Did dingo control cause the elimination of kowaris through mesopredator release effects? A response to Wallach and O'Neill (2009) by B. L. Allen

“…As such, the study contributes little insight into the effect of dingo control on kowaris. The study sites, methods, and results presented in Wallach & O'Neill (2009) have also been used elsewhere (Wallach et al., 2009a, 2009b, 2010), and these criticisms equally apply to those reports, and others similar to them. …”
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Connectivity guided intermittent theta burst stimulation versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in moderately severe treatment resistant depression by Richard Morriss, Lucy Webster, Luke Ingram, Mohamed Abdelghani, Adriana Anton, Shaun Barber, Peter Bates, Paul Briley, Clement Boutry, Cassandra Brookes, Edward Cox, Beth Hall, Marilyn James, Matthew Keane, Micheal Kurkar, Sudheer Lankappa, Peter Liddle, Hamish McAllister-Williams, Hyerin Oh, Alexander O’Neill-Kerr, Jehill Parikh, Stefan Pszczolkowski, Ana Suazo Di Paola, Louise Thomson, Yvette Walters, Dorothee Auer

“…Magnetic resonance imaging neuronavigation personalised repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation or intermittent theta burst stimulation are acceptable methods to reduce depression symptoms over 26 weeks in treatment-resistant depression alongside other reasons for improvement. …”
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Early detection to improve outcome in people with undiagnosed psoriatic arthritis: the PROMPT research programme including RCT by Neil McHugh, Laura Bojke, Mel Brooke Turfrey, Rachel Charlton, Myka Ransom, Laura C Coates, Howard Collier, Claire Davies, Emma Dures, Philip Helliwell, Jana James, Anya Lissina, Vishnu B Madhok, Alison L Nightingale, Jonathan Packham, Catherine Smith, Eldon Spackman, Cerys Tassinari, William Tillett, Sarah T Brown

“…BN models may be a useful method to identify clusters of symptoms that predict PsA with reasonable accuracy. …”
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Cultural influences on fidelity components in recovery colleges: a study across 28 countries and territories by Charlotte Hanlon, Lisa Brophy, Peter Bates, Samson Tse, Claire Henderson, Ioannis Bakolis, Mike Slade, Michio Murakami, Julie Cooper, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Michael Ryan, Susana Ochoa, Daniel Hayes, Amy Ronaldson, Bernd Puschner, Ashleigh Charles, Ramona Hiltensperger, Yasuhiro Kotera, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Julie Repper, Simran Takhi, Simon Felix, Mariam Namasaba, Simon Lawrence, Vanessa Kellermann, Agnieszka Kapka, Danielle Dunnett, Tesnime Jebara, Sara Meddings, Clara De Ruysscher, Lene Eplov, Charlotte Toernes, Dagmar Narusson, Yuki Miyamoto, Stynke Castelein, Trude Gøril Klevan, Hannah Morland-Jones, Edith Moore, Gianfranco Zuaboni, Laura Asher, Jonna Tolonen, Mário Andrade, Daniel Elton, Jason Grant

“…Seven RFM items showed associations with cultural dimensions. Equality was linked to short-term orientation, while learning was associated with individualism and uncertainty avoidance. …”
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OUR EXPERIENCE OF HYPERTHERMIC INTRAPERITONEAL CHEMOTHERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER by A. D. Kaprin, V. M. Khomyakov, D. D. Sobolev, L. V. Bolotina, A. B. Ryabov, V. E. Khoronenko, M. M. Soboleva, L. V. Kramskaya

“…Improvement of the results of treatment of patients with locally advanced and metastatic gastric cancer. Material and methods. From the 2010–2014 we performed 30 surgeries using techniques HICT. …”
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Role of laparoscopic surgery in blunt abdominal trauma; retrospective analysis in a tertiary trauma center by Rifan Alyami, Ahad E. Alotaibi, Leen Almohayya, Ajyad Al Jawad, Raghad Almukhayzim, Abeer Alhoumedan, Rakan S. Aldusari

