Nutritional Composition of Five Varieties of Pap Commonly Consumed in Maroua (Far-North, Cameroon) by Ponka Roger, Bouba Armand Abdou, Fokou Elie, Beaucher Eric, Piot Michel, Leonil Joëlle, Gaucheron Frédéric

“…Essential amino acids in most of the pap samples met the recommended children requirement of the FAO/WHO/UNU for 1-2 year old children except methionine+cysteine and lysine.…”
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In Search of Lost National Epic: Poem Kastītis ir Juraite by Auszra poet Andrius Vištelis by Ieva Kristinaitytė

“…Vištelis was a then-known poet of the 19th-century Lithuanian national movement who, in the current historiography, is perceived as a marginal writer. …”
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Development and validation of a predictive model for lymph node metastases in peripheral non-small cell lung cancer with a tumor diameter ≤ 2.0 cm and a consolidation-to-tumor rati... by Dongyu Li, Dongyu Li, Shaolei Li, Hongbing Zhang, Chunqiu Xia, Xiaoyong Nan, Hongyu Liu, Jun Chen, Jun Chen

“…The model showed good calibration (Hosmer–Lemeshow (HL) P value = 0.680) with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) = 0.890 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.808–0.972) in the validation cohort.ConclusionsWe developed and validated a novel and effective model that predicted the probability of LNM for individual patients with peripheral NSCLC who had a tumor diameter ≤ 2.0 cm and CTR > 0.5. …”
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Hypophosphatemia after Right Hepatectomy for Living Donor Liver Transplantation by Kelly W Burak, Charles B Rosen, Jeff L Fidler, Gina K Hesley, David Nagorney, Michael R Charlton, David J Brandhagen

“…Hypophosphatemia has been described in patients undergoing right hepatectomy for liver cancer and in living donors for liver transplantation who also received total parenteral nutrition. At the study centre, significant hypophosphatemia (0.36 mmol/L or less) requiring intravenous replacement was seen in two of the first nine living donors for adult-to-adult liver transplantation. …”
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Distance learning as an unavoidable component of higher education during the pandemic by Yulia D. Ermakova, Liubov V. Kapustina, Egor K. Ermakov

“…However, studying the consequences of online learning, most researchers consider the problem: what impact digitalization of education has on a new contingent of students who are more adapted to global digitalization and do not feel stressed implementing new online resources. …”
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THE PHENOMENON OF DIMLY LIT STALLS ALONG THE NORTH COAST ROAD (CASE STUDY OF INDIRECT FEMALE SEX WORKERS) AGAINST THE SPREAD OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN JENU SUBDISTRICT TU... by Aris Puji Utami, Hanim Nur Faizah, Moh. Wafi Mubarok

“…Introduction: Cases of STIs continue to soar, one of which is due to the practice of prostitution because women sex workers (WPS) are one of the high risk groups of contracting and transmitting STIs. …”
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Gene Expression Differences Predict Treatment Outcome of Merkel Cell Carcinoma Patients by Loren Masterson, Bryan J. Thibodeau, Laura E. Fortier, Timothy J. Geddes, Barbara L. Pruetz, Rajwant Malhotra, Richard Keidan, George D. Wilson

“…This study aimed to identify biomarkers with prognostic significance. While sixty-two patients were identified who were treated for MCC at our institution, only seventeen patients had adequate formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded archival tissue and followup to be included in the study. …”
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Audience Study as Catalyst in Sustainable Nollywood Yoruba Film Industry by Adejoke Adetoun Ademuyiwa, Eunice Uwadinma-Idemudia

“…Most often, stakeholders in the film industry do not access, or are flagrantly ignorant of viewer’s feedback on the state of their production in all media of communication. …”
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The Implication of Channel Discrepancy in a Dual-Channel Supply Chain by Zhenyang Pi, Weiguo Fang

“…Numerical simulations are examined to reveal and verify the effect of channel discrepancy on optimal prices, demands, and profits. We find that a higher level of channel discrepancy induces higher prices, demands, and profits for each member in both channels, while this kind of stimulating impact for the leader manufacturer who obtains a higher level of channel discrepancy will be more significant than it is for the other members in the three models. …”
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The patient safety’s culture in the health staff of the Canoa Health Center by Jesús Alejandro Bajaña Romero, Mayra Leticia Ortiz Orobio

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> a mixed cross-sectional, descriptive study was carried out, the population was made up of 19 health professionals and 379 users who have attended the operating unit from August 2021 to July 2022. …”
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The Natural History and Predictors for Intervention in Patients with Small Renal Mass Undergoing Active Surveillance by Zaher Bahouth, Sarel Halachmi, Gil Meyer, Ofir Avitan, Boaz Moskovitz, Ofer Nativ

