Early Relief of Upper Gastrointestinal Dyspeptic Symptoms: A Survey of Empirical Therapy with Pantoprazole in Canadian Clinical Practice by David Armstrong, Farouk Kazim, Marcel Gervais, Myron Pyzyk

“…BACKGROUND: Upper gastrointestinal symptoms attributable to gastroesophageal reflux disease or peptic ulcer are common, but the outcome of proton pump inhibitor therapy in clinical practice is not well documented.…”
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Tropical Vegetable Diseases: I by Shouan Zhang, Geoffrey Meru, Ken Pernezny, Mary Lamberts

“… This fact sheet describes the symptoms of several diseases commonly observed on Florida tropical vegetables and provides recommendations for control. …”
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Can a Self-Management Education Program for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Improve Quality of Life ? by Manon Labrecque, Khalil Rabhi, Catherine Laurin, Helene Favreau, Gregory Moullec, Kim Lavoie, Marcel Julien

“…OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of a self-management program on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and morbidity commonly associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).…”
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Estimation of Hospital Costs for Colorectal Cancer Care for Nova Scotia by Brian D O'Brien, Murray G Brown, George Kephart

“…BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common invasive cancer in Canada. Estimates of the costs of care allow estimation of the cost effectiveness of screening for premalignant and early disease.…”
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Relationship between Angiogenic Squamous Dysplasia and Bronchogenic Carcinoma in Patients Undergoing White Light Bronchoscopy by Shirin Karimi, Forouzan Mohammadi, Kian Khodadad, Makan Sadr, Leila Seyfollahi, Mohammad Reza Masjedi

“…OBJECTIVE: To better understand the characteristic morphology of angiogenic squamous dysplasia (ASD) and its association with different types of common bronchogenic carcinomas using routine white light bronchoscopy.…”
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Digestive Symptoms in Older Adults: Prevalence and Associations with Institutionalization and Mortality by Turki AlAmeel, Mohammed Basheikh, Melissa K Andrew

“…BACKGROUND: Digestive symptoms are common in adults. However, little is known about their prevalence in older adults and the association of digestive symptoms with institutionalization and mortality in community-dwelling older adults.…”
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Turn-Amplitude Analysis as a Diagnostic Test for Myofascial Syndrome in Patients with Chronic Pelvic Pain by Fernando Itza, Daniel Zarza, Jesus Salinas, Fernando Teba, Carmen Ximenez

“…BACKGROUND: Myofascial pain syndrome of the pelvic floor (MPSPF) is a common disease in the context of chronic pelvic pain (CPP); however, there is currently no gold-standard test to diagnose it.…”
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A Synchronized Hybrid Brain-Computer Interface System for Simultaneous Detection and Classification of Fusion EEG Signals by Dalin Yang, Trung-Hau Nguyen, Wan-Young Chung

“…In this study, a simplified synchronized hybrid BCI system is proposed for multiple command control by the electroencephalograph (EEG) signals in the motor cortex. …”
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Evaluation of Clinical and Radiographic Findings among Patients with Traumatic Dental Injuries Seeking Delayed Treatment by Sanjeeb Chaudhary, Harender Singh, Archana Gharti, Bhawana Adhikari

“…Tooth discoloration was the most common presenting complaint (53.65%), while fall (48.78%) was the most frequent cause of trauma. …”
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Urinary Tract Infections in Children: Changing Trends in Etiology and Local Resistance Patterns over a Three-Year Period by Patrícia Sousa, Lucinda Delgado, Susana Correia-de-Oliveira, Cecília Pereira, Ângela Dias, Ana Cláudia Tavares

“… Introduction: Urinary tract infections are common in pediatrics. Knowledge of local resistance patterns is crucial to guide empirical antibiotic therapy. …”
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Shigella Species among Children under Five Years of Age with Diarrhea in Selected Health Centers, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Basha Ayele, Zeleke Mekonnen, Tesfaye Sisay Tessema, Etsehiwot Adamu, Estifanos Tsige, Getenet Beyene

“…Shigella and parasitic infections are common public health problems throughout the world. …”
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Numerical Analysis of the Influence of Deep Foundation Pit Construction on Adjacent Subway Stations in Soft Soil Areas by Tao Yang, Shengyuan Xiong, Shuailei Liu, Yang Liu, Hao Zhao, Yanwei Li

“…The maximum positive bending moment of the common diaphragm wall changed little, while the negative bending moment increased greatly during construction. …”
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Evaluation of change in emergency care knowledge and skills among front-line healthcare providers in Ukraine with the Basic Emergency Care course: a pretest/post-test study by Sean M Kivlehan, Amy Allen, Olha Viun, Dmitry A Makarov, Daniel Schnorr, Sonny Patel, Sergii A Ryzhenko, Phuong Pham, Timothy B Erickson

“…Open-ended written feedback was collected upon course completion and analysed for common themes.Results Participant knowledge assessment scores improved from 19 (IQR 15–20) to 22 (IQR 19–23) on a 25-point scale (p<0.001). …”
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Three-Year Assault Cases Performed on the Emergency Trauma Center by Melih Yucel SANLIER, Behcet Al, Volkan CELEBI, Gorkem Alper SOLAKOGLU, Eltaf TORUN, Kurtulus ACIKSARI, Bilgehan Ahmet CUMHUR, Nafiye SANLIER

“…Facial injuries were significantly more common in males (p=<0.05), whereas spinal and pelvic injuries were common in females (p<0.05). …”
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Formation and development of the Acquis Communautaire in France, Germany and Switzerland: A comparative legal analysis by N. O. Rastorhuieva

“…Finally, it is noted that the common feature of the development of the EU acquis for all these countries is a combination of market-liberal and general social values and the introduction of a socially oriented market economy model.…”
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Insights into prescribing patterns for antidepressants: an evidence-based analysis by Hua Min, Farrokh Alemi

“…A history of high antidepressant use (four or more prior medications) was the most common factor across antidepressants. Age influenced prescribing patterns, with mirtazapine and trazodone more frequent among older patients, while fluoxetine and sertraline were more common in younger individuals. …”
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Convergence for a Fixed Point of Evolution Families in Banach Space via Iterative Process by Musharaf Shah, Gul Rahmat, Syed Inayat Ali Shah, Ebenezer Bonyah, Zahir Shah, Meshal Shutaywi

“…In this paper, we present the convergence of Krasnoselskii Mann iterative process for common fixed points of pointwise Lipschitzian evolution family of bounded nonlinear operators on a Banach space ℜ.…”
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Reviving Decommissioned Ventilators How a Circular Economy Approach Can Assist in Tackling the South African Shortage of Ventilators during Covid-19 by Katharina Gihring, Nickey Janse van Rensburg

“… Sub-Saharan Africa bears the highest disease burden in human and economic costs, but commands less than one percent of global health expenditure (Aikins et al., 2010). …”
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Some Results on Strictly Pseudocontractive Nonself-Mappings and Equilibrium Problems in Hilbert Spaces by Yan Hao, Sun Young Cho

“…Strong convergence theorems of common elements are established based on hybrid projection algorithms in the framework of real Hilbert spaces.…”
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Psychiatric Morbidity in Pain Conditions: Results from the Singapore Mental Health Study by Mythily Subramaniam, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Edimansyah Abdin, Siow Ann Chong

“…BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a common problem among the general population and has been found to be associated with psychiatric disorders in studies based on both clinical samples and epidemiological surveys.…”
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