TOOLS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH by Eldar Veremchuk, Hennadii Vasylchuk

“…The study established that branding, when employed as a tool in the context of intercultural postcolonial communication, can be either regressive or progressive. While the former seeks to disguise the colonial influence on business, the progressive branding strategy seeks to promote national and cultural identity by using nationally themed brand names, deleting colonial semantics in naming, and emphasising uniqueness and identity through the use of cultural symbols and motifs. …”
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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

“…Methods: Injured human donor lungs clinically rejected for transplantation were split into single lungs and the better of the 2 subjected to 12 hours of EVLP and randomized (n = 5/group) to receive either saline (control), rIL-10 (5 µg in 2-liter perfusate), or rIL-10 (25 µg) aerosolized into the airways. …”
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An Innovation to Address the Anterior Pelvic Ring Disruptions by Ramesh Perumal, Harish Mahesan, Dheenadhayalan Jayaramaraju, Rajasekaran Shanmuganathan

“…However, there is relatively high incidence of hardware failure either in the early or late follow-up. Many of them require revision surgery if they become symptomatic in the early phase. …”
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The intersection of intimate partner violence with sexual reproductive health in the Pacific: findings from a Kiribati population study by Anneliese Spiteri-Staines, Luz Viviana Sastre Gomez, Jess Letch, Anna Bornemisza, Kristin Diemer

“…Results Of the n = 3,106 women who had been intimately partnered or sexually active in the last year, 20% had unmet need for either spacing or limiting, the greatest unmet need being observed in women aged 15–24 years (28.8%). …”
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Using Micro-Learning to Enhance Knowledge and Skills of Airway Management in Nurse Anesthesia Students: An Interventional Study by Masoumeh Albooghobeish, Alireza Ghalandeh, Ali Khalafi, Mohammad Hosein Haghighizadeh

“…Participants were first assessed with a Pre-test, and then assigned to either the M-L M (n=26) or T M (n=26) groups. Over three weeks, the M-L M group received Micro-Learning-based materials through social media, while the T M group received traditional face-to-face instruction. …”
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Career Development Center Berbasis Social Media Menggunakan Algoritma Gale-Shapley dan Framework Codeigniter by Rifky Syaripudin, Oman Komarudin, Intan Purnamasari

“…This application also makes it easier for students and companies to interact directly, either by sending messages to each other or sending notes to each other. …”
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Stent as a bridge to surgery for malignant colonic obstruction: a retrospective study on survival and outcomes by Thanawin Wong, Tanawat Pattarapuntakul, Nisa Netinatsunton, Jaksin Sottisuporn, Thanapon Yaowmaneerat, Wongsakorn Chaochankit, Siriboon Attasaranya, Pimsiri Sripongpun, Naichaya Chamroonkul, Viraksakdi Chongsuvivatwong

“…Methods A retrospective study was conducted, including patients with potentially curable obstructed colon cancer who were treated with either SBTS or ES at a university hospital in Thailand from 2015 to 2022. …”
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Pyrvinium Pamoate Synergizes with Azoles in vitro and in vivo to Exert Antifungal Efficacy Against Candida auris and Other Candida Species by Zhang J, Li G, Hu J, Tan J, Zhang H, Zhou Y

“…The antifungal efficacy of PP, either alone or in combination with azoles, was tested according to the reference method. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities deprivation among children in Nigeria by Chima Victor, Joseph Ayodeji Kupoluyi, Funmilola Folasade Oyinlola, Victor Ojoajogwu Sule

“…Results This study found that at least one-third of children in Nigeria were deprived of either one or more WASH facilities. Specifically, 32% were deprived of water, 40% were deprived of hygiene facilities and 67% were deprived of sanitation facilities. …”
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Aplikasi Pencari Kerja Sampingan Berbasis Framework Flutter by Desy Intan Permatasari, M. Udin Harun Al Rasyid, Yuliarta Rizki Nusantoko

“…This problem prompted the author to create a side job seeker application that brings side job providers and side job seekers together in one digital platform in order to encourage the creation of economic mutual cooperation in people's lives. …”
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Most diverse, most neglected: weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) are ubiquitous specialized brood-site pollinators of tropical flora by Haran, Julien, Kergoat, Gael J., de Medeiros, Bruno A. S.

