Healthcare Utilization and Costs Among US Adolescents With Alopecia Areata by Markqayne Ray, Elyse Swallow, Kavita Gandhi, Christopher Carley, Vanja Sikirica, Travis Wang, Nicolae Done, James Signorovitch, Arash Mostaghimi

“…**Methods:** IBM MarketScan® Commercial and Medicare databases were used to identify patients aged 12-17 years with ≥2 claims with AA/AT/AU diagnosis (prevalent cases), from October 1, 2015, to March 31, 2018, enrolled for ≥12 months before and after the first AA diagnosis (index). Patients were matched 1:3 to non-AA controls on index year, demographics, plan type, and Charlson Comorbidity Index. …”
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Montreal Cognitive Assessment Hearing Impairment (MoCA-H): cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese by Rochele Martins Machado, Karina Carlesso Pagliarin, Fernanda Soares Aurélio Patatt

“…This was observed not only in Stage 6 but also from the beginning of the adaptation process. Conclusion The adaptation process yielded an instrument with satisfactory content validity.…”
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Generation of novel oncolytic vaccinia virus with improved intravenous efficacy through protection against complement-mediated lysis and evasion of neutralization by vaccinia virus... by Dong-Sup Lee, Mi-Ju Park, Namhee Lee, Yun-Hui Jeon, Jiyoon Yoo, Suk-kyung Shin, Songyi Lee, Byung-Jin Jung, Yun-Kyoung Hong, Keunhee Oh

“…Locoregional administration has been used for oncolytic virus therapy, but its applications to deep-seated cancers have been limited. …”
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Study on the Curative Effect and Safety of Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation via Zero-Fluoroscopy Transseptal Puncture under the Dual Guidance of E... by Fei Hang, Liting Cheng, Zhuo Liang, Ruiqing Dong, Xinlu Wang, Ziyu Wang, Zefeng Wang, Yongquan Wu

“…Similarly, there was also no significant difference in the recurrence rate of atrial fibrillation between the EAM-ICE and F groups (25.5% vs. 18.2%, p=0.356). …”
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Paclitaxel Release from Polyether-Anhydrides Prepared with UV-Curing Process by Anxin Dong, Tao Zhang

“…Polyanhydrides have been used as drug delivery systems to achieve a long-term delivery due to its hydrophobicity and surface erosion degradation behavior. …”
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A Prospective Determination of the Incidence of Perceived Inappropriate Care in Critically Ill Patients by Rohit K Singal, Robert Sibbald, Brenda Morgan, Mel Quinlan, Neil Parry, Michael Radford, Claudio M Martin

“…BACKGROUND: Health care providers’ perceptions regarding appropriateness in end-of-life treatments have been widely studied. While nurses and physicians believe that rationing and other cost-related practices sometimes occur in the intensive care unit (ICU), they allege that treatment is often excessive.…”
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Applying the carbon materials in TSVs array for enhancing heat transfer performance of three-dimensional integrated circuits by Peng Xu, Huan Huang, Songjie Zhao, Xiushan Liu, Fa Zou, Chao Li, Jun Ai, Hui Liu

“…Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the processor runtime and memory footprint of our proposed model are 46.938 and 6.771 times lower than COMSOL simulation model, and the maximum error between them is not exceeding 3 %.…”
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ADAPTIVE GROWTH TECHNIQUE OF TRUSS STRUCTURE BASED ON MMA by HUA Min, DING XiaoHong, WU ChunPing

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Comparison of Conservation Strategies for California Channel Island Oak (Quercus tomentella) Using Climate Suitability Predicted From Genomic Data by Alayna Mead, Sorel Fitz‐Gibbon, John Knapp, Victoria L. Sork

“…We found one island (Santa Rosa) that could benefit from the ecosystem preservation approach and also serve as a species preservation site. …”
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Metagenome-assembled-genomes recovered from the Arctic drift expedition MOSAiC by William Boulton, Asaf Salamov, Igor V. Grigoriev, Sara Calhoun, Kurt LaButti, Robert Riley, Kerrie Barry, Allison A. Fong, Clara J. M. Hoppe, Katja Metfies, Kersten Oetjen, Sarah Lena Eggers, Oliver Müller, Jessie Gardner, Mats A. Granskog, Anders Torstensson, Marc Oggier, Aud Larsen, Gunnar Bratbak, Andrew Toseland, Richard M. Leggett, Vincent Moulton, Thomas Mock

“…This set of MAGs can be used to benchmark microbial biodiversity in the Central Arctic Ocean, compare individual strains across space and time, and to study changes in Arctic microbial communities from the winter to summer, at a genomic level.…”
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Revised recommendations from the CSO-HNS taskforce on performance of tracheotomy during the COVID-19 pandemic – what a difference a year makes by D. D. Sommer, D. Cote, T. McHugh, M. Corsten, M. A. Tewfik, S. Khalili, K. Fung, M. Gupta, N. Sne, P. T. Engels, E. Weitzel, T. F. E. Brown, J. Paul, K. M. Kost, J. A. Anderson, L. Sowerby, D. Mertz, I. J. Witterick

