Adult Congenital Permanent Bilateral Dislocation of the Patella with Full Knee Function: Case Report and Literature Review by Alessandro Bistolfi, Giuseppe Massazza, David Backstein, Stefano Ventura, Raul Cerlon, Maurizio Crova

“…This rare condition is usually detected within the first decade of life, because of inability of active extension in the knee and impaired ability during walking. …”
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Drug Consumption in University Students of Cienfuegos Province by Raúl López Fernández, Flavia Linares Tovar, Claudia López Palmero, Rosania Olivera Bolaños, Anais Valladares González

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> in the last decades there has been an increment of the use and abuse of drugs in certain social groups. …”
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Mechanical recycling of textile waste by Nemeša Ineta, Pešić Marija, Bozoki Valentina

“…Compared with other recycling methods the mechanical recycling of textile waste has already decades of experience, it is the most developed, most widely used, requires much lower investments and energy resources.…”
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A tunable multi-timescale Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide thin-film transistor neuron towards hybrid solutions for spiking neuromorphic applications by Mauricio Velazquez Lopez, Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Jua Lee, Hamidreza Erfanijazi, Alberto Patino-Saucedo, Manolis Sifalakis, Francky Catthoor, Kris Myny

“…Future artificial intelligence applications will demand the execution of tasks with increasing complexity and over timescales spanning several decades. The multi-timescale requirements for certain tasks cannot be attained effectively enough through the existing silicon-based solutions. …”
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Keys for transforming the curriculum of the Chilean education system after the pandemic by Alexis Moreira-Arenas, Israel Ferreira-Pinto, Jennifer Obregón-Reyes, Máximo Quiero-Bastías

“…The curriculum in Chile has been under pressure in recent decades and, considering the implications of the pandemic, the pressure has spread and deepened. …”
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An Anonymous User Authentication with Key Agreement Scheme without Pairings for Multiserver Architecture Using SCPKs by Peng Jiang, Qiaoyan Wen, Wenmin Li, Zhengping Jin, Hua Zhang

“…Accordingly, the multiserver architecture has been prevalent, and designing a secure and efficient remote user authentication under multiserver architecture becomes a nontrivial challenge. In last decade, various remote user authentication protocols have been put forward to correspond to the multi-server scenario requirements. …”
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The Gut Microbiome Profile in Obesity: A Systematic Review by Olga Castaner, Albert Goday, Yong-Moon Park, Seung-Hwan Lee, Faidon Magkos, Sue-Anne Toh Ee Shiow, Helmut Schröder

“…Gut microbiome has been identified in the past decade as an important factor involved in obesity, but the magnitude of its contribution to obesity and its related comorbidities is still uncertain. …”
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Modern methods of studying of human gastro-intestinal microflora by Ye. A. Poluektova, O. S. Lyashenko, O. S. Shifrin, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…However, during the last decade modern methods of diagnostics which allow to investigate structure and functions of microorganisms at a genetic level, even at the presence of single bacterial cell in a sample.Conclusion. …”
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Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene by Laura M. V. Soares, Olivia Desgué‐Itier, Cécilia Barouillet, Céline Casenave, Isabelle Domaizon, Victor Frossard, Nelson G. Hairston Jr., Andrea Lami, Bruno J. Lemaire, Georges‐Marie Saulnier, Frédéric Soulignac, Brigitte Vinçon‐Leite, Jean‐Philippe Jenny

“…Abstract Despite global evidence of lake deoxygenation, its duration, timing, and impacts over decadal to centennial timescales remain uncertain. …”
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Parameter Optimisation of Power Regeneration on the Hydraulic Electric Regenerative Shock Absorber System by Peng Zheng, Ruichen Wang, Jingwei Gao, Xiang Zhang

“…With the increasingly prominent energy issues, regenerative shock absorber has attracted intensive attention in last two decades for the development of structure design. However, the researchers sometimes concentrate on conceptual designs without considering optimal parameter refinements. …”
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Pregnancy and Lactation in a 67-Year-Old Elderly Gravida following Donor Oocyte In Vitro Fertilization by Leila Magistrado, Mary C. Tolcher, Anju Suhag, Sonal Zambare, Kjersti M. Aagaard

“…There is limited data on the anticipated perinatal course among gravidae in their sixth and seventh decades. Our objective was to describe the relatively uncomplicated prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum course of a 67-year-old essential primigravida. …”
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Analysis of Land Use Changes In the period 2018-2005 in Nazloo District of Urmia City by Sahar Mehrran, Ali Akbar Taghilou, Khadijeh Javan

“…Analysis of land use change in Nazlou district of Urmia in the 2005-2018 time series Abstract Population growth, increased prosperity, the spread of technology, and the improper use of land have in recent decades imposed many changes on land. Nazlou district in Urmia city has been exposed to many changes due to its favorable natural conditions, location in the development paths of Urmia-Cir and Urmia-Bazargan, establishment of numerous industrial estates and so on. …”
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Global Distribution Adjustment and Nonlinear Feature Transformation for Automatic Colorization by Terumasa Aoki, Van Nguyen

“…A lot of attractive local feature-based image matching methods have already been developed for the last two decades. Unfortunately, as far as we know, there are no optimal matching methods for automatic colorization because the requirements for pixel matching in automatic colorization are wholly different from those for traditional image matching. …”
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Construction of Tb3+ PVC-MembraneElectrode Based on N,N’-Bis(pyrrolylmethylene)-2-aminobenzylamine by Hassan Ali Zamani, Zynab Rafati, Soraia Meghdadi

“…The Tb3+ sensor exhibits a Nernstian slope of 19.7±0.4 mV per decade over the concentration range of 1.0×10-5 to 1.0×10-2 M and a detection limit of 4.6×10-6 M of Tb3+ ions. …”
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A Brief Epidemiologic Review of Psoriasis by Nagham Shaheed Mahmood, Rabab Omran, Anwar A. Abdulla

“…Biologics targeting tumor necrosis factor, interleukin IL-23, and IL-17 have been developed and approved for treating psoriasis in the past decade. These biologics have dramatically changed the treatment and management of psoriasis.…”
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PISA : politique, problèmes fondamentaux et résultats paradoxaux by Svein Sjøberg

“…The PISA project has in the last decade steadily increased its influence on educational policies in participating countries. …”
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Can Top Down Participatory Budgeting Work? The Case of Polish Community Fund by Dawid Sześciło, Bartosz Wilk

“… The article addresses the participatory budgeting (PB), which is one of the most recognised governance innovations of recent decades. This global phenomenon represents in practice a shift towards participatory and collaborative management of public resources at the local level. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Patterns and Controls of Evapotranspiration across the Tibetan Plateau (2000–2012) by Hao Zhang, Jian Sun, Junnan Xiong

“…The results indicated that a steady trend in ET was detected over the past decade. Meanwhile, the spatial distribution shows an increase of ET from the northwest to the southeast, and the rate of change in ET is lower in the middle part of the Tibetan Plateau. …”
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Erythema Nodosum and Pyoderma Gangrenosum in 50 Patients with Crohn’s Disease by Hugh J Freeman

“…In the present evaluation of consecutive patients with Crohn's disease spanning more than two decades, erythema nodosum was seen in 45 patients and pyoderma gangrenosum was seen in seven patients. …”
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PSO with Mixed Strategy for Global Optimization by Jinwei Pang, Xiaohui Li, Shuang Han

“…PSO has a fast convergence speed and does not require the optimization function to be differentiable and continuous. In recent two decades, a lot of researches have been working on improving the performance of PSO, and numerous PSO variants have been presented. …”
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