Protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial evaluating the effects of moderate hypothermia versus normothermia on mortality in patients with refractory cardiogenic shock... by Nicolas Girerd, Audrey Jacquot, Xavier Lepage, Ludovic Merckle, Bruno Levy

“…Exclusion criteria are patients having undergone cardiac surgery for heart transplantation or left or biventricular assist device implantation, acute poisoning with cardiotoxic drugs, pregnancy, uncontrolled bleeding and refractory cardiac arrest.Three-hundred and thirty-four patients will be randomised and followed up to 6 months to detect a 15% difference in mortality. Data analysis will be intention to treat. …”
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Bowel disorders in patients with severe acquired brain injury receiving neurorehabilitation: results from a national survey in Italy by Domenico Intiso, Andrea Montis, Federico Scarponi, Bahia Hakiki, Bahia Hakiki, Anna Cassio, Rossella Lopes, Susanna Lavezzi

“…However, patients with brain damage can also present with different bowel dysfunctions (BDs), frequently observed during rehabilitation stay, such as fecal incontinence, constipation and diarrhea. Limited data has been reported in the literature about the occurrence and management of BDs and no study has yet investigated this issue in patients with severe acquired brain injury (sABI).AimTo investigate basal appraisal regarding BDs issue and therapeutic management in patients with sABI during rehabilitation; interest in examining the issue in depth and improving the knowledge of BDs.DesignCross-sectional.Setting and populationPhysiatrists or neurologists, 99 in total, working in 33 Italian rehabilitation centers involved in the care of sABI giving a pooled sample of 1835 inpatients.MethodOn behalf of the SIMFER a survey questionnaire consisting of 19 close-ended questions with multiple-choice answers and 1 open-ended question was drafted. …”
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Early Digital Engagement Among Younger Children and the Transformation of Parenting in the Digital Age From an mHealth Perspective: Scoping Review by Nafisa Anjum, Md Mehedi Hasan, Nursat Jahan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Allison Garefino, Nazmus Sakib

“…Synthesized data were scrutinized to detect patterns, variances, and reasonable recommendations. …”
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THE PERCENTAGE AND STRUCTURE OF PERODONT TISSUE DISEASES IN PATIENTS OF LVIV REGIONAL STATIONARY CLINICAL HOSPITAL DEPENDING ON AGE by M. М. Shevchuk

“…To study the prevalence and structure of periodontal tissue lesions in patients with general - somatic diseases in order to develop a therapeutic algorithm in a hospital setting. Materials and methods. A common clinical dental examination of 512 patients from different departments of LRCH was carried out. …”
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Description of the first marine-isolated member of the under-represented phylum Gemmatimonadota, and the environmental distribution and ecogenomics of Gaopeijiales ord. nov. by Yu-Qi Ye, Meng-Qi Ye, Xin-Yue Zhang, You-Zhi Huang, Zi-Yang Zhou, Yan-Jun Feng, Zong-Jun Du

“…., Gaopeijiaceae fam. nov. in the class Longimicrobiia. Gaopeijiales was detected in 22,884 out of 95,549 amplicon data sets, mainly from soil. …”
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Novel longitudinal Multiple Overall Toxicity (MOTox) score to quantify adverse events experienced by patients during chemotherapy treatment: a retrospective analysis of the MRC BO0... by Jakob Anninga, Hans Gelderblom, Marta Fiocco, Marta Spreafico, Francesca Ieva, Francesca Arlati, Federico Capello, Federico Fatone, Filippo Fedeli, Gianmarco Genalti

“…Non-haematological toxicity data were collected prospectively and graded according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE).Main outcome measures The MOTox score described the overall toxicity burden in terms of multiple toxic AEs, maximum-severity episode and cycle time-dimension. …”
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Assessing potential desflurane-induced neurotoxicity using nonhuman primate neural stem cell models by Cheng Wang, Leah E. Latham, Shuliang Liu, John Talpos, Tucker A. Patterson, Joseph P. Hanig, Fang Liu

“…Our data suggests that at the clinically relevant concentration, desflurane did not induce NSC damage/death, but impaired the differentiated neuronal cells after prolonged exposure. …”
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Incidence of cancer-associated thromboembolism in Japanese gastric and colorectal cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: a single-institutional retrospective cohort analysis (Sapp... by Naoya Sakamoto, Ayane Oba Aonuma, Michio Nakamura, Kentaro Sakamaki, Taichi Murai, Chika Matsuda, Kazufumi Itaya, Takayuki Sone, Masataka Yagisawa, Yuta Koike, Ayana Endo, Yoko Tsukuda, Yuji Ono, Atsushi Nagasaka, Shuji Nishikawa, Takeharu Yamanaka

“…We investigated the incidence of TE (TEi) and its risk factors among gastric and colorectal cancer (GCC) patients received chemotherapy in a daily practice setting.Design A retrospective cohort study.Setting A single-institutional study that used data from Sapporo City General Hospital, Japan, on patients treated between January 2008 and May 2015.Participants Five hundred Japanese GCC patients who started chemotherapy from January 2008 to May 2015.Primary and secondary outcome measures TE was diagnosed by reviewing all the reports of contrast-enhanced CT performed during the follow-up period. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Perspectives of Long‐Stay Immigrants, Nurses and Cultural Mediators on Intercultural Communication: A Secondary Qualitative Analysis by Francesc Ramos‐Roure, Maria Feijoo‐Cid, Josep Maria Manresa‐Dominguez, Jordi Segura‐Bernal, Rosa García‐Sierra, Maria Isabel Fernández‐Cano, Antonia Arreciado Marañón, Eduard Moreno‐Gabriel, Clara Flamarich Gol, Pere Toran‐Monserrat

