Hypnosis in the Perioperative Management of Breast Cancer Surgery: Clinical Benefits and Potential Implications by Arnaud Potié, Fabienne Roelants, Audrey Pospiech, Mona Momeni, Christine Watremez

“…Moreover, hypnosis is inexpensive, an important consideration given current financial concerns in healthcare. Of course, large randomized prospective studies are now needed to confirm the observed advantages of hypnosis in the field of oncology.…”
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Milling Dynamics and Propagation of Mechanically Activated Self-Sustaining Reactions by Alberto Cincotti, Gabriele Traversari, Giorgio Pia, Francesco Delogu

“…Reaction is ignited in an individual particle randomly selected among those compressed during an impact between ball and reactor. …”
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Optimizing cluster head selection in wireless sensor networks using firefly and genetics algorithm by Navid Moshtaghi Yazdani, Mohammad Hasan Olyaei Torqabeh

“…For this purpose, the evolutionary firefly algorithm and genetic algorithm that itself has been modeled after natural biological evolution modeling have been used, and instead of randomly choosing cluster heads, it works on the possible answers that have superior attributes and also have a higher survival rate. …”
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Physical Activity Targeted at Maximal Lipid Oxidation: A Meta-Analysis by A. J. Romain, M. Carayol, M. Desplan, C. Fedou, G. Ninot, J. Mercier, A. Avignon, J. F. Brun

“…Concerning weight loss, in the intervention versus control analysis, five studies with 185 participants were included with a significant effect size favors exercise (P=0.02) without significant heterogeneity (I2=0.0%, P=0.83). Further randomized controlled trials for comparing it with other exercise protocols and defining its dose effectiveness on large samples are needed.…”
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Effects of Glycerol and Sodium Pentaborate Formulation on Prevention of Postoperative Peritoneal Adhesion Formation by Erhan Aysan, Fikrettin Sahin, Ruzgar Catal, Mirkhaliq Javadov, Alev Cumbul

“…Female Wistar albino rats were randomly assigned into four equal groups. The adhesion model was created on the caecum anterior wall and covered with 2 ml 0.9% NaCl, 3% glycerol, 3% sodium pentaborate, and 3% glycerol plus 3% sodium pentaborate solutions in the groups, respectively. …”
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Modeling of Time of Arrival Method for Lightning Locating Systems by Saeed Vahabi-Mashak, Zulkurnain Abdul-Malek, Kamyar Mehranzamir, Hadi Nabipour-Afrouzi, Behnam Salimi, Chin-Leong Wooi

“…In the developed codes, randomly located lightning flash with its corresponding electromagnetic radiation was modelled. …”
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Effects of Aquajogging in Obese Adults: A Pilot Study by Eveline J. M. Wouters, Annemieke M. A. Van Nunen, Rinie Geenen, Ronette L. Kolotkin, Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets

“…These findings suggest the usefulness of conducting a randomized controlled trial with long-term outcome assessments.…”
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Speakers’ choice of apology strategies in a discourse completion task: A study of Turkish speakers in Tabriz by Javid Fereidoni, Kosar Kheiri, Nafiseh Tadayyon Chahartagh

“…One hundred and twenty (60 male and 60 female) randomly selected speakers of Azerbaijani Turkish from Tabriz participated in a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) and returned 2400 apology speech acts. …”
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Assessment of Human-originated Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (MPA) as Effective Contraceptive in Domesticated Queens (Felis catus) in Iraq by Mushtaq A Alabodi, Imad M Almeeni

“…Ten adult female cats were included in a randomized controlled trial, with the treatment group receiving a single intramuscular injection of 25 mg/cat MPA. …”
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Effects of Early Training and Nicotine Treatment on the Performance of Male NMRI Mice in the Water Maze by Paloma Vicens, M. Carmen Carrasco, Rosa Redolat

“…In a longitudinal study, mice were randomly assigned to one of 14 experimental groups receiving different combinations of chronically injected nicotine (0.35 mg/kg) administered for 10 days (5 days before and during 5 days acquisition of task) or control treatments and training in the water maze at different ages. …”
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Luteolin Pretreatment Attenuates Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Mice by Inhibiting Inflammation, Autophagy, and Apoptosis via the ERK/PPARα Pathway by Yuhui Jiang, Wenjuan Yang, Jiameng Ding, Jie Ji, Liwei Wu, Yuanyuan Zheng, Yan Li, Ziqi Cheng, Jie Zhang, Qiang Yu, Jiao Feng, Jingjing Li, Jianye Wu, Yingqun Zhou, Chuanyong Guo

