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Determination of Electrolytes in Critical Illness Patients at Different pH Ranges: Whom Shall We Believe, the Blood Gas Analysis or the Laboratory Autoanalyzer? by Christopher Hohmann, Roman Pfister, Kathrin Kuhr, Julia Merkle, Julian Hinzmann, Guido Michels

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A dimensão geográfica de políticas públicas: o Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) e a Política Nacional de Economia Solidária (ECOSOL) no Rio Grande do Norte by Leandro de Castro Lima, Lorene K. Barbosa Brasil, Celso Donizete Locatel

“…This article has therefore for objective to propose elements for the analysis of public policies as intrinsic instrument to the territory and that it is part of the dynamics of the places, considering for this article the public policies for the countryside, especifically the Program of Food Acquisition (PAA) and the National Politics of Solidary Economy, and the deployment of the same ones in Rio Grande do Norte Stata. In this sense, we believed in the importance of the geography in the context of those analyses, because the public policies, beyond a theoretical-normative approach, has impacts of several orders and it is materialized in different ways on the field.…”
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Small Bowel Perforation due to Gossypiboma Caused Acute Abdomen by Tahsin Colak, Tolga Olmez, Ozgur Turkmenoglu, Ahmet Dag

“…This case was presented to point to retained foreign body (RFB) complications and we believed that the possibility of a retained foreign body should be considered in the differential diagnosis of who had previous surgery and complained of pain, infection, or palpable mass.…”
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As Lagoas Salitradas do Pantanal da Nhecolândia: um estudo da paisagem baseado no modelo GTP – Geossistema, Território e Paisagem by Mauro Henrique Soares da Silva, Messias Modesto dos Passos, Arnaldo Yoso Sakamoto

“…It is highlighted that the different features of the plant cover allied to the distinction of the organization “pedomorphological” and the internal topographical characteristics, as well as the evidence of plant cover discontinuities (cordilheira), and the use of this environment back to the extensive cattle, all together contributed to the entrance of acid water in the area through straight links with coalescent system depriving of characteristics a lacustrine system which we believed to be an alkaline environment in ancient times. …”
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Dystrophic Cutaneous Calcification and Metaplastic Bone Formation due to Long Term Bisphosphonate Use in Breast Cancer by Ali Murat Tatlı, Seyda Gunduz, Sema Sezgin Göksu, Deniz Arslan, Mukremin Uysal, Cumhur İbrahim Başsorgun, Hasan Şenol Coşkun

“…We stopped the treatment since we believed that the cutaneous dystrophic calcification could be associated with her long term bisphosphonate therapy. …”
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Enhancing Hand Rehabilitation Through Interactive Design by Xiaotian Sun, Sitong Lu, Jiaqi Fan

“…By combining these elements, we believed that the design is expected to make up some emotional support for better human machine interface experience.…”
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A Proteomics Analysis to Evaluate Cytotoxicity in NRK-52E Cells Caused by Unmodified Nano-Fe3O4 by Yi-Reng Lin, Chao-Jen Kuo, Hugo You-Hsien Lin, Chin-Jen Wu, Shih-Shin Liang

“…From the statistical data of identified proteins, we believed that NPs treatment causes cell death and promotes expression of ras-related proteins. …”
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Endothelial Differentiation of Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells on Polyglycolic Acid/Polylactic Acid Mesh by Meng Deng, Yunpeng Gu, Zhenjun Liu, Yue Qi, Gui E. Ma, Ning Kang

“…This study first demonstrated the endothelial differentiation of hADSCs on the PGA/PLA mesh and pointed out the synergistic effect of PGA/PLA 3D culture and growth factors on the acquisition of mature characteristic endothelial phenotype. We believed this study would be the initial step towards the generation of prevascularized tissue engineered constructs.…”
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Barriers to and Facilitators of Implementing Team-Based Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Simulation Study: Exploratory Analysis by Joan Brown, Sophia De-Oliveira, Christopher Mitchell, Rachel Carmen Cesar, Li Ding, Melissa Fix, Daniel Stemen, Krisda Yacharn, Se Fum Wong, Anahat Dhillon

