Evaluating the Analgesic Efficacy of Conventional versus Ultrasound-guided Bilateral Superficial Cervical Plexus Block in Thyroid Surgeries: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Shivani Gautam, Sushil Guria, Bhavya Krishna

“…Materials and Methods: Sixty patients (19–64 years) undergoing thyroid surgeries were divided into two groups – Group US (n = 30): patients undergoing ultrasound-guided BSCPB and Group LM (n = 30): patients undergoing landmark technique for BSCPB. …”
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Military security in the Arctic: New threats to Russia by V. N. Konyshev, A. A. Sergunin

“…As such, it reflects the American elites’ awareness of the growing decline in the U.S. influence and the erosion of the ‘rules-based order’. …”
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Models of Historical Memory and past Representation of Vilnius University in the 19th-20th Centuries by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…The shifts in the historiography at the juncture of the 20th and 21st centuries enable us to perceive the Great Duchy of Lithuania as a country of East Central Europe, bound to make a leap towards Europeanization. …”
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Budget Impact Analysis of Darbepoetin Alfa Every 3 Weeks versus Epoetin Alfa Every Week for Cancer Patients with Anemia due to the Effect of Concomitant Myelosuppressive Chemothera... by November McGarvey, Hairong Xu

“…., chemotherapy-induced anemia [CIA]) with erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESAs), either darbepoetin alfa (DA) once every 3 weeks (Q3W) or epoetin alfa (EA) once every week (QW), for a large US health plan in 2014. **Methods:** Using a patient database from a large US health plan in 2010 (n = 14 811 119), the potential CIA patient population was determined (1842 patients each per DA and EA). …”
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Modlitební knihy jako pramen k obrazu zbožnosti a genderovým konstruktům 19. století by Zuzana Čevelová

“…Comparing the Nebeklíč and Hauber’s Domácí poklad (= Household Treasure) gives us a picture of the typical content of a 19th-century prayer book, which is essentially the same today. …”
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Mitral Valve Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Volumes and Trends by Kris Kumar, Timothy F. Simpson, Harsh Golwala, Adnan K. Chhatriwalla, Scott M. Chadderdon, Robert L. Smith, Howard K. Song, Ryan R. Reeves, Paul Sorajja, Firas E. Zahr

“…From 2015 through 2019, a total of 27,034 MTEER procedures were performed among Medicare patients in the US. The nationwide incidence increased from 6.2 per 100,000 patients in 2015 to 23.8 per 100,000 patients in 2019, a 283% increase over the study period (Ptrend < 0.001). …”
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A Long Shadow of World War II: Development of the National Security Concept in the United States by V. A. Veselov

“…Being considered as an antipode to the concept of collective security, this concept reflected the will of the US elites not only to get integrated in the existing system of international relations, but to create a new one, which would be based on the American values and would ensure the stable functioning of the US economy. …”
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Investigation of the relationship between number of tweets and USDTRY exchange rate with wavelet coherence and transfer entropy analysis by Cengiz Karatas, Sukriye Tuysuz, Kazim Berk Kucuklerli, Veysel Ulusoy

“…TE enables us to quantify the net information flow between the number of tweets and USDTRY. …”
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Time in Russian and Japanese Lingo-cultures by N. E. Gorelova

“…The article highlights the concept of "time" as the most important axiom which is a part of linguocultural worldview of different nations, that also allows us to consider this concept in terms of its cultural distinctive potential. …”
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Archéologie d’un jardin de sculptures du xxe siècle by Aline Gheysens

“…Let’s take a moment in order for us to imagine a large bramble bush which, as time goes by, has become a garden secretly gathering the sculptures collection of a great art dealer of the 20th century. …”
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Case Report of HIV and Neurosyphilis Coinfection in a Recent Migrant: Old Diseases in New Faces by Alexa Van Besien, Ian Paolo Mauricio, Ronald Belfort, Joseph Lykins

