Safety outcome trials in four mainline medical journals 30 years apart: a narrative review and the need for the transparency of informed consents by Sinem Nihal Esatoglu, Ayse Ozdede, Yesim Ozguler, Koray Tascilar, Hasan Yazici

“…The proportion of safety outcome trials between the two time periods were similar [14/309 (5%) vs. 33/580 (6%)] while RCTs of any category conducted in the critical care settings notably increased in time [12/309 (4%) vs. 52/580 (9%) OR 2.4; 1.3–4.6]. …”
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Optimization of Cannula Visibility during Ultrasound-Guided Subclavian Vein Catheterization, via a Longitudinal Approach, by Implementing Echogenic Technology by Konstantinos Stefanidis, Mariantina Fragou, Nicos Pentilas, Gregorios Kouraklis, Serafim Nanas, Richard H. Savel, Ariel L. Shiloh, Michel Slama, Dimitrios Karakitsos

“…Echogenic technology significantly improved cannula visibility and decreased access time and technical complexity optimizing thus real-time ultrasound-guided SCV cannulation via a longitudinal approach.…”
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Endoscopic Nipple- or Skin-Sparing Mastectomy and Immediate Breast Reconstruction with Endoscopic Harvesting of the Latissimus Dorsi Flap: A Preliminary Experience of an Innovative... by Yu Feng, Nan Wen, Faqing Liang, Jiao Zhou, Xiangquan Qin, Xinran Liu, Juan Li, Mengxue Qiu, Huanzuo Yang, Zhenggui Du

“…The mean LD flap harvest time was 96.5 ± 25.3 min, the mean operation time was 262.6 ± 54.4 min, and the average length of LDMF was 26.9 ± 3.1. …”
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Medial Open-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy with Partial Meniscectomy and Without Cyst Excision for Popliteal Cysts: A Case Series by Kang-Il Kim, Jun-Ho Kim

“…The mean size of PCs further decreased with time until 2 years (1.5 ± 4.0 mm, <i>p</i> = 0.018) following an MOWHTO with partial meniscectomy. …”
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Using new control strategies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the hybrid power system based on the battery storage system by Karima Boutaghane, Habib Benbouhenni, Nedjoua Bennecib, Ilhami Colak, Z. M. S. Elbarbary, Saad F. Al-Gahtani

“…Compared to the traditional strategy, the ANFIS-MPPT strategy improves the values of MPP, response time, SSE, and rise time in the case of irradiation, which takes the value of 1000 W/m2, by percentages estimated at 18%, 60%, 94.70%, and 69.23%, respectively. …”
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Laparoscopic Versus Abdominal Myomectomy Postoperative Outcomes by Nicel Taşdemir, Cem Çelik, Remzi Abalı, Ayşegül Kayalı, Abdulaziz Gül, Özkan Özdamar

“…CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated laparoscopic approach needed significantly longer operative time but shorter hospitalization. We think that the time loss during the morcellation is important in the prolongation of the operation. …”
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Sistem Monitoring Frekuensi Denyut Nadi pada Pelari Menggunakan Metode Photoplethysmographic by Asih Setiarini, Mahatma Widya Laksana, Basuki Winarno

“…Tujuan penelitian ini merancang sistem monitoring frekuensi denyut nadi secara real time pada pelari dengan menggunakan easily plugin pulse sensor berbasis photoplethysmographic. …”
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Transferability of bioprocessing modes for recombinant protease production: from fed-batch to continuous cultivation with Bacillus licheniformis by Stefan Kittler, Fabian Müller, Mohamed Elshazly, Georg Benjamin Wandrey, Tobias Klein, Andreas Daub, Oliver Spadiut, Julian Kopp

“…Results Therefore, this study aimed to explore the potential of chemostat cultivations for producing a protease from Bacillus licheniformis utilizing a derepressed induction system, and comparing specific productivities and space-time yields to fed-batch cultivations. The continuous cultivations were described in a hybrid model, considering the effect of productivity as function of the applied dilution rate as well as the generation time. …”
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A novel regional forecastable multiscalar standardized drought index (RFMSDI) for regional drought monitoring and assessment by Aamina Batool, Veysi Kartal, Zulfiqar Ali, Miklas Scholz, Farman Ali

