Ipsilateral concomitant fractures of the clavicle and coracoid process of the scapula: incidence, characteristics, and outcomes by Nan Zhang, Guoyang Bai, Xiaomin Kang, Yangjun Zhu, Dongxu Feng

“…The mean Constant–Murley score was 91.2 ± 9.4 and the mean DASH score was 6.4 ± 7.6. Five patients reported mild shoulder pain and five patients developed complications. …”
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Treatment Patterns and Healthcare Costs Among Patients with Stroke and Spasticity: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study by Michael Hull, Vamshi Ruthwik Anupindi, Jing He, Mitchell DeKoven, Jumaah Goldberg, Jonathan Bouchard

“…Results Overall, 7851 patients fulfilled study criteria; 47.7% were treated with physical or occupational therapy, 11.3% with muscle relaxants, and 0.8% with BoNT-A; 12.4% met the post-index definition of PSS; 84.2% were identified using muscle relaxant or BoNT-A codes, 6.6% using diagnosis codes, and 9.2% using both. …”
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Timing of Type I Open Distal Radius Fracture Fixation Does Not Affect Early Complication Rates by Eric R. Taleghani, MD, James Rex, MD, Samuel Gerak, BA, John Velasquez, MS, Kathryn Rost, BS, Sonu A. Jain, MD, FACS

“…Patients were grouped based on Gustilo Anderson open fracture classification. The primary outcome measures were superficial and deep infection rates in all patients with a minimum of 6-month follow-up. …”
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Demographics and Clinical and Endoscopic Characteristics of Patients with Helicobacter pylori Infection and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Case-Control Study by Amir Mari, Naim Mahroum, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Mahran Shalaata, Tawfik Khoury, Abdulla Watad, Mahmud Mahamid

“…Severity of esophagitis was assessed using the Los Angeles classification. Univariate analysis was performed to figure out differences between patients according to H. pylori infection status. …”
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Time Course of Upper Limb Function in Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Five-Year Follow-Up Study by Katrijn Klingels, Sarah Meyer, Lisa Mailleux, Cristina Simon-Martinez, Jasmine Hoskens, Elegast Monbaliu, Geert Verheyden, Geert Verbeke, Guy Molenaers, Els Ortibus, Hilde Feys

“…Eighty-one children (mean age 9 y and 11 mo, SD 3 y and 3 mo) were assessed at baseline with follow-up after 6 months, 1, and 5 years. Passive range of motion (PROM), tone, muscle, and grip strength were assessed. …”
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Tell me y: anticipation of sex discrepancies in cell-free DNA testing due to maternal genetic abnormalities: a case report by Nuria Balaguer, Emilia Mateu-Brull, Jose Antonio Martínez-Conejero, Ana Cervero, Roser Navarro, Jorge Jiménez-Almazán, Miguel Milán

“…These findings suggest the need for improvements to current bioinformatics pipelines to identify and exclude possible maternal perturbations from the classification algorithms used for aneuploidy and sex calls.…”
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Induction of Macrophage M2b/c Polarization by Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Meng Sun, Linxiao Sun, Chongchu Huang, Bi-cheng Chen, Zhenxu Zhou

“…ADMSCs and peritoneal macrophages were collected from C57BL/6 mice. The culture medium (CM) from ADMSCs (24 hours cultured) was collected. …”
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Maternal death audit in Rwanda 2009–2013: a nationwide facility-based retrospective cohort study by Jeroen van Dillen, Felix Sayinzoga, Leon Bijlmakers, Fidele Ngabo, Victor Mivumbi, Koos van der Velden

“…Almost 3 quarters of the deaths (71.6%) occurred at district hospitals. In 44.9% of these cases, death occurred in the post-partum period. …”
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Sonographic Assessment of Intravascular Fluid Estimate (SAFE) Score by Using Bedside Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit by Keith Killu, Victor Coba, Dionne Blyden, Semeret Munie, Darlene Dereczyk, Pridvi Kandagatla, Amy Tang

“…Applying a numerical scoring system was evaluated by Fisher’s exact testing and multinomial logistic model to predict the volume status based on ultrasound scores and the classification accuracy. Results. 61 patients in the ICU were evaluated. 21 (34.4% of total) patients diagnosed with hypovolemia, and their ultrasound volume score was −4 in 14 (66.7%) patients, −3 in 5 (23.8%) patients, and 0 in 2 (9.5%) patients (p<0.001). 18 (29.5% of total) patients diagnosed with euvolemia, and their ultrasound volume score was 0 in 11 (61.1%) patients, +1 in 4 (22.2%) patients, and −1 in 1 (5.6%) patient (p<0.001). 22 (36.1% of total) patients diagnosed with hypervolemia, and their ultrasound volume score was +4 in 4 (18.2%) patients, +3 in 15 (68.2%) patients, and  + 1 in 1 (4.6%) patient (p<0.001). …”
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A Survey on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Physical Layer Security of Next-Generation Wireless Communications by Ravneet Kaur, Bajrang Bansal, Sudhan Majhi, Sandesh Jain, Chongwen Huang, Chau Yuen

