Pyogenic Granuloma of the Larynx: A Case Report by Moallim Hussein AA, Sheikh OA, Mukhtar AA, Abdi IA, Ahmed NM, Mohamed SS, Kahiye MA, Nur MA, Asseyr AF

“…Predisposing factors for pyogenic granuloma of the larynx have been linked to prior traumatic injuries, such as intubation, previous surgeries, or laryngopharyngeal reflux.Case Presentation: A 33-year-old male visited our clinic with complaints of progressive dysphonia and choking for two months. The patient did not experience dysphagia or dyspnea. …”
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Integrating Infant Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding Education Into an App in a Novel Approach to Reaching High-Risk Populations: Prospective Observational Study by Tamar Krishnamurti, Rachel Moon, Rudolph Richichi, Rachel Berger

“…The most viewed videos were ones addressing the use of pacifiers, concerns about infant choking, and the response of the body to the start of breastfeeding. …”
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Study on the Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol by Ozonolysis of Citral in the Atmosphere by Chenxi Zhang, Xuesong Cao, Xiaomin Sun, Hengjun Peng

“…Although CIs have been previously implicated in tropospheric oxidation, the majority are simple compounds for their class, such as CH2OO• or CH3CHOO•. This study, however, reports on the generation and reaction kinetics of larger CIs, which have been shown to oxidize NO and SO2 into NO2 and SO3, respectively, leading to the production of nitric acid and sulfuric acid. …”
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Treated swine water as amendment for coffee ground composting system by Ng Camelia Choi Lam, Koh Kar Weng, Wong Lai Peng, Guo Xinxin, Wong Ling Yong

“…After the mesophilic phase, the compost was mixed with organic soil and used to grow Bok Choy (Brassica rapa Chinensis) to assess its effects. …”
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Investigation of The Body Composition And Maximal Oxygen Consumption Capacity Of Elite Boxing And Wrestling Athletes by Erkan Tortu, Bihter Akınoğlu, Adnan Hasanoğlu, Tuğba Kocahan, Banu Kabak, Aydin Balcı

“…Body composition evaluation of athletes was made with MF-BIA (Tanita MC-980, 1000 kHz, Tokyo, Japan) device. Maximal oxygen consumption measurement was made using a direct method breath-by-breath automatic portable gas analysis system (Cosmed K5, Italy). …”
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Absence of Posterior Vitreous Detachment Is a Risk Factor of Severe Bleb-Related Endophthalmitis by Kazuhiko Umazume, Jun Suzuki, Yoshihiko Usui, Katsuhiko Maruyama, Yoshihiro Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Goto

“…Ten patients (10 eyes) with stage IIIb BRE after trabeculectomy diagnosed and treated at the Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical University, between April 2013 and May 2015, were studied. …”
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Na Hye Seok 나혜석 ‘un Hayatı ve Edebiyat Dünyası by Hatice Köroğlu Türközü

“…Hem ilk kadın yazar olması hem de ilk kez bir kadın gözüyle eserlerinde kadın sorununu dönem yazarlarından farklı işlemesi noktasında Kore edebiyat tarihinde yerini almış bir kişiliktir. Na Hye Seok Tokyo’da Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesinde resim eğitim alan Kore’nin ilk kadın ressamı olarak da bilinmektedir. …”
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Effect of propofol and ciprofol in patients undergoing bronchoscopy: protocol for a double-blind, randomised controlled trial by Fang Chen, Cheng Li, Dongliang Li, Jinxuan Tang, Jiayu Huang

“…The secondary outcomes are the incidence of choking and injection pain, the type and dose of vasoactive drugs used during the operation, and the level of postoperative satisfaction among surgeons, anaesthesiologists and patients.Ethics and dissemination This trial was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Shanghai Fourth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University and registered with the Chinese Clinical Trials Registry (Identifier: ChiCTR2200063048) on 29 August 2022. …”
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Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan’s Lay Judge System by David T. Johnson

“…In September, a lay judge panel in Tokyo evaluated the contradictory claims of medical experts and endured two weeks of frenzied media coverage before convicting actor Oshio Manabu and sentencing him to two-and-one-half years in prison for failing to call an ambulance to aid Tanaka Kaori, who died of an overdose of Ecstasy (MDMA) that Oshio had given her when they met to have sex in a Roppongi apartment (prosecutors wanted a six-year sentence). …”
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Leaner Women with Impaired Insulin Secretion Accounts for about 40% of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Japan by Seishi Furukawa, Yoichi Kobayashi

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted comprising 219 at-risk pregnant women who underwent a 75g glucose tolerance test at a single institute in Tokyo, Japan. We identified GDM and normal glucose tolerance (NGT). …”
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Clinical Features and Contributing Factors of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Chinese Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients: The Role of Comorbid Symptoms and Polysomnographic Variables by Chuan Shao, Huan Qi, Ruyi Lang, Biyun Yu, Yaodong Tang, Lina Zhang, Xun Wang, Ling Wang

