Patient Care and Support Measures Overcome Reluctance to Initiate New Regimen Containing Enfuvirtide by Benoit Trottier

“…Because the introduction of a new drug class can substantially enhance the efficacy of an antiretroviral regimen, supporting the patient in the introduction of enfuvirtide, a safe and efficacious agent in a new class, offers therapeutic benefits. In the present patient, who showed resistance to all three of the major antiretroviral drug classes, enfuvirtide was successfully introduced with clinic and peer support group assistance. …”
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PEER TUTORING IN LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AS A NON-MAJOR by E. A. Makarova

“…As a result the peer tutoring models have been developed and implemented within the regular classroom settings while teaching reading and translation to students in non-linguistic university. The offered models of tutoring involve preparation realities of the Russian higher education institutions; meanwhile, there are no special centers of mentoring with separate teaching staff and psychologists in foreign universities. …”
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Cancer Patients in Iraq by Hisham S Ibrahim Al-shaikhli, Redhwan Al-Naggar, Mahmoud Alkhateeb

“…The most popular forms of CAM were Quran recitation/water read upon Quran (80.1%), herbal treatment (10%), spiritual therapy/prayers (4.2%), black seeds and honey (3.8%), olive oil/Green tea (1%), and Zamzam wa.7%). The two most often mentioned reasons to use complementary and alternative medicine were to improve physical well-being and increase the body's ability to fight cancer (56.3% and 11.2%, respectively).  …”
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Modular relations in work environments – Data-driven approaches to design their future by Paolo Tamborrini, Sofia Cretaio

“…The modular dimension of an office is analysed through a change in spatial solutions considering the influence that socio-cultural transformations have had on management models and design choices. …”
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Mechanism of Forming Low Resistivity in Shale Reservoirs by Jirong Xie, Jiahuan He, Keming Zhou, Zhijuan Tang, Manfei Chen, Tingting He, Mengwen Zou, Tao Luo, Nong Li, Li Wang

“…In the oil and gas industry, traditional logging mostly deems that oil and gas reservoirs are characterized by high resistivity, whereas the water layer is often by low resistivity. However, a lot of exploration and development practices on shale gas reservoirs in Sichuan Basin, China, prove that it is hard to characterize a functional relation between resistivity and water saturation using the Archie equation. …”
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THE RIGHT TO GOOD ADMINISTRATION AS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF THE PERSON: EU EXPERIENCE by Tetyana Kaganovska, Vitalii Serohin

“…At the same time, the issue of official recognition of the right to proper administration in Ukraine as one of the main political rights of Ukrainian citizens remains unresolved.…”
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Receiver Diversity Combining Using Evolutionary Algorithms in Rayleigh Fading Channel by Mohsen Akbari, Mohsen Riahi Manesh, Ayman A. El-Saleh, Ahmed Wasif Reza

“…In diversity combining at the receiver, the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is often maximized by using the maximal ratio combining (MRC) provided that the channel is perfectly estimated at the receiver. …”
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Black soldier fly Hermetia illucens Linnaeus (Insecta: Diptera: Stratiomyidae) by Joseph W. Diclaro II, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…It describes this sleek looking fly often mistaken for a wasp — synonymy, distribution, description and life cycle, and economic importance. …”
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On the Performance of Portable NiMH Batteries of General Use by Diego F. Quintero Pulido, Catalin Felix Covrig, Matthias Bruchhausen

“…The performance of commercial batteries with regard to charge retention, charge recovery, and endurance in cycles is often found to be 25–30% better than required in the relevant IEC standard. …”
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Análise de redes sociais: o método e sua utilização nas Ciências Sociais brasileiras by Ciro Antônio da Silva Resende

“…; and (2) how often has the method been used in the main publications in this area? …”
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Tag-modules with complement submodules H-pure by Surjeet Singh, Mohd Z. Khan

“…The results proved in this paper indicate that the structure theory of primary TAG-modules of infinite periodicity is not very similar to that oftorsion abelian groups.…”
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臂丛的变异伴有锁骨下动脉腋动脉干的起源变异1例 by 曹昱

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Surface Damage Coupling Mechanism of Plain Weave Art Ceramic Matrix Composites by Guangsong Li

“…It is demonstrated that based on 0 and 45° off-axis tensile stress-strain behavior, a prediction model of off-axis tensile stress-strain behavior of the material was established, and the prediction results were in good agreement with the experimental results.…”
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Identification of shrinkage patterns in Japan’s four major metropolitan areas based on nighttime light and population data by Hao Zheng, Runsen Zhang

“…By providing new insights obtained from a data-driven analysis, we offer a framework for policymakers to promote sustainable urban development in the face of demographic and spatial challenges.…”
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Desempeño laboral de médicos egresados de los diplomados de medicina alternativa de la Universidad Libre - Cali by María Cecilia Lasso Rosero

“…DISCUSION Y CONCLUSIONES: La Universidad Libre de Cali ofrece una importante variante en diplomados de medicina alternativa a nivel nacional pero especialmente a las regiones cercanas al Valle del Cauca. …”
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Para garantizar a la autocracia. Fuerzas armadas y fujimorismo en el Perú de los años noventa by Osmar Alberto Gonzales

“…En el presente texto se ofrece una interpretación de las relaciones establecidas en el Perú entre el gobierno de Alberto Fujimori (1990- 2000) y los militares. …”
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Association between breastfeeding duration and educational attainment in rural Southwest Uganda: a population-based cohort study by Shamsudeen Mohammed, Clara Calvert, Joseph O Mugisha, Makanga Ronald, Gershim Asiki, Judith R Glynn, Laura L Oakley, Milly Marston

“…We calculated age-for-grade based on whether a child was on, over, or under the official age for a grade. Generalised estimating equations and binary logistic regression estimated the effect of breastfeeding duration on being 2 years, 3 or more years, or any years over-age for grade in primary school, adjusting for socioeconomic status and maternal-child characteristics. …”
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Physical Activity and Obesity: Biomechanical and Physiological Key Concepts by Julie Nantel, Marie-Eve Mathieu, François Prince

“…Overweight (OW) and obesity (OB) are often associated with low levels of physical activity. …”
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Future changes in compound explosive cyclones and atmospheric rivers in the North Atlantic by F. Lopez-Marti, F. Lopez-Marti, M. Ginesta, D. Faranda, A. Rutgersson, A. Rutgersson, P. Yiou, L. Wu, G. Messori, G. Messori, G. Messori

“…In agreement with the literature, atmospheric rivers are more often detected in the vicinity of explosive cyclones than non-explosive cyclones in all datasets, and the atmospheric river intensity increases in all the future scenarios analysed. …”
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Exploring the patient's recovery journey and information needs following a shoulder fracture: A qualitative interview study. by Pauline May, Firoza Davies, Gillian Yeowell, Chris Littlewood

“…Recovery is a long process often hindered by complications such as mal-union and frozen shoulder. …”
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