Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Pulmonary Hypertension in an Infant with Pertussis Case Report by Patrick Ovie Fueta, Harry Onoriode Eyituoyo, Oghogho Igbinoba, Jon Roberts

“…Pertussis disease severity ranges from mild to severe, with resultant complications capable of causing significant morbidity and mortality. We report a case of pertussis in a 5-week-old female infant who presented with fever, paroxysms of cough, apnea, and seizures leading to cardiopulmonary arrest. …”
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Time-Dependent Prognostic Impact of Circulating Tumor Cells Detection in Non-Metastatic Breast Cancer: 70-Month Analysis of the REMAGUS02 Study by François-Clément Bidard, Lisa Belin, Suzette Delaloge, Florence Lerebours, Charlotte Ngo, Fabien Reyal, Séverine Alran, Sylvie Giacchetti, Michel Marty, Ronald Lebofsky, Jean-Yves Pierga

“…However, these results were only reported after a short follow-up. Here, we present the updated data, with a longer follow-up. …”
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A Database for the Future. Major Contributions from 47 Years of Database Development and Research at the Demographic Data Base by Sören Edvinsson

“…While there has long been a clear predominance of research within the humanities and social sciences, it has always been used for research in other fields as well, for example medicine. In this article, we first give a brief presentation of the DDB and its history, characteristics, and development from the 1970s to the present. …”
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A Qualitative Study of the Sportive Performance Levels of Elite and Amateur Athletes in the Covid 19 Process by Ender Özbek, Hüseyin Nasip Özaltaş, Sıtkı Özbek

“…While sports federations and sports circles focused on managing the process with effective solutions, they had to give a new direction to their work by having to continue their training at home in order not to reduce their performance levels, which are elite and amateur who continue to do sports and do sports at high performance levels. …”
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Structural Brain Changes Following Left Temporal Low-Frequency rTMS in Patients with Subjective Tinnitus by Astrid Lehner, Berthold Langguth, Timm B. Poeppl, Rainer Rupprecht, Göran Hajak, Michael Landgrebe, Martin Schecklmann

“…While rTMS is known to induce morphological changes in healthy subjects, no study has investigated yet whether rTMS treatment induces grey matter (GM) changes in tinnitus patients as well, whether these changes are correlated with treatment success, and whether GM at baseline is a useful predictor for treatment outcome. Therefore, we examined magnetic resonance images of 77 tinnitus patients who were treated with rTMS of the left temporal cortex (10 days, 2000 stimuli/day, 1 Hz). …”
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Impact of prosthetic rehabilitation on the life quality related to oral health in older adults by Zuilen Jiménez Quintana, Ileana Bárbara Grau León, Rafael Maresma Frómeta, Milay Justo Díaz, Emilio Terry Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: descriptive study, carried out from January 2017 to December 2019, with patients who attended the prosthesis consultation at the Faculty of Stomatology (N =100), to receive prosthetic rehabilitation treatment. …”
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Australian Pregnant Women’s Awareness of Gestational Weight Gain and Dietary Guidelines: Opportunity for Action by Khlood Bookari, Heather Yeatman, Moira Williamson

“…Limited knowledge of IOM’s GWG guidelines and of specific dietary recommendations for pregnancy should be addressed by health care providers and education initiatives to assist the high number of women who enter pregnancy overweight or obese.…”
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Improved health outcomes of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients 3 years after treatment by the AI-assisted home enteral nutrition management by Jia Liu, Xiuying Wang, Xu Ye, Danna Chen

“…After 3 years of management, the survival rate, distant metastasis rate and local recurrence rate were counted, and the basic body quality, laboratory detection, eating difficulty score, mental health score and other examinations were performed on the surviving patients to evaluate the overall health status.ResultsThe three-year survival rate of patients with NPC who received AI-assisted HEN management after treatment was improved. …”
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Unicentric Castleman's Disease Arising from an Intrapulmonary Lymph Node by Hideki Ota, Hideki Kawai, Tsubasa Matsuo

