Assessing the long-term economic impact of wheezing episodes after severe RSV disease in children from Argentina: a cost of illness analysis by Ranju Baral, Clint Pecenka, Elisabeth Vodicka, Andrea Rodríguez, Romina Libster, Julia Dvorkin, Emiliano M Sosa, Andrea Sancilio, Karina Dueñas, Carlos Rojas-Roque, Patricia B Carruitero, Fernando P Polack, Mauricio T Caballero

“…The mean cost per wheezing episode was US$191.01 (95% CI 166.37 to 215.64). The total cost per episode of wheezing was significantly higher (p<0.001) in infants under 12 months of age (207.43, 95% CI 154.3 to 260.6) compared with older toddler. …”
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Baseline liver fibrosis-4 score correlates to the progression of anxiety and cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson’s disease by Yongqing Cheng, Yongqing Cheng, Li Chen, Honghong Zhu, Yingchao Ge, Lei Li, Yan Guo, Xin Wang, Shuangfei You, Guojun He, Shouru Xue

“…GLMM analysis revealed an independent correlation between FIB-4 subgroup*time and several clinical scales including the State-trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT), Semantic Fluency Test (SF), HVLT-total recall, and HVLT-delayed recall, with the high FIB-4 subgroup exhibiting a greater decline in these scores compared to the low FIB-4 subgroup (all p<0.05).ConclusionElevated baseline FIB-4 correlated to more severe baseline daytime sleepiness, motor symptoms, and memory function in PD patients, along with a more rapid decline in cognitive functions such as executive function, information processing ability, and memory. …”
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高强钢T形件单向受拉力学性能试验及有限元研究 by 陈潘, 高飞, 万君如, 林勤, 刘兆祥

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Short-term effects of air pollution on the infectious disease spectrum in Shanghai, China: a time-series analysis from 2013 to 2019 by Yihan Lin, Hao Meng, Yong He, Wenzhuo Liang, Yiran Niu, Zhenliang Liu, Ziying Wang, Yangyang Tian, Shiyang Chang

“…A 10 μg/m3 increase in O3 was associated with a higher risk of total NNIDs (relative risk [RR] at lag 1 month: 1.29, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.02–1.65), vaccine-preventable diseases (RR at lag 1 month: 1.75, 95% CI: 1.02–3.01), and sexually transmitted and bloodborne diseases (RR at lag 2 month: 1.12, 95% CI: 1.00–1.26). …”
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De l’observation comme instrument psychologique pour le chercheur et l’enseignant by Line Numa-Bocage

“…The results of such researches show us that the analysis on the teacher’s activity while under observation, will become more precise and more acute when performed by the said teacher together with the researcher, as a team work, during their exchanges and autoconfrontations centred around the learners’ knowledge in mathematics. …”
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Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Neuron, Cholinergic, and Glial Cells by Kimia Hosseini, Emilia Lekholm, Aikeremu Ahemaiti, Robert Fredriksson

“…Derived from the inner cell mass of blastocysts in early embryonic development, the cell self-renewal ability makes them a great tool for regenerative medicine, and there are different protocols available for maintaining hESCs in their undifferentiated state. …”
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Influence of Mass Concentration on Microstructure and Pore Structure of Coal-Gangue-Based Green Cemented Filling Body by Jisheng Qiu, Minmin Yang, Kun Cheng, Xiao Guan, Xi Luan, Zhijie Xiao

“…In terms of microscopic pore structure characteristics, the total number of pores of CGGCFB decreases, the pore size changes from large to small, the shape tends to be uniform and circular, the force characteristics of the pores are improved, the complexity and tortuousness of the pore channels increase, and the inner surface of the pores becomes rough; the test results show that the performance of the backfill with a mass concentration of 82% is reasonable, and the utilization rate of coal gangue can be increased to 72%. …”
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MARKETING STRATEGY OF THE UNIVERSITY: FORMATION AND ITS EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION REALIZATION by Natalia К. Shemetova

“…The author has developed a formula for determining the total indicator or general index of the effectiveness of university’s marketing strategy. …”
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Imperialismo e guerra civil no mundo árabe: a tragédia síria: aporias e consequências da falta de intervir by Peter Demant

“…Entre os fatores que tornaram esta convivência mais complicada na Síria – Líbano e Iraque - do que em outras sociedades médio-orientais estão questões não-resolvidas de identidade coletiva. …”
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Sovereignty and Charted Companies: Objective facts, Subjective Foundations by arezoo rangchian, Seyed erfan Lajevardi

