Diversity-Focused Undergraduate Premedical Enrichment Programs: The Impact of Research Experiences by Acevedo A, Babore YB, Greisz J, King S, Clark GS, DeLisser HM

“…To begin to address this gap, a cohort of first year medical students who had matriculated through a diversity-focused premedical enrichment programs was queried about the impact of their previous research experiences and their perceptions regarding medical school related research.Methods: This mixed methods study involved 10 first year medical students from groups underrepresented in medicine (URiM) who had matriculated to the Perelman School of Medical School of Medicine through the Penn Access Summer Scholars (PASS Program) and 10 non-URiM first year peers. At the start of medical school and after their first year, participants completed structured interviews and Likert style surveys to assess the impact of their pre-medical school research experiences and their current beliefs about the significance of research experiences to their medical education.Results: The quantitative analyses of the survey data demonstrated that the PASS and the non-PASS students were similar in their attitudes, beliefs, and assessments of their research competence. …”
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The impact of radiation-related lymphocyte recovery on the prognosis of locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients: a retrospective analysis by Hongshan Ji, Ping Zhang, Chanjun Zhen, Liyuan Fu, Dongjie Lv, Wenwen Bai, Rui Zhang, Jing Li, Hang Gao, Yajing Wang, Qiuying An, Yuhao Su, Hanyu Si, Xueying Qiao, Zhiguo Zhou

“…During RT, ALCs reached the bottom 5 weeks after RT started and 70.7% of patients experienced G3 lymphopenia. …”
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Long-term outcome of a treat-to-target strategy in late-onset rheumatoid arthritis with chronic lung disease: 5-year results of a prospective observational study by Manami Nomura, Takahiko Sugihara, Hiroyuki Baba, Tadashi Hosoya, Mari Kamiya, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Takumi Matsumoto, Kanae Kubo, Fumio Hirano, Masayo Kojima, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Shinsuke Yasuda, Masayoshi Harigai

“…If patients exhibited no response according to the European League Against Rheumatism criteria at week 12 or had not achieved LDA by week 24, biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) were started targeting LDA. The primary outcomes were the 5-year simplified disease activity index (SDAI) remission and Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) ≤ 0.5 by non-responder imputation analysis. …”
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Tsardom of Muscovy Traditional Culture and Peter's Westernization Project by T. V. Chernikova

“…Carrer d'Ancausse and others).The second half of the article analyzes the concept of “Europeanization” (“Westernization”) of Russia and offers a periodization of this phenomenon. The start of early Europeanization, when Russia began borrowing military, technical, cultural, and other innovations from Western Europe can be dated from the birth of a unified Moscow state. …”
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Survival Status and Predictors of Mortality among Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in Saint Peter’s Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Mikyas Arega Muluneh, Abayneh Birlie Zeru, Behailu Tariku Derseh, Abebaw Molla Kebede

“…However, supporting evidence is limited in the study area after the Ethiopian national strategic plan for tuberculosis prevention and control is started. Objective. To determine survival status and predictors of mortality among multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients treated in Saint Peter’s Specialized Hospital at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods for Bus Washing Process Selection: A Case Study by Paulo Ávila, Alzira Mota, Eliana Oliveira, Hélio Castro, Luís Pinto Ferreira, João Bastos, O. Fernandes Nuno, Joaquim Moreira

“…To achieve these objectives, the problem was approached as a case study in a public transport company in Portugal and the methodology followed the next steps: started with the identification of the different types of commercial technical solutions for washing buses; the company’s experts selected four main criteria: water consumption, operating costs, quality of washing, and time spent; the criteria weights were determined using the fuzzy-AHP method; then four representative MCDM methods were selected, namely, AHP, ELECTRE, TOPSIS, and SMART; the ranks obtained for the four methods were compared; and a sensitivity analysis was performed. …”
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Assessing factors influencing green hydrogen conversion at Vietnam's gas turbine power plants using combined SWOT-AHP analysis method by Duong Doan Ngoc, Kien Duong Trung, Phap Vu Minh, Thao Nguyen Van

“…The research results clarify the typical problems of a developing country like Vietnam in the global energy transition trend toward carbon neutrality: high potential of renewable energy sources, great political determination, and ambitious goals for green growth, but significant difficulties and challenges due to the low starting point and limited technological and financial resources while energy demand is constantly increasing. …”
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The growing season of broccoli in the southern region of Dagestan by E. G. Gadjimustapaeva

“…The longer the temperature stays within the range from 15 to 20°C during the growth period in the first phase after planting before the start of head formation, the higher is the yield. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of Chloride-liberal versus Chloriderestrictive Intravenous Fluids among Patients Hospitalized in the United States by Louise Perrault, Dilip Makhija, Idal Beer, Suzanne Laplante, Sergio Iannazzo, Karthik Raghunathan

“…**Methods:** Clinical outcomes and costs for a simulated patient cohort (starting age 60 years) receiving either chloride-restrictive or chloride-liberal crystalloids were estimated using a decision tree for the first 90-day period after IV fluid initiation followed by a Markov model over the remainder of the cohort lifespan. …”
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Retrospective Comparison of Postoperative Fascia Iliaca Block and Multimodal Drug Injection on Early Function of the Knee in Femoral Fractures Using Retrograde Intramedullary Naili... by Songtao Li, Ping Luo, Yuhu Huang, Huarong Xia, Wushu Wei, Wendun Wei, Tianyu Xia, Kai Xu