“…In this research, the comparative assessment of RFMSDI is evaluated against the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) by analyzing Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) metrics across different time scales using various machine learning and traditional time series models. …”
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Clinical case of heart transplantation in the conditions of «the recipient-to-donor» transportation by B.M. Todurov, O.O. Samchuk, G.I. Kovtun, A.O. Shpachuk, M.V. Goncharenko, I.M. Kuzmich, O.M. Druzhina, O.A. Loskutov, O.I. Kvasha, S.M. Sudakevich, A.Yu. Melnik, Yu.I. Golik, R.V. Domashich, I.Z. Humenny

“…The postoperative period was uneventful. The time of cardiopulmonary bypass was 90 minutes, the total ischemia time was 180 minutes. …”
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Influence of food availability on the diet and activity budget of two western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) groups of differing size in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park,... by Terence Fuh Neba, Giuseppe Donati, Angelique Todd, Shelly Masi

“…However, contrary to our predictions, we found no group differences within or between seasons: irrespective of group size both spent significantly less time feeding, but more time traveling and socializing, and consumed significantly more fruits, less leaves and bark during the HF compared to the LF. …”
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Existent state and removal rate of silver in lead-silver slag during the melt-vaporization process by Shen Y.-Y., Zhao X.-S., Zhang F.-J., Ma W.-X., Wang X.-F., Du X.-Y.

“…The highest value is 80.12 wt% when the carbon content is 16.30 wt%. As the holding time increases, the silver removal rate gradually increases and then stabilizes at 79.97 wt% even at a holding time of 150 minutes. …”
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The effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) application on airway problems in pediatric patients with subglottic stenosis who undergo balloon dilatation by Zeliha Tuncel, Şenay Göksu, Özlem Deligöz, Kemal Tolga Saracoglu, Abdulatif Albasha, Bushra M. Abdallah, Ayten Saracoglu

“…The aim of this study was to determine the effect of prophylactic continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) application on recovery time and airway complications in pediatric patients with subglottic stenosis undergoing balloon dilatation. …”
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Microanalysis of Organic Pigments in Ancient Textiles by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering on Agar Gel Matrices by Marilena Ricci, Cristiana Lofrumento, Emilio Castellucci, Maurizio Becucci

“…The extraction system was modulated according to the chemical properties of the target analyte by choosing appropriate reagents for the extraction and optimizing the extraction time. The system has been found to be extremely stable, easy to use and produce, easy to store, and at the same time able to be analyzed even after long time intervals, maintaining its enhancement properties unaltered, without the detriment of the extracted compound. …”
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A Person-Based Adaptive Traffic Signal Control Method with Cooperative Transit Signal Priority by Wei-Hsun Lee, Hsuan-Chih Wang

“…Real-time traffic signal control has long been a critical way to improve traffic congestion. …”
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Scan-to-BIM-to-Sim: Automated reconstruction of digital and simulation models from point clouds with applications on bridges by Yunping Fang, Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis, Daniel Boddice, Jialiang Yu, Jelena Ninic

“…Major limitations also exist in achieving real-time data exchange and mapping between Building Information Modelling (BIM) models and simulation (Sim) models. …”
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Microscopic Traffic Characterization of Light Rail Transit Systems at Level Crossings by Robel Desta, Daric Tesfaye, János Tóth

“…The movement of the light rail vehicles (LRVs) is highly interrupted at level crossings during peak hour times, especially when the intersections are not regulated by a coordinated signal system. …”
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Detection of Mild Moldy-Core Disease in Apples by Fusing Acoustic-Vibration Signals and Visible-Near-Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy by GU Jiahui, LAI Lisi, WANG Kai, ZHANG Hui

“…The spectral feature bands and time-domain features were then concatenated to form a fused feature vector. …”
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The Yugoslav National Front: Attempt(s) to unify the Yugointegralists extreme right 1935-1939 by Dragosavljević Vasilije

“…At the same time, this paradox (in addition to the instability of Stojadinović's political principles) clearly illustrates the role of the theory of integral Yugoslavism as the last line of defense for the integrity of the Yugoslav state in moments of crisis.…”
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Efficiency and Reliability Analysis of Self-Adaptive Two-Stage Fuzzy Control System in Complex Traffic Environment by Mingzhi Wang, Xianyu Wu, He Tian, Jie Lin, Meimei He, Liuqing Ding

“…In this paper, a self-adaptive, two-stage fuzzy controller is established to realize the real-time online optimization of traffic signal timing plan, which takes multimodels of transportation as the research object to analyze the reliability of the control system at the isolated urban intersection. …”
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