Game, set and message by Charl Durand Charl Durand

“…In the days before mass media, the sports message sent to those absent from the action on the field contained little else of fact other than a score, and a winner, and the message reached the receiver a day, a week or a month later. Messages then gradually expanded to include match details and perhaps a grainy photograph or two as newspapers started reporting on sport. …”
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Anesthetic Management of an Obstetric Patient with Behçet’s Disease Complicated by Transverse Myelitis by Sara Alwatban, Etedal AlAamri, Abdullah Alraffa, Mona Alkhawajah

“…We present the case of a 37-year-old female patient in her 34th week of pregnancy, showing manifestations of neuro-Behçet’s disease and recurrent transverse myelitis. …”
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IArt-à-porter: a moda na era da inteligência artificial by José María Paz Gago

“…Assim, recriam-se espaços e modelos virtuais, cada vez mais difíceis de distinguir dos modelos reais, apresentados na IAFashion Week. Tentaremos definir a modalidade semiótica desse fenômeno tecnocomunicativo radicalmente disruptivo que, em comparação com a representação típica da mídia analógica e a simulação característica da mídia digital, será definida com base no conceito de maquinação. …”
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A Case of Drastic Reduction of Membranous Substances in the Pharynx by Interprofessional Cooperative Oral Care by Masahiko Okubo, Hideyuki Kamimura, Tsuyoshi Sato, Shoichiro Kokabu

“…Dentists and oral hygienists visited and provided special oral care three times per week. At least for 77 days, the patient had no recurrence of pneumonitis. …”
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Pectinolytic and Cellulolytic Enzymes Enhance Fusarium compactum Virulence on Tubercles Infection of Egyptian Broomrape by Olubukola O. Babalola

“…Infested tomato roots that were inoculated with mycelia plus pectinase (20 U ml−1) had over 50% tubercles dead one week after treatment. Those inoculated with mycelia plus cellulase (20 U ml−1) had above 60% mortality. …”
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Acute Eosinophilic Ascites in a Middle-Aged Man by Fadi Bleibel, Keith Fragoza, Garrey T. Faller

“…We present a case of a 55-year-old male with diffuse abdominal pain and distention for two weeks. His physical examination was significant for moderate ascites. …”
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Establishing Lot Size through Sanitation Clean Breaks in Produce Packing Facilities by Benjamin Chapman, Michelle D. Danyluk

“…In other situations, a packer may choose to have a clean break conducted weekly, meaning that a food safety incident could result in a week’s worth of production being recalled. …”
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Primary Ovarian Choriocarcinoma: Rare Entity by Mequanent Tariku Adow, Shimelis Fantu Gebresilasie, Natnael Alemayehu Abebe

“…This article reports primary ovarian choriocarcinoma, likely gestational in a 25-year-old para 2 woman presenting with lower abdominal pain and swelling of two-week duration. Diagnosis was suspected by serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin and confirmed histologically after surgery. …”
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The Role of Safety Behaviors in the Pathogensis of Contamination Fear: An Experimental Investigation. by Tamer I. FAWZY

“…Participants were instructed to either perform a variety of contamination-related safety behaviors, (n = 31) or to simply monitor their cleanliness-related safety behaviors (n = 30) for a week. Results showed that instructions to engage in safety behaviors resulted in statistically significant increases on a measure of contamination fear, threat estimation, and responses on a behavioral-approach task (BAT). …”
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Investigation the injury patterns and reasons of the Turkish first leauge female volleyball players according to playing position by Ozhan Bavlı, Sibel Kucuk

“…Spiker was the most injured (%22.6) playing position, sprain was the most reported (%39.2) injury type,arm-shoulder was the most injured (%27.4) body part, overuse was the most injury reason (%47.3) and generallythe injuries needs more than four week for recovery time (%52.3). According to findings it is possible to say thatfor the preventing injuries in first leauge women volleyball players, trainers should set the training loadscarefully.…”
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Too Much Salt to My Taste: An Entity to Think about in Neonatal Hypernatremia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Marwa El Masri, Lidiya Samotiy-Hanna, Ramy Ghabril, Yolla Nassif, Dany Al Hamod

“…In this report, we present a case of a 2 -week-old girl who presented to our institution for 30% weight loss and was found to have severe hypernatremic dehydration associated with acute renal failure (creatinine 4 mg/dL). …”
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Bioluminescence Imaging of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Promoter Activity in Murine Mammary Tumorigenesis by Shannon L. Faley, Keiko Takahashi, Cornelia E. Crooke, Joshua T. Beckham, Takuya Tomemori, Scott B. Shappell, E. Duco Jansen, Takamune Takahashi

“…The VEGF-GL mouse exhibited intense bioluminescence throughout the body at 1 week of age. The signals rapidly declined to a relatively low level as the mice grew. …”
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PHYSIOTHERAPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS IN ELDERLY by Cătălina Mihaela Dascălu, Paul Lucaci, Marius Neculăeș, Beatrice Aurelia Abalașei

