Evaluating Surveillance Breast Imaging and Biopsy in Older Breast Cancer Survivors by Tracy Onega, Julie Weiss, Roberta diFlorio, Todd MacKenzie, Martha Goodrich, Steven Poplack

“…The proportion of women with mammography was high over the follow-up period (81.5% at 78 months), but use of US or MRI was much lower (8.0%—first follow-up window, 4.7% by 78 months). …”
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Relative age effect across the talent identification process of youth female soccer players in the United States: Influence of birth year, position, biological maturation, and skil... by Laura Finnegan, Mirelle van Rijbroek, José M. Oliva-Lozano, Rick Cost, Matthew Andrew

“…The aims of the study were to examine the relative age effect (RAE) in youth female soccer players in the United States (US) and the influence of birth year, playing position, estimated maturation and skill ratings. …”
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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES IN VIETNAM: AN IDEOGRAPHIC LENS by Yolanda Sarason, Kristi Yuthas, Linh Nguyen

“…Social ventures in Vietnam face cultural obstacles and advantages that differ greatly from those in the US, where much of the research on social entrepreneurial ventures has focused. …”
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Burden of Comorbidities and Healthcare Resource Utilization Among Medicaid-Enrolled Extremely Premature Infants by Meredith E. Mowitz, Wei Gao, Heather Sipsma, Pete Zuckerman, Hallee Wong, Rajeev Ayyagari, Sujata P. Sarda

“…**Objectives:** To characterize real-world patient characteristics, prevalence of comorbidities, rates of HCRU, and direct healthcare charges and societal costs among premature infants in US Medicaid programs, with respect to GA and the presence of respiratory comorbidities. …”
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Enhancing postoperative analgesia in carotid endarterectomy patients: The potential of ultrasound-guided carotid sheath block combined with superficial cervical plexus block: A ran... by Anamarija Kruc, Lada Lijovic, Matteo Skrtic, Iva Pazur, Nikola Perisa, Tomislav Radocaj

“…The Subject group (28 participants) received US-guided CSB and SCB. The Control group (31 participants) received only an SCB. …”
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La restitution architecturale et hydraulique du rampant des Massues sur l’aqueduc de la Brévenne à Lyon et ses conséquences sur l’aval du parcours by Paul François

“…Better still, it allows us to formulate the hypothesis that the Brévenne aqueduct was capable of carrying water to the Fourvière hill at a height of 287.5 m and perhaps even to the Verbe Incarné fountain.…”
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La segunda mejor opción de un territorio como desafío a la despoblación rural: aplicación al Pirineo Catalán by Ana Vera Martín, Antoni F. Tulla Pujol

“…La SMO permite delimitar que AyUS podrían ser los más adecuados para un territorio, aunque hubiera otros territorios más aptos para hacerlo mejor. …”
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Carbon utilization and storage through rehabilitation of groundwater wells by Vivek V. Patil, Gabriella Basso, Steven Catania, Christopher Catania, Timothy Ostapuk, Robert Vince

“…Overall, our results and analysis of the US market suggest that using CO $${_2}$$ 2 for well rehabilitation and maintenance has a storage potential of several megatonnes of CO $${_2}$$ 2 annually in the US alone.…”
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The EU Methodology of Security and Defense Planning by M. V. Alexandrov

“…The author conducts a comparative analysis of the EU security and defence planning methodology with that of the US and NATO. He shows that the methodology is very similar. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities for Maximizing the Utilization of the New Development Bank in Brazil by Bruno De Conti, Cyro Faccin

“…Initiating its operations in 2016, the New Development Bank (NDB) disbursed close to US$ 14.6 billion by the conclusion of 2021. However, Brazil received only US$ 1.86 billion (12.8%) of this sum, marking it as the recipient of the least funding from the Bank thus far. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 Genome-Based Severity Predictions Correspond to Lower qPCR Values and Higher Viral Load by Martin Skarzynski, Erin M. McAuley, Ezekiel J. Maier, Anthony C. Fries, Jameson D. Voss, Richard R. Chapleau

