Taurolidine lock solutions for the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. by Yong Liu, An-Qiang Zhang, Lin Cao, Hong-Tao Xia, Jun-Jie Ma

“…However, the susceptibility of G+ and G- bacteria to taurolidine and the risk for catheter-associated thrombosis of TLS are indeterminate due to limited data. The results should be treated with caution due to the limited sample sizes and methodological deficiencies of included studies. …”
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Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on odontogenic infections in maxillofacial surgery by Florian Dudde, Oliver Schuck, Sven Duda, Manfred Giese

“…Abstract Background This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the distribution, characteristics, and treatment of odontogenic infections (OI) in a cranio-maxillofacial hospital, comparing data from pre-covid (PC) and intra-covid (IC) periods. …”
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A population survey of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) 563C>T (Mediterranean) mutation in Afghanistan. by Natsuda Jamornthanyawat, Ghulam R Awab, Naowarat Tanomsing, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, Fazel Yamin, Arjen M Dondorp, Nicholas P J Day, Nicholas J White, Charles J Woodrow, Mallika Imwong

“…Overall, the data confirm that the Mediterranean variant of G6PD is common in many ethnic groups in Afghanistan, indicating that screening for G6PD deficiency is required in all individuals before radical treatment of P. vivax with primaquine.…”
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Notas sistemáticas sobre abejas Meliponini del Chaco (Hymenoptera, Apidae) Systematic notes on Meliponini bees of the Chaco Region (Hymenoptera, Apidae) by Arturo Roig Alsina

“…Descriptions, illustrations and distributional data are presented for each species.…”
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An Updated Guide to Study Polyandry in Social Insects by Rodolfo Jaffé

“…Finally I discuss in which cases paternity should be treated as a continuous or a categorical variable, and provide an insight into the distribution of paternity across the social Hymenoptera. …”
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Lipid vesicle shape analysis from populations using light video microscopy and computer vision. by Jernej Zupanc, Barbara Drašler, Sabina Boljte, Veronika Kralj-Iglič, Aleš Iglič, Deniz Erdogmus, Damjana Drobne

“…For each sample, image analysis was employed to extract data on vesicle quantity and size distributions of their projected diameters and isoperimetric quotients (measure of contour roundness). …”
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Aneurysmal degeneration after drug-eluting stent implantation in lower limb arteries: A systematic review and case reports by Angela Luongo, Nicola Cantile, Davide Turchino, Abdul Karim Markabaoui, Raffaele Serra, Umberto Marcello Bracale

“…However, recent observational data have raised concerns about delayed complications, particularly aneurysmal degeneration of the treated arterial segments. …”
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Impact of Interacting Parameters on Dark Matter in an Interacting Dark Energy Model by Himanshu Chaudhary, Ritika Nagpal, S. K. J. Pacif, G. Mustafa

“…In our analysis, we treat r _d as a free parameter, allowing late-time data sets to constrain each model’s parameters, including H _0 , r _d , and ${ \mathcal M }$ . …”
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Factors associated with malaria among 3 to 59 months old children in Boromo and Gaoua Health Districts, Burkina, 2020 by Pauline Kiswendsida Yanogo, Chantal Yanogo, Halidou Tinto

“…In order to make available baseline data for the study on the efficacy of supervised 3 doses SMC distribution, this study was intended to identify malaria-associated factors in children from 0 to 59 months old in the two health districts. …”
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Inflammatory markers predict efficacy of immunotherapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a preliminary exploratory study by Yingqing Zhang, Na Yan, Yan Feng, Yonglei Wu, Yuejiao Sun, Xixi Gao, Chao Gu, Xiaolong Ma, Feng Gao, Hui Zhang, Jiaqi Zhou

“…Abstract Objective The purpose of this study is to analyze the predictive value of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte count to monocyte count ratio (LMR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), platelet count multiplied by neutrophil count to lymphocyte count ratio (SII), red blood cell distribution width (RDW), packed cell volume (PCV), and plateletcrit (PCT) levels in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors. …”
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Research on the expression of E-cadherin in lung cancer tumors with different histological structures by E. N. Kolesnikov, O. N. Stateshny, D. A. Kharagezov, E. A. Mirzoyan, T. G. Ayrapetova, A. G. Milakin, K. D. Iozefi

