Evaluation of the Effects of systemic Therapy on Inflammatory Markers and Disease Severity in Patients With Pemphigus by Mehmet Enes Güner, Perihan Ozturk, Mine müjde Kuş

“…Method: 76 pemphigus patients who received systemic treatment, and used these treatments for at least 6 months were included. …”
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Comparative legal analysis of the expertise in court under the criminal law of Ukraine and CIS countries by A. N. Protsenko

“…Expertise in court may be conducted by an expert (experts) who gave an opinion during the pre-trial investigation, or another expert (experts) appointed by the court, or both experts together. …”
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Decision Making Cognition in Primary Progressive Aphasia by Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Teresa Torralva, María Roca, Daniela Szenkman, Agustin Ibanez, Pablo Richly, Mariángeles Pose, Facundo Manes

“…Patients with PPA were unable to adopt an advantageous strategy on the IGT, which resulted in a flat performance, different to that exhibited by both controls (who showed advantageous decision making) and bvFTD patients (who showed risk-appetitive behavior). …”
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The Ethics of Refusal in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life by Marguerite La Caze, Magdalena Zolkos

“…The film offers a nuanced and poetic depiction of Austrian peasant Franz Jägerstätter (1907–1943), who refused to give an oath of loyalty to Hitler (Führereid), and was subsequently imprisoned and executed under the Nazi laws criminalizing conscientious objection as an “offence of sedition.” …”
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Smoking among pregnant women attending philanthropic maternity in São Paulo (Br by Natália Machado Costa Lopes, Maria Alice Tsunechiro, Alfredo Almeida Pina-Oliveira, Anna Maria Chiesa

“…It was observed that it is necessary to intensify the approach of smoking at prenatal period, warning pregnant women about the risks and harms caused by cigarette for both the mother and the newborn, as there are still a lot of women who do not know basic information about the subject.…”
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Socio-Psychological Readiness of Convicts for Release by Ye. Yu. Barash, Yu. Yu. Boiko-Buzyl, M. M. Chychuha

“…The authors have emphasized on the expediency of developing a program for preparing convicts for the release, taking into account indicators of socio-psychological readiness, and on the objective need for professional training of personnel of penitentiary agencies and institutions that will carry out socio-psychological support of convicts who have less than 6 months left until their release.…”
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Community supported agriculture’s perceived positive impacts on mental health and vegetable consumption in Norway and the UK by Anna-Birgitte Milford, Daniel Keech, Sarah Wangui Muiruri

“…In both countries, CSA membership was perceived to have caused improvements in members’ life quality, vegetable intake and physical and mental health. Members who participated more actively in the CSA and who received more of their vegetables through the CSA, were also more satisfied with their CSA and had a stronger perception that their vegetable consumption level and their mental health were positively affected by membership. …”
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The use of medicinal plants and herbal medicines for patients in chemotherapy in an oncology center of Ijuí/RS by Gislaine Tisott Dal Molin, Aline Williens Cavinatto, Christiane de Fátima Colet

“…Being included all users who performed intravenous chemotherapy. It was interviewed 130 patients, 62% female, with a mean age of 56 years. …”
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Exploring the Users’ Perspective of the Nationwide Self-Exclusion Service for Gambling Disorder, “Spelpaus”: Qualitative Interview Study by Johanna Tjernberg, Sara Helgesson, Anders Håkansson, Helena Hansson

“…MethodsSemistructured interviews were conducted with 15 individuals who reported self-perceived gambling problems and who had experience of having used the self-exclusion service Spelpaus in Sweden. …”
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Low-dose oral minoxidil in a case of short anagen syndrome by Divija Sharma, Serena Morsia, Benjamin Ungar

“…The patient, who had persistent hair growth issues since childhood, had tried several therapies, including topical 5% minoxidil with limited success. …”
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Examining a Ripple Effect: Do Spouses’ Behavior Changes Predict Each Other’s Weight Loss? by Anna E. Schierberl Scherr, Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley, Amy A. Gorin

“…When partners were coupled with a participant who did not reduce their own calorie and fat intake as much, these partners had higher weight loss when treated in the TOGETHER group but lower weight loss when they were untreated in the ALONE group. …”
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Effects of Masks on the Preference of Laser Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Japanese Population by Takeshi Nomura, Hanako Otsuka, Gan Muneuchi

“…Methods: We compared two groups of 103 patients who underwent facial laser treatment before and after the pandemic onset. …”
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Sentinel Node Biopsy Alone versus Completion Axillary Node Dissection in Node Positive Breast Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Rachna Ram, Jasprit Singh, Eddie McCaig

“…The surgical morbidity was found to be significantly more in patients who had underwent axillary dissection. Conclusion. …”
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Development of the Proactive Behavior Scale for Mid-Career Nurses: a reliability and validity study by Satomi Koyama, Yumiko Miyoshi, Kimie Takehara

“…Objectives: This study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Proactive Behavior Scale for Mid-Career Nurses, which was designed to measure the proactive behavior of nurses who have worked outside their current employment hospital (mid-career nurses) and who are in the process of organizational socialization. …”
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The Outcome of Endoscopic Transethmosphenoid Optic Canal Decompression for Indirect Traumatic Optic Neuropathy with No-Light-Perception by Bo Yu, Yingjie Ma, Yunhai Tu, Wencan Wu

“…A retrospective study performed on 96 patients (96 eyes) with NLP after ITON between June 1, 2010, and June 1, 2015, who underwent ETOCD, was reviewed. Visual outcome before and after treatment was taken into comparison. …”
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Determination of Cystatin C Level in a Sample of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease by Maryam Noman Salman, Ashwak Jasim kzar, Alaa S. Hamzah

“…Cystatin C is useful to detect individuals with CKD who show a little reduction in GFR as compared to serum creatinine. …”
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Online purchase intentions of affluent women: blending African beliefs, consumer vanity and luxury beauty products online purchase intentions by Divaries Cosmas Jaravaza, Paul Mukucha, Lucy Nhidza, Forbes Makudza

“…However, individuals who uphold Ubuntu ethos are least concerned with vanity, hence, promotional messages and branding must incorporate Ubuntu to capture such consumers.…”
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Reconstructive surgery of the lower eyelid in patients affected by basocelular carcinoma by Bernaldo Canto Vidal, Tania Canto Vigil, Danny González Sánchez, Alain Soto Ugalde

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> from the 15 patients who were operated, 9 were women and sex men, all of white race aged between 60 and 80 years. …”
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Carboxyhemoglobin Does Not Predict the Need of Mechanical Ventilation and Prognosis during COPD Exacerbation by Shimon Izhakian, Eitan Harper, Oleg Gorelik, Assaf Frajman, Ori Mekiten, Adina Bar-Chaim, Mordechai Reuven Kramer

“…The mean COHb level did not differ significantly between patients who needed invasive mechanical ventilation and those who were not invasively mechanically ventilated during the current hospitalization (2.01 ± 1.42% vs. 2.19 ± 1.68%, P=0.49). …”
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The Effects of Catheter Ablation Therapy on Medication Use and Expenditures in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation by Matthew R. Reynolds, Guy David, Candace Gunnarsson, Jamie L. March, Steven C. Hao

“…Patients with AF and a catheter ablation procedure who had continuous enrollment in the database 6 months prior to their first ablation and a minimum of 1-year follow-up post first ablation were compared to AF patients who were treated with AADs and not ablation. …”
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