Quality of Life Assessment After Uterine Artery Embolization in Patients with Fibroids Treated in an Ambulatory Setting by Jean-Francois Geschwind, Bahman Afsari, Nariman Nezami, Jacob White, Michael Shor, Yan Katsnelson

“…On the other hand, improvements were seen in the level of activity in 82%, energy and mood in 85%, and sexual function in 71% of the patients, whereas the general QoL index significantly increased in 86% of the patients (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Correction of Endothelial Dysfunction in Patients with Essential Hypertension when Using a Combination of Olmesartan/Lercanidipine and Zofenopril/Lercanidipine by O. V. Zimnitskaya, M. M. Petrova

“…Thus, olmesartan + lercanidipine combination has more significant effect on endothelial function than zofenopril + lercanidipine combination.…”
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Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Water Hammer Protection Schemes for Long-Distance Gravity-Pressurized Water Conveyance Systems by HUANG Wei, LIAO Chen-xi, HUANG Xin, GU Ping, LIU Bin, HUANG Zi-yang

“…The hydraulic characteristics of such systems are more complex than those of pure gravity-driven systems. …”
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Wpływ pełzania betonu na sprężone ustroje prętowe by Andrzej CHUDZIKIEWICZ

“…The convergence of the series xk,r is slow in general; more rapidly convergent series wk,r are olbtained using (3.2.12), where the coefficient μk should be assumed according to (3.2.13). …”
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Central Blood Pressure and Chronic Kidney Disease Progression by Debbie L. Cohen, Raymond R. Townsend

“…This has led to the search for less traditional cardiovascular risk factors that will help stratify patients at risk for more rapid kidney disease progression. Among these are noninvasive estimates of vascular structure and function. …”
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Inclusive neutrino and antineutrino scattering within the coherent density fluctuation model by Ivanov Martin, Antonov Anton

“…In this work, on the basis of the scaling function obtained within CDFM with a relativistic effective mass m*N from 0.6mN to 1.0mN, thus demonstrating its role in more details, we calculate and compare the theoretical predictions with a large set of experimental data for inclusive (anti)neutrino cross sections. …”
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A novel stochastic power flow calculation and optimal control method for microgrid based on multivariate stochastic factors fusion – Sensitivity by HongTao Shi, Jiahao Zhu, Kun Feng, Zhuoheng He, Jiaming Chang, Tingting Chen

“…Firstly, the multivariate stochastic factors fusion (MSFF) function is developed by using the probability density function to extract the stochasticity and correlation of power flow among different stochastic factors in the microgrid, which are effectively unified. …”
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ABER Performance of LDPC-Coded OFDM Free-Space Optical Communication System Over Exponentiated Weibull Fading Channels With Pointing Errors by Xiaoxia Liu, Ping Wang, Tao Liu, Yutao Li, Lixin Guo, Hongxin Tian

“…On the basis of the probability density function and cumulative distribution function of the composite channel gain, the analytical expressions of average bit error rate (ABER) of this FSO-OFDM system with on&#x2013;off keying, <italic>K</italic>-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and phase shift keying (PSK) modulation schemes are derived by using generalized Gauss&#x2013;Lagurre quadrature rule, respectively. …”
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Postural Muscle Dyscoordination in Children With Cerebral Palsy by Jolanda C. van der Heide, Mijna Hadders-Algra

“…The children totally or partially lacked direction specificity in their postural adjustments and could not sit independently for more than 3 seconds. Some children functioning at GMFCS level IV have intact direction-specific adjustments, whereas others have problems in generating consistently direction-specific adjustments. …”
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Influencing factors of pulmonary dysfunction among community-based population at high-risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Putuo District， Shanghai by SONG Rongwei, WU Chunxiang, YU Jie, LU Yuqing, ZHANG Fengying

“…The risk assessment model constructed based on these factors has a good predictive effect in screening high-risk population of COPD, but its effectiveness in screening people at general risk needs to be further validated.…”
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ECONOMIC AND LEGAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES OF UKRAINE by Oleg Dubynskyy, Dmytro Baranenko, Vitalii Porkhun

