Evaluation of a codesigned group cognitive–behavioural therapy intervention for trans young people (TAG TEAM): protocol for a feasibility trial and a subsequent pilot RCT by Carmen C Pace, Ken C Pang, Alessandra Chinsen, Tim J Cronin, Michelle A Tollit

“…Primary outcomes are the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention and the study design and associated procedures, including comparison of the in-person and online delivery modes. …”
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Prospective incidence epidemiology study protocol: conducting active surveillance to assess the burden of Lyme disease (BOLD) in primary care practices in endemic areas of six Euro... by Mendwas Dzingina, James H Stark, Bradford D Gessner, Kristen E Allen, Elizabeth Begier, Andreas Pilz, Alexandra Loew-Baselli, Lisa R Harper, Molly Bowdery, Kate Halsby, Nicole Bézay, Ben Parslow

“…Participants undergo interview and clinical assessments to establish medical history, final clinical diagnosis, clinical manifestations and quality of life impact. Study-specific procedures include LD serology, skin punch biopsies and Lyme manifestation photographs. …”
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Simulation Studies of Biomass Transport in a Power Plant with Regard to Environmental Constraints by Andrzej Jastrząb, Witold Kawalec, Zbigniew Krysa, Paweł Szczeszek

“…Then, a dedicated noise emission model was built for the purposes of mandatory environmental impact assessment procedures for the planned expansion of the BSS. The noise model showed the possibility of exceeding the permissible noise levels at night in selected locations. …”
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Curvatura vertical de vertentes em microbacias pela análise de modelos digitais de elevação Curvature slope profile in watersheds through analysis of digital elevation models by Márcio de M. Valeriano

“…To program universally flexible procedures, the curvature calculation required the DEM spatial resolution as one of the inputs, so as to calculate a comparable absolute value, with slope difference (in percentage ratio) per horizontal distance (100 m) as unit. …”
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Topografía corneal en pacientes atendidos en Consulta de Cirugía Refractiva by Oreste Marcial Mariño Hidalgo, Rebeca García Pérez, Yunior Leyva García, Boris Carballo Hechavarría, Yanelis Castro Leon

“…The objective of thi study was to characterize the patients stage by means of corneal topography, due to the importance of this diagnosis procedure for determining the surgical treatment giving. …”
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Comparison of the analgesic efficacy of ultrasound-guided superficial serratus anterior plane block and intercostal nerve block for rib fractures: a randomized controlled trial by Musa Zengin, Onur Küçük, Muhyettin Aslan, Göktürk Fındık, Ali Alagöz

“…Pain levels were assessed using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) both prior to the procedure (Pre-Block, (T0)) and at specific time points following the intervention: 1st hour (T1), 2nd hour (T2), 4th hour (T4), 8th hour (T8), 16th hour (T16), and 24th hour (T24). …”
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Mid-term results after DAIR for patients with acute periprosthetic joint infections of the hip or knee by Alberto Alfieri Zellner, Niclas Watzlawik, Jonas Roos, Gunnar Thorben Rembert Hischebeth, Christian Prangenberg, Alexander Franz, Frank Sebastian Fröschen

“…The debridement, antibiotics, irrigation, and implant retention (DAIR) procedure is a key strategy for managing acute PJIs while preserving the prosthesis. …”
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Determinants of export activities in Ukrainian regions in the pre-conflict and the first-stage conflict periods by Elena Horská, Serhiy Moroz, Jozef Palkovič

“…The analysis was performed for coastal, non-coastal regions, and the country level separately. The modelling procedure included all standard methods for panel data analysis. …”
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Digital system of registering, storage and actualization of municipal legal acts: elaboration and approbation in the territory of Krasnoyarsk krai by I. A. Damm, O. V. Ron’Zhina, E. A. Akunchenko, A. V. Korkhov, M. A. Volkova

“…Additional features of EIS aimed at the implementation of the provisions of the Federal Law “On ensuring access to information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government” may occur when the legislator makes changes to the procedure for the official publication of municipal legal acts provided for in part 2 of Article 47 of the Federal Law “On general principles of local self-government in the Russian Federation”.Practical significance: consist in the possibility of wide implementation of the electronic information system of accounting, storing and updating of municipal normative legal acts in the activities of local governments, developed by the authors’ team.…”
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Mycobacteriosis in patients with breast implants: a case review from the Ivo Pitanguy Institute Micobacteriose em implantes mamários: revisão da casuística do Instituto Ivo Pitangu... by Gabrielle Bessa Wajnberg, Vinicius Volpe D'Angieri Basile, Luís Gustavo Moraes Prado, José de Faria, Henrique N Radwanski, Ivo Pitanguy

“…CONCLUSIONS: Prophylaxis is fundamental for reducing the incidence of mycobacteriosis during plastic surgery procedures. However, the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of mycobacterial diseases are important to minimize the morbidity of this type of infection<br>INTRODUÇÃO: Nos últimos anos, foram crescentes os registros de infecções por micobactéria de crescimento rápido em cirurgia plástica, mesmo com a melhoria dos métodos de assepsia/ antissepsia e da antibioticoprofilaxia. …”
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Performance in National Hockey League Players Decreases 1 Year After Undergoing Hip Arthroscopy With Return to Baseline by the Second Year by Emmitt Hayes, M.D., Sasha Carsen, M.D., M.B.A., Bogdan Matache, M.D., Michael Pickell, M.D.