“…According to the theory of separation of sovereignty from Commercial Activities, companies do not exercise sovereignty; although this theory of French law has not been an accepted principle in all legal systems, including in Iran, where prior to the enactment of the Third Development Plan, public sector companies undertook sovereign duties too. In the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the entanglement of sovereignty-entrepreneurship led to granting sovereign, even military powers to concessionaire companies; separation of sovereignty-ownership by France also took place in the nineteenth century, in order to advance colonial goals and to avoid recognition of the rights of the charted companies of other colonial powers. …”
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Classification of methods and instruments of government financial regulation of households socio-economic inequality by M. L. Dorofeev

“…Based on this concept, an expanded and more universal classification of methods and tools is proposed, and the most relevant ones are discussed taking into account modern realities. …”
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Numerical analysis of the elastic-plastic behavior of a tubular structure in FGM under pressure and defect presence by Kouider Madani, A. Houari, A.S. Bouchikhi, M. Mokhtari

“…The TTO model (Tamura-Tomota-Ozawa) was used only to determine the elastic-plastic properties of the FGM material. …”
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A Maximal Element Theorem in FWC-Spaces and Its Applications by Haishu Lu, Qingwen Hu, Yulin Miao

“…A maximal element theorem is proved in finite weakly convex spaces (FWC-spaces, in short) which have no linear, convex, and topological structure. Using the maximal element theorem, we develop new existence theorems of solutions to variational relation problem, generalized equilibrium problem, equilibrium problem with lower and upper bounds, and minimax problem in FWC-spaces. …”
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Laparoscopic Intervention to Pancreatic Pseudocyst Confers Short-Term Benefits: A Meta-Analysis by Yulin Guo, Shun Hu, Shuo Wang, Ang Li, Feng Cao, Fei Li

“…Databases including Cochrane Library, PubMed, and EMBASE were searched to identify studies that compared the safety and efficacy of surgical intervention for PPs between the laparoscopic approach and the open approach (until Aug 1st 2020). Results. A total of 6 studies were eligible in qualitative synthesis. …”
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Animal Health Management up against the Corsican Mountains: Meeting the Health and Territorial Challenges of the Free-Range Pig Farming Sector by Marie Gisclard, Bastien Trabucco, François Charrier

“…After recalling the close link between the socio-economic transformations that took place in the Corsican mountains after the Second World War and current pastoral livestock farming practices, it shows that the failure of two public health management policies is linked to the disconnect between the issues at stake in public policy on the one hand and in pastoral livestock farming on the other. …”
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Plum-blossom needle combined with bloodletting therapy and nursing management for a patient with lower limb peripheral neuropathy caused by postoperative chemotherapy of colorectal... by ZHAO Baoya (赵保亚), ZHANG Lei (张蕾), LIU Shuhong (刘书红)

“…Plum-blossom needle therapy was used to tap and stab the collaterals of the legs, Yin collaterals and Yang collaterals alternately, twice a week and Thursday, and three drops of blood were bled to the ten toes of the foot twice a week to dredge the peripheral blood stasis. …”
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Isokinetic Training Program to Improve the Physical Function and Muscular Performance of an Individual with Partial Injury of the Medial Meniscus: A Case Report by Karen Obara, Pedro Silva, Mariana Silva, Fagner Mendes, Gabriel Santiago, Ihan Oliveira, Jefferson Cardoso

“…The main results indicated that after 11 weeks, the peak torque normalized to body mass (PT/BM), at 60 °/s of the knee extensors remained unchanged (2.54 N.m/kg) (below the control value - 3.06 N.m/kg), and at the six-month follow-up, increased by approximately 20% (3.08 N.m/kg). …”
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Historical development of veterinary pathology in turkey (1842-2002) by Aşkın Yaşar, Atilla Özgür, Rahşan Özen

“…It was found that the Health Sciences Institutes in Ankara, Firat, Selçuk, Istanbul, Uludağ and Yuzuncuyil Universities awarded total 55 PhD and 4 M.Sc. degrees on veterinary medicine. …”
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A Quantitative Study of Gully Erosion Based on Object-Oriented Analysis Techniques: A Case Study in Beiyanzikou Catchment of Qixia, Shandong, China by Tao Wang, Fuhong He, Anding Zhang, Lijuan Gu, Yangmao Wen, Weiguo Jiang, Hongbo Shao

“…This paper took a subregion in a small watershed gully system at Beiyanzikou catchment of Qixia, China, as a study and, using object-orientated image analysis (OBIA), extracted shoulder line of gullies from high spatial resolution digital orthophoto map (DOM) aerial photographs. …”
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Heritage Multimedia and Children Edutainment: Assessment and Recommendations by Naif A. Haddad

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