Urodynamics tests for the diagnosis and management of male bladder outlet obstruction: long-term follow-up of the UPSTREAM non-inferiority RCT by Madeleine Clout, Amanda L Lewis, Madeleine Cochrane, Grace J Young, Paul Abrams, Peter S Blair, Christopher Chapple, Gordon T Taylor, Sian Noble, Tom Steuart-Feilding, Jodi Taylor, J Athene Lane, Marcus J Drake

“…Men were excluded if they were unable to pass urine without a catheter, had a relevant neurological disease, were currently undergoing treatment for prostate or bladder cancer, had previous prostate surgery or were unfit for surgery. …”
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Impact of frailty in older people on health care demand: simulation modelling of population dynamics to inform service planning by Bronagh Walsh, Carole Fogg, Tracey England, Sally Brailsford, Paul Roderick, Scott Harris, Simon Fraser, Andrew Clegg, Simon de Lusignan, Shihua Zhu, Francesca Lambert, Abigail Barkham, Harnish Patel, Vivienne Windle

“…Mean face-to-face appointments were generally similar within frailty categories across age groups, but with a notable decrease in appointments with older age in the severe category. …”
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Training Manual for Prevention of Covid-19 Disease among Hospital Personnel by Ali Poormohammadi, Ghasem Azarian

“…Also, at 5°C, the viral transmission is significantly increased. While at 30°C, the viral transmission between hosts is obviously decreased. …”
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Integrating Palliative Care and Heart Failure: the PalliatHeartSynthesis realist synthesis by Tracey McConnell, Carolyn Blair, Geoff Wong, Claire Duddy, Clare Howie, Loreena Hill, Joanne Reid

“…CMOc 3 identified the importance of increased awareness and seeing benefits of PC in HF management (CMOc 3) as key intervention strategies. …”
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Mortality impact, risks, and benefits of general population screening for ovarian cancer: the UKCTOCS randomised controlled trial by Usha Menon, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Matthew Burnell, Andy Ryan, Jatinderpal K Kalsi, Naveena Singh, Anne Dawnay, Lesley Fallowfield, Alistair J McGuire, Stuart Campbell, Steven J Skates, Mahesh Parmar, Ian J Jacobs

“…The no-screening group contained 101,359 women. Those in the blood and scan groups had screening every year until December 2011. …”
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Myopia: Mechanisms and Strategies to Slow Down Its Progression by Andrea Russo, Alessandro Boldini, Davide Romano, Giuseppina Mazza, Stefano Bignotti, Francesco Morescalchi, Francesco Semeraro

“…Atropine, orthokeratology/peripheral defocus contact and spectacle lenses, bifocal or progressive addition spectacles, and increased outdoor activities have been associated with the highest, moderate, and lower efficacies, respectively.…”
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The effect of immersion time in a benzotriazole solution on anodic behaviour of AgCu50 alloy by Vesna Grekulović, Vujasinović Mirjana Rajčić, Zoran Stević

“…Electrochemical behavior of silver ,copper and AgCu50 alloy after their immersion in 0.01 mol/dm3 benzotriazole solution for 30, 360, 720 i 1440 minutes, was investigated in 0.1 mol/dm3 NaOH using the cyclic voltammetry method. Currents on cyclic voltammograms for both, pure silver, pure copper and AgCu50 alloy recorded after imemersion in the benzotriazole solution are lower than the corresponding currents obtained without the contact of the metals with BTA. …”
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Lysosome and plasma membrane Piezo channels of Trypanosoma cruzi are essential for proliferation, differentiation and infectivity. by Guozhong Huang, Mayara S Bertolini, Justin Wiedeman, Ronald D Etheridge, Teresa Cruz-Bustos, Roberto Docampo

“…Contact of T. cruzi infective forms with their host cells or with the extracellular matrix increases their intracellular Ca2+ concentration suggesting a mechano-transduction process. …”
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Removal of carcinogenic benzidine from water using highly efficient carbon black prepared from sugarcane bagasse by Nehad A. Elmaghraby, Mohamed A. Hassaan, Mohamed A. Zien, Elsayed M. Abedelrhim, Safaa Ragab, Murat Yılmaz, Ahmed El Nemr

