Management of Malignant Pleural Effusion with ASEPT® Pleural Catheter: Quality of Life, Feasibility, and Patient Satisfaction by Inderdeep Dhaliwal, Masoud Mahdavian, Shabnam Asghari, Benson Chun To Wong, Rosalie Labelle, Kayvan Amjadi

“…This single centre, prospective study enrolled 50 patients with MPE, who were followed for as long as they were alive with a catheter. Quality of Life (QoL) was assessed before, at 2 weeks, and 6 weeks after ASEPT catheter insertion using the EORTC QLQ-C30 and LC13 questionnaires. …”
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Changes in quality of life 5 years after sleeve gastrectomy: a prospective cohort study by Karl Ove Hufthammer, Tone Merete Norekvål, Grethe S Tell, Ronette L Kolotkin, Tone Nygaard Flølo, Anny Aasprang, Villy Våge, John Roger Andersen

“…Objectives Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is the most frequently performed bariatric surgery procedure worldwide, but reports on long-term quality of life (QOL) outcomes are scarce. We investigated 5-year trajectories in QOL and their associations with weight loss after SG.Design A prospective cohort study.Setting The study was conducted in a single Norwegian bariatric surgery centre.Participants Out of 150 operated patients, 127 were included. …”
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An application of structural equation modeling with partial least squares to analyze life satisfaction by degrees of urbanization by Jose A. Sánchez-Martí, Miguel A. Esteban-Yago

Subjects: “…life satisfaction…”
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Attribute Control Chart for Rayleigh Distribution Using Repetitive Sampling under Truncated Life Test by Olatunde Adebayo Adeoti, Gadde Srinivasa Rao

“…In this article, an attribute control chart using repetitive sampling under a truncated life test is proposed for monitoring the mean life of the product where the lifetime follows the Rayleigh distribution. …”
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Retracted: Analysis of Digital Life Effect of Residents’ Trust Based on Multivariate Discrete Choice Model by Journal of Function Spaces

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First report of hypoplastic left heart syndrome in 3p- syndrome and review of candidate genes by Ana Kalise Böttcher, Monique Banik Siqueira, Natasha Malgarezi, Marcela Rodrigues Nunes, Rafaella Mergener, Luisa Pigatto Kalil, Patrícia Trevisan, Paulo Ricardo Gazzola Zen

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Life historytraits of Sirex Noctilio F. (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) canexplain outbreaks independently of environmental factors by Juan Pablo Aparicio, Juan Carlos Corley, Jorge Eduardo Rabinovich

“…We show that outbreaks may be the result of theinsect's life history. Specifically we show that limited dispersalmay not only increase population persistence but also create theconditions for eruptive dynamics. …”
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Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy: Does it Contribute to Chronic Fatigue and Decreased Health-Related Quality of Life in Cirrhosis? by Nigel Girgrah, Graham Reid, Shona MacKenzie, Florence Wong

“…Diminished health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and fatigue have been reported in patients with cirrhosis. …”
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From lab to real-life: A three-stage validation of wearable technology for stress monitoring by Basil A. Darwish, Shafiq Ul Rehman, Ibrahim Sadek, Nancy M. Salem, Ghada Kareem, Lamees N. Mahmoud

“…Validation was extended to the SWEET dataset, representing real-life data, to confirm generalizability and practical applicability. …”
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An Unusual Case of Dual Left Anterior Descending Artery with Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiographic Correlation by Kyle M. Moulton, Greg Kraushaar, Derek A. Fladeland

“…Dual left anterior descending artery (LAD) is a rare coronary anomaly that is important to recognize at coronary imaging as it may influence reperfusion strategies. …”
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The Effect of Rural Guide Plan on Objective Quality of Life among Rural Communities in Fariman County by Aliakbar Anabestani, Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, Fahime Jafari

Subjects: “…life quality…”
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Pure Laparoscopic Left Hepatectomy for Regrowth of Mucinous Cystic Neoplasm of the Liver after Laparoscopic Deroofing by Hideki Kumagai, Akira Umemura, Hiroyuki Nitta, Hirokatsu Katagiri, Shoji Kanno, Daiki Takeda, Satoshi Amano, Koji Kikuchi, Kiyoharu Takashimizu, Masao Nishiya, Noriyuki Uesugi, Tamotsu Sugai, Akira Sasaki

“…We performed pure laparoscopic left hepatectomy for complete resection of the MCN-L. …”
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Comparing Welfare Regime Changes: Living Standards and the Unequal Life Chances of Different Birth Cohorts by Louis Chauvel

“…I highlight the emergence of ‘scarring effects’; that is the irreversible consequences of (short term) social fluctuations in the context of socialisation on the (long term) life chances of different birth cohorts. These scarring effects can affect specific birth cohorts in countries where the welfare regime provides the context for increasing polarisation between middle-aged insiders and young outsiders. …”
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Influence of Humidity on FFP Masks with Electret Filter Media Under Real-Life Wearing Conditions by Daniel Stoll, Sergiy Antonyuk

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Common Fixed-Point Results in Ordered Left (Right) Quasi-b-Metric Spaces and Applications by Hemant Kumar Nashine, Sourav Shil, Hiranmoy Garai, Lakshmi Kanta Dey, Vahid Parvaneh

“…We use the notions of left- and right-complete quasi-b-metric spaces and partial ordered sets to obtain a couple of common fixed-point results for strictly weakly isotone increasing mappings and relatively weakly increasing mappings, which satisfy a pair of almost generalized contractive conditions. …”
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THE STUDY OF EMOTIONAL BURNOUT IN CONNECTION WITH LIFE MEANING AND CAREER ORIENTATIONS AMONG REPRESENTATIVES OF SOCIONOMIC PROFESSIONS by E. Yu. Cherniakevich, E. V. Pogodina

Subjects: “…emotional burnout, specialist, emotional exhaustion, career orientations, life orientations, professional burnout, stress…”
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THE METHOD OF DESIGNING HYDRAULIC DRIVES ON THE EXAMPLE OF A HYDRAULIC DRIVE OF A LIFTING-MAST DEVICE by S. A. Smirnov, N. A. Gorshkova

Subjects: “…lifting-mast device…”
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Mineralization Rates of Soil Forms of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium as Affected by Organomineral Fertilizer in Sandy Loam by Ayeni Leye Samuel, Adeleye Omotayo Ebenezer

“…Organomineral fertilizer (OMF) at the rates of 0, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, and 1.0 g/100 g soil to represent 0, 2.5, 5, 10, and 20 t ha−1 OMF, respectively, was incubated for ninety days. …”
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Exposed! The Public Life of Carboniferous Fossils in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark, Ireland by Eamon Doyle

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Real-Life Experiences with Telaprevir in the Treatment of Chronic Genotype 1 Hepatitis C — The TEPS Study by T. Berg, P. Buggisch, D. Hueppe, S. Mauss, H. Wedemeyer, G. Teuber, T. Lutz, K. Stein, S. Wegner, H. Hinrichsen

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