“…The US has seen a marked increase in migration from Haiti, with implications for public health and migrant health management. …”
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Cost Impact Model of a Novel Multi-mRNA Host Response Assay for Diagnosis and Risk Assessment of Acute Respiratory Tract Infections and Sepsis in the Emergency Department by John E. Schneider, Jonathan Romanowsky, Philipp Schuetz, Ivana Stojanovic, Henry K. Cheng, Oliver Liesenfeld, Ljubomir Buturovic, Timothy E. Sweeney

“…**Results:** Compared to standard of care including procalcitonin, the superior test characteristics of HostDx Sepsis resulted in an average cost savings of approximately US$1974 per patient (-31.3%) exclusive of the cost of HostDx Sepsis. …”
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Renal Function and Ultrasound Imaging in Elderly Subjects by Luca Zanoli, Giulia Romano, Marcello Romano, Stefania Rastelli, Francesco Rapisarda, Antonio Granata, Pasquale Fatuzzo, Mariano Malaguarnera, Pietro Castellino

“…We evaluated in elderly subjects (a) the ability of GFR formulas to discriminate chronic kidney disease (CKD), (b) the correlation between renal morphology and function, and (c) the usefulness of combined r-US and GFR formulas to detect CKD. A total of 72 patients were enrolled (mean age 80 ± 7 years, male sex 44%, serum creatinine 0.98 ± 0.42 mg/dL, and CKD 57%). …”
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Structural Alteration, Hydration Stability, Heavy Metal Removal Efficiency, and Montmorillonite Porosity Fate by Coupling the Soil Solution pH and a Thermal Gradient by Chadha Mejri, Walid Oueslati, Abdesslem Ben Haj Amara

“…Additionally, the theoretical XRD profile decomposition allowed us to prove link between the domination of the segregated stacking layers mode against the constraint strength. …”
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Trends in scientific output on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community research: A bibliometric analysis of the literature by David AN, Kavita BATRA

“…Furthermore, Peru and Thailand, besides the U.S., Australia, and Canada, were the top countries that had relatively allocated more of their scientific efforts to LGBT research based on the calculated activity indices. …”
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Challenges in designing interventions for food insecure families with food allergy in a Californian latinx cohort by Marleni Albarran, Emily Brown, Erin Martinez, Andrew R. Chin, Sayantani B. Sindher, Christopher M. Warren, R. Sharon Chinthrajah

“…Food allergy poses substantial social, economic, and quality of life burdens which are even heavier for families that are struggling with food insecurity. In the United States (US), food insecurity disproportionately affects vulnerable and historically marginalized communities, such as Latino/a/x and Black households. …”
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Why have tobacco control policies stalled? Using genetic moderation to examine policy impacts. by Jason M Fletcher

“…However, prevalence rates have stagnated during the past two decades in the US, even with large tobacco taxes and expansions of clean air laws. …”
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Optimal design for dynamical modeling of pest populations by H. T. Banks, R. A. Everett, Neha Murad, R. D. White, J. E. Banks, Bodil N. Cass, Jay A. Rosenheim

“…Data collected according to this procedure along with dynamical modeling will allow us to estimate population dynamics from presence/absence-based data sets through the development of a scaling relationship. …”
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Cross-sectional study of the association between cataract surgery and age-related macular degeneration in the era of phacoemulsification in the national health and nutrition examin... by Jian Zhang, Wei Wang, Stuart Keel, Mingguang He, Zhuoting Zhu, Huan Liao

“…Objective To determine the association between cataract surgery and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a representative US sample.Design Population-based, cross-sectional study.Setting The US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005–2008.Participants A total of 5401 participants aged ≥40 years had information in cataract surgery status and gradable retinal photographs for right eyes.Methods Cataract surgery status was obtained from questionnaire. …”
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The Belt and Road Initiative and the AIIB: Potential Impact on the Economic Architecture of Asia by Ya. V. Leksyutina

“…The second wave in the development of economic processes in Asia (from 2010 to 2017) was characterized by a ‘soft’ rivalry between the US and China for setting the priority model of economic integration in the region (Trans-Pacific Economic Partnership vs. …”
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