Breast Cancer: Preparing for Surgery by Martha C. Monroe, Barbara F. Shea

“…This revised 5-page fact sheet provides information to help you get ready for breast cancer surgery through a brief overview of common surgical options, medical appointments, social support systems, and standard surgical procedures, as well as reactions and memories of women who have gone through this experience. …”
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How can we contribute to solving the sustainability puzzle with bioclimatic architecture? by Maria Coral Albelda-Estellés Ness

“…We need to make our buildings more independent from active systems, to become more sustainable. Also, we need to consider their thermal safety in case of extreme climatic events or power outages. …”
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Generation of induced pluripotent stem cell line, NCHi027-A, from a female child with Posterior Cloaca (Type B) by Cintia E. Gomez Limia, Karunya Albert, Chaitrali Atre, Kusum Basnet, Darria L. Streeter, Nathalia G. Amado, Linda A. Baker

“…Cloaca is an ultra-rare severe anorectal malformation in females where the gastrointestinal, genital, and urologic systems converge. Posterior Cloaca (Type B) is an extremely rare specific variant, where the urogenital sinus opens just anterior to the anus. …”
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In Vitro Selection of a Single-Stranded DNA Molecular Recognition Element Specific for Bromacil by Ryan M. Williams, Amanda R. Kulick, Srilakshmi Yedlapalli, Louisa Battistella, Cyrus J. Hajiran, Letha J. Sooter

“…Bromacil is a widely used herbicide that is known to contaminate environmental systems. Due to the hazards it presents and inefficient detection methods, it is necessary to create a rapid and efficient sensing device. …”
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Protecting and Expanding Railway Networks to Hedge against Disruptions: A Model with Travel Segments by Stefano Starita, Chandra Ade Irawan, Pavitra Jindahra

“…Railway systems are instrumental to countries’ economies. …”
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Exploring the barriers and facilitators to health research with children and young people who are looked after by Hannah Dale, Lorna Watson

“…It will explore some of the barriers and facilitators in research relevant to health, and makes a plea for a more facilitative approach, within the existing regulatory systems.…”

Sildenafil Treatment of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension by Kevin B Laupland, Doug Helmersen, David A Zygun, Sidney M Viner

“…Prostacyclin infusion at 8 ng/kg/min decreased the PAm pressure by 11%, but further dose increases were limited by systemic hypotension. Sildenafil in doses of 25 mg or higher resulted in an average decrease of 14% in PAm pressure. …”
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Computing Coherence Vectors and Correlation Matrices with Application to Quantum Discord Quantification by Jonas Maziero

“…Besides, we provide Fortran code to generate generalized Gell-Mann matrices and to compute the optimized and unoptimized versions of associated Bloch’s vectors and correlation matrix in the case of bipartite quantum systems. As a code test and application example, we consider the calculation of Hilbert-Schmidt quantum discords.…”
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Can Latin America play a more influential role in a shifting world order? by Carmelo Cattafi, Robert Papp

“…This article relations with a focus on Latin America’s role in the relations between Latin America and the great global systemic configuration. So, it analyzes Latin strategic vision, and narratives towards the rest that derive from its economic competition, energy of nearshoring, internal and international security, to the region. …”
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Fatal Septic Shock in a Patient with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Associated with an Infectious Mononucleosis by Giorgio Berlot, Ariella Tomasini, Lorenzo Zandonà, Eugenio Leonardo, Rossana Bussani, Nadia Zarrillo

“…At the autopsy, an extremely uncommon aggressive lymphoma of Epstein-Barr virus-positive T-lymphocytes with systemic involvement was discovered.…”
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Cartographie des thèses portant sur l’éducation, l’enseignement et la formation dans les pays francophones du Sud de 2000 à 2020 by Jean-Pierre Chevalier

“…The qualitative approach makes it possible to identify the themes favored by researchers about education, teaching and training, or in the management of education systems. Finally, the chronological approach highlights the growth in Africa of French-speaking research in education.…”
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Internationalizing the National University by Elizabeth Buckner

“…The chapter discusses how trends towards internationalization are affecting higher education systems in the region, through both international student mobility, campus partnerships and branch campuses. …”
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Low-rate modem for transmission of small data in medium frequency range for Arctic by P. I. Puzyrev, S. A. Zavyalov, V. V. Erokhin, V. Yu. Shein

“…The structure of the modem is designed for implementation in software and for the implementation in languages of the description of equipment for SDR systems. The procedure of primary time synchronization, detection, frame synchronization and demodulation is considered. …”
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Les défis posés par l’unité pédagogique pour élèves allophones arrivants (UPE2A) à la forme scolaire by Isabelle Rigoni

“…Pupils categorized by the educational institution as newly arrived allophone pupils have, under the consideration of special educational needs, compensatory rights materialized by linguistic and pedagogical support in a pedagogical unit for incoming allophone pupil or in other specific systems. Under the paradigm of the inclusion of all students, they are enrolled in a regular class and operate back and forth between their class and the device. …”
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Immune Checkpoint Modulators: An Emerging Antiglioma Armamentarium by Eileen S. Kim, Jennifer E. Kim, Mira A. Patel, Antonella Mangraviti, Jacob Ruzevick, Michael Lim

“…Results from recent preclinical and clinical studies demonstrate how checkpoint inhibition can be utilized to prevent tumor immune evasion and both local and systemic immune suppression. This review encompasses the key immune checkpoints that have been found to play a role in tumorigenesis and, more specifically, gliomagenesis. …”
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Minimum Symbol Error Probability MIMO Design under the Per-Antenna Power Constraint by Enoch Lu, I.-Tai Lu

“…Approximate minimum symbol error probability transceiver design of single user MIMO systems under the practical per-antenna power constraint is considered. …”
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COOPERATION OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION AND ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS by A. Pakhomov, K. Bagdasaryan

“…The results of the research revealed systemic problems of an economic and administrative nature, those are limiting economic cooperation to projects of a narrow group of state corporations and state companies, mainly in the field of foreign trade, energy and military-technical cooperation. …”
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The Application of Bioreactors for Cartilage Tissue Engineering: Advances, Limitations, and Future Perspectives by Liwei Fu, Pinxue Li, Hao Li, Cangjian Gao, Zhen Yang, Tianyuan Zhao, Wei Chen, Zhiyao Liao, Yu Peng, Fuyang Cao, Xiang Sui, Shuyun Liu, Quanyi Guo

“…This review aims to provide an overview of the concepts, categories, and applications of bioreactors for cartilage TE with emphasis on the design of various bioreactor systems.…”
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Seismic Resistance of Non-Linearly Deformable Large-Span Spatial Structures of Unique Buildings by Saidmaksud R. Razzakov

“…Physically and geometrically nonlinear deformation models and computational algorithms for solving dynamic problems are proposed for estimating the stress-strain state of smooth and ribbed spatial systems with variable stiffness caused by damage accumulation and orthotropic structure reinforced by ribs. …”
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Preparation, performances and application of carbon-ceramic brake discs by Tan Hong, Shen Fuqiang, Li Hulin

“…Carbon-ceramic brake discs, known for their superior mechanical properties and thermal stability, are pivotal in high-performance braking systems. This paper reviews their development, focusing on preparation methods, performance features and applications in aviation, automotive and rail sectors. …”
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