“…Eight of the 54 (15%) masses which grew in size underwent a nephron-sparing surgery, of which two were oncocytomas and six were renal cell carcinoma. …”
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Human-Vehicle Intersection Traffic Lights Timing Optimization Research by Wen Li, Hongying Zhang, Zhaoguo Huang, Chenhui Li

“…During the research, an intersection between Xi’an Mingguang road and the Fourth FengCheng road was chosen to analyze the crossing time distribution of pedestrians who were separated from west-to-the-right-turn vehicles during which the method of breaking off both ends of pedestrian green light signals was used. …”
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Cecum Volvulus. Presentation of a Case and Literature Review by Ernesto Pérez Quintana, José Alberto Puerto Lorenzo, Lidia Torres Aja

“…Cecum volvulus is a rare clinical condition and represents only between 2 and 3 % of cases of intestinal occlusion in adults. We present the case of a 56-year-old female patient with a history of high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and chronic constipation, who attended the surgery ward at the Dr. …”
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Chronic Pain in the Emergency Department: A Pilot Mixed-Methods Cross-Sectional Study Examining Patient Characteristics and Reasons for Presentations by Patricia A. Poulin, Jennifer Nelli, Steven Tremblay, Rebecca Small, Myka B. Caluyong, Jeffrey Freeman, Heather Romanow, Yehudis Stokes, Tia Carpino, Amanda Carson, Yaadwinder Shergill, Ian G. Stiell, Monica Taljaard, Howard Nathan, Catherine E. Smyth

“…Participants were adults who attended the EDs of a large academic tertiary care center for their CP problem. …”
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Valve-Like and Protruding Calcified Intimal Flap Complicating Common Iliac Arteries Kissing Stenting by George S. Georgiadis, Efstratios I. Georgakarakos, Nikolaos Schoretsanitis, Christos C. Argyriou, George A. Antoniou, Miltos K. Lazarides

“…Endovascular therapy for iliac artery chronic total occlusions is nowadays associated with low rates of procedure-related complications and improved clinical outcomes, and it is predominantly used as first-line therapy prior to aortobifemoral bypass grafting. Herein, we describe the case of a patient presenting with an ischemic left foot digit ulcer and suffering complex aortoiliac lesions, who received common iliac arteries kissing stents, illustrating at final antegrade and retrograde angiograms the early recognition of a blood flow obstructing valve-like calcified intimal flap protruding through the stent struts, which was obstructing antegrade but not retrograde unilateral iliac arterial axis blood flow. …”
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Factor associated with and risk of cardiovascular disease in people with uncontrolled hypertension by Sara Ringwald-de Meyer, Roxane de La Harpe, Peter Vollenweider, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Julien Vaucher

“…Participants treated with at least one antihypertensive drug from the prospective contemporaneous CoLaus|PsyCoLaus study were enrolled. We investigated the association between hypertension status (uncontrolled, defined as systolic blood pressure [SBP] ≥ 140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure [DBP] ≥ 90 mm Hg, versus controlled hypertension [SBP/DBP < 140/90 mm Hg]) and potential risk factors. …”
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A Multimodal Passenger-and-Package Sharing Network for Urban Logistics by Yuxiong Ji, Yujing Zheng, Jizhou Zhao, Yu Shen, Yuchuan Du

“…The model is implemented based on the real-world data in Shanghai (China) under a series of scenarios to evaluate the network performance from two perspectives: the number of hubs and the proportion of taxi drivers who are willing to carry packages. …”
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How Influencer Doctors Use Social Media? A Content Analysis on Marketing Communications, Patient Privacy and Ethics by Güldane Zengin

“…Some of them also share their expertise on social media. This led to so some doctors gaining thousands and millions of followers and becoming “influencer doctors”. …”
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Hepatitis in Disseminated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Infection by Markus U Göttke, Philip Wong, Channy Muhn, Mansour Jabbari, Suzanne Morin

“…After unsuccessful attempts at bladder catheterization with the creation of a false passage for his third treatment, BCG was instilled via a suprapubic catheter the same day and again a week later. Two weeks after the third BCG instillation, the patient presented with profound lethargy and weakness to the point of not being able to get up out of a chair. …”
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RESILIENCE OF ADOLESCENT POST-DISASTER ERUPTION OF MOUNT SEMERU: LITERATURE REVIEW by Primasari Mahardhika Rahmawati, Suhari Suhari, Anggia Astuti, Musviro Musviro

“…Searching for literature sources in this literature review uses several databases including PubMed and Google Scholar Results : Resilience is very important for adolescents in post-mountain eruption disaster situations, adolescents who have resilience can survive and never give up in difficult circumstances, adapt to these conditions, and can rise. …”
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