“…The recovery protocol was applied for 8 weeks with a frequencyof 5 session per week, for ~30-40 minutes, once a day in individual trainings.Conclusions highlight that physiotherapy reduces pain and improves function, muscle strength, range of motion, joint stability and aerobic condition. …”
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Exploring Mortality and Prognostic Factors of Heart Failure with In-Hospital and Emergency Patients by Electronic Medical Records: A Machine Learning Approach by Yu CS, Wu JL, Shih CM, Chiu KL, Chen YD, Chang TH

“…With ensemble learning, age, ICU history within 1 week, and respiratory rate (BF) were the top three compelling risk factors affecting mortality due to HF. …”
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Association between resolution of MRI-detected inflammation and improved clinical outcomes in axial spondyloarthritis under long-term anti-TNF therapy by Joachim Sieper, Denis Poddubnyy, Fabian Proft, Mikhail Protopopov, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Murat Torgutalp, Judith Rademacher, H Haibel, Kay-Geert Hermann, Christian Althoff

“…MRIs of the spine and sacroiliac (SI) joints were performed at baseline, week 24, week 48 and yearly thereafter and were evaluated for active inflammatory lesions according to the Berlin MRI score.Results Longitudinal analysis showed that higher SI joint osteitis score was associated with higher Axial Spondyloarthritis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS) at the same time point (β=0.08, 95% CI (0.05; 0.11)) and at the next time point 6 months later (β=0.05, 95% CI (0.02; 0.07)). …”
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Does semaglutide reduce alcohol intake in Danish patients with alcohol use disorder and comorbid obesity? Trial protocol of a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinica... by Jens Juul Holst, Tina Vilsbøll, Claus Thorn Ekstrøm, Helene Benveniste, Nora D Volkow, Anders Fink-Jensen, Gitte M Knudsen, Mette Kruse Klausen, Tugba Kuzey, Julie Niemann Pedersen, Signe Keller Justesen, Line Rasmussen, Ulla B Knorr, Graeme Mason, George Koob

“…Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have shown promising effects in reducing alcohol consumption in preclinical experiments, and clinical trials are in high demand to investigate these potentially beneficial effects in patients diagnosed with AUD.Methods and analysis The effects of the once-weekly GLP-1 receptor agonist semaglutide will be investigated in a 26-week, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blinded clinical trial. 108 patients diagnosed with AUD and comorbid obesity (body mass index (BMI)≥30 kg/m2)) will be randomised to treatment with either semaglutide or placebo in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy. …”
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Individualized Tailor-Made Dietetic Intervention Program at Schools Enhances Eating Behaviors and Dietary Habits in Obese Hispanic Children of Low Socioeconomic Status by Leticia Elizondo-Montemayor, Diana Moreno-Sànchez, Norma G. Gutierrez, Fabiola Monsivais-Rodriguez, Ubaldo Martinez, Ana C. Lamadrid-Zertuche, Martin M. Hernandez-Torre

“…Prospective school year dietetic intervention of 101 obese, Hispanic, low-socioeconomic school-age children representative of Monterrey, Mexico, consisted of anthropometrics, dietetic assessment, energy-restriction tailor-made daily menus, and parental education every three weeks. Student’s t-test was used for means comparison. …”
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Increased risk for alcohol- and other substance-exposed pregnancies among women who smoke tobacco: A secondary analysis of a primary care-based intervention by Thomas F. Northrup, Angela L. Stotts, Stephen M. Fischer, Kirk L. von Sternberg, Mary M. Velasquez

“…Material and Methods Eligible women (N=261) were recruited from 12 primary care clinics in a public healthcare system, not pregnant, aged 18–44 years, drinking >3 drinks/ day or >7 drinks/week, sexually active, and not using effective contraception. …”
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The impact of locus of control on somatic and psychological profiles of patients with irritable bowel syndrome engaging in aerobic exercise by Laura Prospero, Giuseppe Riezzo, Benedetta D’Attoma, Antonia Ignazzi, Antonella Bianco, Isabella Franco, Ritanna Curci, Angelo Campanella, Claudia Beatrice Bagnato, Piero Porcelli, Gianluigi Giannelli, Francesco Russo

“…The AEP consisted of 180 min of moderate-intensity aerobic walking activity a week. Fifty-four IBS patients completed the 12-week study; 37 belonged to the internal LoC group and 17 to the external one. …”
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Effect of Zhan Zhuang Qigong on upper limb static tremor and aerobic exercise capacity in patients with mild-to-moderate Parkinson’s disease: study protocol for a randomised contro... by Hang Su, Xiaoyu Jiang, Limin Wang, Linlin Zhang, Qing Wang, Xihua Liu, Xiaoming Xi, Yuxiao Chen, Xinjie Qu, Haihao Cao, Wenyu Sun, Guoming Chen, Huifen Liu, Jiahui Jiang, Hongyan Bi

“…The intervention group received conventional medicine plus Zhan Zhuang Qigong exercises five times a week at 30 min each time, over an 8-week period. …”
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