An investigation of fentanyl and methamphetamine use among first-time arrestees from 25 county jails across the U.S. in 2023 by Joseph E. Schumacher, Abdullah Ahsan, Amber H. Simpler, Adam P. Natoli, Bradley J. Cain, Peter S. Chindavong, Aren Yarcan

“…Abstract Widespread use of fentanyl in combination with methamphetamine in carceral settings presents unique health risks and public health challenges. …”
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Nationwide Survey of Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization for Chronic Subdural Hematoma in Japan by Satoshi MURAI, Yuki EBISUDANI, Jun HARUMA, Masafumi HIRAMATSU, Tomohito HISHIKAWA, Tetsu SATOW, Kenji SUGIU

“…The mean age of the patients was 78.0 ± 10.5 years, and bleeding risks, including antithrombotic therapy or bleeding predisposition, were present in 36.1% of patients. The most common timing for middle meningeal artery embolization was after the second burr hole surgery, accounting for 34.8% of cases. …”
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Outcomes of liver transplantation in the era of modern antiviral therapy for hepatitis C by K. Yu. Kokina, Yu. O. Malinovskaya, Ya. G. Moysyuk

“…The sample was represented in most cases by patients who had MELD/Na score <20. …”
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The expanded inframammary fold triangle: Improved results in large volume breast reductions by Karan Chopra, Kashyap Komarraju Tadisina, Alexandra Conde-Green, Devinder P Singh

“…Context: The inferior pedicle, Wise-pattern reduction mammaplasty is the most popular technique for breast reduction because of its reproducible results and reliability. …”
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Open repair of type IV thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: a real-world experience in the endovascular era. by Marta Romão Rodrigues, Tiago Magalhães, Ryan Gouveia e Melo, Luis Silvestre, Ruy Fernandes e Fernandes, Emanuel Silva, Pedro Amorim, Augusto Ministro, Carlos Martins, Luis Mendes Pedro

“…CONCLUSION: In this low-volume cohort, treated over a long time period, a high mortality rate was observed, which may confirm the dependence between results and surgical/post-operative care volume and experience. AKI was the most frequent complication, being transient in most cases. …”
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Patient Perceptions of Social Media Use by Orthopaedic Surgeons: Comparing Responses Across the United States by Benjamin R. Wharton, M.D., Daniel J. Stokes, M.D., Alexander J. Johnson, M.D., Nicholas G. Girardi, B.S., Miranda G. Manfre, B.S., Carson Keeter, M.S., Kevin K. Shinsako, P.A.-C., Eric C. McCarty, M.D., Jonathan T. Bravman, M.D., Rachel M. Frank, M.D.

“…Patients held consistently neutral views of posts educating colleagues, discussing physicians’ attendance and presentations at national research meetings, displaying aspects of surgeons’ personal lives, highlighting cases, such as radiographs, or magnetic resonance imaging, or other diagnostic imaging, and supporting marginalized groups. …”
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The Overlooked Threat of Hospital Falls During the Discharge Period: A Statewide Retrospective Analysis of Patient Safety Event Reports by Christine E. Sanchez, Rebecca Jones

“…While previous research has primarily focused on inpatient or post-discharge falls, the transitional period surrounding discharge has been understudied…”
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Aerial image segmentation of embankment dams based on multispectral remote sensing: a case study in the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Complex, Pará, Brazil by Carlos André de Mattos Teixeira, Thabatta Moreira Alves de Araujo, Evelin Cardoso, Marcos Antonio Costantin Filho, João Weyl Costa, Carlos Renato Lisboa Frances

“…A comprehensive feature engineering and ranking approach is presented to select the most descriptive features that represent the four dataset classes. …”
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CardioMEMS guided heart failure management in cardio-oncology patients: a tertiary care cancer center experience by Abdelrahman Ali, Maximillian Bourdillon, Hyeon-Ju Ryoo Ali, Juhee Song, Efstratios Koutroumpakis, Poonam Jewani, Shaden Khalaf, Ihab Hamzeh, Salil Kumar, Nicolas L. Palaskas, Jean-Bernard Durand, Cezar Iliescu

“…Results The study included 28 patients, with hypertension (78%) and hyperlipidemia (78%) as prevalent comorbidities. Most patients had heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (64%). …”
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ALDH1A3 correlates with luminal phenotype in prostate cancer by Shangqian Wang, Chao Liang, Meiling Bao, Xiao Li, Lei Zhang, Shuang Li, Chao Qin, Pengfei Shao, Jie Li, Lixin Hua, Zengjun Wang

