Differences between SSRI and SNRI in depression treatment by Mateusz Grego, Katarzyna Grego, Łukasz Stojak, Dariusz Popiela, Karina Urbańska, Filip Kwiatkowski, Mateusz Baczewski, Witold Czyż

“…SSRIs are the most commonly used first-line medications, but there are controversies regarding their efficacy compared to SNRIs.   …”
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Phosphorus and Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease by Emilio González-Parra, Carolina Gracia-Iguacel, Jesús Egido, Alberto Ortiz

“…The diet in patients with advanced-stage CKD has been controversial, because a diet with too low protein content can favor malnutrition and increase morbidity and mortality. …”
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Mining the ocean floor vs mining the Moon: what can we learn from our past experiences? by Joseph N. Pelton, Nishith Mishra, Martina Elia Vitoloni

“…., the paper illustrates the complexities and controversies surrounding resource exploitation in recognized global commons. …”
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Wine, beer and Chinese Baijiu in relation to cardiovascular health: the impact of moderate drinking by Qiao Kang, Jinyuan Sun, Bowen Wang, Baoguo Sun

“…This article elucidates the epidemiology of moderate alcohol consumption and various cardiovascular conditions, along with the limitations and controversies of current studies. In addition, protective effects and putative mechanisms of both ethanol and non-ethanol components of wine, beer, and Chinese Baijiu, the three most representative alcoholic beverages worldwide, are to be evaluated within the context of a rational drinking pattern.…”
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Liposarcoma of the Nasopharynx: Diagnosis and Management of a Rare Diagnostic Entity by George X. Papacharalampous, Dimitrios Kikidis, Alexios Vasileiou, Aggeliki Bousiotou, Aristeidis Chrysovergis

“…The role of adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy still remains controversial.…”
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Reviewing and Criticizing the Islamic Art Book by Abed Taghavi

“…Argument to Islamic Art is one of the controversial topics in Archaeology and art of Islamic world. …”
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Impaired Autophagy of GABAergic Interneurons in Neuropathic Pain by Yuhua Yin, Min-Hee Yi, Dong Woon Kim

“…Although the distinct cause of neuropathic pain has been investigated in primary afferent neurons over the years, pain modulation by central sensitization remains controversial. NP is believed to be driven by cell type-specific spinal synaptic plasticity in the dorsal horn. …”
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Maintaining Web Cache Coherency

“…The cost and the efficiency of the two categories are still a controversial issue, while in some studies the strong coherency is far too expensive to be used in the Web context, in other studies it could be maintained at a low cost. …”
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Au nom de la lutte contre le changement climatique : le mécanisme pour un développement propre et ses travers by Moïse Tsayem Demaze

“…The use of CDM has drawn a lot of criticism and even controversies: unproven GHGE reduction, weak transfer of clean technologies, uneven geographical and sectoral distribution of projects, lack of sustainable development that CDM projects are expected to generate in developing countries, etc. …”
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Die Rosenkreuzer als imaginäre Gesellschaft by Ralph Häfner

“…Hoßbach however places Andreae’s Chymical Wedding in the context of the critical and satirical writings towards the controversial author directed against his time and society. …”
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Actualité de la pensée de Georges Millardet en linguistique et dialectologie romanes à travers sa contribution à la RLaR by Jean Léo Léonard

“…The author, siding with Maurice Grammont's skepticism vis-à-vis the linguistic geography of the Paris school, dominated by Jules Gilliéron, rehabilitates the Neogrammarian comparative method, opening up pioneering prospects towards modern phonology, by analyzing the structural or systemic independence of the dialectical areas in space and time. This vigorously controversial piece of scholarship confronts the ideas in vogue at the time in Romance dialectology, especially linguistic geography, held by Jules Gilliéron and his followers, in the light of methods used in general linguistics, which is still incipient in France and Western Europe. …”
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Opioid Therapy for Chronic Nonmalignant Pain by Russell K Portenoy

“…Long term administration of an opioid drug for chronic nonmalignant pain continues to be controversial, but is no longer uniformly rejected by pain specialists. …”
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Mirative focalization: A case study of Mandarin lian-DP dou construction by Yue Xing

“…‘even’-construction) in terms of the following controversial aspects – i.e., the contributions of the syntactically indispensable elements lian ‘even’ and dou ‘all’, and the syntactic distribution of the construction in connection with associated information structure. …”
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AVALIAÇÃO ANTROPOMÉTRICA: A ESCOLHA DO REFERENCIAL PARA COMPARAÇÃO EM CRIANÇAS E JOVENS by Orivaldo F. Souza, Cândido S. Pires Neto

“…Todavia, a escolha do referencial para a avaliação antropométrica está condicionada a controvérsi­as existentes quanto a utilização entre referenciais regionais (preconizando que os as­pectos hereditários e ambientais interagem-se durante o crescimento) e universais (ba­seados na premissa de que a variação existente entre os indivíduos estão condicionados as condições sócio-econômicas). …”
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Comparison of the efficacy of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and the United States by Oliver Choi, Sunjoo Kim

“…The United States had a contrasting response consisting of delayed and more decentralized measures, where testing lagged due to varying policies and the political controversies facing vaccine distribution. Conclusions We signify the gravity of rapid response and testing, clear communication, and efficient vaccine distribution, as we believe this could correlate with a lower mortality rate. …”
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Papillary Thyroid Cancer Affecting Multiple Family Members: A Case Report and Literature Review of Familial Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer by Khaled Ahmed Baagar, Buthina Ibrahim Alowainati

“…Familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer (FNMTC) represents 5–10% of NMTC cases. Many controversies are associated with the FNMTC, namely, the minimum required number of affected family members to define the condition, aggressiveness, prognosis, and treatment and screening recommendations. …”
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Zinc Protoporphyrin Upregulates Heme Oxygenase-1 in PC-3 Cells via the Stress Response Pathway by Simon C. M. Kwok

“…However, the effect of ZnPP on HO-1 expression is controversial. It was shown to induce HO-1 expression in some cells, but suppress it in others. …”
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Regulatory Role of CD4+ T Cells in Myocarditis by Daria Vdovenko, Urs Eriksson

“…These subsets include Th1 and Th17 effector cells and regulatory T cells, despite the fact that there are still sparse and controversial data on the specific role of FOXP3-expressing Treg in myocarditis. …”
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Metformin Ameliorates D-Galactose-Induced Senescent Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Enhancing Autophagy by Pingting Ye, Lei Feng, Dan Zhang, Ruihao Li, Yixuan Wen, Xiaohan Tong, Shuo Shi, Chunyan Dong

“…However, the mechanisms of metformin in antiaging treatment remain controversial. Here, we used D-galactose (D-gal) to establish an appropriate model of senescent hBMSCs to explore the antiaging effects of metformin. …”
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The Role of Clitoral Anatomy in Female to Male Sex Reassignment Surgery by Vojkan Vukadinovic, Borko Stojanovic, Marko Majstorovic, Aleksandar Milosevic

“…Introduction. Controversies on clitoral anatomy and its role in female sexual function still make clitoral reconstructive surgery very challenging. …”
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