Within-hospital Temporal Clustering of Postoperative Complications and Implications for Safety Monitoring and Benchmarking Using ACS-NSQIP Data by Mark E. Cohen, PhD, Yaoming Liu, PhD, Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, FACS, Bruce L. Hall, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS

“…The described methodology may be useful in assessing clustering in other surgical arenas.…”
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Detection of Neoehrlichia mikurensis in 11 persons who attribute their persistent health complaints to a tick-borne disease by Audun Olav Dahlberg, Audun Aase, Harald Reiso, Rune Midgard, Hanne Quarsten

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Chemical, Mineralogical, and Refractory Characterization of Kaolin in the Regions of Huayacocotla-Alumbres, Mexico by L. M. Romero-Guerrero, R. Moreno-Tovar, A. Arenas-Flores, Y. Marmolejo Santillán, F. Pérez-Moreno

“…The variables that affect the kaolin stability temperature were determined by principal components with the XLSTAT free program.…”
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Image Enhancement of Cross-Border E-Commerce Logistics Video Surveillance Based on Partial Differential Equations by Xiaosheng Yu, Peili Wu

“…Although the development time of cross-border e-commerce in China is very short, the scale of its transactions and the speed of development are amazing, and as a supporting foundation for promoting economic and trade globalization, cross-border e-commerce has an extremely important strategy for this guiding role. This not only brings new opportunities to cross-border e-commerce companies but also excavates a huge potential market for the logistics industry. …”
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Hybrid Approach in the Analysis of Bovine Milk Protein Hydrolysates as a Source of Peptides Containing Di- and Tripeptide Bitterness Indicators by Anna Iwaniak, Piotr Minkiewicz, Monika Hrynkiewicz, Justyna Bucholska, Małgorzata Darewicz

“…Despite above discrepancies, our predictions concerning the release of peptides that may affect the bitter taste of a hydrolysate, contribute to bringing more insights into the taste of foods, especially if unwanted. …”
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Theologen van de twintigste eeuw en de christologie by A. van de Beek

“…Liberal theologians — of whom William Thompson is taken as an example (§5) — saw in Jesus an expression of the idea of humanity, whereas the Dutch theologian Harry Kuitert (§6) brings Christology to an end by considering Jesus as a normal Jewish man, whose beliefs we can share — or maybe not. …”
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E.V. From ‘Greater’ to ‘Global Britain’: The New and the Old in the Foreign Policy of the United Kingdom by E. V. Khakhalkina

“…The author notes that the idea of ‘Greater Britain’, aiming to create a sort of federation that would bring together the metropole and the dominions, emerged as a response to growing centrifugal tendencies within the British Empire and intensification of colonial rivalry between the great powers. …”
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Characterizing avocado production systems for Ugandan exports: the need for consolidation and support for sustainable development by Peter Sseruwagi, Peter Sseruwagi, Edouard Lehmann, Paul Sigombe, Gabriel Ddamulira, Jan Willem Van Casteren, Pieterjan De Bauw

“…Implementation of good agronomic practices and access to inputs and advisory services seem mostly related to farm and field size, and to a lesser extent influenced by farmer age, orchard age, and agroecology, while membership of farmer organizations/associations currently seem to bring limited benefits. This study highlights several comparative advantages and opportunities for the Hass sector in Uganda and identifies the priority challenges to be tackled in future investments and interventions targeting a sustainable avocado industry.…”
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A Novel Stacked Model for Classification of Vocal Cord Paralysis Over Imbalanced Vocal Data by K. Jayashree Hegde, K. Manjula Shenoy, K. Devaraja

“…The aforementioned gave adequate results over the dataset of voice recordings of the vowel that either have a balanced dataset across all the classes or multiple voice pathologies are selected to bring the balance in the dataset equal to healthy subjects. …”
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Assessment of students’ ability to represent determinants of health and health systems science content on concept maps in a pre-clerkship curriculum by Tovah Tripp, Miriam Hoffman, Mitchell Miller, Joshua S. Josephs

“…We reviewed concept maps for inclusion of DoH icons and HSS content and followed the trend throughout each course of the pre-clerkship curriculum. …”
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Are Emirati consumers in United Arab Emirates open to alternative proteins? Insights into their attitudes and willingness to replace animal protein sources by Sajid Maqsood, Feyisola Fisayo Ajayi, Hussein Mostafa, Kehinde Ganiyat Lawal, Juliet Mubaiwa, Noora Alantali, Maryam Alshihhi, Meera Aldhaheri

“…Sustainability concerns alone did not drive purchases, but focusing on sensory qualities and advertising could lead to a shift.DiscussionOur findings bring insights on the knowledge, attitude, and determinants of willingness of native Emiratis toward the purchase and replacement of meat with “alternative proteins-based” food products. …”
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International standards and doctrinal understanding of legal authority as the basis for the formation of the democratic Ukrainian state by Kelbya S.

