Prevalence of Emergence Delirium and Associated Factors among Older Patients Who Underwent Elective Surgery: A Multicenter Observational Study by Gezahegn Tesfaye Mekonin, Megersa Kelbesa Olika, Mitiku Birhanu Wedajo, Ashanafi Tolasa Badada, Abebe Dukessa Dubiwak, Tajera Tageza Ilala, Mamo Nigatu Gebre

“…Emergence delirium is a common and serious postoperative complication in older surgical patients. It occurs at any time in the perioperative period, during or immediately following emergence from general anesthesia. …”
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American struggle for global leadership and the strategic options of Serbia by Lišanin Mladen

“…In other words, the struggle for global leadership not only has different goals, but also a different logic altogether, if it is observed from the aspect of a declining hegemon, or from the aspects of its challengers. At the same time, the fact that the hegemon is usually a status quo power, seeking to maintain the basic global parameters of power distribution, does not mean that it will not behave in a revisionist manner in various subsystem (regional and sub-regional) frameworks. …”
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Kalmyks of the Salsky district in the context of national politics and ethno-social processes in the 1920s by Anton Viktorovich Averyanov

“…It is proved that within the framework of its solution, a purposeful policy was pursued to popularize farming, develop cooperation, agricultural assistance, and concentrate the Kalmyk population in national village councils, which by the end of the 1920s were to become the main one for the formation of the Kalmyk National district. At the same time, within the framework of the indigenization policy, work was carried out to expand the network of schools, reading rooms, teacher training, and increase the level of literacy. …”
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Constitutive Model and Fracture Criterion of Q345 Steel Welded Joints by Lian Song, Genfeng Li, Cong Zhu, Huaqiang Fang, Guoqing Zhu

“…Based on the J–C (Johnson–Cook) fracture model of stress triaxiality factor, a series of round bar specimens were designed for the tensile test, and the variation of minimum diameter and gauge distance was tracked in real time by digital image correlation (DIC) technology, and the cloud map of strain distribution in the whole loading process was obtained. …”
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EFISIENSI EFEKTIFITAS PENYELENGGARAAN PELAYANAN PUBLIK MEWUJUDKAN PELAYANAN PRIMA (STUDI DI KELURAHAN TLOGOMAS KECAMATAN LOWOKWARU KOTA MALANG) by Agustinus Ghunu, Annisa Purwatiningsih, Noora Fithriana

“…In conducting it, the research gathered primary and secondary data and concluded that the sub-district provided its public services timely and accurately by guiding to Standard Operational Procedures. …”
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Role of Diabetes in the Prognosis and Therapeutic Outcome of Tuberculosis by Syed Azhar Syed Suleiman, Daud M. Ishaq Aweis, Ali Jimale Mohamed, Abdul RazakMuttalif, Mohamed A. A. Moussa

“…Diabetes antedated TB by a mean time of 4 years. Conclusions. We found a higher number of sputum-smear-positive cases and pulmonary TB cases as well as a greater number of males and higher mortality rate in diabetic patients compared to nondiabetic patients.…”
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THE EFFECT OF RETENTION FORMS ON ACRYLIC BASE SURFACES ON ADHESIVE STRENGTH OF DENTURE RELINER MATERIALS by Endang Prawesthi, Handoko Tirta, Rahmaniawati Rahmaniawati

“…Background: Acrylic prosthesis that are used for a long time are often not sticky anymore and easy off. Treatment that can be done is relining, which is resurfacing with new material addition to prosthesis surface in contact with mucosa. …”
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Neuroprotective Effect of Wharton’s Jelly-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Conditioned Medium (WJMSC-CM) on Diabetes-Associated Cognitive Impairment by Improving Oxidative Stress, Neu... by Zohre Aghaei, Narges Karbalaei, Mohammad Reza Namavar, Masoud Haghani, Mahboobeh Razmkhah, Mahdi Khorsand Ghaffari, Marzieh Nemati

“…The expression levels of Bax, Bcl-2, BDNF, and TNF-α were detected by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). According to our findings, WJMSC-CM significantly reduced and increased blood glucose and insulin levels, respectively. …”
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Medical treatment of patients before surgical myocardial revascularization by I.V. Shklianka, O.J. Zharinov, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…A special emphasis is payed to the timing of the suspension of anticoagulants and antiplatelets to reduce the incidence of postoperative complications, in particular, bleeding. …”
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Coal Mine Gas Safety Evaluation Based on Adaptive Weighted Least Squares Support Vector Machine and Improved Dempster–Shafer Evidence Theory by Zhenming Sun, Dong Li

