Partial Nephrectomy for a Massive Sporadic Renal Angiomyolipoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Jacob Albersheim-Carter, Molly Klein, Paari Murugan, Christopher J. Weight

“…Angiomyolipomas are the most common benign tumor of the kidney, associated with Tuberous Sclerosis in 20% of cases and arising sporadically in 80% of cases. …”
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Recognition of a Drowning Victim by Bystanders: A Scoping Review

“…This scoping review aimed to identify common drowning characteristics to support bystanders in recognizing drowning. …”
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MANAGEMENT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES by Maitham Abdallah Albajy, Dan Florin Mihailescu

“…Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is the more common form of diabetes, characterized by insulin resistance and reduced insulin secretion; this occurs during the progression of T2DM, and high blood glucose levels. …”
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La tradition de la cueillette du miel est-elle un frein au développement de l’apiculture dans l’Aire de Conservation de l’Annapurna (Népal) ? by Samuel Perichon, Chet Bhatta

“…Commercial beekeeping is common in many regions of Nepal. However, it requires movable hives, startup capital, and practical knowledge. …”
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Research on Differences in Knowledge Demand of Sustainability Learning of Teams in Mega Engineering Construction Project in China by Jinfan Zhang, Yun Chen, Wenxi Zhu, Jianrong Cai

“…All types of MECP teams had a common high demand for SLK on environment, safety, and health in China. …”
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CANDU Safety R&D Status, Challenges, and Prospects in Canada by W. Shen, F. Doyle

“…Key nuclear R&D programs, facilities, and expertise are maintained in order to address the unique features of the CANDU as well as generic technology areas common to CANDU and LWR (light water reactor). This paper presents an overview of the CANDU safety R&D which includes background, drivers, current status, challenges, and future directions. …”
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Nurses’ Experience With End-of-Life Care in Geriatric Centers: A Systematic Review by Falah Jamal Dakka RN, BSN, MHM, PhD

“…Sample sizes in these studies varied from 6 to 126 nurses while three articles involved integrated, scoping, and literature review of published studies. The common emotions and feelings among nurses caring for elderly patients in the geriatric center are compassion fatigue, burnout, grief, and moral distress. …”
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MEASURING THE EFFICIENCY OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP by A. N. Timokhovich, O. I. Nikuradze

“…The stages of planning activities in the field of social entrepreneurship have been described. The most common problems of measurements and evaluation of social effects that social entrepreneurs have to deal with in the process of carrying out activities related to the implementation of social projects: difficulty in achieving a quantitative evaluation, difficulty in predicting the long-term effect of activities, limitations on costs, time resources, indicators of accuracy and interpretation of results have been revealed. …”
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Lingual Fibrous Hyperplasia: Case Report and Literature Review by Edison Omar Sacaquirín Zhunio, Julián Alejandro Merel Guamán, Diana Priscila Llivichuzca Inga, Kevin Adrián Quishpe Peña

“…Fibrous hyperplasia is a benign proliferative lesion of inflammatory origin, common in the oral mucosa, and frequently related to chronic irritants. …”
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Barriers for Large Integration of PV and Onshore Wind Energy in the Distribution Network on the Selected European Union Electricity Markets by Hanna Bartoszewicz-Burczy

“…This paper is focused on the most common regulatory, technological, administrative, financial, social, and environmental barriers, which slow down the large-scale deployment of PV and wind energy into the distribution networks in 5 EU countries: Austria, Greece, France, Poland and Spain and also in Norway. …”
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αSynuclein and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: A Pathogenic Partnership in Parkinson’s Disease? by David Protter, Charmaine Lang, Antony A. Cooper

“…Mitochondrial dysfunction is also a common theme in PD patients and this review explores the strong possibility that αSynuclein and mitochondrial dysfunction have an inter-relationship responsible for underlying the disease pathology. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Masking Techniques in Molecular Graph Representation Learning by Bonyou Koo, Sunyoung Kwon

“…Our findings reveal that node feature masking during pre-training achieves high performance, while rich features may reduce gains, and the commonly used 25% masking ratio is not universally optimal, with alternative ratios performing better depending on the dataset. …”
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Inhaled Drug Delivery: A Practical Guide to Prescribing Inhaler Devices by Pierre Ernst

“…Direct delivery of medication to the target organ results in a high ratio of local to systemic bioavailability and has made aerosol delivery of respiratory medication the route of choice for the treatment of obstructive lung diseases. The most commonly prescribed device is the pressurized metered dose inhaler (pMDI); its major drawback is the requirement that inspiration and actuation of the device be well coordinated. …”
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Vector borne disease control interventions in agricultural and irrigation areas in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review. by Levi Kalitsilo, Leila Abdullahi, Nyanyiwe Mbeye, Lily Mwandira, Hleziwe Hara, Collins Mitambo, Rose Oronje

“…Results showed various VBD control interventions were effective, including indoor residue spray (IRS), insect-treated nets (ITN), larva source management (LSM), mass drug administration (MDA), integrated vector management (IVM), and mollusciciding. IVM was commonly practiced, and its success was because of the complementarity of the various interventions involved. …”
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La selección artificial en el origen del pensamiento evolutivo y en los procesos de domesticación en el mundo actual by Arturo Argueta Villamar, Ricardo Noguera Solano, Eduardo Corona-M.

“…Ideas about the variation of plants and animals in a domestic state defined the meaning of the ideas of biological variation, descent with modification and common ancestry. In broader terms, it was crucial to give an epistemically radical meaning to the knowledge obtained in the practices that human beings have carried out for thousands of years, to understand what nature has done for millions of years. …”
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Graph Theoretical Analysis of Semantic Fluency in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease by Guanyu Zhang, Jinghong Ma, Piu Chan, Zheng Ye

“…Semantic disfluency is a common problem in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). …”
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Liquefaction Analysis of Soils according to the New Turkish Building Earthquake Code and Improvement against Liquefaction by Uğur Dağdeviren

“…The stress-based liquefaction analysis, which is the commonly used to determine the liquefaction susceptibility of the soils, has been included in the new Turkish Building Earthquake Code (TBEC). …”
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Role of astrocytes connexins - pannexins in acute brain injury by Juan E. Tichauer, Maximiliano Rovegno

“…Acute brain injuries (ABIs) encompass a broad spectrum of primary injuries such as ischemia, hypoxia, trauma, and hemorrhage that converge into secondary injury where some mechanisms show common determinants. In this regard, astroglial connexin and pannexin channels have been shown to play an important role. …”
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Large Bowel Obstruction, a Delayed Complication of Severe Gallstone Pancreatitis by Neeraj Lal, John Whiting, Rahul Hejmadi, Sudarsanam Raman

“…Presentation of obstruction occurs during the acute episode or can be delayed for several weeks. The most common site is the splenic flexure owing to its proximity to the pancreas. …”
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Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Contaminated Soils Using Vermicompost by Fazel Mohammadi-Moghadam, Ramazan Khodadadi, Morteza Sedehi, Mohsen Arbabi

“…Analysis of their microbial composition revealed that the consortia contain several Proteobacteria phylum bacterial species, and the most common genera were Pseudomonas and Citrobacter. Decontamination rates for PHE and PYR were estimated to be 89% and 83% over 45 days, respectively. …”
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