Impact of Teaching Cohesive Devices to Iranian EFL learners: Case of IELTS writing task 2 examination by Syed Mojtaba Marashi

“…A text can be cohesive if its units were bound together with explicit or implicit relations. …”
Get full text

Follow-Up of Newborns with Neural Tube Defects: A Single Center Experience by Umit Ayse Tandircioglu, Cansu Kethuda Ensert Cihan, Hasan Tolga Celik, Burcak Bilginer, Sule Yigit

“…Our study aims to retrospectively evaluate patients with neural tube defects hospitalized in our intensive care unit for the last decade. STUDY DESIGN: Demographic data, prenatal-maternal characteristics, surgical operation time, intensive care follow-up, and long-term neurological-developmental results of these patients were also evaluated. …”
Get full text

Chemical and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Roman and Late Antique Glass from Northern Greece by Alberta Silvestri, Elissavet Dotsika, Antonio Longinelli, Enricomaria Selmo, Sophia Doukata-Demertzi

Get full text

ZEN-garden: Optimizing energy transition pathways with user-oriented data handling by Jacob Mannhardt, Alissa Ganter, Johannes Burger, Francesco De Marco, Lukas Kunz, Lukas Schmidt-Engelbertz, Paolo Gabrielli, Giovanni Sansavini

“…Lightweight and intuitive input datasets and unit consistency checks reduce user errors and facilitate using ZEN-garden for both novice and experienced energy system modelers.…”
Get full text

Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit of an Influenza Vaccination Program for Health Care Workers by Annalee Yassi, Joel Kettner, Greg Hammond, Mary Cheang, Myrna McGill

Get full text

Prevalence and Temporal Distribution of Extrasystoles in Septic ICU Patients: The Feasibility of Predicting Fluid Responsiveness Using Extrasystoles by Johannes Enevoldsen, Cristhian Potes, Minnan Xu-Wilson, Simon T. Vistisen

“…The aim of this study was to estimate the availability of extrasystoles in intensive care unit patients diagnosed with sepsis. The study aim was not to validate the fluid responsiveness prediction ability of extrasystoles. …”
Get full text

Hemoadsorption in Multiorgan Failure Due to Viscerocutaneous Loxoscelism by Raúl Valenzuela Córdova, David Rivera Estrella, José F. Bernardo, Darío Jiménez, Celia Rodríguez Tudero, Raúl Elías, José C. De La Flor

“…Despite treatment with intravenous (IV) monovalent antiloxoscelism serum, antibiotic therapy, and corticosteroids, the patient’s evolution was poor, and she was admitted to the critical care unit for severe multi-organ involvement, including hepatic and kidney damage and coagulation disorders, eventually requiring hemodialysis support and hemoadsorption therapy. …”
Get full text

Efficacy of a Multimodal Cognitive Rehabilitation Including Psychomotor and Endurance Training in Parkinson's Disease by I. Reuter, S. Mehnert, G. Sammer, M. Oechsner, M. Engelhardt

“…Training was conducted for 4 weeks on a rehabilitation unit, followed by 6 months training at home. Caregivers received an education programme. …”
Get full text

Single, but not mixed dietary fibers suppress body weight gain and adiposity in high fat-fed mice by Swang M. Shallangwa, Alexander W. Ross, Peter J. Morgan

“…Each fiber treatment stimulated a distinct gut microbiota profile at the family and operational taxonomic unit (OTU) level. Mechanistically it is likely that the single 10% fiber dose shifted selected bacteria above some threshold abundance, required to suppress body weight, which was not achieved by the 10% Mix, composed of 4 fibers each at 2.5%. …”
Get full text

The Efficacy and Safety of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Celiac Plexus Neurolysis for Treatment of Pain in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer by Anna Wiechowska-Kozłowska, Klaudiusz Boer, Maciej Wójcicki, Piotr Milkiewicz

