Traumatic Penetrating Neck Injury with Right Common Carotid Artery Dissection and Stenosis Effectively Managed with Stenting: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Seidu A. Richard, Chang Wei Zhang, Cong Wu, Wang Ting, Xie Xiaodong

“…We present a case of 40-year-old building and construction male worker who slipped and fell on an iron rod that resulted in penetrating wound on the right side of the anterior neck a week prior to presenting at our facility. …”
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Suicide Ideation among Outpatients with Alcohol Use Disorder by Wen-Yu Hsu, Ting-Gang Chang, Cheng-Chen Chang, Nan-Ying Chiu, Chieh-Hsin Lin, Hsien-Yuan Lane

“…This retrospective study reviewed the medical records of individuals with AUD who participated in an alcohol treatment program in central Taiwan during 2019–2020. …”
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Contribution to the knowledge of early geotechnics during the 20th century: Laurits Bjerrum by G. Guillán-Llorente, B. Muñoz-Medina, A. Lara-Galera, R. Galindo-Aires

“…Terzaghi wanted to meet the engineer who had written a paper on the stability of the unusual Norwegian quick clays at the European Slope Congress in Stockholm. …”
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Perceptions of Arabic Language Education Students on the Implementation of an Innovative Curriculum | Tashawwurat tullab qism ta'lim al-lughah al-'Arabiyyah hawla tanfidh al-manhaj... by Hizbullah Huda, M. Baihaqi, Ahmad Jundi Al Mubarak, Muh Zaenuri, Habib D, Iis Solihah, Fatihuddin Fatihuddin, Mohammed Islam

“…The population of this study are students of the Arabic Language Education Study Program at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya who have used an innovative curriculum. The sample was drawn using purposive sampling technique. …”
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Timing of congenital cytomegalovirus diagnosis and missed opportunities by Mallory R. Baker, Xing Wang, Ann J. Melvin

“…Anticipating that infants with cCMV who are not tested at birth risk a delayed diagnosis, this study was conducted to investigate the timing of diagnosis for infants with cCMV and to determine the reasons for and impact of late diagnoses.MethodsClinical, imaging and laboratory data, hearing and developmental outcomes were abstracted from medical records between 2009 and 2021 for infants with virologically confirmed cCMV.ResultsOne hundred and twelve children with confirmed cCMV were identified. …”
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An Exploration of Determinants of Anemia in Pregnant Women at Buakayu Community Health Center Tana Toraja Regency by Erni Yetti R, Zadrak Tombeg, Anto J. Hadi, Sumardi Sudarman, Syamsopyan Ishak, Fitri Rahma Handayani

“…The sample was pregnant women who visited the Buakayu Community Health Center for antenatal examination using an accidental sampling technique for 11 days. …”
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Magnitude and associated factors of unmet need for family planning among reproductive-aged women in Ethiopia: An umbrella review. by Mulat Ayele, Gizachew Yilak, Abebaw Alamrew, Eyob Shitie Lake, Befkad Derese Tilahun

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>The World Health Organization defines women with an unmet need for family planning as individuals who are fecund, sexually active, and wanting to either to limit childbirth or postpone their next birth but are not utilizing any form of contraception. …”
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Measurement of Several Hematological and Serological Parameters in Patients with Scabies by Mariam Y. Al-Fadhly, Wasan A. Al-Marsomy, Hiba H. Maqdasi .

“…The current study involved the collection of blood samples from a patient group infected with scabies disease, comprising sixty individuals, and a control group of sixty individuals who were in good health. The tests showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the scabies patients and the control group for Hb (12.86± 0.31, 12.88± 0.20), PCV (34.40±0.94, 40.35±0.59), and platelets (244.80±9.58, 237.23±8.97), Respectively. …”
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Measles neutralising antibody levels in patients receiving intravenous immunoglobulin treatment - a sub-analysis of a randomized, cross-over bioequivalence trial. by Vatsala Rajendram, Martyn Paddick, John More

“…The trial included 15 paediatric patients who were not randomized, receiving only five infusions of 10% product. …”
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Impact of sleep quality on academic achievements of undergraduate medical students: a cross-sectional study from Saudi Arabia by Arwa Khaled, Dalia Almaghaslah, Ayesha Siddiqua, Geetha Kandasamy, Khalid Orayj

