Comparison of robotic-assisted and laparoscopic partial nephrectomy based on the PADUA score and the predictive value of the PADUA score and the Mayo Adhesive Probability score for... by Shuo Liu, Bowen Zhang, Bowen Weng, Xiangqiang Liu, Sichuan Hou

“…Patients were categorized by PADUA score (low-, moderate-, high-complexity) and MAP score (low-, intermediate-, high-grade). …”
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Intravenous Oxycodone versus Intravenous Morphine in Cancer Pain: A Randomized, Open-Label, Parallel-Group, Active-Control Study by Kyung-Hee Lee, Jung-Hun Kang, Ho-Suk Oh, Moon-Ki Choi, Byoung-Yong Shim, Young-Jun Eum, Hye-Jeong Park, Jin-Hyong Kang

“…Sixty-six adults aged ≥19 years with moderate-to-severe cancer pain (Numeric Rating Scale [NRS] ≥ 4) were enrolled. …”
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Agreement Between Provider-Completed and Patient-Completed Preoperative Frailty Screening Using the Clinical Risk Analysis Index: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study by Mehraneh Khalighi, Amy C Thomas, Karl J Brown, Katherine C Ritchey

“…ConclusionsRAI-C had moderate agreement when completed by providers versus the participants themselves, with more than a third of patient-completed screens resulting in a higher frailty classification. …”
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Heterogeneous long-term changes in larch forest and shrubland cover in the Kolyma lowland are not captured by coarser-scale greening trends by Heather Kropp, Michael M Loranty, Howard Epstein, Gerald V Frost, Adam Koplik, Logan T Berner

“…Changes in shrub and tree cover can be difficult to characterize with limited in-situ observations and moderate/coarse resolution satellite imagery, thereby posing challenges in disentangling changes in vegetation growth from shifts in vegetation composition. …”
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Finite element stress analysis to evaluate and compare the effect of splinting in periodontally compromised teeth having 55 % bone loss with different materials by Shivangi Joshi, Prakash Talreja, Prajakta Rao, Nilesh Joshi, Vinayak Thorat, Ruhi Mohta

“…Composite and metal wire splints provided moderate stress reduction, with performance varying depending on the load angle. …”
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Employee Training and The Adoption of E-Government in Local Governments in Uganda: A Case Study of Jinja Local Government by Mugavu, George, Mbabazi, Phelix Businge, Baremwire, Mary Bekoreire, Mucunguzi, Abel

“…This correlation analysis depicted that there was a moderate positive statistically significant relationship between employee training and the adoption of E-government in Jinja local government. …”
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Laccase cataylzed synthesis of quaternary malononitriles with an aryl substituent by Parisa Amani, Mansour Shahedi, Elaheh Rezaei, Zohreh Habibi

“…The process achieves yields ranging from moderate to excellent (73–97 %), and also, it was associated with a slight decrease in efficiency in higher scales.…”
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Postictal Psychosis: Case Report and Literature Review by Joana Regala, João Lourenço, Francisco Moniz-Pereira, António Bento

“…Additionally, she had previous cognitive impairment and encephalomalacia in the right parietooccipital region as a sequela of a moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury known to precede the emergence of the epilepsy. …”
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MHD Flow with Hall Current and Ion-Slip Effects due to a Stretching Porous Disk by Faiza M. N. El-Fayez

“…The two-term expansions of the radial and azimuthal surface shear stress components, as well as the far field inflow speed, compare well with the corresponding finite difference solutions, even at moderate magnetic fields. The effect of mass transfer (suction or injection) through the disk is also considered.…”
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Prevalence of Opioid Dispensings and Concurrent Gastrointestinal Medications in Quebec by Rachel E Williams, Nevzeta Bosnic, Carolyn T Sweeney, Ashlee W Duncan, Kristen B Levine, Michael Brogan, Suzanne F Cook

“…BACKGROUND: Opioids are frequently prescribed for moderate to severe pain. A side effect of opioid usage is the inhibition of gastrointestinal (GI) motility, known as opioid-induced bowel dysfunction (OBD). …”
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South American Cucurbit Fruit Fly, Anastrepha grandis (Macquart) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems

“…Once a pest of minor to moderate importance generally, it has become a rather important pest. …”
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Synthesis and Antimicrobial Screening of Quinazolone Containing Novel Heterocyclic Schiff Base and Azetidinone by Niementowski Reaction by A. R. Desai, R. U. Roy, K. R. Desai

“…The compounds showed good to moderate antimicrobial activity and were characterized on the basis of spectral analysis.…”
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Ethylene Polymerization through Neutral Nickel Complexes Bearing Cyclic Imides by Hassan Arabi, Maryam Sadat Beheshti, Amin Manteghi

“…The generated polyethylenes possess moderate branching density and high melting temperatures. …”
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Electroweak W + W + production in association with three jets at NLO QCD matched with parton shower by Barbara Jäger, Santiago Lopez Portillo Chavez

“…We find QCD corrections and parton-shower effects moderate in size for inclusive quantities and distributions of the tagging jets. …”
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Pain Expression Recognition Based on pLSA Model by Shaoping Zhu

“…We present a new approach to automatically recognize the pain expression from video sequences, which categorize pain as 4 levels: “no pain,” “slight pain,” “moderate pain,” and “ severe pain.” First of all, facial velocity information, which is used to characterize pain, is determined using optical flow technique. …”
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« Me-too Republicans » et « Republicans In Name Only ». De l’utilisation du name-calling comme stratégie de maintien des frontières idéologiques du Parti républicain des années 194... by Sébastien Mort

“…In this article, I explore the ways in which moderate Republicans have been labeled by conservative hardliners within and outside the GOP since the 1940s, analyzing how the epithets “Me-too Republicans” and “Republicans in Name Only” (or “RINOs”) have been used to single them out as deviant from the conservative orthodoxy. …”
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Piracy around the Horn of Africa by Joshua Ho

“…In particular, there is a need to restore law and order in Somalia by supporting moderate leaders in their attempts to create a representative government.…”
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Field Identification of Citrus Blight by Stephen H. Futch, Kenneth S. Derrick, Ronald H. Brlansky

“…Blight is found in mostly tropical or semitropical regions with moderate to heavy rainfall but is not reported in more arid regions such as the Mediterranean Basin and California. …”
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Anesthesia Dolorosa of Trigeminal Nerve, a Rare Complication of Acoustic Neuroma Surgery by Foad Elahi, Kwo Wei David Ho

“…The patients’ pain was managed with multidisciplinary approaches with moderate success.…”
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Contra los «vicios y corruptelas» del foro tradicional, el funcionario militar by Alina Castellanos Rubio

“…The construction and consolidation of the Elizabethan State implied the development of a capitalized Administration, the first concretions of which were produced under the Moderate government of the 1840s and 1850s. However, they had to contend with the presence of an archetypal civil servant inherited from the Ancien Régime, the iudex perfectus or perfect judge of the traditional monarchy. …”
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