Efficacy of the Optilume paclitaxel drug-coated balloon after urethroplasty: short-term results from a multicenter study by Maia VanDyke, Eshan Joshi, Brian Ceballos, Adam Baumgarten, Ethan Matz, Kayla S. Graham, Maxim J. McKibben, Ahmad Imam, Lucas Wiegand, Bryce Franzen, Steven Hudak

“…Patients in both groups had similar stricture characteristics with short bulbar strictures being the most common. When compared to the control group, those with a history of prior urethroplasty had a greater median number of interventions prior to DCB treatment (3 vs 1, p  < 0.001). …”
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Weight Fluctuation and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study by Marina Komaroff

“…The conditional logistic regression adjusted for weight gain demonstrated positive association between weight fluctuation in adult years and postmenopausal breast cancers (odds ratio/OR = 1.67; 95% confidence interval/CI: 1.06–2.66). …”
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On Counting and Embedding a Subclass of Height-Balanced Trees by Indhumathi Raman

“…In this paper, we consider height-balanced trees in which the balance factor of every vertex beyond a level is 0. We prove that there are 22t-1 such trees and embed them into a generalized join of hypercubes.…”
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The situation of the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia in the second half of 20th century by Peter Šturák

“…In terrible systems of tyranny which outraged a man at the places of pain, in hunger and various torments, they showed that they belong to Christ, crucified and resurrected Lord… Let the memory of our brothers and sisters­‑martyrs be still alive in following century and millennium. …”
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Morphology of Peeled Internal Limiting Membrane in Macular Hole Surgery by Mun Y. Faria, David C. Sousa, Bruna C. Almeida, Andreia L. Pinto, Nuno P. Ferreira

“…The aim of this work was to describe the ultrastructure and behavior of peeled internal limiting membrane (ILM) in macular hole (MH) surgery. …”
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Pulsed GMAW-based WAAM–Influence of droplet detachment mode on the geometry and mechanical properties of 308 L stainless steel by R.F. Rezende, A.R. Arias, E.J. Lima, II, F.G.F. Coelho

“…The MDPP and ODPP modes produced thinner preforms with a better surface finish. In addition, the MDPP mode generated better results in the manufactured preforms, with lower hardness and higher tensile strength. …”
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Diagnosing Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults by Nigel Glynn, Amar Agha

“…In addition, there is considerable analytical variation in the biochemical measurements of GH and IGF-1 which must be considered before making a diagnosis of GHD in adulthood.…”
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Global burden of pneumoconiosis attributable to occupational particulate matter, gasses, and fumes from 1990~2021 and forecasting the future trends: a population-based study by Mao Qingsong, Ruijie Xiao, Wenqi Yang, Xinyi Wang, Yu-zhe Kong

“…It explored variations in disease impact across different demographics, including age and gender, and analyzed the relationship between disease burden and the Socio-Demographic Index (SDI). …”
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C60 fullerene improves the recovery of biomechanical parameters of muscle soleus contraction in rats after chronic alcoholization by Д. М. Ноздренко, В. Нан, Т. Ю. Матвієнко, К. І. Богуцька, Т. Я. Шевчук, В. П. Берест, Ю. І. Прилуцький

“…Materials and Methods: When analyzing the miotic response using tensometry, such biomechanical parameters as the time of reduction of the muscle force response by 50% from the initial value, the values of the contraction force and the impulse of the muscle force were evaluated. Results: It has been shown that animals orally administered alcohol and C60FAS (daily dose of 1 mg/kg) together (scheme II) during the experiment showed an increase in muscle force response by 40–45±2% compared with the group of alcoholized animals and by 12–15±1% compared with the group of rats administered C60FAS 1 h after alcohol ingestion (scheme I). …”
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Accounting for observation biases associated with counts of young when estimating fecundity: case study on the arboreal-nesting red kite (Milvus milvus) by Sollmann, Rahel, Adenot, Nathalie, Spakovszky, Peter, Windt, Jendrik, Mattsson, Brady J.

