Constructing TheKeep.Ca With Thrivers of Cancer in Manitoba, Canada, in Support of Enhancing Patient Engagement: Protocol for a Pragmatic Multimethods Study by Maclean Thiessen, Kellie Jewitt, Raina Stromberg, Janelle Marie Lamontagne, Genevieve Richardson Tanguay, Annette Albo, Chantale Thurston, Diana E McMillan

“…For objective 2, Google Analytics and website registrant data collected during the first six months will be analyzed to obtain baseline characteristics of website visitors. …”
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Serum sodium to chloride ratio and mortality on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: a multicenter retrospective study by Jiayin You, Sijie Gu, Ning Su, Xiaoran Feng, Fenfen Peng, Qingdong Xu, Xiaojiang Zhan, Yueqiang Wen, Xiaoyang Wang, Na Tian, Xianfeng Wu, Niansong Wang

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Investigating the relationship between the immune response and the severity of COVID-19: a large-cohort retrospective study by Riccardo Giuseppe Margiotta, Emanuela Sozio, Fabio Del Ben, Fabio Del Ben, Antonio Paolo Beltrami, Antonio Paolo Beltrami, Daniela Cesselli, Daniela Cesselli, Marco Comar, Alessandra Devito, Martina Fabris, Martina Fabris, Francesco Curcio, Francesco Curcio, Carlo Tascini, Carlo Tascini, Guido Sanguinetti

“…We characterized immuno-inflammatory profiles within the first 72 hours of hospital admission, stratified by age, disease severity, and time elapsed since symptom onset. …”
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Diversity in the medical research ecosystem: a descriptive scientometric analysis of over 49 000 studies and 150 000 authors published in high-impact medical journals between 2007... by Leo Anthony Celi, Jonathan Shaffer, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Liam G McCoy, Luis Filipe Nakayama, Jack Gallifant, Urvish Jain, Joao Matos, Pia Gabrielle I Alfonso, Marisa Cobanaj, Amelia Morel Fiske, Alexander J Gates, Frances Dominique V Ho, Mohammad Kashkooli, Naira Link

“…The probability of serving as the first or last author was significantly higher if the author was inferred to be a man (18.1% vs 16.8%, p<0.01) or was affiliated with an institution in a HIC (16.9% vs 15.5%, p<0.01). …”
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Evaluation of in-office tooth whitening treatment with violet LED: protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial by Lara Jansiski Motta, Anna Carolina Ratto Tempestini Horliana, Sandra Kalil Bussadori, Maria Fernanda Setúbal Destro Rodrigues, Ana Eliza Castanho Garrini dos Santos, Marcelo Mendes Pinto, Dácio Antonio Pantano Junior, Aldo Brugnera Jr, Fátima Antonia Aparecida Zanin

“…Colour will be measured at baseline, immediately after the first session and at the 15 and 180 days follow-up using the Vita Classical and the digital Easyshade V spectrophotometer (Vita, Zahnfabrik, Germany). …”
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A Novel System and Iterative Schemes for Generalized Variational Inclusion Problems and its Approximation Solvability by Mohd Sarfaraz, Md. Kalimuddin Ahmad

“…The variational inclusion problems are the generalizations of the variational inequality problems. First, it was noted by Hasounni and Moudafi in 1994. …”
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Smoking Cessation in Chinese Patients Undergoing Thoracic Surgery: A Multicenter Prospective Observational Study by Jianxing He, Dingpei Han, Kun Qian, Weijie Guan, Ge Zhang, Weiqing Lu, Hecheng Li, Xiuyi Zhi

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Progressive systemic inflammation precedes decompensation in compensated cirrhosis by Rubén Sánchez-Aldehuelo, Càndid Villanueva, Joan Genescà, Juan Carlos García-Pagán, Elisa Castillo, José Luis Calleja, Carles Aracil, Rafael Bañares, Luis Téllez, Lorena Paule, Rosa María Morillas, María Poca, Beatriz Peñas, Salvador Augustin, Juan G. Abraldes, Edilmar Alvarado-Tapias, Jaume Bosch, Agustín Albillos

“…Blood biomarkers were measured at baseline and at 1 and 2 years in patients who remained compensated and had available samples (n = 164). …”
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Functional Exercise and Physical Fitness Post Stroke: The Importance of Exercise Maintenance for Motor Control and Physical Fitness after Stroke by Birgitta Langhammer, Birgitta Lindmark