“…Abstract The use of inexpensive, easily accessible, highly effective, and environmentally friendly adsorbents has been looked into as a perfect substitute for the currently expensive ways of extracting pollutants from wastewater. …”
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Emotional literacy programme in special schools for children with a learning disability in England: the ZF-SEND feasibility RCT by Biza Stenfert Kroese, Gemma Unwin, Richard Hastings, Andrew Jahoda, Rachel McNamara, David Gillespie, Jeremy Segrott, Kate Ingarfield, Myrsini Gianatsi, Elizabeth Randell, Zoe Mather, Barbara Barrett, Poushali Ganguli, John Rose, Mariam Sahle, Emily Warren, Nathan Da Cruz

“…Future work On the basis of the current findings, an application for a full trial will be prepared and submitted with a number of amendments. …”
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Nanotechnology-Based Antimicrobial Surface-Coating Technologies and Their Potential Applications by Gökhan Gurur Gökmen, Duygu Kışla

“…Currently, nanoparticles produced by top-down approaches might be used in many industries such as food industry, water treatment systems, cosmetics, and medicine. …”
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Application of biomedical cell products in the treatment of congenital epidermolysis bullosa by Arfenya E. Karamova, Kseniya M. Aulova, Vadim V. Chikin, Аlexey A. Kubanov

“…Congenital epidermolysis bullosa is a phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous group of genodermatoses, which are characterized by decreasing of skin’s structural protein production up to complete absence or violation of the structure as a result of mutation. …”
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The Bioethics-CSR Divide by Caio Caesar Dib

“…Even though the bioethics-CSR divide presents mostly reasonable explanations for this difficult relationship between the disciplines, current proposals suggest there is much to be gained from a stronger relationship between them. …”
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Effect of partial substitution of wheat flour (Triticum spp) with vetch flour (Vicia sativa) on the technological and sensory properties of bread by Lucía Buitrón, Cecilia Dini, Pedro Gustavo Maldonado-Alvarado

“…Vicia sativa (common vetch) seeds contain valuable nutrients but are currently unsafe for human consumption. …”
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Percutaneous Spinal Needle–Assisted Suture Passing in Medial Meniscal Posterior Root Tear Repair by Ahmet Emin Okutan, Ph.D., Serkan Surucu, Ph.D., Kerim Öner, Ph.D., Lokman Kehribar, Ph.D.

“…MMPR tears lead to significant alterations in knee joint kinematics, increasing tibiofemoral contact pressure and accelerating knee osteoarthritis. …”
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The Immune Microenvironment: New Therapeutic Implications in Organ Fibrosis by Xiangqi Chen, Chuan Wu, Fei Tang, Jingyue Zhou, Li Mo, Yanping Li, Jinhan He

“…Immune cells are increasingly recognized as crucial regulators in the pathological process of fibrosis by releasing effector molecules, such as cytokines, chemokines, extracellular vesicles, metabolites, proteases, or intercellular contact. …”
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Spontaneous Breakaway of Tractional Flap Tear during Acute Posterior Vitreous Detachment after Laser Retinopexy by V. A. Shaimova, V. N. Trublin, G. R. Islamova, S. Kh. Kuchkildina, T. B. Shaimov, R. B. Shaimov, T. G. Kravchenko, S. V. Titova

“…Prophylactic laser retinopexy is performed to create an area of sufficient chorioretinal adhesion completely surrounding the retinal break. Currently, the method of non-contact navigated laser retinopexy is widely used. …”
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SITUATIONAL FACTORS OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN THE B2C MARKET by Michael OKLANDER

“…The main changes in the social environment due to the emergence of COVID-19 are highlighted: the need to take precautions: minimize contact with other people and, if possible, stay at home; transformation of almost all communications into online and elimination of complex unique trade offers in communications; growing demand for video content as potential customers have more time; increasing the number of queries in search engines; growing share of mobile traffic. …”
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High‐Throughput Nanorheology of Living Cells Powered by Supervised Machine Learning by Jaime R. Tejedor, Ricardo Garcia

“…In fact, the regressor increases the throughput by 50‐fold. The training and the validation of the regressor are performed by using theoretical curves derived from a contact mechanics model that combined power–law rheology with bottom effect corrections and functional data analysis. …”
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Arginine–NO pathway modulated energy metabolism in the hepatopancreas and muscle of female Litopenaeus vannamei by Haitao Fan, Xin Zhang, Yanan Yin, Lefei Jiao

“…Currently, the regulational effect of arginine on the energy metabolism is unknown in broodstock shrimp nutrition. …”
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