Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in aortic stenosis patients before and after aortic valve replacement by Kristofer Hedman, Eva Nylander, Éva Tamás, Carl Bellander, Henric Nilsson

“…The oxygen uptake efficacy slope (OUES) was significantly correlated to PeakVO2 at both PRE (r=0.889, p<0.05) and POST (r=0.888, p<0.05)Conclusion Physical work capacity was improved 1 year following sAVR, in terms of higher median peak workload and VO2@VT. …”
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Assessing the Suitability of Snail-Shell Powder as a Partial Replacement of Cement in Concrete Production. by Mukundane, Ivan

“…Concrete is considered the backbone of any construction work both economically and mechanically. It is a composite material resulting from a mixture of cement, water, and aggregates (both fine and coarse). …”
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Incidence and Impact of Routine Inflammatory Parameters on Outcome after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Polykarpos C Patsalis, Assem Aweimer, Henrik Scharkowski, Dritan Useini, Peter Lukas Haldenwang, Justus Thomas Strauch, Ali Canbay, Andreas Mügge, Antonios Katsounas

“…In light of this, the present work aimed to analyze incidence and clinical significance of pRIP after transapical (TA) and transfemoral (TF)-TAVR. …”
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European experience application in replacing hydrofluorocarbons in air conditioning units in domestic railway transport by I. M. Mazurin, S. N. Naumenko

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Expert Consensus for Rehabilitation of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Perioperative Period of Total Hip Replacement by Working group on setting up guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of hip dysfunction in orthopedics section of Chinese Medicine Society

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Evaluation of Medical Device Aging and Replacement Decisions within Hospital Environments: A User-Centered Approach by Park S, Seo G, Park Y, Kim EJ, Lee H, Lee M, Jakovljevic M

“…Sewon Park,1,* Gihong Seo,2,3,* Yoonseo Park,4 Eun-Ji Kim,4 Haengjun Lee,5,* Munjae Lee,1,* Mihajlo Jakovljevic6– 8 1Department of Medical Science, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, 16499, South Korea; 2MEDIPLY (Medical Device & Healthcare Solution), Seoul, 05835, South Korea; 3Department of Medical Device Management and Research, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, 06351, South Korea; 4Department of Convergence Healthcare Medicine, Ajou University, Suwon, 16499, South Korea; 5Support & Cooperation Institute for Rural Spatial Development of Gyeongsangbuk-Do, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, South Korea; 6UNESCO-TWAS, Trieste, Italy; 7Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, People’s Republic of China; 8Department of Global Health Economics and Policy, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Haengjun Lee, Support & Cooperation Institute for Rural Spatial Development of Gyeongsangbuk-do, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, South Korea, Email lhjun7788@yu.ac.kr Munjae Lee, Department of Medical Science, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, 16499, South Korea, Email emunjae@ajou.ac.krPurpose: This study aims to evaluate the factors influencing medical device replacement decisions from a user-centered perspective: medical technicians, engineers, and healthcare professionals. …”
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From disabled people's right to work to the duty to work? Changes in Swiss disability policy and its implementation at the cantonal level by Natalie Benelli, Antonin Zurbuchen, Morgane Kuehni, Peter Streckeisen, Spartaco Greppi

“… The article discusses the current shift in Switzerland's disability policy from the right to work (in a sheltered workshop) for disability pensioners to the duty to work in the labour market for people with disabilities, whether they have a disability pension or not. …”
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SYSTEM OF MACHINERY FOR COMPLEX MECHANIZATION FOR RECLAMATION WORK by V. S. Puninskiy

“…Meliorative fleet replacement and expansion of lands areas of melioration systems during radical improvement of not used, degraded layland are the two interconnected directions. …”
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Return to Work after Total Ankle Arthroplasty by Ramez Sakkab DPM, Vikram Jain MD, Jeffrey McAlister DPM

“…Total ankle arthroplasty has emerged as an increasingly common surgical treatment for end-stage ankle arthritis but its ability to enable patients’ return to work has not been elucidated. Methods: Patients from January 1st, 2020 to January 1st, 2024 were included in a multicenter prospective database for end-stage ankle arthritis treated with a total ankle replacement. …”
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Transformations of Work and Welfare - Apprentices under Neoliberalism by Roland Atzmüller, Alban Knecht

