Is HbA1c Predictive for Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus? by Neslihan Yerebasmaz, Oya Aldemir, Şeyma Asıltürk, Deniz Esinler, Ertuğrul Karahanoğlu, Ömer Kandemir, Serdar Yalvaç

“…Further studies are needed to evaluate true cut-off values for using HbA1c for screening and diagnosing GDM. …”
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SA’DÎ’NİN BOSTAN’INDA BAZI AHLÂKÎ MESAJLAR ve MANTIKSAL İNCELİKLER by İbrahim Emiroğlu

“…Aynı kitapta görünüş-gerçek, şekil-mâna ayırımınadikkat etmemek, zann, gaflet, hırs, tamah, kızmak, öfkelenmek yanlışa düşme nedeni olarak gösterilmektedir. …”
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« Adieu veau, vache, cochon, couvée… » La boucherie à l’Ancien Empire : croisement des données iconographiques, textuelles et archéologiques by Fanny Hamonic

“…The theme of butchery was one of the main concerns of the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom: the many representations of it as a subject and the omnipresence of meat offerings as part of funerals and the piles of offerings copiously depicted on the walls of the mastabas bear witness to this. …”
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Evaluation of the Results of Patients Who Were Treated with Laparoscopic Simple Tunnel Hysterosacropexy Method to Prevent Uterine Prolapse: A New Approach by Erdal Seker, Evindar Elci

“…In this surgical procedure, the parietal peritoneum which was cut off in traditional surgery is preserved. STUDY DESIGN: Data from women with apical prolapse of stage 2 or higher who underwent laparoscopic simple tunnel hysterosacropexy between October 1, 2017, and March 31, 2019, at the University of Health Sciences Diyarbakır Gazi Yasargil Education and Research Hospital, Diyarbakır, Turkey was retrospectively assessed. …”
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Quasiendozentrische Komposita – gibt es Platz fur einen neuen Typ? by Andrzej Szubert

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Standardized Application of Laxatives and Physical Measures in Neurosurgical Intensive Care Patients Improves Defecation Pattern but Is Not Associated with Lower Intracranial Press... by Martin Kieninger, Barbara Sinner, Bernhard Graf, Astrid Grassold, Sylvia Bele, Milena Seemann, Holger Künzig, Nina Zech

“…Patients of the intervention group showed an adequate defecation pattern significantly more often than the patients of the control group. However, this was not associated with lower ICP values, fewer days of mechanical ventilation, or earlier discharge from ICU. …”
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From Villainess to Gilead’s Nemesis: The (Un)easy Rehabilitation of Aunt Lydia by Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk

“…Taking The Testaments as a point of departure, the article rereads the original tale, which, astonishingly, discloses a number of equivocal passages that in fact might provide credibility to Atwood’s audacious refashioning of Aunt Lydia as a Mayday spy. The article offers a reevaluation of Aunt Lydia’s villainy in The Handmaid’s Tale through the lens of her undercover identity, revealed in The Testaments. …”
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Feedback and formative assessment—looking backwards to move forward by Nora McCarthy, Karen Neville, Andrew Pope

“…Medical education, with the introduction of competency-based medical education (CBME) and entrustable professional activities offers a timely opportunity to re-visit such terms, with ‘feedback’ and ‘formative assessment’ being central to these processes. …”
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Evaluation of a modified venous excess ultrasound (VExUS) protocol for estimation of venous congestion: a cohort study by Katharine C. Martin, Edward A. Gill, Ivor J. Douglas, August A. Longino

“…The current gold standard for volume status assessment of right heart catheterization (RHC) is invasive, costly, and often unavailable. Venous Excess Ultrasound Score (VExUS) is a novel ultrasound protocol for to assessment of venous congestion using the inferior vena cava, hepatic, portal and renal veins. …”
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Shine on: Review of Laser- and Light-Based Therapies for the Treatment of Burn Scars by C. Scott Hultman, Renee E. Edkins, Clara N. Lee, Catherine T. Calvert, Bruce A. Cairns

