Central Poststroke Pain: Its Profile among Stroke Survivors in Kano, Nigeria by Abdulbaki Halliru Bashir, Auwal Abdullahi, Muhammad Aliyu Abba, Naziru Bashir Mukhtar

“…The study was a cross-sectional design involving stroke survivors who were ≥18 years old and with no significant cognitive impairment approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. …”
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A Qualitative Analysis on the Definition of Zakat in the Turkish Tax System and Institutionalization of Zakat by Mehmet Cural, Esra Berika Dönmez

“…Accordingly, interviews are conducted with 21 income taxpayers who pay zakat. Participants were asked about their definition of zakat, methods they use when giving zakat, their perspectives on the definition and institutionalization of zakat in the tax system and their thoughts on tax advantages that could be provided for zakat. …”
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Perioperative Severe Hypotension in a Patient with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type IIb and Bilateral Adrenalectomies: Time to Review the Evidence for Stress Dose Steroids by Jens Tan, Acsa Zavala, Katherine B. Hagan, Antoinette Van Meter, Uduak Ursula Williams, Wei Zhang, Pascal Owusu-Agyemang

“…We present the case of a patient with MEN IIb, after bilateral adrenalectomies, on maintenance steroid replacement, who underwent a neuroma resection and developed severe hypotension. …”
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Postinfantile Giant Cell Hepatitis with Features of Acute Severe Autoimmune Hepatitis Probably Triggered by Diclofenac in a Patient with Primary Myelofibrosis by Pinelopi Arvaniti, Kalliopi Zachou, George K. Koukoulis, George N. Dalekos

“…We present a case of PIGCH in a 76-year-old female without known history of liver disease who suffered from an acute severe episode of hepatitis. …”
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Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

“…We show that the age and gender-specific pattern of mortality in the rural area is consistent with higher male than female out-migration together with return migration of those who had contracted the disease elsewhere and needed care during their lengthy illness. …”
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Bone Marrow Granuloma in Typhoid Fever: A Morphological Approach and Literature Review by Kavitha Muniraj, Somanath Padhi, Manjiri Phansalkar, Periyasami Sivakumar, Renu G’Boy Varghese, Reba Kanungo

“…We describe a 25-year-old male patient who presented with prolonged fever suspected to be of tubercular etiology. …”
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Insulinoma Presenting with Long-Standing Depression, Primary Hypogonadism, and Sertoli Cell Only Syndrome by Usman H. Malabu, Durgesh Gowda, Yong Mong Tan

“…From this report, we emphasize drawing clinicians' attention to the possibility of an association between insulinoma and primary testicular failure and suggest consideration of this diagnosis in patients with hypergonadotropic hypogonadism who may present with infertility.…”
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A Case Study on Annoyance Noise Caused by Metro Railway at a TOD Developed Depot by Qiang Liu, Zhongxu Kang, Hougui Zhang, Ruixiang Song, Ge Li

“…Based on the recommendation awakening threshold value of 42 dB (A) summarized from the Night Noise Guidelines for Europe (WHO, 2009), the measurement results confirmed that the neighbourhood residents were indeed suffering from the instantaneous railway noise, and the sleep disturbance correlated indicator LAmax was more than 56 dB (A) at outside of buildings. …”
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Prehospital management of earthquake crush injuries: A collective review by Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Kamal Idris, Arif Alper Cevik

“…Majority of emergency physicians who have worked in the field of the recent Kahramanmaraş 2023, Turkey, earthquakes, have acknowledged their lack of knowledge and experience in managing earthquake crush injuries. …”
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Body image and appearance distress among military veterans and civilians with an injury-related visible difference: A comparison study. by Mary Keeling, Diana Harcourt, Paul White, Sarah Evans, Victoria S Williams V, James Kiff, Heidi Williamson

“…A cross-sectional online survey was completed by 121 veterans and 197 civilians who had sustained AAI. Multivariable regression was used to examine factors related to adjustment in the two groups. …”
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Speech-based personality prediction using deep learning with acoustic and linguistic embeddings by Martin Lukac

