How Much Time Should Be Waited and What Are the Main Findings to Evaluate the Hepatocellular Carcinoma Response to Regorafenib? A Real-Life Experience by Gustavo Hideki Kawanami, Leopoldo Katsuda, Thiara Barcelos Rocha, Fabio da Silva Yamashiro, Leonardo Pelafsky, Xingshun Qi, Fernando Gomes Romeiro

“…This case report is about a cirrhotic patient who received many types of treatment, from surgery and chemoembolization during early stages to first- and second-line systemic therapy when the disease turned to be advanced. …”
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Social media opinion and people’s elite of Russia by O. V. Kryshtanovskaya

“…During 329 personal interviews in 55 subjects of the Federation, we collected the names of people who are holding an impeccable reputation in society. …”
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Weight Maintenance with Litramine (IQP-G-002AS): A 24-Week Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study by Barbara Grube, Pee-Win Chong, Felix Alt, Ralf Uebelhack

“…Primary endpoints were difference of mean body weight (kg) between baseline and end of study and maintenance of initially lost body weight in verum group, where maintenance is defined as ≤1% weight gain. Results. Subjects who were taking Litramine lost significantly more body weight compared to the subjects taking placebo who gained weight instead (-0.62±1.55 kg versus 1.62±1.48 kg, p<0.001). …”
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Perspectives of medical sciences students regarding COVID-19 vaccination: a cross-sectional study by Maryam Aghabarary, Mahsa Khedmatizare, Roohangiz Norouzinia

“…Abstract Background The perspectives of medical sciences students regarding COVID-19 vaccination are crucial as they are future healthcare providers who will influence public health outcomes and vaccination rates. …”
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Fault Diagnosis Method for Rotating Machinery Based on Hierarchical Amplitude-Aware Permutation Entropy and Pairwise Feature Proximity by Ling Shu, Jinxing Shen, Xiaoming Liu

“…Finally, the sensitive feature vectors are input into GWO-SVM for training and testing, so as to realize the fault identification of rotating machinery. …”
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: a case report and review of the literature by G. V. Urbonaitė, E. Audronytė, J. Valaikienė

“…PRES should be suspected when acute neurological symptoms develop in patients with renal insufficiency, arterial hypertension or fluctuations in blood pressure, eclampsia, sepsis, and autoimmune diseases who are taking immunosupressive or citotoxic medications. …”
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Features and Frequency of Complications Among Pilgrims with Diabetes During Hajj by Sanobia Yousuf, Muhammad Y Ahmedani

“…Those who were not willing to participate or perform Hajj have been excluded. …”
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Care partner experience with telepresence robots in long-term care during COVID-19 pandemic by Grace Hu, Joey Wong, Lily Haopu Ren, Sarah Kleiss, Annette Berndt, Lily Wong, Ali Hussein, Nazia Ahmed, Jim Mann, Lillian Hung

“…We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 care partners who used the robots in five urban Canadian LTC homes between May 2021 and August 2023. …”
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Rapid Acting Insulin Use and Persistence among Elderly Type 2 Diabetes Patients Adding RAI to Oral Antidiabetes Drug Regimens by Usha Sambamoorthi, Arijita Deb, Steve Zhou, Rahul Garg, Tao Fan, Anders Boss

“…We examined the real-world utilization and persistence of rapid acting insulin (RAI) in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes who added RAI to their drug (OAD) regimen. Insulin-naïve patients aged ≥65 years, with ≥1 OAD prescription during the baseline period, who were continuously enrolled in the US Humana Medicare Advantage insurance plan for 18 months and initiated RAI were included. …”
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Relationship between influenza-related experience and current vaccination outcome by Yunwei Gai

“…Conclusion Vaccination promotion efforts could focus on those who have not been vaccinated in the past and on specific sub-populations, such as people who are Hispanic, people with lower education levels, the population aged 65 and above, and families with low-income levels. …”
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Race, Gender, and Power : Black Women, White Women, and Racial Segregation in the Southern United States (1920-1970) by Anne Stefani

