The prevalence of erectile dysfunction at a primary healthcare clinic in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal by Y. Lockhat, A. Ross, P. Ramlachan, C. Rangiah

“…Between February and March 2008, 1 300 questionnaires were distributed to men aged 18 years and older with no exclusion criteria, attending a general PHC clinic. Outcome measures: Responses were captured using a validated structured questionnaire (International Index of Erectile Function-15). …”
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PORTRAIT IN LITERATURE AND GRAPHIC ART: THE CASE OF THE FIERY ANGEL by Natalia A. Drovaleva

“…Portraits, as well as plates in general, were of the highest quality. They were ornamental and illusory, with every minute detail finely drawn out. …”
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Sustainable development of education: mutual links of technology and pedagogy by Vyacheslav A. Starodubtsev, Evgeniia O. Frantcuzskaia

“…The educational process in the Learning Society is regarded as a distributed one among some formal education establishments (“universities of the world for one”) and the community of content curators. The function of content curators is to deliver comments, generalize and promote new information that supports learning needs of different global network users. …”
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Temporomandibular disorder in children at deciduous and mixed denture by João Carlos Rocha, Leticia Simino Carvalho, Elisângela da Silva Moreira Chetelat

“…The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) plays an important role in the function of stomatognathic system. The acronym TMD – Temporomandibular disorder – is a general term for a series of signs and symptoms involving the masticatory muscles, TMJ, and associated structures. …”
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Identification method for wheel/rail tread defects based on integrated partial convolutional network by CHENG Xiang, HE Jing, ZHANG Changfan, JIA Lin

“…The effectiveness and generalizability of the proposed method were further validated through comparative experiments, visualization analysis, and generalization tests.…”
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TLR4 competence and mouse models of sublethal leptospirosis. by Olifan Zewdie Abil, Suman Kundu, Leonardo Moura Midon, Maria Gomes-Solecki

“…Analysis of serologic immune factors in the three strains revealed increased IgM and IgG3, and a general absence of inflammatory markers at two weeks post infection. …”
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Double stenting for malignant oesophago-respiratory fistula by Janusz Włodarczyk, Jarosław Kużdżał

“…In all patients the degree of dysphagia, respiratory function before and after the procedure, and quality of life were evaluated. …”
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Prognostic factors influencing prolonged ventilation after open mitral valve surgery by Supomo Supomo

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Separable sustained and selective attention factors are apparent in 5-year-old children. by Mette Underbjerg, Melanie S George, Poul Thorsen, Ulrik S Kesmodel, Erik L Mortensen, Tom Manly

“…In adults and older children, evidence consistent with relative separation between selective and sustained attention, superimposed upon generally positive inter-test correlations, has been reported. …”
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Research on Pricing Decision of Direct Sales Green Supply Chain Based on Consumers’ Valuation by Yong-Gang Ye, Xiao-Feng Liu

“…When the consumer’s valuation exceeds the price of product, the consumer generally makes a decision to purchase the product; conversely, when the consumer’s estimate is lower than the price of product, the consumer will usually refuse to buy the product. …”
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Suppressive effects of deep balanced anesthesia on cellular immunity and protein expression: a randomized-controlled pilot study by Xuan Duc Nguyen, Audrey Horn, Dania Fischer, Grietje Beck, Cora C. Spannenberger, Brice Gaudilliere, Jean-Louis Horn, Hermann-Josef Thierse, Thomas Frietsch

“…Conclusions Deep anesthesia inhibited immune competent defense cells (killer cells and regulatory T-cells) and had a general suppression on the phagocytic function of all circulating immune competent cells. …”
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Modified Kasai operation combined with autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell infusion for biliary atresia by Liem Nguyen Thanh, Hoang-Phuong Nguyen, Trang Phan Thi Kieu, Minh Ngo Duy, Hien Thi Thu Ha, Hang Bui Thi, Thanh Quang Nguyen, Hien Duy Pham, Tam Duc Tran

“…Bone marrow was harvested through anterior iliac crest under general anesthesia then a modified Kasai operation was performed. …”
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Elevated Blink Rates Predict Mind Wandering: Dopaminergic Insights into Attention and Task Focus by Leigh M. Riby, Lewis Marr, Lynn Barron-Millar, Joanna Greer, Colin Joseph Hamilton, Deborah McGann, Jonathan Smallwood

“…This study sought to clarify the relationships between dopaminergic function and cognitive control during a task by utilizing EBR and EBV as proxy measures. …”
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Control problem for the impulse process under stochastic optimization procedure and Levy conditions by Ya. M. Chabanyuk, A. V. Nikitin, U. T. Khimka

“…A stochastic approximation procedure and a limit generator of the original problem are constructed for a system of stochastic differential equations with Markov switching and impulse perturbation under Levy approximation conditions with control, which is determined by the condition for the extremum of the quality criterion function. The control problem using the stochastic optimization procedure is a generalization of the control problem with the stochastic approximation procedure, which was studied in previous works of the authors. …”
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On the 1/c expansion in 2d CFTs with degenerate operators by Agnese Bissi, Nicola Dondi, Alessandro Piazza, Tomas Reis, Marco Serone

“…Our results are based on new asymptotic expansions for large parameters (a, b, c) of certain hypergeometric functions 2 F 1(a, b, c; z) which can be useful in general.…”
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Identification and validation of biomarkers, construction of diagnostic models, and investigation of immunological infiltration characteristics for idiopathic frozen shoulder by Han-tao Jiang, Li-ping Shen, Meng-Qi Pang, Min-jiao Wu, Jiang Li, Wei-jie Gong, Gang Jin, Rang-teng Zhu

“…At the outset, we conducted differential expression analysis, weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA), and utilized the cytoHubba plugin, complemented by two machine learning algorithms, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, and expression level evaluation to identify biomarkers for FS. …”
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Typology of the "Internal Form-Structure" Drawing upon Argan\'s Formal Approach (Case Study: Historical Bridge-Caravanserai in Iran) by Paryia Pourmohammadi, Farshad Mafakher, Asghar Saed Samiei, Mehrdad Matin

“…Rather, he relies on formal and functional aspects in believing that analysis and simplification of the physical functions of a structure and its configuration take place in a typological series. …”
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Association between serum neurofilament light chain levels and chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional population-based study from the National Health and Nutrition Examination S... by Jian-De Lu, Kaisaierjiang Kadier, Diliyaer Dilixiati, Bingzhang Qiao, Renaguli Nuer, Abudureheman Zebibula, Mulati Rexiati, Kai Li, ShuiXue Li

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Female sex is an independent risk factor for recurrence after ethanol Marshall bundle elimination in atrial fibrillation ablation by Hongxu Chen, Hongxu Chen, Xiong Xiong, Dan Chen, Xi Li, Liheng Yang, Zuowei Liu, Zuowei Liu, Yanhong Chen, Yanhong Chen, Yanhong Chen, Jinlin Zhang

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Full-Bridge power resonant converter for the arcjet thruster of a small spacecraft by V. V. Fedyanin, V. V. Shalay, V. K. Fedorov, P. S. Yachmenev, I. S. Vavilov

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