The Feasibility of Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy in Immunosuppressed ICU Patients with or without Thrombocytopenia by Marianne Angelberger, Michaela Barnikel, Alessia Fraccaroli, Johanna Tischer, Sofía Antón, Alexandra Pawlikowski, Mark op den Winkel, Hans Joachim Stemmler, Stephanie-Susanne Stecher

“…Smears were positive in six cases in the PDT group; none of these patients had local infection signs. …”
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Steroids and/or Cytotoxic Agents Should Be Used Early in the Management of Patients with IPF -- The Pro Argument by Sat Sharma

“…respiratory bronchiolitis interstitial lung disease, acute interstitial pneumonitis, nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis and cryptogenic organizing pneumonitis or bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (1). …”
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Rasch Model Application: Instrument Development of Readiness to Conduct Inclusive Learning by Ratna Sari, M Nurul Ikhsan Saleh

“…The method employed was a non-experimental quantitative design which was considered a pilot test. …”
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Long-Term Ultrasound Follow-Up of Thyroid Colloid Cysts by Dong Wook Kim

“…Through long-term US follow-up, the interval changes for TCCs were classified as follows: no interval change (n=8), gradual increase (n=8), gradual decrease (n=5), positive fluctuation (n=3), negative fluctuation (n=6), disappearance (n=5), and new detection (n=6). None of the TCC cases had a TCC that was ≥10 mm at its largest diameter, and no patient complained of any relevant symptoms pertaining to the TCCs. …”
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Temporal patterns of macrophage‐ and neutrophil‐related markers are associated with clinical outcome in heart failure patients by Dominika Klimczak‐Tomaniak, Elke Bouwens, Anne‐Sophie Schuurman, K. Martijn Akkerhuis, Alina Constantinescu, Jasper Brugts, B. Daan Westenbrink, Jan vanRamshorst, Tjeerd Germans, Leszek Pączek, Victor Umans, Eric Boersma, Isabella Kardys

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Clinical and Histopathological Findings in a Patient of Darier–White Disease with Acrokertasosis Verruciformis of Hopf by Vikash Paudel, Manish Bhakta Pradhan, Brijesh Shrestha, Sumit Paudel

“…Patients are susceptible to various viral and bacterial skin infections requiring prevention and treatment of infection. Nonspecific treatment includes patient counseling on exacerbating factors. …”
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A simplification functor for coalgebras by Maurice Kianpi, Celestin Nkuimi Jugnia

“…For an arbitrary-type functor F, the notion of split coalgebras, that is, coalgebras for which the canonical projections onto the simple factor split, generalizes the well-known notion of simple coalgebras. …”
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À la redécouverte d’un paysage hydroélectrique stratifié, entre montagne et plaine by Viviana Ferrario, Amelia Maris

“…Literally transformed in the 20th century into an infrastructural corridor-landscape it is now experiencing significant social and economic decline. …”
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Significant role of anionic behavior of cocoyl glutamate on lead(II) ion adsorption towards activated carbon adsorbent from cigarette butts by Moh Zeinur Ridho, Retno Pertiwi, Eldo Delta Bagaskara, Raya Rambu Rambani, Chika Synthia Pitaloka, Fanta Mei Wahyuni, Istiqomah Rahmawati, Muhammad Reza

“…Cigarette butts are one of the most abundant waste in the world, being dangerous due to non-biodegradable behavior and highly toxic. Cigarette butts can be converted to activated carbon (CA) which can be used as an adsorbent. …”
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Effect of Concussion on Reaction Time and Neurocognitive Factors: Implications for Subsequent Lower Extremity Injury by Tyler Ray, Daniel Fleming, Daniel Le, Mallory Faherty, Carolyn Killelea, Jeffrey Bytomski, Tracy Ray, Larry Lemak, Corina Martinez, Michael F. Bergeron, Timothy Sell

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Coupled fracture modes under anti-plane loading by Les P. Pook, F. Berto, A. Campagnolo

“…In an attempt to explain these a study was carried out on the coupled in-plane fracture mode induced by a nominal anti-plane (mode III) loading applied to plates and discs weakened by a straight crack. …”
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Assessment of Hematological Parameters in Malaria, among Adult Patients Attending the Bamenda Regional Hospital by Nfor Omarine Nlinwe, Tang Bertilla Nange

“…Malaria, which is responsible for a substantial amount of deaths in endemic countries, has been shown to have both direct and indirect effects on the hematological parameters. Notwithstanding, some hematological parameters among populations living in malaria endemic regions have not been described consistently, as a standard for measuring malaria burden. …”
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A Two-Scale Discretization Scheme for Mixed Variational Formulation of Eigenvalue Problems by Yidu Yang, Wei Jiang, Yu Zhang, Wenjun Wang, Hai Bi

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Stable Long-Term Culture of Human Distal Airway Stem Cells for Transplantation by Yueqing Zhou, Yujia Wang, Dandan Li, Ting Zhang, Yu Ma, Wei Zuo

“…Their phenotype stability in long-term cell culture was analyzed, followed by safety evaluation and tumorigenic analysis using multiple animal models including rodents and nonhuman primate. The chimerism of the human-mouse lung model indicated that DASC pedigrees could give rise to multiple epithelial types, including type I alveolar cells as well as bronchiolar secretory cells, to regenerate the distal lung. …”
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Music Segmentation Algorithm Based on Self-Adaptive Update of Confidence Measure by Jianhua Li

“…The dynamic threshold notes are segmented according to the update result to realize music segmentation. …”
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A Coupled Discrete-Finite Element Method for Shear Strength Analysis of Geogrid-Reinforced Railway Ballast by Danyang Ji, Zheng Ma, Junjie Zhou, Yajun Li, Shuai Shao

“…Irregularly shaped ballast particles are modeled with clumps, and the nonlinear contact force model is used to calculate contact force between particles. …”
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“You wished the ground would open and swallow you up”: Expert opinions on shame, the collective, and other cultural considerations for suicide prevention among Asian American and P... by Evan R. Polzer, Carly M. Rohs, Christe’An D. Iglesias, Joseph Mignogna, Lauren S. Krishnamurti, Ryan Holliday, Lindsey L. Monteith

“…Suicide risk among AAPI Veterans was viewed as being shaped by shame and the centrality of the family-collective, with family conferring both protection against and risk for suicide. Cultural norms and beliefs regarding suicide were considered pertinent to suicide among AAPI Veterans and included beliefs about perseverance in coping with distress to permittance of suicide in specific circumstances. …”
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Trichromacy is insufficient for mate detection in a mimetic butterfly by Andrew Dang, Gary D. Bernard, Furong Yuan, Aide Macias-Muñoz, Ryan I. Hill, J. P. Lawrence, Aline Giselle Rangel Olguin, Armando Luis-Martínez, Sean P. Mullen, Jorge Llorente-Bousquets, Adriana D. Briscoe

“…Visual modeling suggests that neither A. fessonia nor avian predators can readily distinguish the co-mimics’ coloration using chromatic or achromatic vision under natural conditions. …”
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PEMIKIRAN POLITIK ISLAMISME MODERAT AL JAM’IYATUL WASHLIYAH by Ja'far Ja'far

“…Aljam’iyatul Wasliyah was born as a non-political organization because it was engaged in education, preaching and social charity. …”
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Validation of a face image assessment technology to study the dynamics of human functional states in the EEG resting-state paradigm by A. N. Savostyanov, E. G. Vergunov, A. E. Saprygin, D. A. Lebedkin

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