Outcomes of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery from private and public healthcare services in AustraliaKey points by Thomas J. West, Andrea M. Bruder, Kay M. Crossley, Michael A. Girdwood, Laura K. To, Jamon L. Couch, Mark J. Scholes, Sebastian C.S. Evans, Melissa J. Haberfield, Christian J. Barton, Ewa M. Roos, Alysha De Livera, Adam G. Culvenor

“…One hundred and thirty-nine (44 ​%) underwent ACLR using private healthcare. Individuals using private healthcare for ACLR reported better post-ACLR knee-related QoL (mean difference 5.1; 95%CI 0.6 to 9.7) than individuals using public healthcare, when adjusted for available confounders. …”
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Long-term exposure to air pollution and lower respiratory infections in a large population-based adult cohort in Catalonia by Anna Alari, Otavio Ranzani, Carles Milà, Sergio Olmos, Xavier Basagaña, Payam Dadvand, Talita Duarte-Salles, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Cathryn Tonne

“…Air pollution exposure was assigned to individuaĺs residential address using locally-developed models. …”
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Optimizing Hepatitis C Therapy in HIV/hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Coinfected Patients: Analysis of HCV Viral Kinetics on Treatment by Paul Damien James, David KH Wong

“…A single-centre experience treating individuals with HCV and HIV coinfection is reported.…”
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Surgical Versus Nonsurgical Interventions to Relieve upper Airway Obstruction in Children with Pierre Robin Sequence by Karen Kam, Meghan McKay, Joanna MacLean, Manisha B Witmans, Sheldon Spier, Ian Mitchell

“…The heterogeneity of the severity of upper airway obstruction makes management a challenge; the optimal intervention in individual cases is not clear.…”
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Drugs Used in Oncology Department at a Tertiary Care Hospital in India by Arvind Kumar, Ranjeet Kumar, Vikas Saxena

“…The cost-effectiveness of cancer treatment must be evaluated individually, taking into account the patient’s health, choices, and overall prognosis.…”
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Stabilization Analysis for the Switched Large-Scale Discrete-Time Systems via the State-Driven Switching by Chi-Jo Wang, Juing-Shian Chiou

“…This particular method especially can be applied to cases when all individual subsystems are unstable.…”
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The trend of Epstein-Barr virus DNA loads and CD8+ T lymphocyte numbers can predict the prognosis of pediatric liver transplant recipients with PTLD by Wang Kedi, Xu Dongjiang, Gao Yan, Ma Kaihui, Zhao Wen

“…Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can cause lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) in immunodeficiency individuals. The pathogenesis of EBV infection depends on its effective recognition and elimination. …”
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COMPETE BY «HIRCH’S»? by Dmitry A. Novikov

“…The paper analyzes in a polemical form the typical aberrations and myths (common as for officials from science governance, and, often, for the scientists) about the possibility and expediency of using formal bibliometric indicators to assess the working efficiency of individual and collective research activities.…”
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Perceptions of Emerging Adults With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus on How the Condition Influences Sleep Quality: A Qualitative Study by María-Ángeles Núñez-Baila, Anjhara Gómez-Aragón, José Rafael González-López

“…Nonetheless, promoting healthy sleep and systematically assessing sleep quality can benefit both sleep and glycemic outcomes, regardless of individual perceptions.…”
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Lipids as key biomarkers in unravelling the pathophysiology of obesity-related metabolic dysregulation by Anis Adibah Osman, Siok-Fong Chin, Lay-Kek Teh, Noraidatulakma Abdullah, Nor Azian Abdul Murad, Rahman Jamal

“…Methods: A total of 160 serum samples (Discovery, n = 60 and Validation, n = 100) of obese and lean individuals with stable Body Mass Index (BMI) values were retrieved from The Malaysian Cohort biobank. …”
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Bridge Employment Model of Qualified Employees in Iran's Public Organizations by Seyedeh Sanaz Sadafi Mousavi, Mir ali Syed nagavi, Seyed Mehdi Alvani, Alireza Koushki Jahromi

