The usefulness of Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) scoring in predicting all-cause mortality in Outpatients with Clinical Diagnoses of COPD by Kevin Ly, Dorothy Wakefield, Richard ZuWallack

“…In multivariable testing, which included covariates of age, sex, socioeconomic status, race, FEV1 percent-predicted, and all-cause hospitalizations in the preceding year, CCI expressed as a continuous variable strongly predicted mortality: hazard ratio (HR) 1.38 for each unit increase in the score (p < 0.0001). …”
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Secondary Glioblastoma Multiforme in a Child with Disseminated Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma by C. S. Amene, L. A. Yeh-Nayre, J. R. Crawford

“…Our case highlights the potential late effects of high-dose cranial radiation, how symptomatology may precede neuroimaging findings, and the rapid formation of sGBM that mirrors that of de novo Glioblastoma Multiforme.…”
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The spatial buildup of nonlinear compression in the cochlea by Kostas Kondylidis, Kostas Kondylidis, Anna Vavakou, Anna Vavakou, Marcel van der Heijden

“…In the mammalian cochlea, the transduction from vibrations to inner hair cell receptor currents is preceded by a stage of mechanical pre-processing that involves a rapid, strongly nonlinear compression. …”
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Dermatological Manifestations and Sebum Composition in Parkinson’s Disease by Meshi Paz, Peter Lio

“…However, nonmotor manifestations, specifically dermatological changes, precede motor symptoms and may thus serve as vital early indicators of PD. …”
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Heparin and Bivalirudin in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Review Article by Guiping Wang, Kaijie Qi, Xuyang Li, Shuping Zuo, Ruolin Zhang, Yanan Zhao, Suya Sun, Juanjuan Zhang, Xiaokun Liu

“…Among the commonly employed anticoagulants in PCI, heparin and bivalirudin take precedence, with heparin serving as the archetypal choice. …”
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Discourse of Europe in Political Dialogue between the EU and the South Caucasus Countries by A. S. Ayvazyan

“…The concept of ‘normative power’ implies that values should take precedence over narrow political interests and designates the ability of international actors to establish global norms and to encourage other actors to prioritize these values in foreign and domestic policies. …”
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Papa, maman : noms propres ou noms de parenté ordinaires ? by Mathilde Salles

“…And, in conjunction with the preceding question, are papa, maman ordinary kinship nouns here, comparable to those which enter into the formation of anaphoric nominal phrases as his father, his dad, the father, the dad? …”
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Do international students and temporary foreign workers pay more than Canadian-born individuals in the rental market? by Feng Hou, Wendy Kei, Haozhen Zhang

“…This study uses data from the 2021 Census of Population to examine whether international students and temporary foreign workers face higher rental costs than the Canadian-born population (non-immigrants) and longer-term immigrants (those who were admitted more than five years preceding the census year). It also explores the factors contributing to disparities in rental expenses among these groups. …”
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Renal Mucormycosis: A Rare and Potentially Lethal Complication of Kidney Transplantation by SreyRam Kuy, Chun He, David C. Cronin

“…Case B had a late presentation of renal mucormycosis, preceded by a cutaneous manifestation. One year after kidney transplantation he had a nonhealing knee ulcer which on biopsy showed cutaneous mucormycosis. …”
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De Jane Eyre à Shirley : une représentation des éléments transformée par les bouleversements sociaux ? by Élise Ouvrard

“…When she wrote Shirley, Charlotte Brontë was inspired by the Luddite riots which took place in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1812. Contrary to her preceding novel Jane Eyre (1847) in which Thornfield is a few miles away from the large manufacturing town Millcote, Shirley (1849) insists on the social changes linked to the Industrial Revolution. …”
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A Case of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Middle-Aged Adult by Nicole Mahdi, Peter A. Abdelmalik, Mark Curtis, Barak Bar

“…Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an inflammatory demyelinating disorder that is often preceded by infection or recent vaccination. Encephalopathy and focal neurological deficits are usually manifest several weeks after a prodromal illness with rapidly progressive neurologic decline. …”
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An Improved Car-Following Model considering Desired Safety Distance and Heterogeneity of Driver’s Sensitivity by Lei Zhang, Shengrui Zhang, Bei Zhou, Shuaiyang Jiao, Yan Huang