“…These conditions account for the fact that the women who became engaged in the struggle for racial equality in the region did so separately at first, and then joined their efforts in the civil rights movement. …”
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Occupational Risks in Occupational Therapy Service Learning: A Single-Site “Fear Factor” Study in South Africa by Deshini Naidoo, Pragashnie Govender, Stephanie Nicole Naidoo, Naledi Ngubane, Zamankosi Nkosi, Aziza Mulla

“…Three focus groups were conducted with seventeen students who voluntarily participated. Audio-recorded data were transcribed and analysed thematically using deductive reasoning. …”
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Diagnostic cholangioscopy for surgical planning of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma by Min Je Sung, Suk Pyo Shin, Chang-Il Kwon, Incheon Kang, Sung Hwan Lee, Seok Jeong Yang, Beodeul Kang, Hong Jae Chon, Gwangil Kim, Chansik An, Kwang Hyun Ko

“…We reviewed the consecutive data of patients who received nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine-cisplatin for the management of extrahepatic CCC and underwent preoperative evaluations between June 2020 and August 2022. …”
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Virtual consulting in the times of COVID-19 by Latika Gupta, Supriya Sharma, Rajat Kharbanda, Shelley Aggarwal, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vikas Agarwal

“…Results: In our experience spanning 5 weeks, among 508 rheumatology patients who sought teleconsultations, rheumatoid arthritis was the most common diagnosis (35.2'), and 43' were asked to continue the same treatment over tele consults, whereas investigations were awaited for another 16'. …”
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Some Episodes from E. Turauskas' Life and Activities by Aldona Vasiliauskienė

“… The Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science (LCAS), restored in Lithuania in 1990, seeks to rescue from oblivion the distinguished people of our nation - statesmen, scholars, clergymen, and public activists who were completely ignored during the Soviet period. …”
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Elevated BP180 ELISA at Diagnosis Correlates with Disease Severity and Relapse in Oral Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid: Preliminary Results from a Retrospective Monocentric Italian Stud... by Andrea Gabusi, Davide B. Gissi, Roberto Rossi, Federica Filippi, Camilla Loi, Cosimo Misciali, Giacomo Clarizio, Michelangelo La Placa, Federico Bardazzi

“…Clinical severity at diagnosis was measured using the oral disease severity score (ODSS). Only patients who achieved clinical remission (CR) were included in the analysis of variables related to relapse. …”
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Chronic Pain after Open Appendectomy and Its Effects on Quality of Life in Children Aged 8–18 Years by Onur Palabiyik, Gurkan Demir

“…The PedsQL scores from the children’s self-reports and their parents’ reports were significantly lower for children who described CPAP as compared to those without CPAP. …”
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Moloch en expansion by Agnès Bouvier

“…First of all, molochism is at work in Greece, and that means “us” in the sense implied by Flaubert when he replied to Sainte-Beuve’s criticism for “not having introduced among the Greeks a philosopher, a man of reason who could have lectured us on morals, or done good deeds, a gentleman, in a word, ‘who feels as we feel’”. …”
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Evaluation of Risk Factors for Antibiotic Resistance in Patients with Nosocomial Infections Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Meliha Cagla Sonmezer, Gunay Ertem, Fatma Sebnem Erdinc, Esra Kaya Kilic, Necla Tulek, Ali Adiloglu, Cigdem Hatipoglu

“…In this clinical study, we investigated the risk factors in patients who were diagnosed with P. aeruginosa-related nosocomial infection. …”
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Magnesium, Aging, and the Elderly Patient by Mladen Davidovic, Dejan Trailov, Dragoslav Milosevic, Branimir Radosavljevic, Pavle Milanovic, Snezana Djurica, Helena Loncar-Stevanovic, Radmila Stevic

“…Also, magnesium levels were measured in patients who passed away in the course of their disease and were compared with the control group. …”
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