Experience with Renal Autotransplantation: Typical and Atypical Indications by Ali Bourgi, Rana Aoun, Elias Ayoub, Maroun Moukarzel

“…A retrospective case review was done. Four of nine patients had a solitary functioning kidney. Typical indications for autotransplantation included extended ureteric disease in 5 patients, intrasinusal tumor on a solitary kidney in 1 patient, and renal artery aneurysm in 1 patient. …”
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Fosfomycin—Overcoming Problematic In Vitro Susceptibility Testing and Tricky Result Interpretation: Comparison of Three Fosfomycin Susceptibility Testing Methods by Jan Závora, Gabriela Kroneislová, Marie Kroneisl, Václava Adámková

“…It would be beneficial to define more interpretation criteria, at least in some instances.…”
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Therapeutic efficacy of combining pegylated liposomal doxorubicin and radiofrequency (RF) ablation: comparison between slow-drug-releasing, non-thermosensitive and fast-drug-releas... by Alexander V Andriyanov, Erez Koren, Yechezkel Barenholz, S Nahum Goldberg

“…<h4>Results</h4>Non-thermosensitive PLD combined with RF had the least tumor growth and the best end-point survival, better than PLDTS+RF (p<0.005) or all individual therapies (p<0.001). …”
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An exploration of the use of 3D printed foot models and simulated foot lesions to supplement scalpel skill training in undergraduate podiatry students: A multiple method study. by Helen A Banwell, Ryan S Causby, Alyson J Crozier, Brendan Nettle, Carolyn Murray

“…In comparison to standard teaching methods, the use of 3D printed foot models had similar decreases in anxiety and increases in confidence measures. …”
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Kořeny teorie spravedlivé války: od Platóna ke Grotiovi by Jiří Hutečka

“… The so-called “just war theory” is one of the few instances in the history of human endeavors when organized violence (i.e. war) directly meets philosophy. …”
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Analysis of off-label drug use and its influencing factors in pediatric patients undergoing otolaryngology, head, and neck surgery by Zichao Ji, Xin Wang, Jiawei Wang

“…Limonene and Pinene enteric capsules had the highest frequency of off-label use, with 1,523 records, representing 64.56% of all off-label uses. …”
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Sentences, entities, and keyphrases extraction from consumer health forums using multi-task learning by Tsaqif Naufal, Rahmad Mahendra, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono

“…Conclusion We extended an Indonesian dataset for SR, MER, and KE tasks, resulted in 1, 173 labeled data points which splitted into 773 training instances, 200 validation instances, and 200 testing instances. …”
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Analysis of the implementation value of abdominal B-ultrasound combined with cervical cerclage in the prevention and treatment of late recurrent spontaneous abortion by Lili Shi, Lei Dong, Yuanying Cui, Dan Bu, Bo Hu

“…Methods From October 2020 to December 2023, 196 pregnant patients who had a history of late abortions at our institution were chosen. …”
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Can Na18F PET/CT Be Used to Study Bone Remodeling in the Tibia When Patients Are Being Treated with a Taylor Spatial Frame? by Henrik Lundblad, Gerald Q. Maguire, Henrik Olivecrona, Cathrine Jonsson, Hans Jacobsson, Marilyn E. Noz, Michael P. Zeleznik, Lars Weidenhielm, Anders Sundin

“…Monitoring and quantifying bone remodeling are of interest, for example, in correction osteotomies, delayed fracture healing pseudarthrosis, bone lengthening, and other instances. Seven patients who had operations to attach an Ilizarov-derived Taylor Spatial Frame to the tibia gave informed consent. …”
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Fitness and Morphology Support Genetic Differentiation Across Different Geographic Scales in a Native Insect Utilising Native vs. Invasive Host Plants by Johannes J. Le Roux, Levi Brown, Scott P. Carroll, Jessica A. O'Hare, Jess M. Herbert, Niah M. Delamotte, Nicholas Bersee, Sigrid Iredell, Rowan M. Clarke, Selina Kosak, Rachael Y. Dudaniec, Dylan M. Geraghty

“…Conversely, insects from NSW and Qld had low genetic differentiation, irrespective of their host plant associations (FST = 0.008). …”
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Assessing Differences in Groundwater Hydrology Dynamics Between In Situ Measurements and GRACE-Derived Estimates via Machine Learning: A Test Case of Consequences for Agroecologica... by Lucas J. Heintzman, Zahra Ghaffari, Abdel R. Awawdeh, Damien E. Barrett, Lance D. Yarbrough, Greg Easson, Matthew T. Moore, Martin A. Locke, Hakan I. Yasarer

