Efficacy and Safety of Different Acupuncture Treatments for Cancer-Related Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis by Tianle Xie MD, Can Liu MD, Yudi Wu MD, Xiuxiu Li MD, Qianyun Yang PhD, Jing Tan PhD

“…Background: Cancer pain is a prevalent and persistent issue, and while there have been some observations of the possible benefits of acupuncture in managing cancer pain, there is still debate regarding its safety and effectiveness. …”
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TREM-2 Receptor Expression Increases with 25(OH)D Vitamin Serum Levels in Patients with Pulmonary Sarcoidosis by Maria Bucova, Magda Suchankova, Elena Tibenska, Eva Tedlova, Juraj Demian, Ivan Majer, Helena Novosadova, Miroslav Tedla

“…A significant correlation between total TREM-2 expression and vitamin D levels has been detected too. …”
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Evaluation of Peripartum Hysterectomy in a Tertiary Care Unit and Its Effect on Patients’ Long-Term Physical and Mental Wellbeing: Quest Is Not Over When You Save the Life by P. D. M. Pathiraja, Asanka Jayawardane

“…We invited all women who underwent PPH to complete the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire (SF-36) before hospital discharge and at six months after the hysterectomy date to assess their general and mental health before and after surgery. …”
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Pedestrian Guiding Signs Optimization for Airport Terminal by Jianxin Lin, Rui Song, Jifeng Dai, Pengpeng Jiao

“…In this paper, we aim to optimize the guiding signs for people in the comprehensive transportation terminal with a mathematical model, which describes the pedestrian's reaction, judgment, and perception of the outline about the guiding signs, as well as pedestrian's moving status through self-organized characteristic behavior. Furthermore, the model also reflects the information intensity of the guiding signs within the pedestrian's visual field which is taken as the influence level score of PGS. …”
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Spectrophotometric Determination of Adefovir Dipivoxil in bulk and Pharmaceutical Formulation by Zaheer Ahmed, Y. N. Manohara, K. P. Channabasawaraj, Manish Majumdar

“…Two selective and sensitive spectrophotometric methods have been developed for the estimation of adefovir dipivoxil in bulk and pharmaceutical preparations. …”
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UBICU: A Gamified Respiratory Incentive System for Pulmonary Re-Expansion by Jaime Aguilar-Zambrano, Esther C. Wilches-Luna, Helberg Asencio-Santofimio, Manuel Valencia, Diana Riveros, Andres Navarro, Juan Carlos Martinez, Eugenio Tamura, Jose Angel Loaiza, Julian Hernandez, Diana Sanchez, Juan David Garcia, Leonardo Arzayus-Patino, Valeria Perez-Hortua, Elizabeth Moncada, Melissa Ramirez

“…We assessed pulmonary ventilation distribution before, during, and after using two flow respiratory incentive spirometers, UBICU and TriFlo, with electrical impedance tomography. …”
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Surface Laser Quenching as an Alternative Method for Conventional Quenching and Tempering Treatment of 1538 MV Steel by R. Carrera-Espinoza, A. Rojo Valerio, J. del Prado Villasana, J. A. Yescas Hernández, P. Moreno-Garibaldi, M. A. Cruz-Gómez, U. Figueroa López

“…This paper aims at encouraging the use of laser treatment as an environmentally friendly technique to improve the mechanical properties of metallic materials over conventional quenching and tempering techniques through the study of the tribological behavior of AISI 1538 MV steel subjected to surface laser quenching treatment. …”
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Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy and Hemovitreous: Red Flag for Blindness by Jaume Català, Silvia Muñoz

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Les collections de vêtements d’enfant, problèmes et perspectives by Aude Le Guennec, Clare Rose

“…Reflecting the late interest in childhood history, children's fashion has rarely been the subject of strategic collection and coherent documentation in these institutions. …”
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L’apport de la sculpture à la compréhension des fonctions liturgiques by Pascale Chevalier

“…In them, the movements of a liturgy that evolved between the fourth and tenth centuries may be recognised, one whose texts explain few of its details and variations.…”
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Investigating Preservice Science Teacher Ethical Sensitivity through Computer Game and Video by Shawn Holmes, Leonard Annetta, Loni Crumb

“…Ethical sensitivity skills, based on education professional ethics, are used to determine knowledge of ethical responsibility and professional attitudes and behaviors. A mixed-methods comparison study was conducted between HHR and the REST-video with 31 preservice science education students to investigate the effect of each on their ethical sensitivity. …”
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Preconcentration of Trace Amounts of Pb(II) Ions without Any Chelating Agent by Using Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles prior to ETAAS Determination by S. Z. Mohammadi, T. Shamspur, M. A. Karimi, E. Naroui

