Clinical Arterial Peripheral Vascular Pathology Does Not Impact Short- or Long-Term Survival after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Brent Klinkhammer

“…Conclusion. This study gives evidence to suggest that patients with a comorbid clinical peripheral arterial pathology at the time of TAVR do not have a statistically significant increase in mortality out to 2 years after TAVR and no increase in procedural complications. …”
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Altered Effective Connectivity of the Primary Motor Cortex in Transient Ischemic Attack by Zeqi Hao, Yulin Song, Yuyu Shi, Hongyu Xi, Hongqiang Zhang, Mengqi Zhao, Jiahao Yu, Lina Huang, Huayun Li

“…This study provides important evidence for the alteration of motor-related effective connectivity in TIA, which reflects the abnormal information flow between different brain regions. …”
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The Role of Knowledge Management and Dynamic Capabilities on Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Indonesian Private Higher Education by Elistia Elistia, Dedi Purwana, Karuniana Dianta Sebayang, Mohammad Sofwan Effendi, Corry Yohana

“…The study contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the interplay between knowledge management, dynamic capabilities, and sustainable competitive advantage in the context of PHEIs in Indonesia. …”
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Special Problems Associated with Surgical Trials in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Robin S McLeod

“…Unfortunately, it appears that surgeons in general are more accepting of evidence from case series. However, it also appears that there are certain issues that are unique to, or at least occur more frequently in, clinical trials assessing surgical interventions. …”
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Walking the line of the double bind: A cross-country comparison on women and men politicians’ self-presentations on social media by Magin Melanie, Haßler Jörg, Larsson Anders Olof, Skogerbø Eli

“…In contrast to earlier research on gendered presentations of politicians in the news, we did not find strong evidence of gendered self-presentations in either country, neither in terms of personalisation nor in terms of gender issue ownership. …”
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Mathematical modelling and forecasting of the Lithuanian export by Virmantas Kvedaras, Rimantas Rudzkis

“…Hence VAR is used, when there is no statistical co-integration evidence. In eleven of fourteen cases ECM proved to be appropriate for the Lithuanian export modelling. …”
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Nonsyndromic Generalized Radiculomegaly of Permanent Dentition: A Rare Case Report by Mohammed Alhussain, Naif Almosa, Hourya Alnofaie

“…History and physical examinations were negative for ocular or cardiac anomalies. Due to lack of evidence of physical signs and symptoms consistent with OFCD syndrome, genetic testing was not performed. …”
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D-stem mutation in an essential tRNA increases translation speed at the cost of fidelity. by Madison N Schrock, Krishna Parsawar, Kelly T Hughes, Fabienne F V Chevance

“…This work, taken in context with the Hirsh UGA nonsense suppressor G24A mutation in TrpT tRNA, provides genetic evidence that the post-GTP hydrolysis proofreading step by elongation factor Tu may be controlled by structural interactions in the hinge region of tRNA species. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Thermal and Antimicrobial Activities of Some Novel Organotin(IV): Purine Base Complexes by Reena Jain, Rajeev Singh, N. K. Kaushik

“…All the complexes exhibit remarkable activity, and the results provide evidence that the studied complexes might indeed be a potential source of antimicrobial agents.…”
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Do words compete as we speak? A systematic review of picture-word interference (PWI) studies investigating the nature of lexical selection by Korko Małgorzata, Bose Arpita, Jones Alexander, Coulson Mark, de Mornay Davies Paul

“…., distractor visibility) have produced contradictory findings. Evidence derived from other manipulations (e.g., visual similarity between targets and distractors) has been scarce. …”
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Obesity Hypertension: The Regulatory Role of Leptin by Shilpa Kshatriya, Kan Liu, Ali Salah, Tamas Szombathy, Ronald H. Freeman, Garry P. Reams, Robert M. Spear, Daniel Villarreal

“…In addition, increasing evidence suggests that leptin, through both direct and indirect mechanisms, may play an important role in cardiovascular and renal regulation. …”
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Early life gut microbiome and its impact on childhood health and chronic conditions by Harold Nunez, Pamela A. Nieto, Ruben A. Mars, Maryam Ghavami, Cheryl Sew Hoy, Kimberley Sukhum

“…This review summarizes evidence for these claims, highlighting compositional changes of the gut microbiome during this critical period of life as well as factors that affect gut microbiome development. …”
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Contribution of Cytogenetics to the Debate on the Paraphyly of Pachycondyla spp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae) by Cléa dos Santos Ferreira Mariano, Silvia das Graças Pompolo, Janisete Gomes Silva, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie

“…We present evidence of the paraphyly of the ant genus Pachycondyla resulting from our cytogenetic studies on 29 populations in 18 species from Brazil and French Guyana. …”
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Bayesian prediction of under-five mortality rates for Tanzania by Mohamed K. Mwanga, Silas S. Mirau, Jean M. Tchuenche, Isambi S. Mbalawata

“…Additional efforts by the government through evidence-based interventions should be undertaken to improve child survival by expanding access to health care, especially in rural areas, taking into account local context.…”
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Menggali hukum perkawinan yang melakukan kecurangan by Nusra Arini, Asmuni Asmuni, Nawir Yuslem

“…However, there are negative implications for the non-fulfillment of the wife's rights as a result of divorce, if the excerpt of a marriage certificate that has been decided by the District Court has no legal force/fake is used as evidence in a divorce case at the Religious Court. …”
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Mom Knows More than a Little Ghost: Children’s Attributions of Beliefs to God, the Living, and the Dead by Dawoon Jung, Euisun Kim, Sung-Ho Kim

“…The results showed (1) older children’s tendency to respond in a way that differentiated (the living) mom from the dead protagonist, (2) an increasing trend of differentiating God’s super-knowingness from ordinary minds with age, and (3) inconclusive evidence regarding children’s differential responses to the dead versus living protagonist. …”
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Association between the body roundness index and female infertility: a cross-sectional study from NHANES by Ming Liu, Yifang Zhang, Jian Liu

“…The body roundness index (BRI) is a more accurate assessment of visceral fat content than the body mass index (BMI). However, current evidence on the association between visceral fat accumulation and infertility remains insufficient and controversial. …”
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Treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Comorbid Alcohol Abuse with Buspirone in a Patient with Antidepressant-Induced Platelet Dysfunction: A Case Report by Mir Mazhar, Tariq Hassan, Tariq Munshi

“…The risk of abnormal bleeding with serotonin reuptake inhibitors has been known, but there is insufficient evidence base to guide pharmacological treatment of anxiety in patients with underlying haematological conditions. …”
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The South African Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines by J John, A Adam, L Kaestner, P Spies, S Mutambirwa, J Lazarus

“…With recent updates from several large randomised prospective trials, the South African Urological Association and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of South Africa have developed these evidence-based recommendations to guide clinicians on PCa screening and early diagnosis for South African men. …”
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Key Role of Human ABC Transporter ABCG2 in Photodynamic Therapy and Photodynamic Diagnosis by Toshihisa Ishikawa, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yuichiro Hagiya, Naosuke Nonoguchi, Shin-ichi Miyatake, Toshihiko Kuroiwa

“…Accumulating evidence indicates that ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter ABCG2 plays a key role in regulating the cellular accumulation of porphyrin derivatives in cancer cells and thereby affects the efficacy of photodynamic therapy and photodynamic diagnosis. …”
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