Lower-Quarter Y-Balance Test Differs by Age: Younger Athletes May Not Be Generalized to High School-Aged Counterparts by James J McGinley, Ben Randoing, Laura Saleem, Caroline Podvin, Henry B Ellis, Philip L Wilson, Sophia Ulman

“…# Background Given rising youth sport participation, 8 to 10-year-olds increasingly display comparable lower-extremity injury incidence to 11 to 17-year-olds and require effective return to sport criteria. …”
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Femur Length is Correlated with Isometric Quadriceps Strength in Post-Operative Patients by Robert S Dean, Nicholas N DePhillipo, Michael T Kiely, Nicole A Schwery, Jill K Monson, Robert F LaPrade

“…# BACKGROUND Few existing studies have examined the relationship between lower extremity bone length and quadriceps strength. # PURPOSE/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the relationship between lower extremity, tibia and femur lengths, and isometric quadriceps strength in patients undergoing knee surgery. …”
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Effect of Mining Thickness on Overburden Movement and Underground Pressure Characteristics for Extrathick Coal Seam by Sublevel Caving with High Bottom Cutting Height by Yongkang Yang, Yanrong Ma, Chunxu Ji, Tianhe Kang, Xingyun Guo

“…Because the coal seam is particularly thick and the mining intensity is large, the mining of extremely thick coal seams often causes a wide range of disturbed fractures, which in turn induces the phenomenon of strong underground pressure such as induced support crushing and water inrush. …”
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True Fibroma of Alveolar Mucosa by Shankargouda Patil, Roopa S. Rao, Sanketh Sharath, Anveeta Agarwal

“…However, benign mesenchymal neoplasms of the fibroblasts are extremely uncommon. Here we report a case of “True Fibroma of Alveolar Mucosa” for its rarity.…”
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Book review: Facing Forward: Residential Child Care in the 21st Century. David Crimmens and Ian Milligan, editors. by Adrian Ward

“…This is an extremely useful and timely collection of writing about the state of residential care in the UK. …”

Extensive Bilateral Extraluminal Perivascular Pulmonary Haemorrhage Associated with Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection by Angeline Reid, Peter Stride, Jonathan Hunter, Katerina Liew, T. Wood, Mostafa Seleem

“…The clinical and radiological picture has an extremely high mortality…”
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Disseminated rhinosporidial osteomyelitis: A rare case report by Samira Kumar Behera, Arpita Dhal, Ruchika Singh

“…Occurrence at extranasal sites such as cutaneous, subcutaneous, and bone is extremely rare. We hereby report a very rare case of disseminated rhinosporidial osteomyelitis.…”
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Covid-19 fully exposes Zimbabwe’s comatose economy by Tapiwa Chagonda

“… The Covid-19 pandemic has left Zimbabwe in an extremely difficult catch-22 situation. Given the nation’s parlous health system, conventional wisdom would suggest that the country should go into a total lockdown in a bid to contain the spread of the virus. …”
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From paths to stars by A. F. Alameddine

“…A structural characterization of extremal trees is also presented.…”
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On the moments of random variables uniformly distributed over a polytope by S. Paramasamy

“…In this note, the author derives a formula for E(XirXjs…), (the expected value of XirXjs…), in terms of the extreme points of the polytope.…”
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Orbital mesenchymal chondrosarcoma: a case report by Qian Luo, Shuai Wu

“…Extraskeletal orbital mesenchymal chondrosarcoma is an extremely rare and highly aggressive tumor. We herein report a case involving a woman in her early 20s diagnosed with orbital mesenchymal chondrosarcoma. …”
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Postoperative Megarectum in an Adult Patient with Imperforate Anus and Rectourethral Fistula by Yoshifumi Nakayama, Toshihito Uehara, Masaki Akiyama, Noritaka Minagawa, Takayuki Torigoe, Naohiro Fujimoto

“…A 71-year-old Japanese male presented with a mass in the lower abdomen which was 15 × 12 × 8 cm in diameter, edema in the right lower extremity, and frequent urination. He had undergone sigmoid loop colostomy for an imperforate anus as a newborn infant. …”
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Drought Analysis in East Nusa Tenggara (Indonesia) Using Regional Frequency Analysis by Heri Kuswanto, Anggi Wahyu Puspa, Imam Safawi Ahmad, Fausania Hibatullah

“…The drought return period analysis, for conditions of 40% of normal rainfall, concludes that the region containing the Fransiskus Xaverius, Gewayantana, and Mali stations has the highest drought risk, indicated by the fastest return period estimate of 2 years and 4 months. Moreover, the extreme drought analysis shows that two of the regions have the potential to experience the return of extreme drought, with less than 20% of normal rainfall, in less than four years.…”
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Mitotically Active Plexiform Fibrohistiocytic Tumor by Ebru Zemheri, Şeyma Özkanlı, Serkan Şenol, Filiz Ozen, Cigdem Ulukaya Durakbaşa, İlkin Zindancı, Hamit Okur

“…The tumor is most commonly located on upper extremities, whereas involvement of back region is rare. …”
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Counteracting greenhouse gas and aerosol influences intensify global water seasonality over the past century by Fubo Zhao, Wenbo Shi, Yiping Wu, Yanqing Lian, Qiang Li

“…While many studies have focused on mean or extreme precipitation, the response of water availability seasonality, influencing yearly water distribution beyond individual extremes, to human-induced climate change remains underexplored. …”
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Super elastic and negative triboelectric polymer matrix for high performance mechanoluminescent platforms by Hong In Jeong, Hye Sung Jung, Milos Dubajic, Gunpyo Kim, Woo Hyeon Jeong, Hochan Song, Yongju Lee, Swarup Biswas, Hyeok Kim, Bo Ram Lee, Jae Woong Yoon, Samuel D. Stranks, Soon Moon Jeong, Jihoon Lee, Hyosung Choi

“…However, their luminescence performance often deteriorates under extreme elastic conditions owing to a misinterpretation of polymer matrix behavior. …”
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The enhanced ferroelectric properties of flexible Hf0.85Ce0.15O2 thin films based on in situ stress regulation by Jinglin Pang, Tianpeng Duan, Min Liao, Limei Jiang, Yichun Zhou, Qiong Yang, Jiajia Liao, Jie Jiang

“…Additionally, these thin films exhibit extremely high domain wall mobility and excellent domain switching capabilities. …”
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Pathology and Treatment of Traumatic Cervical Spine Syndrome: Whiplash Injury by Nobuhiro Tanaka, Kivanc Atesok, Kazuyoshi Nakanishi, Naosuke Kamei, Toshio Nakamae, Shinji Kotaka, Nobuo Adachi

“…Therefore, its diagnosis and treatment should be conducted extremely carefully. While the Quebec classification and its guidelines are very useful for the normalization and standardization of symptoms of traumatic cervical syndrome, in the future, we would like to see the emergence of new guidelines that better address the diversity of this disease.…”
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An underground view of surface hydrology: what can piezometers tell us about river floods and droughts? by Pelletier, Antoine, Andréassian, Vazken

“…The role of aquifers in extreme hydrological events has been highlighted in numerous different contexts, both for river high flows and low flows. …”
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Understanding the distributional effects of recurrent floods in the Philippines by Inga J. Sauer, Brian Walsh, Katja Frieler, David N. Bresch, Christian Otto

“…Summary: Successful recovery from extreme weather events is key to avoid long-term poverty implications. …”
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