Tophaceous Gout in the Pancreas: Case Reports and Review of the Literature by Soo Choi, Natalie Voskanian, Jeffrey Ramos, Katherine H.Y. Nguyen

“…Our first case involved an ICU patient who had fever of unknown origin and refractory pancreatic pseudocyst. The other 2 patients presented with abdominal pain associated with a pancreatic mass which mimicked malignancy. …”
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Recent Clinical Characteristics of Labors Using Three Japanese Systems of Midwife-Led Primary Delivery Care by Shunji Suzuki

“…The rate of transfers during labor with the system involving midwives belonging to our hospital was higher than those with the other 2 systems. In addition, the timing of transfers in the system with the midwives belonging to our hospital was earlier than with the other 2 systems. …”
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Les élections locales 2013 en Côte d’Ivoire : des malentendus subsistent sur l’exercice de la démocratie by Christian Bouquet, Irène Kassi-Djodjo

“…In addition, the FIP (the party of former Head of State) has once more boycotted the consultations and many divisions inside the others two major parties (RDR and PDCI) have blurred their scores and gave to "independents" an electoral weight difficult to decipher. …”
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Case Series of Intrauterine Subamniotic Hemorrhage by Momoko Owada, Yoshie Shibata, Shunji Suzuki

“…In the cases, severe fetal growth restriction and preterm delivery were recognized in 2 (29%) and 4 cases (57%), respectively. In the other 2 cases (22%), acute anemia associated with acute subamniotic hemorrhage was clinically suspected. …”
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Effect of Tip Clearance on the Internal Flow and Hydraulic Performance of a Three-Bladed Inducer by Yanxia Fu, Jianping Yuan, Shouqi Yuan, Giovanni Pace, Luca d’Agostino

“…Two inducer configurations with different blade tip clearances, one about equal to the nominal value and the other 2.5 times larger, are considered to analyze tip leakage effects. …”
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Steroids and/or Cytotoxic Agents Should Be Used Early in the Management of Patients with IPF -- The Pro Argument by Sat Sharma

“…However, the natural history and response to therapy differs substantially, as some categories have more favourable prognoses than others (2). Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) or fibrosing alveolitis is the clinical terminology for a specific interstitial pneumonia for which the pathological process is UIP. …”
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Supporting Collaborative Privacy-Observant Information Sharing Using RFID-Tagged Objects by Shin'ichi Konomi, Chang S. Nam

“…The proposed framework supports users' in situ privacy boundary control by allowing users to (1) see how their information is socially disclosed and viewed by others, (2) dynamically negotiate their privacy boundaries, and (3) automate certain information disclosure processes.…”
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Wireless Coexistence between IEEE 802.11- and IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks: A Survey by Dong Yang, Youzhi Xu, Mikael Gidlund

“…With low transmit power, the widely deployed IEEE 802.15.4-based networks are easily interfered with by other 2.4 GHz wireless networks, such as IEEE 802.11. …”
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Responding To: In Defense of Merit in Science by Georgina Tuari Stewart

“…This commentary responds to a perspective article by a group of 27 co-authors, most affiliated to universities in the USA, with a sprinkling of international others: two each from France and Germany; one each from the UK, Australia and New Zealand; and three listing dual-country affiliations to USA as well as Israel, Germany and Australia. …”
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Comment penser le triangle : savoirs, valeurs émancipatrices et normes sociales ? Le difficile équilibre de la formation de soi et de la socialisation by Renaud Hétier

“…Are values knowledges like others? 2. What is the value of emancipation, in terms of education? …”
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Long-term clinical outcomes of isolated orbital floor fracture reconstruction using nonresorbable implants by Ayman E Abd El Ghafar, Nashaat Shawky, Mahrous Hassan Shaheen, Khalid Abdel Aziz, Mostafa Mohamed Diab

