Comparative Study of Combined Steroid-Antibiotic Aural Pack versus Antibiotic Drop in Otitis Externa by Jayanta Saha, Debabrata Biswas, Tithi Debnath, Subhadeep Chowdhury

“… INTRODUCTION Otitis externa is an inflammatory condition of the skin of the external auditory canal that is characterized by generalized edema and erythema. It is a very common condition which is encountered in day to day outpatient services in the life of otolaryngologists. …”
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Relationships of dermatologic symptoms and quality of life in patients with psoriatic arthritis: analysis of two tofacitinib phase III studies by Peter C. Taylor, Andrew G. Bushmakin, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Pamela Young, Rebecca Germino, Joseph F. Merola, Gil Yosipovitch

“…ISI/PGA-PsO/PGJS-VAS-PsO improvements from baseline of ≥3/≥2/≥40-mm VAS corresponded with clinically meaningful DLQI improvements; improvements from baseline of ≥4/≥3/≥40-mm VAS generally corresponded with clinically meaningful improvements across component scores and all SF-36v2 domains.Conclusions Substantial links exist between dermatologic symptoms and QoL in patients with PsA, potentially informing patient-centered care and research. …”
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Evaluation et développement durable :Retour d’expérience de la pratique de l’évaluation à l’ADEME by Eric Plottu

“…Nous nous appuierons notamment sur les études les plus récentes, en particulier les évaluations de démarches territoriales à forte composante développement durable (évaluation des Contrats Territoriaux Déchets, évaluation à mi-étape de la démarche ATEnEE) pour discuter du lien entre évaluation et développement durable. Plus généralement, les évaluations menées au sein de l’Agence permettront de tirer deux types d’enseignements :sur les conditions de mise en œuvres et les attentes des cibles bénéficiaires relativement à une action publique visant à  favoriser le développement durable, en nous appuyant sur les résultats et les recommandations des évaluations menées ;sur la pratique elle-même de l’évaluation des politiques publiques, en particulier les spécificités de la conduite d’évaluations dans le domaine de l’environnement et du développement durable.      …”
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Genetic diversity of Rhododendron dauricum based on morphological traits and SSR markers by Dan Wang, Ying Ma, Xueli Zhao, Ling Wang

“…We also found that SSR-based clustering generally follows the geographical distances among the populations. …”
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Suicide following the death of a sibling: a nationwide follow-up study from Sweden by Ichiro Kawachi, Jan Saarela, Mikael Rostila

“…Associations with other main causes of death—such as external other than suicide, cardiovascular diseases or cancer—were generally much smaller and statistically not significant in either sex. …”
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The Association of Economic Outcome and Geriatric Syndromes among Older Adults with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) by Min Ji Kwak, Rafia Rasu, Robert O. Morgan, Jessica Lee, Nahid J. Rianon, Holly M. Holmes, Abhijeet Dhoble, Dae Hyun Kim

“…From a multivariable generalized linear regression, delirium increased the cost by 31.5% (95% CI 25.41~37.92) and LOS by 70.3% (95% CI 60.20~83.38). …”
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Evaluating attachment-based family therapy in residential treatment in the United States: does adolescents’ increased attachment security to caregivers lead to decreases in depress... by Guy Diamond, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Jody Russon, Michael Roeske

“…Results The results generally supported hypotheses. Attachment insecurity and depressive symptoms improved over the five weeks of treatment. …”
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Practice patterns on the management of secondary hyperparathyroidism in the United States: Results from a modified Delphi panel. by David E Henner, Beatrice Drambarean, Teresa M Gerbeling, Jessica B Kendrick, William T Kendrick, Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, Thomas L Nickolas, Anjay Rastogi, Anis A Rauf, Brenda Dyson, Michael C Singer, Pooja Desai, Kathleen M Fox, Sunfa Cheng, William Goodman

“…<h4>Results</h4>Panelists generally agreed with KDIGO recommendations, with some differences. …”
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Diurnal Variation of Chemical Characteristics and Source Identification of Fine Particles in the Kaohsiung Harbor by Yu-Lun Tseng, Kwok-Wai Wong, Chung-Shin Yuan, Chitsan Lin

“…The V/Ni ratios of PM2.5 in the Kaohsiung Harbor were generally higher than 2.0. Organic carbon (OC) was superior to elemental carbon (EC) in PM2.5 with the dominance of secondary OC (SOC). …”
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AN EXAMINATION OF CONJUGATIONAL SUFFIXES OF PASSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN FULFULDE by YAHAYA MOHAMMED AHMED

