Mensuração da rentabilidade do crédito comercial: aplicação em um caso atacadista-distribuidor by Dany Rogers Silva, Karem Cristina de Sousa Ribeiro, Hsia Hua Sheng

“…A decisão das empresas que levam em consideração apenas o risco de crédito e o porte do cliente para estipulação do limite de crédito pode ocasionar decisões incorretas que estejam diminuindo o ganho da empresa ao invés de aumentando a riqueza de seus proprietários.…”
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Prevalence of Occupational Asthma and Respiratory Symptoms in Foundry Workers by Servet Kayhan, Umit Tutar, Halit Cinarka, Aziz Gumus, Nurhan Koksal

“…A total of 347 participants including 286 workers from production department and 61 subjects who worked in nonproduction departments were enrolled in this study. It is found that phlegm (n: 71, 20.46%) and cough (n: 52, 14.98%) were the most frequent symptoms. …”
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Long-Term Outcome of an HIV-Treatment Programme in Rural Africa: Viral Suppression despite Early Mortality by Roos E. Barth, Hugo A. Tempelman, Robert Moraba, Andy I. M. Hoepelman

“…Continued efforts are needed to enrol patients earlier. Furthermore, the observed viro-immunological dissociation emphasises the need to make HIV-RNA testing more widely available.…”
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Analysis of Extrahepatic Multiple Primary Malignancies in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma according to Viral Infection Status by Keita Kai, Atsushi Miyoshi, Kenji Kitahara, Masanori Masuda, Yukari Takase, Kohji Miyazaki, Hirokazu Noshiro, Osamu Tokunaga

“…A total of 412 patients who underwent surgical resection for primary HCC were enrolled. Viral infection was evaluated by serum HBV surface antigen (HBs Ag) and HCV antibody (HCV Ab). …”
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Una modernización importada. Consumo de artículos extranjeros en el Valle del Cauca (1850-1900) by Brayhan Arévalo Meneses

“…Con todo, este es un intento por escribir una historia cultural y económica sobre una de las facetas menos conocida del comercio internacional decimonónico, dentro de un campo de investigación que viene abriéndose camino: la historia del consumo.…”
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Salivary Antioxidant Profile in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and Periodontitis by Stefan I. Sredojevic, Slavica Pavlov Dolijanovic, Ivan Dozic, Jovana Kuzmanovic Pficer, Zoran Aleksic, Natasa S. Nikolic-Jakoba

“…Twenty patients with established diagnoses of systemic sclerosis and periodontitis (SSc group) and 20 systemically healthy individuals with periodontitis (P group) were enrolled in the study. Clinical periodontal parameters (clinical attachment level (CAL), gingival recession (GR), periodontal probing depth (PPD), and gingival index (GI)) and concentration of uric acid (UA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) in unstimulated saliva samples were assessed. …”
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El Mercosur agrario: ¿Integración para quién? by Agostina Costantino, Francisco Cantamutto

“…Este proceso de integración regional fue guiado por la perspectiva política del realismo periférico y dentro de un marco de regionalismo abierto, lo que consagró la apertura comercial como el aspecto más desarrollado del nuevo bloque. …”
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Depth of Anesthesia as a Risk Factor for Perioperative Morbidity by Argyro Petsiti, Vassilios Tassoudis, George Vretzakis, Dimitrios Zacharoulis, Konstantinos Tepetes, Georgia Ganeli, Menelaos Karanikolas

“…In total, 248 patients enrolled. Data were analyzed using Fisher’s exact test and multiple logistic regression. …”
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Hyperreflective Intraretinal Spots in Diabetics without and with Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: An In Vivo Study Using Spectral Domain OCT by Stela Vujosevic, Silvia Bini, Giulia Midena, Marianna Berton, Elisabetta Pilotto, Edoardo Midena

“…Methods. 36 subjects were enrolled: 12 with no DR, 12 with DR, and 12 normal subjects who served as controls. …”
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The Epidemiology of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in China by Shang-Chen Yang, Sindy Hu, Sheng-Zheng Zhang, Jin-wen Huang, Jing Zhang, Chao Ji, Bo Cheng