“…Instead, tracheotomy may be considered as soon as COVID-19 swab positive patients are greater than 20 days beyond initial symptoms and 2 weeks of mechanical ventilation. …”
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A Survey on Generalized Topological Indices for Silicon Carbide Structure by Sajid Mahboob Alam, Fahd Jarad, Abid Mahboob, Imran Siddique, Taner Altunok, Muhammad Waheed Rasheed

“…Topological indices facilitate the collection of beneficial information and provide an approach to understanding the properties of chemical structure by providing information about algebraic graphs. …”
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A New Time-Invariant Fuzzy Time Series Forecasting Method Based on Genetic Algorithm by Erol Eğrioğlu

“…Because of this problem, many studies in the literature use fuzzy group relationship tables. …”
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Tools used to measure quality of life in adults with cystic fibrosis– a systematic review by Dorota Snop-Perkowska, Jakub Świtalski, Katarzyna Wnuk, Paweł Olszewski, Anna Augustynowicz

“…In many cases, however, significant limitations were observed related to the lack of comprehensive analysis of the factor structure and other aspects related to validation and responsiveness. There have also been problems with the reliability of some tool scales (including the CFQ-R 14+). …”
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KADIN GİRİŞİMCİLİK VE KONYA İLİNDE KADIN GİRİŞİMCİLİK PROFİLİ ÜZERİNE BİR UYGULAMA by Esen ŞAHİN

“…Kadınların sahip oldukları yetenek ve becerilerini kullanabilme, bağımsız olma, esnek çalışma saatlerine sahip olabilme gibi etkenlerin de etkisiyle ücret ve maaşla çalışmak yerine büyük ölçüde kişisel birikimlerini kullanarak, aileden sermaye temin ederek veya borçlanarak kendi işlerini kurmayı tercih ettikleri görülmektedir. …”
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Current antibiotics for leptospirosis: Are still effective? by Celyne Mendu, Syarifah Ab Rashid, Wan Siti Nur Atirah Wan Mohd Azemin, Noraini Philip

“…Antibiotics can accelerate the defervescence and reduced the occurrence of leptospirosis cases, nevertheless, there is no affirmative evidence on the beneficial effects of the antibiotics compared to placebo in preventing death. …”
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Navigating the Collective: Nanoparticle-Assisted Identification of Leader Cancer Cells During Migration by Anastasia Alexandrova, Elizaveta Kontareva, Margarita Pustovalova, Sergey Leonov, Yulia Merkher

“…We observed a significant difference in encapsulation efficiency between leader and peripheral cells for both high-MP (<i>p</i> < 0.013) and low-MP (<i>p</i> < 0.02) cells. …”
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KINEMATIC CHARACTERISTICS ANALYSIS OF RIGID⁃FLEXIBLE COUPLING SERIES⁃PARALLEL REHABILITATION MANIPULATOR by LI WenXia, ZHAO ZhiGang, ZHAO XiangTang, CHEN YiFan

“…Aiming at the shortcomings of most of the current upper limb rehabilitation robots,this paper first designed a 4-DOF rigid⁃flexible coupled series⁃parallel rehabilitation robot arm with the advantages of rope drive and parallel structure.Secondly,under the condition of mapping relationship with joint space,the kinematic model of the rehabilitation manipulator was established by using the D⁃H coordinate method.Finally,in the Matlab environment,the relation between each joint angle,rope length and speed with time was simulated and analyzed.The analysis results show that the rationality of the structural design of the rigid⁃flexible coupling series⁃parallel rehabilitation manipulator is presented,and it also provides a theoretical basis for analyzing the trajectory planning of the rehabilitation manipulator.…”
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Mechanistic and Experimental Aspects of the Structural Characterization of Some Model and Real Systems by Nitrogen Sorption and Mercury Porosimetry by Carlos Felipe, Fernando Rojas, Isaac Kornhauser, Matthias Thommes, Giorgio Zgrablich

“…The experimental pore systems examined consisted of two substrates: (a) a globular solid composed of monodisperse silica spheres in a perfect rhombohedral arrangement and (b) a controlled pore glass solid. Comparisons between the experimental nitrogen sorption and mercury porosimetry pore-size distributions demonstrated: (i) the existence of several mechanistic effects responsible of irreversible capillary behaviour that influences the calculation of pore structure parameters; (ii) the choice of the right sorption process (i.e. condensation or evaporation) suitable for comparison with either intrusion or extrusion results; (iii) the types of porous structures capable of convenient pore-size characterization by either nitrogen sorption and/or mercury porosimetry methods; and (iv) the nature of the pore entities (i.e. chambers or necks) that control the incumbent capillary process.…”
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Jardin japonais en France : exotisme, adaptation, invention by Hiromi Matsugi

“…Through the history of the Japanese garden in France from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century, we intend to question the evolution of the art of a foreign garden introduced in France. …”
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