“…Recently, as citizens have been interacting more and more with local authorities, as they are closest to them, this attitude has only strengthened. …”
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Household wealth and its association with non-adherence, quality of life, anxiety and depression amongst hemodialysis patients in two centers in Cameroon by Hermine Danielle Epse Ebana Menye Fouda, Franck Niverd Mefeya Mouaffo, Victorine Bandolo Nzana, Pamela Tumchou, Lionel Elimby, Denis Teuwafeu, Ronald Gobina, Marie-Patrice Halle

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“Youth 2.0 project”: Multi-professional Intervention to Protect Adolescents from NPS and Other Drug Use by V. Rapaccini, S. Biscontini, A. Molinaro, G.P. Di Loreto, A. Pasini, O. Corazza, A. Metastasio

“…Our study focuses the attention on Terni, a city in the center of Italy, actually defined by journalists as “the black heart of drug dealing in Umbria”: in fact, according to the Central Directorate for Drug Services report, in this city more than half of the drug related deaths of Umbria are registered; in addition, more than 60% out of hashish, cocaine and heroin detected in Umbria are seized in Terni. …”
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Feeding challenges in early infancy: the role of reflexes, muscle tone, and developmental milestones by Wiktoria Kowalska, Maria Tuczyńska, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Oskar Komisarek, Ewa Mojs, Mirosław Andrusiewicz, Tomasz Szczapa, Włodzimierz Samborski, Dorota Sikorska, Ewa Baum, Roksana Malak

“…Feeding skill is the first coordinated function a child acquires, providing him with nutrients and sensory stimulation needed for further proper development. …”
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The fungal collaboration gradient drives root trait distribution and ecosystem processes in a tropical montane forest by M. Dantas de Paula, T. Reichert, L. F. Lugli, E. McGale, K. Pierick, K. Pierick, J. P. Darela-Filho, L. Langan, J. Homeier, J. Homeier, A. Rammig, T. Hickler, T. Hickler

“…<p>Plant roots have a large diversity of form and function, which is also related to their degree of mycorrhizal association. …”
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A pH‐Sensitive Nanosized Covalent–Organic Polymer for Enhanced Tumor Photodynamic Immunotherapy by Hypoxia Relief and STAT3 Inhibition by Lei Lei, Wenbin Dai, Jinchao Zhao, Angfeng Jiang, Haisheng Peng, Qiao Jin, Xiaojing Li, Zhe Tang

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Predicting right ventricular failure after left ventricular assist device implant: A novel approach by Carissa E. Livingston, Dale Kim, Lacey Serletti, Andrea Jin, Sriram Rao, Michael V. Genuardi, Eliot G. Peyster

“…‘No RVF’ patients were defined as patients who never demonstrated more than moderate RV dysfunction on a post‐LVAD transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) (ordinal RV function <3), never required an RV assist device (RVAD), were not discharged on sildenafil and were not on a pulmonary vasodilator or inotropic medication at 3 months after LVAD implant. …”
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Pancreaticoduodenectomy for octogenarians under postoperative rehabilitation enhanced ERAS protocol by Naoki Iwanaga, Yoshinori Takeda, Ryuji Yoshioka, Yoshihiro Mise, Hiroyuki Sugo, Akio Saiura

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Polymorphisms of the β2-Adrenergic Receptor Correlated to Nocturnal Asthma and the Response of Terbutaline Nebulizer by Ming-Yung Lee, Shin-Nan Cheng, Shyi-Jou Chen, Hui-Ling Huang, Chih-Chien Wang, Hueng-Chuen Fan

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Collagenase injection versus limited fasciectomy surgery to treat Dupuytren’s contracture in adult patients in the UK: DISC, a non-inferiority RCT and economic evaluation by Joseph Dias, Puvan Tharmanathan, Catherine Arundel, Charlie Welch, Qi Wu, Paul Leighton, Maria Armaou, Belen Corbacho, Nick Johnson, Sophie James, John Cooke, Christopher Bainbridge, Michael Craigen, David Warwick, Samantha Brady, Lydia Flett, Judy Jones, Catherine Knowlson, Michelle Watson, Ada Keding, Catherine Hewitt, David Torgerson

“…Recovery of hand function was quicker for participants who received the injection; however, they were more likely to need further treatment (i.e. further care and/or re-intervention). …”
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