Cohort study evaluating pressure ulcer management in clinical practice in the UK following initial presentation in the community: costs and outcomes by Julian F Guest, Graham W Fuller, Peter Vowden, Kathryn Ruth Vowden

“…Objectives The aim of this study was to estimate the patterns of care and annual levels of healthcare resource use attributable to managing pressure ulcers (PUs) in clinical practice in the community by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), and the associated costs of patient management.Methods This was a retrospective cohort analysis of the records of 209 patients identified within a randomly selected population of 6000 patients with any type of wound obtained from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) Database, who developed a PU in the community and excluded hospital-acquired PUs. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Unloading-Induced Red Sandstone Failure: Insight into Spalling Mechanism and Strength-Weakening Effect by Yong Luo, Fengqiang Gong, Dongqiao Liu

“…After the red sandstone is unloaded to a two-dimensional stress state, with increasing confining pressure, the strength increases first and then decreases; the failure mode changes from a low-confining pressure tensile-shear failure to a high-confining pressure tensile failure; and the geometries of the slabs change from large thick plates and wedges to medium- and small-sized thin plates. At equal confining pressures, the higher the unloading rate, the lower the strength (i.e., the strength-weakening effect is more pronounced), the thinner the slab, and the lower the confining pressure required for the failure mode to change from tensile-shear failure to tensile failure. …”
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Research on the Oil-Bearing Difference of Bedding Fractures: A Case Study of Lucaogou Formation in Jimsar Sag by Jia Lu, Chen Zhang, Jianhui Zeng, Haowei Yuan

“…In this paper, we examine and finely characterize the development of the bedding fractures found in the upper and lower sweet spots of Lucaogou formation of tight oil reservoir through field outcrop and core observation, cast thin section analysis, and imaging log recognition and investigate the factors affecting their differentiated oil-bearing by means of inclusion temperature measurement, TOC testing, physical property testing, high-pressure mercury injection, and physical simulation experiment. …”
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Clinical and Radiographic Evaluation of Bone Profile Around Dental Implants Placed in the Esthetic Zone by Alssum L, Al-Kattan R, Al-Shibani N, Al Ali H, Aldossari F, Allam E

“…Although the buccal bone was thin around the implant placed in the esthetic zone, it did not affect the esthetic outcomes or overall satisfaction of the patient. …”
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A computational time integrator for heat and mass transfer modeling of boundary layer flow using fuzzy parameters by Muhammad Shoaib Arif, Wasfi Shatanawi, Yasir Nawaz

“…Engineering and industrial applications depend on boundary layer flow, the thin fluid layer near a solid surface with significant viscosity. …”
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Bazhenov formation anomalous section within the Uvat oil and gas bearing area by Dmitry A. Staroselets, Pavel V. Smirnov, Anatoly V. Trenkin

“…They carried out the lithological and petrographic analysis of the formation sediments in thin sections and determined the contribution of radioactive elements to the total natural radioactivity, according to which, in combination with GIS data, the Bazhenov formation was differentiated into rocks of mainly siliceous composition, siliceous-carbonate rocks, mudstones and sandy-silty mudstones. …”
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Potentiation of Doxorubicin Cytotoxicity Utilizing Clarithromycin Loaded-PEGylated Liposomes by Islam Alfreahat MS, Hamdi Nsairat PhD, Ibrahim Deeb Aldeeb PhD, Ali Al-Samydai PhD, Walhan Alshaer PhD

“…Methods PEGylated liposomes containing DOX and CAM were prepared using the thin film hydration method. The physicochemical properties of the liposomes, including average particle size, polydispersity index (PDI), and zeta potential, were characterized. …”
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Cost Effectiveness of Insulin Glargine versus Neutral Protamin Hagedorn Insulin in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Turkey by Ilhan Satman, Hayley Bennett, Candeger Yilmaz, Sazi Imamoglu, Goksun Ayvaz, Abdurrahman Comlekci, Demet Ozkaya, Toros Sahin

“…Improvements in glycaemic control have been incorporated using data from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database in the United Kingdom, combined with meta-regression results describing the relationship between hypoglycaemia and glycaemic control. …”
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Room-temperature unconventional topological Hall effect in a van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GaTe2 by Hanin Algaidi, Chenhui Zhang, Chen Liu, Yinchang Ma, Dongxing Zheng, Peng Li, Xixiang Zhang

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Taxonomic and ecophysiological characteristics of actinobacteria in soils of the dry steppe zone of the Selenga Highlands (Western Transbaikalia) by E. P. Nikitina, L. B. Buyantueva, E. Yu. Abidueva, C. H. Sun

“…The highest bacterial counts were observed in the subsurface and middle horizons of the studied soils. 28 strains of Gram-positive bacteria represented by thin-branched mycelium, coccoid and bacilliform forms were isolated. …”
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Modeling optimal combination of breast and cervical cancer screening strategies in China by Xuewei Liu, Yanbo Wang, Bei Gao, Xinlin Lu, Yuan Wang, Wenli Lu