“…Another characteristic feature is that flowers often perform thermogenesis and exhibit a range of strategies to separate sexual phases, either spatially or temporally. Conversely, lineages of brood-site weevil pollinators present numerous shared behavioral and physiological traits, and often form multispecific assemblages of closely related species on a single host; recent studies also revealed that they generally display a high degree of phylogenetic niche conservatism. …”
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Comparison of the Efficacy and Tolerability of Dienogest and Dienogest Plus Ethinylestradiol on Endometriosis Related-Pain by Tolga Karacan, Huseyin Kiyak, Eser Ozyurek, Mevlide San, Engin Oral

“…Treatment of endometriosis can be either surgical, aiming to restore normal anatomy by removing endometriotic lesions, or hormonal. …”
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Goats who stare at video screens – assessing behavioural responses of goats towards images of familiar and unfamiliar con- and heterospecifics by Deutsch, Jana, Lebing, Steve, Eggert, Anja, Nawroth, Christian

“…Our findings indicate that goats are capable of discriminating between two-dimensional con- and heterospecific faces, but also raise questions on their ability to categorise other individuals regarding their familiarity using 2D face images alone. Our subjects might either lack this ability or might be unable to spontaneously recognise the provided 2D images as representations of real-life subjects. …”
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Emergency Medicine Clerkship Grading Scheme, Grade, and Rank-List Distribution as Reported on Standardized Letters of Evaluation by Alexandra Mannix, Thomas Beardsley, Thomas Alcorn, Morgan Sweere, Michael Gottlieb

“…We obtained data on SLOEs from EM residency programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education by reviewing all applicants who applied to either of two EM residency programs in geographically different regions. …”
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Differences in catheter-related complications to insertion site selection for long peripheral intravenous catheters in antimicrobial therapy: a randomized controlled trial by Linfang Zhao, Xianghong Jin, Xiangyun Li, Chang Liu, Jie Wang, Xiuzhu Cao, Xufen Zeng, Yiyu Zhuang

“…Methods This randomized controlled trial included 90 participants randomly assigned to either the control or experimental group, with 45 patients in each group. …”
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How far? Travel burdens for children admitted to hospitals in the Western Cape Province of South Africa by M Richards, D le Roux, D Pienaar

“…For many children in the Western Cape, after-hours access to healthcare becomes constrained when primary care clinics close and hospitals are either far away or difficult to get to. The cumulative travel burden of communities across this area is not known. …”
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Immediate Respiratory Warm-Up Effect on Dynamic Inspiratory Muscle Strength in Cardiac Surgery Candidates by Bahareh Mehregan Far, Sedigheh Sadat Naimi, Mohsen Abedi, Seyed Ahmad Raeissadat, Mahmood Beheshti Monfared, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban

“…Forty participants scheduled for heart surgeries were randomly assigned to either the study (RWU between two tests) or control (without RWU) groups. …”
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Non-inferiority study to compare the efficacy of relugolix with dienogest for endometriosis-associated pain and usefulness of administering relugolix prior to dienogest (READY stud... by Fuminori Taniguchi, Motoko Fukui, Yutaka Osuga, Tasuku Harada, Jo Kitawaki

“…A total of 100 premenopausal patients aged ≥ 18 years with endometriosis, a maximum visual analog scale (VAS) score > 30 for endometriosis-associated pain, and dysmenorrhea or pelvic pain of at least moderate severity on the Biberoglu & Behrman (B&B) scale will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either a relugolix group or dienogest group. Patients in the relugolix group will receive 40 mg oral relugolix once daily for 16 weeks, followed by 1 mg oral dienogest twice daily for 24 weeks. …”
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A high offset stem design does not increase stem migration under full weight bearing in cementless total hip arthroplasty: a model-based RSA study by Tobias Reiner, Robert Sonntag, Jan Philippe Kretzer, Michael Clarius, Eike Jakubowitz, Stefan Weiss, Stefan Kinkel, Tilman Walker, Tobias Gotterbarm, Timo Albert Nees

“…Methods In this prospective, observational, single-center study, 42 patients with end-stage hip osteoarthritis underwent cementless primary THA using either a standard (SL-PLUS Standard) or a high-offset (SL-PLUS Lateral) cementless stem. …”
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Beyond the screen: Exploring the dynamics of social media influencers, digital food marketing, and gendered influences on adolescent diets. by Ashley Amson, Mariangela Bagnato, Lauren Remedios, Meghan Pritchard, Soulene Sabir, Grace Gillis, Elise Pauzé, Christine White, Lana Vanderlee, David Hammond, Monique Potvin Kent

“…Health Canada's Nutrient Profile Model was used to classify products as either healthy or less healthy based on their content in sugar, sodium, and saturated fats. …”
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