Preoperative Ankle Swelling and the Effect On Postoperative Wound Complications Following Ankle Fracture Surgery by Anthony M. Silva MBBS, MSc, FRACS(Orth), FAOrthA, Helena Franco MD, MMSc, MSurg, Tom P. Walsh BPod MHSc(Pod), PhD, Albert Hohuynh MBBS, Simon Platt MB, ChB, FRCS, FRCS(Tr&Orth)

“…These findings suggest that in carefully selected cases, delaying surgery beyond initial clinical readiness for reasons of residual swelling may not be necessary. …”
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The impact of different angiotensin II receptor blockers on the stiffness of the large arteries and effectiveness of therapy by O. L. Rekovets, Yu. M. Sirenko, O. O. Torbas

“…The study included 126 patients (57 men, 69 women) with hypertension, who were selected to compare the effect of ARB drug therapy on the arterial stiffness by CAVI: olmesartan, azilsartan and telmisartan for 12 months. …”
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Effect of polishing methods on Candida albicans adhesion and contributing factors in heat-cured acrylic dentures: an in-vitro comparative study by Shahrukh Ali Khan, Zulfiqar Ali Mirani, Taimur Khalid, Engr Muhammad Wasiq Ali Khan, Ziaullah Choudhary, Syed Murtaza Raza Kazmi

“…Mann-Whitney U test compared surface roughness, water sorption, free surface energy, and initial adherence between MP and CP groups. Linear regression analysis examined the influence of these factors on Candida albicans adherence. …”
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Influencing Factors and Implementation Pathways of Adherence Behavior in Intelligent Personalized Exercise Prescription: Qualitative Study by Xuejie Xu, Guoli Zhang, Yuxin Xia, Hui Xie, Zenghui Ding, Hongyu Wang, Zuchang Ma, Ting Sun

“…It also explores how these factors affect the initiation and maintenance of adherence behavior. …”
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Ten Years of the Global Reform of Financial Regulation: What is ahead? by L. S. Khudyakova

“…In the article results of the postcrisis global financial reform are analysed in contingent with review of the evolution of institutional mechanism, which specifics often determined success or its absence in particular directions of the reform. The author selects and reviews three main periods of development of the global financial regulation’s institutional mechanism. …”
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Multizonal outer retinopathy and retinal pigment epitheliopathy (MORR) with a chronologically divergent presentation- a case report by Blerta Lang, Karl Boden, Boris V. Stanzel, Ulrich Prothmann, Peter Szurman

“…Methods A case of a 52-year-old female patient with initially unilateral, inactive posterior uveitis was retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Effects of phytic acid and etidronic acid using continuous and sequential chelation on the removal of smear layer, dentin microhardness, and push-out bond strength of calcium silic... by Ecehan Hazar, Ahmet Hazar

“…Methods One hundred twenty single-rooted teeth were selected. Thirty teeth were split longitudinally, and initial microhardness was measured. …”
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Mathematical model of a lightweight three-axle off-road vehicle construction for Arctic zone of Russia by I. E. Agureev, V. N. Bondarenko

“…The mathematical model is a system of ordinary differential equations and is supplemented with the necessary algebraic equations, as well as initial conditions. The system is integrated using the 4th order RungeKutta method, for which a program was written in C++. …”
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Structural and Mechanical Characteristics of Fermented Whipped Dairy Products by Podlegaeva T., Kostina N.

“…The following enzymes were selected for enzymatic hydrolysis: animal origin – rennet-beef enzyme SG-50 (Russia), chicken-beef enzyme KG-50 (Russia), pepsin (Russia); microbial nature – Fromase 750 (France), Pronase E (Russia); recombinant chymosin-preparation CHY-MAX M (Denmark). …”
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Water-Salt Migration and Deformation Characteristics of Saline Soil under Different Replenishment Conditions by YANG Bao-cun, JIANG Jian-bing, YANG Xiao-song, LI Bo-yi

“…The soil deformation characteristics exhibited initial salt-induced swelling followed by settlement, with the maximum salt-induced swelling deformation of 0.21 mm occurring at a 5% solution concentration. …”
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Research on therapeutic clinical trials including immunotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer: a bibliometric analysis by Qi Xu, Xiaoyu Feng, Siyuan Qin, Yu Hong, Rui Cui, Jia Liang, Zhuya Xiao, Yuan Li

