Higher AVCO2 and Lactate Gradient Combined with SOFA Score as a Mortality Predictor during the 6-Hours of Resuscitation of Septic Shock by Morteza Talebi Doluee, Sahar Azam Ghasemzadeh, Ahmad Bagheri Moghadam, Zahra Abbasishaye, Davood Soroosh, Elnaz Vafadar Moradi

“…Conclusion: Overall, the gradient of AV PCO2 and lactate clearance combined with SOFA score can be a valuable tool for clinicians in predicting mortality risk in critically ill patients and guiding treatment decisions. …”
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DGGE Identification of Microorganisms Associated with Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato- or Anaplasma phagocytophilum-Infected Ixodes ricinus Ticks from Northwest Norway by Ann-Kristin Tveten, Andreas Riborg, Hanne Tjelle Vadseth

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A comparison of disseminated intravascular coagulation scoring systems and their performance to predict mortality in sepsis patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Girum Tesfaye Kiya, Gemeda Abebe, Zeleke Mekonnen, Edosa Tadasa, Gedion Milkias, Elsah Tegene Asefa

“…The pooled sensitivity and specificity of ISTH-DIC to predict mortality were 0.43 (95% CI: 0.34-0.52), and 0.81 (95% CI: 0.74-0.87), respectively, while for JAAM-DIC it was 0.73 (95% CI: 0.57-0.85) and 0.46 (95% CI: 0.28-0.65), respectively. …”
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Later-Life Mortality and Longevity in Late-18th and 19th-Century Cohorts. Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Heading? by Rich J. Mourits

“… The limits to human lifespan are a widely discussed topic. Yet, later-life mortality and longevity are generally studied from a genetic perspective, while the social dimension has received less attention. …”
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Laboratory Islands: Renaissance(s), Regression and Re-creation in H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and R. L. Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide by Julie Gay

“…Wells use the insular space to go back to more timeless ways of writing and thus to revive insular romance in works such as The Ebb-Tide or The Island of Doctor Moreau. If by the turn of the 19th century, starting anew and being reborn on a desert island had become increasingly difficult, the island still offered the possibility of a form of literary re-birth or ‘renaissance’, by regressing to more ancient forms of story-telling while simultaneously innovating in terms of literary form and genre. …”
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A Multicenter Observational Prospective Cohort Study of Association of the Prehospital National Early Warning Score 2 and Hospital Triage with Early Mortality by Francisco Martín-Rodríguez, Raúl López-Izquierdo, Carlos del Pozo Vegas, Juan F. Delgado-Benito, Carmen del Pozo Pérez, Virginia Carbajosa Rodríguez, Agustín Mayo Iscar, José Luis Martín-Conty, Carlos Escudero Cuadrillero, Miguel A. Castro-Villamor

“…We collected demographic, physiological, and clinical variables, main diagnosis, and hospital triage level as well as mortality. The main outcome variable was mortality from any cause within two days of the index event. …”
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A prospective cohort study on the impact of healthy lifestyles on all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among adult residents in Guizhou province by Jie ZHOU, Ling LI, Ji ZHANG, Lisha YU, Yujin REN, Wei JI, Yingjiao MU, Tao LIU

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Number of children and dementia risk: a causal mediation analysis using data from the HUNT study linked with national registries in Norway by Teferi Mekonnen, Vegard Skirbekk, Ekaterina Zotcheva, Bo Engdahl, Bernt Bratsberg, Astanand Jugessur, Catherine Bowen, Geir Selbæk, Hans-Peter Kohler, Jennifer R. Harris, Sarah E. Tom, Steinar Krokstad, Trine Holt Edwin, Yehani Wedatilake, Katrin Wolfova, Dana Kristjansson, Yaakov Stern, Asta Kristine Håberg, Bjørn Heine Strand