“…Through a specific construction of the"deficits" of young people and their family background, social policies for young people are more and more reorganised to"optimise" the transition from school to work and to adapt the latter to the alleged requirements of the market. …”
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Research Progress of Absorption Refrigeration Working Pairs by Bian Yifeng, He Guogeng, Cai Dehua, Xiao Ruxi, Zhang Aoni

“…On the basis of current researches, more works should be done on the improvement of existing working pairs’ performance and exploration of new ones.…”
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Replacing Gauges with Algorithms: Predicting Bottomhole Pressure in Hydraulic Fracturing Using Advanced Machine Learning by Samuel Nashed, Rouzbeh Moghanloo

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Total ankle replacement conversion to Tibiotalocalcaneal Arthrodesis – Single lateral transfibular approach: Technical note by Raquel Lima Cunha, MD, Alexandre Castro, MD, António Madureira, MD, António Miranda, MD, Pedro Atilano Carvalho, MD, João Teixeira, MD

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Proposed Geometrical Tool for Cases of Laterally Adapted Tibial Tubercle during Total Knee Replacement by Umaima R. Khairy, Sadiq J. Hamandi, Ahmed S. Abid Ali

“…The alignment of tibial component in total knee replacement operation must be achieved in three planes to ensure optimum results. …”
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Laboratory verification of the properties of recycled fine aggregates and the effect of different replacement percentages on concrete properties by Leoš Joura, Zdeněk Prošek, Aleš Palička

“… This research work deals with the issue of laboratory testing of commonly available recycled fine aggregates, namely concrete recyclate, mixed recyclate and brick recyclate. …”
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Effect of Olive Waste Ash as a Partial Replacement of Cement on the Volume Stability of Cement Paste by Safa Ghazzawi, Hassan Ghanem, Jamal Khatib, Samer El Zahab, Adel Elkordi

“…These dimensional changes can be affected by the incorporation of supplementary cementitious materials. This work used olive waste ash (OWA), which could substantially tackle this problem and achieve sustainability goals. …”
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Experimental Analysis of Sugarcane Bagasse Ash Behavior as a Partial Replacement for Cement in Concrete Mix by Khatun Amreen, Reddy V. Phaninder, Chandrashekar Rakesh, Sravanthi, Kumar Manish, Kumar C. Vivek

“…In this experimental work sugarcane bagasse ash is partially replaced as 2.5%, 5.0%, 7.5%, 10.0%, 12.5%. 15.0% and 20.0% with cement in concrete mix. …”
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Resilient service function chain initial deployment and dynamic replacement towards 6G networks by Deqiang Zhou, Xinsheng Ji, Wei You, Yu Zhao, Hang Qiu, Mingyan Xu

“…In our previous work, we designed a Dynamic Heterogeneous Redundant SFC (DHRSFC) to endow SFC with resilience and theoretically proved its excellent ability. …”
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A Bioeconomic Solution for Replacing Chemical Fertilizers by Organic Processes for Atmospheric Nitrogen Fixation in Soil by Gabriela Loredana Dinulescu, Valentina Ofelia Robescu, Florin Radu, Gabriel Croitoru, Valentin Radu

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Replacement of Petroleum Based Products With Plant‐Based Materials, Green and Sustainable Energy—A Review by Sundarakannan Rajendran, Ali Al‐Samydai, Geetha Palani, Herri Trilaksana, Thanikodi Sathish, Jayant Giri, R. Saravanan, J. Isaac JoshuaRamesh Lalvani, Faouzi Nasri

“…Airborne nano‐plastic pollution has become a significant environmental concern, adding to the existing challenges posed by water pollution, micro‐plastics, and other harmful contaminants that endanger both living organisms and ecosystems. This work explores the replacement of petroleum‐derived chemicals and fuels with naturally derived biomass products, emphasizing a future free from petroleum and fossil fuels. …”
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