COMPARISON OF MONO AND POLY-AXIAL PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION IN THORACOLUMBAR A3/A4 FRACTURES by EMILIANO NEVES VIALLE, BARBARA MIROSKI DE OLIVEIRA PINTO, JOANA BRETAS CABRAL RONDOM GUASQUE, LUIZ ROBERTO GOMES VIALLE, RENATO FEDATO BERALDO

“…Methods: Prospective case-control study involving patients treated surgically with short fixation using mono-axial or poly-axial screws. …”
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Early Maladaptive Schemas in Depressed Women and Its Relationship with Depression by Hacer Bolat KONUKÇU, Serkan AKKOYUNLU, M. Hakan TÜRKÇAPAR

“…Data were obtained by using a Sociodemographic Questionnaires, Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form 3 (YSQ) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).Results: All except one (enmeshment/undeveloped self) maladaptive schema scores of depressed women were higher than controls. …”
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Funding the New Biologics – CCOHTA Report on the Cost Effectiveness of Infliximab for Crohn’s Disease: Pearls and Pitfalls by John K Marshall

“…The time horizon for the analysis was short (one year), because of a lack of longer-term efficacy data, and might have led to an underestimation of the benefits from averting surgery. …”
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Stability and changes in meaning in life profiles and their impact on mental health among chinese university students: a latent transition analysis by Sylvia Y. C. L. Kwok, Siqi Fang, Bella Meici Huang, Alebel Addis Tesfaw, Xi Deng

“…Meaning in Life Questionnaire, Brief Symptom Inventory, and the Mental Health Continuum Short Form were applied. In total, 317 students from five universities in Hong Kong participated in the survey at two time points 9 months apart.ResultsThe LTA identified three distinct profiles among the participants: meaning-oriented, bewildered, and indifferent. …”
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Maternal occupational exposures during early stages of pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes in the NINFEA birth-cohort. by Antonio d'Errico, Maja Popovic, Costanza Pizzi, Giovenale Moirano, Chiara Moccia, Lorenzo Richiardi, Milena Maule

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>Maternal occupational exposures during early pregnancy can be detrimental to foetus health and have short- and long-term health effects on the child. …”
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GUIDED SELF-HELP IN THE TREATMENT OF COMMON MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS – THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FINNISH GUIDED SELF-HELP (F-GSH) MODEL by KASPERI MIKKONEN, ALESSANDRA BOMBINO, ALEX VILLA, SARA NURMINEN, REETTA-MARIA ROIHA, PASI ROSLUND, JAN-HENRY STENBERG, JESPER EKELUND, SUOMA E. SAARNI, SAMULI SAARNI

“…ABSTRACT Increasing access to short-term, evidence-based psychological therapies in primary care or community-based settings is a key strategy for responding to the rapid increase of demand for mental health services seen in most Western countries. …”
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The Feasibility of Telephone-delivered Self-management Intervention in Multiple Sclerosis by Mozaffar Hosseininezhad, Sajjad Saadat, Fatemeh Younesi Rostami, Roghaye Zare, Ali Bonyad, Masoumeh Qanbary Joopish, Alia saberi, Fateme Shafaee

“…The MS self-management scale–revised (MSSM-R) and the short-form health survey (SF-36) were used to collect study data. …”
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Displacement Based Earthquake Early Warning Systems by Murat Doruk Şentürk, Bahadır Aktuğ

“…The determination of the earthquake magnitude in a short time after the earthquake plays an important role both for Earthquake Early Warning Systems (EEW) and the estimation of the losses and coordinating the rescue efforts. …”
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Monitoring Implementation Impact of the EU-Indonesia’s VPA on SME Livelihood by Rahmanta Setiahadi, S. R. Kartika Sari, Ahmad Maryudi, Julia Kalmirah, Liliana Baskorowati

“…Methodology survey with focus group discussions, structured interviews, and semistructured interviews to find out the response and opinion of SME’s owner and employee addressed the effect of SVLK in East Java and Central Java, Indonesia. …”
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A Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Model for Automatic Arctic Sea Ice Classification with Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery by Li Zhao, Yufeng Zhou, Wei Zhong, Cheng Jin, Bo Liu, Fangzhao Li

“…Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the long short-term memory (LSTM) network approach in distinguishing between sea ice types with similar developmental stages. …”
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Daily activity, mood, and quality of life in colorectal cancer patients with chemotherapy‐induced peripheral neuropathy: A mediation effect analysis by Ling‐Chun Lu, Shiow‐Luan Tsay, Sou‐Yi Chang, Chung‐Ming Chen, Chieh‐Yu Liu