“…Statistical model development to account for observation bias has focused on false negatives (undercounts), yet it has been shown that these models are sensitive to the presence of false positives (overcounts) when they are not accounted for. …”
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Treatment of Neuropathic Pain: Focus on Antidepressants, Opioids and Gabapentin by C Peter N Watson, Judith H Watt-Watson

“…Opioids are increasingly being used for the refractory patient. There has been recent enthusiasm for the anticonvulsant gabapentin for the treatment of these conditions.…”
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A study of compressibility and compactibility of directly compressible tableting materials containing tramadol hydrochloride by Mužíková Jitka, Kubíčková Alena

“…The selected types of hypromellose are Methocel™ Premium K4M and Methocel™ Premium K100M in 30 and 50 % concentrations, the lubricant being magnesium stearate in a 1 % concentration. …”
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Algorithm for alerting the unmanned aerial vehicle operator based on the image potential obstacle borders detection on the flight trajectory using the OPEN CV library by V. Yu. Stepanov, E. A. Hvitko

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Molar Changes in Ectopic Gestation: An Unexpected Diagnostic Surprise by Safia Rana, Zeeshan Iqbal, Aneesha, Rubeena Mohroo, Sayika Hameed, Sujata Jetley

“… Ectopic molar gestation occurs very rarely and so far, only132 cases have been reported in the previous literatures. Hereby we present a case report of right sided tubal ectopic with molar changes. …”
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Peloidtherapy in older adults with knee osteoarthritis. Yaguaramas, 2021 by Maydelin Pérez Reina, Isidro Matos Lamote, Mailyn Montero Morales, Jorge Enrique Rodríguez León, Julián Sobral Rey, Esther Yarinely Hernández Diéguez

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: there was a predominance of patients in the age group of 66-70 years old and of the female sex; with evolution time between 5-10 years (60%); and with both knees affected (56.7%). …”
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An Intelligent Web Digital Image Metadata Service Platform for Social Curation Commerce Environment by Seong-Yong Hong, Sung-Joon Lee

“…The proposed scheme can be utilized to enable efficient e-catalog metadata sharing between systems, and it will contribute to the improvement of the retrieval correctness and the user’s satisfaction on semantic-based web digital image information retrieval.…”
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POGLED NA SPOLЈNOPOLITIČKU POZICIJU NEMAČKOG CARSTVA IZ UGLA ISTORIJE SOCIOLOŠKIH TEORIJA: MAKS VEBER O MEĐUNARODNIM ODNOSIMA by Nataša Jovanović Ajzenhamer

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Tell Me Lies (Peter Brook, 1968) or How I Learned to Start Worrying about Vietnam by Nicole Cloarec

“…The Vietnam War has been dubbed the world’s first “television war”. No war had been broadcast as widely before, leading to numerous documentaries both during and after the war. …”
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“Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together”?: the Crisis of the World Sports Movement in the Context of the Pandemic and the Problem of Racism by E. V. Khakhalkina, A. V. Munko

“…The principle of “political correctness” widespread in the West makes it difficult to discuss and deal with historical and colonial traumas, as well as with the crisis in the values of “fair play” in professional sports, caused by its commercialization and politicization.The article concludes that the observed facts stem, among other things, from the revival of the Black Lives Matter movement in the spring of 2020, which spread beyond the borders of the United States, the formation and expansion of the “cancel culture”, as well as the growing influence of social networks and media on world public opinion. …”
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Detailed Photoisomerization Dynamics of a Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore Based Molecular Switch by Chen-Wei Jiang, Ai-Ping Fang, Di Zhao, Hong-Rong Li, Rui-Hua Xie, Fu-Li Li

“…With density-functional-based nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations, trans-to-cis and cis-to-trans photoisomerizations of a green fluorescent protein chromophore based molecule 4-benzylidene-2-methyloxazol-5(4H)-one (BMH) induced by the excitation to its S1 excited state were performed. …”
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