Severe Corticosteroid-Induced Ocular Hypertension Requiring Bilateral Trabeculectomies in a Patient with Takayasu’s Arteritis by Anna Maria Gruener, Pranev Sharma, Sally Ameen, Faisal Ahmed

“…The systemic side effects of corticosteroids are well known, yet steroid-induced OHT and glaucoma remain silent causes of ocular morbidity. …”
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Quality Diagnosis for Rocket Body Structure Manufacturing Process Based on Product Quality DNA by Yao Jiayu, Liu Haijiang

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Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Cirrhotic Patients: Current Evidence and Clinical Observations by Sherif Elhosseiny, Hassan Al Moussawi, Jean M. Chalhoub, James Lafferty, Liliane Deeb

“…The use of this class of medications is currently limited to venous thromboembolic therapy and prophylaxis, in addition to stroke prophylaxis in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. …”
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Corneal Stem Cells as a Source of Regenerative Cell-Based Therapy by Jasmin S. Nurković, Radiša Vojinović, Zana Dolićanin

“…LESCs are used for regeneration of corneal surface, while CSSCs are used for regeneration of corneal stroma. Until now, various approaches and methods for isolation of LESCs and CSSCs and their successful transplantation have been described and tested in several preclinical studies and clinical trials. …”
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‘Our precious quand même’: French in the Letters of Henry James by Daniel Karlin

“…Patterns of usage may be unconscious (determined by certain recurring epistolary ‘situations’) but there are also cases where the use of French constitutes a trenchant and finely-judged stroke of art. Nowhere is this more so than when the subject is James’s own art. …”
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Lower-Limb Robotic Rehabilitation: Literature Review and Challenges by Iñaki Díaz, Jorge Juan Gil, Emilio Sánchez

“…In the last decade, the interest in the field has grown exponentially mainly due to the initial success of the early systems and the growing demand caused by increasing numbers of stroke patients and their associate rehabilitation costs. …”
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Synchronous Occurrence of Collagenous and Pseudomembranous Colitis by Z Vesoulis, G Lozanski, T Loiudice

“…The patient partially responded to a three-week regimen of metronidazole, and symptoms resolved completely with subsequent steroid therapy. At follow-up endoscopy four months later, colon biopsies demonstrated persistence of subepithelial collagen but no pseudomembranes. …”
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Biomass Estimation of Dry Tropical Woody Species at Juvenile Stage by R. K. Chaturvedi, A. S. Raghubanshi, J. S. Singh

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Standards-Based Teaching and Learning in a Catholic School: Benchmarking from the Standards of Quality in Basic Education by Marisa B. Petalla

“…Further, significant differences were found in the extent of implementation when students were grouped according to strand, but no significant difference when teachers were grouped according to teaching experiences and educational qualifications. …”
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Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968 by Luciana Quaranta

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Can Transthoracic Echocardiography Be Used to Predict Fluid Responsiveness in the Critically Ill Patient? A Systematic Review by Justin C. Mandeville, Claire L. Colebourn

“…Studies in the critically ill using transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) to predict a response in stroke volume or cardiac output to a fluid load were selected. …”
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Temozolomide-Induced Myelodysplasia by Ethan A. Natelson, David Pyatt

“…TMZ is an orally active imidazotetrazine which methylates guanine residues in DNA, ultimately causing single and double-strand DNA breaks leading to apoptotic cell death. …”
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Split-and-Combine Singular Value Decomposition for Large-Scale Matrix by Jengnan Tzeng

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A New Linear Motor Force Ripple Compensation Method Based on Inverse Model Iterative Learning and Robust Disturbance Observer by Xuewei Fu, Xiaofeng Yang, Zhenyu Chen

“…Permanent magnet linear motors (PMLMs) are gaining increasing interest in ultra-precision and long stroke motion stage, such as reticle and wafer stage of scanner for semiconductor lithography. …”
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Role of Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 in Atherosclerosis by Sébastien Lenglet, François Mach, Fabrizio Montecucco

“…Plaque rupture is the main cause of acute myocardial infarction and stroke. Atherosclerotic plaques have been described to be vulnerable and more prone to rupture when they are characterized by thin, highly inflamed, and collagen-poor fibrous caps and contain elevated levels of proteases, including metalloproteinases (MMPs). …”
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Mucormycosis in COVID-19 Patients – A Case Series from a Dental College in South India by Annapoorani Sevagaperumal, A. Christy Winnifred, T. Jones R. Deva Thambi

“…COVID-19 infection results in an immunocompromised state due to the steroid therapy administered to patients and the infection itself. …”
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The New Reference Points for Modernizing Vocational Education Given the Informational Boom by G. F. Shafranov-Kutsev

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The Future of Asthma Treatment by Louis-Philippe Boulet

“…In the past few years, significant progress has been made in the treatment of asthma with the development of bronchodilators with longer durations of action, more concentrated inhaled steroid formulations and new modes of administering antiasthma medication. …”
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‘Fine, Invisible Threads’: Schopenhauer on the Cognitively Mediated Structure of Motivation by Sean T. Murphy

“…Tracing this intellectualist strand in Schopenhauer’s view of motivation has two important results. …”
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IgG4 Cholangiopathy by Yoh Zen, Yasuni Nakanuma

“…IgG4-cholangiopathy should be diagnosed based on serological examinations including serum IgG4 concentrations, radiological features, and histological evidence of IgG4+ plasma cell infiltration. Steroid therapy is very effective even at disease relapse. …”
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