Clinical evaluation of 3D PEEK implants for skull bone defects repair: a single center case serious by Mohamed Ahmed Elnaggar, Hossam Abdelhakim Elnoamany, Mohamed K. Eissa

“…The mean time to cranioplasty was 6 ± 2 months, and the average operative time was 143 ± 34 min. …”
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An exploratory analysis of differences in serum protein expression by sex in patients with systemic sclerosis associated interstitial lung disease by Giuliana Cerro-Chiang, Matthew Ayres, Alejandro Rivas, Sarah J. Parker, Mitra Mastali, Peter Chen, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Paul J. Wolters, Francesco Boin, Tanzira Zaman

“…Results The cohort consisted of 211 subjects, 162 women and 47 men with a median follow-up of 3.52 years. No significant sex differences were found in the time to FVC decline of > 5% or > 10%. …”
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Ecuadorian University Students’ Perception and Attitude Regarding Vaccination against COVID-19 by Lexter Mihalache, Jhonatan Miguel Siguencia Muñoz, Álvaro Paúl Moina Veloz

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> misinformation and fears regarding the effectiveness of vaccines are determining factors for a negative position regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Timely information, personalized to the sociocultural level of the populations, turned out to be an effective strategy in changing opinions regarding vaccination.…”
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Police crime in 1947 in the coverage of the Ukrainian SSR state security agencies by O. N. Yarmysh, V. A. Grechenko

“…This problem was acute at that time, because only 2 years had passed since the end of the war, and the state security authorities continued to work on identifying and detaining these persons, who were also among the police officers. …”
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Discernment and biblical spirituality: an overview and evaluation of recent research by Kees Waaijman

“…It also points out how recent publications emphasised for the first time the importance of communal discernment and thus overcame the untenable dualism between personal and communal discernment. …”
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Web-Based Healthcare Delivery Integrated System to Forecast COVID-19 Hospitalizations in a Marginalized Patient Population: A Case Study in Broome County, New York by Anemone Kasasbeh, Elie Issa, Naseem Khan, Mehmet Yildirim, Amy Booth, Hiroki Sayama

“…The population in Broom County is considered marginalized due to the high poverty rate and the high percentage of persons 65 years old and above. The developed system allows the medical team to plan to ensure better bed management, less cancelation in elective surgeries, and fewer patients held in the emergency department, hence, better healthcare outcomes in the county. …”
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Brain Tumor Detection and Classification Using IFF-FLICM Segmentation and Optimized ELM Model by Suvashisa Dash, Mohammed Siddique, Satyasis Mishra, Demissie J. Gelmecha, Sunita Satapathy, Davinder Singh Rathee, Ram Sewak Singh

“…So, automatic detection and classification are essential to reduce the time of diagnosis. In recent years, machine learning classifiers have played an essential role in automatically classifying brain tumors. …”
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Exploring the Psychological and Physiological Insights Through Digital Phenotyping by Analyzing the Discrepancies Between Subjective Insomnia Severity and Activity-Based Objective... by Ji Won Yeom, Hyungju Kim, Seung Pil Pack, Heon-Jeong Lee, Taesu Cheong, Chul-Hyun Cho

“…ResultsResults indicated no significant differences in general sleep structure (eg, total sleep time, rapid eye movement sleep time, and light sleep time) among the insomnia groups (mild, moderate, and severe) as classified by ISI scores (all P>.05). …”
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EVERYDAY PRACTICES AND DECLARATIVE: CONTRADICTORY RELATIONSHIP OF YOUNG PEOPLE TO ALCOHOL by T. V. Smirnova, V. V. Maslyakov, R. G. Smirnov

“…On the one hand, the respondents indicate a pronounced negative attitude to both alcohol consumption and consumers. At the same time, modern statistical data and a milder attitude of the respondents to personal alcohol consumption specify the superficiality of the negatively declared perception.…”
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Quality of Life as Medicine: A Pilot Studyof Patients with Chronic Illness and Pain by Soren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick, JØrgen Anderson

