Feasibility and Safety of Bariatric Surgery in High-Risk Patients: A Single-Center Experience by Yusef Moulla, Orestis Lyros, Matthias Blüher, Philipp Simon, Arne Dietrich

“…All patients had a standardized postoperative management with a mean length of hospital stay of 4 ± 1.4 days. …”
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Appointment and Conduction of Examinations: Legislative and Practical Problems by A. O. Naumova, M. S. Kucha

“…Based on the conducted research, the authors have provided the following suggestions and recommendations: 1) to enshrine the right of the prosecution and defense parties in the Art. 243 of the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine (CPC) to independently appoint an examination; 2) to declare it appropriate to supplement Section 3 of the CPC with the Art. 56-1 “Rights of the victim in the appointment and conduction of examination”, which should enshrine the relevant rights; 3) to declare it expedient to supplement Section 20 of the CPC of Ukraine with the Art. 242-1, which should determine the rights of the suspect (accused) in the appointment and conduction of examination; 4) to standardize the procedure for the appointment of additional expertise in paragraph 11 of the Art. 101 of the CPC; 5) to standardize the procedure for the appointment of re-examination in paragraph 12 of the Art. 101 of the CPC; 6) to recommend investigators and judges to determine the expert’s questions depending on the objects of expert examination; 7) to improve the stage of experimental testing of objects in carrying out explosive examination.…”
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Health Canada's use of its priority review process for new drugs: a cohort study by Joel Lexchin

“…Objectives Priority reviews of new drug applications are resource intensive and drugs approved through this process have a greater likelihood of acquiring a serious safety warning compared to drugs approved through the standard process. Therefore, when Health Canada uses priority reviews, it is important that it accurately identifies products that represent a significant therapeutic advance. …”
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Allium cepa Bio Assay to Assess the Water and Sediment Cytogenotoxicity in a Tropical Stream Subjected to Multiple Point and Nonpoint Source Pollutants by W. M. Dimuthu Nilmini Wijeyaratne, L. G. Y. J. G. Wadasinghe

“…Despite the significant spatial variations, the overall water and sediment quality parameters of the study sites were in accordance with the standard ambient environment parameters to sustain a healthy aquatic life. …”
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Physicochemical Characteristics and Water Quality Indices to Assess the Suitability of Groundwater Resources in some Communities of Kogi State, Nigeria by E. O. Akudo, O. Ibrahim, N. M. Muhammad, K. O. Musa, J. B. Ahmed II, G. O. Aigbadon

“…The physical parameter results all conformed to WHO standard for ingestible water except pH which presented mild acidity/alkalinity outside the recommended threshold. …”
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Experience and role of Italian nurses working in genetic clinics: a descriptive phenomenological qualitative study by Lea Godino, Camilla Elena Magi, Carla Bruzzone, Stefano Bonora, Marco Seri, Liliana Varesco, Daniela Turchetti

“…This could be achieved through the definition of standard activities and the implementation of formal education in genetics and genomic fields.…”
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STUDI IDENTIFIKASI PASANGAN COMMERCIALLY PURE TITANIUM DAN UHMWPE UNTUK APLIKASI MATERIAL IMPLAN LUTUT by Firman Maulana Rusdi, Arini Dwi Cahyani

“…CP–Titanium tensile testing uses a universal test machine with JIS Z2201 standards. Another material, namely UHMWPE, is tested using the same equipment as the ASTM D638 standard. …”
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A systematic epidemiological trends analysis study in global burden of multiple myeloma and 29 years forecast by Qianru Hou, Xinyang Li, Huanxin Ma, Di Fu, Aijun Liao

“…Forecast for the years 2022–2050 showed the further increase in the incidence, prevalence, disability-adjusted life years, and age-standardized death rates of multiple myeloma.…”
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Microbial Load and Antibiotic Resistance of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Khebab Sold on a University Campus and Its Environs in Ghana by Azumah Ayamah, Augustina Angelina Sylverken, Linda Aurelia Ofori

