HIV Drug Resistance Profile in Clients Experiencing Treatment Failure After the Transition to a Dolutegravir-Based First-Line Antiretroviral Treatment Regimen in Mozambique by Nalia Ismael, Cidia Hussein, Cacildo Magul, Humberto Inguane, Aleny Couto, Amancio Nhangave, Ana Muteerwa, Mahoudo Bonou, Artur Ramos, Peter Wesley Young, Sonia Chilundo, Rhoderick Machekano, Lauren Greenberg, Juliana da Silva, Nilesh Bhatt

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Audit Partner Characteristics and Their Impacts on Audit Quality: Evidence from around the World by Lingting Jiang, Janean Rundo, Linna Shi, Nan Zhou

“…With the adoption of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Rule 3211, mandating disclosure of audit engagement partner details for U.S.-registered public accounting firms on Form AP, there has been a surge in U.S. firm research exploring the significance of audit partner characteristics on audit outcomes in recent years. …”
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New Zealand’s Foreign Policy Balancing of China and the United States in the Indo-Pacific Region: Narratives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Annual Reports by Greg Simons, Marina A. Glaser (Kukartseva)

“…The growing geopolitical confrontation between the U.S. and China is creating dilemmas for small states. …”
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Parental Reactions to Children’s Negative Emotions in France and the United States: Links to Preschoolers’ Socioemotional Outcomes by Kathryn Li, Claire Hofer, Aya I. Williams, Qing Zhou

“…These findings revealed differences and similarities in PRCNEs between French and U.S. families and have implications for early childhood education practices promoting socioemotional competence.…”
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B-Flow Twinkling Sign in Preoperative Evaluation of Cervical Lymph Nodes in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Giuseppina Napolitano, Antonio Romeo, Andrea Bianco, Maurizio Gasperi, Pio Zeppa, Luca Brunese

“…The first site of metastasis is the cervical lymph nodes (LNs). The ultrasonography (US) is the best diagnostic method for the detection of cervical metastatic LNs. …”
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Estimation and identification of parameters in a lumpedcerebrovascular model by Scott R. Pope, Laura M. Ellwein, Cheryl L. Zapata, Vera Novak, C. T. Kelley, Mette S. Olufsen

“…Subset selection allows us to identifya set of independent candidate parameters that can be estimated given limiteddata. …”
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An In Silico Approach for Evaluating a Fraction-Based, Risk Assessment Method for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Mixtures by Nina Ching Y. Wang, Glenn E. Rice, Linda K. Teuschler, Joan Colman, Raymond S. H. Yang

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Point-of-Care Diagnostic Device for Traumatic Pneumothorax: Low Sensitivity of the Unblinded PneumoScan™ by M. Rehfeldt, A. Slagman, B. A. Leidel, M. Möckel, T. Lindner

“…CXR detected four (sensitivity: 27,3%) and thoracic US two PTX correctly (sensitivity: 25%). Conclusion. …”
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Changes in streamflow seasonality associated with hydroclimatic variability in the north-central United States among three discrete temporal periods, 1946–2020 by Nancy A. Barth, Harper N. Wavra, Anthony R. Koebele, Steven K. Sando

“…Study region: North-central United States Study focus: This study uses circular statistics to characterize the seasonal properties of annual maximum (AMS) and peaks-over-threshold (POT) streamflow time series for 841 and 623 selected U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamgages, respectively, without regulation or substantial diversion among common 75-, 50-, and 30-year trend periods through water year 2020 (the period from October 1, 2019, through September 30, 2020). …”
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Solar parking lot capacity: an abundant dual-use alternative to meet demand for the renewable energy transition by Scott Markwith

“…Most utility-scale solar facilities (USSFs) in the United States (US) are planned or installed in grasslands, pastures, agriculture land, and timberland, with aggressive future expansion plans. …”
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La poétique de la pierre dans l'œuvre de Thomas Hardy : du livre de pierre au livre de vie by Annie Escuret