“…Following the initial 6-month postoperative period, the PP group had more frequent postoperative enophthalmos compared to the other 2 groups. The total ocular motility restriction score was significantly lower in the Ti mesh group compared to the other 2 groups at all follow-up visits. …”
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Impact of Corporate Culture on the Universities’ Achievements in the “5-100” Project by V. A. Pushnykh, N. S. Gulius, E. Yu. Yatkina

“…To achieve the purpose of the project, every chosen university received considerable financial support from the Russian federal government. Among others, two universities from the city of Tomsk – Tomsk State University (TSU) and Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) were the participants of this project. …”
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Giant memory window performance and low power consumption of hexagonal boron nitride monolayer atomristor by Sung Jin Yang, Yu-Rim Jeon, Dongyoon Kim, Sivasakthya Mohan, Shanmukh Kutagulla, Matthew Disiena, Sanjay K. Banerjee, Deji Akinwande

“…The h-BN atomristor exhibits the highest memory window (~4 × 109), the lowest leakage current (~0.24 pA), and the lowest power consumption (~3 × 10−14 W) compared to the other 2D atomristors. Furthermore, the h-BN atomristor achieves significant endurances and yields of up to 10,000 switching cycles and 77%, respectively, due to the superior thermomechanical properties of the PPC support layer for transferring ultrathin and large-area h-BN monolayers. …”
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Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by A. V. Rezaev, A. M. Stepanov, N. D. Tregubova

“…This definition identifies five critical characteristics of higher education: 1) the professor and the student continue to be in a subject-subject relationship and learn from each other; 2) higher education should prepare for life in conditions of “human-machine” interdependence; 3) these conditions imply choice in situations of uncertainty; 4) the spread of AI technologies brings enormous opportunities and 5) almost unpredictable dangers, risks and threats to humans. …”
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The Optimized Multivariate Grey Prediction Model Based on Dynamic Background Value and Its Application by Tongfei Lao, Xiaoting Chen, Jianian Zhu

“…The results show that the proposed model significantly outperforms the other 2 multivariate grey prediction models.…”
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Granulocyte-Monocyte Apheresis in Steroid-Dependent, Azathioprine-Intolerant/Resistant Moderate Ulcerative Colitis: A Prospective Multicenter Study by Gianni Imperiali, Arnaldo Amato, Maria Maddalena Terpin, Ivo Beverina, Aurora Bortoli, Massimo Devani, Chiara Viganò, Study Group on IBD (GSMII)

“…Moreover, 12 (36%) patients required biologic therapy, 4 (12%) underwent colectomy, and in the other 2 (6%) a reduction, but not withdrawal, of steroid dose was achieved. …”
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The Acute and Residual Effect of a Single Exercise Session on Meal Glucose Tolerance in Sedentary Young Adults by Kevin R. Short, Lauren V. Pratt, April M. Teague

“…One trial (No Ex) was completed after refraining from vigorous activity for ≥3 days. On the other 2 trials, a 45-min aerobic exercise bout was performed either 17-hours (Prior Day Ex) or 1-hour (Same Day Ex) before consuming the test meal. …”
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Clinical Application of CT-Guided Percutaneous Microwave Ablation for the Treatment of Lung Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer by Lin Li, Ketong Wu, Haiyang Lai, Bo Zhang

“…Of the 36 lesions, 34 lesions (94.4%) reduced obviously with small cavitations or fibrous stripes formed and had no evidence of recurrence during follow-up. The volume of the other 2 lesions demonstrated local progression after 6 months by follow-up CT. …”
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Kidney Segmentation with LinkNetB7 by Cihan Akyel

“…Although it is a 2d model, it is more successful than UNet3d and some other 2d models.…”
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The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification by Tiffany Denise Joseph

“…This scholarship lacks a framework outlining existing documentation status categories and does not fully answer three research questions I pose in this article: (1) what is the alignment of documentation status categories relative to each other, (2) how does policy (re)configure those categories over time, and (3) how have documentation status categories shaped access to health care in the United States? …”
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