“…Several factors that may affect the preconcentration and extraction process, such as pH, type, and volume of eluent, amount of MNPs, sample volume, salting out effect, and interference ions were studied and optimized. Under the best experimental conditions, linearity was maintained between 0.005–0.5 ng mL−1. …”
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Donor Complications Following Laparoscopic Compared to Hand-Assisted Living Donor Nephrectomy: An Analysis of the Literature by Whitney R. Halgrimson, Jeffrey Campsen, M. Susan Mandell, Mara A. Kelly, Igal Kam, Michael A. Zimmerman

“…Investigators did not report a significant difference in the rate of major postoperative complications between the two groups (LDN 0.5% versus HALDN 0.7%, 𝑃=.111). …”
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Wybrane koncepcje filozoficzne a działania medyczne dla poprawy jakości życia i urzeczywistniania rozwoju by Sławomir Letkiewicz

“…It is easy to be disinterestedly honest; it is more difficult when its rules are being “observed” by a “daimonion”, which is transcendental to a human. …”
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Socio-epidemiological Variables of Female Infertility in Camagüey Province by Rolando Rodríguez Puga, Yoánderson Pérez Díaz, Nurys Vázquez Rodríguez, Yanira González Ronquillo

“…<strong>Background:</strong> female infertility is a term used to refer to a woman who has not been able to get pregnant after trying for at least a year by having unprotected sexual intercourse. …”
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Correlated factors of posttraumatic growth in patients with colorectal cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Dingyuan Wei, Xue Wang, Mengxing Wang, Jiayan Wang, Fangping Chen, Luyang Jin, Xuemei Xian

“…Correlated factors were identified to be significantly associated with PTG in patients with CRC including demographic factors: residential area (r = 0.13), marital status (r = 0.10), employment status (r = 0.18), education level (r = 0.19), income level (r = 0.16); disease-related factors: time since surgery (r = 0.17), stoma-related complications (r = 0.14), health-promoting behavior (r = 0.46), and sexual function (r = 0.17); psychosocial factors: confrontation coping (r = 0.68), avoidance coping (r = −0.65), deliberate rumination (r = 0.56), social support (r = 0.47), family function (r = 0.50), resilience (r = 0.53), self-efficacy (r = 0.91), self-compassion (r = −0.32), psychosocial adjustment (r = 0.39), gratitude (r = 0.45), stigma (r = −0.65), self-perceived burden (r = −0.31), fear of cancer recurrence (r = −0.45); and quality of life (r = 0.32). …”
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Risk Factors for Fracture in Patients with Coexisting Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes: An Observational Analysis from the CREDENCE Trial by Tamara K. Young, Nigel D. Toussaint, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Clare Arnott, Carinna Hockham, Amy Kang, Aletta E. Schutte, Vlado Perkovic, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Rajiv Agarwal, George L. Bakris, David M. Charytan, Hiddo J. L. Heerspink, Adeera Levin, Carol Pollock, David C. Wheeler, Hong Zhang, Meg J. Jardine

“…We examined individual fracture predictors and prediction sets based on different pathophysiological hypotheses, testing whether any of the sets improved prediction beyond that based on traditional osteoporotic risk factors. …”
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Case report: Long-term GPS tracking throughout the breeding and non-breeding seasons of the streaked shearwater Calonectris leucomelas by Taito Kamata, Masaki Shirai, Kazuhiko Hirata, Takahiro Sato, Haruka Mukai, Maki Yamamoto, Tsuneo Sekijima

“…We discuss the relationship between prey distribution and the marine environment to understand the species’ foraging habitat preferences. …”
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A Methodology to Assess Diagnostic Competence in Anatomical Pathology Examinations for Pathology Residents by Caridad Socorro Castro, Margarita Roméu Escobar

“…<strong>Method</strong>: Development research conducted in the University Hospital of Cienfuegos between 2008 and 2010. In addition to theoretical and empirical methods, experts’ criteria were applied to validate the proposal. …”
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A Multicriteria Approach to Support Task Allocation in Projects of Distributed Software Development by Marum Simão Filho, Plácido R. Pinheiro, Adriano B. Albuquerque, Régis P. S. Simão, Raimundo S. N. Azevedo, Luciano C. Nunes

“…In the end, the proposed approach has been submitted to the evaluation by the professionals of the participating companies and by some project management experts. …”
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