“…Unicentric Castleman's disease arising from an intrapulmonary lymph node is rare, and establishing a preoperative diagnosis of this disease is very difficult mainly due to a lack of specific imaging features. We report a case of intrapulmonary unicentric Castleman's disease in an asymptomatic 19-year-old male patient who was accurately diagnosed by preoperative computed tomography (CT). …”
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Determinants of Fast Food Consumption among Iranian High School Students Based on Planned Behavior Theory by Gholamreza Sharifirad, Parastoo Yarmohammadi, Leila Azadbakht, Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad, Akbar Hassanzadeh

“…All of the students completed a questionnaire assessing variables of standard TPB model including attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavior control (PBC), and the additional variables past behavior, actual behavior control (ABC). …”
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L’abandon et l’appel, ou l’optimisme paradoxal de Graham Greene dans The Power and the Glory by René Gallet

“…And through the priest a call is addressed to Mr Tench, who fails to perceive anything. This call to his repressed conscience is repeated in the final scene when he witnesses the priest’s execution. …”
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Metaphor recognition based on cross-modal multi-level information fusion by Qimeng Yang, Yuanbo Yan, Xiaoyu He, Shisong Guo

“…As the most popular communication method in social media, memes have attracted the attention of many linguists, who believe that metaphors contain rich metaphorical information. …”
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HISTORICO-LEGAL AND SOCIOCULTURAL CAUSES AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF PEASANTS’ REVOLT AGAINST TAXATION IN IBADAN, WESTERN NIGERIA by Oyesola Animashaun

“…This article examines the reasons for the resistance to taxation, the legal and extra-legal ways by which the peasants were able to engage the military administration of Western Nigeria, albeit the Nigerian state laws enforcement machinery to a standstill, using the case study method. …”
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Rehabilitation of Speech and Swallowing Disorder in a Patient With Severe Brain Injury in the Subacute Phase: A Case Report by Morteza Farazi, Niyayesh Aali, Seyed Majid Akhvan Hejazi

“…Case Presentation: The patient was a 13-year-old child who suffered from a traumatic brain injury (TBI); the anatomical and physiological condition of the swallowing mechanism may be disturbed. …”
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Quality of Life Patients HIV Based on Characteristic, Duration of Diagnosis, and Types Antiretroviral (ARV) by Iftikar Salma Amelia, Laili Rahayuwati, Hasniatisari Harun, Kusman Ibrahim, Ayu Prawesti, Iqbal Pramukti

“…Sampling was done using consecutive sampling, involving 71 respondents who met the inclusion criteria. Data analysis in this study utilized univariate analysis and bivariate analysis using chi-square. …”
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Serum Uric Acid, Alanine Aminotransferase, Hemoglobin and Red Blood Cell Count Levels in Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome by Hüseyin Simavlı, Yasin Yücel Bucak, Mehmet Tosun, Mesut Erdurmuş

“…Hb, RBC, ALT, and UA levels were recorded. Student’s t-test was used to compare the two groups. …”
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Clinical and Electrophysiological Characteristics of Patients with Juvenile Absence Epilepsy in a Turkish Cohort by Bülent Kara, Ömer Karaca, Defne Alikılıç, Adnan Deniz, Merve Öztürk, Mesut Güngör

“…In our study, 33 patients who were followed up in our clinic with the diagnosis of juvenile absence epilepsy between 2010-2022 were evaluated retrospectively. …”
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Determinants of Weight Loss following Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: The Role of Psychological Burden, Coping Style, and Motivation to Undergo Surgery by Andrea Figura, Anne Ahnis, Andreas Stengel, Tobias Hofmann, Ulf Elbelt, Jürgen Ordemann, Matthias Rose

“…The sample included 64 morbidly obese patients with a preoperative BMI of 51±8 kg/m2 who had undergone laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). …”
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Presentism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century Music by Brian C. Thompson

“…In this essay, I explore some of these questions with reference to an ongoing project which focuses on the De Angelis family, Sicilian musicians and educators who found their way to North America in the mid-nineteenth century by way of the British Army.…”
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Prediction of Sentinel Node Status and Clinical Outcome in a Melanoma Centre by Vera Teixeira, Ricardo Vieira, Inês Coutinho, Rita Cabral, David Serra, Maria José Julião, Maria Manuel Brites, Anabela Albuquerque, João Pedroso de Lima, Américo Figueiredo

“…Methods. We performed a retrospective chart review of 221 patients who have done a successful SLNB for melanoma between 2004 and 2010 at our department. …”
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