“…We will demonstrate that laser- and light-based therapies can be combined with each other safely to yield superior results, often at lower cost, by reducing the need for reconstructive surgery. …”
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Assessment of the investment attractiveness of the regional economic sectors on the example of the Kirov region by E. N. Nagovitsyna, D. S. Tusin, E. A. Bratukhina

“…The article shows how important it is to assess the investment attractiveness of individual sectors of the economy of the Kirov region in order to offer the most profitable investment projects in the future.…”
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Hydrogen Sulfide Promotes Functional Endometrium Recovery via Regulating Pyroptosis in Severe Endometrial Injury: A Prospective Laboratory Based Randomized Control Trial by Haiyan Shan, Mingyuan Xu, Jie Ni, Ling Zhou, Mengchun Xue, Jun Xue, Xiaohuan Yuan, Luyang Tao, Mingyang Zhang, Hong Zhang

“…Background: Severe endometrial injury constitutes a significant risk to female fertility, often leading to the development of intrauterine adhesions. …”
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The Perspective of Peace or Fear for the Future? An Attempt to Evaluate Christian-Muslim Dialogue by Piotr Kaczmarek

“…Moreover, as practice shows, the Church's benevolent gestures often fall on deaf ears, and it seems that this effort is inadequate to the expected fruits of dialogue. …”
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Effect of Maggot Flour (Hermetia illucens larvae) on Histopathology of Koi carp <I>(Cyprinus carpio)</I> Muscles and Gills Infected with <I>Edwarsiella tarda</I> by Hengki Pradana, Arief Prajitno, Maftuch Maftuch

“…Highlight Research • Feeding of maggot flour formulations to koi carp infected with tarda • Active compounds contained in maggot • Clinical symptoms of koi carp infected with tarda • Damage to the muscle and gill tissue of koi carp infected with E. tarda   Abstract The problem that fishes farmers often face is disease. Maggot contains a high protein which ranges from 41-42%. …”
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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…His first novel was never published, for reasons of a frankness that was judged all too offensive. His penultimate long fiction Jude the Obscure was withdrawn from W. …”
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From resilience to viability: a case study of indigenous communities of the North Rupununi, Guyana by Andrea Berardi, Céline Tschirhart, Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Elisa Bignante, Lakeram Haynes, Grace Albert, Ryan Benjamin, Rebecca Xavier, Deirdre Jafferally

“…However, its practical application is often unclear or confused because it can mean different things to different people: To resist? …”
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provide a method to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks using DBSCAN clustering algorithm by Reza Molaee Fard

“…If we consider the lifespan of the network when the first node in the network is turned off, in the new protocol, the first node shuts down 6 seconds later than the EEHC protocol and 12 seconds later than the LCA‌ protocol. …”
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Research productivity and gender of research award recipients in international ophthalmology societies by Albert Y Wu, Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen, Dipti Satvi Venkatesh, Ankita Biyani, Sanyam Ratan, Gun Min Youn

“…Furthermore, men more often had greater h-index scores and m-quotient scores.Conclusions Women received awards (24.3%) at a lower rate than men (75.7%) while also exhibiting lower productivity, supporting the existence of a gender disparity. …”
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Measuring the short-term economic impacts of ecological restoration by Robert Botta, Christa D. Court, Edward V. Camp

“… Increasing demand for ecological restoration has resulted in the development of a “restoration economy” in the United States. Often, the implementation phase of restoration efforts involves substantial capital and labor investments, the short-term economic impacts of which should not be ignored when evaluating the outcomes of restoration efforts. …”
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An Analysis of the Gear Meshing Characteristics of the Main Planetary Gear Trains of Helicopters Undergoing Shafting Position Changes by Li Xuejun, Jiang Lingli, Hua Dengrong, Yin Daoxuan, Yang Dalian

“…It was found that when the shafting offset position changed, there were obvious first and second frequency doubling in the spectrum; (3) the mass center orbit radii of the sun gears increased with the increases in the shafting position changes, and the changes in the angular tilt position were found to have greater influencing effects on the mass center orbit radii of the sun gears than the changes in the offset positions. …”
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