An Update on the Controversies in Anemia Management in Chronic Kidney Disease: Lessons Learned and Lost by Geoffrey Teehan, Robert L. Benz

“…CREATE (N=603) showed no difference in primary cardiovascular endpoints. Stroke was more common in the higher Hb group (HR 1.92; 95% C.I. 1.38–2.68; P<.001) in TREAT (N=4038). …”
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Is There a Reversal in the Effect of Obesity on Mortality in Old Age? by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Rotem Perach

“…Findings suggest that the common emphasis on avoiding obesity may not apply to those advancing towards old-old age, at least as far as mortality is concerned.…”
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Qualitative Evaluation of Divergent Thinking in Patients with Schizophrenia by Takahiro Nemoto, Masafumi Mizuno, Haruo Kashima

“…In particular, deficits in verbal fluency are common. Verbal fluency tests are neuropsychological tests that assess frontal lobe function or executive function but also assess divergent thinking. …”
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A Graph Convolutional Network-Based Sensitive Information Detection Algorithm by Ying Liu, Chao-Yu Yang, Jie Yang

“…The majority of existing detection methods are based on the sensitive-word tree, which is usually constructed via the common prefixes of different sensitive words from the given corpus. …”
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Genotoxicity Studies of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles (TiO2NPs) in the Brain of Mice by Hanan R. H. Mohamed, Nahed A. Hussien

“…Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2NPs) are excessively used and represent one of the top five most commonly used nanoparticles worldwide. Recently, various studies referred to their toxic potential on various organs using different treatment route. …”
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An Efficient Approximate Multiplier with Encoded Partial Products and Inexact Counter for Joint Photographic Experts Group Compression by Elham Esmaeili, Nabiollah Shiri

“…Approximate computing is commonly employed in applications where accuracy is not crucial and aims to enhance circuit performance when inaccurate results are not challenging. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma by Kurren S. Gill, Mark A. Frattali

“…Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a relatively rare tumor of epithelial cell origin, most commonly arising from major salivary glands. It is uncommonly found outside the major or minor salivary glands and is especially rare when located in the nasal cavity. …”
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Urinary Tract Infections in Spinal Cord Injury Patients Undergoing Intermittent Catheterization Procedures by Teresa Kirkland, Geoffrey D Taylor

“…A wide variety of infecting organisms were found, of which Klebsiella species (39%), Escherichia coli (18%) and Enterobacter species (17%) were most common: most infections were asymptomatic. Patients with complete cord lesions at or above the sixth thoracic spinal cord segment (T6) had a much higher incidence of infection (73%) than those with incomplete lesions below T6 (33%).…”
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Revealing Annemarie Schimmel's Interpretation of The Sufi Texts Through Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutic Analysis by Muhammad Hisyam Syafii, Ahmad Hermawan, Husain Azhari, Lala Afafa

“…This study presents common problems of Sufi texts’ interpretation by orientalists, with a specific emphasis on the Annemarie Schimmel’s works. …”
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Modal Analysis and Flow through Sectionalized Pipeline Gate Valve Using FEA and CFD Technique by Desejo Filipeson Sozinando, Bernard Xavier Tchomeni, Alfayo Anyika Alugongo

“…The risk of pipeline failure is a constant and common occurrence, and many factors can lead to pipeline incidents. …”
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University of Florida Potato Variety Trials Spotlight: Atlantic by Mario H. M. L. Andrade, Rodrick Z. Mwatuwa, Christian T. Christensen, Lincoln Zotarelli

“… ‘Atlantic’ is a white-skinned potato, being the standard variety for chiping commonly cultivated in Florida (Figure 1). The cultivar was released as a white mutant of the USDA breeding program. …”
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Recognition of life-threatening arrhythmias by ECG scalograms by A.P. Nemirko, A.S. Ba Mahel, L.A. Manilo

“…For arrhythmia classification, the AlexNet neural network with a well-known deep learning architecture, which is commonly used in image classification tasks, is used. …”
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Delirium is one of the many faces of COVID-19. Literature review by A. Bagdonaitė, D. Tumas, E. Griškevičiūtė, A. Svirskytė

“… Taking into account today’s context of COVID-19 disease, it is very important to acknowledge the serious psychiatric complications that arise during the acute phase of the disease, as well as those that have a delayed onset and are no less dangerous. COVID-19 is most commonly associated with cough, shortness of breath, and fever; however, changes in consciousness can also occur, especially in elderly patients with severely advanced dis- ease. …”
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Giant Intra-Abdominal Desmoid Tumor in a Young Male without History of Surgery, Trauma, or Familial Adenomatous Polyposis by Noritoshi Mizuta, Kozo Tsunemi

“…Desmoid tumors have invasive development and common local recurrence, so sufficient range of resection including normal tissue and strict follow-up are necessary.…”
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NPM1/B23: A Multifunctional Chaperone in Ribosome Biogenesis and Chromatin Remodeling by Mikael S. Lindström

“…At a first glance, ribosome biogenesis and chromatin remodeling are quite different processes, but they share a common problem involving interactions between charged nucleic acids and small basic proteins that may result in unwanted intracellular aggregations. …”
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Biological Aging and Venous Thromboembolism: A Review of Telomeres and Beyond by Rafaela Vostatek, Cihan Ay

“…Although venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third most common cardiovascular disease, and the risk of VTE increases sharply with advancing age, approximately 40% of VTE cases are currently classified as unprovoked, highlighting the importance of risk factor research. …”
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Advances in Heavy Metal Bioremediation: An Overview by Ali Sayqal, Omar B. Ahmed

“…This review focuses on the most common methods, strategies, and biological approaches of heavy metal bioremediation. …”
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Investigation and Validation of Mission Evaluation Models for Space Close-Range Inspection by Jianyong Zhou, Zhipu Hou, Kebo Li

“…In this paper, taking the most commonly used optical inspection as an example, the novel multifactor inspection task effectiveness evaluation models were investigated, including the constraint models of observation, the relative distance evaluation model, the effective observation time evaluation model, and the target observation angle evaluation model. …”
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Hepatic Angiomyolipoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Jekaterina Strelčenko, Justas Kuliavas, Eugenijus Stratilatovas, Audrius Dulskas

“…It is can be diagnosed by radiological tests, biopsy or after surgery. The most common treatment is surgical resection. …”
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When Ghosts Can Talk: Informant Reality and Ethnographic Policy by James M Nyce, Sanna Talja, Sidney Dekker

“…This article describes for example some commonly applied interpretive moves used in dealing with informant statements about other-than-human persons. …”
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