“…The optimal combination strategy included annual clinical breast examination (CBE), BUS and MAM in series screening, and biennial thin-layer liquid-based cytology (TCT) and HPV in series screening with the annual PCSCI reaching 37.60 USD. …”
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Fluvial terrace formation in a mountainous area (2): influence of eustatism, tectonics and altitudinal distribution of watersheds based on an allostratigraphic study (Albania) by Mugnier, Jean-Louis, Guzmán, Oswaldo, Vassallo, Riccardo,  Matraku, Kristina, Jouanne, François

“…The thickness of the sedimentary units above the strath surfaces is mostly influenced by the altitudinal distribution of the river catchments: thin strath terraces are found in the low elevation catchments, while thick fill terraces are found in large catchments and we suggest here that the deposition of fill terrace sediments occurred very rapidly at the cold-warm transitions when the high elevation areas of the large catchments were not protected by vegetation and heavily affected by hillslope processes that delivered a large volume of sediments. …”
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Assessment of factors implicated in bone fusion after percutaneous endoscopic lumbar intervertebral fusion by Zheng Huang, Xialin Li, Weihong Yi, Junfeng Gong, Yue Zhou, Yu Tang

“…Fusion was evaluated using thin-slice computed tomography scans at 12 months by 2 independent radiologists and defined as no detectable lucency between bone and graft. …”
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Classification of Cigarette Types Using Computer Vision: An Analysis of Smoke Aggregation Features by Shishuan Guan, Lei Jiao, Zengyu Wang, Xiaofei Ji, Hongwei Zheng, Cunfeng Yu, Hongtao Li, Liwen Zheng, Shuaishuai Sun, Qiang Sun, Jun Li, Guangwei Jiang, Kezhi Wu, Erge Lin, Xinlong Zhang

“…This data set contains sequence image data of smoke movement patterns of 51 types of cigarettes, including thick, medium and thin cigarettes. Based on this data set, we applied the traditional vision algorithm to extract the diffusion width, sedimentation concentration and diffusion distance of smoke, and used the KNN model for training, and initially reached an accuracy of 69.8%. …”
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Non3 is an essential Drosophila gene required for proper nucleolus assembly by E. N. Andreyeva, A. A. Ogienko, A. A. Yushkova, J. V. Popova, G. A. Pavlova, E. N. Kozhevnikova, A. V. Ivankin, M. Gatti, A. V. Pindyurin

“…However, heteroallelic combinations of viable Non3 mutations (Non3197, Non3310 and Non3259) display a Minute-like phenotype, consisting in delayed development and short and thin bristles, suggesting that they are defective in ribosome biogenesis. …”
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Exploring the process—structure–property relationship of nylon aramid 3D printed composites and parameter optimization using supervised machine learning techniques by Mohammed Raffic Noor Mohamed, Ganesh Babu Karuppiah, Dharani Kumar Selvan, Rajasekaran Saminathan, Shubham Sharma, Shashi Prakash Dwivedi, Sandeep Kumar, Mohamed Abbas, Dražan Kozak, Jasmina Lozanovic

“…When comparing thickly layered samples with a suitable increase in time and weight, thin-layered samples are shown to have greater hardness values at both tested areas. …”
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Exploring the effects of cannabidiol encapsulation in liposomes on their physicochemical properties and biocompatibility by Inga Jurgelane, Karina Egle, Andra Grava, Dana Galkina, Margarita Brante, Maksims Melnichuks, Marite Skrinda-Melne, Girts Salms, Arita Dubnika

“…Liposomes were synthesized using thin-film hydration method, and characterized by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering (DLS), and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). …”
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Dual-Polarized Wideband Filtering Antenna Array Based on Stacked-PCB Structure by Matti Kuosmanen, Sten E. Gunnarsson, Johan Malmstrom, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Jari Holopainen, Ville Viikari

“…This paper investigates a thin low-pass filtering antenna array based on dual-polarized Vivaldi elements. …”
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Skeletal Site-Specific Lipid Profile and Hematopoietic Progenitors of Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue in Patients Undergoing Primary Hip Arthroplasty by Drenka Trivanović, Marko Vujačić, Aleksandra Arsić, Tamara Kukolj, Milica Rajković, Nikola Bogosavljević, Zoran Baščarević, Mirjana Maljković Ružičić, Jovana Kovačević, Aleksandra Jauković

“…BM, BMAT, and gfSAT were explored at the levels of total lipids, fatty acids, and cells by using thin-layerand gas chromatography, ex vivo cellular assays, and flow cytometry. …”
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Urea coated with cellulose acetate-lignin composite presents lower loss by ammonia volatilization by Jhonatan Nolasco Nascimento, Letícia Said Marangon, Fabiane Carvalho Ballotin, Renê Chagas da Silva, José Mauro de Almeida, Edison Márcio Mattiello, Reinaldo Bertola Cantarutti, Deusanilde de Jesus Silva

“…According to the visual and SEM image evaluations, the coating system developed was satisfactory and presented a thin and uniform layer. Satisfactory adhesion of the films was also observed, both with and without Lig, in the granule surfaces. …”
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