Study of the Immune Response in the Elderly: Is It Necessary to Develop a Vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis for the Aged? by Gabriela Trzewikoswki de Lima, Elizabeth De Gaspari

“…Literature reports the association between aging and decline in the immune system function. The elderly have a higher risk of developing infectious diseases and are often less responsive to vaccines that are effective in the young. …”
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“Choledochoduodenal Fistula Arising From Pancreatic Lymphoma: An Exceedingly Rare Phenomenon” by Shalvin Jassal, Nathan Ip, Adrian Fox, Melanie Crispin

“…ABSTRACT Choledochoduodenal fistula secondary to pancreatic lymphoma is a rare phenomenon, reflecting the complex relationship between lymphoproliferative disorders and gastrointestinal complications. Fistula formation should be suspected in patients with persistent liver function abnormalities and a history of treated hematological malignancies.…”
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Scaffolding the Learning-to-Teach Process: A Study in an EFL Teacher Education Programme in Argentina by Maria Gimena San Martin

“…In conclusion, scaffolded help should be understood in relation to the function it serves and how it accommodates the students’ level of understanding.…”
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Baclofen-Induced Encephalopathy in End Stage Renal Disease by Andrew Meillier, Cara Heller, Shyam Patel

“…The renally dependent excretion determines the circulating concentrations and guides effective dosing to decrease adverse reactions. Caution should be considered in administering baclofen to patients with decreased renal function. …”
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A Review of Key Apparatus of Urban Rail Transit Full Automatic Operation System by LU Xiangyang, LYU Haojiong, LIAO Yun, GUO Rui, MA Weijie

“…At last, some problems should be focused on in design of the full automatic operation system were pointed out.…”
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‘Businessology’ and Social Work by John Harris

“…Within that belief, the explicit or implicit assumption is that social work should, as far as possible, function as though it were a commercial business concerned with making profits. …”
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The 2015 Budget Act and proposals for amendments of the Budget Act in Poland by Andrzej Borodo

“…The current system weakens the control function and budgetary power of the Parliament. New Polish system of the Budget Act should contain the general budget and several special budgets.…”
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TECHNOLOGICAL CLUSTERS AND THEIR ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF RF REGIONAL ECONOMICS by V. A. Serguiytchuk, I. M. Yagoudin

“…ITC will successfully function provided they areformed under certain geographical, economical and institutional conditions. …”
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Meta-analysis of targeted drugs for pulmonary hypertension to improve exercise tolerance and associated factors in eisenmenger syndrome by Zhangli Yuan, Yang Wang, Jianling Wang, Yinchuan Lai, Xuechuan Dan, Juan Wang

“…Short-term pharmacological therapy (less than 12 months) significantly increased 6MWD and improved clinical cardiac function in included patients. Continued targeted drug therapy further increased the level of cardiac function (P < 0.0001). …”
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Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation interventions on cognitive impairment: an umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials by Minmin Wu, Wenjing Song, Xue Wang, Lili Teng, Jinting Li, Jiongliang Zhang, Xinyue Li, Donghui Yu, Huanhuan Jia, Binhan Wang, Qiang Tang, Luwen Zhu

“…Future studies should investigate their long-term effects and applicability across dementia types. …”
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Multimodal Prehabilitation for Gynecologic Cancer Surgery by Jeongyun Kim, Chae Hyeong Lee, Ga Won Yim

“…Surgical treatment is commonly employed to treat patients with gynecologic cancer, although surgery itself may function as a stressor, reducing the patients’ functional capacity and recovery. …”
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Modeling Optimal Scheduling for Pumping System to Minimize Operation Cost and Enhance Operation Reliability by Yin Luo, Shouqi Yuan, Yue Tang, Jianping Yuan, Jinfeng Zhang

“…Then, the operation reliability could be modeled as the function of the capacity and rotation speed of the pump and add this function to the traditional model to form the new. …”
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The Necessity of Creating a Comprehensive Perspective for Urban Flood Risk Management by Sara Attaran, Abolfazl Mosaedi

“…In this study, flood risk is defined as a function of hazard, vulnerability, and exposure. Considerable focus has been placed on the role of poverty in exacerbating flood risk because, in big cities, management strategies in different urban areas should be different, depending on the cultural situation and level of economic development of those areas. …”
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SELECTION OF PATIENTS WITH CONCOMITANT CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE DISEASE FOR ANATOMICAL RESECTIONS IN LUNG CANCER (review of literature) by A. L. Akopov, S. D. Gorbunkov, A. I. Romanikhin, M. G. Kovalev

“…If the specified parameters were less than 80 %, additional studies were required: functional tests (6-minute walk test, staircase test), stress testing, calculation of predicted postoperative values of respiratory function, and, if necessary, lung scintigraphy could be performed to study regional respiratory function. …”
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Thermal Evolution of the Plasma Sheet Region in the 2017 September 10 Solar Eruption by DeOndre Kittrell, Katharine K. Reeves

“…These quantities are calculated as a function time to assess how the conditions of the plasma sheet region change throughout the duration of the event. …”
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Unmixing sub-leading Regge trajectories of N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 Super-Yang-Mills by Julius Julius, Nika Sergeevna Sokolova

“…We focus on the CFT-data of the massive short strings exchanged in the operator product expansion (OPE) of the four-point function dual to the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude. This CFT-data arranges itself into Regge trajectories in the flat-space limit. …”
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A look at the concept of “sexual dysfunction” through psychotropic drugs: a review by İrem ARABACI, Birgül OZKAN, Görkem KARAKAŞ UĞURLU

“…Many different drugs used in psychiatric treatments can cause changes in sexual function. Especially antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics and mood-modulating drugs that are effective on the central nervous system affect sexual function with different mechanisms. …”
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COMPOSITE LAYERING TECHNIQUES IN DIRECT ANTERIOR RESTORATIONS: A SCOPING REVIEW ON LONGEVITY AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES by Marius Negucioiu, Mara Elena Rusnac, Rafael Dosa, Andreea Kui, Mirela Fluerasu, Smaranda Buduru

“…Conclusions: Direct composite restoration techniques offer significant advantages in restoring aesthetics and function of the maxillary anterior region. Technique should be chosen based on detailed clinical assessment and patient-specific factors to optimise results. …”
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FORMALIZATION OF INNOVATIVE PROCESSES OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT by Panfilov V.A.

“…The conditions in which domestic food enterprises function do not always contribute to their development and growth of competitiveness. …”
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Interest Rate-Savings Nexus: Keynesian-Classical Debate Revisiting in OECD Economies by Abdullah Miraç Bükey

“…This is because, according to Keynes, savings are a decreasing function of interest rates and an increasing function of income. …”
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