“…Meanwhile, age, neck circumference, gasping/choking, memory loss, work/commute disturbances, and sleep latency were independently associated with severe EDS, and the AHI and mean SpO2 were independent contributing factors of severe EDS. …”
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Segre, El Che y el “Hombre Nuevo” del siglo XXI by Fernando Delgado Páez

“… En 2007, el crítico de arquitectura Roberto Segre (1934-2013) y los arquitectos José Antonio Choy y Claudio Vekstein fueron invitados por la Municipalidad de Rosario para elaborar el proyecto de una plaza memorial dedicada a Ernesto “Che” Guevara. …”
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Nutritional Profiles and Factors Associated with the Intake of Certain Food Types in Patients Undergoing Maxillofacial Prosthetic Rehabilitation: A Cross-Sectional Study by Nehasha Pradhan, Mai Murase, Masako Akiyama, Hiroko Tani, Yuka I. Sumita, Noriyuki Wakabayashi

“…<b>Methods:</b> The study included 56 patients treated for HNC undergoing rehabilitation with comfortable definitive dentures for over a month at the Maxillofacial Prosthetics Clinic of Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital. Data were gathered on the demographics, clinical characteristics, malnutrition risk using a malnutrition universal screening tool, dietary intake consistency via a functional oral intake scale, swallowing difficulties with eating assessment tool-10, and nutrient intake through a Brief-type Self-administered Dietary History Questionnaire. …”
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Impact of kidney volume on incidence of in-hospital kidney-related adverse outcomes in patients with acute heart failure by Akira Saito, Taku Asano, Nobuyuki Komiyama, Sachiko Ohde

“…We measured the volume of the right and left kidneys using dedicated volume analyzing software for 3D-CT (SYNAPSE VINCENT, Fuji Film, Tokyo, Japan) and determined the total kidney volume by adding the volumes of the left and right kidneys. …”
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Biodegradable Polymer DES (Ultimaster) vs. Magnesium Bioresorbable Scaffold (BRS Magmaris) in Diabetic Population with NSTE-ACS: A One-Year Clinical Outcome of Two Sirolimus-Elutin... by Piotr Rola, Adrian Włodarczak, Mateusz Barycki, Marek Szudrowicz, Magdalena Łanocha, Jan Jakub Kulczycki, Karol Turkiewicz, Katarzyna Woźnica, Maciej Lesiak, Adrian Doroszko

“…For the first one, we qualified 169 patients with NSTE-ACS treated with PCI who received the drug-eluting stent (DES) coated with a biodegradable polymer Ultimaster (Terumo, Tokyo, Japan). The second arm was composed of 193 patients with ACS who underwent PCI with a magnesium bioresorbable scaffold Magmaris (Biotronik, Berlin, Germany). …”
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Predicting rapid decline in kidney function among type 2 diabetes patients: A machine learning approach by Eri Nakahara, Kayo Waki, Hisashi Kurasawa, Imari Mimura, Tomohisa Seki, Akinori Fujino, Nagisa Shiomi, Masaomi Nangaku, Kazuhiko Ohe

“…We trained and assessed the model using 1202 types of laboratory tests from 3438 diabetes patients at the University of Tokyo Hospital. Result: The means (95 % confidence interval) of the receiver operating characteristic area under the curve (ROC-AUC), precision-recall area under the curve, accuracy rate, and F1-score of an 8-feature-model were 0.820 (0.811, 0.829), 0.430 (0.410, 0.451), 0.754 (0.747, 0.761), and 0.500 (0.485, 0.515), respectively. …”
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Endoscopic tympanoplasty type I using interlay technique by Masahiro Takahashi, Masaomi Motegi, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Yutaka Yamamoto, Hiromi Kojima

“…Trial registration: This study was retrospectively approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Jikei University, Tokyo, Japan (approval number: 32-205 10286). Video abstract Video abstract…”
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Office environment and employee differences by company health management certification by Shiro Arata, Masaki Sugiuchi, Toshiharu Ikaga, Yasuyuki Shiraishi, Tatsuya Hayashi, Shintaro Ando, Shun Kawakubo

“…A cross-sectional questionnaire survey of 1644 employees across 61 companies in Tokyo, Japan, collected data on their perception of office environment quality and perceived outcomes. …”
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Alpine vegetation community patterns in the Khumbu region, Nepalese Himalaya by Ruolin Leng, Stephan Harrison, Elizabeth A. Byers, Mahesh Magar, Harkrei Rai, Ram Raj Rijal, Karen Anderson

“…Field data captured during in situ surveys in the Gokyo valley, Nepal, were used to drive and then test a random forest classifier. …”
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Kalan kron miktarının ve iki farklı fiber-post sistemlerinin endodontik tedavili dişlerin kırılma dayanımları üzerine etkisi by Hakkı Çelebi

“…., Japonya) ile gerçekleştirildi ve dişlerin koronal kısmı kompozit rezin kor materyali (Estelite Posterior, Tokuyama Dental Corp., Tokyo, Japonya) ile restore edildi. Daha sonra dişlerin üst yapısı metal destekli seramik sistemle restore edildi. …”
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