“…This was a cross‐sectional relative study in which four instruments were used: the Neuropathic Pain Symptom Inventory was used to measure the severity of CIPN; the Screening of Activity Limitation and Safety Awareness scale was used to evaluate RDA; the Profile of Mood States Short Form was used to assess negative mood; and the Functional Assessment Cancer Center Therapy‐Colorectal scale version 4 was used to evaluate QoL. …”
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Impacts of Climatic Change on Reference Crop Evapotranspiration across Different Climatic Zones of Ningxia at Multi-Time Scales from 1957 to 2018 by Ziyang Zhao, Hongrui Wang, Cheng Wang, Wangcheng Li, Hao Chen, Shuxin Gong

“…The abrupt change point for climatic factors and ET0 series was obtained at approximately 1990 across all climatic zones, and the ET0 had a long period of 25a and a short period of 10a at annual scale, while it was 15a and 5a at seasonal scale. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of integrated traditional Chinese and Western treatment based on symptom grading: a study protocol for a multi-center, randomized controlled trial of p... by Jiaxi Mai, Tingwei Zhou, Tingwei Zhou, Tingwei Zhou, Chen Wang, Chen Wang, Junrong Ye, Junrong Ye, Jiao Chen, Jiao Chen, Jiao Chen, Wen Wang, Wen Wang, Wen Wang, Yuanxin Pan, Yuanxin Pan, Yuanxin Pan, Yanheng Wei, Yanheng Wei, Lexin Yuan, Lexin Yuan, Hang Yang, Hang Yang, Shengwei Wu, Shengwei Wu, Jianxiong Guo, Jianxiong Guo, Jianxiong Guo, Aixiang Xiao, Aixiang Xiao, Aixiang Xiao

“…Secondary outcome measurements include the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), the Multiple Mental Health Literacy Scale (MMHL), the Short-Form 12 (SF-12), and the Treatment Emergent Symptom Scale (TESS). …”
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Global Distribution and Projected Variations of Compound Drought‐Extreme Precipitation Events by Siqi Deng, Dongsheng Zhao, Ziwei Chen, Lei Liu, Yu Zhu, Ke Wang, Xuan Gao, Hanqian Wu, Du Zheng

“…Abstract The compound drought‐extreme precipitation event (CDEP) is one of the most impactful successive compound events that shift from drought to extreme precipitation in the same location within a short period. Due to its dual characteristics of drought and flood, CDEP tends to be more destructive than the impact of individual drought or flood. …”
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Safety and recommendation of voriconazole for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in severe liver disease patients: a retrospective cohort study by Xin Zhang, Caopei Zheng, Ling Zhang, Yuqing Sun, Ying Liang, Xue Chen, Lijun Pang, Yulin Zhang

“…Voriconazole monotherapy was associated with lower short-term mortality (OR 0.223, 95%CI 0.070–0.650, p = 0.008) and did not seem to exacerbate hepatic function deterioration in SLD patients with IPA (OR 0.259, 95%CI 0.094–0.674, p = 0.007) when compared to echinocandins monotherapy. …”
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One Nudge Can Be Enough:Reducing Cigarette ButtLittering in Public Areas by Artsiom Klunin, Matúš Sloboda, Emília Sičáková-Beblavá, Patrik Pavlovský

“…Cigarette butt littering is a problem for every local government unit; however, policy solutions are either very difficult to implement or expensive. …”
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Analysis of MicroRNA -155-5p Expression in Patients with Primary Myelofibrosis. by Sarah I. Khaleel, Jaffar N. AlAlsaidissa

“…MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, non-protein-coding RNA molecules, typically 18–24 nucleotides in length. …”
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Comprehensive Assessment of the Risk of Symptomatic Embolism in Patients With Infective Endocarditis by Sebastian D. Santos‐Patarroyo, Juan A. Quintero‐Martinez, Brian D. Lahr, Supavit Chesdachai, Daniel C. DeSimone, Hector R. Villarraga, Hector I. Michelena, Larry M. Baddour

“…Our study aimed to define the short‐term risk of symptomatic embolization in patients with IE. …”
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Brassica rapa selenium transporter NPF2.20 (BrNPF2.20) accounts for Se-enrichment in Chinese cabbage by Xiaoting Hu, Yucheng Chen, Weihong Xu

“…BrNPF2.20 promoted the transport and accumulation of Se from root to shoot in Chinese cabbage maybe by increasing GSH-Px activity or regulating sulfate transporter family genes related to Se absorption and transport. …”
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The EU Methodology of Security and Defense Planning by M. V. Alexandrov

“…At the same time the EU widely uses elements of “dynamic forecasting” in its planning process, especially for short term forecasting periods. Moreover, the EU moved even further than the US and NATO along this road by applying the techniques that can be described as “dynamic planning”. …”
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