Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Associated with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease by Christopher M. Blanchette, Şerban R. Iorga, Aylin Altan, Jerry G. Seare, Ying Fan, Sandro Rossetti, Benjamin Gutierrez

“…Following exclusion criteria, 4,356 COM and 468 MAPD ADPKD patients remained. Total healthcare resource utilization and costs were high, and costs increased substantially from CKD stage 1–5. …”
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Serum calprotectin and renal function decline in ANCA-associated vasculitides: a post hoc analysis of MAINRITSAN trial by Xavier Romand, Benjamin Terrier, Athan Baillet, Philippe Gaudin, Loic Guillevin, Christian Pagnoux, Minh Vu Chuong, Marie Hélène Paclet

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Prone Position after Liberation from Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in COVID-19 Respiratory Failure by Andrei Karpov, Anish R. Mitra, Sarah Crowe, Gregory Haljan

“…The sessions were well tolerated by patients, nursing, and the allied health team. …”
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Music’s ability to foster prosocial behavior: a teleofunctionalist perspective by Jin Hyun Kim

“…Drawing on recent interdisciplinary music research—biologically or developmental psychologically oriented—which conceptualizes music as a communicative toolkit primarily serving affiliative communicative interaction, this paper investigates the question of whether and to what extent music is capable of fostering prosocial behavior within the framework of teleofunctionalism—a philosophical theory of mind. …”
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A Literary Review on the Medicinal Use of Dhatura: A Well-known Folklore Poison W.S.R. Various Rasa Grantha by Monika Jashvantbhai Patel, Arati Abhay Shinde

“…Introduction:Dhatura is a well-known folklore medicinal herb having both toxic and therapeutic properties. It contains a number of toxic alkloids, including scopolamine, hyoscine, and atropine. …”
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¿Quién necesita estudios culturales en Colombia? by Eduardo Restrepo

“…El artículo cierra, en un tono pesimista, con la argumentación de quienes necesitan estudios culturales hoy en Colombia.…”
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A review of novel methods to assist digital planning and execution of osteotomy for upper limb deformities by Yoshii Yuichi, Sho Kohyama, Akira Ikumi, Yohei Yanagisawa, Takushi Nakatani, Junichiro Morita, Takeshi Ogawa

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Adipocytokine Associations with Insulin Resistance in British South Asians by D. R. Webb, K. Khunti, S. Chatterjee, J. Jarvis, M. J. Davies

“…Results. Total adiponectin concentration progressively decreased across the glucose spectrum in both sexes. …”
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Modern Endoscopic Imaging in Diagnosis and Surveillance of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients by Gheorghe Hundorfean, Stephen P. Pereira, John G. Karstensen, Peter Vilmann, Adrian Saftoiu

“…Advances in imaging have progressively added new tools into the armamentarium of endoscopists with the goal of more accurate, sensitive, and accessible visual diagnoses for the benefit of patients with gastrointestinal diseases. …”
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Photocatalytic Treatment of Shower Water Using a Pilot Scale Reactor by Yash Boyjoo, Ming Ang, Vishnu Pareek

“…Several operational parameters were studied including the slurry initial pH, catalyst concentration, air flow rate, and slurry recirculation rate. Up to 57% of total organic carbon (TOC) elimination was obtained after 6 hours of treatment (for 3.0 slurry initial pH, 0.07 gL−1 catalyst concentration, 1.8 Lmin−1 air flow rate, and 4.4 Lmin−1 slurry recirculation rate). …”
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Natural Products: Insights into Leishmaniasis Inflammatory Response by Igor A. Rodrigues, Ana Maria Mazotto, Verônica Cardoso, Renan L. Alves, Ana Claudia F. Amaral, Jefferson Rocha de Andrade Silva, Anderson S. Pinheiro, Alane B. Vermelho

“…Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease that affects several populations worldwide, against which there are no vaccines available and the chemotherapy is highly toxic. Depending on the species causing the infection, the disease is characterized by commitment of tissues, including the skin, mucous membranes, and internal organs. …”
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Wing spot in a tropical and a temperate drosophilid: C = C enrichment and conserved thermal response by Divita Garg, Harshad Vijay Mayekar, Sanjeev Paikra, Monalisa Mishra, Subhash Rajpurohit