“…Further measures were obtained through data linkage between information from Statistics Norway and the HUNT1(1984–86), and HUNT2 (1995–97) Surveys. …”
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Association between advanced lung cancer inflammation index and all-cause and cause-specific mortality among asthma patients: a cohort study by Tu-Lei Tian, Xiang-Kun Qu, Hong-Bo Zhang, Cun-Cun Wang, Qing-Qing Yuan, Jing Xia, Li-Fang Cao, Kui Liu

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Association of glucose to lymphocyte ratio with the risk of death in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease by Jinglin Lei, Wentao Duan, Xiaoxi Yao, Zheng Hu, Huihui Fan, Yifan Liu, Wenjian Zhong, Haipeng Li

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Association between monocyte-lymphocyte ratio and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with chronic kidney diseases: A data analysis from national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES) 2003-2010 by Wenwu Liu, Shuwei Weng, Chenghui Cao, Yuting Yi, Yue Wu, Daoquan Peng

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Modelo Digital do Terreno obtido por RPA para cálculo de volume de terra em morros by Leonardo Carlos Barbosa, Laízy de Santana Azevedo, José Rubens Scatimburgo Silva, Willian dos Santos Ferreira, Tarciso Binoti Simas

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Modeling the relationship between the moral charter derived from Islamic teachings and performance with the mediating variable of employees' perception by leila jahantigh, Abbas Babaeenezhad, Mohsen Zayandehroudi, saeed sayadi

“…AbstractThe purpose of this research is to model the relationship between the moral code derived from Islamic teachings and performance with the mediating variable of employees' perception. …”
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Quantitative error analysis of polarimetric phased-array radar weather measurements to reveal radar performance and configuration potential by J. Ho, J. Ho, Z. Li, G. Zhang, G. Zhang

“…<p>The initial weather measurements from two polarimetric phased-array radars (PPARs) with cylindrical and planar configurations, both developed by the Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) at the University of Oklahoma (OU), were compared with those from the dish antenna systems, the operational KTLX Weather Surveillance Radar 1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (<span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 23 km northeast of OU). …”
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« To see beyond the horizon of mere selfishness » : l’horizon moral dans les romans de George Eliot by Benjamine Toussaint

“…In spite of her apostasy, George Eliot still believed in the moral and spiritual values of Christianity and it is hardly surprising she should have used the metaphor of the horizon to refer to this ideal notion of the essence of Christianity since the horizon is both unreachable and yet always visible, showing the direction one ought to follow. …”
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An Improvement Approach for Wide-Angle Impedance Matching Using ELC Metasurface Slabs for SIW Slot Array Antennas by Yi Liu, Hu Yang, Zusheng Jin, Jiang Zhu

“…The effects of mutual coupling in beam scanning arrays increase degradation in gain as the beam is scanned off the broadside. …”
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Design of Adaptive Planar Microstrip Patch Array Operating at 28 GHz for 5G Smart Mobile System by Zhwan Mohammed Rashid, Asaad M. Jassim Al-Hindawi

Subjects: “…Smart antenna, Planar array, LMS Beamforming, Adaptive radiation pattern, Microstrip patch.…”
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Scattering Analysis of a Compact Dipole Array with Series and Parallel Feed Network including Mutual Coupling Effect by H. L. Sneha, Hema Singh, R. M. Jha

“…The results presented can be useful while designing a phased array with optimum performance towards low observability.…”
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From Loan Sharks to Commercial Banks: Moral Crusades and the Segmentation of the Credit Market in the United States, 1900-1945 by Simon Bittmann

“…Second, our research analyses the moral and political construction of a legitimate “business” of unsecured lending, through the study of the crusades and controversies targeting “loan sharks”, a certain class of creditors which gravitated on the fringe of industrial capitalism until the mid-1940s. …”
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A Soft Computing Approach to Crack Detection and Impact Source Identification with Field-Programmable Gate Array Implementation by Arati M. Dixit, Harpreet Singh

“…The CDISI field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation is done using Xilinx’s Spartan 3 FPGA. …”
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