“…After an initial screening, we downloaded key data including titles, publication years, authors, countries, institutional affiliations, journals, keywords, and abstracts, and saved them in BibTex format. …”
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A Systematic Review on Clinicopathological Evaluation of Neutrophil-Percentage-To-Albumin-Ratio (NPAR): An Emerging Biomarker for Hepato-Pathology and Hepato-Oncology by Abdul Rehman Khalil Shaikh, Abdul Mannan Jehangir, Anum Usman, Durga Devi, Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Mazhar

“…Following full-text review, 12 studies were selected for final analysis. Participant samples ranged from 100 to 3000 individuals. …”
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The Impact of Investors' Emotional Decision Patterns on Firm Performance by Seyed Abbas Hashemi, Alireza Rahrovi Dastjerdi, Mohammad Heydarian

“…This study, to the best of our knowledge, is among the initial research in Iran's financial field to utilize loss aversion and overconfidence as indicators of negative and positive emotions, respectively.Methods: Based on these objectives, two hypotheses were developed in this study. …”
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Effect of discontinuing antipsychotic medications on the risk of hospitalization in long-term care: a machine learning-based analysis by Mikko Nuutinen, Riikka-Leena Leskelä, Daniela Fialova, Ira Haavisto, Harriet Finne-Soveri, Jokke Häsä, Johanna Edgren, Hein van Hout, Daniel E. da Cunha Leme, John P. Hirdes, Graziano Onder, Rosa Liperoti

“…Data sources were the Resident Assessment Instrument for Long-Term Care (RAI-LTC) based comprehensive geriatric assessments and the Finnish Care Register for Health Care. For the initial cohort, 5467 users of antipsychotic medications with at least four assessments, each conducted 6 months apart, were selected. …”
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Evaluating the slope behavior for geophysical flow prediction with advanced machine learning combinations by Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Ahmed M. Ebid, Shadi Hanandeh, Viroon Kamchoom

“…Overall, the present research models outperformed the eleven (11) models of the previous work due to sorting and elimination of unrealistic data entries deposited in the literature, the application of dimensionless combination of the studied slope stability parameters and the superiority of the selected machine learning techniques.…”
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Effects of Astragalus polysaccharide supplementation on growth performance, carcass quality, muscle fiber characteristics, meat quality, and development of finishing pigs by Wenfeng Ma, Zhuo Ma, Xiaoli Zhang, Pei Mao, Mengmeng Gao, Lingping Zhao, Qiujue Wu

“…A total of 80 crossbred pigs (86.30 ± 1.0 kg) of approximately 5 months of age were selected and randomly assigned four treatments (five replicates for each treatment and four pigs for each replicate) on the basis of their initial body weight. …”
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Outpatient vs inpatient management of preterm prelabor rupture of membranes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis by Monica Williamson, Susan Dong, Rohan D'Souza, Romina Brignardello‐Petersen, Stefania Ronzoni

“…Outpatient management protocols varied but generally included brief initial hospitalization, strict eligibility criteria, and surveillance with laboratory and ultrasound investigations. …”
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Tolerância de mamoneira ao herbicida pendimethalin em solos com diferentes capacidades de adsorção Tolerance of castor bean to pendimethalin herbicide in soils with different adsor... by Karoliny C. Silva, Vivianny N. B. Silva, Valdinei Sofiatti, João H. Zonta, Rosiane L. S. de Lima, Humberto Silva

“…<br>The castor bean is a species of slow initial growth. The absence of registered herbicides for this crop is still a limiting factor for its expansion. …”
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In Vitro Characterization and Safety Assessment of <i>Streptococcus salivarius</i>, <i>Levilactobacillus brevis</i> and <i>Pediococcus pentosaceus</i> Isolated from the Small Intes... by Nwabisa Happiness Kokwe, Freedom Tshabuse, Feroz Mahomed Swalaha

“…Four phenotypically healthy broiler breeders were selected, and intestinal contents were aseptically collected and cultured on MRS agar. …”
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Beyond the Seeds: Fairness Testing via Counterfactual Analysis of Non-Seed Instances by Hussaini Mamman, Shuib Basri, Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun, Abdul Rehman Gilal, Abdullahi Abubakar Imam, Ganesh Kumar, Luiz Fernando Capretz

“…Existing methods for detecting individual discrimination often rely on initial &#x201C;seed&#x201D; instances, which are data points selected from the dataset that have more likelihood of exhibiting discrimination. …”
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