Knowledge and attitude towards ankle sprain management among primary care physicians in the department of family medicine, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Abdullah A. Alzahrani, Norah A. AlQarni, Fahad S. Alghamdi, Tariq A. Alghamdi

“…Data were collected using an online questionnaire that was initiated by the study researchers after comprehensive review of similar articles in the literature. …”
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Capable design or designing capabilities? An exploration of service design as an emerging organizational capability in Telenor – Martinkenaite by Ieva Martinkenaite, Karl Joachim Breunig, Annita Fjuk

“…Our study reveals the effect of an initial introduction of service design tools, identification of boundaryspanning actors and co-alignment of dedicated resources between internal functions, as well as through co-creation with customers. …”
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Injuries from blank cartridge shots in suicide attempts within the South Korean military: a case series of five patients by Jeong Il Joo, Changsin Lee, Kyungwon Lee

“…Four of these patients sustained self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the submandibular area, while one targeted the right temporal area. Although initial vital signs and laboratory findings were unremarkable, computed tomography scans revealed injuries from projectile gas and gunpowder, including burns, subcutaneous emphysema, and major structural damage. …”
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Assessment of endometrial carcinoma on biopsy as a predictor of final surgical pathology: Are we doing it right? A completed audit cycle and recommendations by Aneeta Jassar, Nour Hemali, Anjali Bhatnagar

“…A re-audit was carried out on 59 cases after implementation of changes recommended by the initial audit. Results: Two of 35 (6%) tumours defined as G1 on biopsy were upgraded (to G2) on final pathology, as was one of 7 (14%) G2 tumours (to G3). …”
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Dynamic analysis and comparison of the performance of linear and nonlinear controllers applied to a nonlinear non-interactive and interactive process by José M. Campos-Salazar, Pablo Lecaros, Rodrigo Sandoval-García

“…The process dynamics were initially modeled using nonlinear differential equations, which were subsequently linearized to facilitate the design of the PI and LQR controllers. …”
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Challenges for funders in monitoring compliance with policies on clinical trials registration and reporting: analysis of funding and registry data in the UK by Rachel L Knowles, Frances Rawle, Kam Pou Ha, Julia Mueller, Rosa Parker

“…Reporting of the main findings was achieved for most trials within 24 months of completion; however, the number of unreported trials remains a concern and should be a focus for future funder policy initiatives. Identifying trials from grant management and grant monitoring systems was challenging therefore funders should ensure investigators reliably provide trial registries with information and regularly update entries with details of trial publications and protocols.…”
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Mutation yellow in agouti loci prevents age-related increase of skeletal muscle genes regulating free fatty acids oxidation by Y. V. Piskunova, A. Y. Kazantceva, A. V. Baklanov, N. M. Bazhan

“…Reduction of the transcriptional activity of the studied genes in skeletal muscle and white adipose tissue can initiate the development of melanocortin obesity in Ay mice.…”
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A Simple Approach for Mitigating a New Flooding Attack in RPL-Based IoT Networks by Mehdi Rouissat, Ibrahim S. Alsukayti, Mohammed Belkheir, Mohammed Alreshoodi, Allel Mokaddem, Djamila Ziani

“…The inherent design of RPL, particularly its topology establishment and maintenance mechanism, makes it easy to initiate more damaging attacks such as flooding attacks. …”
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Communities of Practice of the Future in Russian Universities: Fablabs, Centers for Youth Innovative Creativity, Kruzhoks by D. I. Zemtsov

“…In the first of these fields, the strategies of technology enthusiasts (initiative, project orientation, diversity and meritocracy) give advantages over players who do not employ these strategies. …”
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The Regional Subsystem Concept: From Heterogeneity to Pluralism by N. S. Labutkin

“…The author emphasizes that this initial foundational phase for the development of the research field was marked by extreme heterogeneity of views, opinions and assessments. …”
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Identification of a pathogenic founder variant in the WFS1 gene that causes Wolfram syndrome in the Druze population by Inbal Halabi, Inbal Halabi, Yardena Tenenbaum-Rakover, Yardena Tenenbaum-Rakover, Lena Sagi-Dain, Lena Sagi-Dain, Lena Sagi-Dain, Ilana Koren, Ilana Koren, Ilana Koren

