Stroke and snakebite: case report Acidente vascular cerebral e ofidismo: relato de caso by Paulo César Santos-Soares, Aroldo Bacellar, Heitor Portella Povoas, Alex Ferreira Brito, Diana Lara Pinto Santana

“…The clinical and laboratorial characteristics to identify the victims that present a high risk of presenting strokes are discussed in order to identify early those patients, so that they may be treated in a more precocious and effective way.…”
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Bystander availability, CPR uptake, and AED use during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by David B. Sidebottom, Robyn Painting, Charles D. Deakin

“…A lone bystander was present in 162 (35.9%) cases, two bystanders in 149 (33.0%) cases, and three or more bystanders in 140 (31.0%) cases. …”
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On the current and future potential of simulations based on directed acyclic graphs by Lutz P. Breitling, Anca D. Dragomir, Chongyang Duan, George Luta

“…With such extensions, simulations based on DAGs would be an even more powerful tool to advance our understanding of the rapidly growing toolbox of real-world analytics.…”
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Aufeises of the Indigirka river basin based on recent Landsat satellite images and historical data by Olga Makarieva, Andrey Shikhov, Andrey Ostashov, Nataliia Nesterova

“…The paper presents the methods and the results of the development of the digital catalogue of aufeises for the Indigirka river basin, with the use of Landsat images and historical data. …”
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Exploring the perceptions of sedentary behaviour in community-dwelling older adults aged 75 and older: a series of focus group interviews by Ragy Tadrous, Anne Forster, Amanda Farrin, Peter A. Coventry, Andrew Clegg

“…However, the activities performed in sitting may be performed for longer, and the barriers to reducing sedentary behaviour may present more frequently. Social support appears valuable when attempting to reduce sedentary time, however, further research is necessary to explore the views of older adults who are socially isolated.…”
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Schrödinger Potentials with Polynomial Solutions of Heun-Type Equations by Géza Lévai, Tibor Soltész

“…The present review discusses the solution of the Heun, confluent, biconfluent, double confluent, and triconfluent equations in terms of polynomial expansions, and applies the results to generate exactly solvable Schrödinger potentials. …”
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Epidemiology of Orthopaedic Trauma Cases at a Tertiary Level Hospital in Nepal: An Observational Study by Manoj Kandel, Sarik Kumar Shrestha, Krishna Prasad Paudel, Rabin Bom, Ashmita Paudel, Toya Raj Bhatta, Pritam Chaudhary, Prakash Kandel, Sumit Sharma

“…Conclusions: Orthopaedic trauma was seen more commonly in males and the most common causes of injury are falls and RTA. …”
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Study of Correlation of Severity and Quality of Life in Patients with Congenital Ichthyosis by Priyanka Hemrajani, Mona Sharma, Tapan Kumar Dhali, Sharath Kumar B.C.

“…Females outnumbered the sample by more than 2/3rd. ‘Symptoms and feelings’ was the most affected domain in the CDLQI. …”
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Deciphering codon usage patterns and evolutionary forces in chloroplast genes of Camellia sinensis var. assamica and Camellia sinensis var. sinensis in comparison to Camellia pubic... by Sophiarani Yengkhom, Arif Uddin, Supriyo Chakraborty

“…The overall AT content was more than GC content, i.e., genes were AT rich. The scaled chi-square (SCS) value indicated that the CUB of cp genes was low. …”
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Experimental verification of the six sectors neural DTC approach of squirrel cage induction motors by Abdessmad Milles, Habib Benbouhenni, Noureddine Bensedira, Nicu Bizon, Naamane Debdouche, Ilhami Colak, Ghoulemallah Boukhalfa, Z. M. S. Elbarbary, Mohammed M. Alammar

“…However, using this approach has several drawbacks and problems. This paper presents an experimental work using real equipment of an innovative method that combines six sectors of DTC technique and neural networks (NNs). …”
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Sympatry and evolution: relationships between the endemic Myrcia guarujana and the widely distributed M. spectabilis by M. A. G. Magenta, L. F. Almeida, L. M. Rocha, C. E. A. Batista, R. H. G. Priolli

“…Principal component analysis presented two clusters referring to the species, with the MS1 (M. spectabilis- 1) sample isolated from both. …”
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Fault Diagnosis in a 2 MW Wind Turbine Drive Train by Vibration Analysis: A Case Study by Rafael Tuirán, Héctor Águila, Esteve Jou, Xavier Escaler, Toufik Mebarki

