Preoperative ANemiA among elderly undergoing Major Abdominal surgery (PANAMA) is associated with early postoperative morbidity and worse quality of life outcomes by Hairil Rizal Abdullah, Celestine Jia Ling Loh, Eunice Jie Yi Kok, Brenda Pei Yi Tan, Hanis Abdul Kadir, Phui-Sze Au-Yong

“…This prospective observational study was conducted from 2017 to 2021 in a tertiary hospital’s preoperative anesthesia clinic. …”
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Prevalence of Diarrhea Disease and Associated Factors Among Children Under 5 Years in Geshiyaro Project Implementation Sites in Ethiopia: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Zinabu Assefa Alemu, Aderajew Mekonnen Girmay, Kirubel Tesfaye Teklu, Ermias Alemayehu Adugna, Melaku Gizaw Serte, Tsigereda Assefa Alemayehu, Badasa Wagari Likasa, Benjamin Collyer, Zelalem Mehari, Mihretab Salasibew, Getachew Tollera, Masresha Tessema

“…Therefore, this study aimed to fill this gap. Methods A community‐based cross‐sectional study was conducted from June to July 2023. …”
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The Effect of Anterior Uterocervical Angle on Primary Dysmenorrhea and Disease Severity by Mefkure Eraslan Sahin, Erdem Sahin, Yusuf Madendag, Ilknur Col Madendag, Ahter Tanay Tayyar, Fatma Özdemir, Gokhan Acmaz, Iptisam Ipek Muderris

“…The Andersch and Milsom scale was used to determine dysmenorrhea severity. Those with pathologies causing secondary dysmenorrhea were excluded from the study. …”
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Using the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System for Doxycycline-inducible Gene Expression in RAW264.7 Macrophage Cells to Study Phagocytosis by Parsa Kamali, Gregory Fairn

“…The system uses a “resurrected” transposase gene named Sleeping Beauty found in salmonid fish. …”
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Contributing factors to postoperative surgical site infections in pituitary neuroendocrine tumors undergoing endonasal transsphenoidal resection by Lei Wang, Shanxian Liu, Jie Zheng, Rui Li, Zhenyi Xing

“…Statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS, focusing on univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. …”
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Elimination of the Impact Produced by DG Units on the Voltage Profile of Distribution Networks by Saad Ouali, Abdeljabbar Cherkaoui

“…The proposed method could be used for the interconnection of the first generation units in emerging networks, which does not yet have an active voltage control strategy, as it could be used for DG units not able to be connected to existing centralized control systems and it could also be used as the principal voltage control strategy, with the extension for several neighboring units and the preservation of the traditional voltage control systems.…”
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Gas Chromatography Coupled to High Resolution Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry as a High-Throughput Tool for Characterizing Geochemical Biomarkers in Sediments by Hector Henrique Ferreira Koolen, Clécio Fernando Klitzke, Joe Binkley, Jeffrey Patrick, Ana Cecília Rizatti de Albergaria-Barbosa, Rolf Roland Weber, Márcia Caruso Bícego, Marcos Nogueira Eberlin, Giovana Anceski Bataglion

“…GC-HRTofMS reduces both sample preparation time and the number of chromatographic runs compared to traditional methodologies used in organic geochemistry. Particularly, the approach based on in-situ derivatization thermal desorption represents a very simple method that can be performed in-line employing few milligrams of sediment, eliminating the need for any sample preparation and solvent use. …”
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U.S.-UK Voting Cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly: Important Votes (2001–2019) by A. O. Mamedova

“…The article analyzes US-UK voting cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly in 2001 – 2019 based on the annual lists of important votes drawn up by the US Department of State. …”
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Experimental Approach for the Evaluation of the Performance of a Satellite Module in the CanSat Form Factor for In Situ Monitoring and Remote Sensing Applications by Juan Sebastián Rodríguez, Andrés Yarce Botero, Diego Valle, Julián Gálvez- Serna, Francisco Botero

“…These were grouped according to the dependence of the treatments formulated in thermal and dynamic variables. For the tests of the first variables, a one-factor design was established using dependent samples on each of the treatments. …”
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Intravenous thrombolysis prevents neurological deterioration in patients with acute pontine infarction by Zhenxiao Chai, Weili Chen, Yichan Ye, Mengwan Song, Lingling Lin, Dongdong Lin, Xuerong Huang, Lifen Chi, Ruyue Huang

“…ObjectivesNeurological deterioration (ND) is common after acute isolated pontine infarction, and no evidence-based treatment is available to prevent this. We determined whether intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) with tissue plasminogen activator soon after pontine infarction prevents ND.MethodsWe retrospectively enrolled consecutive patients admitted to our hospital within 4.5 h after the onset of isolated pontine infarction identified using diffusion-weighted imaging. …”
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The landscape of family medicine in India - A cross-sectional survey study. by Archna Gupta, Raman Kumar, Ramakrishna Prasad, Sunil Abraham, Nisanth Menon Nedungalaparambil, Paul Krueger, Carolyn Steele Gray, Megan Landes, Sanjeev Sridharan, Onil Bhattacharyya

