What Is the Prevalence of Hip Abductor Pathology in Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty? by David A. Brethouwer, DO, Matthew L. Brown, MD, Julie C. McCauley, MPH, William D. Bugbee, MD, Eric Y. Chang, MD, Alecio F. Lombardi, MD, Brian J. Rebolledo, MD

“…Dysfunction of the abductor musculotendinous units was assessed by grading fatty infiltration of the muscle bellies using the Goutallier/Fuchs classification. Results: A total of 1090 primary THAs were performed during the study period, and 118 (10.8%) patients had a preoperative MRI of the hip or pelvis ≤12 months prior to surgery. …”
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A Patient with Uncontrollable Belching: What to Do? by I. V. Maev, Yu. A. Kucheryaviy, E. V. Barkalova, M. A. Ovsepyan

“…Gastric belching occurs reflexively at the moment of stomach stretching by excess air trapped during swallowing, which initiates the transient relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter. …”
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Role of total polyphenol content in seed germination characteristics of spring barley varieties amidst climate change by Ivana Jovanović, Nicole Frantová, Jhonny E. Alba-Mejía, Lenka Porčová, Vratislav Psota, Jana Asszonyi, Radim Cerkal, Tomáš Středa

“…Abstract The amount of total polyphenol content (TPC) in the grain could provide insights into the conditions during maturation and might also serve as an indicator of the grain’s ability to germinate in the malting process or as seeds in the field. …”
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Land drainage functioning and hydrological impacts in rural catchments: model development and field experiments by Zimmer, Daniel, Tournebize, Julien, Bouarfa, Sami, Kao, Cyril, Lesaffre, Benoît

“…The SIDRA model also includes a surface runoff module and has been coupled to different modelling tools and used to analyse the impacts of subsurface drainage on water quality. …”
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Shadi Park Renovation with Social Development Emphasis: A Case Study Halabja City, Iraq by Mihraban Othman Mustafa, Masoumeh Faraji, Zaniar Jamal Salih, Muhammed Saeed Rasheed

“…Shadi Park in Iraq is one of the regional urban parks; the lack of its design, as well as the wear and tear of some uses, lack of optimal lighting system and various uses by different age groups reduces the number of visits. …”
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Influence of endosymbionts on the reproductive fitness of the tick Ornithodoros moubata by Taraveau, Florian, Pollet, Thomas, Duhayon, Maxime, Gardès, Laëtitia, Jourdan-Pineau, Hélène

“…A total of 132 adult female ticks were treated with antibiotics using gentamycin or rifampicin added to the blood meal. …”
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Pain catastrophizing is associated with high-dose opioids in patients with cancer pain by Simon van Rysewyk, Melanie Lovell, Paul Glare

“… This study aimed to determine the prevalence of unhelpful pain cognitions, such as catastrophizing and low self-efficacy, and the relationships between pain qualities (severity, interference, distress, and disability) and opioid use in patients with cancer. The study design included the linkage of collected self-report questionnaire responses sourced from the Electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration (ePPOC) with medical records in cancer patients referred to a hospital-based pain clinic in Sydney, Australia, from January 2013 to June 2019. …”
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Performance Analysis of Costs Implementation Using the EVM Method (Earned Value Method) on the Work of Expanding the Distribution Pipeline Network in Samarinda City by Apriyanto Iring Patanduk, Wateno Oetomo, Risma Marleno

“…In an effort to provide clean water services, the government must pay special attention to developing the distribution network. …”
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Rare Encounter Behind the Ear: Unveiling Kimura Disease in the Postaural Region by Divya Nayani, Siddhartha Nyathani, Rahul Kumar Pitale Ashok

“…Post-operative steroid therapy resulted in an absence of recurrence and reduced eosinophilia during follow-up. Discussion: Managing Kimura disease is challenging due to its rarity and diverse clinical presentations. …”
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A Novel Classification of Uncertain Stream Data using Ant Colony Optimization Based on Radial Basis Function by Tahsin Ali Mohammed Amin, Sabah Robitan Mahmood, Rebar Dara Mohammed, Pshtiwan Jabar Karim