“…Laparoscopy is considered safe and feasible for hemodynamically stable patients, and our findings suggest it is equally effective in trauma cases for those who can tolerate the procedure. …”
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Identifying risk factors for loss to follow-up in adults living with HIV in a high-burden district in Ghana by Benedicta Ayiedu Mensah, Henrietta E. Mensah-Brown, Frederica D. Partey, Christabel Addo, Gertrude Buah, Gifty A. Afudego, Daniel Okyere, Mary Tetteh, Ernest Boateng, Michael Wilson, Elijah Paintsil

“…Patients who were in care for less than or equal to five years were more likely to be LTFU compared to those in care for more than five years. …”
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Distinct features of three clinical subtypes in 533 patients with primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy by Xilei Cai, Xiujuan Yang, Pengyue Zhang, Ziyue Dou, Zilian Chen, Chongzhi Zhu, Weiwei Xu, Xinchen Wang, Xiaodan Hong, Zhenhua Zhang

“…This study aimed to determine the distribution of the three clinical subtypes of PHO and compare their clinical characteristics using a large global sample. Methods A systematic literature search was conducted in multiple databases to categorize cases into complete form (CO), incomplete form (IN), and fruste form (FR). …”
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Prescription dose and optimisation strategies in MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy for kidney tumours: a two-step planning analysis by Takaya Yamamoto, Noriyoshi Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Rei Umezawa, Yu Suzuki, Keita Kishida, So Omata, Kazuya Takeda, Hinako Harada, Kiyokazu Sato, Noriyuki Kadoya, Keiichi Jingu

“…However, the ideal strategy for prescription dose selection and reoptimisation remains unclear. Methods This single-centre planning study evaluated kidney tumours located within 1 cm of gastrointestinal OARs. …”
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Vaccine-induced T cell responses correlate with reduced risk of severe COVID-19 in a placebo-controlled efficacy trialResearch in context by Nina Hertoghs, Sanne Roels, Matthias Brückner, Jerald Sadoff, Barbara L. Banbury, Nicholas K. Akers, Bryan Howie, Harlan S. Robins, Griet A. van Roey, Jeroen T.B.M. Tolboom, Veronica V. Rezelj, Jenny Hendriks, Hanneke Schuitemaker, Daniel J. Stieh, Mathieu Le Gars

“…The purpose of this study is to investigate whether signatures of the T-cell response contribute to protection against (severe) COVID-19. Methods: T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing was conducted using pre-vaccination and 29 days post-vaccination PAXgene samples from 396 participants in the phase 3 efficacy trial, ENSEMBLE. …”
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Tacrolimus concentration/dose ratio as a therapeutic drug monitoring strategy: The influence of gender and comedication by Rančić Nemanja, Dragojević-Simić Viktorija, Vavić Neven, Kovačević Aleksandra, Šegrt Zoran, Drašković-Pavlović Biljana, Mikov Momir

“…Methods. This prospective case series study included 54 patients, in which the unit of monitoring was outpatient examination (1,872) of the renal transplant patients. …”
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Machine learning-based ultrasound radiomics for predicting risk of recurrence in breast cancer by Wei Fan, Hao Cui, Xiaoxue Liu, Xudong Zhang, Xinran Fang, Junjia Wang, Zihao Qin, Xiuhua Yang, Jiawei Tian, Lei Zhang

“…PurposeTo develop a radiomics model based on ultrasound images for predicting risk of recurrence in breast cancer patients.MethodsIn this retrospective study, 420 patients with pathologically confirmed breast cancer were included, randomly divided into training (70%) and test (30%) sets, with an independent external validation cohort of 90 patients. …”
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Evaluation of physicians’ opioid prescribing practices, attitudes, and interactions with other healthcare professionals in optimizing opioid prescribing in Pakistan by Hafsa Arshad, Hafsa Arshad, Hafsa Arshad, Ali Hassan Gillani, Ali Hassan Gillani, Ali Hassan Gillani, Muhammad Arshed, Yu Fang, Yu Fang, Yu Fang