“…The studied data have been checked for compliance with the normal distribution using the Shapiro-Wilk criterion.Results. …”
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Prevalence of intestinal parasites and associated factors among patients with HIV/AIDS at the anti-retroviral treatment clinic of Mizan-Tepi University Teaching Hospital, Southwest... by Mengistu Abayneh, Yosef Habtemariam, Tadesse Duguma, Mitiku Abera

“…Specifically, 31.5% (45/143) of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and 45.8% (22/48) of ART-naïve patients were infected. The distribution of intestinal parasites was as follows: protozoa were found in 14.7% of ART-treated patients and 22.9% of ART-naïve patients; helminths in 15.4% of ART-treated patients and 16.7% of ART-naïve patients; and opportunistic parasites in 1.4% of ART-treated patients and 6.25% of ART-naïve patients. …”
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To the nature of 0+ excitations in deformed nuclei of actinides by A. I. Levon, P. Alexa, S. Pascu, . G. Thirolf

“…Experimental data are compared with interacting boson model (IBM) and quasiparticle-phonon model (QPM) calculations.…”
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On the true nature of ÇOKTAN in Turkish by Emrah GÖRGÜLÜ

“…Turkish has the temporal adverb çoktan ‘long time ago’ that has been treated as a positive polarity item (PPI) in recent studies. …”
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Study on Jeffery–Hamel nano-fluid flow with uncertain volume fraction using semi-analytical approach by Akeel A. Al-Saedi, Lalchand Verma, Ramakanta Meher, Omid Nikan

“…An extension of the classical Jeffery–Hamel flow problem is investigated by incorporating the effects of nanoparticle volume fraction and various parameters on the velocity distribution. The volume fraction of nanoparticles is treated as an uncertain parameter, modeled as a triangular fuzzy number (TFN) ranging between 0.0% and 0.2%. …”
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Revealing the Tectonic-Driven Nature From the InSAR Surface Deformation Background Signals in Xiamen–Kinmen Coasts, China by Fengling Yu, Zhaoquan Huang

“…Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique provides high-resolution land deformation data and becomes popular in studying multifactor-driven coastal geomorphological changes. …”
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Prevalence and molecular epidemiology of carbapenem resistance in Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Nishadi Jayathilaka, Sashini Shehana, Dilini Nakkawita, Thamarasi Senaratne

“…Abstract Background Carbapenems are a group of last-resort antibiotics used to treat serious life-threatening infections. The emergence of resistance to carbapenems is a major public health threat. …”
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The informative value of proadrenomedullin in patients with severe COVID-19 by D. A. Malinina, I. V. Shlyk, Yu. S. Polushin, A. A. Аfanasiev, O. V. Stanevich, E. A. Bakin

“…The retrospective study included 37 patients (n = 37) diagnosed with severe viral pneumonia (SARS-CoV2) who were treated in the intensive care unit of Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University. …”
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PO37 | Single centre experience on anticoagulation in carriers of non-mild inherited thrombophilia: direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) efficacy and safety

“… Background and Aims: DOAC appear to be a suitable treatment option in patients with inherited thrombophilia (IT), in spite of a few large-scale data on their efficacy in this setting. Rate of venous thromboembolism (VTE) recurrence and bleeding seems to be similar in IT carriers treated with VKA or with DOAC. …”
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Comparative efficacy and predictive value of fixed combination of amlodipine and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin II receptor blocker in patients with coronar... by M. M. Dolzhenko, S. A. Bondarchuk

“…Descriptive data were presented as arithmetic mean ± standard deviation (M ± SD) in the case of normal distribution of variables, data with distribution other than normal were presented in Me format (Q25; Q75), where Me was the median, Q25, Q75 – lower and upper quartiles (Q25; Q75), or as a percentage for categorical values with Pearson’s Chi-square (χ2) calculation. …”
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