“…Prostate cancer is the most common male malignancies in the United States. …”
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Multiseptate Gallbladder, a Rare Cause of Recurrent Abdominal Pain: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Can İhsan Öztorun, Rabia Demir, Esra Karakuş, Ceyda Kırsaçlıoğlu Tuna, Süleyman Arif Bostancı, Atilla Şenaylı, Müjdem Nur Azılı, Emrah Şenel

“…Macroscopic evaluation demonstrated multiple septa dividing the gallbladder into compartments of different sizes. In the post-operative follow-up, liver enzymes fell within the normal range. …”
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Transcriptomic characterisation of acute myeloid leukemia cell lines bearing the same t(9;11) driver mutation reveals different molecular signatures by Elise Georges, William Ho, Miren Urrutia Iturritza, Lel Eory, Kamila Malysz, Ulduz Sobhiafshar, Alan L. Archibald, Daniel J. Macqueen, Barbara Shih, David Garrick, Douglas Vernimmen

“…Abstract Background Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of acute leukemia, accounting for 20% of cases in children and adolescents. …”
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Dam‐Induced Alternations of Flow and Sediment Regimes in the Tibetan Plateau: An Example of the Yarlung Tsangpo River by Dongmei Zhao, Kunlong He, Donghong Xiong, Xixi Lu, Xiaomin Qin, Xiaodan Wang, Wenduo Zhang

“…Specifically, sediment reduction was notable under dam regulation on both the mainstem and tributary, with a moderate alteration degree of 45.34%, particularly during the main flood and post‐flood seasons. Dominant sediment periodicities at annual and semi‐annual scales were nearly eliminated, while flow periodicities were preserved. …”
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Exploration of beta diversity across altitude gradients in an Alpine region in Trentino using FOSS4G and a historical floristic archive by F. Geri, F. Zottele, N. La Porta, C. Tattoni, P. Zatelli, M. Ciolli, M. Ciolli

“…GRASS, QGIS, PostGIS, and R were used to process data from 517 linear transects, encompassing 190,761 species records. …”
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Life cycle environmental impacts and costs of water electrolysis technologies for green hydrogen production in the future by Jan Christian Koj, Petra Zapp, Christoph Wieland, Klaus Görner, Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs

“…The electricity demand of electrolysis technologies is the main contributor to environmental impacts and levelized costs in most of the considered cases. Conclusions A unique combination of possible technological, environmental, and economic developments in the production of green hydrogen up to the year 2045 was presented. …”
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THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE STATE SOCIAL-ECONOMICAL POLICY (Part 3) by E. A. Zhukov

“…It is inadmissible not to understand this to persons responsible for state social and economic policy.Conclusions and Relevance: the proposals on improving the Russian state tax policy as one of the most important conceptual bases of the country's successful social and economic development have been developed. …”
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Randomized clinical trial of thrice-weekly 4-month moxifloxacin or gatifloxacin containing regimens in the treatment of new sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients. by Mohideen S Jawahar, Vaithilingam V Banurekha, Chinnampedu N Paramasivan, Fathima Rahman, Rajeswari Ramachandran, Perumal Venkatesan, Rani Balasubramanian, Nagamiah Selvakumar, Chinnaiyan Ponnuraja, Allaudeen S Iliayas, Navaneethapandian P Gangadevi, Balambal Raman, Dhanaraj Baskaran, Santhanakrishnan R Kumar, Marimuthu M Kumar, Victor Mohan, Sudha Ganapathy, Vanaja Kumar, Geetha Shanmugam, Niruparani Charles, Murugesan R Sakthivel, Kannivelu Jagannath, Chockalingam Chandrasekar, Ramavaram T Parthasarathy, Paranji R Narayanan

“…<h4>Background</h4>Shortening tuberculosis (TB) treatment duration is a research priority. This paper presents data from a prematurely terminated randomized clinical trial, of 4-month moxifloxacin or gatifloxacin regimens, in South India.…”
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Principles and criteria affecting the physical identity shaping Iranian contemporary architecture (case study of the Second Pahlavi period) by Hamid Majedi, Seyede Sara Ebnoreza, Farh Habib

“…It would be considered as a variable affecting Tehran public building issues and investigated during the present study. This research reviews the physical identity of the public buildings in the Second Pahlavi period. …”
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Emergence delirium in small animals: a first step towards an objective assessment by Larissa Irina Mattei, Ludovica Chiavaccini, Claudia Spadavecchia, Alessandro Mirra, Alessandro Mirra

“…The observations conducted in the present study can help further evaluation of this phenomenon in dogs and cats.…”
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Perspectives of Medical Students in Using Blended Learning: A Thematic Analysis by Almohammadi NH, Elnugomi NM, Atta Elmannan AA, Zalat MM

“…Blended learning was the most students preferred because they could adapt quickly to the combination of online and face-to-face learning. …”
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