“…Groundwater levels between OUQ:PUQ and OLQ:PLQ each had correlations > 0.85. Regarding land cover, most categories varied within ±2.50% between model estimates over time. …”
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Effect of Hyaluronic Acid Compared to Platelet-Rich Plasma as Adjuvants to Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cell Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis: Analysis from Two Clinical Trials by José María Lamo-Espinosa, Álvaro Suárez-López del Amo, Jorge María Núñez-Córdoba, Juan F. Blanco, Mikel Sánchez, Victoria Moreno, Marta Cabrera, Froilán Granero-Moltó, Emma Muiños, Manuel M. Mazo, Íñigo Crespo-Cullell, Gonzalo Mora, Diego Delgado, Orlando Pompei-Fernández, Jesús Dámaso Aquerreta, María Vitoria Sola, Andrés Valentí-Azcárate, Enrique J. Andreu, Miriam López-Parra, Eva M. Villarón, Juan Ramón Valentí-Nin, Fermín Sánchez-Guijo, Felipe Prósper

“…<b>Results</b>: Of the 34 patients included in the study, 24 had received 100 × 10⁶ BM-MSCs plus PRP and 10 had received 100 × 10⁶ BM-MSCs plus HA. …”
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Measuring patient satisfaction with mental health services in correctional settings: a systematic scoping review by Roland M. Jones, Roland M. Jones, Niroshini Mather, M. Umer Waqar, Madleina Manetsch, Chloe Taylor, Vito Adamo, Marco Kilada, Cory Gerritsen, Cory Gerritsen, Alexander I. F. Simpson, Alexander I. F. Simpson

“…Most of the tools used had been developed in non-correctional settings and applied in correctional settings without adaptation. …”
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Understanding the effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of lifestyle modification interventions in adults with learning disabilities: a mixed-methods systematic review by Dikshyanta Rana, Sophie Westrop, Nishant Jaiswal, Evi Germeni, Arlene McGarty, Louisa Ells, Phillippa Lally, Michael McEwan, Craig Melville, Leanne Harris, Olivia Wu

“…However, the interventions had a varying level of statistical significance. …”
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A Comprehensive Analysis of the Radiographic Characteristics and Bilateral Symmetry of the Mental Foramen by Radhwan Algabri, Faisal Abulohoom, Abdelrahman Fadag, Hesham Al‐Sharani, Sami Al‐Aqab, Nassr Al‐Hutbany, Emad Alryashi, Ahmed Keshk, Ahmed Yaseen Alqutaibi

“…The vertical position of the MF was predominantly below the apices of the lower premolars (66.2%). The majority of MFs had a round shape (46.3%). In 72% and 75.6% of cases, there was a continuous and descending relationship between the MF and the mandibular canal, respectively. …”
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An Assessment of Vegetation Changes in the Three-River Headwaters Region, China: Integrating NDVI and Its Spatial Heterogeneity by Xuejie Mou, Huixia Chai, Cheng Duan, Yao Feng, Xiahui Wang

“…In comparison with steppe regions, meadows showed a greater proportion of improved conditions and medium degradation, whereas steppes had more instances of regrowth and slight degradation. …”
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Composite dietary antioxidant index mediates the effect of epilepsy on psychiatric disorders: results from NHANES 2013–2018 by Xingyan He, Xingyan He, Zhiling Li, Haotian Wu, Haotian Wu, Lifen Wang, Yuxin Zhang

“…A mediation analysis was employed to ascertain whether CDAI acted as a mediator in the relationship between epilepsy and mental disorders.ResultsPatients with epilepsy had a significantly lower CDAI (p &lt; 0.001) and a significantly higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders (p = 0.02) compared with non-epileptic patients. …”
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Mapping climate change induced forest fire susceptibility using tree-based machine learning algorithms in Bangladesh by Mafrid Haydar, Al Hossain Rafi, Md.Kamran Hasan Khan, Sakib Hosan, Halima Sadia

“…AdaBoost had the highest predictive accuracy (AUC: 0.82), classifying 4.31% of the study area as very susceptible, 66.74% as moderately susceptible, and 28.94% as having low Susceptibility. …”
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Misdiagnosis and analysis of clinical characteristics in patients with giant cystic pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma by Yue Zhang, Bo Zhou

“…The giant cystic group had greater mass effects than did the non-cystic group (P < 0.05). …”
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Clinical features, risk factors, and outcomes of neonatal invasive candidiasis: a 20-case study series from a tertiary neonatal critical care unit in Oman by Basem Abdelhadi, Mujtaba Al Ajmi, Hilal Al Hashami, Manal Al Rawahi

“…Sixty-five percent of the instances happened in the second and third week of life. …”
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