Low Infection Rate after Tumor Hip Arthroplasty for Metastatic Bone Disease in a Cohort Treated with Extended Antibiotic Prophylaxis by Werner H. Hettwer, Peter Frederik Horstmann, Thea Bechmann Hovgaard, Tomas Andreas Grum-Scwensen, Michael M. Petersen

“…The overall infection rate was 3.6% (4/111 implants), infection free survival was 96% at 2 years, and the risk of amputation associated with infection was 25% (1/4 patients). …”
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Green packaging system based on hybrid zein/inulin nanofibers activated with copper oxide nanoparticles and Foeniculum vulgare essential oil for preservation of fresh beef by Sara Gholizadeh, Ali Ehsani, Sajed Amjadi, Hossein Ahangari, Vahid Panahiazar

“…The optimum NFs sample exhibited an average fiber diameter of 589 ± 113 nm with a uniform and bead-free morphology. The incorporation of CuONPs and FEO did not significantly impact the thermal properties of the NFs. …”
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Gastrojejunal Anastomosis Perforation after Gastric Bypass on a Patient with Underlying Pancreatic Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Omar Bellorin, Anna Kundel, Alexander Ramirez-Valderrama, Armando Castro

“…Computerized axial tomography scan shows large amount of intraperitoneal free air. The gastric remnant is markedly distended and a large pancreatic head mass is seen. …”
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Legal deposit in Lithuania in 1945 - 1992 by Ringailė Bagušytė

“… The article describes in detail the development of legal deposit in Lithuania from 1945 to 1992, with a major focus on the documents regulating legal deposit and the control methods applied to the delivery of these documents. A free obligatory copy, which was intended to fulfill the following major functions: archival, bibliographic, and statistical, and from 1945 to 1949 also librarian functions, was designated to the Bibliographic Centre - Books Palace from the very first day of its establishment, i.e., March 29, 1945. …”
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Selecting a method for reducing friction in rotary refrigeration compressors developed for import substitution by N. A. Kudla, A. V. Burakov

“…Based on already known results, a technical solution based on the wear-free effect has been proposed to reduce friction of a refrigeration compressor with a rolling rotor.…”
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Erythrocyte modified controlling nutritional status as a biomarker for predicting poor prognosis in post-surgery breast cancer patients by Jingjing Hu, Jiaming Dong, Xiang Yang, Zhiyi Ye, Guoming Hu

“…However, current nutritional and inflammatory measures predict disease free survival (DFS) of breast cancer are still different, and the most predictive measures remain unknown. …”
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Vector Control of Doubly Fed Induction Generator Based on Sliding Mode Variable Structure by Yaoming ZHU, Lanhong ZHANG, Lulu CHEN

“…[Result] Simulations show that the control process of the sliding mode controller based on an improved power function is almost free of overshooting under sudden wind speed changes. …”
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Hormonal Modulation in Aging Patients with Erectile Dysfunction and Metabolic Syndrome by Inês Campos Costa, Hugo Nogueira Carvalho, Luís Pacheco-Figueiredo, Inês Tomada, Nuno Tomada

“…Noticeable differences in total testosterone (TT) and free testosterone (FT) levels were found between patients with and without MetS. …”
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Survival and Prognostic Factors in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated by Percutaneous Ethanol Injection: A 10-Year Experience by Roberto Mazzanti, Umberto Arena, Pietro Pantaleo, Lorenzo Antonuzzo, Greta Cipriani, Bruno Neri, Clara Giordano, Fabio Lanini, Serena Marchetti, Paolo Gentilini

“…An alpha-fetoprotein below 20 ng/mL was associated with significantly longer disease-free survival (P=0.0009). The Child-Pugh and Cancer of the Liver Italian Program scores were effective in predicting prognosis of these patients. …”
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Numerical Investigation of the Internal Flow in a Banki Turbine by Jesús De Andrade, Christian Curiel, Frank Kenyery, Orlando Aguillón, Auristela Vásquez, Miguel Asuaje

“…Simulations were carried out using a water-air free surface model and k-ε turbulence model. The objectives of this study were to analyze the velocity and pressure fields of the cross-flow within the runner and to characterize its performance for different runner speeds. …”
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First-Principles Calculation of Conductivity of Ce-C Codoped SnO2 Contacts by Can Ding, Zhenjiang Gao, Xing Hu, Zhao Yuan