“…This paper presents a vibration analysis method for detecting typical faults in gears of the drive train of a 2 MW wind turbine. …”
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Meta-analysis of mismatch repair polymorphisms within the cogent consortium for colorectal cancer susceptibility. by Simone Picelli, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Hoffmeister, Ceres Fernández-Rozadilla, Angel Carracedo, Antoni Castells, Sergi Castellví-Bel, Memebers of EPICOLON Consortium-Gastrointestinal Oncology Group of the Spanish Gastroenterological Association, Alessio Naccarati, Barbara Pardini, Ludmila Vodickova, Heiko Müller, Bente A Talseth-Palmer, Geoffrey Stibbard, Paolo Peterlongo, Carmela Nici, Silvia Veneroni, Li Li, Graham Casey, Albert Tenesa, Susan M Farrington, Ian Tomlinson, Victor Moreno, Tom van Wezel, Juul Wijnen, Malcolm Dunlop, Paolo Radice, Rodney J Scott, Pavel Vodicka, Clara Ruiz-Ponte, Hermann Brenner, Stephan Buch, Henry Völzke, Jochen Hampe, Clemens Schafmayer, Annika Lindblom

“…Recently our group performed a case-control study for eight Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in 4 CRC genes. The present investigation is a follow-up of that study. …”
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α-linolenic acid-induced facilitation of GABAergic synaptic transmission is mediated via acid-sensing ion channel (ASIC1a) activity in the basolateral amygdala by Volodymyr I. Pidoplichko, Taiza H. Figueiredo, Maria F. M. Braga, Ann M. Marini

“…Epilepsy affects more than 70 million people worldwide. A seizure focus that develops in different cortical brain regions can present as either focal or generalized seizures. …”
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The Occurrence of Supernumerary Umbilical Cord Vessels: A Review for Practicing Clinicians by Éva Horváth-Varga, Eszter Hódi, Gyula Pásztor, Márta Katona, Hajnalka Orvos, Zita Gyurkovits

“…<b>Methods</b>: A review of the clinical phenomenon of the four-vessel umbilical cord and its complications was conducted using case studies and literature reviews in PubMed from 1977 to the present and in Google Scholar from 1966 to the present. …”
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Cooperación Empresarial en PYMES by Arnoldo Araya Leandro

“…Las pymes (Pequeñas y medianas empresas) debenevolucionar y prepararse para ser competitivas no soloa nivel nacional sino también a nivel internacional,superando sus dificultades y limitaciones. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar elproceso de cooperación empresarial en pymes, modelosde cooperación y los objetivos de la cooperación enpymes. …”
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Ventriculocisternostomia de Torkildsen no tratamento do hidrocefalo não comunicante: resultados em 67 casos Ventriculocisternostomy of Torkildsen in the treatment of non-communicat... by José A. Gonçalves da Silva, Kurt Schuermann, Hermann Dietz

“…It is however contra-indicated in cases of large tumors and in the inflammatory process involving the posterior fossa. 6) In the present series the obstruction of the draining-system was very uncommon being observed in only three patients. 7) No cases of spinal fluid fistula or meningitis were observed in the present study.…”
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Adaptation of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 by Pablo D. Valencia, Anabel de la Rosa-Gómez, Alan Ernesto Barba-Sánchez, Alejandrina Hernández-Posadas, María Jesús Hernandez-Jiménez

“…More closely resembling those of the longer PCL-5, in contrast to Price et al.'…”
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Water interaction with dental luting cements by means of sorption and solubility by Larissa Pincelli Chaves, Fabiana Mezzaroba Ortenzi Graciano, Odair Bim Júnior, Ana Paula Ribeiro do Vale Pedreira, Adriana Pigozzo Manso, Linda Wang

“…No materials differed from each other when the WSB was considered, except for the M, which presented the lowest WSB. Conclusions: Self-adhesive luting cements were more prone to WS since water is essential to their setting reaction. …”
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Machine Learning Adoption in Blockchain-Based Smart Applications: The Challenges, and a Way Forward by Sudeep Tanwar, Qasim Bhatia, Pruthvi Patel, Aparna Kumari, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Wei-Chiang Hong

“…The combination of these two technologies (ML and BT) can provide highly precise results. In this paper, we present a detailed study on ML adoption for making BT-based smart applications more resilient against attacks. …”
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