Verifying the Placement of Nasogastric Tubes at an Emergency Center: Comparison of Ultrasound with Chest Radiograph by Çağdaş Yıldırım, Selçuk Coşkun, Şervan Gökhan, Gül Pamukçu Günaydın, Ayhan Özhasenekler, Uğur Özkula

“…This is a single-center, prospective, single-blind study. Patients who were admitted to our emergency department and had an indication of nasogastric tube placement were included. …”
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Malnutrition in Surgical Wards: A Plea for Concern by Offir Ben-Ishay, Haya Gertsenzon, Tanya Mashiach, Yoram Kluger, Irit Chermesh

“…Results. Thirty-two patients (33%) had aMUST score of 2 or higher, and were therefore defined at high-malnutrition risk. …”
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“In some ways it feels like a specialism”: Exploring the lived experience of multilingual maternity professionals – A qualitative interview study by Emma Brooks

“…Results: Where practitioners were able to draw on their linguistic skills, they felt that multilingualism was a specialism and appreciated by colleagues. …”
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Informal gold miners with mercury toxicity: Novel asymmetrical neurological presentations by J George, E Sadiq, I Moola, S Maharaj, A Mochan

“…Mercury is used in the gold mining process, and in artisanal or illicit gold mining, often without necessary protection. Here we describe the cases of two artisanal gold miners from western Johannesburg, South Africa, who presented with atypical neurological manifestations of mercury toxicity. …”
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Exploring the Multimodal Approach in Pre-Service Chemistry Teacher Education: Perspective from Students and Lecturers by Marfuatun Marfuatun, Nahadi Nahadi, Galuh Yuliani, Hernani Hernani

“…Additionally, the characteristics of students who do not support independent learning can hinder the implementation of a multimodal approach. …”
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Up against the System: A Case Study of Young Adult Perspectives Transitioning from Pediatric Palliative Care by Karen Cook, Harold Siden, Susan Jack, Lehana Thabane, Gina Browne

“…Advances in pediatric care have not provided the interdisciplinary support services required by those young adults with pediatric life-threatening conditions (pedLTCs) who live beyond childhood but have limited expectations to live past early adulthood. …”
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HisCoM-PCA: software for hierarchical structural component analysis for pathway analysis based using principal component analysis by Nan Jiang, Sungyoung Lee, Taesung Park

“…In this study, we developed a HisCoM-PCA software for the hierarchical pathway analysis of common variants. …”
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Understanding intercultural virtual exchange through a translanguaging lens in Chinese as a foreign language by Guo Zhiyan, Xu Xinyue

“…Virtual exchange refers to technology-enabled online communication between people who are geographically separated from each other. …”
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Covert marketing in films and series by Dimitrijević Ljiljana, Gojković Marija, Kolar Janez

“…Organizations realize the importance of media advertising in order to promote their products and services. And while we are watching a movie or a favorite series, the advertising block and commercials do not bother us at all, and we use that time for other things. …”
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Postoperative extraperitoneal bladder injury after metal pelvic osteosynthesis for pelvic injury by Khalid Abdullahi, Obadele Olusegun George, Ajiboye Lukman Olalekan, Abubakar Isiyaku, Muhammad Abubakar Sadiq, Aljannare Bashir Garba, Okezie Chukwuebuka Kingsley, Agwu Ngwobia Peter

“…This article discusses the case of a 60-year-old farmer who sustained polytrauma in a road traffic crash, including pelvic fracture and urethral distraction injury, among others. …”
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Predicting Psychological Hardiness Based on Self-Regulation and Stress Coping Strategies by Maryam Zahiri, Katrin Vaziri

“…Methods: The population under examination in this particular study encompassed all female individuals who sought assistance at the Health House located in the 6th precinct of Tehran during the 2023. …”
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Characterization of patients with thoracic trauma treated at the Enrique Cabrera Hospital. 2014-2018 by Jorge Agustín Satorre Rocha, Olga Caridad León González, Pedro Rolando López Rodriguez, Eduardo García Castillo, Luis Manuel Danta Fundora

“…<br /> <strong>Methods:</strong> descriptive, retrospective research, in which 102 patients who were admitted to Enrique Cabrera Hospital with the diagnosis of thoracic trauma were studied, from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2018. …”
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Safety and Efficacy of an Intravaginal Prebiotic Gel in the Prevention of Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis: A Randomized Double-Blind Study by Isabelle Coste, Philippe Judlin, Jean-Pierre Lepargneur, Sami Bou-Antoun

“…Secondary criteria included vaginal pH and BV recurrence. Results. After 8 days of treatment, all subjects who received the prebiotic had a normal Nugent score, whereas 33% of the subjects treated with placebo had an intermediate or positive Nugent score. …”
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Organization of Emergency Health Services and Problems in Flood Disasters: The Case of Hopa by Kemal Torpuş, Sedat Bostan

“…Semi-structured interview technique was applied to the leaders of the National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE) who took part in the Hopa flood disaster. When the study data is examined, it was determined that the teams reached the disaster area within 3-6 hours, the first rescue operation was carried out by the disaster victims and the injured reached the hospital by their own means. …”
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The Relationship between Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship Levels of STEM Teacher Candidates: The Mediating Role of Digital Teaching Material Development Self-Efficacy by Erol Kocoglu, Sibel Oguz-Hacat, Veysel Gocer

“…The sample of the study, as for that, consists of 1050 teacher candidates who are determined by simple random sampling from the population. …”
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Septic Shock Induced by Bacterial Prostatitis with Morganella morganii subsp. morganii in a Posttransplantation Patient by Xiaofan Li, Jianhui Chen

“…Morganella morganii is ubiquitous Gram-negative facultative anaerobe, which may cause many kinds of opportunistic infection. Herein we report a case of a 55-year-old man who presented with frequent urination, urgency, and mild pain that comes and goes low in the abdomen and around the anus. …”
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Hydric conflict and territorial defense: Women in the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero, Argentina by Mariela Pena

“…There, the populations affected by land grabbing, evictions, and environmental contamination have formed the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero (Mo.Ca.Se). From a gender perspective and an anthropological approach focused on observation and interviews, we explore the impact of environmental injustices – specifically, water injustice – on peasant-indigenous communities and the extreme vulnerability that it entails for women and girls. …”
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Combination of metagenomic next-generation sequencing and morphology for identifying Coccidioides immitis: a case report by Hong Liu, Kaixin Zhou, Chaoran Zhong, Ming Guan

“…., endemic to the Southwestern United States and Central and South America. In this article, we report a case of Coccidioides immitis-induced meningitis in a 27-year-old man who was experiencing recurrent fever and headache. …”
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The Background of a Patient Undergoing Long-Term Periodontal Disease Maintenance Using Step for Coding and Theorization: A Case Report by Kosuke Muraoka, Masaki Morishita, Taiji Nakamura, Keisuke Nakashima, Shuji Awano

“…Periodontal maintenance is crucial for long-term periodontal stability, but some patients do not undertake maintenance following their initial treatment. …”
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Is There a Correlation between New Scoring Systems and Systemic Inflammation in Stable Bronchiectasis? by Hikmet Coban, Adil Can Gungen

“…In patients with stable bronchiectasis who are evaluated based on FACED and BSI scores, CRP can be a useful biomarker as a direct indicator of the severity of systemic inflammation.…”
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