Practice Variations in the Use of Novel Oral Anticoagulants for Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation-Related Stroke among Stroke Neurologists in Saudi Arabia by Mohammed H. Alanazy, Taim Muayqil

“…In conclusion, the practice of stroke neurologists is consistent with and supports the available evidence from observational studies on the time of initiation of NOACs. …”
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The Effectiveness and Cost Analysis of a Pilot Newborn Hearing Screening Program at a Hospital in a Low- to Middle-Income Country by Pariya Lertbussarakam, Pittayapon Pitathawatchai

“…Also, 28.3% and 12.9% lost-to-follow-up rates were observed in the secondscreening and diagnostic assessment stages, respectively. …”
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Pilot-scale drying of southern pine (Pinus spp.) lumber in a heated tube dryer by Shmulsky R, Khademibami L, Rezaei F

“…Greater weight-loss rates were observed in the dried lumbers within the temperature range of 375-375-375°F (≈191-191-191 °C). …”
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A Comparative Study on Growth Performance, Body Composition, and Liver Tissue Metabolism Rearing on Soybean Lecithin-Enriched Artemia Nauplii and Microdiet in Rock Bream (Oplegnath... by Pian Zhang, Peng Tan, Lei Zhang, Wenliang Zhu, Ruiyi Chen, Ligai Wang, Dongdong Xu

“…At stage 1 (larval 25–40 dph), significantly higher growth performance was observed in larvae fed the live prey (P<0.05). Conversely, at stage 2 (41–55 dph), feeding with MD significantly increased larval standard length, and specific growth rate compared with those of larvae fed live prey. …”
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Complex biochemical characteristics of <i>Coriandrum sativum</i> L. by T. V. Khmelinskaya, A. E. Smolenskaya, A. E. Solovyeva

“…The highest variability was observed in the content of carotenes (CV 41%). The effect of an accession’s precocity was not confirmed. …”
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The Burden of Hypoxic Respiratory Failure in Preterm and Term/Near-term Infants in the United States 2011-2015 by Shivani Pandya, Onur Baser, George J. Wan, Belinda Lovelace, Jim Potenziano, An T. Pham, Xingyue Huang, Li Wang

“…Preterms had significantly longer inpatient stays (54.1 vs 29.0 days), time in a neonatal intensive care unit (34.1 vs 17.5 days), time on ventilation (4.7 vs 2.2 days), and higher total hospitalization charges ($613,350 vs $422,558) (all P<0.001). Similar rates were observed for use of antibiotics (96.2% vs 95.4%), sildenafil (9.5% vs 8.2%), or inhaled nitric oxide (93.8% vs 94.2%). …”
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Transoral Laser-Assisted Total Laryngectomy: Expanding the TLM’s World by Aslan Ahmadi, Saleh Mohebbi, Masoud Kazemi, Ayda Sanaei

“…No complication was observed after the surgery. Good functional recovery was obtained regarding swallowing and speech. …”
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Diplopia, Convergent Strabismus, and Eye Abduction Palsy in a 12-Year-Old Boy with Autoimmune Thyroiditis by Pedro Marques, Sandra Jacinto, Maria do Carmo Pinto, Catarina Limbert, Lurdes Lopes

“…LT4 was temporarily discontinued and progressive improvement was observed, with a normal fundoscopy at day 10 and reversion of diplopia one month later. …”
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Epidemiology of Liver Cancer in Europe by F Xavier Bosch, Josepa Ribes

“…In Europe, an excess of LC incidence among men compared with women is observed, and the age peak of the male excess is around 60 to 70 years of age. …”
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Intraoperative Disinfection by Pulse Irrigation with Povidone-Iodine Solution in Spine Surgery by Vincenzo De Luna, Federico Mancini, Fernando De Maio, Gabriele Bernardi, Ernesto Ippolito, Roberto Caterini

“…In group A, no surgical site infection occurred; in group B, deep wound infection was observed in 3 patients. In both groups, before irrigation some cultures have been found positive for bacterial contamination. …”
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Telaprevir in treatment of chronic hepatitis C: safety issues by T. M. Ignatova

