Right Unilateral Spatial Neglect Improves with Intrinsic Motivation by Hirotaka Saito, Haruka Kobayashi, Junichi Yatsu, Shigeru Obayashi

“…This trend is because behavioral assessments have prevented the exclusion of patients who are difficult to assess for USN or apathy using conventional paper-and-pencil tests (e.g., aphasia). …”
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Efficacy of Chinese Herbal Medicine in the Treatment of Moderate-Severe Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Retrospective Study by Yujiao Zheng, Fan Yang, Lin Han, Xiaowen Gou, Fengmei Lian, Wenke Liu, Linhua Zhao, Bing Pang, Xiyan Zhao, Xiaolin Tong

“…The modified HGWD was effective in the treatment of moderate and severe pDPN and can thus be offered as a new alternative treatment option for pDPN patients who failed to respond to regular pharmaceutical therapies.…”
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Government Support and Local Residents’ Behavior in E-waste Management: Evidence from Thailand by Peeranart Kiddee, Somsiri Decharat, Suttiporn Bunmak

“…Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, this research involves expert government officers who are well versed in e-waste management and local residents. …”
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Application of Semistructured Interview Based on Doctor-Patient Perspective in Constructing a Palliative Care Regimen for Patients with Advanced Heart Failure by Ting Zhou, HaiQin Cai, ChunHui Xu

“…Methods. 112 patients with advanced heart failure who were admitted to the hospital were selected between December 2019 and December 2020, and they were randomly divided into an interview group and a routine group, with 56 cases in each group. …”
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Standard Urine Collection Bag as an Improvised Bogotá Bag as a Temporary Abdominal Closure Method in an Open Abdomen in Preventing Abdominal Compartment Syndrome by Ahmed Shabhay, Zarina Shabhay, Kondo Chilonga, David Msuya, Theresia Mwakyembe, Samwel Chugulu

“…We report a case of a 29-year-old male who developed incisional anterior abdominal wall wound dehiscence. …”
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Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Carriage is a Protective Factor of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Nasal Colonization in HIV-Infected Patients: A... by Ying Li, Jialing Lin, Linghua Li, Weiping Cai, Jiaping Ye, Suiping He, Wencui Zhang, Ning Liu, Zijun Gong, Xiaohua Ye, Zhenjiang Yao

“…HIV-infected patients remain a highly vulnerable population for MRSA colonization. Though who carried MRCoNS is less likely to have MRSA colonization, similarity of some antibiotic resistance between MRSA and MRCoNS was found in this study. …”
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Effect of Hemodialysis on Eye Coats, Axial Length, and Ocular Perfusion Pressure in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure by Ling Wang, Gang Yin, Zhiying Yu, Nan Chen, Dabo Wang

“…We included HD patients who were diagnosed with CRF in our hospital from January to December 2015. …”
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Implications of irrigation water quality in tropical farms by B. Guerra Tamara, A. Torregroza-Espinosa, D. Pinto Osorio, M. Moreno Pallares, A. Corrales Paternina, A. Echeverría González

“…CONCLUSION: Cation and anion concentrations were within the limits allowed by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the WHO. According to the irrigation water classification diagram, the waters were classified as C1S1 and C2S1, which implies that there are no restrictions for their use in irrigation systems, water type (I) and type (II).…”
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Clinical predictors of chronic rhinosinusitis: do the Canadian clinical practice guidelines for acute and chronic rhinosinusitis predict CT-confirmation of disease? by Paige Moore, Brian Blakley, Eric Meen

“…Methods A retrospective cohort study of 126 patients who underwent CT sinuses based on clinical suspicion of possible CRS. …”
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The dengue disquisition: A low-cost public housing conundrum in Klang Valley, Malaysia. by Nabila AbuBakar, Jerzy M Behnke, Norhidayu Sahimin, Xiaoye Kang, Siti Nursyahirah Mohd Shahar, Yvonne Ai Lian Lim, Siti Nursheena Mohd Zain

“…Overall seroprevalence of anti-dengue immunoglobulin G (IgG) was 78.2% (CL: 72.5-83.1) among the 436 residents who participated in the study, while seroprevalence of anti-dengue IgM was 0.9% (CL: 0.2-3.2). …”
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Flexi-Bar Training for Restoring Muscle Strength in Postpartum Women: A Pre-Post design by Aishwarya Nitin Sonwane, Shrajal Shetty, Sakshi Shekhar

“…Eighteen postpartum women, who had given birth within 2 months to 1.5 years prior, participated in a two week FB training program consisting of four sessions per week. …”
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Chromothripsis in Treatment Resistance in Multiple Myeloma by Kyoung Joo Lee, Ki Hong Lee, Kyong-Ah Yoon, Ji Yeon Sohn, Eunyoung Lee, Hyewon Lee, Hyeon-Seok Eom, Sun-Young Kong

