Combining Body Mass and Shape Indices in Clinical Practice by Jesse C. Krakauer, Nir Y. Krakauer

“…We present preliminary clinical experience with combined consideration of the commonly used BMI (body mass index) and the newly developed ABSI (a body shape index) using a point of care anthropometric calculator for comparisons of index values and associated relative risks to population normals. …”
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Rare Skeletal Complications in the Setting of Primary Hyperparathyroidism by Nikos Sabanis, Eleni Gavriilaki, Eleni Paschou, Asterios Kalaitzoglou, Dimitrios Papanikolaou, Pinelopi Ioannidou, Sotirios Vasileiou

“…Parathyroid carcinoma represents an extremely rare neoplasm with diverse clinical manifestations which vary from asymptomatic patients to severe complications of hypercalcemia or parathyrotoxicosis while skeletal involvement is rather common. Herein we aimed at presenting a unique case of a young patient with rare aggressive skeletal complications of parathyroid cancer that initially were misdiagnosed. …”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Listeriosis by Keith R. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider, Michael A. Hubbard, Dirk Sampath

“…Hubbard, and Dirk Sampath, is one in a series of facts sheets discussing common foodborne pathogens of interest to food handlers, processors, and retailers. …”
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Intra-pulse modulation recognition of radar signal based on random forest by Ge LIU, Guoyi ZHANG, Yan YU

“…To solve the existing problems of low recognition rate and noise problem in radar signal recognition,the fusion feature extraction method of time-frequency image and the random forest classifier is applied to the identification of radar signals.The radar signal time-frequency image was firstly extracted the shape features and texture features to anstitute fusion characteristics,into and then input fusioncharacteristics radom forest classifier recognition of the signal classification was realized.The results of simulation experiments for eight kinds of common radar signals to recognition show that recognition accuracy of the method proposed can be achieved more than 90% in SNR -2 dB,so it also verify the effectiveness of the method.…”
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Les réfections chirurgicales de l’hymen en Tunisie. Des techniques de purification et d’absolution ? by Ibtissem Ben Dridi

“…It also investigates how the various actors involved (young women, medical personnel, religious authorities) construct specific discourses entailing a moral logic that justifies the reconstruction of the hymen through the mobilization of the principles of repentance, protection and the common good, as well as the notion of physical and psychic purification. …”
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Erythema Multiforme Attributable to Herpes Simplex Virus: Clinical Aspects and Treatment by Aya Mtiri, Ghada Bouslama, Nour-sayda Ben Messouad, Iyadh Abidi, Souha Ben Youssef, Badreddine Sriha

“…Erythema multiforme is an acute mucocutaneous hypersensitivity reaction with various etiological factors, including herpes simplex virus, medications, autoimmune diseases, and malignancies, but the most common cause is infection by herpes simplex virus. …”
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Psychotic Features Abated with Vitamin D Treatment in a Patient with Major Depressive Disorder by David C. Fipps, Elisabet Rainey

“…Vitamin D deficiency is common in psychiatric populations, and vitamin D has been used as an add-on medication in major depressive disorder. …”
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Current Trends in the Epidemiology and Treatment of Esophageal Cancer in South Korea by Hye Weon Kim, Seong Yong Park

“…According to 2021 statistics, esophageal cancer ranked as the 18th most common cancer and the 10th leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Korea, predominantly manifesting as squamous cell carcinoma. …”

COVID-19: An Emerging Culprit of Inflammatory Arthritis by Muhammad Shariq Mukarram, Muhammad Ishaq Ghauri, Sehrish Sethar, Nasir Afsar, Amir Riaz, Khizra Ishaq

“…Arthralgia is one of the most common symptoms that occur in patients with COVID-19. …”
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Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Causing Tension Hemothorax in a Pregnant Woman Requiring Emergent Cesarean Delivery by Nidhi Sood, Nikhil Sood, Vibhu Dhawan

“…Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs), although most commonly congenital, are usually detected later in life. …”
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The Most Important Maglev Applications by Hamid Yaghoubi

“…It has various uses. The common point in all applications is the lack of contact and thus no wear and friction. …”
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Distributed Attitude Consensus for Multiple Rigid Spacecraft under Jointly Connected Switching Topologies by Long Ma, Shicheng Wang, Haibo Min, Shouyi Liao, Zhiguo Liu

“…The whole system is proved to be stable by using common Lyapunov function method. Finally, the theoretical result is illustrated by numerical simulations.…”
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Difficult Internal Jugular Central Venous Cannulation Using J-Tip Guidewire with Indwelling Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheters by Preeti Anand, Minal Joshi, Khaja Ahmed, Joel Yarmush

“…Central venous cannulation is a commonly performed procedure while managing critically ill patients; increasingly we encounter patients with indwelling wires or devices, like pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillator devices, and peripherally inserted central venous catheters which complicate insertion of central venous catheters further. …”
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Pulmonary hypertension associated with connective tissue disease by Srinivas Rajagopala, Molly Mary Thabah

“…PH-specific therapy in addition to immunosuppression is the most common treatment used though data are scant. In this narrative review, we discuss the epidemiologic burden, clinical presentation, evaluation, and management of PH in CTDs.…”
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Bacterial overgrowth syndrome by Yu. A. Kucheryavy, T. S. Oganesyan

“…Now there are no general guidelines on diagnostics of bacterial overgrowth syndrome in small intestine besides there is no common opinion which diagnostic test is preferable. …”
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Pregnancy counseling in rheumatic diseases: Where science meets the steps by Anu Balakrishnan, Pankti Mehta, Latika Gupta

“…Most rheumatic diseases (RDs) have a predilection for women in the reproductive age group. Common drugs used in rheumatology practice have identified risks to the fetus; thus, adequate pregnancy counseling is of utmost importance. …”
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HYPERTENSION AND DRUG-INDUCED GINGIVAL OVERGROWTH: MECHANISMS, IMPLICATIONS, AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES by Bogdan Amărioarei, Diana Tatarciuc, Gabriel Rotundu, Ruxandra Stan, Oana Butnaru, Alexandra Mârțu, Liliana Păsărin, Ionut Luchian

“…Hypertension (HTA) is commonly treated with medications that can cause drug-induced gingival overgrowth (DIGO). …”
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Fast finite difference/Legendre spectral collocation approximations for a tempered time-fractional diffusion equation by Zunyuan Hu, Can Li, Shimin Guo

“…The sum-of-exponential technique developed in [Jiang et al., Commun. Comput. Phys., 21 (2017), 650-678] is used to discrete generalized fractional derivative with exponential kernel. …”
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A Simple Technique to Facilitate Treatment of Urethral Strictures with Optical Internal Urethrotomy by Konstantinos Stamatiou, Aggeliki Papadatou, Hippocrates Moschouris, Ioannis Kornezos, Anargiros Pavlis, Georgios Christopoulos

“…Urethral stricture is a common condition that can lead to serious complications such as urinary infections and renal insufficiency secondary to urinary retention. …”
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Na pochybách. Pascal a Descartes by Gachonová, Kateřina

“…An attempt at the relativization of these compartmentalizing poles brings the author of the study to a starting point that is common to Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy and Pascal’s Pensées (Thoughts): the act of skepticism and radical doubt. …”