Multiple Comorbid Conditions among Middle-Aged and Elderly Hemophilia Patients: Prevalence Estimates and Implications for Future Care by Aroub A. Khleif, Nidra Rodriguez, Deborah Brown, Miguel A. Escobar

“…All patients had at least one comorbid condition other than hemophilia, and the majority had between 3 and 6 comorbidities. The most common conditions identified were chronic hepatitis C, hypertension, HIV, chronic arthropathy, and overweight/obesity. …”
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Understanding the distributional effects of recurrent floods in the Philippines by Inga J. Sauer, Brian Walsh, Katja Frieler, David N. Bresch, Christian Otto

“…Yet, in disaster prone regions, there may not always be enough time to recover between events. There is a common narrative that the resulting incomplete recoveries aggravate adverse impacts, but approaches allowing for a systematic quantitative assessment are missing. …”
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The use of authentic video in Russian as foreign language teaching on A1 level by Natalija A. Gridneva, Svetlana M. Vladimirova

“…The authors offer some effective training practices (based on «Common European Framework of Reference: Learning, Teaching, Assessment» and «Russian Public Standard for Russian as a Foreign Language (Elementary Level - A1), which can be used for drilling and perfecting some basic phrases, especially needed in the everyday life.…”
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Drywood Termite, Cryptotermes cavifrons Banks (Insecta: Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) by Angela S. Brammer, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“…The most economically significant termite in this genus, Cryptotermes brevis (Walker), commonly infests structures and was at one time known as the “furniture termite,” thanks to the frequency with which colonies were found in pieces of furniture. …”
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Les révolutions arabes entre césures et remembrances : tiers-mondisme, question palestinienne et utopies chiliastiques by Nicolas Dot-Pouillard

“…The radical novelty of these revolutionary processes may even have established fundamental breaking points from elements that were associated to the concept of “revolution” in the Arab world throughout the twentieth century, such as the common underlying notion of Third World, the commitment to the Palestinian cause, and finally the chiliastic and revolutionary dimension of revolutionary upheavals such as they were envisioned at that time. …”
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Multiple-Decision Procedures for Testing the Homogeneity of Mean for k Exponential Distributions by Han-Ching Chen, Her Pei Shan, Nae-Sheng Wang

“…In addition, we also observed that a lower bound for the probability of CD relative to the number of the common sample size is determined based on the desired probability of CD when the largest mean is sufficiently larger than the other means. …”
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Hematological parameters and histopathological outcomes in appendicitis patients: A retrospective study by Fatimah Bunga, Heriyanto Mochammad Junaidy

“…Appendicitis remains the most common cause of abdominal complaints in the emergency setting. …”
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Ozone therapy as support in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcer. A case report by Isidro Matos Lamote, Jorge Enrique Rodríguez León, Carlos García Arencibia, Maydelin Pérez Reina

“…<p>One of the most common complications of diabetes mellitus is diabetic foot ulcer, as an important source of morbidity and mortality. …”
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Automatic flood barrier system: An approach for detection and control of storm water overflow during flood by M C Jayaprakash, Krishna Shastri C Sri, Ekaputra Rinaldi

“…Overflow of drainage water has become the common problem that one living in the cities usually face. …”
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Automated cell annotation in multi-cell images using an improved CRF_ID algorithm by Hyun Jee Lee, Jingting Liang, Shivesh Chaudhary, Sihoon Moon, Zikai Yu, Taihong Wu, He Liu, Myung-Kyu Choi, Yun Zhang, Hang Lu

“…However, because the method was optimized for whole-brain imaging, comparable performance could not be guaranteed for application in commonly used C. elegans multi-cell images that display a subpopulation of cells. …”
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A Rare Case of Porocarcinoma and Trichoblastoma Arising in a Nevus Sebaceus of Jadassohn by Drew C. Mitchell, Gina J. Kuehn, Glynis A. Scott, Timothy D. Doerr, Francisco Tausk

