ferreira, Silvia Ribeiro, Bruno Melica, António Lourenço

“…On September 2, 2024, PubMed, Cochrane CENTRAL, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched for randomized controlled trials comparing M-TEER in addition to GDMT with GDMT in SMR patients with heart failure. …”
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Review of potential simultaneous operations for the surgical rehabilitation of patients with thyroid eye disease by D.S. Atarshchikov, E.Yu. Korchemkina

“…Korchemkina² </p> <p> ¹Central Clinical Hospital and Polyclinic of the Department for Presidential Affairs, Moscow, Russian Federation </p> <p> ²Academy of Postgraduate Education of the Federal Scientific and Clinical Center of the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation </p> <p> The importance of revising the traditional multi-stage approach to the surgical rehabilitation of patients with thyroid eye disease is supported by multiple reasons, such as high operation costs, anesthesia-related increase in a burden for patients, and repeated surgical incisions associated with a delayed healing of surgical wounds. …”
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Prevalence and predictive factors of testosterone-induced erythrocytosis: a retrospective single center study by Anina Neidhart, Viktor von Wyl, Viktor von Wyl, Benno Käslin, Christoph Henzen, Stefan Fischli

“…The most common indication for TRT was central hypogonadism (51%) followed by primary hypogonadism (26%). …”
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Mortalidad y morbilidad del adulto joven ingresado en cuidados intensivos by Alberto García Gómez, Yoan Rafael Machado Rosales, Ozohydhy Leal Capdesuñer, Olga Lidia Sanabria Blanco, Pedro Julio García Álvarez, Eglis Fernández Castillo, Jacqueline Nistal Mena

“…Los métodos estadísticos utilizados fueron las distribuciones de frecuencias, medidas de tendencia central, y las pruebas inferenciales ji cuadrado y t de Student. …”
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A 22 Billion M⊙ Black Hole in Holmberg 15A with Keck KCWI Spectroscopy and Triaxial Orbit Modeling by Emily R. Liepold, Chung-Pei Ma, Jonelle L. Walsh

“…Holmberg 15A (H15A), the brightest cluster galaxy of A85, has an exceptionally low central surface brightness even among local massive elliptical galaxies with distinct stellar cores, making it exceedingly challenging to obtain high-quality spectroscopy to detect a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at its center. …”
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Workload-capacity imbalances and their impact on self-management complexity in patients with multimorbidity: a multicenter cross-sectional study by Binyu Zhao, Yujia Fu, Jingjie Wu, Erxu Xue, Chuyang Lai, Dandan Chen, Qiwei Wu, Jianing Yu, Qiaoyu Wu, Zhihong Ye, Jing Shao

“…In the network analysis, socioeconomic factors exhibited the central nodes (p < 0.05).Conclusions Personalized interventions designed to increase capacity and reduce workload are essential for improving self-management in multimorbid patients. …”
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Prognostic models of immune-related cell death and stress unveil mechanisms driving macrophage phenotypic evolution in colorectal cancer by Hao Liu, Chuhan Zhang, Sanfei Peng, Yuhan Yin, Yishi Xu, Sihan Wu, Liping Wang, Yang Fu

“…Single-cell analysis further revealed that macrophages were the central drivers of immune characteristics underlying prognostic differences within the ICDS prognostic model. …”
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Análise combinatória de escoamento de fluido: estudo de caso em atomizadores tipo canhão bananeiro by Cassiano Rodrigues Moura, Joel Stryhalski, Valério Paholski

“…Nos resultados pode-se observar que dentre as condições analisadas de trajetória, temperatura e pressão, que o melhor conjunto de turbina e ventilador, que oferece os melhores resultados é a turbina com saída de ar central e ventilador de pás retas, com diferença de temperatura de 1,7°C menor, para as temperaturas coletadas em campo e 0,36°C menor, para as temperaturas das análises computacionais. …”
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Evaluation of the implementation in primary care of genetic testing for the screening of MODY2 (iMOgene): protocol for an implementation pilot study by Marie-Ève Poitras, Luigi Bouchard, Samuel Legeay, Vanessa Tremblay-Vaillancourt, Amélie Fournier, Josianne Leblanc, Philippe Caron, Catherine Savard, Nathalie Bettez, Karine Tremblay

“…This study will document the implementation process of genetic testing in primary care by identifying facilitating and limiting factors to establish specifications for scaling up.Ethics and dissemination The present protocol has been approved by the research ethic committee of the ‘Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean’ (CIUSSS-SLSJ) on 9 January 2024 and by the ‘Comité central d’éthique de la recherche’ (CCER) of the ‘Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux’ of Quebec (Canada) on 30 January 2024. …”
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