“…A little higher frequency of serious AE (7%), cancellation of all drugs due to AE (8%) was observed. Increase of frequency and severity of skin reactions, that was a principal cause of treatment cancellation, is of special importance. …”
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Network Embedding-Aware Point-of-Interest Recommendation in Location-Based Social Networks by Lei Guo, Haoran Jiang, Xiyu Liu, Changming Xing

“…According to the above observations, to well utilize the network information, a neural network-based embedding method (node2vec) is first exploited to learn the user and POI representations from a social network and a predefined location network, respectively. …”
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Effects of Strength Training on Muscle Properties, Physical Function, and Physical Activity among Frail Older People: A Pilot Study by Atle Hole Saeterbakken, Hilde Bremseth Bårdstu, Anine Brudeseth, Vidar Andersen

“…No significant differences were observed in muscle properties for the control group (CON) (p=0.16–1.00) or between groups (p=0.39–1.00). …”
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Effects of perioperative oxycodone as the sole opioid on immunity within a multi-modal analgesia framework in patients undergoing cervical cancer surgery: A randomised controlled t... by Jingjing Liu, Sumeng Chen, Jianxiao Chen, Hailian Liu, Weiyi Li, Haomin Chi, Xiaowei Ding, Shaoqiang Huang

“…Within 24 h postoperatively, the visual analogue scale (VAS) scores for resting and movement-evoked pain were lower in Group O than in Group C (all P < 0.001), and the same was observed at 48 h postoperatively (both P = 0.002), as was the incidence of catheter-related bladder discomfort (P = 0.001). …”
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Comparative response of fennel, ajwain, and anise in terms of osmolytes accumulation, ion imbalance, photosynthetic and growth functions under salinity by Javad Nouripour-Sisakht, Parviz Ehsanzadeh, Mohammad H. Ehtemam

“…Even though certain genotype- and species-specificities were observed in the salt-induced modifications of these physiological attributes, decreasing in growth, plant dry mass, root volume, relative water content, and K+ concentration concomitant to increasing in the catalase, ascorbate peroxidase, and guaiacol peroxidase activities, malondialdehyde, total soluble carbohydrates, proline and Na+ concentrations, Na+/K+, and essential oil were common to the examined species and genotypes. …”
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Tumor Markers in Pleural Fluid: A Comprehensive Study on Diagnostic Accuracy by Vladimir Aleksiev, Daniel Markov, Kristian Bechev

“…<b>Methods</b>: A cross-sectional, observational case-control study was conducted on 151 Bulgarian patients with a hydrothorax. …”
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A Model for a Multistage Fractured Horizontal Well with Rectangular SRV in a Shale Gas Reservoir by Jianfa Wu, Jian Zhang, Cheng Chang, Weiyang Xie, Tianpeng Wu

“…Results suggest that 9 flow stages can be observed from the pseudopressure derivative type curve when the reservoir and the SRV are large enough. …”
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A minimal mathematical model for the initial molecular interactions of death receptor signalling by Christian Winkel, Simon Neumann, Christina Surulescu, Peter Scheurich

“…Based on these two interaction motivs (ligand/receptor and receptor/receptor) formation of large ligand/receptor clusters can be postulated which have been also observed experimentally. We use here a mass action kinetics approach to establish an ordinary differential equations model describing the dynamics of primary ligand/receptor complex formation as a basis for further clustering on the cell membrane. …”
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The influence of new severe plastic deformation on microstructure, mechanical, and corrosion properties of Mg-0.8Mn-0.5Ca alloy by Khani M., Ebrahimi G.R., Ezatpour H.R., Momeni A.

“…The average grain size was dramatically decreased from about 448.3 μm for the homogenized alloy to 1.55 μm for the 3-pass processed sample. Microstructural observations suggested a combination of continuous, discontinuous, and twinning-induced dynamic recrystallization as the major mechanisms of grain refinement. …”
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A General Review on Longwall Mining-Induced Fractures in Near-Face Regions by Qingsheng Bai, Shihao Tu

“…Remarks are made on the current progress of, fundamental problems with, and developments in methodologies for characterizing mining-induced fractures using methods such as field observations, small-scale laboratory tests, physical modeling, and numerical modeling. …”
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