“…In La Parole muette (1998), Rancière insists on the paradoxes of literary representation as novels seem to indicate an embodied world that is forever awaiting embodiment, a liminal world which reminds us of Derrida's concept of the « spectral ». Rancière's works are helpful because they help us find a way out of the usual barren oppositions between mimetic aesthetics and the postmodern conceptions of representation as he shows us how literature manages to reorganize the relations between past and future communities and between words and things.…”
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Sources of Legal Regulation of Mergers, Acquisitions, Consolidations, Joint Stock Companies in Russia and Corporations in the United States by S. E. Kuzmin

“…These laws fall into three main groups: securities laws, antitrust (competition) laws and civil and joint-stock legislation in Russia and corporate laws in the US. All the three groups are federal laws in Russia, while in the US the first two are federal too, but the last one is state laws. …”
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Vaginal Dysplasia and HIV: An African American and Caribbean American Cohort Study by Lunthita M. Duthely, Jose A. Carugno, Cayla Y. Suthumphong, Erica B. Feldman, JoNell E. Potter

“…Vaginal cancer is a rare disease with poor clinical outcomes and limited therapeutic options. In the United States (US), minority women and older women are disproportionately diagnosed with late-stage vaginal cancer. …”
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Polyethylene Glycol 3350 in the Treatment of Chronic Idiopathic Constipation: Post hoc Analysis Using FDA Endpoints by Stacy B. Menees, Anthony J. Lembo, William D. Chey

“…The efficacy and safety of polyethylene glycol 3350 for chronic idiopathic constipation have been demonstrated in randomized controlled trials. A new US Food and Drug Administration-recommended primary efficacy endpoint for evaluating chronic idiopathic constipation prompted our reevaluation of previously reported clinical data with polyethylene glycol 3350. …”
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Trends in spinal implant utilization and pricing by Gabrielle Lucia Dykhouse, Rachel A. Bratescu, Osama N. Kashlan, McGrath Lynn Jr., Roger Härtl, Galal A. Elsayed

“…Introduction: The escalation of United States (U.S.) spine surgery volume has been accompanied by considerable advancements in our understanding of spine physiology and technology. …”
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Zionism and Academic Hegemony: The Intersection of Power, Knowledge, and Suppression in the United States Universities by Mehmet Rakipoğlu

“… This paper critically explores the impact of Zionism on academic freedom and knowledge production in U.S. universities. It emphasizes how political lobbying, financial influence, and allegations of antisemitism are strategically employed to establish a cultural hegemony that determines what discourse is acceptable. …”
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Acute Cholecystitis-like Presentation in an Adult Patient with Gallbladder Agenesis: Case Report and Literature Review by Nahla Elzubeir, Kevin Nguyen, Muhammad Nazim

“…Vitals and laboratory values were unremarkable except for mild leukocytosis, and RUQ US reported “contracted GB, cholelithiasis, 4.2 mm wall thickness, and no ductal dilation.” …”
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Legal Norms in the Focus of the Constructivism Theory by O. Khalabudenko

“…The application of the approach under consideration allows us to state that the subject of legal communication is a way of representing the corresponding legal structure through his target behavior.…”
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Evaluating Surveillance Breast Imaging and Biopsy in Older Breast Cancer Survivors by Tracy Onega, Julie Weiss, Roberta diFlorio, Todd MacKenzie, Martha Goodrich, Steven Poplack

“…The proportion of women with mammography was high over the follow-up period (81.5% at 78 months), but use of US or MRI was much lower (8.0%—first follow-up window, 4.7% by 78 months). …”
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Relative age effect across the talent identification process of youth female soccer players in the United States: Influence of birth year, position, biological maturation, and skil... by Laura Finnegan, Mirelle van Rijbroek, José M. Oliva-Lozano, Rick Cost, Matthew Andrew

“…The aims of the study were to examine the relative age effect (RAE) in youth female soccer players in the United States (US) and the influence of birth year, playing position, estimated maturation and skill ratings. …”
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