“…In all patients, the first presentation was DM at a mean age of 5.2 years (range 4–7), diagnosed initially as type 1 DM with negative anti-pancreatic autoantibodies, and all were treated with insulin by either pump or multiple injections. …”
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Learnings from COVID-19 Forced Lockdown on Regional Air Quality and Mitigation Potential for South Asia by Abhishek Upadhyay, Parth Sarathi Mahapatra, Praveen Kumar Singh, Sishir Dahal, Suresh Pokhrel, Amit Bhujel, Indu Bikram Joshi, Shankar Prasad Paudel, Siva Praveen Puppala, Bhupesh Adhikary

“…In this context the country lockdown initiated to combat the COVID-19 pandemic (during March and April 2020 that is the pre-monsoon season) provides an unique opportunity for studying the relative impacts of different emission sources in the region. …”
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Promoting Internal Armed Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: The Case of the US–Colombia Relations (Part I) by A. A. Manukhin

“…The author shows that the forms and the scope of the U.S. assistance to the Colombian government were strongly linked to the evolution of both the situation in that country and the strategic priorities of the US foreign policy in general. While initially the US assistance was determined by the desire to counter the growing influence of the leftist parties and movements in the region, the prioritization of the fight against drug trafficking in the national security strategy in the 1980s resulted in the re-orientation of the US regional policies to the war on drugs. …”
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A Peculiar Cause of Shock: Analysing Two Clinical Cases by João Oliveira, Alberto Costa-Silva, Luís Vale, Daniel Costa, Rui Almeida-Pinto, Carlos Martins-Silva, Tiago Antunes-Lopes, João Silva

“…We describe two cases of pheochromocytoma in which the initial presentation was shock. Case 1. 49 year-old woman, with a history of resistant hypertension, presented to the emergency department with thoracic pain and fever. …”
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“Walls of Words”: Paperscape in Charles Dickens’s Novels by Céline PREST

“…This new urban landscape became possible with the lifting of paper taxes and the technological evolutions of the nineteenth century. This change initiates a new urban experience: walls now directly address the city dweller who is perpetually asked to decipher disparate messages. …”
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CRISPR/Cas9, a universal tool for genomic engineering by A. V. Smirnov, A. M. Yunusova, V. A. Lukyanchikova, N. R. Battulin

“…The CRISPR/Cas9 system was initially described as an element of archeal and bacterial immunity, but gained much attention recently for its outstanding ability to be programmed to target any genomic loci through a short 20-nucleotide sgRNA region. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Predictors of Mortality in Elderly Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A Multicenter, Retrospective Study by Md. Asaduzzaman, Z. H. M. Nazmul Alam, Mohammad Zabed Jillul Bari, M. M. Jahangir Alam, Shishir Ranjan Chakraborty, Tasnim Ferdousi

“…Higher age, thrombocytopenia, and lower initial level of SpO2 at admission are predictors of in-hospital mortality in elderly patients with COVID-19.…”
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Abuse and misuse of tramadol in patients with non-oncologic pain in a region of Southern Europe by M. Perelló, K. Rio-Aigé, G. Cereza, P. Rius, F. J. Pérez-Cano, M. Rabanal

“…It is mandatory to evaluate the criteria for prescribing tramadol and initiatives to improve the knowledge of the health professionals and the population.…”
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Technology independent optimization when implementing sparse systems of disjunctive normal forms of Boolean functions in ASIC by P. N. Bibilo, S. N. Kardash

“…For the design of digital ASIC, the effectiveness of combined approach is shown, when initially the block coverage programs of the DNF system is used, followed by the use of programs to minimize multilevel block representations in the form of Boolean networks minimized based on Shannon expansion.…”
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Dosing Patterns during Conversion to IPX066, Extended-Release Carbidopa-Levodopa (ER CD-LD), in Parkinson’s Disease with Motor Fluctuations by John C. Morgan, Rohit Dhall, Robert Rubens, Sarita Khanna, Suneel Gupta

“…IPX066 is an extended-release (ER) oral formulation of carbidopa-levodopa (CD-LD). Following an initial peak at about one hour, plasma LD concentrations are maintained for about 4-5 hours. …”
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