Bridging Gaps in Surgical Care: Facial Trauma Management Through the Surgeons in Humanitarian Alliance for Reconstruction, Research, and Education Initiative by Henok Tilahun, MD, FCS-ECSA, Matteo Laspro, BA, Bashar A. Hassan, MD, Joyce K. McIntyre, MD, Amanda A. Gosman, MD, Donald Lalonde, MD, Andrea L. Pusic, MD

“…The patient sustained a right forehead degloving injury in a motor vehicle collision, exposing a 3 × 5 cm segment of the frontal bone. Initial debridement resulted in a large soft-tissue defect, and the local surgical team faced challenges in selecting an optimal reconstructive approach due to limited experience and resources. …”
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Time to Insulin Therapy and Severe Hypoglycemia in Korean Adults Initially Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes: A Nationwide Study by You-Bin Lee, Kyungdo Han, Bongsung Kim, So Hee Park, Kyu Yeon Hur, Gyuri Kim, Jae Hyeon Kim, Sang-Man Jin

“…Methods Using data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service (2002 to 2018), we selected adult incident insulin users (initially diagnosed as T2D) who underwent health examinations between 2009 and 2012. …”
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Initial experience in the use of technetium-99 metastable hydroxymethylene diphosphonate as an alternative ventilation agent during periods of interim shortage by Colin Young, Kalpna Prasad

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The epidemiology of malaria in four districts in southern Mozambique receiving indoor residual spray as part of a cross-border initiative by Rajendra Maharaj, Nada Abdelatif, Mara Maquina, Ishen Seocharan, Vishan Lakan, Krijn Paaijmans, Francois Maartens, Pedro Aide, Francisco Sauté

“…Spray data was obtained from LSDI2 initiative who implemented IRS in the targeted districts. …”
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Investigator-initiated versus industry-sponsored trials – visibility and relevance of randomized controlled trials in clinical practice guidelines (IMPACT) by Manuel Hecht, Anette Blümle, Harald Binder, Martin Schumacher, Nadine Binder

“…Then, ISTs were randomly selected while ensuring balance across certain trial characteristics. …”
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Deformable cylinder extraction from LiDAR point cloud using candidate selection by Meng Du, Di Cao, Cheng Wang, Sheng Nie, Jingru Wang

“…Second, cylinder extraction is conducted to obtain the initial cylinder segments. Then, candidate selection is applied to evolve the initial cylinder segments, extending the skeletons and generating cross-sectional circles to form the initial deformable cylinders. …”
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Transfer learning based feature selection for feedforward neural network for speech emotion classifier by D. V. Krasnoproshin, M. I. Vashkevich

“…This work discusses speech emotion recognition via custom feature engineering and feature selection techniques using mel-frequency cepstral coefficients as initial audio features. …”
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Selective tuberculosis incidence estimation by digital computer information technologies in the MS Excel system by G. I. Ilnitsky

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Sharp‐tailed Grouse in the Nebraska Sandhills Select Residual Cover Patches for Nest Sites by William L. Vodehnal, Gregory L. Schenbeck, Daniel W. Uresk

“…ABSTRACT We evaluated selection and availability of residual cover (dead standing herbage) by sharp‐tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) at time of nest‐site selection in an intact and annually grazed grassland. …”
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Peanut challenges prior to oral immunotherapy demonstrate high tolerance rates in selected patients by Candice N. Gard, MD, Georgiana M. Sanders, MD, MS, Ian F. Slack, MD, Charles F. Schuler, IV, MD, George E. Freigeh, MD, MA, Kelly M. O’Shea, MD

“…Conclusions: Nearly 70% of low-risk patients younger than 4 years with previous diagnosis of peanut allergy tolerated a full peanut serving when initiating pOIT. This indicates the importance of diagnostic peanut challenge to selected patients before initiating OIT.…”
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Preliminary Numerical Estimation of Selected Terminal Ballistic Effects Produced by Explosion of Mortar Projectile by Bartosz FIKUS

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Selected Topics on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research: Editorial Introduction to the Issue 14 of CSIMQ by Björn Johansson, Charles Møller

“…The initial versions of these papers were presented and discussed at the 16th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research and its associated events on August 28–30, 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark.…”
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Selected Topics on Research Challenges in Information Science: Editorial Introduction to Issue 17 of CSIMQ by Benedicte Le Grand, Rebecca Deneckère

“…This thematic issue of the Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly journal is dedicated to Information Science. It is a selection of the extended best papers presented at the 12th edition of the International IEEE Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS’2018). …”
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Analysis on the selection of brake shoe and wheel for an engineering train from the perspective of braking safety by LEI Yanan, HUANG Zhihui, HU Feifei, ZHU Shichang, ZHANG Bingqi, MA Chao

“…For an engineering train with maximum running speed up to 160 km/h and axle load of 21 t, the brake shoe type, single and double side braking type and wheel diameter were confirmed by analysis in four aspects of braking distance limit, wheel-rail adhesion limit, wheel temperature limit and wheel strength requirement, and the strength of the wheels with the maximum wear was checked under the combined action of thermal load and mechanical load in two braking conditions under the proposed selection scheme. According to the results, for the engineering train with an initial speed at braking application of 160 km/h and 915 mm wheel diameter, the wheel configuration of the M-type powder metallurgy brake shoe and wheel clasp braking can not only meet the requirements of emergency braking distance and no sliding, but also maintain the maximum temperature of wheel tread less than the temperature limit required for service, and exert the maximum stress of the wheels with the maximum wear under the two braking conditions meeting the strength requirements.…”
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Study of the Influence of Selected Carrageenan Fractions on the Physical Properties and Crystal Structure of Mango Sorbet by Anna Kamińska-Dwórznicka, Ewa Gondek, Ewa Jakubczyk

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Identifying and evaluating the key impact factors of selecting formwork in high-rise building construction by Vu Hong Son Pham, Thuy Dung Dau, Le Anh Tran

“…The research emphasizes the paramount impact of the initial investment cost on formwork selection and designates plastic formwork as the optimal solution based on expert evaluations. …”
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Approaches to expand the conventional toolbox for discovery and selection of antibodies with drug-like physicochemical properties by Hristo L. Svilenov, Paolo Arosio, Tim Menzen, Peter Tessier, Pietro Sormanni

“…Here, we summarize a selection of techniques that can complement the conventional toolbox used to de-risk antibody drug development. …”
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Research on site selection and capacity determination problem based on improved particle swarm algorithm by Xiaotong Mi, Qinyang Liu, Bo Geng, Yong Zhu

“…The optimal solution of the improved PSO algorithm is combined with the initial value of the ant colony algorithm and deployed in the IEEE33 node system for site selection. …”
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Multicriteria assessment of selection quality of personnel on safety management for work at the enterprises of JSC RZD by V. M. Ponomarev, I. A. Kosarev

“…In article the multicriteria method of an assessment of selection quality of personnel on safety management for work at the enterprises of JSC RZD is offered which based on the principle of selection by a complex of individual criteria. …”
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An Integrated Node Selection Model Using FAHP and FTOPSIS for Data Retrieval in Ubiquitous Computing by Belal Z. Hassan, Ahmed. A. A. Gad-Elrab, Mohamed S. Farag, Shaban E. Abo Youssef

“…The proposed model is based on four stages. In the initial stage, the identification of evaluation criteria is performed due to the varying importance of the selected criteria. …”
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