Cervical heterotopic heart transplantation in mice using a novel suture technique by Hao Dun, MD MSc, Maura Sticco-Ivins, Yuriko Terada, MD PhD, Amber Berning, MD, Kory J. Lavine, MD PhD, Daniel Kreisel, MD PhD, Benjamin J. Kopecky, MD PhD

“…Recently, cervical heterotopic heart transplantation in mice has emerged as an alternative due to several advantages but is conventionally performed by suture or cuff techniques in an end-to-end fashion. Therefore, we introduce an end-to-side anastomosis technique. …”
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Ex vivo delivery of recombinant IL-10 to human donor lungs by Jonathan C. Yeung, Terumoto Koike, Dirk Wagnetz, Tiago N. Machuca, Riccardo Bonato, Mingyao Liu, Stephen Juvet, Marcelo Cypel, Shaf Keshavjee

“…Conclusions: Gene therapy remains superior as it allows for continued production of IL-10 within the alveoli where it has the potential to continuously act on alveolar macrophages and epithelial cells in a paracrine fashion.…”
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Changing Attitudes Towards Research Through a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience by Keith Brazendale, Michael Rovito, Jeanette Garcia

“…Course-based undergraduate experiences (CUREs) can provide research-related experiences to a large number of students in a convenient fashion, thus, are well-positioned to shift student perceptions of research. …”
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Assessment of stress hyperglycemia ratio to predict all-cause mortality in patients with critical cerebrovascular disease: a retrospective cohort study from the MIMIC-IV database by Yuwen Chen, Jian Xu, Fan He, An’an Huang, Jie Wang, Bingchen Liu, Qucheng Wei

“…The risk of death increased in an approximately linear fashion when SHR exceeded 0.77–0.79. Subgroup analysis indicated the association was more pronounced in non-diabetic individuals. …”
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Throughout Maximization for IRS-Assisted WPCN With Hybrid TDMA-NOMA Scheme by Yizheng Ma, Ruoyi Wu, Yi Zhang, Yupeng Shang, Linzhen Zhu

“…To deal with this challenge, a power allocation factor is first introduced for each IoT device, and then an alternating optimization (AO) algorithm is proposed to jointly design the power allocation, IRS phase shifts, and time scheduling in an alternated fashion. To be specified, the optimal power allocation factor can be obtained using interior-point methods for given time scheduling and IRS phase shifts. …”
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Rapid Verbal Persuasion to increase influenza vaccine uptake: protocol for a randomized hybrid type 2 effectiveness -implementation trial by Siyuan Liu, Lan Gao, Yingying Jin, Jiangyun Chen, Dadong Wu, Yiyuan Cai, Tao Wang, Sanhao Huang, Ciling Yan, Run Wang, Dong Roman Xu

“…Rapid Verbal Persuasion (RVP), with highly rapid fashion, has a strong evidence base in promoting behavior change. …”
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The AFFIRM Framework for gender-affirming care: qualitative findings from the Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Equity Study by Meg Quint, Schuyler Bailar, Alexis Miranda, Shalender Bhasin, Devin O’Brien-Coon, Sari L. Reisner

“…Themes about gender-affirming care coalesced into the acronym AFFIRM: (1) Affirms in individual interactions: Participants called for affirmation of TGD identity, lived expertise, and competent TGD providers and staff. (2) Flexible and accessible: Participants expressed the need for gender-affirming care to be available beyond urban population-specific clinics, in a timely fashion without long wait lists, and in a community-centered manner such as offering non-traditional times and settings. (3) Fights systemic oppression: Participants emphasized the need for providers and health systems to eliminate gatekeeping practices for gender-affirming care and create care models that resist intersecting oppressive systems such as racism and cisgenderism. (4) Interacts with community: Patients desired intentional interaction with TGD community to holistically address health and unmet gender affirmation needs. (5) Retains patients in care: Patients shared the need to collaboratively identify and problem-solve obstacles to gender-affirming care with providers and healthcare systems to optimize TGD-specific retention strategies. (6) Multidisciplinary: Patients called for interdisciplinary teams with co-located services such as primary care and mental healthcare with letter-writing for surgical care, and incorporation of peer navigators to meet the broader social, health, and well-being needs of TGD people. …”
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Dose-response associations of device-measured sleep regularity and duration with incident dementia in 82391 UK adults by Wenxin Bian, Raaj K. Biswas, Matthew N. Ahmadi, Yu Sun Bin, Svetlana Postnova, Andrew J. K. Phillips, Nicholas A. Koemel, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Peter A. Cistulli, Emmanuel Stamatakis

