Understanding Jordanian Psychiatric Nurses’ Smoking Behaviors: A Grounded Theory Study by Khaldoun M. Aldiabat, Michael Clinton

“…Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with a sample of eight male JPNs smokers at a psychiatric facility in Amman, Jordan. …”
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„Dark medicine” w wydaniu popkulturowym. Recenzja: Agnieszka Trześniewska-Nowak, „W kleszczach lęku. Thriller medyczny w literaturze i kulturze popularnej”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytet... by Adam Mazurkiewicz

“…Examples that support it (novels by Herbert George Wells, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson) are also controversial. …”
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A Novel Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on Internal-Feedback Strategy for Image Template Matching by Bai Li, Li-Gang Gong, Ya Li

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An update on Florida’s Artificial Reefs: recent deployments and trends by Edward V. Camp, Lisa Chong, Angela B. Collins, Holly Abeels, Keith Mille, Michael Sipos, Brittany Hall-Scharf, Scott Jackson, Shelly Krueger, Victor Blanco

“…Floridians visit them every year to fish, dive, snorkel, or boat around. The number of artificial reefs is growing around Florida, but their function and impact are difficult to describe because artificial reefs change over time as they become encrusted with fouling organisms or altered by storms and shifting sands. …”
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Violence and Memory in the Multiple Versions of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen by John K. Young

“…(Davis, a teenager, was killed at a Jacksonville gas station; the white shooter was eventually convicted of murder after an initial mistrial). …”
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Renal Leiomyosarcoma: A Diagnostic Challenge by Jose R. Valery, Winston Tan, Cherise Cortese

“…The infrequency of the condition makes it very difficult to diagnose. A 70-year-old male smoker presented with months of hematuria, right-sided flank pain, and weight loss. …”
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Pulmonary fibrosis as the sole manifestation of anti-Ku antibody positivity in the absence of myositis: A case report by Angelo Nigro, Dr.

“…Case presentation: We report the case of a 70-year-old male, a former smoker with an 18-year smoking history who quit 20 years ago, presenting with a one-year history of progressive dyspnea and dry cough. …”
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Recurrent Nodular Cystic Goiter. In Regards with a Case by José Alberto Puerto Lorenzo, Lidia Torres Aja, Eslinda Cabanes Rojas

“…We present the case of a 78 year-old male patient, with a history of being an inveterate smoker and hypertensive with treatment, who reported having presented a few months increase in neck volume accompanied by dysphonia and dysphagia to solid foods. …”
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Determination of Hazardous VOCs and Nicotine Released from Mainstream Smoke by the Combination of the SPME and GC-MS Methods by Sudhir Kumar Pandey, Ki-Hyun Kim

“…This thus suggests that light-flavor cigarettes do not necessarily guarantee low doses of carcinogens (and tar) than regular cigarettes, as their differences can be balanced by the inhaling behavior of the smoker.…”
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Restricting Diversity to Promote Democracy: Community Literacies and Playing Across Spaces by Owen Samantha

“…In 1965 a Nigerian mother commented that volunteering on a care rota in a playgroup in a housing estate in west London gave her the confidence to greet her neighbours when she saw them on the street. To Ilys Booker, the community development worker assigned to the area, this was also a marker of significant change and an indication of success. …”
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On the Instability Threshold of Journal Bearing Supported Rotors by Ricardo Ugliara Mendes, Katia Lucchesi Cavalca

“…In many cases, oil-whip is the only fluid-induced instability considered during the design stage; however, experimental evidences have shown that the instability threshold may occur much sooner, demanding a better comprehension of the instability mechanism. …”
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Pneumococcal Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in a Young African American: A Case for Inclusion of African Americans in Pneumococcal Vaccine Criteria by Oghenerukevwe Odiete, Olagoke Akinwande, John J. Murray, Joseph Akamah

“…We report a case of a young AA smoker, who developed an isolated tricuspid valve pneumococcal endocarditis. …”
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O desenvolvimento de uma escala de transição e adaptação acadêmica by Ana Paula Moreno Pinho, Antonio Caubi Ribeiro Tupinambá, Antonio Virgílio Bittencourt Bastos

“…O instrumento utilizado inspirou-se no Questionário de Experiências de Transição Acadêmica – QETA – introduzido por Stocker e Faria (2008), em Portugal. As análises utilizaram o SPSS –StatisticalPackage for the Social Sciences e princípios da análise fatorial: técnicas de extração de componentes principais e rotação Oblimin direct, com o teste de confiabilidade, Alpha de Cronbach. …”
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The effect of infra low frequency–neurofeedback training on pistol shooting performance and attention in semi-skilled players by Safoura Bakhtafrooz, Maryam Kavyani, Alireza Farsi, Saeed Alboghebeish

“…Twenty semi-skilled pistol shooters, aged 28–40, underwent both the ANT and SCATT assessments before and after completing 20 half-hour ILF-Neurofeedback sessions. …”
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Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Bladder: 2 Rare Cases Managed with Laparoscopic Partial Cystectomy by Sofia Santos Lopes, Andrea Furtado, Rita Oliveira, Ana Cebola, Bruno Graça, Manuel Ferreira Coelho, Fernando Ferrito, Carrasquinho Gomes

“…The second case was a smoker with hematuria unresponsive to medical treatment and anemia. …”
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Pancreatic Cancer and Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Case Report by Daniela Oliveira, Vanessa Chaves, José Carlos Martins, Carlos Vaz, Miguel Bernardes, Jorge Almeida

“…In this paper, we aim to describe a case of a 59-year-old woman who was an active smoker with sicca symptoms and symmetrical polyarthritis and was diagnosed with primary SS two years before the development of metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. …”
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Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Case Presentation by María Octavina Rodríguez Roque, Didiesdle Herrera Alonso, Ada Sánchez Lozano, Marines Herrera Rodríguez

“…She is an inveterate smoker who started suffering frequent falls without apparent cause, motor apraxia, sphincter disorders and perseverance. …”
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Bilateral Choroidal Metastasis from Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Tariq Namad, Jiang Wang, Annemarie Tilton, Nagla Abdel Karim

“…A 59-year-old Caucasian female patient, never a smoker, was diagnosed with stage IV lung adenocarcinoma metastatic to the pleura, bones, and the brain. …”
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Transcendence: what on earth are we talking about? by Daniël P. Veldsman

“… Within the scope of contemporary discourses on transcendence, this article presents and critically discusses the four models of transcendence that have been identified by the Dutch theologian Wessel Stoker. Two questions guide the discussion, namely whether our thinking of transcendence is any more than an unconscious way of being caught up in certain hard-to-shake spatializing and/or representational schemas, and how far we can interpret/translate the various phenomena of transcendence in terms of modal transformations of the quality of our responses to the world and to others, setting aside all onto-theological constructions referring to a beyond. …”
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Oropharyngeal cancer associated with human papillomavirus. A Case Report by Lianet Pérez Rodríguez, Grisel Utrera Díaz, Miriam Magaly González González del Pino, Leydis Macías Ortiz

“…He was an inveterate smoker with irregular sexual activity who presented to consultation two years ago, after suffering from dysphonia for 3 months. …”
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