“…To avoid unintended results, data mining from new applications like sensors and location-based services needs to be done with care. …”
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Verbal Encoding Strategies in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory by Joana Pereira Seabra, Vivien Chopurian, Alessandra S. Souza, Thomas B. Christophel

“…We found a diverse set of labels employed frequently and with a consistent distribution across stimulus types, the stimulus space, and among participants. The use of individual spatial words, predicted class 1 cardinal biases in memory (i.e. the observation that cardinal stimuli are more accurately recalled than non-cardinal ones). …”
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Biofuel as an alternative for Sub-Saharan Africa’s transition to cleaner energy by Stephen Enyinnaya Eluwa, Oluwaseun Kilanko

“…Biofuel adoption in the energy mix of Sub-Saharan African countries will reduce overdependence on the importation of crude oil, thereby saving huge foreign exchange. …”
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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Abnormal Uterine Bleeding According to the PALM-COEIN Classification by Onur Bektas, Kivilcim Bektas, Sirin Aydin, Gulsen Dogan Durdag, Husnu Celik

“…RESULTS: During the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) was observed. …”
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Effect of 3-hydrazinylquinoxaline-2-thiol hydrogel on skin wound healing process in diabetic rats by Jehan Barakat Alamre, Huda Alkreathy, Ahmed S. Ali, Abdelbagi Alfadil, Sahar S. Alghamdi

“…Abstract Impaired wound healing in diabetic individuals creates huge social and financial burdens for both diabetic patients and the health system. …”
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Infectious diseases prevention and control with reduced energy consumption in an airport by Tingrui Hu, Shujia Shang, Jingchao Xie, Ying Ji, Peng Xue, Nan Zhang

“…This study developed an infection risk-human comfort-energy consumption model to calculate the COVID-19 transmission and energy consumption for epidemic prevention and control in seven different functional areas of an airport during different seasons (winter, summer, and transition season) and actual passenger movement. …”
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CR-DEQ-SAR: A Deep Equilibrium Sparse SAR Imaging Method for Compound Regularization by Guoru Zhou, Yixin Zuo, Zhe Zhang, Bingchen Zhang, Yirong Wu

“…The deep equilibrium model (DEQ) serves as a novel deep network framework that directly computes fixed points using analytical methods, theoretically allowing for infinite forward iterations while maintaining constant memory requirements. …”
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Coordination of preventive, emergency and restorative trading strategies under uncertain sequential extreme weather events by Xuemei Dai, Jing Zhou, Xu Zhang, Kaifeng Zhang, Wei Feng

“…Effective coordination of preventive, emergency, and restorative strategies can mitigate losses during these events, but designing optimal trading strategies for joint LE and LF markets remains complex. …”
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BMP-Recommended Water and Phosphorus Inputs for Tomato and Watermelon Can Reduce Environmental Losses of Phosphorus and Save Water by Sanjay Shukla, Gregory S. Hendricks, Thomas A. Obreza, Willie G. Harris

“…The average water and P fertilizer rates used by growers in south Florida were contrasted with the recommended BMP rates. …”
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Passing plastic: traces of plastic in the fecal samples of a high Arctic seabird in Tunu (East Greenland) by Justine Ammendolia, Garth A. Covernton, Alexandra Skrepnyk, John F. Dower, Shoshanah Jacobs

“…Arctic seabirds are key bio-indicators of marine plastic pollution due to their transient movement and large populations. …”
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Potential of glycerol as a bio-based wood adhesive by Jianshu Lu, Tomofumi Umeshita, Shunsuke Sakai, Miyuki Matsuo-Ueda, Daisuke Ando, Shuoye Chen, Kenji Umemura

“…The raw materials used were glycerol and wood powder of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica). …”
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