An Analysis of Patients That Underwent Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography with the Prediagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department by Engin Ozakin, Filiz Baloglu Kaya, Nurdan Acar, Arif Alper Cevik

“…The items considered in this study were their reason for presenting to the ED and pretest clinical risks for PE, D-dimer, and CTPA results. …”
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CONSTRUCTION STAKEHOLDERS’ PERSPECTIVE ON EXTERNAL RELATED RISK FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT PERFORMANCE by ABDARAHIM SALEM, Eric SIMPEH, Julius Fapohunda

“… Abstract The construction industry is extremely complex, with dynamic project environments creating an atmosphere of high uncertainty and risk. For that reason, risks in construction project have become an inevitable feature and the industry is susceptible to numerous business, socio-political and technical risks that negatively influence project delivery. …”
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The Mechanism of Metabolic Influences on the Endogenous GLP-1 by Oral Antidiabetic Medications in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Thiquynhnga Nguyen, Min Gong, Song Wen, Xinlu Yuan, Chaoxun Wang, Jianlan Jin, Ligang Zhou

“…It has been associated with considerably good results in the management of hyperglycemia with cardiac or nephron-benefits. For this reason, it is recommended for individuals with cardiovascular diseases in many clinical guidelines. …”
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The Ordinary Legislative Procedure in the EU as an Example of Cooperative Practices by N. Yu. Kaveshnikov

“…Third, the development of trialogues and their main features.According to the results of the study, the author concluded that a set of cooperative practices between the EU Council and the European Parliament has been formed within the framework of the ordinary legislative procedure which is structured in a way that encourages co-legislators to cooperate and engage in intensive inter-institutional negotiations that complement the negotiations within each of the institutions. The reason for this is that the ordinary legislative procedure has a complex system of checks and balances. …”
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Frequency and prescription patterns of laboratory investigations in evaluating physical morbidity among psychiatric inpatients – A cross-sectional study by Gargi Pushpalal, Sivaprakash Balasundaram, Karthick Subramanian, Mohamed Hanifah

“…Clinician judgment was the most frequent reason for ordering an additional investigation. Conclusion: The study revealed that age, gender, the type of psychiatric illness, and the illness course-related characteristics significantly influenced the prescribing frequency of additional investigations and the proportion of abnormal/outside reference range results.…”
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Perspective on Persian Internet Memes: Exploring Multimodal Meaning Construction and Viewpoint Dynamics by Shirin Pourebrahim

“…The textual components typically fulfill constructional roles, such as adverbial clauses of reason and condition, thereby shaping the inventive aspects of meaning, often presented through fictive direct speech. …”
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Reviewers’ views on the editorial review processes of the Canadian Medical Education Journal by Larisa Lotoski, Jennifer O’Brien, Marcel F D’Eon

“…Participants’ (n = 17) most cited reason for declining their invitation to review for CMEJ was competing workloads (n = 14, 82.4%). …”
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The effect of phosphorus addition on the age-hardening of Cu-Ni-Ti alloy by Lina Zhang, Xiangqin Zhao, Jiaqing Lai, Yihong Tian, Jianbo Zhang

“…The P solute atoms dissolved in the matrix and the nano-scale Ni _3 P phase form, which may be one reason for the increase in hardness due to precipitation strengthening.…”
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Smoking and Pulmonary Fibrosis: Novel Insights by Katerina D. Samara, George Margaritopoulos, Athol U. Wells, Nikolaos M. Siafakas, Katerina M. Antoniou

“…The aforementioned smoking-related implications give rise to further research questions and certainly provide one more important reason for physicians to advocate smoking cessation and smoke-free environment.…”
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Spatiotemporal Distribution and Population Structure of Monokalliapseudes schubarti (Tanaidacea: Kalliapseudidae) in an Estuary in Southern Brazil by Felipe Freitas-Júnior, Martin Lindsey Christoffersen, Joafrâncio Pereira de Araújo, Joaquim Olinto Branco

“…Habitat disturbance and high organic matter may represent factors controlling the distribution of populations of M. schubarti. For this reason, the species may be used to monitor anthropic effects in estuarine areas.…”
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Energy-Based Aerodynamic Analysis on the Blended-Wing-Body Aircraft with Boundary Layer Ingestion by Wenyuan Zhao, Yanlai Zhang, Jianghao Wu

“…The following comparison of dissipation components for the power-on and power-off cases shows that the benefit of BLI is slightly underestimated by the determining expression of PSC. The reason is that the variation in the boundary layer velocity profile at the trailing edge of the center body part is neglected, which is due to the installation of the propulsor. …”
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Brittle crack propagation acceleration in a single crystal of a 3% silicon-Fe alloy by Tomoya Kawbata, Noritaka Nakamura, Shuji Aihara

