Allograft Cellular Bone Matrix in Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion: Preliminary Radiographic and Clinical Outcomes by Antoine G. Tohmeh, Blake Watson, Mirna Tohmeh, Xavier J. Zielinski

“…At 12 months, 92% reported being “very” or “somewhat” satisfied with their outcome and 86% being either “very” or “somewhat likely” to choose to undergo the procedure again. Complete fusion was observed in 90.2% (55/61) of XLIF levels. …”
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Animal Models of Diabetic Neuropathy: Progress Since 1960s by Md. Shahidul Islam

“…Hence, this review comparatively evaluates the animal models of diabetic and PDN which are developed since 1960s with their advantages and disadvantages to help diabetic research groups in order to more accurately choose an appropriate model to meet their specific research objectives.…”
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Modeling and Dynamic Performance Analysis of Hydraulic Top Drive Main Transmission System with Long Hydraulic Pipelines by Yuanling Shi, Pingsong Zhang

“…The simulation results demonstrate that pipeline lengths and pipeline diameters affect the system in different laws, and it needs to comprehensively consider the system response speed, overshoot, and steady-state characteristics when choosing the size of pipelines for hydraulic top drive.…”
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Received signal strength difference–based tracking estimation method for arbitrarily moving target in wireless sensor networks by Zixi Jia, Bo Guan

“…Finally, we determine the target’s final location by choosing the reference dot with the minimum norm in the refined zone . …”
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An Evaluation of Initial Vancomycin Dosing in Infants, Children, and Adolescents by Laura Broome, Tsz-Yin So

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Be Your Sister’s Keeper: Personal Experience of Travelling a Lonely Journey in Academia by Duduzile Mzindle

“…The journey is worsened when one climbs the ladder and leaves sisters behind who choose to be ‘campers’ in these universities. Be your sister’s keeper is a biblical term that speaks to the fact that we need to practice ethics of care among ourselves. …”
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The Issue of Subway Commuters’ Departure Time Choices under the Influence of Bike-Sharing by Jie Yu, Jie Wang, Qiang Wen, Tao Chen

“…Specifically, under the constant marginal-activity utility, about 6.76% of commuters actually choose to depart earlier, while under the linear marginal-activity utility, this figure is 6.91%. …”
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Transformation of the American academic system during the COVID-19 pandemic by S. A. Grishaeva, I. S. Suslenko

“…It is worth noting that the actively current trends of digitalisation, computerisation and the general implementation of the advancements of the scientific and technological progress of the higher education system were overlapped by the new emergency conditions of the pandemic and the need to choose a different format of functioning in the current situation. …”
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Constructing Multiple-Objective Portfolio Selection for Green Innovation and Dominating Green Innovation Indexes by Meng Li, Kezhi Liao, Yue Qi, Tongyang Liu

“…Investors thus fully envisage the trade-offs and enjoy the freedom of choosing preferred portfolios on the surface. In contrast, the screening-indexing strategies inflexibly leave investors with only one point (i.e., the green innovation index). …”
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Effect of Adiponectin Variant on Lipid Profile and Plasma Adiponectin Levels: A Multicenter Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Guiqing Wang, Yufeng Wang, Zhi Luo

“…These findings are beneficial to clinical physicians to choose different management strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention.…”
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A framework for understanding the path to achieve high resilience of maritime supply chain by Xiuqian Chen, Liangyong Chu, Mengyao Wang, Qion Chen

“…This paper reveals the multiple routes to enhance the resilience of MSC, which can instruct MSC members to choose the correct resilience management strategies based on their existing resources and situations and can help both practitioners and researchers to understand in more detail of the various dimensions and nuances of resilience in the context of MSC.…”
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THE LINGUISTIC ADAPTION IN AN IMMIGRANT LANGUAGE SETTING IN MAKASSAR, INDONESIA by Andi Samsu Rijal, Andi Mega Januarti Putri, Sulviana Sulviana

“…These interactions result from unique way communication, how these immigrants choose a certain language to communicate with each other. …”
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Coordinating Manipulation in Real-time Interactive Mechanism of College Admission: Agent-Based Simulations by Lan Hou, Tao Jia, Xiangbing Wang, Tongkui Yu

“…With agent-based simulations, we find that a large portion of students will choose to perform coordinating manipulation, which erodes the welfare and fairness of society. …”
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When Your Judgment (Mis)Matches Mine: How One’s Self and Others’ Metacognitive Judgments Impact Our Perception of Others by Yoonhee Jang, Heungchul Lee, Lisa K. Son

“…Participants were asked to choose the one, given a series of all possible pairs of two peers, who they would get along with better; and who they thought noticed/observed them better. …”
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The use of teaching methods by the teachers who work at high schools and the reasons of their preference (Ankara province sample) by Gökhan Acar, Haluk Koc, Mustafa Koc

“…As a result, property and size of the learning group, teacher's tendency to the method, duration, physical opportunities, financial sources and prospective behaviours should be taken into account while choosing the teacing method.Also there is a need of organizing in-service training courses in the field of teaching techniques to the teachers and of a cooperation between universities and Ministry of National Education in order to lead teachers to the use of teching methods and techniques.…”
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Iron Chelators in Treatment of Iron Overload by Sarina Entezari, Seyedeh Mona Haghi, Narges Norouzkhani, Barsa Sahebnazar, Fatemeh Vosoughian, Diba Akbarzadeh, Muhammad Islampanah, Navid Naghsh, Mohammad Abbasalizadeh, Niloofar Deravi

“…In numerous clinical conditions, due to the lack of accurate indicators, choosing a standard approach for iron chelation therapy can be difficult; therefore, further studies on the issue are still required. …”
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Maze runners: monkeys show restricted Arabic numeral summation during computerized two-arm maze performance by Elizabeth L. Haseltine, Michael J. Beran

“…Across four test phases, monkeys used a joystick controller to choose one of two maze arms on the screen. Each maze arm contained zero, one or two Arabic numerals, and any numerals in the chosen maze arm provided the monkeys with rewards equivalent to the value of those numerals. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Healthcare Providers by Derrick Huang, Latha Ganti, Emily Weeks Graham, Dipal Shah, Ilya Aleksandrovskiy, Morthatha Al-Bassam, Frank Fraunfelter, Mike Falgiani, Leoh Leon, Carlos Lopez-Ortiz

“…We sought to investigate predictors of openness to vaccination among healthcare workers who choose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to explore potential solutions…”
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Approaches to the application of the analytic hierarchy process in order to make a decision by the head of the border control unit by M. N. Sorokin, D. S. Rabenka

“…To obtain a sufficient number of qualitative judgments when choosing indicators of factors that directly affect the protection of the state border, the authors propose a method for determining the required number of experts when conducting expert assessments. …”
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UJI TINGKAT KEMATANGAN BUAH MANGGA MENGGUNAKAN PIGMEN ANTOSIANIN DARI BUNGA TELANG (Clitoria ternatea) by Dhanang Puspita, Monang Sihombing, Karina Permata

“…Increased consumption of fruit requires consumers to understand how to choose good and ripe fruit. The level of fruit maturity can be known based on physical characteristics, including the parameters of size, weight, skin color, fragrance of the fruit, and the level of hardness of the fruit flesh. …”
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