Association between serum total bilirubin levels and 28-day all-cause mortality after intracerebral hemorrhage by Dachang Qiu, Guangwei Li, Yongfei Dong, Yongfei Dong

“…The effect of serum TBIL levels on survival time and rate in the 28-day period was analyzed using Kaplan–Meier curves and restricted mean survival times. …”
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Characterizing Light-absorbing Aerosols in a Low-income Settlement in South Africa by Nopasika A. Xulu, Stuart J. Piketh, Gregor T. Feig, Daniel A. Lack, Rebecca M. Garland

“…Levels of daily averaged light-absorbing aerosols were 2.9 times higher (1.89 ± 0.5 µg m–3) in winter 2014 than in summer 2015 (0.66 ± 0.2 µg m–3). …”
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Torque visuomotor feedback training versus standard eccentric exercise for the management of patellar tendinopathy: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by David Evans, Francesco Negro, Michail Arvanitidis, Eduardo Martinez-Valdes, Ragul Selvamoorthy, Patricio Pincheira

“…The EE group will perform their exercises two times per day, while the TF group will do so 2–3 times a week. …”
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CPW-Fed Dual Band Flexible Antenna for Energy IoT Applications at 380/940 MHz by Soyeong Lee, Sangjoon do, Hoosung Lee, Daeyeong Yoon, Yong Bae Park

“…The antenna size is <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$210\times 236\times 0.2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm3, achieving bandwidths of 25.2% (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$344\sim 440$ </tex-math></inline-formula> MHz) and 15.2% (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$863\sim 1006$ </tex-math></inline-formula> MHz) when flat, with peak gains of 2.52 dBi and 4.90 dBi, respectively. …”
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Effects of the disconnection technique and preemptive one-lung ventilation on lung collapse during one-lung ventilation in thoracoscopic surgery by Hongru Zhang, Silin Xiang, Longyong Mei, Yonggeng Feng, Han She, Yi Hu, Li Wang

“…The secondary outcomes included the lung collapse scores at different time points, Pleural opening times, OLV times, blood gas analysis results and the incidence of hypoxemia and pulmonary complications. …”
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Accounting for racial bias and social determinants of health in a model of hypertension control by Yang Hu, Nicholas Cordella, Rebecca G. Mishuris, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

“…Black patients face a 4.7 $$\times$$ × higher False Positive Rate (FPR) and a 0.58 $$\times$$ × lower False Negative Rate (FNR) compared to White patients. …”
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Acute effect of technique modification training on 180° change of direction performance and kinematics in adolescent male soccer players by Hayato Nakamura, Daichi Yamashita, Daichi Nishiumi, Naoto Nakaichi, Norikazu Hirose

“…The participants performed Pro-Agility and 20-m sprint tests before and after the intervention, and the total times were measured. COD deficit (CODD) was calculated as the difference between these times. …”
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Pre-injury frailty and clinical care trajectory of older adults with trauma injuries: A retrospective cohort analysis of A large level I US trauma center. by Oluwaseun Adeyemi, Corita Grudzen, Charles DiMaggio, Ian Wittman, Ana Velez-Rosborough, Mauricio Arcila-Mesa, Allison Cuthel, Helen Poracky, Polina Meyman, Joshua Chodosh

“…Compared to those classified as robust, those categorized as frail had 2.5 (95% CI: 1.86-3.23), 3.1 (95% CI: 2.28-4.12), and 0.3 (95% CI: 0.23-0.42) times the adjusted odds of trauma team activation, inpatient admission, and ED discharge, respectively. …”
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Analysis of the Muscle Structure and Protein Composition of Different Varieties of Cultured Large Yellow Croaker (Larimichthys crocea) by Yuan MA, Quanyou GUO, Yao ZHENG, Weibo SUN, Liu YANG, Xiaoyan SONG

“…Low-field NMR also revealed that the immobile water in 'Yongdai 1' had a shorter relaxation time. The salt-soluble protein content in the muscle of 'Fufa 1' was the highest, being 1.29 times that of 'Donghai 1'. …”
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Prenatal malaria exposure and risk of adverse birth outcomes: a prospective cohort study of pregnant women in the Northern Region of Ghana by Akbar Fotouhi, Masud Yunesian, Hawawu Hussein, Mansour Shamsipour, Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand, Percival Delali Agordoh, Mashoud Alabi Seidu

