High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation for Primary or Salvage Prostate Cancer Therapy: Initial Outcomes in the Veteran Healthcare Setting by Sagar Patel, Ali Antar, Aly Alrabaa, Gal Saffati, Broderick Fleming, Neel Srikishen, Jeremy Slawin, Jennifer Taylor, Jeffrey Jones

“…Secondary endpoints included 30-day complications, Sexual Health Inventory for Men (SHIM), and American Urological Association Symptom Score (AUASS). …”
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Traffic-related air pollutants (TRAP) in relation to respiratory symptoms among security guards by Muniandy Pravin, Abdul Aziz Nurhanim, Zainal Abidin Nur Balqishanis, Mohd Jamil Putri Anis, Ahnan Karthiga

“…The study utilized environmental monitoring to assess the concentration of TRAP PM2.5 and a questionnaire adopted from the American Thoracic Society Division of Lung Diseases questionnaire (ATS-DLD-78A) was administered to eligible respondents to observe symptoms of cough, phlegm, wheezing, and shortness of breath. …”
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Intraventricular Neurilemmoma (Schwannoma): Shall GFAP Immunostaining Be Regarded as a Histogenetical Tag or as a Mere Histomimetical Trait? by Miguel Fdo. Salazar, Martha Lilia Tena Suck, Daniel Rembao Bojórquez, Citlaltepetl Salinas Lara

“…Here, we add another case study to the record as well as the fifth one in Latin American population. A 16-year-old boy without significant past clinical data debuted with headache and progressive left eye blindness during six months. …”
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Understanding the Seismic Resilience of Metallic Cylindrical Tanks Through Parametric Analysis by Emanuele Brunesi, Roberto Nascimbene, Dumitru Beilic

“…Three widely recognized design approaches—New Zealand NZSEE recommendations, European code UNI EN 1998-4:2006 (CEN, 2006), and American Water Works Association AWWA D100-05 standard (ANSI/AWWA, 2005)—were implemented and compared with high-definition finite element models and then validated against the experimental results. …”
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The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Taytnapam Toponyms by Eugene S. Hunn, Richard H. McClure Jr.

“…They lived in the upper Cowlitz River watershed relatively undisturbed by Euro-American colonization until late in the 1800s, avoiding the more radical depopulation and dislocation suffered by neighboring Native communities due to introduced diseases and colonial settlement. …”
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Effect of Wind Loading Pattern on Shear Lag Phenomenon in Framed-Tube Building by Ashish Singh, Piyush Gaikwad, Sasankasekhar Mandal

“…Six load cases are taken from American and Canadian codes to analyze the wind load effects on a 40-storeyed tubular building. …”
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Central Nervous System Involvement in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura in Children and Adolescents by Iliyana H. Pacheva, Ivan S. Ivanov, Krastina Stefanova, Elena Chepisheva, Lyubov Chochkova, Dafina Grozeva, Angelina Stoyanova, Stojan Milenkov, Penka Stefanova, Anna Petrova

“…Diagnosis was based on the American College of Rheumatology criteria. Out of 112 children with HSP 1 case (0.9%) had CNS involvement presenting as Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES), which may be a result of CNS vasculitis or arterial hypertension. …”
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Effects of orthography presentation and loanword frequency on L2 speech shadowing by Daiki Hashimoto, Keigo Tatsuya, Reiko Asada

“…The current study explores the Japanese English learners’ shadowing of the American English vowels /æ, ɑː/. Our specific interests are in the effects of orthography presentation and loanword frequency on the formant values of the two vowels Japanese English learners produce when shadowing model speech stimuli. …”
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Estrutura para Detecção do Risco de Fraude nas Demonstrações Contábeis: Mapeando o Ambiente Fraudulento by Fernando Dal-Ri Murcia, José Alonso Borba

“…Com base nessa análise, 6 trabalhos foram selecionados: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2002), Conselho Federal de Contabilidade (1999), Albrecht e Romney (1986), Eining, Jones e Loebbecke, (1997), Bell e Carcacello (2000) e Wells (2005). …”
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Clinical Trial of Human Fetal Brain-Derived Neural Stem/Progenitor Cell Transplantation in Patients with Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury by Ji Cheol Shin, Keung Nyun Kim, Jeehyun Yoo, Il-Sun Kim, Seokhwan Yun, Hyejin Lee, Kwangsoo Jung, Kyujin Hwang, Miri Kim, Il-Shin Lee, Jeong Eun Shin, Kook In Park