“…In this way, the factors; environmental, social, individual, psychological and governmental as causal conditions; The legal requirements of the value system governing Paul's employment as background factors; Organizational and situational factors were identified as intervening factors, government action, organization action and human resource management department action as strategy, organizational-knowledge, infrastructural-cost, individual-motivational factors were identified as the consequences of Paul's employment. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…It is now possible to study the profound processes of the second demographic transition using individual level data with a proper size population. …”
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Extending the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) for longitudinal historical databases to include geographic data by Finn Hedefalk, Lars Harrie, Patrick Svensson

“…The geographic data that will be stored in IDS-Geo are primarily buildings and/or property units, and the purpose of these geographic data is mainly to link individuals to places in space. When we want to assign such detailed spatial locations to individuals (in times before there were any detailed house addresses available), we often have to create tailored geographic datasets. …”
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Homeless Aging Veterans in Transition: A Life-Span Perspective by Carla J. Thompson, Nancy L. Bridier

“…Study participants completed a quantitative survey reflecting their preferences and needs with a subset of the sample (N=12) also participating in individual qualitative interview sessions. Thirty-two service providers and stakeholders completed quantitative surveys. …”
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Seasonality and the effectiveness of mass vaccination by Dennis L. Chao, Dobromir T. Dimitrov

“…., school calendars or seasonal migration).If a pathogen is only transmissible for a limited period of time each year,then seasonal outbreaks could infect fewer individuals than expected given the pathogen's in-season transmissibility.Influenza, with its short serial interval and long season,probably spreads throughout a population until a substantial fraction of susceptible individuals are infected.Dengue, with a long serial interval and shorter season,may be constrained by its short transmission season rather than the depletion of susceptibles.Using mathematical modeling, we show that mass vaccination is most efficient,in terms of infections prevented per vaccine administered,at high levels of coverage for pathogens that have relatively long epidemicseasons, like influenza, and at low levels of coverage for pathogens with short epidemic seasons, like dengue.Therefore, the length of a pathogen's epidemic season may need to beconsidered when evaluating the costs and benefits of vaccination programs.…”
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CIRCULAR ECONOMY FROM PERSPECTIVE OF WASTE MANAGEMENT TRENDS IN EU by Slavka Šagátová, Denisa Gajdová

“…The research involved gathering data on the volume of waste produced by type and economic sector, GDP, and material consumption in individual EU member states over a nine-year period. …”

Por que você não coleciona selos como todo mundo? Velhice e objetos de coleção na trajetória de Urbano, O Aposentado by Leila Beatriz Ribeiro

“…This impression is reinforced by the "company of the things that become old together with us", according to Bosi (2009, p. 441), since the collection has the power to represent the individual, making the object to be perpetuated as a link between the individual and the world around him. …”
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The Impact of Suicide Attacks on Voting Behavior: The Case of November 2015 Early Elections by Ceren Yegen

“…As the conclusion of the study,the individuals were observed to be aware of the fact that the real purpose of terrorism was to scare and harm. …”
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Negative social experiences and self-esteem in people with schizophrenia by Dewi Eka Putri, Windy Freska

“…Schizophrenia, a chronic mental health condition, is often compounded by social stigma and discrimination, which can significantly affect the well-being of individuals diagnosed with the disorder. This study explores the impact of negative social experiences and responses to discrimination on the self-esteem of individuals with schizophrenia, a population often affected by social stigma that harms their psychological well-being. …”
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Os discursos protetivos e punitivos acerca dos adolescentes em medida de internação no Brasil by Denise Maria Leal, João Paulo Macedo

“…En la perspectiva del análisis del discurso, se aprehendió, con base en los resultados, que los sentidos de protección integral adquieren carácter de castigo, por la comprensión del acto infractor de la óptica individual, naturalizando los procesos de violencia y culpabilizando a la familia. …”
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