Heterologous Materials Are Really Better than Autologous in Tympanoplasty Mastoid Obliteration? A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis by Francesca Viberti, Giovanni Monciatti, Aniello Donniacuo, Fabio Ferretti, Lorenzo Salerni, Andrea De Vito, Daniele Bernardeschi, Marco Mandalà

“…TM (tympanic membrane) retraction pockets rate was 5.3% (3.6% with heterologous materials; P >.05; 7% with autologous materials; P < .05). …”
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The Effect of Propolis Irrigation as an Adjunctive to Scaling and Root Surface Debridement on Periodontal Health Status, Glycemic Control and Biochemical Markers in Subjects with... by Hozan Wrya Azeez

“…Results: The results indicated that there was a highly significant improvement of the clinical parameters in group I and II (p<0.001), in group I at baseline, the correlations between probing pocket depth and clinical attachment loss with total antioxidant capacity were significant and highly significant respectively, probing pocket depth and clinical attachment loss with total oxidant status were significant. …”
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Nonsevere Hypoglycemia Episode Clinical and Economic Outcomes: A Comparison between Sulfonylurea and Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor as Add-On to Metformin from a Canadian... by Pendar Farahani

“…NSHEs can lead to a significant loss-of-work productivity and out-of-pocket costs.…”
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Effect of the Field of View Size on CBCT Artifacts Caused by the Presence of Metal Objects in the Exomass by Yaser Safi, Mitra Ghazizadeh Ahsaie, Maede Jafarian Amiri

“…A polypropylene tube containing dipotassium phosphate was placed in the empty socket of the right canine tooth in a dry human mandible. …”
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improving Pain mAnagement for childreN and young people attendeD by Ambulance (PANDA): protocol for a realist review. [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservati... by Paul Leighton, Georgette Eaton, Georgie Nicholls, Kacper Sumera, Marishona Ortega, Jessica Hodgson, Michael Baliousis, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Despina Laparidou, Bill Lord, Sarah Redsell, Gregory Adam Whitley, Tatiana Bujor

“…A five-stage approach will be adopted; 1) Developing an Initial Programme Theory (IPT): develop an IPT with key stakeholder input and evidence from informal searching; 2) Searching and screening: conduct a thorough search of relevant research databases and other literature sources and perform screening in duplicate; 3) Relevance and rigour assessment: assess documents for relevance and rigour in duplicate; 4) Extracting and organising data: code relevant data into conceptual “buckets” using qualitative data analysis software; and 5) Synthesis and Programme Theory (PT) refinement: utilise a realist logic of analysis to generate context-mechanism-outcome configurations (CMOCs) within and across conceptual “buckets”, test and refine the IPT into a realist PT. …”
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Ecotope-Based Entomological Surveillance and Molecular Xenomonitoring of Multidrug Resistant Malaria Parasites in Anopheles Vectors by Prapa Sorosjinda-Nunthawarasilp, Adisak Bhumiratana

“…The EES establishes strong evidence of Anopheles vectors carrying MDR P. vivax in infection pockets epidemiologically linked with other data obtained during which a course of follow-up treatment of the notified P. vivax patients receiving the first-line treatment was conducted. …”
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Nonlinear Elasticity of Borocarbide Superconductor YNi2B2C: A First-Principles Study by Lili Liu, Cai Chen, Dingxing Liu, Zhengquan Hu, Gang Xu, Rui Wang

“…Based on the effective second-order elastic constants, Pugh’s modulus ratio, Poisson’s ratio, and Vickers hardness of YNi2B2C under high pressure are further investigated. …”
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BTT-ECMO Trends and Outcomes Under Revised Heart Allocation System by Aniket S. Rali, MD, FACC, FCCP, Het Patel, Matthew M. Lander, Kaitlyn Brennan, John Trahanas, Kelly Schlendorf, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Manreet Kanwar

“…This finding supports the original intent of the revised allocation system in ensuring more rapid transplantation of the sickest patients while avoiding a higher post-HT mortality.…”
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Stability Analysis of an Alcoholism Model with Public Health Education and NSFD Scheme by Zhaofeng An, Suxia Zhang, Jinhu Xu

