Diagnostic Value of Peripheral Lymph Node Biopsy in Sarcoidosis: A Report of 67 Cases by Halil Yanardag, Metin Caner, Irfan Papila, Sedat Uygun, Sabriye Demirci, Tuncer Karayel

“…For patients with histological diagnosis of sarcoidosis, localizations of the biopsies were as follows: cervical (n=21), supra-clavicular (n=20), inguinal (n=11), axillary (n=8), epitrochlear (n=5) and submandibular (n=2). At the time of biopsy, 12 patients had stage 0 disease, 37 patients had stage I disease, 14 patients had stage II disease and four patients had stage III disease. …”
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Disutility Study for Adult Patients with Moderate to Severe Crohn’s Disease by Melany Worbes-Cerezo, Beenish Nafees, Andrew Lloyd, Katy Gallop, Imran Ladha, Cicely Kerr

“…Health states were valued by 100 members of the general public who completed background questions, EQ-5D-3L, visual analogue scale rating task and time trade-off (TTO) interviews. **Results:** The mean TTO value for reference states ‘moderate to severe CD’ and ‘bowel surgery’ were 0.70 (SD=0.28) and 0.69 (SD=0.28). …”
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Identifying Cladribine prescription pattern in MS: an Italian multicentre study by Aurora Zanghì, Roberta Fantozzi, Matteo Foschi, Elisabetta Signoriello, Matilde Inglese, Giacomo Lus, Diego Centonze, Andrea Surcinelli, Tommaso Sirito, Simona Bonavita, Carlo Avolio, Emanuele D’Amico

“…Overall, Cladribine was efficacious and well tolerated, 12% of patients required a new DMT prescription after a median time of 24 months. The regression model revealed that patients aged >40 years at Cladribine prescription had a 16% decrease in likelihood of receiving a new DMT. …”
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Sex Differences in the Relation between Comorbidities and Prognosis in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 by Noushin Mohammadifard, Fahimeh Haghighatdoost, Maryam Nasirian, Parisa Zakeri, Kamal Heidari, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard, Nizal Sarrafzadegan

“…All subsequently hospitalized patients with a diagnosis of moderate to severe COVID-19 since February 19th to June 14th, 2020, in Isfahan, Iran, were recruited in the ongoing I-CORE Registry. Real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing was done upon admission. …”
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Peripheral Arterial Tonometry to Measure the Effects of Vardenafil on Sympathetic Tone in Men with Lifelong Premature Ejaculation by Davide Francomano, Lorenzo M. Donini, Andrea Lenzi, Antonio Aversa

“…Secondary endpoints were the improvement in intravaginal ejaculatory latency time (IELT) as measured by the stopwatch technique and variations in anxiety scores at Stai-X1 for state-anxiety and Stai-X2 for trait-anxiety. …”
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Comparative Analysis of US Guidelines for the Management of Cutaneous Squamous Cell and Basal Cell Carcinoma by Amit Mittal, Bharat B. Mittal

“…A PubMed database search was performed for the time period between June 1, 2016, and December 1, 2022. …”
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Novel metal–organic framework biosensing platform for detection of COVID-19 RNA by Aya Elgazar, Rana Sabouni, Mehdi Ghommem, Amin F. Majdalawieh

“…This ZIF-8 biosensing platform showed high sensitivity towards COVID-19 RNA with an ultra-low limit of detection of 6.24 pM, a rapid detection time of 8 min, and high selectivity to COVID-19 RNA. …”
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The kidney reabsorption-related magnesium depletion score is associated with cardiovascular disease and longitudinal mortality in diabetic kidney disease patients by Zhengxi Zhou, Xiaotian Yao

“…Finally, we assessed the predictive accuracy of MDS on survival outcomes in DKD patients using time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Departure Passenger’s Behavior Based on an Improved Social Force Approach: A Case Study on an Airport Terminal in China by Yaping Zhang, Jialin Li, Dexuan Kong, Xiaoqing Xing, Qian Luo, Jian Mao

“…At the decision level of the proposed model, the avoiding force model including common avoiding force and additional horizontal avoiding force was established on the basis of setting time and space limitations for taking avoiding action and was used to describe passengers’ path planning in close-range space. …”
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Study of the Windowing and Overlap-Add Operation for a Super-Gaussian Random Vibration Test by Yiming Peng, Yang Li

