Pterigyum. A case presentation. by Eduardo Rojas Alvarez

“…This is a 43 year-old patient from Guatemala. He is a fisherman who lives in the Izabal Department. He came to the Nevaj ophthalmological centre, in Quiché, Guatemala complaining of diminishment of his visual acuity and tearing in both eyes. …”
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Transforming preschool teacher’s role: From implementer toward researcher by Dragana PAVLOVIĆ BRENESELOVIĆ, Živka KRNJAJA

“…The projects reports of 127 teachers who participated at the Annual Conference of Preschool Teachers have been analyzed by coding the data in content analysis matrices. …”
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Are you managing? The effective management of anxiety in residential settings by Iain Macleod

“…Central to the discussion is an acceptance that working with young people who are vulnerable can evoke feelings of anxiety in staff. …”

La primauté du modèle de l’homme grec dans les manuels d’histoire du premier franquisme by Bertrand Noblet

“…Without doubt the educational system, and those who worked within it, had their own system of values, which escaped, at least in part, the official culture.…”
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Dimension reduction for maximum matchings and the Fastest Mixing Markov Chain by Jain, Vishesh, Pham, Huy, Vuong, Thuy-Duong

“…. \] Our bound is optimal under the Small Set Expansion Hypothesis, and answers a question of Olesker-Taylor and Zanetti, who obtained such a result with $\log \Delta $ replaced by $\log |V|$.In order to obtain our result, we show how to embed a negative-type semi-metric $d$ defined on $V$ into a negative-type semi-metric $d^{\prime }$ supported in $\mathbb{R}^{O(\log \Delta )}$, such that the (fractional) matching number of the weighted graph $(V,E,d)$ is approximately equal to that of $(V,E,d^{\prime })$.…”
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Modeling and prediction of HIV in China: transmission rates structured by infection ages by Yicang Zhou, Yiming Shao, Yuhua Ruan, Jianqing Xu, Zhien Ma, Changlin Mei, Jianhong Wu

“…Despite the large variation in this statistical data attributable to theknowledge of HIV, surveillance efforts, and uncertain events, and although thereported data counts individuals who might have been infected many yearsago, our analysis shows that the model structured on infection age can assistus in extracting from this data set very useful information about transmissiontrends and about effectiveness of various control measures.…”
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Trace Element Speciation and Nutrient Distribution in <i>Boerhavia elegans</i>: Evaluation and Toxic Metal Concentration Across Plant Tissues by Tahreer M. Al-Raddadi, Lateefa A. Al-Khateeb, Mohammad W. Sadaka, Saleh O. Bahaffi

“…Importantly, all detected toxic elements (arsenic, chromium, lead, and cadmium) were below WHO safety limits. These findings provide crucial insights into the nutritional and safety profile of <i>B. elegans</i>, potentially informing its use in traditional medicine and highlighting its potential as a source of essential elements.…”
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Prioritization of delayed vaccination for pandemic influenza by Eunha Shim

“…This vaccination scheme would maximize the benefits ofvaccination by protecting the high-risk people directly, andgenerating indirect protection by vaccinating children who are mostlikely to transmit the disease.…”
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L’instituteur du Code Soleil : la vocation d’un prophète missionnaire by André Pachod

“…The teacher is seen as a trainer who is symmetrical with an initial and continued vocation which turns around three basic paradigms: the appeal, the mission, the state of life. …”
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Circumcision Complications Associated with the Plastibell Device and Conventional Dissection Surgery: A Trial of 586 Infants of Ages up to 12 Months by Seyed Abdollah Mousavi, Ebrahim Salehifar

“…In each group, the rate of complications was not different among children who had a normal weight, compared to those of a lower or upper (10%) weight. …”
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The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents by Ask Kristine, Sørenssen Ingvild Kvale, Moltubakk Stine Thordarson

“…Based on qualitative interviews with 29 parents who identify as gamers, we explore how gamer parents domesticate games. …”
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Acute Hemoptysis Redefined: A Deadly Presentation by Claudio Galvis, Juan M. Galvis, Juan Guardiola, Adrian P. Umpierrez De Reguero

“…We report a 90-year-old man with no significant medical history who presented to the emergency department with abrupt onset of hemoptysis; his chest X-ray displayed left upper lobe opacity with widened mediastinum. …”
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Bullous pemphigoid and morphea: Coexistence or an incidental association by Seema Rani, Sweta Singh, Arvind Ahuja

“…In this report, we describe an old diabetic patient with a history of plaque morphea who developed BP while in remission from treatment.…”
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Efficacy and Tolerability of the Association of Sibutramine and Orlistat for Six Months in Overweight and Obese Patients by Alfredo Halpern, Renata B. Pepe, Ana Paola Monegaglia, Mônica Beyruti, Maria Edna de Melo, Marcio C. Mancini

“…Methods. 446 overweight and obese patients who sought treatment for obesity in a private clinic were assessed every 2 weeks during a period of 3 and 6 months. …”
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The status of the Prime Minister in the sphere of security by Mirosław Karpiuk, Marek Klimek

“…Results The status of the Prime Minister in the sphere of security has been regulated by the legislator, who grants him managerial competences in this area. …”
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Conditioning Factors of Late Payment of Trade Credit by Claudinê Jordão de Carvalho

“…The results show that companies with more short - term debt s , beginner on its business acti vities , and that have a higher proportion of customers who pay their credit purchase on time are more likely to delay their obligations to suppliers.…”
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COX-2 Gene Promoter Polymorphism and Coronary Artery Disease in Middle-Aged Men: The Helsinki Sudden Death Study by Kati H. Huuskonen, Tarja A. Kunnas, Minna M. Tanner, Jussi Mikkelsson, Erkki Ilveskoski, Pekka J. Karhunen, Seppo T. Nikkari

“…The Helsinki sudden death study autopsy material (n = 300) comprised of Finnish men who died suddenly. The area of atherosclerotic lesions in the coronary arteries was quantitated, and coronary narrowing was measured. …”
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Struggling with and mastering e-mail consultations: A study of access, interaction, and participation in a digital health care system by Grønning Anette

“…The study demonstrates that e-consultations are more than a digital access point to the healthcare system: patients often struggle to maintain contact with their general practitioner, and e-consultations can help them navigate the healthcare system. Indeed, those who master this form of communication are appreciative of it and perceive it as screen care.…”
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Skills Transformation in Higher Education: Perceptions of Foreign Language Lecturers by M. Gamze Bozgöz, Bekir S. Gür

“…The research findings also show that work environment is unable to provide professional development and to increase the motivation of the lecturers teaching English, placing them at a disadvantage in universities. Lecturers who think that their ideas are considered unimportant or ignored tend to lose their motivation to improve some professional skills. …”
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The Bricoleur Economy by Annie Barbara Chikwanha

“…Indigenous citizens constitute the bulk of the small and medium scale gold miners who continue to use antiquated methods of extraction and processing and they market their gold through illegal networks managed by middlemen. …”
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