“…It can therefore be concluded that the majority of khebabs from the KNUST campus and its environs were contaminated with S. aureus and E. coli above the acceptable standard limits (≤4 log10 CFU/g and ˂2 log10MPN/g, respectively). …”
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Optimal endotracheal cuff pressure in the intensive care setting: A pilot study by Ananya Shree Poral, Shemin Kovammal, Rajarajeswari Nalamate, Mary Kurien, Kurien Thomas

“…Validity of measurement was assessed using accepted reference standard of 20–30 cm H2O by manometer. Results: Sixty patients between 17 and 82 years, on positive pressure ventilation were evaluated twice, by two investigators resulting in 240 observations. …”
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Treatment of Snoring with a Nasopharyngeal Airway Tube by Macario Camacho, Edward T. Chang, Camilo Fernandez-Salvador, Robson Capasso

“…To study the feasibility of a standard nasopharyngeal airway tube (NPAT) as treatment for snoring. …”
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Using drinking data and pharmacokinetic modeling to calibrate transport model and blind deconvolution based data analysis software for transdermal alcohol biosensors by Zheng Dai, I.G. Rosen, Chuming Wang, Nancy Barnett, Susan E. Luczak

“…Alcohol researchers/clinicians have two ways to collect subject /patient field data, standard-drink self-report and the breath analyzer, neither of which is passive or accurate because active subject participation is required. …”
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A Novel Classification of Uncertain Stream Data using Ant Colony Optimization Based on Radial Basis Function by Tahsin Ali Mohammed Amin, Sabah Robitan Mahmood, Rebar Dara Mohammed, Pshtiwan Jabar Karim

“…Error metrics show that our model significantly outperforms the gold standard and other popular ML methods. Using industry-standard performance metrics, the results of our experiments show that our proposed method does a better job of classifying uncertain data than other methods …”
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Halévy, fugue d’école und basse donnée by Birger Petersen

“…The text will present the student Halévy, who wrote his competition fugue in 1819 under Cherubini’s eye, as well as the teacher Halévy, whose student works required a comparable standard; a fugue by Halévy’s student François Bazin is also examined. …”
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Introduction of the ‘Blue Card’ Concussion Policy to Semi-Elite Australian Football: Medical Staff Experiences and Perceptions by Jacob R Msando, Gill Cowen, Sarah A Harris, Troy Kirkham, Myles C Murphy

“…The survey contained four sections (demographics, concussion knowledge, concussion exposure and blue-card perceptions) with closed and multiple-answer questions. Standard methods for reporting descriptive data were applied, including mean ± standard deviation (SD) and proportions (%). …”
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Immunophenotyping of Posttraumatic Neutrophils on a Routine Haematology Analyser by Kathelijne Maaike Groeneveld, Marjolein Heeres, Loek Petrus Hendrikus Leenen, Albert Huisman, Leo Koenderman

“…Flow cytometric analysis was performed both on a FACSCalibur, a standard flow cytometer, and on a Cell-Dyn Sapphire, a routine haematology analyser. …”
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Using micro:bit for building distributed sensor networks in robotic systems by Roman Duban, Yurii Yurko

“…The article demonstrates that the use of standard protocols for integrating devices into robotic systems is a key aspect of creating modular sensor networks. …”
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Geographic patterns and ecological causes of phylogenetic structure in mosses along an elevational gradient in the central Himalaya by Hong Qian, Oriol Grau

“…The standardized effect size of mean pairwise distance of moss assemblages shows a triphasic (zig-zag) pattern, which is generally consistent with the triphasic patterns previously found in angiosperms and ferns along the same elevational gradient. …”
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Assessment of Physicochemical Properties of Water and Public Perceptions of Water Quality in Tasik Chini, Pahang, Malaysia by M. S. Islam, T. M. Ekhwan, F. N. Rasli and C. T. Goh

“…The water sample was analyzed based on standard methods and categorized according to WQI (Water Quality Index). …”
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Lateral Ventricular Volume Asymmetry and Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter Predict Intracranial Pressure in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients by Yang Wang, Ziming Yuan, Zuoyan Zhang, Jiawei Shang, Mingna Li, Wei Wang

“…Admission LVR of >1.735 was shown to have a sensitivity of 90.9% and a specificity of 88.9% for prediction of ICP increase (AUC=0.879; standard error=0.091; 95% CI=0.701 to 1.0; significance level p<0.004). …”
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