Pas de Deux: Active Ulcerative Colitis in an HIV-Positive Patient by David C Pearson, Lloyd R Sutherland, Stephan Urbanski

“…A 40-year-old male who was found to be human immunodeficiency virus-positive when he presented with bloody diarrhea in 1986 is described. …”
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Epidemiological Study on the Status of Nutrition-Support Therapies by Emergency Physicians in China by Chi Niu, Wei Guo, Wei Gu

“…Emergency physicians should pay attention to early identifying and providing nutrition support to those patients who need it. Finally, standardized training should be developed for emergency nutrition-support therapy.…”
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Lingual Thyroid Excision with Transoral Robotic Surgery by Elif Ersoy Callıoglu, Kazım Bozdemir, Bulent Ulusoy, Tolga Oguzhan, M. Hakan Korkmaz

“…In this report, a case at the age of 49 who presented to our clinic with obstructive symptoms increasing within the last year and was found to have lingual thyroid and underwent excision of ectopic thyroid tissue by da Vinci surgical system is presented.…”
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Left Sided Breast Cancer Irradiation ; Prone or Supine Simulation ? by Esra Kekilli, Yasemin Güzle Adaş

“…Aim: The aim of this study was to compare radiation doses of target volumes and critical organs among prone and supine positions for left-sided breast cancer patients who were treated with breast-conserving surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy. …”
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Chest Pain: The Need to Consider Less Frequent Diagnosis by Pedro Magalhães, Anabela Morais, Sofia Carvalho, Joana Cunha, Ana R. Lima, J. Ilídio Moreira, Trigo Faria

“…We report a case of a 68-year-old Caucasian male, chronically hypertensive, who complained of recurrent episodes of chest pain and fever with elevated acute phase reactants. …”
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Comparison of the safety of esophagojejunal overlap and π-shaped anastomosis in totally laparoscopic total gastrectomy by Tongkun Song, Maoxing Liu, Kai Xu, Jiadi Xing, Kechen Guo, Xinyu Qi, Pin Gao, Fei Tan, Zhendan Yao, Nan Zhang, Hong Yang, Chenghai Zhang, Ming Cui, Xiangqian Su

“…Methods A total of 162 consecutive patients with gastric cancer who underwent total laparoscopic total gastrectomy with overlap or π-shaped anastomosis were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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17-Week Delay Surgery after Chemoradiation in Rectal Cancer with Complete Pathological Response by Marisa D. Santos, Manuel T. Gomes, Filipa Moreno, Anabela Rocha, Carlos Lopes

“…About this issue, we report a case of a 52-year-old man with LARC treated with neoadjuvant CRT who developed, one month after RT completion, an acute myocardial infarction. …”
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A Challenge for Diagnosing Acute Liver Injury with Concomitant/Sequential Exposure to Multiple Drugs: Can Causality Assessment Scales Be Utilized to Identify the Offending Drug? by Roxanne Lim, Hassan Choudry, Kim Conner, Wikrom Karnsakul

“…We report a case of acute liver injury in a 12-year-old Hispanic boy, who received a series of five antibiotics (amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, vancomycin, ampicillin/sulbactam, and clindamycin) for cervical lymphadenitis/retropharyngeal cellulitis. …”
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The Specter of Digital Rights by K. I. Ryabov

“…In order to illustrate this thesis the author considers two examples: the semiconductor chip protection and the electronic signature as a way to identify an entity who expressed a will. The author comes to the conclusion that the existing legal instruments for regulating the emerging new factual relations are sufficient, but they must be used correctly. …”
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Eculizumab Therapy Leads to Rapid Resolution of Thrombocytopenia in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome by Han-Mou Tsai, Elizabeth Kuo

“…The swift response in the platelet counts was only observed in one of five cases who received concurrent plasma exchange therapy and was not observed in a case of TMA due to gemcitabine/carboplatin. …”
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Microprogramme en pédagogie de l’enseignement supérieur pour les enseignants : incidences sur la motivation et les stratégies d’apprentissage des étudiants by Mélanie Cabana, Denis Bédard

