Analysis of the attractiveness of the fortress landscape of Warsaw Fortress in the context of a contemporary city by Justyna Jastrzębska, Ewa Zaraś

“…The aim of this analysis is to understand the factors influencing the attractiveness of this landscape area in today’s times and the challenges facing its preservation and protection. Material and methods: The article presents the results of a study conducted based on analysis and consultations with residents. …”
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Posterior vertebrodesis and Ponte osteotomies in surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis type Lenke 1-4 by Adelin Ivanov

“…Patients with both hyperkyphosis reported in the T5-T12 segment and marked hypokyphosis in the same area of the thoracic zone were also included in the study. Material and methods The study encompasses 38 patients (men 11, women 27) with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis type Lenke 1-4 and has been conducted in the period 2010-2018 The patients, included in the study, were of the age between 10 and 18 years, average age: 14.2±0.5. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with xerostomia in patients hospitalized due AIDS-related complications by Jhonatan Yukio Naka, Adryano Arana Kamei, Vanessa C. Klamas, Mateus A. Ventura, Marcelo Morato, Rafael Z. Mobile, Antonio A. S. D. Lima

“…The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with the presence of hypo-salivation and xerostomia complaint in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related complications. Material and methods One hundred and two adult subjects were divided into two groups (51 HIV-infected patients and 51 controls). …”
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A Calibration Approach for Elasticity Estimation with Medical Tools by Grube S., Neidhardt M., Hermann A.-K., Sprenger J., Abdolazizi K., Latus S., Cyron C. J., Schlaefer A.

“…Second, we propose to use a more complex material model, e.g., a neural network, that can be trained with the determined elasticities. …”
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Colonic growth factors (G-CSF, GM-CSF) and chemokines (MCP-1, MIP-1β) in severe ulcerative colitis by Yevgeny A. Konovich, K. Ye. Shirokikh, M. V. Shapina, Igor L. Khalif

“…To determine the content of growth factors (G-CSF, GM-CSF) and chemokines (MCP-1, MIP-1β) in resected colon specimens of patients with severe ulcerative colitis (UC). Material and methods. Overall 48 biopsy specimens of the colonic mucosa resected at 7 patients with total UC were investigated. …”
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Principled neuromorphic reservoir computing by Denis Kleyko, Christopher J. Kymn, Anthony Thomas, Bruno A. Olshausen, Friedrich T. Sommer, E. Paxon Frady

“…Here we propose a configurable neuromorphic representation scheme that provides competitive performance on prediction, but with significantly better scaling properties than directly materializing higher-order features as in prior work. …”
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Conocimiento y actitud ante el tamizaje neonatal en madres de recién nacidos by Juana Condori Barreto, Melany Jacobo Iturriaga, Ruth Miriam Achata Tacora

“… Objetivo: Determinar el nivel de conocimiento relacionado con la actitud de las madres frente al tamizaje neonatal en el Hospital Hipólito Unanue de Tacna, 2020. Material y métodos: Estudio de tipo descriptivo correlacional, con enfoque cuantitativo. …”
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A Time(s), space(s) and communication in Castells’s ‘Network Society’* by Bert Olivier

“…In this context, he distinguishes between ‘the space of places’ and ‘the space of flows’, with the former referring to the historically familiar sense of space as a material precondition of social interaction and of architectural modulation into ‘place’, and the latter to a novel form of spatiality, one that is related to social interaction that has been fundamentally modified by advanced communication technologies and is characterised by simultaneity, regardless of physical distance. …”
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Viability and Alkaline Phosphatase Activity of Human Dental Pulp Cells after Exposure to Yellowfin Tuna Bone-Derived Hydroxyapatite In Vitro by Tetiana Haniastuti, Heni Susilowati, Margareta Rinastiti

“…Due to its mineral content and similarity in chemical composition with human hard tissue, HA may have potency as a pulp capping material. The aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate the viability and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity of dental pulp cells after exposure to HA synthesized from yellowfin tuna bone (THA). …”
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Clinical, Histological, and Radiological Outcomes of Sinus Floor Elevation Using a New Approach before Extraction of Periodontally Hopeless Maxillary Molars: A Case Report with 3-y... by Zhaoguo Yue, Qi Liu, Haidong Zhang, Jingwen Yang, Lili Miao, Jianxia Hou

“…After a series of initial and supportive periodontal therapies, the lateral window was created at the apices of the hopeless teeth, followed by grafting of bone substitute and membrane material at the sinus floor. The tooth was preserved for 13 months prior to extraction followed by immediate implant placement. …”
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Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis of RC Deep Beams considering Linear/Nonlinear Creep and Shrinkage Using ANFIS Network and MCS by Seyed Bahram Beheshti Aval, Mohsen Ghabdian

