Bioterrorism in 2001: How Ready Are We? by B Lynn Johnston, John M Conly

“…The building reopened 48 h later, after it was determined that the substance found was not anthrax (1). In the same week, a similar hoax forced the evacuation of an Ontario provincial government building in Toronto (1).…”
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Precision Agriculture by Yiannis Ampatzidis

“… Technological advances in computer vision, mechatronics, artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled the development and implementation of remote sensing technologies for plant/weed/pest/disease identification and management. …”
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Giant Reed (Arundo donax): Biology, Identification and Management by Kurt Vollmer, Curtis Rainbolt, Jason Ferrell

“… SS-AGR-301, a 4-page illustrated fact sheet by Kurt Vollmer, Curtis Rainbolt, and Jason Ferrell, describes this tall perennial grass that is commercially grown in the Mediterranean to make reeds for musical instruments, and which is a major invasive weed in California and Texas watersheds — its biology, identification and management. …”
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Biology and Management of Florida Betony (Stachys floridana) in Ornamental Plants in Landscape Planting Beds by Thomas Smith, Chris Marble

“… Florida betony (Stachys floridana) is a perennial weed in Florida landscape planting beds, gardens, turfgrass, and agricultural production systems. …”
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Prediction of Adaptive Self-Regulatory Responses to Arthritis Pain Anxiety in Exercising Adults: Does Pain Acceptance Matter? by Miranda A Cary, Nancy C Gyurcsik, Lawrence R Brawley

“…BACKGROUND: Exercising for ≥150 min/week is a recommended strategy for self-managing arthritis. …”
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Healthy Living: Staying Regular by Linda B. Bobroff, Luisa Oliver-Cordero

“…Having a bowel movement fewer than three times a week is defined as constipation. This condition is very common in persons over age 65. …”
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Splitting of a Dexamethasone Implant (Ozurdex) following the Injection by Oya Donmez, Melih Parlak, Aylin Yaman, Ali Osman Saatci

“…In this brief report, we share our observations on a splitted Dexamethasone implant (Ozurdex) which we discovered a week after the injection. It is likely that implant splitting neither changes the efficacy of the implant nor creates a mishap for the patient.…”
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Descriptive epidemiology of muscle-strengthening activities in Japanese middle-aged and older adults: the Hisayama Study by Jun Hata, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Takanari Kitazono, Takanori Honda, Mao Shibata, Satoko Sakata, Emi Oishi, Yoshihiko Furuta

“…Overall, 162 individuals (4.7%) engaged in muscle-strengthening activities at least 1 day/week, and 133 (3.8%) did so for 2 days or more per week. …”
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Unveiling the Burden of Pruritus: Its Prevalence and Impact on Sleep Quality in Hemodialysis Patients in Somalia by Jeele MOO, Adam AM, Addow ROB

“…We found R2 =  0.10, F (5,293) =  4.38, p < 0.001, in the multiple regression between pruritus and age, sex, duration of hemodialysis and sessions of hemodialysis per week. Also, age group, sex, presence of comorbidities, duration of hemodialysis, sessions of hemodialysis per week, and pruritus have shown R2 =  0.34, F (6,292) =  26, p < 0.001.Conclusion: Pruritus is associated with poor sleep and patients who were living with co-morbidities and patients who were going to hemodialysis for a long time tend to develop pruritus. …”
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Concentric and Eccentric Force Changes with Elastic Band and Isotonic Heavy Resistance Training: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Eric Folkins, Sidharth Sahni, John Ryan, Stacey Wooden, Gina Bushby, Christian Radzinski

“…Participants were randomly assigned to a four-week independent low repetitions/heavy resistance strengthening program performed with either elastic bands or isotonic exercises…”
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Splenectomy with Portoazygous Disconnection for Correction of Systemic Hemodynamic Disorders in Hepatic Cirrhosis Patients with Portal Hypertension: A Prospective Single-Center Coh... by Dao-Bing Zeng, Liang Di, Qing-Liang Guo, Jing Ding, Xiao-Fei Zhao, Shi-Chun Lu

“…The heart rate was significantly higher at 1 week postoperatively versus the baseline (P<0.001). …”
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Violent behaviour during sports event or public gathering: Disscutable questions in doctrine and court practice by Marjanović Đorđe B.

“…In the first part of the paper, the author points out that there was a disagreement bet ween criminal law doctrine and court practice regarding the issue of the place of execution of the crime, as well as the possibility of athletes and other mandatory participants of the sports event being its perpetrators. …”
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Evaluating Meaningful Changes in Patient‐Reported Outcome Measurement Information System–Fatigue Scores from Three Phase 3 Clinical Trials of Sarilumab for Patients With Rheumatoid... by Clifton O. Bingham, Emily Molina, Amy Praestgaard, Stefano Fiore, David Cella

“…Using PROMIS‐Fatigue 10a, at week 24, patients receiving 150 or 200 mg sarilumab every other week in MOBILITY and TARGET had rapidly and significantly improved mean levels of fatigue compared to those who received placebo. …”
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Results of the ORION open comparative randomized trial: evaluation of efficacy of the Russian drugs Altevir and Phosphogliv in combined treatment of chronic hepatitis C by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Mayevskaya, P. O. Bogomolov, I. G. Nikitin, A. O. Buyeverov, A. V. Lapshin

“…Altevir was injected subcutaneously in a dose of 3 million IU 3 times per week in combination to ribavirin dosed according to body weight. …”
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Influence of Methylprednisolone Pulse Therapy on Liver Function in Patients with Graves’ Orbitopathy by Piotr Miśkiewicz, Anna Jankowska, Kinga Brodzińska, Justyna Milczarek-Banach, Urszula Ambroziak

“…Materials and Methods. 49 patients with moderate-to-severe GO were treated with IVMP in every week schedule (cumulative dose 4.5 g), and 19 patients with DON received 3.0 g IVMP (1.0 g/day for 3 consecutive days). …”
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Quality of Life as Medicine: A Pilot Studyof Patients with Chronic Illness and Pain by Soren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick, JØrgen Anderson

“…The pilot study demonstrated that in the course of only 1 week, patients had time to revise essential life-denying views and to integrate important, unfinished life events involving negative feelings. …”
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Predictive Factors and Clinical Prediction Score for Serious Intracranial Causes in Acute Nontraumatic Headache at an Emergency Department by Siriwimon Tantarattanapong, Lalita Chalongkulasak

“…Abrupt onset, awakening pain, duration of headache >1 week, fever, worst headache ever, alteration of consciousness, and localizing neurological deficit were the significant predictive factors for serious intracranial cause of acute NTH.…”
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Cerebellar Cathodal Transcranial Direct Stimulation and Performance on a Verb Generation Task: A Replication Study by K. Spielmann, R. van der Vliet, W. M. E. van de Sandt-Koenderman, M. A. Frens, G. M. Ribbers, R. W. Selles, S. van Vugt, J. N. van der Geest, P. Holland

“…The experiment consisted of two visits with an interval of one week. Our results show no direct contribution of cathodal c-tDCS over the cerebellum to language task performance. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Glandular Fever by Dominic Worku, Li Hui Chang, Ian Blyth

“…Here we present a 21-year-old male who presented with a 2-week history of fever, dry cough, and a 4-week history of pharyngitis. …”
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Associations between physical activity and heart disease among middle-aged and older Chinese adults by Yujia Liu, Chaoqun Yuan, Tong Chen, Linlin Zhou, Gengyin Zhu, Yu Chen

“…As PA increased to 4,000 METs-min/week, HD risk in the overall population decreased by approximately 26%, while further increases in PA did not produce any further marked reduction in the risk. …”
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