Four essays on Conrad - an introduction by John Derrick

“…He was also a dapper, formal little fellow who carried a goldheaded cane and liked to radiate the air of a Polish count. What wonder then that this man who claimed to dream in Polish, think in French, and write in English, should present contradictory faces to his interpreters: Ts Conrad a dated victorian whose lush style, antiquated feudal codes and quixotically macho notion of women set him apart from our world, or is he our contemporary by his psychological depth, his open-ended symbolism, and his vision of a third world tormented by colonial powers?…”
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Mechanistic insights on the alteration of nuclear waste glass from passivation to reactive diffusion in the environment by Pierre Frugier

“…This document formalizes the comparison of these two alteration models, allowing anticipation of conditions likely to cause one or the other mechanism to drive glass alteration.…”
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THE LGBTQA INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETES’ EXPERIENCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES: BASIS FOR AN INSTITUTIONAL INCLUSIVE SPORTS PLAN by Jordan Pocaan

“…The results reveal that participants frequently encountered sexism and verbal harassment at various places and times, that the audience or fans are more likely the perpetrators, and that ignoring the abuse is the most common reaction to harassment. …”
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Social Capital and Pediatric Tracheostomy Outcomes by Alex Najjar, Jenny Kim, Stephen Chorney, Yann‐Fuu Kou, Cynthia Wang, Romaine F. Johnson

“…The groups had similar medical complexity and comorbidities, and EC was found to correlate with other metrics of SES including poverty rate and area deprivation index (ADI) by zip code (p < 0.001). Patients with low EC were more likely to be discharged to an outside facility than high EC patients (9.3% vs. 3.8%, p = 0.04). …”
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Deuterium and tritium density determination at JET using neutron diagnostics by B. Vingren, J. Eriksson, S. Conroy, G. Ericsson, A. Hjalmarsson, F. Auriemma, A. Boboc, C. Challis, D. Keeling, D. King, K. Kirov, S. Menmuir, M. Maslov, M. Poradzinski, JET Contributors, the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team

“…In this paper, we present a method for determining the densities using multiple neutron diagnostics together with simulations of supra-thermal fuel ions utilizing the plasma transport code TRANSP. The method is set up utilizing a Bayesian framework to estimate the most likely distribution of T and D densities given the available data and the modeled slowing-down ion velocity distribution, using the synthetic neutron diagnostics code DRESS to calculate the expected neutron emission for the given fuel ion distributions. …”
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Disparity in neonatal abstinence syndrome by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geography, in neonates ≥ 35 weeks gestational age. by Keith A Dookeran, Marina G Feffer, Kyla M Quigley, Phoebe E Troller, Chariya A Christmon, Janine Y Khan

“…Blacks and Hispanics were significantly more likely than Whites to be in the lowest ecologic income quartile and on Medicaid. …”
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The role of large language models (AI chatbots) in fire engineering: An examination of technical questions against domain knowledge by Haley Hostetter, M.Z. Naser, Xinyan Huang, John Gales

“…Evidently, and when it matures, this technology will likely be elemental to our engineers’ practice and education.…”
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Business in the new fiscal environment: innovations in taxation in 2025 by V. V. Roshchupkina, M. V. Roshchupkin

“…The study aims to analyze the likely consequences of changes in tax legislation: to highlight positive and controversial points for doing business under new conditions.Materials and methods. …”
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Unveiling health disparities: Diagnostic prevalences in a transgender cohort versus matched controls. by Laurel Hiatt, Blessing S Ofori-Atta, Amanda V Bakian, Nicole L Mihalopoulos, Brooks R Keeshin, Anna Docherty, Michael Staley, Alison Fraser, Emily Sullivan, Erin A Kaufman, Hilary Coon, Anne V Kirby

“…<h4>Participants</h4>6,664 TGD individuals were identified using ICD codes for gender incongruence between 1995 and 2021; 64,124 age-matched individuals comprised the control cohort.…”
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Angiotensin receptor blockers use and lung cancer risk in Chinese patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population-based cohort study by Wenhao Li, Qingqing Yang, Yahong Chen, Yexiang Sun, Peng Shen, Feng Sun, Jinzhu Jia