“…Consequently, the patients became more present in the body’s blocked-off areas and subjectively healthier. Nineteen persons with chronic illness and pain (fibromyalgia, chronic tiredness, whiplash, mild depression, and problems involving pain in arms and legs including osteoarthritis), and unemployed for 5–7 years attended the course. …”
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Estimating mortality attributable to alcohol or tobacco – a cohort study from Germany by Ulrich John, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Monika Hanke, Christian Meyer

“…Aim To analyze whether residents who had disclosed risky alcohol drinking or daily tobacco smoking had a shorter time to death than non-risky drinkers and never daily smokers twenty years later according to the disorder combinations. …”
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Unexpected encounters: The surprising link between ovarian cancer and axillary lymphadenopathy by Marina Balbino, Federica Masino, Manuela Montatore, Francesca Anna Carpagnano, Giuseppe Guglielmi

“…We present the case of a 46-year-old patient without notable personal or family history of tumors, who initially presented with bilateral axillary lymphadenopathy. …”
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Nauczyciel wczesnej edukacji z krótkim stażem w zawodzie – praca w stanie wyjątkowym by Małgorzata Żytko

“… This article addresses the issue of prestige and social recognition in the teaching profession with up to years of short seniority. The challenge that teachers face on a daily basis is to function in a context of high social expectations and demands, while at the same time, the social prestige of the profession is declining and its value is being depreciated. …”
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Translation and Initial Validation of the Chinese (Cantonese) Version of Cognitive Flexibility Inventory Using People with Mental Illness by Sui Lung Wong, Tai Wa Liu, Chi Chiu Lee, Pui Wong

“…All of them were aged 18 years or older, with a mean age of 39.43 (SD=11.04), and 75.96% was employed either full time or part time. …”
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Théories géologiques et représentations du paysage dans la première moitié du xixe siècle by Alexis Drahos

“…From the final years of the eighteenth century, Geology enjoys a rapid development whose consequences won’t take long to react on the landscape painting of the time. …”
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Factors associated with delayed referrals of patients with sepsis from primary to tertiary healthcare in Blantyre, Malawi: a qualitative study by Sylvester Kaimba, Eric Umar

“…Globally, sepsis is common, with an estimated 31.5 million cases per year. Sepsis accounts for a significant in-hospital mortality rate of 17% in high-income countries, while in Malawi, it ranges from 17 to 50%. …”
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How Russian Doctoral Education Fulfills Its Main Mission: Scientometric Assessments (Article 2) by B. I. Bednyi, A. A. Mironos, N. V. Rybakov

“…In the sample as a whole, the share of persons who defended their dissertations was 45% of the total number of graduates, which is 1.7 times higher than the share of graduates who defended their dissertations in the course of their studies at the doctoral school. …”
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The passport database of VIR’s bean collection as a tool for systemizing bean genetic diversity, studying the collection’s history, and monitoring the crop’s worldwide breeding (an... by T. V. Buravtseva, G. P. Egorova, M. A. Vishnyakova

“…In the 1990s, the DBs thus developed were transferred to personal computers. Today, such data are formatted as a computerized passport database, unified in accordance with modern international standards and consisting of 35 fields. …”
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Sol LeWitt. The Conceptuality of Drawing by Paolo Belardi

“…In the first fax, dated March 22, 1995, LeWitt (at the time residing for long periods in Spoleto) tells his friend Bruno Corà (then professor of Art History in the Academy) about the delivery of the maquette of a work created specifically for Perugia [1]: an ‘open cube’ (the solid form most loved by LeWitt [2]) which, as an element of the exhibition project City and Art, aimed at injecting viral works into extra moenia urban areas of symbolic interest, was to be exhibited in the portico of the large public building built in those same years by Aldo Rossi and located on the western side of the Piazza Nuova in Fontivegge [3]. …”
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Factors affecting patient satisfaction during endoscopic procedures by Maryam Ghazala, E-Hinna Rashk, Sardar Saman, Khan Jahangir, Isram Javaria, Hassan Fayyaz

“…The average age of the participants was 42.34 years. The study found that the most significant factors affecting patient satisfaction were waiting time to get an appointment (15.5 %), waiting time on the day of the procedure (17.0 %) and pain or discomfort during and after the procedure (15.6 %). …”
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