“…More than half of the respondents were men, accounting for 58.8% of the total, and an equal proportion of respondents, 56.9%, were from government hospitals. …”
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Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses in convalescent plasma donors with varying severity of COVID-19 illness by Grujić Jasmina, Bujandrić Nevenka, Budakov-Obradović Zorana, Savić Nebojša, Dolinaj Vladimir

“…The aim of the study was to successively monitor antibody titer in donations and to investigate the correlation between antibody titer and the severity of the clinical manifestations. Methods. The retrospective study was conducted from May 1 to October 31, 2020, at the Blood Transfusion Institute of Vojvodina. …”
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Association of preclinical blood glucose with hospitalization rate and in‐hospital mortality: A single‐center retrospective cohort study by Simon Kloock, Danilo Skudelny, Peter Kranke, Gülmisal Güder, Dirk Weismann, Martin Fassnacht, Christian G. Ziegler, Ulrich Dischinger

“…Patients with a PBG ≥140 mg/dL (G1, n = 394, equal to 7.8 mmol/L) were compared with patients with a PBG <140 mg/dL (G2, n = 576). …”
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Patient-reported outcomes three months after treatment of metacarpal and phalangeal fractures or dislocations: a multicentre snapshot study by Louise E. M. de Haas, Veronique A. P. van de Lücht, Bastiaan T. van Hoorn, Dorien A. Salentijn, Rolf H. H. Groenwold, Niels W. L. Schep, Mark van Heijl, Snapshot Hand Fractures Collaborative Study Group members

“…Aims: To evaluate patient-reported outcomes three months after treatment of metacarpal and phalangeal fractures or dislocations, and to identify factors that are associated with worse patient-reported outcomes. Methods: This cross-sectional, multicentre snapshot study included all adult patients with metacarpal and phalangeal fractures or dislocations during a three-month period between August and October 2020. …”
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Longitudinal study of family formation in 892 women and 193 men 8 years after visiting the Fertility Assessment and Counselling (FAC) clinic by Randi Sylvest, Ida Vittrup, Ditte Vassard, Marte Saupstad, Søren Ziebe, Elisabeth Larsen, Helene Westring Hvidman, Kathrine Birch Petersen, Henriette S. Nielsen, Lone Schmidt, Anja Pinborg

“…The aim is to explore the reproductive outcomes and health behaviors 8 years after attending fertility assessment and counseling in the FAC clinic. Material and Methods Cohort study including women and men who attended the FAC clinic in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 2011 to 2017. …”
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The impact of training on communication quality during interpreter‐mediated cognitive assessments: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Bianca Brijnath, Erika Gonzalez, Jim Hlavac, Joanne Enticott, Robyn Woodward‐Kron, Dina LoGiudice, Lee‐Fay Low, Josefine Antoniades, Jenni White, Kerry Hwang, Xiaoping Lin, Andrew Simon Gilbert

“…The training aims to improve the quality of interpreter‐mediated communication during cognitive assessments, and thereby improve the accuracy and acceptability of cognitive assessments with older people who have limited English proficiency. Methods We are conducting a single‐blinded randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the training. …”
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Observation of the Effects of Infrapatellar Fat Pad Excision on the Inflammatory Progression of Knee Osteoarthritis in Mice by Li Y, Lu P, Yao H, Yang S, Tu B, Kong L, Ning R

“…Excision of the IFP is considered a potential therapeutic approach to reduce inflammation and slow disease progression.Methods: A mouse model of KOA was used to evaluate the impact of IFP excision on inflammation. …”
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Risk Factors and Diagnostic Model Construction of Chronic Pain with Cognitive Impairment by Zhang C, Su Y, Zeng X, Zhu X, Gao R, Liu W, Du R, Chen C, Liu J

“…This study aimed to explore the correlation between complete blood count parameters and CP-related CI to establish a risk diagnostic model for the early detection of CP-related CI.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at West China Hospital, Sichuan University. …”
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