Type B non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency virus with no detected viral load. Case report by Edwin Marcelo Miranda Solìs, Juan Fernando Orozco Herrera

“…Cancer is a common presentation in people living with this virus and represents the main cause of death in this population in most Latin American countries. For these reasons, we present the case of a 58-year-old patient, diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency virus in the year 2000, who in the last ten years presented adequate clinical, virological, and pharmacological control. …”
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TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN POLITICAL FINANCING IN TURKEY by Mehmet Karakaş

“…Mehmet KARAKAŞ*AbstractIncreasing financial resource needs of political parties has become a pressing issue incontemporary politics, which can be attributable a number of reasons including development of sophisticated information technologies, undertaking professional assistance for public opinion surveys, the importance of visuality. …”
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Measuring the Efficiency of Public Health Services by DEA by Neda Vitezić, Alemka Šegota, Stanka Setnikar Cankar

“…This technique has so far mostly been used in assessing solely the efficiency of hospitals and not other public health preventive services. For that reason, the objective of this study is to identify units within one department of public health services that are relatively inefficient and to set targets for them based on the activities of units classified as efficient. …”
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Nonindustrial Family Forest Landowners' Stated Willingness-to-Participate in Forest Cooperatives in Southern China by Lifei Yang, Yali Wen, Francisco X. Aguilar

“…Forest landowner cooperatives have emerged as a formal institution capable of fostering professional forest management. There are many reasons to motivate participation in forest cooperatives. …”
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Optimal Timing of Percutaneous Transhepatic Gallbladder Drainage in High-Risk Acute Cholecystitis Patients and Its Impact on Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy by Sakarie Mustafe Hidg, Hannan Samatar

“…Thirty cases were included in the early intervention group le2 days and 36 cases in the late intervention group gt2 days. The reasons for tube placement tube placement-related complications surgical difficulty and postoperative pathological findings were compared between the two groups.Results There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in terms of age at admission or comorbidities. …”
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Agrarian Reform in the Middle East (1945-1965) by Behçet Kemal YEŞİLBURSA

“…However, most governments instituted agrarian reform for political reasons, with not all of them being as successful as they may have hoped. …”
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Adhesive Ability of Different Oral Pathogens to Various Dental Materials: An In Vitro Study by Yan Tu, Shuli Deng, Yuan Wang, Xiaolong Lin, Zhenyu Yang

“…In dental treatments, the reason for secondary caries and the failure of root canal treatment is the microbial infection, which concerns most dentists. …”
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Inspired by Harold Conklin by Gerard A. Persoon, Jan van der Ploeg, Merlijn van Weerd

“…They have done so for various reasons but land shortage is certainly one of them. …”
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Study on Optimization of Delay Method of Wedge Cut Blasting in Tunnel by Wenle Gao, Zhicheng Liu, Yanping Wang, Zhenwei Yan, Zehua Zhang

“…The wedge cut blasting footage obtained by numerical simulation was basically consistent with the field results, which proved that the model is reasonable and effective. This study intuitively and accurately demonstrated the process of cut blasting, the superposition curve of vibration velocity and the vibration reduction results under different delay times, and the effect of cut blasting. …”
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Hybrid Optical Switching for Data Center Networks by Matteo Fiorani, Slavisa Aleksic, Maurizio Casoni

“…When considering future data center requirements, these solutions will raise issues in terms of flexibility, scalability, performance, and energy consumption. For this reason several optical switched interconnects, which make use of optical switches and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), have been recently proposed. …”
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Numerical Analysis on the Structure Type and Mechanical Response of Tunnel Crossing Active Reverse Fault by Xianmin Han, Wenjiang Li

“…In this paper, antidislocation structural measures such as reasonable segment length of articulated lining, cross-section shape, and thickness of lining are discussed through the numerical simulation. …”
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Investigation of Artery Wall Elasticity Effect on the Prediction of Atherosclerosis by Hemodynamic Factors by Rasool Kalbasi, Bahador Sharifzadeh, Mehdi Jahangiri