“…First, we analyzed nine MM cell lines (U266, MM.1S, RPMI8226, KMS-11, KMS-12-BM, KMS-12-PE, KMS-28-BM, KMS-28-PE, and NCI-H929) and bone marrow samples of four patients who were diagnosed with MM by next-generation sequencing-based copy number variation analysis. …”
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Vimentin as a contributing factor in SARS-CoV-2-induced orchitis on postmortem testicular autopsy of COVID-19 cases: A case-control study by Soheila Akaberi-Nasrabadi, Azam Sabbaghi, Behzad M. Toosi, Parsa Ghorbanifaraz, Gholam-Reza Mahmoudiasl, Abbas Aliaghaei, Hajarsadat Faghihi Hosseinabadi, Shahrokh Paktinat, Mohammad-Amin Abdollahifar

“…Materials and Methods: In this case-control study, testis autopsy samples were collected immediately after the death of both COVID-19 cases and a control group that included individuals who died due to accidental causes. Gene expression and immunohistochemical assays were conducted to evaluate the level of vimentin expression, cell proliferation, and leukocyte infiltration.  …”
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Utility of Spinal Injury Diagnosis Using C-Spine Lateral X-Ray and Chest, Abdomen and Pelvis Computed Tomography in Major Trauma Patients with Impaired Consciousness by Yoon Soo Jang, Byung Hak So, Won Jung Jeong, Kyung Man Cha, Hyung Min Kim

“…Methods The study included patients visited the urban emergency medical center with major blunt trauma who were over 18 years of age from January 2013 to December 2016. …”
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Analysis of Microbial load and Litter Characterisation of Araromi Beach Sand, Ondo State, Nigeria by O. S. Odewumi, M. M. Quist

“…The microbial load ranged from 1.45 × 10-4 CFU/g to 12.4 × 10-4 CFU/g which were found to be within the permissible limit (8 CFU/g to 250 CFU/g) as stated by the WHO. However, Microbial load showed significant difference (t=0.011) between the areas of high tourist activities and low tourist activities. …”
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The Problem of Recurrent Injuries in Collegiate Track and Field by Chris Hopkins, Samantha Kanny, Catherine Headley

“… # Results Four hundred and seventy-four injuries were reported, 13.1% of which were classified as recurrent injuries. T&F athletes who competed in jumps experienced a lower proportion of recurrent injuries (6.1%) than runners (14.6%) and throwers (19.2%) (Recurrent IPR 0.40, 95% CI 0.18-0.88, p\<0.05). …”
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The Problems of Implementing Imkan Rukyat in the Case of an Invisible Hilal (Crescent): A Perspective of Syafi’i Scholars by Hudi Hudi, Ahmad Rofiq

“…However, some Syafi’i scholars permit the determination of the start of the new lunar month the next day based on hisab imkan rukyat, provided that the calculation is done by at least seven qualified astronomers who are unlikely to err, and that the non-sighting of the hilal is due to technical or natural factors. …”
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Implementation of Registration Actions as Manifestation of the Legal Form of Public Administration by V. I. Teremetskyi, Y. V. Zhuravel

“…It has been substantiated that legal and preventive control is carried out during registration actions, where the subject of public administration has the right to check the scope of legal personality and their behavior of the subjects who applied for registration actions. The implementation of registration actions in the context of providing administrative services with different content and public legal nature has been studied. …”
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Assessment of retinal pigment epithelium tears in eyes with submacular hemorrhage secondary to age-related macular degeneration by Tomoko Ueda-Consolvo, Syogo Takahashi, Toshihiko Oiwake, Tomoko Nakamura, Masaaki Ishida, Shuichiro Yanagisawa, Atsushi Hayashi

“…This study was a retrospective, observational case series that included 24 eyes of 24 patients who underwent PPV with subretinal tissue plasminogen activator and air for SMH. …”
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Characteristics, treatment patterns, and biomarker testing of patients with advanced RET fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer in a real-world multi-country observational stud... by Urpo Kiiskinen, Grace Segall, Hollie Bailey, Cameron Forshaw, Tarun Puri

“…A smaller RET fusion-positive cohort comprised patients from the overall aNSCLC cohort who had RET fusion-positive disease and no other co-alterations, plus an oversample of patients with RET fusion-positive disease and no other co-alterations.ResultsPatient characteristics were generally similar between the overall aNSCLC cohort (n=2947) and the RET fusion-positive cohort (n=576), aside from higher proportions of White/Caucasian patients, never smokers, and adenocarcinoma among the RET fusion-positive cohort. …”
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