“…Additionally, students who had more than five courses per semester more frequently had daytime sleepiness p = 0.03. …”
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Parents’ views and experiences of raising babies born with cleft lip and palate: a qualitative study by Delaram Alinezhad, Farnoosh Mohammadi, Mohammad Javad Kharazifared, Mahdia Gholami, Sarvin Sarmadi, Samaneh Razeghi

“…Using purposive sampling, parents of children with cleft lip/palate who visited the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Children’s Medical Center in Tehran, Iran, were selected. …”
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The Closed Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Stability Test (CKCUEST) Performance in Elite Team Handball Players Playing with Shoulder Pain, Previous Pain, or No Pain by Tina Piil Torabi, Jesper Bencke, Roland van den Tillaar

“…Additionally, the CKCUEST was not able to differentiate among elite handball players who are playing with shoulder pain, previous shoulder pain, and no pain…”
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Incidence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli isolated from women with urinary tract infections in Jordan by Rania Al-Groom

“…., Enterococci sp. and Proteus sp. with frequency of 132 (32.0%), 51 (12.4%), 15 (3.6%), 10 (2.4%), and 6 (1.5%) respectively. Female participants who were between the ages of 40 and 49 years old, married, and pregnant were more likely to develop urinary tract infections (UTIs). …”
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From Science to Utopia: Marcuse and Critical Utopianism by L. A. Agamalova

“…The time of ends, from the end of the grand narratives of disappointed radicals (Lyotard) to the end of politics (see Rancière’s analysis), is, however, picked up by Marcuse, who suggests considering utopia as ahistorical. …”
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‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’ by Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, Cara Leitch, Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Karin Armstrong, Melanie Chernyk

“…This article presents work carried out in conjunction with the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, a foundation of many digital literary studies projects, work that seeks to document the full nature of its community, from the institutional and research project groups that comprise the formal consortium at centre to those who appear on the other side of the easily-permeable periphery that separates it from the centre, largely individual practitioners in areas hitherto not closely identified with the digital humanities but clearly sharing methods and tools, thus suggesting their place in the same communities of practice, as they are members of the same methodological commons.  …”
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Do global health networks facilitate innovation, learning and sharing? A qualitative analysis of the Quality-of-Care Network in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda. by Kondwani Mwandira, Seblewengel Lemma, Albert Dube, Kohenour Akter, Asebe Amenu Tufa, Agnes Kyamulabi, Gloria Seruwagi, Catherine Nakidde, Kasonde Mwaba, Nehla Djellouli, Charles Makwenda, Tim Colbourn, Yusra Ribhi Shawar

“…The Quality-of-Care Network (QCN), launched by WHO and partners, links global and national actors across several countries to improve maternal and newborn health. …”
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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on supervised consumption service delivery in Vancouver and Surrey, Canada from the perspective of service providers by Tyson Singh Kelsall, Michelle Olding, Tara Myketiak, Nitasha Puri, Kanna Hayashi, Thomas Kerr, Mary Clare Kennedy

“…Additionally, the findings point to opportunities to improve care for people who use drugs during intersecting public health crises.…”
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Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of PD‐1/PD‐L1 Inhibitors in the Treatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer by Qichen Zhang, Xiaojuan Han, Jiayi Liu, Hui Qiao

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on 37 SCLC patients who received PD‐1 or PD‐L1 inhibitors along with chemotherapy at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University between June 2018 and June 2023. …”
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Application of Multidomain Cognitive Training in a Tele-Neurorehabilitation Setting for Treatment of Post-Stroke Cognitive Disorders by Marianna Contrada, Loris Pignolo, Martina Vatrano, Caterina Pucci, Isabel Mantia, Federica Scarfone, Maria Quintieri, Antonio Cerasa, Gennarina Arabia

“…Purpose: Cognitive dysfunctions are still very common in the chronic phase of stroke when patients are discharged from neurorehabilitation centers. Even individuals who appear to have made a full clinical recovery may exhibit new deficiencies at home. …”
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Symptom Status Predicts Patient Outcomes in Persons with HIV and Comorbid Liver Disease by Wendy A. Henderson, Angela C. Martino, Noriko Kitamura, Kevin H. Kim, Judith A. Erlen

“…Clinical evidence suggests that the growing number of individuals living with HIV and liver disease may have a poorer health-related quality of life (HRQOL) than persons living with HIV who do not have comorbid liver disease. Thus, this study examined the multiple components of HRQOL by testing Wilson and Cleary’s model in a sample of 532 individuals (305 persons with HIV and 227 persons living with HIV and liver disease) using structural equation modeling. …”
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