“…The aim of the study was to follow and register functional improvements in two groups with different functional capacities at baseline for a period of 36 months. Stroke patients were recruited and divided into groups related to their functional status at baseline. …”
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Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes by J. P. Yáñez, A. Kouchner

“…In the recent years, very large volume neutrino telescopes have started contributing to the field. First ANTARES and then IceCube have relied on large and sparsely instrumented volumes to observe atmospheric neutrinos for combinations of baselines and energies inaccessible to other experiments. …”
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Inflammatory Monocytes Are Rapidly Recruited to the Post-Ischaemic Liver in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation and Cytokines Associated with Their Activation Correlate with... by Francis P. Robertson, Antonia O. Cuff, Victoria Male, Graham P. Wright, Laura J. Pallett, Barry J. Fuller, Brian R. Davidson

“…<i>Methods:</i> Data on clinical outcomes and complications were documented prospectively in 28 patients undergoing first elective liver transplant surgery. Peripheral blood samples were collected at baseline (pre-op), 2 h post graft reperfusion, immediately post-op, and 24 h post-op. …”
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Effect of gender on the ocular surface after trabeculectomy by A.V. Antonova, V.P. Nikolaenko, V.V. Brzheskiy, A.Ya. Vuks

“…Significant gender differences are found only when comparing subjective symptoms in the first year after surgery. Restarting IOP-lowering medications postoperatively brings the parameters back to baseline levels. …”
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Performance optimization of the CLIC positron source by Yongke Zhao, Steffen Doebert, Andrea Latina

“…The baseline configuration of the Compact Linear Collider positron source is optimized at three different collision energy stages for both drive beam-based and klystron-based acceleration modes. …”
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Efficacy of ultrasound guided erector spinae plane block compared to wound infiltration for postoperative analgesia following laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy: a double-blinde... by Sekar Loganathan, Kamal Kajal, Kashish Garg, Sameer Sethi, Deepesh B Kenwar, Amit Sharma, Ashish Aditya, Varun Mahajan, Naveen B Naik, Rajnikant Kumar

“…Results Participants in Group B required significantly less median (IQR) 24-hour morphine compared to Group C [6 (6–9) mg vs. 15 (12–15) mg; median difference 9; 95% CI in median difference 6–12; p < 0.001), longer median (IQR) time to first rescue analgesia [6 (6–8) hours vs. 1 (1–2) hours; p < 0.001], and lower VNRS at rest and during movement at baseline, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24 hours. …”
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Cohort profile: Anhui Maternal–Child Health Study in China by Yunxia Cao, Ruoling Chen, Weiju Zhou, Xiaofeng Xu, Xiaoqing Peng, Jiaqian Yin, Chunmei Liang, Ranjit Khutan, Fang-Biao Tao

“…The participants are interviewed to document baseline sociodemography, lifestyles, dietary intake and environmental exposure. …”
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Diagnostic value of lung function tests in long COVID: analysis of positive bronchial provocation test outcomes by Wei Liu, Qixuan Feng, Xuefeng Yuan, Chang Lu, Shuang Wang, Yadong Yuan

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A Point-to-Point Interference Measurement Approach for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks by Bo Zeng, Yabo Dong, Dongming Lu

“…Our simulation results indicate that our approach has low-energy and-communication overhead when compared with baseline.…”
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Climate change attribution of Typhoon Haiyan with the Imperial College Storm Model by Nathan Sparks, Ralf Toumi

“…Compared to a pre‐industrial baseline, we estimate that a typhoon with a landfall maximum wind speed like Haiyan was larger by +3.5 m/s. …”
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Catlet scoring system as a new predictor for in-stent restenosis in patients with chronic coronary artery disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting st... by Juan Wang, Mingchao Zhang, Weipeng Gan, Mingxing Xu, JiaYan Zhou, Lingfei Yang, Yongsheng Ke

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Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, Control, and the Associated Factors of Diabetes in an Iranian Kurdish Population by Roya Safari-Faramani, Fatemeh Rajati, Kamran Tavakol, Behrooz Hamzeh, Yahya Pasdar, Mehdi Moradinazar, Farid Najafi

“…This study is aimed at estimating the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and glycemic control of diabetes mellitus (DM) and its associated factors in an Iranian Kurdish population. Methods. Baseline data of the Ravansar Non-communicable Disease (RaNCD) cohort study, consisting of adults aged 35-65 years, were used. …”
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