What drives clinic follow-up after traumatic spinal injury? An observational cohort study from Tanzania by Julie Woodfield, Hamisi K Shabani, Scott L Zuckerman, Roger Hartl, Halinder S Mangat, Sean Inzerillo, Chibuikem A Ikwuegbuenyi, Romani Roman Sabas, Noah Willett, Magalie Cadieux, Francois Waterkeyn

“…Independent factors associated with return included private insurance (adjusted OR (aOR) 2.69, 95% CI 1.38 to 5.45, p=0.005), involvement in a road traffic accident (aOR 2.15, 95% CI 1.22 to 3.83, p=0.009), lumbar injuries (aOR 2.26, 95% CI 1.30 to 4.00, p=0.004), neurological improvement at discharge (aOR 3.52, 95% CI 1.72 to 7.64, p=0.001) and hospital stays shorter than 24 days (aOR 1.63, 95% CI 1.07 to 2.47, p=0.022). …”
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Lingual foramina on cone beam computed tomography: A retrospective radiographic study by Om Nemichand Baghele, Vishnudas Dwarkadas Bhandari, Pratiksha Shivajirao Late, Bhushan Rajendra Bangar, Gauri Mahesh Ugale, Raghavendra Metri

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Elevated Serum Level of Krebs von den Lungen-6 Predicts Death in Patients With Comorbid Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Li F, Geng J, Zhang H, Xie B, Zhang H, Xie J, Dai H

“…To ascertain the risk factors associated with all-cause death, a multivariate Cox regression model was employed, adjusted for confounding variables of age, sex, and pulmonary function.Results: During the 40-month follow-up, 24 (20.9%) deaths occurred, with 17 (28.8%) in the OSA group and 7 (12.5%) in the non-OSA group. …”
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Assessing environmental change and population declines of large wading birds in southwestern India by K.M. Aarif, Aymen Nefla, K.A. Rubeena, Yanjie Xu, Zakher Bouragaoui, M. Nasser, C.T. Shifa, T.R. Athira, K. Jishnu, Jasmine Anand, Seerangan Manokaran, P.P. Moosa, Anu Gopinath, Omer R. Reshi, K.M. Rajaneesh, H. Byju, Thadickal V. Joydas, Karuppasamy P. Manikandan, Mohd Irfan Naikoo, Christian Sonne, Sabir Bin Muzaffar

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Hydroxyl Lines and Moonlight: A High Spectral Resolution Investigation of Near-infrared Skylines from Maunakea to Guide Near-infrared Spectroscopic Surveys by Frederick Dauphin, Andreea Petric, Étienne Artigau, Andrew W. Stephens, Neil James Cook, Steven Businger, Nicolas Flagey, Jennifer Marshall, Michelle Ntampaka, Swara Ravindranath, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton

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NuSTAR Observations of a Varying-flux Quasar in the Epoch of Reionization by Lea Marcotulli, Thomas Connor, Eduardo Bañados, Peter G. Boorman, Giulia Migliori, Brian W. Grefenstette, Emmanuel Momjian, Aneta Siemiginowska, Daniel Stern, Silvia Belladitta, C. C. Cheung, Andrew Fabian, Yana Khusanova, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Sofía Rojas-Ruiz, C. Megan Urry

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Lower Frequency of PNPLA3 Polymorphism in West African Populations and Divergent Associations With Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Perapa Chotiprasidhi, Yvonne Ayerki Nartey, Karina Sato-Espinoza, Robert A. Vierkant, Jun Ma, Yaw Awuku, Adwoa Agyei-Nkansah, Mary Afihene, Amoako Duah, Sally Bampoh, Shadrack Asibey, Joshua Ayawin, Jun Wang, Yinan Zheng, Lifang Hou, Claudia Hawkins, Robert Murphy, Godwin Imade, Edith Okeke, Alani Akanmu, Olufunmilayo Lesi, Amelie Plymoth, Jose D. Debes, Lewis R. Roberts, Samuel O. Antwi, Kirk J. Wangensteen

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An Image-based Search for Pulsar Candidates in the MeerKAT Bulge Survey by Dale A. Frail, Emil Polisensky, Scott D. Hyman, William D. Cotton, Namir E. Kassim, Michele L. Silverstein, Rahul Sengar, David L. Kaplan, Francesca Calore, Joanna Berteaud, Maïca Clavel, Marisa Geyer, Samuel Legodi, Vasaant Krishnan, Sarah Buchner, Fernando Camilo

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Une catastrophe hors norme d'origine météorologique le 2 octobre 2020 dans les montagnes des Alpes-Maritimes by Pierre Carrega, Nicolas Michelot