“…We collected data from 2045 participants who completed a self-reported Big Five personality questionnaire and provided free-form speech samples by introducing themselves without constraints on content. …”
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Analysis Of Themes and Trends in Life Sciences and Biomedical Research Virtual Reality by Supriadi Sahibu, Mulawarman Munsyir, Hamdan Gani, Imran Taufik, Akbar Iskandar

“…The purpose of this study was to investigate the theme of the abstract, the theme of the Title on Virtual Reality in the Sciences and Biomedical Sciences and to investigate the trends of authors and countries who are major contributors to research on virtual reality in the sciences and biomedical sciences, the researchers used metadata from 497 journals. scientifically indexed with topic modeling algorithms. …”
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MANAGEMENT OF SYNCHRONIC LARGE LIVER METASTASIS IN A NON-OCCLUSIVE COLON TUMOR by Eduardo José Brommelstroet Ramos, Hugo Pinto Marques, Martin Palavecino, Timothy Pawlik, Rene Adam, Olivier Soubrane, Paulo Herman, Ricardo Lemos Cotta-Pereira

“…Similarly, various strategies such as portal vein embolization, liver deprivation, two-staged hepatectomy, and associating liver partition and portal vein ligation are available for patients who do not have a sufficient future liver remnant (generally 30-40% of the total). …”
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Erectile dysfunction in male lymphoma survivors in a Southeast Asian country by Gin Gin Gan, Diana Leh Ching Ng, Yuen Chwan Leong

“…Prevalence of ED among younger patients (age ≤50 years old) was 64.5%.The most common reason given by patients who were not sexually active was fatigue. Age was the only factor found to be associated with ED (p <0.005) and severity of ED increased with age. …”
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Students’ English Speaking Anxiety Based on Personality Traits for Islamic Boarding School by Dessy Kurniasy, Rianty Susan

“…The finding indicated that the percentage of students who exhibit each dimension of personality from the highest to the lowest; they were introvert dimension (ID) of personality 67,4% and extrovert dimension (ED) of personality 32,6 %. …”
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A study of the propensity for communicative aggressiveness in cadet pilots by M. V. Erkhova, I. Sh. Aizatullova

“…The article analyses the results of a study of the propensity for communicative aggressiveness of the 5th year cadets of the Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation named after the Chief Marshal of Aviation B.P. Bugaev who are studying in the field of “Organization of flight work”. 83 people participated in the study. …”
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Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis with Pyoderma Gangrenosum by Adrián Imbernón-Moya, Elena Vargas-Laguna, Antonio Aguilar, Miguel Ángel Gallego, Claudia Vergara, María Fernanda Nistal

“…We introduce a 70-year-old woman who suffered pyoderma gangrenosum associated with peripheral ulcerative keratitis in her left eye. …”
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Free Floating Right Heart Thrombus Associated with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: An Unsettled Therapeutic Difficulty by Clovis Nkoke, Olivier Faucher, Lise Camus, Laurence Flork

“…We present the case of a 74-year-old woman who presented to the emergency department with acute onset dyspnea on minimal exertion which had developed over a period of 1 day. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…She and her novels are in fact the inventions of Reynolds and his regular employee James Malcolm Rymer (1814–84), who in the 1840s created ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘Varney, the Vampire’ for the penny blood publisher Edward Lloyd. …”
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Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a COVID-19 Ventilated Patient: A Challenging Therapeutic Decision by Riccardo Rosati, Paola De Nardi, Antonio Dell’Acqua, Maria Rosa Calvi, Ugo Elmore, Elena Scarparo, Luigi Beretta

“…We describe a case of a severe COVID-19 associated respiratory failure, who developed a tracheoesophageal fistula. We hypothesized that one of the mechanisms for tracheoesophageal fistula, along with other local and general risk factors, is the local infection due to the location of the virus itself in the tracheobronchial tree. …”
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