“…The results of sensitivity analyses and negative control exposure analyses indicated that the associations were largely consistent and less likely to be influenced by unobserved confounding. …”
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Involving End Users in the Development and Usability Testing of a Smartphone App Designed for Individuals With Prediabetes: Mixed-Methods Focus Group Study by Natalie Grieve, Kyra Braaten, Megan MacPherson, Sam Liu, Mary E Jung

“… Abstract BackgroundTechnology is more likely to be used when it is designed to meet the needs of end users. …”
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Results of treatment with bedaquiline containing regimens of MDR/XDR tuberculosis patients including those with concurrent HIV infection (the experience of Leningrad Region) by T. I. Danilova, Yu. V. Korneev, D. A. Kudlay, N. Yu. Nikolenko

“…The efficacy and safety of the regimes containing bedaquiline were assessed in the intensive phase of chemotherapy in 80 patients with MDR/XDR TB: Group1 consisted of 46 patients with negative HIV status (ICD10 code A15-A19); Group 2 – 34 HIV positive patients at the advanced stage with manifestations of a mycobacterial infection (ICD10 code B20.0).Results. …”
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Survival Outcomes in US Medicare Patients with Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis by Rate of Baseline Exacerbations by Joseph Feliciano, Benjamin Lewing, Maitreyee Mohanty, Melanie Lauterio, Sebastian Fucile, Joseph Tkacz, Alan F. Barker

“…Methods Patients with bronchiectasis (≥ 1 inpatient or ≥ 2 outpatient claims with a bronchiectasis diagnosis code, or one outpatient claim with bronchiectasis code and a chest computed tomography scan) were from the 100% Medicare Fee-for-Service database (Jan 2014–Dec 2020). …”
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Minimally Invasive Surgery Versus Conventional Neurosurgical Treatments for Patients with Subcortical Supratentorial Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Nationwide Study of Real-World Data... by Huanwen Chen, Matthew K. McIntyre, Mihir Khunte, Ajay Malhotra, Mohamed Labib, Marco Colasurdo, Dheeraj Gandhi

“…Compared to CC patients, MIS patients were less likely female (<i>p</i> = 0.004) but otherwise had similar patient characteristics; compared to DC patients, MIS patients were older, less likely female, more likely to have mental status abnormalities, more likely to have underlying dementia, less likely to undergo external ventricular drainage, more likely to have vascular risk factors (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes), and less likely to have underlying coagulopathy (all <i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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When Communicative Worlds Collide: Strategies for Negotiating Misalignments in Attentional Social Presence by Jeanine Warisse Turner, Sonja K. Foss

“…Transcripts of the interviews were coded following the qualitative approach of grounded theory. …”
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The ancient Maya and limestone by Barbara Voorhies, George H. Michaels

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“Gambling and women don’t mix”: Female Gamblers and the American Dream in Film by Julie Assouly

“…Achieving the American Dream or wasting their lives to addiction, these women contradict enduring clichés conveyed by Hollywood and informed by the Hays code during the classical era.…”
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Stylistic Conventions and Complex Group Collaboration by Marc Slors

“…Social etiquette, dress codes and culture-specific architectural features are undoubtedly stylistic conventions. …”
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Negotiating local and global: Developing Social Science research ethics policy in a Central Asian context by Roza Sagitova, Zarena Syrgak kyzy, Lynne Parmenter

“…A limited number of institutional policies address research ethics issues, with the majority of relevant documents being codes of conduct focused on virtue ethics. The paper argues that this analysis of the current situation in Kyrgyzstan is likely to be of relevance to many countries, where those responsible for governance of research at all levels are grappling with the tensions of navigating research ethics in ways that are meaningful in local contexts while being congruent with Global North ethics requirements of funders and publishers.…”
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ANALYZING GLOBAL CROP TRADE PATTERNS AND REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: A CLUB CONVERGENCE APPROACH by Fatih KAPLAN, Ali Rıza AKTAŞ, Ahmet KOLUMAN

“…Given the impacts of global climate change, foreign trade in crops is likely to face a number of challenges. It is therefore necessary to assess the foreign trade of crops from a global perspective. …”
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