“…This paper describes the findings from the first national survey of family medicine in India. …”
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Persistently different patterns of patient’s global assessment of health in rheumatoid arthritis are associated with pain and impaired function more than with inflammation: an ince... by Sofia Ajeganova, Ingiäld Hafström, Valentina Bala, Björn Svensson

“…Longitudinal PGA trajectories were identified using hierarchical agglomerative clustering procedure with Wards methods, based on PGA assessments during the first 2 years. …”
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Flexible Threshold Quantum Homomorphic Encryption on Quantum Networks by Yongli Tang, Menghao Guo, Binyong Li, Kaixin Geng, Jinxia Yu, Baodong Qin

“…In this paper, we propose a novel <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo>,</mo><mspace width="4.pt"></mspace><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>-threshold QHE (TQHE) network scheme based on the Shamir secret sharing protocol, which allows <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>k</mi><mspace width="4.pt"></mspace><mo>(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>k</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> evaluators to collaboratively perform evaluation computation operations on each qubit within the shared encrypted sequence. …”
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Human–Robot Interactions: A Pilot Study of Psychoaffective and Cognitive Factors to Boost the Acceptance and Usability of Assistive Wearable Devices by Margherita Bertuccelli, Stefano Tortora, Edoardo Trombin, Liliana Negri, Patrizia Bisiacchi, Emanuele Menegatti, Alessandra Del Felice

“…., 10 m path walking for 10 trials). Pre-trial anxiety levels were higher than post-trial ones (<i>p</i> < 0.01). …”
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Apropiación del concepto de desarrollo sostenible por parte del profesorado de una escuela normal by Ibón Silvera Rada, Sabina Esther Guerra Palma, José Luis Olivo-Franco

“…[Resultados] Se fortaleció el concepto de desarrollo sostenible en el colectivo docente, posteriormente, se elaboró una propuesta orientada a realizar ajustes a la plan del área de ciencias naturales y educación ambiental, e incorporar en las mallas curriculares el enfoque Place Base Education, las competencias y los objetivos del desarrollo sostenible. …”
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Clinical presentation of human leptospirosis in febrile patients: Urabá, Colombia. by Pablo Uribe-Restrepo, Janeth Perez-Garcia, Margarita Arboleda, Claudia Munoz-Zanzi, Piedad Agudelo-Florez

“…<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>A prospective multicenter observational study was conducted in six health institutions in the region of Urabá, Colombia. Enrollment was based on leptospirosis-compatible clinical syndrome and a positive preliminary serological test, with PCR used to confirm the disease. …”
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Turkic-Speaking Population on the Steppe Borderland of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate in the 15th – the First Half of the 16th Centuries by Vladyslav V. Hrybovskyi

“…The seasonal migrations, set by the conditions of the first half of the 16th century, persisted until the middle of the 17th century. …”
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Superior biomechanical stability of pedicle screws compared to lateral mass screws: recommendations for bicortical positioning and enhancing bone contact in geriatric C1 vertebrae by Leon-Gordian Leonhardt, Leonie Rörup, Anna Lena Kammal, Michael Hahn, Marc Dreimann, Benjamin Ondruschka, Felix Nikolai von Brackel, Tim Rolvien, Lennart Viezens, Simon von Kroge

“…Purpose The aim of this study was a comparative analysis of the mechanical durability of screw fixation concerning microstructural characteristics of the trajectories of LMS and PS in mono- and bicortical position. Methods Human C1 from geriatric body donors (n = 28; 50% female, age 80.8 ± 13.9 years) were collected and characterized based on their bone microstructure. …”
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A gestão do “risco político” na democracia moçambicana: análise e perspectivas by Luca Bussotti

“…Com a eleição, em 2004, do atual Presidente Armando Guebuza, e ainda mais com o X Congresso da Frelimo, em setembro de 2012, o risco político foi gerido de forma ainda mais dura: o processo de “desdemocratização” do país acentuou-se, e Moçambique transformou-se num país semi-ditatorial. …”
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Discriminating between “drizzle or rain” and sea salt aerosols in Cloudnet for measurements over the Barbados Cloud Observatory by J. Roschke, J. Witthuhn, J. Witthuhn, M. Klingebiel, M. Haarig, A. Foth, A. Kötsche, H. Kalesse-Los

“…These so-called haze echoes are signals from hygroscopically grown sea salt aerosols. Within the Cloudnet target classification scheme, haze echoes are generally misclassified as precipitation (target class: “drizzle or rain”). …”
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