“…A retrospective analysis of 41 patients receiving femoral fracture treatment with retrograde intramedullary nailing, was performed during 2018–2020. 19 patients were treated with MDI as postoperative analgesia, and 22 patients were treated with FIB. Rehabilitation started on the first postoperative day and lasted for 3 months. …”
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Genetic diversity, population structure in a historical panel of Brazilian soybean cultivars. by Adriel Carlos da Silva, Danielle C Gregorio da Silva, Everton Geraldo Capote Ferreira, Ricardo V Abdelnoor, Aluízio Borém, Carlos Arrabal Arias, Marcelo F Oliveira, Marcio Elias F de Oliveira, Francismar Corrêa Marcelino-Guimarães

“…Breeding programs in Brazil have resulted from multiple cycles of selection and recombination starting from a small number of USA cultivar ancestors in the 1950s and 1960s years. …”
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APLIKASI METODE GEOLISTRIK DALAM PENDUGAAN KETEBALAN LAPISAN TANAH GAMBUT (STUDI KASUS: DAERAH DI SEKITAR JL. PERDANA, KOTA PONTIANAK) by Zulfian Zulfian

“…After the peat layer, starting from a depth of 3 m to 10 m, it is assumed to be a layer of clay. …”
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Identifying the Latitude and Longitude of ATMs in ATM Networks by Niloofar Haghjoo, Mohammad rahmati, Ali Zare Mirakabad

“…Results By leveraging 2100 ATM locations (a portion of the data available in Datis Arian Qeshm Company) and examining 562609790 transactions in four months from the start of April 2022 to the end of July 2022, we identified the location of 4000 existing ATMs across the country belonging to 12 banks. …”
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Efficacy and safety of NeoAdjuvant chemotherapy with or without tIslelizumab followed by debulking surgery for oVarian cancEr (NAIVE study) in China: study protocol of an open-labe... by Ying Zhu, Jianwei Zhou, Zhigang Zhang, Jiaojiao Zhang, Jing Fei, Xiaoqing Zhu

“…The study will enrol 40 patients, with enrolment scheduled to start in April 2021 and complete in April 2025, given a 1-year PFS rate of 60%. …”
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Neurocognitive Function, Psychosocial Outcome, and Health-Related Quality of Life of the First-Generation Metastatic Melanoma Survivors Treated with Ipilimumab by Anne Rogiers, Christophe Leys, Justine Lauwyck, Adrian Schembri, Gil Awada, Julia Katharina Schwarze, Jennifer De Cremer, Peter Theuns, Paul Maruff, Mark De Ridder, Jan L. Bernheim, Bart Neyns

“…Data were collected using 4 patient-reported outcome measures, computerized NCF testing, and a semistructured interview at the start and 1-year follow-up. Results. Out of 18 eligible survivors, 17 were recruited (5F/12M); median age is 57 years (range 33-86); and median time since initiating IPI was 5.6 years (range 2.1-9.3). …”
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Selected issues on theory and methodology of the underground press by Wanda Krystyna Roman

“…The history of Poland has numerous references to the theory and methodology of the underground press. It starts from Polish uprisings at the end of the 18th century, goes through the occupation of Polish territories during World War I, includes illegal publications printed between the two World Wars, the underground press circulated during World War II, and ends with the underground press published in the People's Republic of Poland (PRL). …”
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Assessing Heat Resistance and Selecting Heat-Resistant Individuals of Largemouth Bass (<i>Micropterus salmoides</i>) with Tiered Thermal Exposure by Haijie Chen, Hui Qiao, Zhicheng Xv, Guili Song, Shuning Liu, Cheng Luo, Yong Long, Shimei Lin

“…To address these limitations, we developed a tiered exposure method, where the temperature was increased step-wise, starting from 28 to 34 °C at 2 °C increments and then at 0.5 °C increments above 34 °C, with each step lasting one day. …”
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Assessment of Geriatric Problems and Risk Factors for Delirium in Surgical Medicine: Protocol for Multidisciplinary Prospective Clinical Study by Henriette Louise Möllmann, Eman Alhammadi, Soufian Boulghoudan, Julian Kuhlmann, Anica Mevissen, Philipp Olbrich, Louisa Rahm, Helmut Frohnhofen

“…In addition, a telephone follow-up will be performed 3, 6, and 12 months after discharge. ResultsRecruitment started in August 2022, with 421 patients already recruited at the time of submission. …”
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About One Memorable Date in the History of Spain by G. I. Volkova

“…The separatists have many barriers on their way, starting from the constitutional provisions proclaiming Spain a united and indivisible state which impede to carry out regional plebiscites, and ending by an ambiguous attitude towards the hypothetical independence of Catalonia by both the residents of the region and in other parts of the country. …”
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Sistem Pakar : Deteksi Dini Stres pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19 Menggunakan Metode Forward Chaining by Angga Wijaya Narwa Putra, Nadea Cipta Laksmita

“…Hasilnya akurasi sistem ini sebesar 84,5%.   Abstract Starting with the spread of the Covid-19 virus from China to various countries until finally entering Indonesia in March 2020, it led to social and economic instability. …”
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