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Osteoporosis Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Beliefs among College Students in the USA and China by M. Allison Ford, Martha Bass, Yan Zhao, Jin-Bing Bai, Yue Zhao

“…Methods. Chinese (𝑛=409) and US (𝑛=408) college students completed the Osteoporosis Health Belief, Self-Efficacy, and Knowledge Tests. …”
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Validation of a Novel Landmark-guided Intra-articular Postero-medial Surgeon-administered Injection Technique by Nicolas S. Piuzzi, MD, Andrew I. Spitzer, MD, Jason Mussell, PhD, Ignacio Pasqualini, MD, Stan Dysart, MD, Jeffrey Gonzales, MD, Michael A. Mont, MD, Jess H. Lonner, MD, William Mihalko, MD, PhD

“…An anesthesiologist administered a US-guided ACB using 20 mL of dilute indocyanine dye. …”
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A feasibility study of combining solar/wind energy to power a water pumping system in Jordan's Desert/Al-Mudawwara village by Zakaria Al-Omari, Nour Khlaifat, Mike Haddad

“…The results obtained show that the scenario with minimum initial capital cost (ICC) and total NPC, respectively, was the one with DG/WT/storage batteries (SB) ($US 53,69) and ($US 59,611). The HRES (PV/WT/SBs) is the optimal scenario since it produces power at the lowest CoE ($US 0.241/kWh), leading to reliable energy and eliminating GHGE.…”
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Taxing data when the United States disagrees by Tarcísio Diniz Magalhães, Allison Christians

“…This Article argues that in the face of such U.S. resistance, EU member states and countries elsewhere ought to reconsider using the income tax system to achieve their goals instead. …”
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Design of Control System for a Desktop Injection Molding Using Raspberry Pi 3 B+ by Rahmat Rahmat, Meiki Eru Putra, Zulkifli Amin

“…<span lang="EN-US">Injection molding is one of the techniques used to create plastic items. …”
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Investigation of Black Carbon Wet Deposition to the United States from National Atmospheric Deposition Network Samples by Piyaporn Sricharoenvech, Ross Edwards, Müge Yaşar, David Gay, James J. Schauer

“…From October 26th to December 1st, 2020, we analyzed 478 NADP wet deposition samples from 209 locations, including sites in the United States, Canada and US territories, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. …”
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The impact of temperature on cotton yield and production in Xinjiang, China by Yongyan Zhao, Yumeng Zhu, Shouli Feng, Ting Zhao, Luyao Wang, Zhihong Zheng, Nijiang Ai, Xueying Guan

“…A comparison is made with cotton-producing counties in the U.S. southwest (Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma). Results show that Xinjiang has a shorter frost-free period (140–210 days) compared to the U.S. (235–300 days). …”
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Evaluation of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Kaharo Subcounty Kabale District. by Nasaasira, Blair

“…The effects of land management practices identified in the study area were; reducing soil erosion, improving soil fertility, controls crop pest and diseases, reduces soil compaction, reduce leaching of nutrients and increase soil water uptake and the farmers have knowledge about land management practices in the study area knowing that crop rotation maintains soil fertility, land management practices help in reducing land degradation covering the surface with grass or crop residues reduce and respondents noted that terracing helps us to reduce run-off and rate of erosion. The study recommends that Land management practices are currently being used by farmers but have potential to improve crop production. …”
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Resolving the generation mechanisms and electrodynamical effects of Medium Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs) by Jeff Klenzing, Kate Zawdie, Elvira Astafyeva, Anna Belehaki, Meghan Burleigh, Angeline G. Burrell, Cosme A. O. B. Figueiredo, Nathaniel A. Frissell, Weizheng Fu, Dustin Hickey, Joe Huba, Pavel Inchin, Stephen R. Kaeppler, Viswanathan Lakshmi Narayanan, Mani Sivankandan, Jonathon M. Smith, Jonathon M. Smith, Chao Xiong, Tatsuhiro Yokoyama, Matt Zettergren, Shun-Rong Zhang

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