“…Results: Twenty-eight players underwent 29 eligible procedures. Preinjury, postinjury year 1, and postinjury year 2 WAR/60 were 0.06, 0.01, 0.04, respectively, in cases (P = .01, P = .12 compared to preinjury) and 0.07, 0.06, and 0.04, respectively, in controls (P = .35, P = .01, P = 0.82) compared to cases. …”
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Enhancing laparoscopic visibility: efficient surgical smoke clearance innovatively using nebulization technology by Xiaosong Lin, Qiming Fan, Renjie Li, Ruijian Chen, Zifeng Yang, Yong Li

“…Nebulization (n = 6) or elimination (n = 6) procedures were performed to manage surgical smoke produced by electrocautery hook or ultrasonic scalpel on various tissues of twelve rabbits. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Forensic Expertology by E. V. Chesnokova, A. I. Usov, G. G. Omel’yanyuk, M. V. Nikulina

“…To solve organizational and legal issues of integrating AI technologies into legal proceedings and, specifically, into forensic examination, a system of standards regulating the order, algorithms and procedures for its implementation and use of is proposed. …”
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ARTERIAL WALL STIFFNESS ASSESSMENT FOR METABOLIC SYNDROME by M. A. Druzhilov, O. Yu. Druzhilova, V. V. Otmakhov, T. Yu. Kuznetsova

“…It is aimful, to the patients with MS and low or moderate SCORE risk in case of the PWV at the level for EVA criteria, to perform screening of organ damage, firstly, subclinical atherosclerosis, for consequent reclassification of EVA and reconsideration of the volume of necessary prevention procedures.…”
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Opioid Use Following Primary Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty Varies With Age by Shah Fahad, MD, Jason A. Bryman, MD, Michael A. Behun, MD, Maryam Salimi, MD, Olivia Vyge, MS, Nina Rosen, BS, Todd Miner, MD, Jason M. Jennings, MD, DPT

“…Background: Reducing unused prescribed opioids following arthroplasty procedures remains a challenge. The relationship between opioid consumption and age has seldom been investigated. …”
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The Modeling of the Probable Behaviour of Insider Cyber Fraudsters in Banks by Hanna Yarovenko, Aleksandra Kuzior, Alona Raputa

“…The results of the performed procedures contributed to the implementation of associative analysis for three sets of variables. …”
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Parameters of Abdominal Vein and their Association with Milk Production in Dairy Cows by Constantin Găvan, Mihaela Riza, Ioana-Claudia Dunăreanu

“…Linear regression model was used to evaluate relationship between diameter of milk vein and blood flow volume (BFVol) in end of lactation, dry period and early lactation stages of milk production of dairy cows. Also, the same procedure was employed to investigate relationship between diameter, BFVol and maximum velocity (MaxV) of milk vein and milk yield in early lactation stage. …”
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Anatomical lung resection in patients with severely impaired pulmonary function by Tomoyuki Nakagiri, Hayan Merhej, Akylbek Saipbaev, Alaa Selman, Heiko Golpon, Tobias Goecke, Arjang Ruhparwar, Patrick Zardo

“…Results We included 16 patients (9 males, age 68.4 ± 8.9 years old) scheduled for lung cancer surgery. The procedures were performed via uniportal video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS; n = 10, 62.5%, including one non-intubated VATS) or via thoracotomy (n = 6, 37.5%) and included lobectomy (9 patients, 55.3%) or (multiple) segmentectomy. …”
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PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF INTSTRUMENTAL DIAGNOSTICS IN CHRONIC CORONARY HEART DISEASE. DATA FROM “PROGNOS CHD” by S. N. Tolpygina, S. Yu. Martsevich, E. A. Gofman, A. D. Deev

“…High predictive significance of various broad known instrumental methods of diagnostics, like resting ECG, Echo or ET, make possible to use them for risk stratification of cardiovascular complications development in chronic CHD and for defining of indications to invasive diagnostic procedures.…”
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Deep learning-based fully automated detection and segmentation of pelvic lymph nodes on diffusion-weighted images for prostate cancer: a multicenter study by Zhaonan Sun, Pengsheng Wu, Tongtong Zhao, Ge Gao, Huihui Wang, Xiaodong Zhang, Xiaoying Wang

“…Methods Utilizing pelvic diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) scans, the 3D V-Net framework underwent training on a dataset comprising data from a hospital with 1,151 patients, encompassing 32,507 annotated LNs, following data augmentation procedures. Subsequently, external validation was conducted on data from 401 patients across three additional hospitals, encompassing 7,707 LNs. …”
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