“…The purpose of this study is to verify the impact of this training program on the motivation and learning strategies of the students of teachers who received this training. Perceptual data collected from 252 students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds enrolled in six programs (enseignement préscolaire et primaire, enseignement collégial, politiques appliquées, chimie, informatique et génie) shows that teachers trained in higher education pedagogy offered lectures and activities that helped keep their students motivated throughout the semester. …”
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Critical Engaged Pedagogy to Confront Racism and Colonialism in (Geo) Science Education Through a Historical Lens by Emily J. Diaz-Vallejo, Ken Keefover-Ring, Elizabeth Hennessy, Erika Marín-Spiotta

“…Furthermore, training of the scientific process as objective and race-neutral results in scientists who do not recognize how science can perpetuate inequities in society. …”
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Exploring Mature Students’ Perspectives on Task-Based Language Teaching in a Ghanaian Private University: A Qualitative Study by Susana Adjei-Mensah

“…This study explored the perspectives of mature students who had undergone 12 weeks of TBLT at a private university. …”
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A literatura juvenil brasileira no início do século XXI: autores, obras e tendências by Gabriela Luft

“…We can observe a number of new authors who have turned up, the diversity of themes worked, and the increase of the narrative complexity.…”
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Feminist Interventions in Political Representation in the United States and Canada: Training Programs and Legal Quotas by Chantal Maillé

“…However, from a feminist perspective, training programs for women who want to run for office are grounded in problematic assumptions.…”
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Is It the pH That Matters? Challenging the Pathophysiology of Acidemia in a Case of Severe Hypercapnia Secondary to Intraoperative CO2 Insufflation by Evan Merle, Saad Zaatari, Rory Spiegel

“…This prompts a wider discussion about the effects of blood pH on human physiology. Most patients who present acidotic are critically ill and have confounding underlying metabolic or respiratory pathophysiology driving their illness. …”
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Some-where over the rainbow by Lucia Saks

“…Apartheid may well be considered as the last 10- geocentric colonial structure (unless, that is, one wishes to included Bosnia under this unpleasant rubric) to finally collapse.1 Further its collapse may be considered the end of a state apparatus formed as an institutionalization of logocentric thinking (something unusual for Derrida who very rarely talks in terms of practices). Let me then begin this paper by turning to the idea of logo centrism and slowly proceed through it to the theme of national identity and its deployment by various theorists. …”
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Surgical management of inverted papilloma; a single-center analysis of 247 patients with long follow-up by Oisín Bugter, Dominiek André Monserez, Floris Vincent Willem Joseph van Zijl, Robert Jan Baatenburg de Jong, Jose Angelito Hardillo

“…Results Recurrence was observed in 20.3%, 28.6% and 35.1% (p = 0.017) of the patients who underwent endoscopic, external and combined surgery, respectively. …”
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First Report of Diabetes Phenotype due to a Loss-of-Function ABCC8 Mutation Previously Known to Cause Congenital Hyperinsulinism by Theocharis Koufakis, Amalia Sertedaki, Elizabeth-Barbara Tatsi, Christina-Maria Trakatelli, Spyridon N. Karras, Eleni Manthou, Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein, Kalliopi Kotsa

“…In the present article, we describe a case of a young, male patient who presented with hyperglycemia in the absence of ketosis and following genetic testing; he proved to harbor the loss-of-function p.Arg1353His (c.4058G>A) mutation in the ABCC8 gene, inherited from his mother. …”
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Nail Biting as a Cause of Appendicitis by Michael Pagacz, Philip Bao, Juan Carlos Alvarez Moreno, Lydia Howard

“…We present here the case of a 49-year-old woman who presented to our emergency room with abdominal pain localizing to the right lower quadrant. …”
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