“…Nevus sebaceus of Jadassohn, or “organoid nevus,” is a common, benign hamartoma of the skin consisting of epithelial and adnexal components. …”
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A Graph Convolutional Network-Based Sensitive Information Detection Algorithm by Ying Liu, Chao-Yu Yang, Jie Yang

“…The majority of existing detection methods are based on the sensitive-word tree, which is usually constructed via the common prefixes of different sensitive words from the given corpus. …”
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Emerging Technologies and Generic Assays for the Detection of Anti-Drug Antibodies by Michael A. Partridge, Shobha Purushothama, Chinnasamy Elango, Yanmei Lu

“…Different assay methodologies have been used to detect all anti-drug antibodies, including ELISA, radioimmunoassay, surface plasmon resonance, and electrochemiluminescence-based technologies. The most commonly used method is a bridging assay, performed in an ELISA or on the Meso Scale Discovery platform. …”
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A Neonatal Patient Diagnosed with Chromosome 18p 11.1 Microdeletion Syndrome Presented with Trisomy 18Like Phenotype by Deepa Banker, Bhavdeep Mungala, Zankhana Parekh, Shachi Ganatra, Vimal Maheshwari, Yashica Raj, Utsav Patel, Digant Patel, Kishan Chamar, Vasu Solanki

“…Microdeletion of the short arm of chromosome 18 is one of the most common chromosome deletion syndromes. Its estimated frequency is 1 in 50,000 live-born infants, with female prevalence over males. …”
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Le « Héros homicide et nocturne » en pleines « Lumières » : de Cartouche ou les voleurs (1721) aux « Vies privées » (1721-1803) by Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre

“…Public interest in judicial questions subsequently turns towards judicial mémoires and towards “Vies privées” or “Private Lives”: these publications develop originally around criminal figures and become common in the political sphere after the 1780s. The way in which the character of the criminal shifts between the different genres reveals his theatrical aspect and paradoxically at the same time the questions this poses for the theatrical genre.…”
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Onychomycosis: Potential of Nail Lacquers in Transungual Delivery of Antifungals by Nida Akhtar, Hemlata Sharma, Kamla Pathak

“…Onychomycosis constitutes the most common fungal infection of the nail (skin beneath the nail bed) that affects the finger as well as toe nails. …”
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Identification of Osteosarcoma-Related Specific Proteins in Serum Samples Using Surface-Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry by Jianli Gu, Jitian Li, Manyu Huang, Zhiyong Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Guoying Song, Xingpo Ding, Wuyin Li

“…Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common malignant bone tumor. To identify OS-related specific proteins for early diagnosis of OS, a novel approach, surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) to serum samples from 25 OS patients, 16 osteochondroma, and 26 age-matched normal human volunteers as controls, was performed. …”
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Efficient Privacy-Preserving Protocol for k-NN Search over Encrypted Data in Location-Based Service by Huijuan Lian, Weidong Qiu, Di Yan, Zheng Huang, Jie Guo

“…The k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search is one of the most common types of LBS. In this paper, we propose an efficient private circular query protocol (EPCQP) with high accuracy rate and low computation and communication cost. …”
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Faith, Climate, and Energy Frugality: Unravelling the Nexus in European Perspectives by Pablo García-García

“…Religious affiliations show distinct attitudes, with Protestants more inclined to attribute climate change to human causes. Roman Catholics are closer to some Protestants, while other Christian denominations exhibit flexibility and common ground with Islam and Judaism. …”
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Demographic Characteristics and County-level Indicators of Social Vulnerability in Salmonellosis Outbreaks Linked to Ground Beef—United States, 2012–2018 by Michelle A. Waltenburg, Zainab Salah, Michelle Canning, Kelly McCain, David Rickless, Michael Ablan, Tamara N. Crawford, Mabel Sheau Fong Low, Misha Robyn, Noelle Angelique M. Molinari, Katherine E. Marshall

“…Ground beef is a common source of US Salmonella illnesses and outbreaks. …”
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