“…Sleep regularity was negatively associated with dementia risk in a near-linear fashion (linear p = 0.01, non-linear p = 0.57). When we dichotomized sleep regularity, those in the higher sleep regularity group (SRI ≥ 70) had an HR of 0.74 (95%CI 0.63, 0.87) compared to those with lower sleep regularity (SRI < 70). …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Edward Page, Konrad Ott

“…Well-established distributive justice principles can be applied to the problem of allocating the absorptive capacity of the earth's atmosphere in a broadly analogous fashion to the problem of the just division of other scarce resources (food, water, shelter) between households. …”
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Review: The parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a social prophet by Martin Laubscher

“… From text: It has become fashionable in recent scholarship to claim that it is methodologically impossible and hermeneutically undesirable to uncover the meaning of the parables of Jesus outside their literary contexts in the New Testament. …”
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Hydration Myths by Lauren Caruso, Karla P. Shelnutt, Gail Kauwell

“… Whether at school, work, or running errands, it is common to see people sipping on their water bottles. This fashionable trend is a healthy one because water is essential for life. …”
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Camera, Set, Action: Process Innovation for Film and TV Production by Ouyang Chun, Wang Kenneth, Hofstede Arthur ter, Rosa Marcello La, Rosemann Michael, Shortland Katherine, Court David

“…However, despite the era of fast developing technology, film production processes are carried out in an old fashioned way. This is reflected, for example, by the fact that document processing accompanied by daily shooting activities is still primarily paper-based and coordinating geographically distributed cast and crew is purely manual or at best through emails. …”
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Creative citizenship and the public policy process by Lee Stephen

“…However, Creative Citizenship runs the dangers of being yet another fashionable, wide-ranging concept that political leaders tend to be ‘mesmerised’ by as they write up their election manifestos. …”
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Perfect Meals with Pressure Cooking by Paula G. Harris-Swiatko, Karla P. Shelnutt, Amy Simonne

“…Although they may seem old fashioned, pressure cookers are making a comeback, especially with today's busy families who are trying to save both time and money. …”
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Perfect Meals with Pressure Cooking by Paula G. Harris-Swiatko, Karla P. Shelnutt, Amy Simonne, Sarah M. Ellis

“…Although they may seem old fashioned, pressure cookers are making a comeback because they can cook tough cuts of meats such as corned beef and stew beef to perfection and take far less time and energy than using standard boiling or steaming methods. …”
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Łaska w ikonach by Monika Wąchocka

“…They are liberated from the canons and techniques, depending only on the artist’s skills and fashions of the time. They play an assistant role in the liturgy and a decorative one in the architecture of temples.…”
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Design and Fabrication of a Mobile Water Supply System For Drip Irrigation. by Lutwetwe Shadrack

“…In this study, a design and fabrication of a mobile water supply system for drip irrigation was undertaken thus the major aim of this project is to eliminate the existing out fashioned drip irrigation methods such as the use of water bottles and stationary water supply system for drip irrigation to improve on the Agricultural yield from the crops. …”
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Management of Active Records in Referral Hospitals: A Case Study of Kisoro Hospital. by Hashakimana, Obed

“…The result of the study showed that most hospitals still use old-fashioned storage types of equipment and computers are still rare in the Records departments' offices. …”
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A HISTORY OF THE AGILA IN ADO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE by OCHOGA EDWIN OCHOGA, Imanah Sunday Omoafena

“…Thirdly, their children and descendants apparently formed the twelve clans; fourthly, the socio-cultural stratifications existing among the clans regarding the chieftaincy institution, the Arekwu cults and other customs were collectively agreed by the two Progenitors to be fashioned after the Idah Model. Fifthly and finally, all the Agila clans have peacefully co[1]existed and practiced their rich and unique cultural heritage for centuries. …”
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