Comparison of long-term ankle joint function after one-stage and staged microsurgical repair of open achilles tendon defects by Jianjie Mao, Yang Xiang, Hui Chu, GenYang Jin, Guangyan Su, Chang zeng Liu, Feng Zhu

“…In the staged repair group, patients who underwent peroneus longus muscle tendon transfer with the lateral calcaneal artery in the second stage had better postoperative follow-up ankle joint function than did those who underwent flexor hallucis longus tendon transfer (P AOFAS < 0.001; P ATRS < 0.001). …”
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Safety and efficacy of low-dose esketamine weakly opioidized anesthesia in elderly patients with lumbar spinal stenosis undergoing surgery: a prospective, double-blind randomized c... by Ni-Na Hou, Meng-Yun Zhang, Yu-Wei Zhang, Hong-Jing Wu, Hong Luo, Heng Yang

“…At T2 and T4, the HS and LS groups had significantly lower levels of MAP and HR decline than the C group. …”
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Zolpidem: Efficacy and Side Effects for Insomnia by Amber N. Edinoff, Natalie Wu, Yahya T. Ghaffar, Rosemary Prejean, Rachel Gremillion, Mark Cogburn, Azem A. Chami, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye

“…Sleep onset latency has been demonstrated to be significantly increased on the first night after stopping zolpidem (13.0 minutes; 95% CI 4.3-21.7; P\<0.01). Women had a non-significantly higher mean plasma concentration than men after 8 hours for the 10mg IR (28 vs. 20 ng/mL) and the 12.5mg MR (33 vs. 28ng/mL). …”
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Evaluation of Urban Composite Carbon Sink Value: A Case Study of Shenyang by Tiemao SHI, Di WANG, Yu TANG, Peiying LI

“…The vegetation carbon sink value and soil carbon sink value presented a fluctuating trend, while the building carbon sink value had been consistently rising. The proportion of carbon sink value contributed by vegetation and soil decreased from 43.61% and 46.15% in 2003 to 34.70% and 36.62% respectively, whereas the proportion contributed by buildings increased from 10.24% to 28.70%.ConclusionThe important contribution of urban space to carbon sinks in terrestrial ecosystems should not be ignored. …”
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Editorial by Lindsay B. Flynn

“…While young people at the beginning of their income trajectories will always have more difficulty competing in tight housing markets, today’s young people are experiencing unique housing burdens that older generations never had to confront. The unevenness is also acute within younger cohorts. …”
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Çin Siyasi Düşüncesi ve Siyasi Tarihi Bağlamında Çinli Siyasi Elitler by Tuğrul Keskin

“…The parallels drawn between the roles of elites in these contexts offer fresh insights, suggesting that both nations, while under external pressure, had to navigate the balance between tradition and modernity. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…All experts agree: If mankind had failed to develop vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the death toll would have been much higher. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Maria Lenk, Antony Mason, Markus Rutsche

“… If you had to choose one moment in history in which to be born, and you didn’t know in advance whether you were going to be male or female, which country you were going to be from, what your status was, you’d choose right now.” …”
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Julius Kruopis – the pioneer of applied statistics in Lithuania by Vilijandas Bagdonavičius, Vydas Čekanavičius, Rūta Levulienė, Pranas Vaitkus

“…Kruopis always sought that from the first days of work at the department, all teachers had at least one full course of lectures-exercises-exams. …”
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Improving the experience of health services for trans and gender-diverse young people and their families: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Stepney, Samantha Martin, Magdalena Mikulak, Sara Ryan, Jay Stewart, Richard Ma, Adam Barnett

“…Through interviews, we listened to young trans people talk about their experiences of health care and how they thought this had affected them. We also talked to parents/carers of young trans people and people who work in health care to better understand their experiences. …”
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A Systemic Approach to Inceptive Constructions in Lithuanian by Rolandas Mikulskas

“…Many of them still preserve, to a different extent, a vestige of the previous meanings they had in the source constructions. For instance, the inceptive markers puolė, šoko, metėsi, leidosi, pasileido are, in some syntactic contexts, still reminiscent of motion verbs. …”
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