La Mauritanie à l’épreuve de l’islamisme et des menaces terroristes by Armelle Choplin

“…Since a few weeks, Mauritania is in front of several terrorist attacks claimed by Al-Qaïda in Maghreb. …”
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Keeping it Clean: Cleaning Bathrooms, Sink, Bathtub, Shower, Toilet by Mary N. Harrison

“…Some chores need to be done daily, others weekly. This document is FCS5232-04, one of a series of the Family Youth and Community Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension. …”
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Fetal Sacrococcygeal Teratoma: A Case Report of a Giant Tumor with an Excellent Outcome by Anna Kornete, Diana Bokucava, Natalija Vedmedovska

“…The male fetus was delivered by elective Cesarean section at 38 weeks of gestation. The resection of the tumor and coccyx was performed when the newborn was 7 days old. …”
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Cryosurgery, Intralesional Methotrexate and Imiquimod for Keratoacanthoma: Tuning the Combination by Georgios Gaitanis, Ioannis D. Bassukas

“…We suggest that, optimized, the present three modalities combination (one session mild cryosurgery/low dose, 5 mg intralesional methotrexate and 2 weeks once daily imiquimod) is a promising treatment for KA that merits evaluation in further studies.…”
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Kinetic Column Evaluation of Potential Construction Options for Lessening Solute Mobility in Backfill Aquifers in Restored Coal Mine Pits, Powder River Basin, USA by Jeff B. Langman, Julianna Martin

“…The leachate from each column was collected twice weekly for 20 weeks. The Eh and pH of the leachate substantially varied during an initial high-weathering period indicative of the traditional weathering of newly exposed mineral surfaces and the weathering and flushing of mobile particles. …”
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Association of retinal sensitivity with gestational hypertension and obesity by Debasmita Nandi, Swati Majumdar, Prosenjit Banerjee

“…Materials and Methods: Fifty pregnant females with HTN and/or obesity as cases and 54 as controls underwent systemic and ocular examination including retinal sensitivity measurement at 20 and 32 weeks of gestation. Statistical Analysis: Statistical software SPSS version 22 was used. …”
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The Effects of Positive Youth Development Based Classroom Guidance Program on Life Skills of Primary School Students by Günnur Özbay, Serap Nazlı

“…The experimental group was given the positive youth development based classroom guidance program (12 weeks classroom guidance, 12 weeks workshop training) developed by the researchers. …”
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Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain Associated with Somatoform Disorder in an 11-Year-Old Boy by Yoshihiko Sakurai, Asami Fujii, Fumie Kato

“…An 11-year-old boy initially presented with right cheek pain and a streptococcal infection 6 weeks previously. Facial cellulitis was suspected, which was resolved by antibiotic treatment. …”
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Predictive Factors in OCT Analysis for Visual Outcome in Exudative AMD by Maria-Andreea Gamulescu, Georgios Panagakis, Carmen Theek, Horst Helbig

“…Visual acuity increased in 40 of 87 (46.0%) patients, it remained stable in 25 (28.7%), and 22 (25.3%) patients had decreased visual acuity four to six weeks after triple intravitreal ranibizumab injections. …”
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Traumatic Uterine Rupture in Second Trimester: Two Departments, Two Patients, Two Survivors by Kaggwa H, Deogratious E, Ndiwalana BR, Luweesi H, Kaduyu P

“…Here, we present a case of a 33-year-old female, Gravida 3 Para 2+0, with two previous uterine scars who sustained a traumatic uterine rupture at gestation of 18 weeks due to blunt abdominal trauma after a bathroom fall. …”
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Evaluation of functional outcome in patients treated with locking compression plate for distal femur fractures by Kevin Sebastian, Dr Sanoj P. Poulose, Dr. Akhil K. Thomas, Dr. Shery Valsan

“…Serial follow up was done at 4, 8, 12, 24 weeks and functional outcome was assessed at the end of 24 weeks using NEERS criteria. 18 patients were treated with open reduction and internal fixation. 2 of the fractures were stabilized via MIPPO technique. …”
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Effect of Oral PUVAsol on the Quality of Life in Indian Patients Having Chronic Plaque Psoriasis by Pratik Gahalaut, Nitin Mishra, Puneet S. Soodan, Madhur K. Rastogi

“…These were compared with the respective scores after 12 weeks of regular treatment with PUVAsol. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 20.0. …”
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Selective Screening Strategies for Gestational Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Observational Study by Sumaiya Adam, Paul Rheeder

“…We conducted a cohort study on nondiabetic women < 26 weeks gestation at a level 1 clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa. …”
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Risk Factors for Neonatal Sepsis in Pregnant Women with Premature Rupture of the Membrane by Dwiana Ocviyanti, William Timotius Wahono

“…The study used total sampling method including all pregnant women with gestational age of 20 weeks or more experiencing PROM, who came to the hospital at that time. …”
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Therapeutic Effects of Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum L.) and Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Type 2 Diabetic Rats by Aida Doostkam, Mohammad Fathalipour, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Azar Purkhosrow, Hossein Mirkhani

“…The NAFLD was established in rats after four weeks of type 2 diabetes induction. The animals were treated with pharmaceutical preparations of milk thistle (Livergol®) and artichoke (Atheromod-B®) extracts for eight weeks. …”
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Inhibitory Effect of r-Hirudin Variant III on Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Cataracts in Rats by Xiaojian Gong, Qiuyan Zhang, Shuhua Tan

“…SD-rats were firstly made diabetic by a single intraperitoneal injection of 2% (W/V) STZ (65 mg/kg). Two weeks later, cataract formation was examined by slit lamp microscope, and the cataracted animals were randomly grouped. …”
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Marked Rebound of Platelet Count in the Early Postpartum Period in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia by Yoshinori Hashimoto, Rina Hosoda, Hiromi Omura, Takayuki Tanaka

“…She underwent emergency cesarean delivery at 37 weeks of gestation. Although her platelet count was 1000 × 109/L immediately after delivery, it markedly increased to 3271 × 109/L approximately 2 weeks later. …”
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Pleural Mycobacterium Avium Complex Infection in an Immunocompetent Female with No Risk Factors by Ravi P. Manglani, Misbahuddin Khaja, Karen Hennessey, Omonuwa Kennedy

“…A 37-year-old healthy female with no past medical history was admitted to the hospital with two weeks of right sided pleuritic chest pain, productive cough, and fever. …”
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Duodenal Obstruction during Pregnancy by Mansooreh Haghiri, Sedigheh Borna, Kamran Hessami, Ali Sharifi, Seyed Mohsen Ahmadi Tafti, Mahrooz Malek, Nasim Pourdamghan, Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh, Abolfazl Shirdel Abdolmaleki, Maasoumeh Saleh

“…The patient was a 26-year-old woman at 18 weeks of gestation with intractable vomiting, intolerability of oral intake, weight loss, and absence of abdominal pain. …”
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The Effect of Acupuncture along with Conventional Therapies on the Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis: A Clinical Trial by Sayed Mostafa Hashemi, Farhang Mokhtarinejad, Seyed Mojtaba Abtahi Forooshani, Mehran Rezvani Habibabadi

“…The improvement degree of AR symptoms was evaluated and recorded at baseline, 2 weeks, and 6 weeks after the treatment. Results: The results of this study revealed that a decrease in the runny nose score with a mean of 4.59 ± 3.04 and a decrease in the sneezing score with a mean of 5.30 ± 2.92 were significantly more than those of the control group with a means of 2.85 ± 1.56 and 2.78 ± 1.28, respectively (P value < 0.05). …”
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