“…In the car-following scenarios, the following vehicle must continuously adjust the following distance to the preceding vehicle in real time. A new optimal velocity function incorporating the desired safety distance instead of a preset constant is presented first to describe the abovementioned car-following behavior dynamically. …”
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Piperacillin-Induced Immune Hemolysis Presenting with Tachycardia and Cardiac Arrest by Ghan-Shyam Lohiya, Lilia Tan-Figueroa, Vamsi Krishna

“…He had uneventfully received piperacillin-tazobactam on 7 occasions during the preceding 5 years for >50 days. Patient was treated with intravenous crystalloids, methylprednisolone and transfusion of 3 units of packed erythrocytes. …”
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Determinants of Bicyclist Injury Severity Resulting from Crashes at Roundabouts, Crossroads, and T-Junctions by Jinxing Shen, Tiantong Wang, Changjiang Zheng, Miao Yu

“…A wide range of variables potentially affecting injury severity was considered, including bicyclist characteristics, intersection characteristics, environmental conditions, bicyclist movement and location preceding the crash, and types of collisions. Our findings show that the PPO model outperforms the GOL model for analyzing the factors that affect the bicyclist injury severity at intersections. …”
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Fishing Industry in Eighteenth-Century Astrakhan Governorate: Eyewitness Accounts of Travelers and St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Expeditionists by Andrey A. Kurapov

“…The work uses the method of comparative historical analysis to investigate the published notes of travelers, research papers of academic expeditionists, and unpublished archival files of Collection 394 containing descriptions and analyses of the then fishing industry in the Lower Volga, and dealing with arrangements that preceded those academic expeditions in the mid-to-late eighteenth century (in particular, ones headed by S. …”
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‘Rents in the Veil of Time’: Annie Besant’s Auto-biographies of Giordano Bruno by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…When Besant converted to Theosophy in 1889, she wrote Why I Became a Theosophist, and her revised autobiography, Annie Besant: An Autobiography, was published in 1893, preceded by 1875 to 1891: A Fragment of Autobiography. …”
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NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD AND FOURTH REPUBLICS by Towoju Adedoyin John, Mohammed Idris Danjuma, Ibrahim O Salawu

“…The major findings were that each reform measure was necessitated by the short-comings inherent in the preceding system; some of the reforms were far reaching and had positive impacts, while others were cosmetic in nature and mainly for political expediency. …”
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Professional quality of life and psychopathological symptoms among first-line healthcare workers facing COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory study in an Italian southern hospital by Simone Varrasi, Claudia Savia Guerrera, Giuseppe Alessio Platania, Sabrina Castellano, Concetta Pirrone, Pasquale Caponnetto, Costanza Nicolosi, Francesca Insanguine, Emanuela Greco, Mariacatena Perrone, Carmen Pulvirenti, Diletta Randazzo, Gabriele Ferro, Maurizio Consoli, Santo Di Nuovo

“… # Conclusion In light of what has been said so far, it appears essential to intervene on the first mild signs of Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress, because they precede the onset of Depression, Stress and Anxiety in healthcare workers.…”
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M694V gene polymorphism may not contribute to the pathogenesis of reactive arthritis in the North Indian population by Anamika Kumari Anuja, Koshy Nitin Thomas, Mantabya Kumar Singh, Ashish Jacob Mathew, Vikas Agarwal, Latika Gupta

“…Twenty-six cases were triggered by preceding enteritis and 23 by urethritis. Ten healthy controls of age 27 (male:female – 7:3, interquartile range ± 1.5) were included for comparison. …”
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Is Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease a Result of Multiple Gait Impairments? Implications for Treatment by Meir Plotnik, Nir Giladi, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff

“…“Triggers”, for example, such as attention shifts or trajectory transitions, may precede FOG. We propose distinct categories of interventions and describe examples of existing work that support this idea: (a) interventions which aim to maintain a good level of locomotion control especially with respect to aspects related to FOG; (b) those that aim at avoiding FOG “triggers”; and (c) those that merely aim to escape from FOG once it occurs. …”
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