“…From the charge density and population analysis, the number of free electrons of Ce atoms and C atoms is redistributed after codoping. …”
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The Efficacy of Ramucirumab in the Treatment of Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs by Hongqiong Yang, Yaojun Zhou, Liangzhi Wang, Tianyi Gu, Mengjia Lv, Jinling Sun, Chao Tu, Junbo He

“…Outcomes were presented and analyzed according to the objective response rate (ORR), progression-free survival (PFS) rate, and overall survival (OS) rate. …”
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Effect of perampanel in reducing depression in patients with focal epilepsy by Min Ming, Long Chen, Jian Huang, Ying Huang, Jiali Yin

“…In addition, seizure control was improved significantly at 12 months: 32.1 % of patients were seizure-free, and 73.2 % were responsive. Moreover, there was statistical relationship between improvement in depression and seizure control. …”
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NEMS generated electromechanical frequency combs by Sasan Rahmanian, Hamza Mouharrar, Rana Abdelrahman, Masoud Akbari, Yasser S. Shama, Kevin Musselman, David Muñoz-Rojas, Skandar Basrour, Eihab Abdel Rahman

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the NEMS displacement exhibit more than 150 equidistant peaks in the case of a 2:1 modal interaction and more than 60 equidistant peaks in the case of a 1:1 modal interaction. In both cases, the Free Spectral Range (FSR) was equal to the mechanical resonance frequency. …”
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Elevated Serum IL-17 Expression at Cessation Associated with Graves’ Disease Relapse by Jianhui Li, Xiaohua Sun, Danzhen Yao, Jinying Xia

“…The association between serum IL-17 expression at cessation and GD relapse was analyzed with relapse-free survival (RFS) by the Kaplan–Meier survival analysis and log-rank test. …”
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Astrophysical insights into magnetic Penrose process around parameterized Konoplya–Rezzolla–Zhidenko black hole by Tursunali Xamidov, Sanjar Shaymatov, Pankaj Sheoran, Bobomurat Ahmedov

“…Additionally, we explore the astrophysical implications of the MPP by deriving the maximum energy of a proton escaping from the KRZ parameterized BH due to the beta decay of a free neutron near the horizon. Our results show that negative $$\delta _2$$ δ 2 values require stronger magnetic fields to achieve equivalent energy levels for high-energy protons, providing deeper insights into high-energy astrophysical phenomena around the parameterized BH.…”
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Contract for Public Procurement in Terms of Private Law by O. L. Zaitsev, S. V. Yasechko

“…Based on the analysis of tender, civil and commercial legislation, the authors have carried out a critical analysis of the contract for procurement in terms of understanding and essential terms of the general civil contract, namely: violation of the concept of free agreement between the parties, non-compliance with equality of the rights, unreasonable narrowing of the contract for procurement up to the provision of services, performance of works or acquisition of ownership for goods, which contradicts the draft contract included in the tender documentation, the impossibility of reducing the contract price in the direction of reduction as agreed by the parties, the lack of electronic form of the contract for procurement provided by the tender legislation.…”
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Impact of Anterior Commissure Involvement and Frozen Guided Resections on Oncological Outcomes after Laser Cordectomy in Early Glottic Cancers – A 10-year Retrospective Analysis fr... by Elizabeth Mathew Iype, Ankit Vishwani, Bipin T Varghese, Shaji Thomas, Sahya S Lal

“…Among the study population, the laryngeal preservation rate was 96.6%, the cause-specific survival rate was 100%, and the overall survival rate was 97.7%. The 3-year disease-free survival rate was 84.4%. ACI and frozen margin positivity were statistically significant poor prognostic factors. …”
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Protective effects of Pyrogallol and Caffeic acid against Fe2+ -Ascorbate-induced oxidative stress in the wistar rats liver: An in vitro study by Seifollah Bahramikia, Nasrin Shirzadi, Vali Akbari

“…Furthermore, the IC50 values for DPPH free radicals for pyrogallol and caffeic acid were determined to be 76.26 μg/mL and 106.31 μg/mL, respectively. …”
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How Slight Solidification Rate Variations within Cast Plate Affect Mechanical Response: A Study on As-Cast A356 Alloy with Cu Additions by Maria Teresa Di Giovanni, Emanuela Cerri, Takeshi Saito, Shahid Akhtar, Petter Åsholt, Yanjun Li, Marisa Di Sabatino

“…Eutectic Si particle surface area (A%) was found to be denser at the B as compared to the T and simultaneously in the Cu-containing alloy as compared to the Cu-free reference alloy. Backscattered electron (BSE) images were employed to investigate the nature of the Cu-rich intermetallic phases. …”
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