Severe Bleeding from 'Diversion Pouchitis' by Christopher Heughan, James Barrowman, William G Pollett

“…Although this has not been described before, it may become more prevalent as more patients have ileal pouches to preserve anal function. …”
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Empowering recovery: a remote spirometry system and mobile app for monitoring and promoting pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with rib fracture by Ling-wei Kuo, Chih-Yuan Fu, Chien-An Liao, Chien-Hung Liao, Chi-Tung Cheng, Tai-Horng Young, Shih-Ching Kang, Szu-An Chen, Yu-San Tee

“…However, the device improves pulmonary function more in patients in a younger age group. This tool may be effective as a real-time, continuous pulmonary function monitoring system for patients with multiple rib fractures.Level of evidence Level IV.…”
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Sex-differential herbivory in androdioecious Mercurialis annua. by Julia Sánchez Vilas, John R Pannell

“…A common explanation for this pattern is that individuals with a greater male function suffer more from herbivory because they grow more quickly, drawing more heavily on resources for growth that might otherwise be allocated to defence. …”
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Optimal Trajectory Planning for Minimizing Base Disturbance of a Redundant Space Robot with IQPSO by Jianxia Zhang, Fuchao Yang, Guanghua Nie, Jianxin Zhang

“…With the development of aerospace technology, the practical application of a free-floating redundant space robot has become more and more popular. The problem of minimizing base disturbance has been paid attention among academic researchers. …”
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Computational Modeling of Tumor Response to Drug Release from Vasculature-Bound Nanoparticles. by Louis T Curtis, Min Wu, John Lowengrub, Paolo Decuzzi, Hermann B Frieboes

“…A critical factor representing the likelihood of endothelial adhesion is the NP vascular affinity, a function of vascular receptor expression and NP size and surface-bound ligand density. …”
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COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF CARDIOCYTE PROTECTORS IN COMPLEX MANAGEMENT OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION by F. E. Khlebodarov, V. P. Mikhin, A. V. Gorlova

“…Compared to mildronate, mexicor more effectively influenced blood levels of lipid peroxidation products, circadian blood pressure profile, and left ventricular diastolic myocardial function.…”
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No evidence for cardiac dysfunction in Kif6 mutant mice. by Abdul Hameed, Ellen Bennett, Barbara Ciani, Loes P C Hoebers, Roy Milner, Allan Lawrie, Sheila E Francis, Andrew J Grierson

“…These data suggest that dysfunction of Kif6 is linked to other more complex biological/biochemical parameters or is unlikely to be of material consequence in cardiac function.…”
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Contributions to the biophilosophical foundations of brain death criterion: an approach from anthropological realism by Sergio Götte

“…This article analyzes from a biophilosophical point of view whether it is advisable to adjust the current brain death criteria, according to recent discoveries about brain function. The appropriate foundation for a death criterion is recognizing that a human being is more than his or her physical aspect, within which the brain plays a decisive role. …”
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The operator approach for representing the symmetry of many-electron systems (series I) by JianHua Wang

“…It is proven that the two approaches are physically equivalent, but the operator formalism works much more effectively than the wave function formalism. …”
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Vtip v kontextu funkcí by Josl, Jan

“…On the other hand, because of the communicative moment jokes have more potential to offend us than do artifacts with a dominant aesthetic function. …”

模锻易拆链的结构优化设计浅析 by 卢建富, 楼奇昂, 蒋海明

“…Drop forged rivetless chains is a detachable chain applied to chain conveyor.Its main function is carrying hanging objects and transmission power.The performance and quality will directly affect the quality and normal running of convey line.The chain function and service condition are analyzed and discussed.And the structure optimization design is carried out,so that the overall structure of the chain is more scientific and rational.The product quality and performance are improved.…”
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A Novel Multisupervised Coupled Metric Learning for Low-Resolution Face Matching by Guofeng Zou, Guixia Fu, Xiang Peng

“…In this work, we defined a novel multisupervised objective function, which consists of a main objective function and an auxiliary objective function. …”
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Behavioral and pathological characteristics of 5xFAD female mice in the early stage by Chenlu Zhu, Xuejiao Liu

“…However, the behavioral research on 5xFAD female mouse is more focused on the changes of late memory function, and the exploration of its early behavioral and pathological changes is still incomplete. …”
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Dynamics Analysis on Piezoelectric Laminated Vibrator and Optimization of PZT Position by Caiqi Hu, Xiaoqi Hu, Jing Ji, Jude Liu, Shengduo Li

“…Results showed that the more items an admissible function sequence had the closer the calculated results were to the experimental values. …”
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Elderly care: Commonly prescribed gastrointestinal drugs associate with cognitive decline by Amirmohammad Rezaei Majd, Simin Mouodi, Ali Akbar Moghadamnia, Sussan Moudi, Ali Bijani, Seyed Reza Hosseini, Reza Ghadimi

“…Objective — This research was conducted to assess the effect of different categories of GI drugs on cognitive function of older adults. Methods — This case-control study was carried-out on adults 60 or more years of age and over living in Amirkola, northern Iran, where health-related data were available in the database of the second phase of the Amirkola Health and Ageing Cohort Project (AHAP). …”
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Application of adaptive artificial bee colony algorithm in environmental and economic dispatching management by Zhang Longyue, Zhang Haoyan

“…With the increasingly serious global environmental and energy issues, more countries are using environmental and economic dispatch (EED) models to optimize power systems. …”
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Latent class analysis of inflammation and drug-induced liver injury phenotypes in older tuberculosis patients: associations with anxiety, depression, and insomnia by Dan Lei, Quanxian Liu, Qiong He, Zhongmin Fu

“…Monitoring inflammatory markers, liver function, and mental health symptoms—especially insomnia, anxiety, and depression—may facilitate more personalized care in this vulnerable population.…”
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Generalization to d-dimensions of a fermionic path integral for exact enumeration of polygons on hypercubic lattices by M. Ostilli, G. W. C. Rocha, C. G. Bezerra, G. M. Viswanathan

“…Abstract The generating function for polygons on the square lattice has been known for many decades and is closely related to the path integral formulation of a free fermion model. …”
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Health-related quality of life among adult patients with cancer in Uganda – a cross-sectional study by Allen Naamala, Lars E. Eriksson, Jackson Orem, Gorrette K. Nalwadda, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Lena Wettergren

“…Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with poor health-related quality of life in six subscales: Physical Function, Role Function, Emotional Function, Social Function, Pain and Fatigue. …”
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Wyznaczenie Przybliżonej Wielkości Ugięcia Płyt na Podstawie Metody Ritza by J. Nowiński

“…Using formally that analogy it is sufficient to take only one function (a polynome) to obtain a comparatively exact solution. …”
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