“…The human and socio-economic toll is very high: nearly 20 deaths, traumatized populations, numerous buildings and houses totally destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, devastated and metamorphosed landscapes, dozens of bridges and kilometers of roads wiped out. By proposing an interpretation grid, the presentation of the intra- and inter-component articulation explains that this damage far exceeded that linked to the usual Mediterranean autumn floods (I. …”
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Impact of HCV eradication by directly acting antivirals on glycemic indices in chronic hepatitis C patients -a nationwide Taiwan HCV registry by Tyng-Yuan Jang, Chung-Feng Huang, Te-Sheng Chang, Chun-chi Yang, Ching-Chu Lo, Chao-Hung Hung, Chien-Wei Huang, Lee-Won Chong, Pin-Nan Cheng, Ming-Lun Yeh, Cheng-Yuan Peng, Chien-Yu Cheng, Jee-Fu Huang, Ming-Jong Bair, Chih-Lang Lin, Chi-Chieh Yang, Szu-Jen Wang, Tsai-Yuan Hsieh, Tzong-Hsi Lee, Pei-Lun Lee, Wen-Chih Wu, Chih-Lin Lin, Wei-Wen Su, Sheng-Shun Yang, Chia-Chi Wang, Jui-Ting Hu, Lein-Ray Mo, Chun-Ting Chen, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Chun-Chao Chang, Chia-Sheng Huang, Guei-Ying Chen, Chien-Neng Kao, Chi-Ming Tai, Chun-Jen Liu, Mei-Hsuan Lee, Pei-Chien Tsai, Chia-Yen Dai, Jia-Horng Kao, Han-Chieh Lin, Wang-Long Chuang, Kuo-Chih Tseng, Chi-Yi Chen, Hsing-Tao Kuo, Ming-Lung Yu

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Zonation of Debris Cones and Talus Slopes in Aghlaghan Chay Basin (South Western Slope of Sabalan Mountain) by aghil Madadi, ata gafari, elnaz piroozi

“…Data set layers of access roads, stream network, elevation classes, slope and aspect were derived from digitizing topography map of 1:50000 scale. …”
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Relationship Between Social Support, Symptom Burden, Dyspnea, Perceived Stress, Perceived Stigma, Coping Styles, and Psychological Distress in Patients with Stable COPD: A Structur... by Tian X, Yi L, Liu X, Zuo F, Shang H, Zhang J, Ren Y

“…SEM was used for relationships among variables.Results: The mean psychological distress score was (3.770 ± 1.525). …”
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Quantifying the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Mathematical Creativity: A Meta-Analysis by Herianto Herianto, Anastasia Sofroniou, Muh Fitrah, Dadan Rosana, Caly Setiawan, Raden Rosnawati, Widihastuti Widihastuti, Andi Jusmiana, Yudince Marinding

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Analysis of the Contextual Factors Influencing the Expansion of Construction Violations with an Emphasis on the Role and Position of Key Urban Stakeholders (Case Study: Isfahan Met... by Ahmad Shahivandi, Afsaneh Talebi Varnosfaderani

“…This test indicated a high correlation of over 0.7 for the variables in each dimension, reflecting a desirable level of reliability. …”
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Can ACR TI-RADS predict the malignant risk of medullary thyroid cancer? by Ying Zhang, Bei-Bei Ye, Han-Xiang Wang, Bo-Ji Liu, Yun-Yun Liu, Qing Wei, Chuan Qin, Yi-Feng Zhang

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Potency of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei as an alternative to antibiotic growth promoter in broiler chicken challenged with avian pathogenic Escherichia coli by Widya Paramita Lokapirnasari, Lilik Maslachah, Amung Logam Saputro, Efi Rokana, Andreas Berny Yulianto, Zulfi Nur Amrina Rosyada, Muhammad Aviv Firdaus, Himatul Ilma Silfia, Ertika Fitri Lisnanti, Zein Ahmad Baihaqi, Tabita Dameria Marbun, Aswin Rafif Khairullah, Muhammad Shakeel

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Physical Model Tests on Reinforced Loess Foundation Model Under Wetting and Loading by ZHANG Wan, MU Hongkun, LIU Fengyin, GUO Huaining, ZHAO Wei, XUE Yifeng

“…The reinforced loess foundation is suitable for treating collapsible foundations in engineering projects such as roads and oil and gas drilling platforms in the northwest loess region. …”
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A second horizon scan of biogeography: Golden Ages, Midas touches, and the Red Queen by Michael N Dawson, Jan C. Axmacher, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jessica L. Blois, Bethany A. Bradley, Anna F. Cord, Jürgen Dengler, Kate S. He, Lawrence R. Heaney, Roland Jansson, Miguel D. Mahecha, Corinne Myers, David Nogués-Bravo, Anna Papadopoulou, Björn Reu, Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Alycia Stigall, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Daniel G. Gavin

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Mechanism of Influence of Spatial Perception on Residents’ Emotion in Child-Friendly Urban Streets of Fuzhou City by Shaofeng CHEN, Zhengyan CHEN, Yuhan XU, Zheng DING

“…Areas such as Academy Road in Gulou District are optimized for visual diversity and exhibit higher emotion scores. …”
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Beyond the closed-forest paradigm: Cross-scale vegetation structure in temperate Europe before the late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions by Elena A. Pearce, Florence Mazier, Charles W. Davison, Oliver Baines, Szymon Czyżewski, Ralph Fyfe, Krzysztof Bińka, Steve Boreham, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Cunhai Gao, Wojciech Granoszewski, Anna Hrynowiecka, Małgorzata Malkiewicz, Tim Mighall, Bożena Noryśkiewicz, Irena Agnieszka Pidek, Jaqueline Strahl, Hanna Winter, Jens-Christian Svenning

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