“…Though it has been reported that the upper limit of the speed of brittle crack propagation is theoretically the Rayleigh wave speed, which is approximately 2,900 m/s in steels, the actual speed of brittle crack propagation in steels is approximately 1,000 m/s and lower. The reason for this difference is due to braking effects during crack propagation, for example, unevenness in the faceting, tear ridges, microcracking, twin deformation and side ligaments, which are the elements that dominate the arresting toughness. …”
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COVID-19 PANDEMIC: STRENGTHENING THE IMMUNITY BY REENGINEERING AMONG MENTAL HEALTH TANGLES by Priyaranjan Maral, Deepa Punetha, Usha Kiran Subba

“… Currently, all of us are experiencing the unforeseen circumstances of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that have developed a spectrum of effects, which can be best understood in terms of psychological, physical, and immunity problems among people. For this reason, we are particularly interested in the role of mental health in strengthening the immune system in times of COVID-19. …”
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Melanonychia Secondary to Long-Term Treatment with Hydroxycarbamide: An Essential Thrombocytosis Case by Umit Yavuz Malkan, Gursel Gunes, Eylem Eliacik, Okan Yayar, Ibrahim Celalettin Haznedaroglu

“…Some investigators suggested that genetic factors, induction of melanocytes, and some changes in nail matrix could be the reason of hydroxycarbamide related melanonychia. Our patient has suffered color changes in her nails as well as pain that made us doubtful for a beginning of ulceration besides melanonychia. …”
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Fictitious (Implied) Administrative Acts: Prospects of Integration Into Russian Legislation by V. V. Maslov

“…The purpose of a negative fictitious conclusion is to eliminate the state of legal uncertainty in cases where challenging the inaction of an administrative body for one reason or another is difficult. At the same time, a positive fictitious conclusion generally leads to simplification and acceleration of administrative procedures and contributes to procedural savings. …”
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Improved Coupled Tensor Factorization with Its Applications in Health Data Analysis by Qing Wu, Jie Wang, Jin Fan, Gang Xu, Jia Wu, Blake Johnson, Xingfei Li, Quan Do, Ruiquan Ge

“…However, in the real world, not all the datasets share the same factor matrices, which makes joint analysis of multiple heterogeneous sources challenging. For this reason, approximate coupling or partial coupling is widely used in real-world data fusion, with exact coupling as a special case of these techniques. …”
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FV Leiden, Prothrombin II, and MTHFR C677T Mutations in Children and Young Adults with Thromboembolic Diseases by Sura O. AL-Dewachi, Wasem Alkafaf, Farah Mudhafar Fattah, Salman Haza, Muna A. Kashmoola

“…Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective study done on children and young adults of both sexes aged from 1 to 45 years with thromboembolic disease with no obvious reason who attended patients clinics in Al-Salam Teaching Hospital and were referred from private clinics for a period from June 1, 2019, to August 30, 2020. …”
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Physical Education Students’ Opinion on Rhythmic Gymnastics and Its Relation to Gender by Alda Reyno-Freundt, Nicolás Meirone-Matus, Mariana Durán Fontecilla, Lilyan Vega-Ramírez

“…In Chile, it has been promoted through public policies (Law No.21.369). For this reason, the Physical Education, Sports, and Recreation Pedagogy program at a state university has adjusted its curricular activities. …”
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Evolution of West Pomerania Towards a Green Region by Izabela Bludnik, Paulina Dąbrosz-Drewnowska, Hanna Pondel

“…The purpose of the article is to present the evolution that West Pomerania has undergone, from a region whose economic importance in the post-war period was based primarily on environmentally burdensome industry, to an area at the forefront of economic modernisation and implementation of the European Green Deal. The reason for the change in the direction of development after 1989 was, on the one hand, the deep economic crisis of the first years of political transition – characterised by a radical decline in industrial production, based on outdated and environmentally harmful solutions and, on the other hand, Poland’s accession and entry into the European Union and access to huge financial resources from subsequent programs and funds. …”
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Ileal volvulus secondary to postsurgical adhesion syndrome. A case report by Paolo Martini, Jorge Luis Estepa Pérez, Annalisa Noemi Garrini, Biagio Di Trani

“…This entity is rare in adults, it represents only 0.5 - 2.5% of intestinal obstruction cases, for this reason the case of a patient who went to the hospital due to abdominal pain and vomiting, in regular cases, sore fascie, feverish, dehydrated , is presented conditions. …”
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