Efficacy and Safety of Ultrasound-Guided Radiofrequency Treatment for Chronic Pain in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yuzhao Huang, Qiufang Deng, Liuqing Yang, Jiahui Ma, Ziyang Wang, Dong Huang, Ling Luo, Haocheng Zhou

“…Finally, most of the studies only provided short follow-up times, so we could not analyze the long-term effectiveness of ultrasound-guided RF in the treatment of patients with KOA. …”
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Weighted EHR-based prevalence estimates for hypertension at the state and local levels in Louisiana by Wenjun Li, Meng Zhang, Jie Cheng, Sandra L. Jackson, Adam S. Vaughan, Michael Klompas, Thomas W. Carton, Elizabeth Nauman, Lee Mendoza, Arun Adhikari, Jeanie Donovan, Katherine H. Hohman

“…Improved chronic disease surveillance can provide more timely, accurate, and local measures to inform public health policy and intervention. …”
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Prediction model and scoring system for in-hospital mortality risk in infants with heart failure aged 1–36 months: A retrospective case-control study by Meng Wei, Shuai Shang, Huasheng Lv, Xiaoyan Liang, Yanmei Lu, Baopeng Tang

“…Multivariate Logistic regression results show that TP < 65 g/L (OR = 2.34), pH < 7.35 (OR = 2.79), and Respiratory rate (1–12 months: <30times/min and 13–36 months: <25times/min, OR = 2.34) are independent risk factors. …”
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Intelligent Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of a Large Wastewater-Treatment Plant Based on BIM by Jiu-Lin Li, Li-Min Chen, Hao Xu

“…Hence, BIM plays an important role in increasing productivity, minimizing costs, and shortening construction times. In this article, we present a case example where BIM was used for intelligent construction of a large wastewater-treatment plant (WTP). …”
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Ramp from replica trick by Xuchen Cao, Thomas Faulkner

“…We use steepest descent methods at large modular times to extract the ramp. The large bond dimension limit of the replicated partition function is dominated by a sum over annular non-crossing permutations. …”
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Idiopathic Bilateral Bloody Tearing by Emrullah Beyazyıldız, Yasemin Özdamar, Özlem Beyazyıldız, Hasan Yerli

“…We collected samples from bloody tears two times and pathological examination was performed. …”
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Effect of trace elements on the interface reactions between two lead-free solders and copper or nickel substrates by Soares D., Vilarinho C., Barbosa J., Samuel F., Trigo L., Bré P.

“…The phases formed at the interface between the Cu or Ni substrate and a molten lead-free solder at 250ºC, were studied for different stage times and alloy compositions. The melting temperatures, of the studied alloys, were determined by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). …”
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Physicochemical properties and cytochromes P-450 kinetics of the trifluoroacetamido derivative of phenacetin by Hannah L. Cure, Thomas A. Shell

“…TFA-phenacetin is over seven times more lipophilic than phenacetin, which suggests that TFA-phenacetin would have better bioavailability relative to phenacetin. …”
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An idiopathic left internal iliac artery aneurysm in an 11-year-old boy: a case report by Meghdad Ghasemi Gorji, Amirhossein Baratinezhad, Rojan Abdollahzadeh Mirali

“…Abstract Background Idiopathic isolated aneurysms in pediatric patients are rare and present significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges owing to their low incidence, small anatomical size, and the associated risks of injury to surrounding structures. Timely diagnosis and the selection of the most appropriate intervention require careful consideration. …”
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Comparison of Modular Control during Side Cutting before and after Fatigue by Naoto Matsunaga, Kenta Aoki, Koji Kaneoka

“…However, the activation timing of this synergy was delayed after the intervention (P=0.028, effect size: 0.54, Wilcoxon test). …”
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Climate Change, Grape Phenology, and Frost Risk in Southeast England by C. Llanaj, G. McGregor

“…Cold-bias-corrected climate projections from the UKCP18 Regional (12 km) perturbed parameter ensemble (PPE) climate model under RCP8.5 are applied with phenological models to determine how frost risk and the timing of key grapevine phenophases might alter under climate change. …”
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the Return and Volatility Nexus among Cryptocurrency Market by Xin Sui, Guifen Shi, Guanchong Hou, Shaohan Huang, Yanshuang Li

“…Our findings may help understand the typical dynamics in the cryptocurrency market and provide significant implications for portfolio managers, investors, and government agencies in times of highly stressful events like the COVID-19 crisis.…”
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Mechanical Behavior and Microstructural Study of Biocemented Sand under Various Treatment Methods by Xuecheng Gao, Shaokang Han, Yang Yang, Wengang Zhang, Tan Zou, Liang Cheng

“…An optimized treatment method based on the one-phase-low-pH method is also established, which is accomplished via the injection of 5 U/ml of bacterial culture together with 2 M of cementation solution during each treatment. After four times of treatments, a total of 7% cumulative calcium carbonate content can be obtained with an unconfined compressive strength of 2.15 MPa.…”
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Boerhaave syndrome in a paediatric patient with diabetic ketoacidosis: A case report by Alkhalifah Yasir S.

“…This case highlights the importance of early identification and the adoption of a multidisciplinary approach in managing atypical complications of diabetic ketoacidosis. Timely intervention can ensure favourable outcomes even in the presence of severe complications.…”
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Deep Learning-Enabled Automatic Detection of Bridges for Promoting Transportation Surveillance under Different Imaging Conditions by Peng Han, Xiaoxia Yang

“…The reliable and accurate detection of bridges plays an important role in imaging-driven transportation surveillance. It is capable of timely providing the traffic information, leading to safer and more convenient transportation. …”
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DETECTION OF DAY ANOMALIES AND ITS EFFECT; AN APPLICATION IN BIST FOOD INDEX by Murat Erdogan, Aykan Burak Bolat, Eda Oruç Erdoğan

“…However, it is revealed in studies conducted at different times that markets that have existed have not always been effective on the basis of this view. …”
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Socio-affectiveness and alternative figures of care for girls, boys and adolescents in Argentine legal praxis by Federico Pablo Notrica

“…Although affection has always been a constitutive component of human relations, the classical approach refused and refuses to recognize in it a source of Law and, as such, share the halo of legitimacy that kinship ties have enjoyed since ancient times. This resistance was able to generate many problems in reality, since the lack of legal recognition in some of the figures ruins the advances in the field of human rights. …”
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The effect of human resources management on the success of electricity projects (tower transmission) in west Papua province by Ivan Yosefwan Naibaho, Adithya Sudiarno

“…The success of construction projects, including transmission towers, can be measured based on the triple constraint, namely correct quality, timely and cost-effective. These three things can be achieved through human resource management. …”
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Resilience, Confidence-Building, and Performance: by Audrey Ricke

“…However, past studies of the effectiveness of adaptive digital learning platforms in elevating student performance on summative assessment have shown promising yet at times mixed reviews (e.g. Yarnall et al., 2016). …”
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Pandemic Fictions: Covid-19 and the Cultures of Dystopia by Sean Mark

“…It explores, finally, the cultural implications of this, questioning the value we place on culture and the work we ask of it in times of crisis, and probing the political utility therein of the notion of dystopia.…”
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