“…The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of luteolin in hepatic IR injury and the underlying mechanism. BALB/c mice were randomly divided into six groups, including normal controls (NC), luteolin (50 mg/kg), sham procedure, IR+25 mg/kg luteolin, and IR+50 mg/kg luteolin group. …”
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The Anthelmintics Activity of Ethanol Extract of African Leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) on Mortality of Fasciola gigantica in Vitro by Dhio Asmaydo, Iwan Sahrial Hamid, Kusnoto Kusnoto, Mohammad Sukmanadi, Endang Suprihati

“…Method that used in the research was a completely randomized design. There were five treatments and each treatment was done in four replications. …”
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CULTIVATION OF OYSTER MUSHROOM (Pleurotus spp.) USING FERMENTATION SUBSTRATE by Nguyễn Hoàng Mai, Trương Bình Nguyên, Phan Hoàng Đại, Lê Bá Dũng

“…The experiment was set up as a completely randomized design with three replicates. Pleurotus hybrid (P. hybrid) and Pleurotus sajor-caju (P. sajor-caju) had good growth potential on compost. …”
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Changes in Acidity, TSS, and Sugar Content at Different Storage Periods of the Postharvest Mango (Mangifera indica L.) Influenced by Bavistin DF by Md. Khairul Islam, M. Z. H. Khan, M. A. R. Sarkar, Nurul Absar, S. K. Sarkar

“…The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with three replicates. …”
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Efficacy of Lactic Acid Bacteria Probiotics on Feed Efficiency and Carcass Weight in Kampung Unggul Balitbangtan (KUB) Chicken by Cyrcilia Relita Berlina, Sri Hidanah, Muhammad Anam Al Arif, Epy Muhammad Luqman, Wiwik Misaco Yuniarti, Mufasirin Mufasirin

“…A total of 48 KUB chickens aged 2 weeks were randomized into 4 treatments and each treatment consisted of 12 chickens. …”
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Estimating the Tensile Strength of Ultrahigh-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Beams by In-Hwan Yang, Changbin Joh, The Quang Bui

“…The uneven dispersion of randomly oriented steel fibers in concrete may cause differences in the tensile behavior between material testing specimens and beams. …”
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Mesoscopic Finite Element Modeling of Concrete Considering Geometric Boundaries of Actual Aggregates by Hao Jin, Yuliang Zhou, Binglong Wang, Shunhua Zhou

“…The geometric feature points are then moved randomly in the plane. Using this method, an aggregate library is established based on the actual aggregates. …”
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Synergistic Effect of Adjustments of Elastic Stockings to Maintain Reduction in Leg Volume after Mechanical Lymph Drainage by José Maria Pereira de Godoy, Renata Lopes Pinto, Ana Carolina Pereira de Godoy, Maria de Fátima Guerreiro Godoy

“…Eleven patients with Grade II leg lymphedema, regardless of etiology, were evaluated in a randomized clinical trial. The ages ranged from 47 to 83 years old with a mean of 62.4 years. …”
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Outcomes in stage IIA versus stage IIB/III in the PALLAS trial [ABCSG-42/AFT-05/PrE0109/BIG-14-13]) by A. DeMichele, A. C. Dueck, D. Hlauschek, M. Martin, H. Burstein, G. Pfeiler, N. Zdenkowski, A. Wolff, M. Bellet-Ezquerra, E. Winer, M. Balic, K. Miller, M. Colleoni, D. Lake, G. Rubovsky, D. Cameron, J. Balko, C. F. Singer, Z. Nowecki, H. Iwata, N. Wolmark, K. A. Parraga, H. Rugo, G. G. Steger, T. Traina, G. Werutsky, D. Czajkowska, O. Metzger, S. El-Abed, K. P. Theall, R. D. Lu, P. O’Brien, C. Fesl, E. Mayer, M. Gnant

“…Methods PALLAS was an international, multicenter, randomized, open-label, phase III trial, representing a public–private partnership between Pfizer, the Austrian Breast Cancer Study Group, and the U.S. …”
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Characterization and functional analysis of conserved non-coding sequences among poaceae: insights into gene regulation and phenotypic variation in maize by Yi Luo, Hang Zhai, Xiu Zhong, Bo Yang, Yang Xu, Tianhong Liu, Qi Wang, Yang Zhou, Yan Mao, Yaxi Liu, Qi Tang, Yanli Lu, Yao Wang, Jie Xu

“…It was found that CNS in maize were enriched in open chromatin regions compared with randomly selected non-coding regions of similar length. …”
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