Preoperative ANemiA among elderly undergoing Major Abdominal surgery (PANAMA) is associated with early postoperative morbidity and worse quality of life outcomes by Hairil Rizal Abdullah, Celestine Jia Ling Loh, Eunice Jie Yi Kok, Brenda Pei Yi Tan, Hanis Abdul Kadir, Phui-Sze Au-Yong

“…QoL outcomes were assessed using the EuroQol 5-Dimension 3-Level (EQ-5D-3L) and the EuroQol-Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-VAS). …”
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The Effects of Different Phase on Independent Visual Fields SSVEP Responses by Dalu Zheng, Songyun Xie, Xinzhou Xie, Michael Scholz, Hao Tang

“…Utilizing the phase of the stimulus in addition to its frequency creates a new dimension and thus helps significantly to overcome frequency limitations in SSVEP research which otherwise dramatically hinder the read-out due to the prominent lowpass nature of the human head.…”
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Design and Validation of the Flipped‐Learning Assessment Scale for Undergraduate Nursing Education by Fernando Urcola‐Pardo, Ana Belen Subiron‐Valera, Isabel Anton‐Solanas, Aintzane Orkaizagirre‐Gomara, Dolores Torres‐Enamorado, Juan Diego Gonzalez‐Sanz

“…Cronbach alpha for each separate dimension ranged between 0.660 and 0.897. Goodness‐of‐fit values were acceptable, implying that the model was validated. …”
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Institucionalización del género y espacios de participación: una aproximación a los Foros Federales Participativos by Rocío Soledad García

“…El trabajo propone, en primera instancia, problematizar la noción de institucionalización a partir de pensar su dimensión simbólica (Cortés, 2008) como una forma de complejizar los abordajes de estos procesos. …”
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Recognition of Health Care Provider's Patient Safety Culture in Kurdistan/Iraq by Ismail Ahmed Ali, Shewaz Abdalrahman Hussein, Shelan Omar Ali, Fuaad Azad Muhamad

“…Approximately 60% of HCP was perceived patient safety culture practice negatively. However, only two dimensions from 11 had reached positive response rate by respondents which include teamwork within Units (76.2%) and organizational learning (79%) dimensions, while the lowest dimension’s positivity include the frequency of reporting errors (4.6%). …”
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Diez sugerencias para repensar, críticamente, la Unión Europea by Carlos Taibo

“…La Europa de las alianzas económicas vinculadas al neoliberalismo más ultramontano, en la que la dimensión político-democrática ha tenido un relieve secundario; y también la Europa de las jerarquías, con los Estados Unidos ocupando un papel prominente; 3) El mito de la Europa del estado del bienestar, del capitalismo bueno, frente al capitalismo feroz de los Estados Unidos; 4) La Europa de los derechos y libertades en franco reculaje, especialmente tras los atentados del 11-S; la Europa de la demonización y represión de los movimientos antiglobalización capitalista; y la Europa de las normas duras frente a los inmigrantes pobres; 5) La Europa de Blair, Chirac, Schröeder, Berlusconi o Aznar, sin compromiso con la causa de la justicia, la solidaridad y la paz; 6) La Europa carente de un proyecto estratégico y con notables divisiones internas; 7) La Europa que mantiene una relación incierta con los Estados Unidos; la Europa de las colisiones dólar/euro, que pueden terminar provocando una dinámica de irrefrenable confrontación; 8) La Europa de las diferentes velocidades, en la que los recién llegados están obligados a instalarse en una periferia poco cómoda, y quienes se quedan al margen entran en proceso de tercermundización; 9) La Europa de una constitución sin pueblo, nación o Estado, con problemas preocupantes para la izquierda que resiste: déficit democrático, fragilidad de derechos sociales, estatalización de esquemas, política exterior en la que llueve sobre mojado; y 10) El concepto de Europa como construcción mental imaginada, frente al mito de Europa como realidad natural, sin posibilidad de contestación.…”
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Performance and gut microbiota of catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fed powdered Moringa oleifera leave as additive (Probiotics) by Jerimoth Kesena Ekelemu, Arnold Ebuka Irabor, Ruth Elohor Anderson

“…Initial mean weight (g) and length (cm) of sample fish were measured and randomly distributed in triplicates of 15 fish/tank into twelve concrete tanks of dimension 4 × 4 × 3 feet (T1A-C – T4A-C). Four treatment diets were formulated, by adding graded levels of powdered M. oleifera leaf to the fish feed, using starch as binder. …”
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The Health‐Related Quality of Life for Cemented Versus Uncemented Hemiarthroplasty in Elderly Patients With Femoral Neck Fractures: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Randomi... by Mohanad Samaheen, Maen Mohammad, Mikhail Salzmann, Nikolai Ramadanov

“…The primary outcome of interest was HRQoL as measured by the European Quality of Life 5‐Dimension Questionnaire (EQ‐5D) score. Secondary outcomes included mortality, surgical, general, and local complications. …”
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Is the Rate of Early mobilization in Hip fracture patients using Alfentanil Better than standard opioid analgesia (REHAB)? A protocol for a prospective cohort study by Nikhil Agarwal, Alasdair M. J. MacLullich, Nick D. Clement