“…A viscoelastic approach was adopted to model linear creep and shrinkage by a user-defined material model developed and implemented in user subroutines UMAT and UEXPAN. …”
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Immunomodulatory Functions of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Tissue Engineering by Haojiang Li, Shi Shen, Haitao Fu, Zhenyong Wang, Xu Li, Xiang Sui, Mei Yuan, Shuyun Liu, Guiqin Wang, Quanyi Guo

“…The effect of tissue engineering techniques on stem cell immune regulation is related to the shape and structure of the scaffold, the preinflammatory microenvironment constructed by the implanted scaffold, and the material selection of the scaffold. In the application of scaffold, stem cell technology has important applications in cartilage, bone, heart, and liver and other research fields. …”
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Clima de seguridad del paciente en un hospital público de Imbabura, Ecuador by Joselyn Mera Chávez, Viviana Margarita Espinel Jara, María Ximena Tapia Paguay, Amparo Paola Tito Pineda, Eva Consuelo López Aguilar

“… Objetivo: Describir el clima de seguridad del paciente en un hospital del cantón Ibarra en Ecuador. Material y métodos: Esta investigación es de corte transversal, no experimental, cuantitativa descriptiva. …”
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Perfectionism as an expected job seekers’ social quality in online recruitment by Yu. A. Filyasova

“…Job offers were searched on hh.ru with the help of the keyword ‘perfectionism’ and served as material for the research.   The main areas of professional activity appeared to be information technologies, marketing and management in thoseт areas.   …”
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Demand for Endodontic Treatment and its Impact on Quality of Life by Bruna Scarlot Avancini, Lorrayne Cesario Maria, Wellen Gobi Botacin, Pamela Barbosa dos Santos, Maria Helena Monteiro de Barros Miotto

“… Objective: To analyze the impact on quality of life-related to the need for endodontic treatment and possible association with sociodemographic variables. Material and Methods: It was carried out through the application of a sociodemographic script and the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14). …”
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Encyclical Laudato si’ on the Question of Progress by Witold Kania

“…The latter are expressed in terms that have a fundamental significance to the encyclical, such as, “irrational faith in progress” and “the myth of unlimited material progress”. In order to gain a clearer understanding of those terms, the author begins with outlining the history of the idea of progress and the philosophical criterion for its assessment. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Efficacy of Herbal and Chlorhexidine Mouthwash on Gingival Health by Vaishnavi Senkalvarayan, Priya Kesavan, Jayachandran Dorairaj, R Madhumala, Saranyan Ravi, Ann Theresa Tomy

“…Nowadays, herbal extracts from plants have been widely used as they possess anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and analgesic actions. Material and Methods: A group of 45 healthy subjects in the age group of 19–35 years were selected and randomly divided into three groups, Group A - Himalaya complete care mouthwash, Group B - CHX mouthwash, Group C - Distilled water as a control group. …”
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Implementation of differentiated learning with problem-based learning model assisted by ‘Mebel InterTika’ by Retno Yuniarti, Nur Izzati, Roma Doni Azmi

“…This study aims to analyze the differences in learning outcomes of students who learn by implementing differentiated learning strategies with the Problem-Based Learning model assisted by MeBel InterTika with students who learn by implementing the Problem-Based Learning model in class VIII statistics material. This research uses a quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental research type. …”
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Simultaneous Cranioplasty and Subdural-Peritoneal Shunting for Contralateral Symptomatic Subdural Hygroma following Decompressive Craniectomy by Muh-Shi Lin, Tzu-Hsuan Chen, Woon-Man Kung, Shuo-Tsung Chen

“…Contralateral subdural hygroma caused by decompressive craniectomy tends to combine with external cerebral herniation, causing neurological deficits. Material and Methods. Nine patients who underwent one-stage, simultaneous cranioplasty and contralateral subdural-peritoneal shunting were included in this study. …”
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Effect of climate on thermal response in cows of different racial groups in lower tropic by Raúl Andrés Molina-Benavides, Sandra Milena Perilla-Duque, Rómulo Campos-Gaona, Hugo Sánchez-Guerrero, Juan Camilo Rivera-Palacio, Luis Armando Muñoz-Borja, Daniel Ricardo Jiménez-Rodas

“…The main idea of this study was to quantify the relationship between climatic variables and tympanic body temperature recorded through the use of wireless sensors in grazing cows located in low tropic. Material and methods. The tympanic temperature of twenty-eight cross breed grazing cows in early lactation was monitored. …”
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