“…To figure out the impacts of the proposed operation on the response kurtoses of a shaker table, we express the system transfer function in the time domain, and the WOA method is analysed considering the transfer function of a dynamic system. …”
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A Framework to Assess the Seismic Resilience of Urban Hospitals by Peng Yu, Weiping Wen, Duofa Ji, Changhai Zhai, Lili Xie

“…It is found that the seismic resilience of this hospital after MCE cannot meet the community requirements on the recovery time, and necessary measures are needed to improve the seismic resilience. …”
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Application get in hand - mobile-based geopark educational tourism Ciletuh-Sukabumi by Jatmika Bambang, Maulana Irpan, Al-Faqih Ridwan, Aulia Zouda Reyland

“…Although many tourists visit the Ciletuh-Palabuhanratu Geopark because there are so many destinations with large tourist areas, but because the area is very large and time is limited, tourists visiting Ciletuh Geopark cannot visit all existing tourist destinations. …”
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Exploring barriers to accessing health care services by young women in rural settings: a qualitative study in Australia, Canada, and Sweden by Reyhaneh Golestani, Farideh Khalajabadi Farahani, Paul Peters

“…Institutional challenges involve limited healthcare resources, gender insensitivity among providers, judgmental attitudes from healthcare staff, inadequate time management of services, and a lack of privacy and confidentiality within facilities. …”
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Teaching Pharmacy Undergraduate Students Inhaler Device Technique and Exploring Factors Affecting Maintenance of Technique by Mariam Toumas-Shehata, Mark Henricks, Ludmila Ovchinikova, Lorraine Smith, Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich

“…To determine the effect of inhaler device technique education on the maintenance of the inhaler device technique of undergraduate pharmacy students over time and to determine the factors, if any, related to inhaler device technique maintenance in the academic setting. …”
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Nurse workforce change and metropolitan medically underserved areas in the United States by Diana Bowser, Kaili Mauricio, Brielle Ruscitti

“…Conclusions These results emphasize the need for adaptive strategies in the nursing workforce to respond to the evolution of healthcare requirements over time. The findings from this study suggest the need for careful planning in workforce policy and education to grow the nurse workforce needs to meet evolving healthcare needs effectively.…”
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Variability of morphometrical characteristics of needles at a clonal plantation of plus trees of scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) by N. N. Besschetnova, V. P. Besschetnov

“…When collecting the source material, the elimination of differentiating effects of environmental factors and time factors was ensured. The dissimilarity of plus trees at a wide range of signs was manifested to different degrees. …”
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Bone Mineral Density in Children and Adolescents with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia by Paulo Alonso Garcia Alves Junior, Daniel Luis Gilban Schueftan, Laura Maria Carvalho de Mendonça, Maria Lucia Fleiuss Farias, Izabel Calland Ricarte Beserra

“…We evaluate bone mineral density in paediatric patients with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia taking into account chronological and bone ages at the time of the measurement. Patients aged between 5 and 19 years underwent radiography of the hand and wrist followed by total body and lumbar spine densitometry. …”
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Health Equity and Its Economic Determinants (HEED): protocol for a pan-European microsimulation model for health impacts of income and social security policies by Alastair H Leyland, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Anna Pearce, Mikael Rostila, Matteo Richiardi, Daniel Kopasker

“…The Health Equity and Its Economic Determinants project aims to assess the potential impacts of different taxation and social security policies across Europe on population health and health inequalities using a computer-based simulation that provides projections over multiple health domains.Methods and analysis In the first phase, key input parameters for the model will be estimated using estimation techniques that control for the effects of prior exposure on time-varying confounders and mediators (g-methods). …”
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The 2019 Social Protests in Latin America: Global Context and Ecuadorian Case-Study by A. N. Pyatakov

“…Particular emphasis is made on how the protests in Latin America developed in time and space, as they spread to at least eight states of the region: Haiti, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Columbia. …”
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Identity of the Courtyard in Traditional and Contemporary Erbil City Houses by Rawaz Abdullah, Aisha Saied, Dlman Azeez

“…It acknowledges the role of space as the most important standard to measure the human identity of a building is shaped by specific climate, place, and time. The problem articulates within human thoughts and technological progression; this evolving courtyard is an opportunity for exploration and redefinition of courtyards, depending on social and cultural changes among the Kurdish people. …”
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