“…The AWLS-SVM is used to calculate the sensor value at the evaluation time, and the D-S evidence theory is used to evaluate the safety status. …”
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The Potential Association of Later Initiation of Oral/Enteral Nutrition on Euthyroid Sick Syndrome in Burn Patients by Joaquín Pérez-Guisado, Jesús M. de Haro-Padilla, Luis F. Rioja, Leo C. DeRosier, Jorge I. de la Torre

“…Three groups were established depending on time of initiation of the oral/enteral nutrition: <24 h before the injury (Group 1), 24–48 h after the injury (Group 2), and >48 h after the injury (Group 3). …”
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Issues of implementation of international legal norms in the field of migration into the national legal system of the Republic of Azerbaijan by N. Zeynalova-Sultanova

“…Considering that the norms of international law related to migration arose as a need of our time, the importance of implementing this category of legal norms in national law becomes more obvious. …”
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Computationally-efficient rendering of diffuse reflections for geometrical acoustics based room simulation by Ewert Stephan D., Gößling Nico, Buttler Oliver, van de Par Steven, Hu Hongmei

“…Geometrical acoustics is well suited for real-time room acoustics simulation and is often implemented using the image source model (ISM). …”
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Assessment of drought resistance in sorghum CMS lines based on various sterility sources by O. P. Kibalnik, T. V. Larina, O. B. Kameneva, D. S. Semin

“…Four CMS lines were identified according to the chosen set of indicators: they manifested 71.13–72.02% of total water content, 5.26–9.08% of water deficit, and 57.40–83.17% of water retention capacity on average for the two years of research. For the first time, the effect of CMS in sorghum on the manifestation of water regime indicators was registered. …”
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Introduction of the Project “Community Police Officer” as a Step towards Strengthening Local Security Infrastructure by O. I. Bezpalova

“…It has been stated that the urgent issue of the present time is to update the tools of interaction between the local population and the police to achieve a common goal – to ensure public order and safety at the regional level focused on the needs of citizens. …”
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Modelling the Transition from Shear-Driven Turbulence to Convective Turbulence in a Vertical Heated Pipe by Shijun Chu, Elena Marensi, Ashley P. Willis

“…We therefore introduce a model that features a time-dependent background axial temperature gradient, and consider two temperature boundary conditions—fixed temperature difference and fixed boundary heat flux. …”
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A Comparative Investigation of Soil Fundamental Frequencies: A Case Study for İzmir Province by Ahu Kömeç Mutlu, Ülgen Mert Tuğsal, Musavver Didem Cambaz

“…The earthquake (Mw 6.9) that occurred in the northern part of Samos Island and Doğanbey-İzmir offshore in the Aegean Sea at 14:51 local time on October 30, 2020 was felt in İzmir, Samos Island and many surrounding cities and settlements. …”
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Development of “non-places” by means of designing small architectural forms made of metal by M. G. Kruglova, A. Yu. Tikhonov

“…The redundancy of space and time inherent in our present leads to an increase in the number of “non-places” (where there is no place for an individual) in the urban landscape. …”
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Hormonal and Temperature Manipulation to Produce Male Homogametic (XX) in Developing Female Monosex Culture of Thai Catfish Pangasionodon hypopthalmus by H. Arfah, O. Carman

“…Monosex female fish culture system can increase production efficiency in term of time and cost.  Experiment was performed to get male homogametic (XX) that will be used as functional male to produce female monosex (XX) population Result of hormonal and temperature manipulation on larvae shown that the highest percentage of male (67.7%) was obtained by 5 mg/liter 17-α-metiltestosteron treatment with temperature 33oC. …”
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Cyclic Fatigue Resistance of Nickel–Titanium Rotary Instruments after Simulated Clinical Use by Hana R. Ubaed, Diyar Kh. Bakr

“…Then, all the instruments underwent cyclic fatigue testing in an artificial stainless steel canal with a 50° canal curvature and a radius of curvature of 5 mm. The time and number of cycles to failure (NCF) were recorded. …”
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