“…In some sexually dimorphic Drosophilids, a pigmented spot pattern is found at the top-right edge of the male wings. Our understanding of wing spot thermal plasticity in sexually dimorphic species is limited with wing spots being primarily associated with sexual selection. …”
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Proportional PDC Design-Based Robust Stabilization and Tracking Control Strategies for Uncertain and Disturbed T-S Model by Chekib Ghorbel, Amira Tiga, Naceur Benhadj Braiek

“…Then, the global asymptotic stability with decay rate and disturbance attenuation of the closed-loop T-S model affected by uncertainties and external disturbances are discussed using the H∞ synthesis and linear matrix inequality (LMI) tools. Finally, to illustrate the merit of our purpose, numerical simulation studies of stabilizing and tracking an inverted pendulum system are presented.…”
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COVID-19’s gendered effect on subjective wellbeing in MENA countries by Ghada Barsoum, Mahdi Majbouri

“…Data from mobile phone panel surveys, with a total sample of 12,614 observations collected during this critical juncture, show that women consistently reported a lower level of SWB than men in all four countries. …”
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Eğitim Teknolojisindeki Yönelimlerin Uluslararası Boyutları by Nurettin Şimşek

“…Elektronik posta voluvla uygulanan ve toplam 40 sorudan oluşan anket formunun güvenilirliği 0,80 olarak hesaplanmıştır, Elde edilen veriler f, %, R, tek boyutlu ANOVA ve t testleri ile çözümlenmiş, 05 hata oranı temel alınarak yorumlanmıştır. …”
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Evaluating the resilience of the drug supply chain based on SWARA and CoCoSo multi criteria decision making approach with type 1 and interval type 2 fuzzy data (case study: Bojnord... by Fatemeh Bahman, Alireza Shahraki, Sayyid Ali Banihashemi

“…Due to linguistic uncertainty, the weighting of the criteria was done with the fuzzy SWARA decision-making method and the ranking of the options for more accurate evaluation was performed by the interval type-2 fuzzy CoCoSo method in Excel software.Findings: The identified criteria in order of importance are knowledge management, agility, readiness and prediction, management method, supply chain design and structure, visibility and control, adaptability, collaboration, complementarity, innovation, complexity management, flexibility, uncertainty in the number of changes, and integration. The top three drug distribution companies are DarouPakhsh, AdoraTeb, and Ferdous, respectively.Originality/Value: The weighting of the criteria indicates which criteria have a greater impact on the resilience of the supply chain. …”
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Du surveillant général cerné par les murs au conseiller principal d’éducation, passeur de frontières by Christine Focquenoy

“…The “surgé” is generally represented as symbolizing a resented kind of discipline. Archival research together with interviews of former general supervisors were used to capture the historical profile of the general supervisor. …”
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Production of antihypertensive and antidiabetic peptide fractions from quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) by electrodialysis with ultrafiltration membranes by Adrián González-Muñoz, Marion Valle, Rotimi E. Aluko, Laurent Bazinet, Javier Enrione

“…These results contribute to the current knowledge of bioactive peptides from quinoa by reporting the relevance of EDUF as tool to produce selected peptide fractions. Nevertheless, further characterization is needed towards peptide sequencing, their respective role in the metabolism and scaling-up production using EDUF.…”
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Efficient Privacy-Preserving Protocol for k-NN Search over Encrypted Data in Location-Based Service by Huijuan Lian, Weidong Qiu, Di Yan, Zheng Huang, Jie Guo

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Responsabilidad de los contadores públicos ante ilícitos tributarios en empresas comerciales del sector ferretero del Municipio Alberto Adriani del estado Mérida by Jhoner Almeida, Marilys Cote, Ma. Eugenia Briceño, Ma. Elizabeth Rojas

“…Tal es el caso de los ilícitos tributarios que constituyen toda acción u omisión violatoria de las normas tributarias previstas en el Código Orgánico Tributario. …”
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