“…At 1 year after cell transplantation, there was no evidence of cord damage, syrinx or tumor formation, neurological deterioration, and exacerbating neuropathic pain or spasticity. The American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS) grade improved in 5 of 19 transplanted patients, 2 (A → C), 1 (A → B), and 2 (B → D), whereas only one patient in the control group showed improvement (A → B). …”
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Navigating the Aftermath: U.S. Policy in Afghanistan Following Troop Withdrawal by Z. Makoveeva

“…Russia, the country which is crucially interested in stable peace in the Middle East, and China, which is cooperating with Afghanistan in the economic sector, began negotiations with the Taliban government to stabilize the situation peacefully after the withdrawal of American troops.The article analyzes the changes in US policy in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of troops in August 2021. …”
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Corps (é)conduits : La construction d’un regard-machine dans Crash (1996) et Cosmopolis (2012) de David Cronenberg by Guilhem Billaudel

“…Crash et Cosmopolis shall not, however, be apprehended as exceptions, neither in relation to North-American film history nor to Cronenberg’s work itself. …”
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An Unusual Case of Anti-GBM Antibody Elevation in HIV-Associated Nephropathy by Vinay Minocha, Raafat Makary, Andreea Poenariu

“…We present a case of a 27-year-old African American female with a history of schizophrenia, cocaine abuse, and HIV infection who upon admission to our hospital was found to have severe acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis. …”
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Neurofilament Light Chain Levels in Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid Do Not Correlate with Survival Times in Patients with Prion Disease by Mika Shimamura, Kong Weijie, Toshiaki Nonaka, Koki Kosami, Ryusuke Ae, Koji Fujita, Taiki Matsubayashi, Tadashi Tsukamoto, Nobuo Sanjo, Katsuya Satoh

“…In this study, we employed a fully automated multiplex ELISA (Ella^®) to measure the concentrations of 14-3-3 protein, total tau protein, and neurofilament light chain (NF-L) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples from patients with prion disease and analyzed their link to disease prognosis. However, in North American and European cases, we did not confirm a correlation between NF-L levels and survival time. …”
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Navigating trauma: Venezuelan women's and adolescent's experiences before and after migration amidst the humanitarian crisis by C. Correa-Salazar, J.J. Amon, K.R. Page, A.K. Groves, E.N. Agudelo-Avellaneda, D.S. Torres-Benítez, A. Martínez-Donate

“…The Venezuelan crisis has unleashed the largest exodus of migrants/refugees in recent Latin American history, most of whom have relocated to Colombia. …”
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Biodiversity of Lecanosticta pine-needle blight pathogens suggests a Mesoamerican Centre of origin by Ariska van der Nest, Michael J. Wingfield, Paulo C. Ortiz, Irene Barnes

“…The pathogen is thought to have a Central American centre of origin. This was based on the morphological variation between isolates believed to represent L. acicola from native Pinus spp. …”
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Photographie et écologie aux États-Unis: l’image à contre-emploi by François Brunet

“…A traditional and powerful connection links landscape art and environmental consciousness in North American art, classically embodied in artists such as Thomas Cole in painting and Ansel Adams in photography, and reinforced since the 1970s by various photographic projects animated with militant environmentalist purposes. …”
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„Religion and Ecology” – nowy paradygmat poznawczy by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…In the late 1990s in some universities were started first lectures concerning religion and ecology. Now several American and European universities propose graduate, postgraduate and even doctoral programs on religion and ecology. …”
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Five crew, how many clergy : pourquoi certains noms collectifs peuvent-ils servir à nommer des membres ? by Laure Gardelle

“…The paper first describes the data from two corpora of American English. It then shows that these uses are not collective: what the noun denotes is members of a class (e.g. for crew, of a professional category), and at the same time, the fact that these members are typically construed as part of a group. …”
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Water Budget on Various Land Use Areas Using NARR Reanalysis Data in Florida by Chi-Han Cheng, Fidelia Nnadi

“…1992 to 2002 data from North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) were used to investigate water budget on five land use areas: urban, forest, agriculture, lake, and wetland in the state of Florida, USA. …”
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