Efficacy and Safety of Endoscopic Papillary Large Balloon Dilation for Removal of Large Bile Duct Stones in Advanced Age by Kook Hyun Kim, Tae Nyeun Kim

“…Patients were classified into two groups (148 patients < 80 years old, Group A; 56 patients ≥ 80 years old, Group B). …”
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BUILDING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF THE COMPANY BASED ON CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE by Hariz Muratović

“…Our study conducted for the first time in this region using these instruments, speaks in favor of the above mentioned observations. Narrowing down a wider content of these studies, we present a comparative analysis of organizational culture that we conducted in two up-and-coming companies in domestic shipping industry –furniture industry. …”
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Staging of Laryngeal Cancer: Clinicoradiological versus Histopathological Findings using Modified Laryngeal Sectioning by Shriyash Sinha, Sarmila Sen, Somnath Saha

“…METHODOLOGY: Prospective study was conducted on 15 patients diagnosed with laryngeal carcinoma, who underwent total laryngectomy with neck dissection. …”
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MENTAL BARRIERS TO REDUCE VULNERABILITY TO INJURY DURING A FALL: AN ELEMENTARY ISSUE OF PERSONAL SAFETY IN A GLOBAL CIVILIZATION by Bartłomiej Gąsienica-Walczak, Artur Kalina, Artur Litwiniuk, Joanna Baj-Korpak

“…Therefore, learning how to fall safely is the surest of ways to reduce the number of people who would spend the rest of their lives in disability as a result of injuries sustained in a fall.…”
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Comparison of Tibial Torsion Angles Between Elite Athletes and Sedentary People by Galip Bilen Kürklü, Ahmet Bayrak, Melda Pelin Yargıc, İsik Tuncer

“…By comparing TTA angles of elite soccer players who train and compete regularly and have   high level of muscle power and endurance to the sedentary control group, it is aimed to determine whether high level soccer training effect TTA. …”
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A Novel Framework for Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Hyperspectral Image Data by Johannes Jordan, Elli Angelopoulou, Andreas Maier

“…This necessitates new tools that allow general analysis of the image data and are intuitive to users who are new to hyperspectral imaging. We introduce a novel framework that bundles new interactive visualization techniques with powerful algorithms and is accessible through an efficient and intuitive graphical user interface. …”
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Silica-exposed patients with silicosis show shorter telomeres than do unexposed individuals: a pilot study in a population in southeastern Brazil by Marcos César Santos de Castro, Lucas de Carvalho Costa, Kaio Cezar Rodrigues Salum, Hermano Albuquerque de Castro, Patrícia Canto Ribeiro, Walter Costa, Angela Santos Ferreira Nani, Fabiana Barzotto Kohlrausch

“…Methods: We included 200 men in southeastern Brazil: 100 with silicosis and 100 who had not been exposed to silica. …”
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Perspectives of Women with Breast Cancer and Healthcare Providers Participating in an Adherence-Enhancing Program for Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy: A Qualitative Study by Véronique Turcotte, Laurence Guillaumie, Martine Lemay, Anne Dionne, Julie Lemieux, Angéline Labbé, Carolyn Gotay, Line Guénette, Sophie Lauzier

“…However, a significant proportion of women do not adhere to AET. We developed SOIE, a one-year program designed to enhance the AET experience and adherence. …”
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Determination of Spatial Chromium Contamination of the Environment around Industrial Zones by Dereje Homa, Ermias Haile, Alemayehu P. Washe

“…The detected levels of Cr in all of the suggested samples were above the WHO permissible limits. The variations of the levels Cr(III) and Cr(VI) contamination of the environment with distance from the tannery were statistically significant (p=0.05). …”
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Virtual/Real Transfer in a Large-Scale Environment: Impact of Active Navigation as a Function of the Viewpoint Displacement Effect and Recall Tasks by Grégory Wallet, Hélène Sauzéon, Florian Larrue, Bernard N'Kaoua

“…In the wayfinding task, subjects who were assigned the ground-level viewpoint in the virtual environment (VE) performed better than those with the aerial-level viewpoint, especially in combination with active navigation. …”
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ARDS+TB Paru Kasus Baru dalam Pengobatan OAT Kat 1 Fase Intensif pada G6P5A0H5 Gravid 27-28 Minggu by Anggun Pratissa, Defrin Defrin

“…Berdasarkan laporan WHO, Indonesia menempati urutan ketiga terbesar angka kejadian TB di dunia setelah Cina dan India. …”
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Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy and Declining Renal Function in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by AJin Cho, Hayne Cho Park, Young-Ki Lee, Young Joo Shin, So Hyun Bae, Hakyoung Kim

“…Methods. We included a total of 1527 patients with type 2 diabetes who followed up in our diabetes clinic and underwent fundus photographic examinations from August 2006 to February 2014. …”
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Disrupting the third space through playfulness, mattering, and unbounded perspectives by Ian Fellows, Gill Gilbert, Leoarna Mathias, Sarah Parkes

“…It is framed through the concept of ‘third space’ professionals – individuals who operate beyond the conventional academic and administrative divides – to address these challenges (Whitchurch, 2013). …”
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Chili pepper consumption and duration of fissure symptoms onset are associated with perianal fistula development among patients with anal fissure: a case-control study by Khadije Gorgi, Zahra Ghanbarzadegan, Ali Reza Safarpour, Sara Shojaei-Zarghani, Seyed Vahid Hosseini

Subjects: “…Fissure in ano…”
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A Case of Leptospirosis-Associated Severe Pulmonary Hemorrhagic Syndrome Successfully Treated with Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by Nao Umei, Shingo Ichiba

“…A 50-year-old male sushi chef who had never traveled outside Japan presented with a 2-day history of fever and muscle pain. …”
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Étude des catégories opératives pour analyser l’activité d’enseignants by Hélène Veyrac, Julie Blanc

“…The results show that different teachers who designate similar categories of students do not systematically evoke the same rules of action. …”
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Brachialis Muscle Rupture in a Pediatric Patient Followed Up by Ultrasound Examinations: A Rare Case Report by Akihiro Yamaji, Masafumi Uesugi, Hiroshi Kamada, Harumitsu Ichimura, Masashi Yamazaki

“…Though commonly conservative treatment approach is adopted, the treatment criteria remain unclear. Here, we report the case of a patient who experienced functional recovery after conservative treatment for an isolated brachial muscle injury. …”
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Feminist Critique of the Novel "Peyadeh" by Belghis Solamani from Shohalter's Perspective by Ayoob Moradi, mansoureh shahriyari

“…The protagonist of this story is a lonely woman who is unjustly driven away from her home due to false accusations by her husband and becomes a wanderer in Tehran. …”
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The effectiveness of corpus-based training on collocation use in L2 writing for Chinese senior secondary school students by Fang Liuqin, Ma Qing, Yan Jiahao

“…This study investigated whether senior secondary school students in China, upon receiving corpus-based training under the framework of data-driven learning (DDL), could improve their vocabulary use, especially the use of collocations, in their writing for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test. Twenty-two students aged 16–18 in a senior secondary school in Nanchang, China who were planning to take the IELTS exam participated in the study. …”
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Relationship between Activities of Daily Living of Home-Based Rehabilitation Users and Caregiver Burden-Induced Depression: A Retrospective Study by Takuro Ohashi, Takaaki Fujita, Yui Togashi, Yuji Ohashi, Yuta Kisara, Ryohei Jinbo, Ryuichi Kasahara, Yuichi Yamamoto

“…High caregiver burden was identified in 85.7% of the caregivers in whom the score of controlling bladder of BI was ≤5 points and the patient was aged ≤78 years. …”
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