“…This approach to the relationship between the separation of powers (traditionally an element of the rule of law concept) brings the concepts of the rule of law and the substantive rule of law closer together. …”
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“We’re all in the same storm, but not all of us are in the same boat”: qualitative exploration of UK response-focused civil servants experiences of working from home during COVID-1... by Charlotte E. Hall, Samantha K. Brooks, Neil Greenberg, Dale Weston

“…Meeting the demands of being on the frontline, whilst also adjusting from a normal and practiced way of working to having to work from within one’s home, may bring a plethora of new barriers and facilitators associated with providing an effective pandemic response. …”
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Optimal Dispatch of Reactive Power Using Modified Stochastic Fractal Search Algorithm by Thang Trung Nguyen, Dieu Ngoc Vo, Hai Van Tran, Le Van Dai

“…Compared to SSFS, the three modifications can bring advantages to MSFS such as using smaller number of produced solutions per iteration, spending shorter execution time, finding better optimal solutions, and owning more stable search ability. …”
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Conventional Mercury Penetration and Constant Velocity Mercury Penetration Experiments Are Used to Quantitatively Characterize the Difference in Micropore Structure in Low Permeabi... by Kaitao Yuan, Yan Li, Tiaotiao Shi, Husheng Huang, Yanfei Li, Minglei He

“…The micro characteristic parameters of reservoirs obtained by them are quite different, which bring some difficulties to people’s research. This paper first analyzes the reasons for the differences between the two from the aspects of experimental theory and model, experimental conditions, and experimental process. …”
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Tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil in corticosteroid-resistant hepatitis secondary to tislelizumab: a case report by Chang Jiang, Shanxian Guo

“…Besides, when tumor progression and IRH recurrence occur simultaneously, providing effective immunosuppressive therapy and reasonably arranging systemic anti-tumor therapy may bring clinical benefits to patients.…”
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Debates on Changes in the Foreign Policy of Contemporary China (A Case Study of the English Language Academic Publications) by S. K. Pestsov

“…Since the latter half of 2000s there has been a steady trend in the foreign policy of China towards greater assertiveness. …”
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Reducing personal protective equipment waste in the emergency department of a large regional hospital: codesign informed by system science by Mike Forrester, Rebecca Patrick, Steven Allender, Jaithri Ananthapavan, Urvi Thanekar, Hasini Gunasiri, Minoo Naebe, Maryam Naebe

“…Background This study aimed to bring together health workers from an emergency department (ED) and broader health system changemakers to cocreate a system-oriented understanding of the drivers of single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) waste, and recommend priority actions for government policy, and organisational change, to reduce PPE waste and transition towards a circular economy approach.Methods Participatory group model building was used with ED and PPE health service stakeholders to create a causal loop diagram of drivers of PPE waste and use this diagram to codesign actions to address this waste. …”
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Public-Private Partnership: High-Impact Alliance for Sustainability Targets by Y. I. Vaslavskiy

“…It could help the country to ensure a leap in its economy from statics to dynamics.This leap and respective transformations in corporate and social structures based on the human-centric principles could bring a multiplicative effect to the economy, quality of life, public policy, governance, and other spheres.…”
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System Design and Optimisation Study on a Novel CCHP System Integrated with a Hybrid Energy Storage System and an ORC by Jie Ji, Zujun Ding, Xin Xia, Yeqin Wang, Hui Huang, Chu Zhang, Tian Peng, Xiaolu Wang, Muhammad Shahzad Nazir, Yue Zhang, Baolian Liu, Xiaoying Jia, Ruisheng Li, Yaodong Wang

“…Compared to the original following electrical load (FEL) control strategy, the optimisation process brings overall efficiency improvements. The system’s overall efficiency was increased by from 3%, 3.18%, 2.85%, 17.11%, 8.89%, and 21.7% in the second case studies. …”
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