Pre-surgery Factors to Predict Mortality and Major Complications in Coronary Surgery with no Extracorporeal Circulation by Yanier Coll Muñoz, Francisco Javier Vázquez Roche, Dayan García Cuesta, René M. Cabrera Núñez, Claudio R. Pérez Alfonso, Lázaro de la Cruz Avilés

“…It would be important to know their effectiveness in patients who underwent surgery with no extracorporeal circulation and cardioplegic cardiac arrest. …”
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Complimentary Imaging Modalities for Investigating Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Capsule Endoscopy, Double-Balloon Enteroscopy, and Computed Tomographic Enterography by Ye Chu, Sheng Wu, Yuting Qian, Qi Wang, Juanjuan Li, Yanping Tang, Tingting Bai, Lifu Wang

“…The complimentary value of computed tomographic enterography (CTE) and double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) combined with capsule endoscopy (CE) was evaluated in the diagnosis of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB). Methods. Patients who received CE examinations at Ruijin Hospital between July 2007 and July 2014 with the indication of OGIB were identified, and those who also underwent DBE and/or CTE were included. …”
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Diagnostic Concordance Characteristics of Oral Cavity Lesions by Ufuk Tatli, Özgür Erdoğan, Aysun Uğuz, Yakup Üstün, Yaşar Sertdemır, İbrahim Damlar

“…A retrospective analysis was conducted on the patients, who were admitted with oral cavity pathology and underwent biopsy procedure between 2007 and 2011. …”
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Case report: a patient with spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma recovered after conservative treatment by Jingge Cheng, Bo Li, Shuaiye Liu, Yiming Liu, Yipeng Zhao

“…This paper reports a case of a patient with this disease, a 68 years-old male who presented with sudden neck pain weakness, and numbness in the left limbs for 2 h. …”
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Sentinel Node Biopsy Alone versus Completion Axillary Node Dissection in Node Positive Breast Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Rachna Ram, Jasprit Singh, Eddie McCaig

“…The surgical morbidity was found to be significantly more in patients who had underwent axillary dissection. Conclusion. …”
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International Gold Price Forecast Based on CEEMDAN and Support Vector Regression with Grey Wolf Algorithm by Wanbo Lu, Tingting Qiu, Wenhui Shi, Xiaojun Sun

“…Besides, in order to further improve the prediction accuracy of IMFH, we have developed a novel hybrid method based on the support vector regression (SVR) model and the grey wolf optimizer (GWO) algorithm with SVR for predicting the IMFH of gold prices, i.e., the CEEMDAN-GWO-SVR model. …”
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Online purchase intentions of affluent women: blending African beliefs, consumer vanity and luxury beauty products online purchase intentions by Divaries Cosmas Jaravaza, Paul Mukucha, Lucy Nhidza, Forbes Makudza

“…However, individuals who uphold Ubuntu ethos are least concerned with vanity, hence, promotional messages and branding must incorporate Ubuntu to capture such consumers.…”
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Potent Oral Hypoglycemic Agents for Microvascular Complication: Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors for Diabetic Retinopathy by Eun Hyung Cho, Se-Jun Park, Seongwook Han, Ji Hun Song, Kihwang Lee, Yoo-Ri Chung

“…The medical records of 21 type 2 diabetic patients who used a SGLT2i and 71 patients with sulfonylurea (control) were reviewed retrospectively. …”
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Long-Term Survival in a Patient with Multiple Brain Metastases from Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Gamma Knife Radiosurgery on Four Occasions: A Case Report by Ameer L. Elaimy, Sudheer R. Thumma, Andrew F. Lamm, Alexander R. Mackay, Wayne T. Lamoreaux, Robert K. Fairbanks, John J. Demakas, Barton S. Cooke, Christopher M. Lee

“…Further analysis and clinical research will be valuable in assessing the durability of multiple GKRS for brain metastases patients who experience long-term survival.…”
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Being Genderless of Public Sphere and Sport by Murat Yüksel

“…In the second question, the rate of those who do not agree with the opinion that women should not do sports is 95% for women and 91% for men. …”
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Komischer Diskurs: kognitiv und kulturbedingt by Oksana Zubach

“…The analysis of comic discourse focuses on the interaction between the sender of information, who conveys his own intentions in the statement, and the recipient of information, who in turn interprets information in terms of background knowledge. …”
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Pursuing Uniqueness: Unpacking the Social Identity of Young Urban Migrants through Coffee Culture by Agung Dharma Yuda Adi Ramadhan, Dien Vidia Rosa, Hery Prasetyo

“…The choice of coffee and cafés is an inherent part of the identity of young people who want articulation space for cultural tastes and preferences. …”
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“To Own or Not to Own”. Post-socialist Housing Policy, Privatism and Regimes of Vulnerability in Prague, Czech Republic by Michal Lehečka

“…A situation of non-owners, who have to cope with danger of displacement, will be confronted with the strategies and practices of the “newcomers” – post-Soviet region immigrants who are moving in and buying apartments in similar suburban housing estates. …”
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LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY EFL LEARNERS IN A RURAL AREA by Yanik Lailinas Sakinah, Putu Dian Danayanti Degeng, Sahiruddin Sahiruddin

“…This study aimed to examine what language learning strategies are used by EFL learners who work as the local tour guide at National Park of Bromo Tengger Semeru /Taman Nasional Bromo Tengger Semeru (TNBTS), located in East Java, Indonesia.  …”
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Climate change adaptation strategies adopted by pastoralists in rangelands in Golestan province, Iran by Bahareh Behmanesh, Mohsen Sharaftmandrad, Mohammadreza Shahraki, Hossein Badripour

“…Large and less-educated pastoralists had more adaptability compared to small and well-educated ones. Pastoralists who had jobs other than animal-husbandry and who participated in educational and extension courses on climate change had more adaptability to climate change. …”
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Central Venous Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Hemodialysis Patients: Another Patient Safety Bundle? by B Lynn Johnston, John M Conly

“…Surveillance in 73 hospitals in England between 1997 and 2001 found a CVC BSI rate of 21/1000 nephrology patients at risk who were hospitalized in teaching hospitals (3). …”
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In Captivity of the Body: Intersex(-uality) in the First Half of the 20th Century by Denisa Vídeňská

“…The study also examines the literary work of the Czech physician Emil Tréval (a.k.a. Walter), who, in his novel Maia, presented the story of a man who was born as a hermaphrodite and struggled with this stigma throughout the plot. …”
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Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm Rupture: An Unusual Presentation of Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion: A Case Report by Eda-Cristina Abuchaibe, Nancy Dobrolet, Katherine Peicher, Roque Ventura, Elizabeth Welch

“…We report the case of a 19-year-old female who presented to our institution with SVA rupture. …”
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Disseminated Histoplasmosis as an AIDS-Defining Illness Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin in an 11-Year-Old Female by Kathryn E. Kalata, Christina Osborne, Amy Willis, Kacey Navarro, Laura Z. Fenton, Christiana Smith

“…A previously healthy 11-year-old female, who emigrated from Central America four years prior, was admitted with eight days of fever, night sweats, and anorexia. …”
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Graves’ Disease Causing Pancytopenia and Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia at Different Time Intervals: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by Peyman Naji, Geetika Kumar, Shabana Dewani, William A. Diedrich, Ankur Gupta

“…Herein, we report a patient with GD who had both of these rare complications at different time intervals, along with a review of the related literature. …”
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