“…We retrospectively analyzed efficacy and safety of endoscopic ultrasound- (EUS-) guided celiac plexus neurolysis in patients treated in our unit. Methods. Twenty nine subjects with unresectable pancreatic cancer and severe pain despite pharmacological treatment underwent EUS-guided celiac plexus neurolysis with 98% ethanol. …”
Get full text

Research on Vibration Characteristics of a Ceramic Spindle Based on the Reverse Magnetic Effect by Ke Zhang, Zinan Wang, Huaitao Shi, Xiaotian Bai, Zhan Wang

“…Using a Timoshenko beam unit to build the dynamic model for the ceramic spindle, the dynamic characteristic of an angular contact ball bearing is analyzed using a nonlinear bearing model. …”
Get full text

A tale of two kidneys, and the case for machine perfusion in South Africa by N B Leech, Z Keyser, D E Du Plessis, V Soyizwapi, L Bertels, T du Toit

Get full text

Rain removal method for single image of dual-branch joint network based on sparse transformer by Fangfang Qin, Zongpu Jia, Xiaoyan Pang, Shan Zhao

“…UEDB incorporates a feature refinement unit to maximize the contribution of the channel attention mechanism in recovering local detail features. …”
Get full text

Varying Presentations of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Temporarily Associated with COVID-19 by Jasmina Krikilion, Lisa Nuyttens, Siel Daelemans, Karlien François, Reiner Mauel, Daniel De Wolf, Gerlant van Berlaer

Get full text

The impact of vitamin E supplementation on sperm analysis in varicocelectomy patients: a triple-blind randomized controlled trial by Kasra Saeedian, Saeed Davaryar, Maryam Emadzadeh, Alireza Akhavan Rezayat

“…The intervention group received 400 units of vitamin E daily for 3 months, while the control group received a placebo. …”
Get full text

The Relationship Between the Policies and Procedures of International Auditing Standard (220) Quality Control and Enhancement of Audits by Ali Mohammed Hassan AL-Bakate, Sohad Sabih Al-Saffar

“… The research paper aims at knowing the link between the policies and procedures of the International Auditing Standard (220) quality control and enhancing the audit process, increasing the reliability of its output, developing its capabilities and capabilities, diversifying its activities and services provided, access to quality and reducing the expectations gap, so the policies and procedures of the International Auditing Standard (220) control were Quality, the guarantee to reach this and consequently the customer’s satisfaction, which helps in providing a neutral technical opinion that expresses the economic and financial position of the unit and its business activity honestly and fairly. …”
Get full text

Clinical Usefulness of Haptoglobin Levels to Evaluate Hemolysis in Recently Transfused Patients by Shilpi Gupta, Kathleen Ahern, Fadi Nakhl, Frank Forte

“…Twenty-one patients, receiving more than one unit of packed red blood cells (PRBCs) for presumed nonhemolytic indications, were enrolled. …”
Get full text

Marital adjustment and quality of life among HIV discordant couples by Subhasis Bhadra, Nupur Tayal

“…HIV discordant couple (DC), live as family unit, in sexual relationship having mismatch HIV status. …”
Get full text

Interaction of Calf Thymus DNA with the Ni(II) Complex of Sodium 1,4-Dihydroxy-9,10-Anthraquinone-2-Sulphonate: A Novel Method of Analysis Using Cyclic Voltammetry by Partha Sarathi Guin, Piyal Das, Saurabh Das, Parikshit Chandra Mandal

“…Electrochemical behavior of the Ni(II) complex (Na2[Ni(NaLH)2Cl2]⋅2H2O) of sodium 1,4-dihydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone-2-sulphonate (NaLH2), analogue of the core unit of anthracycline anticancer drugs, was studied at physiological pH using cyclic voltammetry. …”
Get full text

Reflectarray Antenna for Simultaneous Near-Field Fronthaul and Far-Field Backhaul Links in Next 5G FR2 Femtocells by Alvaro F. Vaquero, Borja Imaz-Lueje, Marcos R. Pino, Manuel Arrebola

“…Both phase-shift distributions are physically implemented using a unit cell based on a double-layer topology of coplanar dipoles. …”
Get full text