Neutrality and the Dutch Objection Procedure by Marc Wever, Albert T. Marseille

“…In this contribution we study the preference of objectors concerning the organization of the procedure and to what extent their preference is related to the perceived (lack of) neutrality of the person who conducted their hearing. In particular we focus on the effects of the use of neutral ‘outsiders’ when conducting hearings. …”
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Mitral Valve Surgery in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Mahnoosh Foroughi, Manouchehr Hekmat, Mohsen Ghorbani, Hamid Ghaderi, Masoud Majidi, Mahmood Beheshti

“…Review of the literature has also shown that outcome is good in most SLE patients who have undergone valvular surgery, but association of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome with SLE has negative impact on the outcome.…”
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Giant Nonfunctioning Parathyroid Cyst: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Eoin F. Cleere, Mel Corbett, Anne-Marie Quinn, Thavakumar Subramaniam

“…We present the case of a woman who was referred to our outpatient clinic with a left-sided neck mass and associated compressive symptoms. …”
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Workplace violence: Prevalence, risk factors and preventive measures across the globe by Daniela ACQUADRO MARAN

“…Direct and indirect costs of workplace violence are high, thus governments and policymakers should address this issue with legislative interventions, supporting employers who have the task to carefully consider this psychosocial risk factor in their risk assessment process as well.…”

An Ovarian Pregnancy in a Patient with a History of Bilateral Salpingectomies: A Rare Case by Sadia Khandaker, Pranav Chitkara, Eric Cochran, Jed Cutler

“…The patient is a 32-year-old female who presented to the emergency room with abdominal pain. …”
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Primary Bilateral Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma of the Adrenal Gland Presenting as Incidental Adrenal Masses by Christopher Rizzo, David James Camilleri, Alexandra Betts, Andre’ Gatt, Stephen Fava

“…We present a case of a 62-year-old woman with a history of mild/moderate hereditary spherocytosis with a well-compensated baseline haemoglobin, who presented with rapidly progressive symptomatic anaemia. …”
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Facing Terrorism Alone by Carolyn S. Wilken

“…This is a particularly difficult time for older adults who live alone. While older adults have family and friends to turn to, there are times when it is just scary to live alone. …”
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Acute Renal Failure and Volume Overload Syndrome Secondary to a Femorofemoral Arteriovenous Fistula Angioplasty in a Kidney Transplant Recipient by Dominique Bertrand, Geoffroy Desbuissons, Nicolas Pallet, Albane Sartorius, Christophe Legendre, Marie-France Mamzer, Rebecca Sberro Soussan

“…We report a case of a renal transplant recipient who developed an acute congestive heart failure accompanied by renal failure, which were triggered by femorofemoral AVF angioplasty. …”
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Historical narrative and wisdom. Towards preaching Esther "for such a time as this" by Arie C. Leder

“…It suggests that historical narrative in general depicts a God who reveals himself infrequently, that his presence is normally veiled, and that the reader often has more information about God than the characters in the narrative. …”
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A Delayed and Rather Unusual Presentation of a Bladder Injury after Pelvic Trauma: 5 Years after a Road Traffic Accident by Nikolaos Davarinos, John Thornhill, JP McElwain, David Moore

“…Associated injuries frequently occur in patients who sustain fractures of the pelvis. Specifically, high-energy trauma resulting in pelvic fractures places the bladder and urethra at risk for injury, often resulting in significant complications. …”
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Ruptured Intracranial Mycotic Aneurysm in Infective Endocarditis: A Natural History by Isabel Kuo, Theodore Long, Nathan Nguyen, Bharat Chaudry, Michael Karp, Nerses Sanossian

“…The authors report a case of a 54-year-old man who presented with infective endocarditis of the mitral valve and acute stroke. …”
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Rehabilitation Following Posterior Shoulder Stabilization by Brandon T Goldenberg, Pamela Goldsten, Lucca Lacheta, Justin W Arner, Matthew T Provencher, Peter J Millett

“…In most cases, primary surgical treatment for posterior shoulder instability—a posterior labral repair—is indicated for those patients who have failed conservative management and demonstrate persistent functional limitations. …”
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How Parents and Agents Can Address Bullying with Youth by Rosemary V. Barnett

“… Recently the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new anti-bullying policy that concluded that bullying is not just another childhood behavior that will eventually be outgrown, but rather a public health problem that can have long-term effects for both the bully and the victim. Children who don't escape the cycle of bullying are at higher risk for serious academic, social, emotional, and legal problems. …”
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Island Latissimus Dorsi Muscle Flap and a Perforator Flap in Repairing Post-Gunshot Thoracic Spine CSF Fistula: Case Presentation by Nangole F. Wanjala, Khainga Ominde Stanley

“…We present our experience with the use of flaps in a patient who had sustained such wounds in the thoracic spine. …”
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Internalizing Knowledge and Changing Attitudes to Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation by Inger-Lise Lien, Jon-Håkon Schultz

“…This study shows that internalizing a packet of information as adults, that contradicts an old schema of knowledge internalized as children, can be experienced as epistemologically very painful. Activists in Norway who have changed their attitude to FGC have got information from different educational institutions, from seminars and conferences, from work as interpreters in hospitals, and from discussions among families and friends. …”
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Case report: Significant lesion reduction and neural structural changes following ibogaine treatments for multiple sclerosis by David Qixiang Chen, José Adalberto Inzunza Domínguez, Juan Manuel Valle Uzeta, Abhiram P. Pushparaj, Abhiram P. Pushparaj, Jonathan E. Dickinson

“…We present two case studies of MS patients who underwent a novel ibogaine treatment, highlighting significant neuroimaging changes and clinical improvements. …”
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Cardiac Gated Computed Tomography Used to Confirm Iatrogenic Aortic Valve Leaflet Perforation after Mitral Valve Replacement by Luke Oakley, Kathleen Love, Alfredo Ramirez, Gilbert Boswell, Keshav Nayak

“…In this paper, we describe a young man who reported to our institution after two open cardiac surgeries with new aortic regurgitation found to be due to an iatrogenic perforation of his noncoronary aortic valve cusp. …”
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Existing in hyperliminality: supporting educational developers with complex cross-disciplinary portfolios by Ann Gagne

“…The piece ends with three recommendations that can be put in place to help support success and mitigate some of the tensions found for those who are in these types of cross-disciplinary roles. …”
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Assessment of technological capabilities to counter fraudulent practices in the banking sector by A. V. Berdyshev, I. E. Zarkhin, A. A. Katysheva

“…In connection with the strengthening of Western sanctions on the Russian banking sector, the number of malefactors, who enjoy the confidence of panicking depositors and the unstable situation in the banking market, has increased dramatically. …”
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Mucinous Colorectal Carcinoma in a 17-Year-Old Male: A Diagnosis with Low Clinical Index of Suspicion by James Joseph Yahaya, Edward Ketson Msokwa, Alex Mremi

“…This paper reports a 17-year-old male who presented with mild pallor and a 3-month history of abdominal pain accompanied with a mass on the left lower quadrant, and it was then confirmed histologically to be mucinous CRC of signet ring variant. …”
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