“…Next, we discuss the applications of RIS in the 6G scenario. Then, a detailed and systematic classification of the various RIS-assisted wireless system topologies exhibiting multiple scenarios, system models, channel fading models, performance metrics and objectives is done. …”
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CODE-ACCORD: A Corpus of building regulatory data for rule generation towards automatic compliance checking by Hansi Hettiarachchi, Amna Dridi, Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Pouyan Parsafard, Nicoleta Bocaneala, Katja Breitenfelder, Gonçal Costa, Maria Hedblom, Mihaela Juganaru-Mathieu, Thamer Mecharnia, Sumee Park, He Tan, Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil, Edlira Vakaj

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Visual and Auditory fMRI Paradigms for Presurgical Language Mapping: Convergent Validity and Relationship to Individual Variables by Antonina Omisade, Christopher B. O’Grady, Matthias H. Schmidt, John D. Fisk

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Developing the data management component of an academic discipline program for an educational management information system by Ju. V. Starichkova, I. E. Rogov, V. S. Tomashevskaya

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Harnessing coaches' expertise: creating 11 sport-specific profiles for talent orientation by Johanna Ochs, Andreas Hohmann, Johan Pion, Johan Pion

“…The aim of this study is to engage coaches in the creation of sport profiles.MethodsGerman coaches (n = 256) of gymnastics, handball, judo, soccer, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track &amp; field participated in a survey using the German Motor Test 6–18 plus ball throwing and agility test. Eight sports were included. …”
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Pathological Features of Mitochondrial Ultrastructure Predict Susceptibility to Post-TIPS Hepatic Encephalopathy by Hong-bin Li, Zhen-dong Yue, Hong-wei Zhao, Lei Wang, Zhen-hua Fan, Fu-liang He, Xiao-qun Dong, Fu-quan Liu

“…The incidence of PSE after 1 and 2 years in group B (35.7% and 45.2%, respectively) was significantly higher than that in group A (16.7% and 24.4%, respectively); the 1- and 2-year OR (95% CI) were 2.778 (1.166-6.615) and 2.565 (1.155-5.696), respectively, for groups A and B. …”
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Formulation of Cefdinir Ternary Solid Dispersion and Stability Study under Harsh Conditions by Naamaa A. Naama, Ghaidaa S. Hameed, Dalya Basil Hanna, Zainab H. Mahdi

“…Compared to commercial capsules (Sefarin® 300 mg) and other formulas, the F6 formula released 90% of CEF in 30 min. Antibacterial activity test results showed that the F6 formula was active against Staphylococcus aureus and Proteus vulgaris bacterial isolate. …”
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Microradiography of Microcalcifications in Breast Specimen: A New Histological Correlation Procedure and the Effect of Improved Resolution on Diagnostic Validity by H.-J. Langen, S. Koehler, J. Bielmeier, R. Jocher, D. Kranzfelder, N. Jagusch, G. Treutlein, Th. Wetzler, J. Müller, G. Ott

“…In the BIRADS 2 and 3 group, the probability of malignancy was 28.6% in the conventional radiography evaluation and 37.8% in the microradiography evaluation. …”
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Prenatal depression level prediction using ensemble based deep learning model by Abinaya Gopalakrishnan, Xujuan Zhou, Revathi Venkataraman, Raj Gururajan, Ka Ching Chan, Guohun Zhu, Niall Higgins

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Serum Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) in HCV-Positive Egyptian Patients Treated with Sofosbuvir by Ali Nada, Mohamed Abbasy, Aliaa Sabry, Azza Mohamed Abdu Allah, Somaia Shehab-Eldeen, Nada Elnaidany, Hanan Elimam, Kawthar Ibraheem Mohamed Ibraheem, Abdallah Essa

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A Landscape-Clustering Zoning Strategy to Map Multi-Crops in Fragmented Cropland Regions Using Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 Imagery with Feature Selection by Guanru Fang, Chen Wang, Taifeng Dong, Ziming Wang, Cheng Cai, Jiaqi Chen, Mengyu Liu, Huanxue Zhang

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