“…The present study, for the first time, numerically investigates the pulsatile blood flow inside arteries with elastic and rigid walls in simple and double stenosis (80% stenosis) by using k-ω model and physiological pulse. The reason for applying the k-ω model in the present study was to provide more consistent results with clinical results to improve the accuracy in estimating atherosclerosis disease. …”
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An intelligent system for lung CT image denoising using a hybrid WT-NLM filter by S.L. Soniya, T. Ajith Bosco Raj

“…The proposed study offers a straightforward method for removing noise to attain better visual quality in a reasonable period. The efficacy of the proposed denoising approach is proven by comparing it with traditional denoising approaches such as Morphological filtering, Mean Filter, Median filter, Adaptive median filter and Non-Local Means (NLM) upon two public datasets such as Public LIDC database and in-house clinical ICCN database. …”
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The Simplified Reference Tissue Model with F-Fallypride Positron Emission Tomography: Choice of Reference Region by Kenji Ishibashi, Chelsea L. Robertson, Mark A. Mandelkern, Andrew T. Morgan, Edythe D. London

“…Our results do not support the use of the visual cortex as a reference region in 18 F-fallypride studies and suggest that white matter may be a reasonable alternative to the cerebellum as it displays similar statistical and kinetic properties.…”
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Le profil motivationnel d'étudiants en formation initiale à l’enseignement au Québec au regard du développement de la compétence à communiquer oralement : premiers résultats d'une... by Priscilla Boyer, Geneviève Messier, Christian Dumais, Sylvie Viola

“…At UQAM these skills are not taught, but are evaluated by means of an oral presentation whose failure requires students to take upgrading courses. It is reasonable to assume that these educational strategies influence differently students’ motivational profiles relative to these skills, particularly with regard to feelings of self-efficacy, but the extent of this influence is unknown. …”
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Clinical isolates of Candida auris with enhanced adherence and biofilm formation due to genomic amplification of ALS4. by Jian Bing, Zhangyue Guan, Tianhong Zheng, Zhijie Zhang, Shuru Fan, Craig L Ennis, Clarissa J Nobile, Guanghua Huang

“…Genomic analysis demonstrated that amplification of the subtelomeric adhesin gene ALS4 is the reason behind the strain's enhanced adherence and biofilm forming capacities. …”
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Efektivitas konseling behavioral dengan teknik modelling dalam menangani perilaku maladaptif siswa madrasah aliyah negeri by Olga Rizki Nadila, Saiful Akhyar Lubis

“…The method used in this research was pre-test post-test only control group design with sampling using a purposive sampling technique, taking a sample of 20 students with the lowest scores and high levels of maladaptive behavior based on the results of the pretest analysis, with the reason that purposive sampling increases methodological accuracy and trustworthiness of data and results by matching the sample to the aims and objectives of the study. …”
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The Assessment of Agroforestry Practices in Mukura Sector, Huye District, Southern Rwanda by Doreen Mukoobwa, Benitha Zaninka, Canisius Patrick Mugunga

“…The different cells of Mukura Sector grow the same woody species on the farms as demonstrated by reasonably high indices of similarity. We recommend that efforts be made to reinforce extension services to improve farmers’ awareness on the contribution of agroforestry to their social wellbeing. …”
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Cultivating Slow Curating in Times of Acceleration by Alice Semedo, Fabiana Dicuonzo

“…We will pay special attention to its production contexts (reasons, subjects…), to what and how resonance dispositions and axes are produced within these non-linear public acts, and how the co-presence of past and the future is extended so heritage public acts may engender new forms—of knowledge, being…—and become a resource for current times.…”
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Proses Pemberian ASI pada Ibu Berusia Remaja: Studi Fenomenologi Interpretatif by Vetty Priscilla, Ira Mulya Sari, Hermalinda

“…The results identified five themes, namely: 1) perceived support from health workers, 2) reasons for teenage mothers to give other foods/drinks besides breast milk, 3) teenage mothers' perceptions of family support in breastfeeding, 4) emotional feelings of teenage mothers when breastfeeding, and 5) obstacles encountered by teenage mothers when breastfeeding. …”
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