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to understand the impact of simulation training approaches on interprofessional collaboration. We believed simulation-based ECMO training would improve interprofessional collaboration through increased communication and enhance teamwork. …”
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Efficacy of Red Cell Salvage Systems in Open Acetabular Surgery by S. MacDonald, C. Byrd, E. Barlow, V. K. Nahar, J. Martin, D. Krenk

“…Autologous blood transfusion had no effect on volume or rate of allogenic blood transfusion. We believed that if a patient’s preoperative hemoglobin is less than 10.5 or expected blood loss is less than 400 mL, then CS should have a very limited role, if any, in the preoperative blood conservation strategy. …”
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Endovascular Treatment of a Giant Aneurysm of the Maxillary Artery by J. A. Stephenson, S. Panteleimonitis, E. Choke, M. Dennis, M. Glasby

“…We report the first case of what we believe to be a spontaneous true maxillary artery aneurysm and its endovascular management.…”
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Routine Multimodal Antiemesis Including Low-Dose Perphenazine in an Ambulatory Surgery Unit of a University Hospital: A 10-Year History by Brian A. Williams, Michael L. Kentor, Susan J. Skledar, Steven L. Orebaugh, Manuel C. Vallejo

“…We believe that future perphenazine studies should include routine coadministration with prospectively established multimodal antiemetics (i.e., dexamethasone and a 5-HT3 antagonist). …”
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Accuracy of rating scales for evaluating aphasic patients' psychological aspects and language function: A scoping review protocol. by Yuhei Kodani, Shinsuke Nagami, Satomi Kojima, Shinya Fukunaga, Hikaru Nakamura

“…By conducting this review, we believe to identify any problems with rating scales used in English and Japanese research and improve their accuracy.…”
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Measurement of Quality of Life VI. Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY) is an Unfortunate Use of the Quality-of-Life Concept by Soren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick, Niels Jorgen Andersen

“…For example, 1 day with a certain condition might the equivalent of living only 0.5 days in good health.We believe that QALY value only represents a superficial impression of a person's quality of life. …”
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Challenging the Myth of Presentation in Digital Editions by Magdalena Turska, James Cummings, Sebastian Rahtz

“…However, it is most often the presentation output, rather than the source data, which is published and shared. We believe this is largely because there is currently no way of expressing, in the source encoding, aspects of presentation which are seen by editors as a crucial part of their work. …”
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Learning and elucidating the uncertainty in primary care by mapping uncertainty in medicine by Yuma Ohtsuka, Kazuoki Inoue, Daisuke Son, Shinichi Taniguchi

“…The workshop was indeed effective considering the mapped uncertainties based on previous research and included discussion. We believe that future expansion of similar activities will promote the study of uncertainty in clinical practice.…”
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Acute Hemorrhage into Adrenal Pseudocyst Presenting with Shock: Diagnostic Dilemmas Report of Three Cases and Review of Literature by Amarapathy Sivasankar, Sathyanesan Jeswanth, Maria Antony Johnson, Palaniappan Ravichandran, Shanmugasundaram Rajendran, Devy Gounder Kannan, Rajagopal Surendran

“…The diagnostic dilemmas are discussed with special reference to their unusual presentations, diagnosis, and treatment. We believe that our cases, complicated by intracystic hemorrhage, may be related to pregnancy.…”
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A Patient with Difficulty of Object Recognition: Semantic Amnesia for Manipulable Objects by A. Yamadori, Y. Yoneda, H. Yamashita, K. Sugiura

“…Differential diagnosis of agnosia, aphasia and apraxia is discussed. We believe this “object meaning amnesia” constitutes a distinct subtype of semantic amnesia.…”
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Cognitive component of auditory attention to natural speech events by Nhan Duc Thanh Nguyen, Kaare Mikkelsen, Preben Kidmose

“…By using natural speech events and cognitive tasks, a cognitive event-related potential (ERP) component, which we believe is related to the well-known P3b component, was observed at parietal electrode sites with a latency of ~625 ms. …”
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