“…Design Qualitative secondary analysis of data obtained in two primary studies. Methods Two sets of data from two primary studies on nurses and long‐stay immigrants (including in total two focus groups and 15 in‐depth interviews) were merged. …”
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Aseismic slip and seismogenic coupling in the Marmara Sea: What can we learn from onland geodesy? by E. Klein, Z. Duputel, F. Masson, H. Yavasoglu, P. Agram

“…Using a Bayesian approach, we propose a preliminary probabilistic interseismic model constrained by published GPS data sets. The posterior mean model show that Ganos and Cinarcik segments are locked while creep is detected in the central portion of Marmara fault. …”
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Multiobject Tracking in Videos Based on LSTM and Deep Reinforcement Learning by Ming-xin Jiang, Chao Deng, Zhi-geng Pan, Lan-fang Wang, Xing Sun

“…Firstly, the multiple objects are detected by the object detector YOLO V2. Secondly, the problem of single-object tracking is considered as a Markov decision process (MDP) since this setting provides a formal strategy to model an agent that makes sequence decisions. …”
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Digital augmentation of aftercare for patients with anorexia nervosa: the TRIANGLE RCT and economic evaluation by Janet Treasure, Katie Rowlands, Valentina Cardi, Suman Ambwani, David McDaid, Jodie Lord, Danielle Clark Bryan, Pamela Macdonald, Eva Bonin, Ulrike Schmidt, Jon Arcelus, Amy Harrison, Sabine Landau

“…As there were considerable missing values in outcome variables and non-adherence with ECHOMANTRA predicted later dropout from data collection, multiple imputation (MI) was used to adjust for missing data biases. …”
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Nationwide experience of treatment with protease inhibitors in chronic hepatitis C patients in Denmark: identification of viral resistance mutations. by Christina Sølund, Henrik Krarup, Santseharay Ramirez, Peter Thielsen, Birgit T Røge, Suzanne Lunding, Toke S Barfod, Lone G Madsen, Britta Tarp, Peer B Christensen, Jan Gerstoft, Alex L Laursen, Jens Bukh, Nina Weis, DANHEP group

“…Thus, treatment response and development of viral resistance during triple therapy in a routine clinical setting needs to be determined. The aims of this study were to investigate treatment outcome and identify sequence variations after triple therapy in patients with chronic HCV genotype 1 infection in a routine clinical setting.…”
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A novel computational method identifies intra- and inter-species recombination events in Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae. by Lisa Sanguinetti, Simona Toti, Valerio Reguzzi, Fabio Bagnoli, Claudio Donati

“…Using a filtering procedure of the gene conservation profiles of a test genome against a panel of strains, this algorithm identifies sets of contiguous genes acquired by homologous recombination. …”
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Enhancing EFL Prospective Teachers' Classroom Management Skills Through the implementation of Flipped Classroom by Israa Ramadan

“…Numerous endeavours have been detected to improve new techniques, strategies, and methods for enhancing teachers' classroom management skills, both in the pre-service and in-service settings. …”
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How does CLIL affect the acquisition of reading comprehension in the mother tongue? A comparative study in secondary education by Esther Nieto

“…These data are explained by the critical importance of reading strategies to succeed in CLIL settings, and by the transfer of these strategies between L1 and L2 and vice versa. …”
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Sub-cellular level resolution of common genetic variation in the photoreceptor layer identifies continuum between rare disease and common variation. by Hannah Currant, Tomas W Fitzgerald, Praveen J Patel, Anthony P Khawaja, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium, Andrew R Webster, Omar A Mahroo, Ewan Birney

“…Photoreceptor cells (PRCs) are the light-detecting cells of the retina. Such cells can be non-invasively imaged using optical coherence tomography (OCT) which is used in clinical settings to diagnose and monitor ocular diseases. …”
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Time-varying spectral power of resting-state fMRI networks reveal cross-frequency dependence in dynamic connectivity. by Maziar Yaesoubi, Robyn L Miller, Vince D Calhoun

“…This limits the range of detectable frequency bands in fMRI and consequently there has been no evidence of cross-frequency dependence in fMRI data. …”
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National yearly cost of breast cancer screening in the USA and projected cost of advocated guidelines: a simulation study with life table modelling by Martin Eklund, Kimberly Badal, James Staib, Jeffrey A. Tice, Mi-Ok Kim, Leslie Wilson, Stacey Dacosta Byfield, Kierstin Catlett, Liz Maffey, Rashna Soonavala, Yiwey Shieh, Laura J. Esserman

“…Objective The aim of this study was to estimate the total national direct cost of breast cancer screening from 2019 to 2022 and project the total national cost and average lifetime cost of screening per woman for three current guidelines.Design We estimated the national cost of screening from 2019 to 2022, and per cancer detected in 2022, using real-world data on the number of mammograms performed per year. …”
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Properties of exohiss waves during different level of geomagnetic activity by HaiMeng Li, Xin Zhang, An Yuan, RongXin Tang, ZhiHai Ouyang, BoPu Feng, XiaoHua Deng

“…In our work, using the data sets detected by the EMFISIS suite aboard Van Allen Probe A, from 1st January 2013 to 30th June 2017, the exohiss waves are categorized among two types based on the direction of Poynting flux: unidirectional exohiss, and bidirectional exohiss waves. …”
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