Les pôles, territoires de l’imaginaire où science et fiction s’entremêlent by Frédérique Rémy

“…Sailor’s tales having seen the sea free of ice near the North pole are assumed to be true and are used by the most important scientists, unable to conceive that the sea may freeze. …”
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Memorie dislocate e biografie spezzate di Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati by Roberta Altin

“…The article examines the violence and suffering experienced by unaccompanied foreign minors arriving by land in the cross-border area of Trieste. These are forms of structural violence, "layered" across space and time, starting with the causes of migration, the debts incurred to enable their departure, and the premature separation from their families to access the European international protection system, which is limited to a few categories, including minors. …”
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Machine learning for classifying chronic kidney disease and predicting creatinine levels using at-home measurements by Brady Metherall, Anna K. Berryman, Georgia S. Brennan

“…We employ artificial neural networks (ANNs) and random forests (RFs) on a dataset of 400 patients with 25 input features, which we divide into three feature sets. Using 10-fold cross-validation, we calculate metrics such as accuracy, true positive rate (TPR), true negative rate (TNR), and mean squared error. …”
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St’át’imcets frustratives as not-at-issue modals by Davis Henry, Matthewson Lisa

“…We argue that séna7 felicitously applies to a proposition p only if there is a salient true proposition q and the speaker did not expect p and q to both be true. …”
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Reusable Biosensor for Easy RNA Detection from Unfiltered Saliva by Paweł Wityk, Agata Terebieniec, Robert Nowak, Jacek Łubiński, Martyna Mroczyńska-Szeląg, Tomasz Wityk, Dorota Kostrzewa-Nowak

“…The biosensor’s performance was tested on 60 participants, yielding 12 true positive results and 48 true negatives, aligning perfectly with RT-qPCR outcomes. …”
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Immunomediated Encephalitis: New Diagnoses on the Neurology–Psychiatry Interface by Daniel Damiani, Aline Ribeiro de Bem

“…The etiologies behind these diseases are represented by paraneoplastic syndromes (including occult tumors) as well as viral infections, in both cases constituting true immunological triggers with exposure of antigens that will lead to a cross-immunological response directed at healthy structures of the nervous system. …”
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Identifying Fraudulent Responses in a Study Exploring Delivery Options for Pregnancies Impacted by Gestational Diabetes: Lessons Learned From a Web-Based Survey by Emma Ruby, Serine Ramlawi, Alexa Clare Bowie, Stephanie Boyd, Alysha Dingwall-Harvey, Ruth Rennicks White, Darine El-Chaâr, Mark Walker

“…Initially, we conducted cross-sectional web-based surveys across Canada with pregnant patients and perinatal health care providers. …”
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Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the Philippines: A Systematic Review by Anna Lena Lopez, Peter Francis N. Raguindin, Maria Asuncion Silvestre, Xenia Cathrine J. Fabay, Ariel B. Vinarao, Ricardo Manalastas

“…As part of regional elimination efforts, rubella-containing vaccines (RCV) have recently been introduced in the Philippines, yet the true burden of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) in the country is largely unknown. …”
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A Characterisation and Profiling of District Health Indicators in Zimbabwe: An Application of Principal Component Analysis in a Data Limited Setting by Shepherd Shamu, Simbarashe Rusakaniko, Charles Hongoro

“…**Conclusion:** The composite indices exhibited internal consistency and construct validity to be regarded as true representations of the cross variation of the 57 districts in Zimbabwe; hence these indices could be used to characterise the behaviour and assess the performance of these districts. …”
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Christ's crucifixion as a medico-historical event by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…He was probably crucified on a short Tau-cross, and died within 6 hours (probably even within 3 hours). …”
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City Educational Environment in Terms of Anthropopractices of Care. The Idea of a Configurator by S. A. Smirnov

“…The article continues the author’s series of publications aimed at building an educational cultural configurator which ties three themes into a single knot – the sphere of education, the City and the Person. A cross-cutting cultural “glue” of this bundle is the experience of anthropological practitioners of human care for themselves, through which, doing which, a person is becoming his true self. …”
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Multifocal Head and Neck Neurofibromas with Osseous Abnormalities and Muscular Hypoplasia in a Child with Neurofibromatosis: Type I by Rachna Rath, Sheetal Kaur, Shadab Ali Baig, Punyashlok Pati, Sonalisa Sahoo

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) helped to identify the solid nature of the lesion and true extent of the soft tissue mass.…”
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The Oscillating Component of the Internal Jugular Vein Flow: The Overlooked Element of Cerebral Circulation by Francesco Sisini, Eleuterio Toro, Mauro Gambaccini, Paolo Zamboni

“…Recently it has been proven that JVP can be obtained by measuring the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the IJV on each sonogram of an ultrasound B-mode sonogram sequence. …”
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DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF CONTRAST–ENHANCED HIGHRESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) FORTHE DETECTION OF RETINOBLASTOMA by Muhammad Faisal

“…Methodology A total of 50 cases were collected in this comparative cross-sectional study. The sample was taken through non-probability consecutive sampling. …”
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Frequency Of Post-Partum Haemorrhage In Obese Patients by Rakhshanda Aslam, Ayesha Shahid, Noreen Tahir, Ammarah Nadeem, Tahira Nasreen, Anisa Saleem

“…The duration of this study was 6 months, from Dec 2022 to June 2023. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study; the sample size was 100 patients. …”
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Ferritin in Adult-Onset Still’s Disease: Just a Useful Innocent Bystander? by Bella Mehta, Petros Efthimiou

“…The key terms “ferritin” and “hyperferritinemia” were used to search PubMed and Medline and were cross-referenced with “Still’s Disease.” Results. …”
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The Investigation of Preservice Teachers’ Epistemological Beliefs, Knowledge Levels and Attitudes regarding Organ Transplantation and Donation by Gulsah Gurkan, Sibel Kahraman

“…Having positive attitude and true knowledge to the OTD are essential for teachers that affected students the future attitude toward this topic. …”
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A Comparison of Patient and Provider Perspectives on an Electronic Health Record–Based Discharge Communication Tool: Survey Study by Dorothy Yingxuan Wang, Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Annie Wai-Ling Cheung, Kam-Shing Tang, Eng-Kiong Yeoh

“…MethodsThis study comprised a cross-sectional self-administered staff survey and a pre-post cross-sectional patient survey. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Non-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnosing Pituitary Micro-Adenoma, Taking Histopathology as Gold Standard by Sehar Sarfraz, Tayyaba Ali, Pakeeza Shafiq, Zartashia Khan, Waqar Azeem, Ghazala Rasool, Ehsan Ul Haq

“…The objective of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of non-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of pituitary microadenomas using histopathology as a gold standard. Methods: This cross-sectional validation study (IRB Approval No. …”
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Auxiliary clitics in Polish by Dorota Jagódzka

“… Polish auxiliary clitics constitute an interesting set of data which draws attention to cross-linguistic differences among Slavic languages. …”
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