“…There were 166 patients enrolled, including 70 SJS, 2 SJS/TEN overlap, and 94 TEN. …”
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Use of Adjuvant Sorafenib in Liver Transplant Recipients with High-Risk Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Kirti Shetty, Chiranjeev Dash, Jacqueline Laurin

“…Methods. We prospectively enrolled patients transplanted for HCC into a treatment protocol utilizing sorafenib if their explant examination showed evidence of viable tumor exceeding Milan criteria. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Antisocial Personality Disorder According to the Crime Types by Hasan KARADAG, M. Hakan TURKCAPAR, S. Olga GURIZ, Kadir OZDEL, Akfer KARAOGLAN KAHILOGULLARI

“…One hundred and fifty-three patients with ASPD were enrolled. The diagnosis was made according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV criteria. …”
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The Effectiveness of Liraglutide in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Compared to Sitagliptin and Pioglitazone by Takamasa Ohki, Akihiro Isogawa, Masahiko Iwamoto, Mitsuru Ohsugi, Haruhiko Yoshida, Nobuo Toda, Kazumi Tagawa, Masao Omata, Kazuhiko Koike

“…Methods. We retrospectively enrolled 82 Japanese NAFLD patients with T2DM and divided into three groups (liraglutide: N = 26, sitagliptin; N = 36, pioglitazone; N = 20). …”
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Flow-Mediated Dilatation in the Assessment of Coronary Heart Disease: A Meta-Analysis by Xiaoyong Xiao, Xiang Li, Xiaohua Xiao, Jingjing Wang, Dehong Liu, Zhe Deng

“…In this meta-analysis, 9 studies enrolled a total number of 943 participants, including 534 (56.63%) patients with CHD and 409 controls (43.37%). …”
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Reconfiguración del sentido de enfermedad crónica: la emergencia de bienestar by Dora Isabel Garzón De Laverde, María Piedad Rojas Gil, Elkin Higuera-Dagovett

“…En el contexto conversacional surgen nuevos sentidos de la enfermedad crónica, emergente en las diferentes formas de acción y de relación; lo que implica coevolución hacia formas de organización y afrontamiento generativo con nuevos posicionamientos del sí mismo centrado en la recuperación del poder que tienen las personas y las familias para decidir dentro de opciones posibles.…”
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Risk Prison and Hepatitis B Virus Infection among Inmates with History of Drug Injection in Isfahan, Iran by Daneshmand Dana, Nokhodian Zary, Adibi Peyman, Ataei Behrooz

“…In a cross-sectional study, all IDUs inmates were enrolled. Sociodemographic characteristics and associated risk factors were obtained. …”
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Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Drainage without Fluoroscopic Guidance for Extraluminal Complicated Cysts by Hyeong Seok Nam, Hyung Wook Kim, Dae Hwan Kang, Cheol Woong Choi, Su Bum Park, Su Jin Kim, Dae Gon Ryu, Joon Ho Jeon

“…Patients who had undergone nonfluoroscopic EUS-guided drainage of extraluminal complicated cysts were enrolled. Drainage was performed via a transgastric, transduodenal, or transrectal approach. …”
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Prevalence of Anxiety among Hungarian Subjects with Parkinson’s Disease by Márton Kovács, Attila Makkos, Rita Weintraut, Kázmér Karádi, József Janszky, Norbert Kovács

“…A total of 190 PD patients were enrolled into the clinimetric validation phase of the study and another 590 participated in the cross-sectional screening phase. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Physical Activity on Dementia Progression Using Clustering and the MRI-Based Kullback–Leibler Divergence by Agnieszka Wosiak, Małgorzata Krzywicka, Katarzyna Żykwińska

“…The analysis used clinical and neuroradiology data from 42 patients enrolled in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). …”
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Performance of a score to characterise adequate contact among the social network of persons with TB by M.E. Castellanos, S. Zalwango, T.H.T. Quach, R. Kakaire, L. Martínez, M.H. Ebell, K.K. Dobbin, N. Kiwanuka, C.C. Whalen

“…We calculated the prevalence ratio (PR) for the association between contact scores (by domain) with TBI using modified Poisson regression models. RESULTS: We enrolled 955 household and community contacts from 119 TB cases. …”
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