“…According to Khumalo, (2007) passivization is generally, the promotion to grammatical subject of an object NP. …”
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Spatial correlations and risk transmission of virtual water flow at city scale: A case study of the Yellow River Basin by Jingjing Yang, Zhong Ma, Weijing Ma, Xingxing Niu, Ting Mao

“…Notably, the Ningxia Urban Agglomeration (NUA) demonstrates significantly higher VW impact and sensitivity coefficients values than the remaining six urban agglomerations. First-tier cities generally display lower virtual water impact and sensitivity coefficients, whereas emerging cities exhibit the opposite trend. …”
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La Investigación en la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad de Costa Rica by Magda Cecilia Sandí Sandí, Rebecca Vargas Bolaños

“…Se presentan los resultados generales de la investigación y las proyecciones futuras.…”
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Epilepsy and Child History in Dr. Jamal Ahmad Rashid Pediatric Teaching Hospital Sulaymaniyah /Iraq by Awayi Ghazy Abdulkareem

“…The results of survey also showed that most of the children were diagnosed between ages one to five while most of the samples have a generalized seizure. On the other hand, there was a statistical significant association between febrile convulsion and family history of epilepsy depending. …”
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The vulnerability of regional agriculture regarding irrigation water from the Tagus-Segura transfer by José Daniel Buendía Azorín, Rubén Martínez Alpañez, María del Mar Sánchez de la Vega

“…This paper use a proposal of a simple and efficient procedure for estimating these parameters from generally available information on road freight transport and goods imports from the rest of the world. …”
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Corn tolerance to florpyrauxifen-benzyl rates and its mixture with atrazine and mesotrione by Amar S. Godar, Jason K. Norsworthy, L. Tom Barber

“…The levels of early injury were largely sustained at 7 WAA, with a few instances of recovery, particularly with a mixture of florpyrauxifen-benzyl at 7.5 g ae ha-1 with the full rate of atrazine. Corn yield loss generally surpassed the respective injury levels. The yield loss was overall the least in 2020 (8 to 46%) and most severe in 2021 (26 to 93%), largely depending on florpyrauxifen-benzyl rates. …”
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Solidarity in Ethnically Diverse Contexts: Supportive Relations of First‐Generation Roma Graduates’ Social Mobility in Hungary by Judit Durst, Margit Feischmidt, Zsanna Nyírő

“…This trend is reinforced by the generally low level of social mobility. However, parallel to the main trend, a less visible process enables the social mobility of people of Roma origin born into marginalised, socio‐economically low‐status families. …”
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The effect of maintenance therapy on Crohn’s disease clinical outcomes by O. B. Schukina, E. A. Kondrashina, A. M. Kharitidis, Ye. G. Vepreva, A. G. Kharitonov, A. Yu. Baranovsky

“…«The steroid-sparing effect» of immunosuppressors was observed generally in all patients with inflammatory form of disease, which provided reduction of steroid dependency rate by 17%. …”
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Accuracy of administrative data for surveillance of healthcare-associated infections: a systematic review by Karel G M Moons, Marc J M Bonten, Maaike S M van Mourik, Pleun Joppe van Duijn, Grace M Lee

“…Observed sensitivity and positive predictive values of administrative data algorithms for HAI detection were very heterogeneous and generally modest at best, both for within-hospital algorithms and for formal quality indicators; accuracy was particularly poor for the identification of device-associated HAI such as central line associated bloodstream infections. …”
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Effect of Cocoa (<i>Theobroma cacao</i>) Plantation Types on the Distribution of Anuran Communities in Ore, Ondo State, Nigeria by AB Onadeko

“…Diversity indices (Shannon and Margalef) showed that the forest sites had the greatest (3.204 and 4.799) respectively while the pesticide using pure  cocoa farms had the least (1.853 and 2.072). Generally, the result of the study clearly indicated that pesticide use cocoa farms were significantly lower  compared to other sites. …”
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Direction-Specific Signatures of Sport Participation in Center of Pressure Profiles of Division I Athletes by Stephen M. Glass, Scott E. Ross

“…# Background Descriptive and comparative studies of human postural control generally report effects for component or resultant dimensions of a measured signal, which may obscure potentially important information related to off-cardinal directionality. …”
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