“…In this paper, an alcoholism model of SEAR type with different susceptibilities due to public health education is investigated, with the form of continuous differential equations as well as discrete differential equations by applying the Mickens nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) scheme to the continuous equations. …”
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Review of Recent Development on Preparation, Properties, and Applications of Cellulose-Based Functional Materials by Ya-Yu Li, Bin Wang, Ming-Guo Ma, Bo Wang

“…For convenience, to introduce the recent development of these cellulose-based functional composites, we divided them to seven categories, including biological applications, water treatment, sensor, reinforcing agent, energy storage materials, Pickering emulsion stabilizer, and other versatile applications. …”
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Alveolar Osteitis: A Comprehensive Review of Concepts and Controversies by Antonia Kolokythas, Eliza Olech, Michael Miloro

“…Alveolar osteitis, “dry socket”, remains amongst the most commonly encountered complications following extraction of teeth by general dentists and specialists. …”
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Container Mosquito Habitat Community Cleanup: A How-To Guide for Event Organization by Amy Hallock, Eva A. Buckner, Ricky W. Telg, Alena R. Poulin

“…Container mosquitoes develop in the water that collects in discarded tires, jars, cans, buckets, and boats. The best way to prevent irritating bites and dangerous mosquito-transmitted illnesses is to get rid of all trash that holds water. …”
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Cross-Layer Control with Worst Case Delay Guarantees in Multihop Wireless Networks by Shu Fan, Honglin Zhao

“…Virtual queues that ensure the worst case delay of nondropped packets are designed. It is proved through rigorous theoretical analyses and verified by simulations that the time average overall utility achieved by the new algorithm can be arbitrarily close to the optimal solution with finite queue backlogs. …”
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Evading Antivirus Detection Using Fountain Code-Based Techniques for Executing Shellcodes by Gang-Cheng Huang, Ko-Chin Chang, Tai-Hung Lai

“…This method breaks up a malicious payload into many packets, each with their own distinct structure, and then encodes them. …”
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Container Mosquito Habitat Community Cleanup: A How-To Guide for Event Organization by Amy Hallock, Eva A. Buckner, Ricky W. Telg, Alena R. Poulin

“…Container mosquitoes develop in the water that collects in discarded tires, jars, cans, buckets, and boats. The best way to prevent irritating bites and dangerous mosquito-transmitted illnesses is to get rid of all trash that holds water. …”
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APPLYING SOME MATCHING ALGORITHMS FOR SEQUENCE IGNATURE TO ANALYZE AND DETECT ENTRIES INTO SYSTEM NETWORKS by Pham Nguyen Huy Phuong, Dang Le Nam

“…Next, the time of pattern identification in the Snort's machine, and the performance of Snort as well as the number of packets passing through Snort, the amount of alerts per second, connection speed in real time, the percentage of received data in pattern matching process, etc. are also measured based on intelligent algorithms built in Snort. …”
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Insect Pest Management on Turfgrass by Eileen A. Buss, Adam G. Dale

“…This revised 20-page fact sheet describes how to manage a variety of insect pests including armyworms, bermudagrass mite, cutworms, fire ants, ground pearls, hunting billbug, mole crickets, scales/mealybugs, southern chinch bug, twolined spittlebugs, tropical sod webworm, and white grubs. …”
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Classical Biological Control of Air Potato in Florida by Ted D. Center, William A. Overholt

“…By the 1980s, its vines were growing in thickets, waste areas, and hedges or fencerows in many parts of south and central Florida. …”
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Efficient Wireless Broadcasting through Joint Network Coding and Beamforming by Monchai Lertsutthiwong, Thinh Nguyen, Bechir Hamdaoui

“…Given the large number of MSs and the small number of transmit antennas, the BS must decide, at any transmission opportunity, which group of MSs it should transmit packets to, in order to maximize the overall throughput. …”
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Lantana Lace Bug, Teleonemia scrupulosa Stål (Insecta: Hemiptera: Tingidae) by Dale H. Habeck, Frank W. Mead, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…It often forms spiny, dense, impenetrable thickets covering large areas of valuable land. The lantana lace bug has been introduced into many countries as a biological control agent to combat lantana. …”
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