“…Results: Visual analogue scale pain scores, mobility status, and total analgesia use will be assessed on POD 1 and POD 2. EuroQol five-dimension health questionnaire scores, complication rates, and mortality rates will be assessed up to 30 days following surgery (POD 1, 2, 7, and 30). …”
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Mechanical Mechanism of Water Injection to Enhance the Stability of Soft Coal by Chuanqi Zhu, Hao Fan, Wanrong Liu, Shaobo Li

“…The percentage of particle coal with particle size less than 2.5 mm accounts for 47.157%, fractal dimension is 2.172, and uniaxial compressive strength and tensile strength are 3.822 MPa and 0.165 MPa, respectively. (2) The coal body is dry (the original moisture content is 1.336%), containing a large number of loose particles, pores, fissures, and other microfabrics. …”
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Estimation of D-dimer, C-reactive protein and ferritin in Covid-19 survivors in a North Indian Hospital, Lucknow, India. by Chetna Singla, Dhananjay Tiwari, Himali Jha, Mohammad Mustufa Khan, Sadaf Parveen, Roshan Alam

“…The D-dimer and Ferritin were determined by using Mini Vidas Immuno assay analyser and CRP was estimated Dimension RXL Siemens autoanalyzer by Particle Enhanced Turbidimetric Immunoassay. …”
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The root canal morphology of mandibular anterior teeth and its correlation with the occurrence of three-rooted mandibular first molars by ZHU Peng, GU Yongchun, WU Yihan, XU Xiaoming

“…The root canal morphology of the mandibular anterior teeth was identified and classified by Vertucci’s classification, and the root length and labio-lingual dimension at the tooth neck level were measured. The occurrence of three-rooted mandibular first molars was examined as well. …”
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The Americanization of Arnold Schoenberg?. Theory, Analysis, and Reception by John Covach

“…The American reception of Schoenberg’s theoretical ideas has tended to focus on the music-technical dimension of his theoretical texts and has, to a significant extent, ignored the more philosophical and aesthetic aspects of his thought. …”
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Assessment of Groundwater Potential Zones of Upper Blue Nile River Basin Using Multi-Influencing Factors under GIS and RS Environment: A Case Study on Guder Watersheds, Abay Basin,... by Timketa Adula Duguma, Gemechis Adula Duguma

“…The study is certain with a sensible dimension of consistency in pairwise comparison between influencing and the overall weightage. …”
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Rock fracture mode and acoustic emission characteristics under true triaxial single-sided unloading path by Longpei Ma, Longpei Ma, Chongyan Liu, Guangming Zhao, Guangming Zhao

“…The findings indicate that as the peak strength of the rock decreases, the fractal dimension of the ultimately broken fragments becomes larger, and the cracks within the failure zone develop more comprehensively. …”
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Learning Air Traffic as Images: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Airspace Operation Complexity Evaluation by Hua Xie, Minghua Zhang, Jiaming Ge, Xinfang Dong, Haiyan Chen

“…A MTSI is generated by splitting the airspace into a two-dimension grid map and filled with navigation information. …”
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Estudio de percepción del clima organizacional de las empresas tecnificadas de ganadería de leche de la provincia del Tundama, Boyacá (Colombia) by D. C. Beltrán, G. Téllez

“…Se realizó Clústerización de las fincas por cada dimensión del clima organizacional; se generaron dos clúster, esperando que uno de ellos agrupe a las fincas que tienen el comportamiento más cercano al ideal y el otro, el más lejano. …”
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Segmentation of tobacco shred point cloud and 3-D measurement based on improved PointNet++ network with DTC algorithm by Yihang Wang, Haiwei Zheng, Jie Yang, Yan Wang, Li Wang, Qunfeng Niu, Qunfeng Niu

“…This study therefore focuses on the identification of the tobacco shred and measuring it in three dimensions.MethodsThe point cloud data of the upper and lower surfaces of tobacco shred are segmented using the improved three-dimensional point cloud segmentation model based on the PointNet++ network. …”
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Eficacia de un programa grupal, online sincrónico de salud y bienestar para personas que trabajan con jóvenes y adultos con discapacidad intelectual by Flavia Arrigoni, Mara Abraham, Ivana Polo

“…Se observaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en las puntuaciones pre pos test del malestar psicológico y de la dimensión agotamiento emocional del MBI. Conclusión. …”
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A multidimensional Bayesian IRT method for discovering misconceptions from concept test data by Martin Segado, Aaron Adair, John Stewart, Yunfei Ma, Byron Drury, David Pritchard

“…In addition to a broad first dimension strongly correlated with overall test score, we discover thirteen additional dimensions which load on smaller sets of distractors; we discuss two as examples, showing that these are consistent with already-known misconceptions in Newtonian mechanics. …”
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