“…Furthermore, they had 2.06 times (95% CI 1.09 to 3.93) higher chance of giving birth to babies with LBW, irrespective of their socioeconomic status. …”
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Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia: A Retrospective Claims Analysis of Complications, Resource Utilization, and Cost of Care by Eliza Kruger, Justin Nedzesky, Nina Thomas, Jeffrey D. Dunn, Andrew A. Grimm

“…Resource utilization was substantial in GSDIa patients, and mean annual total healthcare costs were almost 8 times higher than those of comparators. **Conclusions:** GSDIa is associated with numerous potentially serious and sometimes fatal complications, extensive resource utilization, and high management costs.…”
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Clinical efficacy and learning curve of percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy for symptomatic cervical spondylotic radiculopathy by Xiao Sun, Lijuan Zhan, Zhongxin Tang, Mingkui Shen, Haijun Ma, Jun Tan

“…However, longer operative times do not negatively impact preclinical outcomes. …”
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Investigation of 4-Nitro-N, N-diphenylaniline as a chemical tracer under high pressure high temperature reservoir conditions for enhanced oil recovery applications by Subhadip Maiti, Nishant Kumar Choudhary, Kiran R. Gore, Sandeep D. Kulkarni

“…On the HPLC analysis, the N-TPA specifically exhibited a distinct retention time of approximately ≈ 15.9 min, whereas the FBA tracers featured retention times ranging from approximately ≈ 1.9 to 9 min. …”
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Study on seismic performance of high-strength steel earthquake-resilient beam-column joint with double damage elements by Hongchao Guo, Dongdong Zheng, Jing Lu, Xudong Zhou, Wenqi Wang, Yunhe Liu

“…The research findings show a significant time sequence in the joint double damage element, with both components dissipating over 90% of energy. …”

Determinants of minimum meal frequency among children in Kumbungu District of Ghana: a cross-sectional study by Ambrose Atosona, Hidaya Abdul Wahab, Fuseini Alhassan, Mildred Donkoh, Michael Akenteng Wiafe, Clement Kubreziga Kubuga

“…Children aged 9–23 months were 3.48 times more likely to meet the minimum meal frequency as compared to children aged 6–8 months [Adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 3.48, 95% CI: 1. 33-9.03, p = 0.011]. …”
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An Examination of Herding Behavior in the Brazilian Equity Market by Patrícia Fernanda Correia Lima Signorelli, Eduardo Camilo-da-Silva, Claudio Henrique da Silveira Barbedo

“…This bias is quite common in times of market downturns and can cause investors to suffer large losses. …”
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Starting the Garden with Transplants by Danielle Treadwell, Lisa Hickey, Tabitha A. Petri, James M. Stephens

“… In the spring and fall, carefully prepared trays of young vegetable plants grace garden centers everywhere, signaling the start of garden season. Many times, the varieties available in retail centers are not the best-tasting or best-adapted varieties for our area. …”
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Moderating effect of economic instability in the relationship between concentration of control and market value: empirical evidence in Latin America by Dante Baiardo C. Cavalcante Viana Junior, Daniel Ferreira Caixe, Vera Maria Rodrigues Ponte

“…Thus, this study provides empirical evidence that times of economic instability encourage controlling shareholders to act even more strongly in their own interests, which may result in the expropriation of the wealth of smaller shareholders.…”
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The Master Hoof (Claw) Care Program: Summary Statistics From Three Years by Jan K. Shearer, S. R. Van Amstel, A. Gonzalez-Sagues, L. C. Shearer

“…The program is offered three times per year at the University of Florida and once annually at the University of Tennessee. …”
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Jesus talks to the Samaritan woman by P. Rule

“…This article aims to explain their dialogic encounter as an informal teaching and learning event against the backdrop of Jew-Samaritan relations and the status and roles of women in New Testament times. It uses the conceptual framework of diacognition, drawing on the notions of dialogue, position, and cognition to conduct an analysis of the episode as a learning event. …”
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