Heroines of Health: Examining the Other Side of the “Splendid Little War” by Ingrid Gessner

“…Although a patriarchal military system initially preferred male medical personnel, the Spanish-American War confirmed the competence of women in military service as nurses and doctors and led to the establishment of the permanent Army Reserve Nurse Corps in 1901. …”
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Mucocele of the appendix: A comprehensive case report and literature review by Bhaskar Jyoti Neog, Subodh Gupta, V. K. Rastogi, Paras Passi

“…Surgical resection remains the cornerstone of management, with laparotomy preferred to avoid mucocele rupture.…”
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Diagnosis and management of benign secreting pancreatic insulinoma: What’s new? 4 case report by Khawla Bahou, Youssef Achour, Mehdi Ilahiane, Hamza Sekkat, Younes Bakali, Mouna Mhamdi Alaoui, Mohammed Raiss, Farid Sabbah, Abdelmalek Hrora

“…Laparoscopic surgical enucleation of the tumor remains the preferred curative treatment.…”
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Graft-Specific Surgical and Rehabilitation Considerations for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with the Quadriceps Tendon Autograft by Braidy Solie, Jill Monson, Christopher Larson

“…Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) with a bone-patellar tendon-bone (BPTB) or hamstring tendon (HT) autograft has traditionally been the preferred surgical treatment for patients returning to Level 1 sports. …”
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The Odd One Out? Revisiting the Belgian Welfare State by Cor Wagenaar

“…Here, the De Taeye Act of 1948 sponsored the construction of individual, detached houses; not surprisingly, most clients preferred traditional architecture and refrained from modern experiments. …”
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Periodontal Microsurgery: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Veena Kalburgi, Shravani Bhole

“…This systematic review was carried out in accordance with the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. …”
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STRENGTH CALCULATION AND STRESS TEST OF THE IN-SERVICE BOX CRANE FOR FLOATING PRODUCTION STORAGE AND OFFLOADING by ZHOU Hong, YAN TingJun, ZHANG Gang

“…When the weight of lifting is close to the maximum working load,the working condition of β > 15°is preferred.…”
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Nantucket Pine Tip Moth, Rhyacionia frustrana (Comstock) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) by Wayne N. Dixon

“…The increasing population of a preferred host species, loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.), in Florida poses an ever-increasing problem of Nantucket pine tip moth infestations. …”
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Somatostatin Analogs in the Medical Management of Occult Bleeding of the Lower Digestive Tract by Julie Martin-Grace, Gianluca Tamagno

“…Despite the lack of double-blinded randomized placebo-control trials and despite the limitations of the available evidence in the literature, including small sample size, variable dosing, and administration routes, there is a consistent agreement in the literature that somatostatin analogs are a safe, well-tolerated, and effective therapeutic option for managing refractory or occult bleeding from the lower digestive tract, with particular reference to patients with angiodysplasia, where endoscopic or surgical management is either not feasible or unsuccessful and other pharmacological options are not preferred.…”
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP by Yusuf Yüksel

“…Specifically, the interaction of four different variables (cultural congruence, power, strategy, and motivation) influences the government’s capacity of setting agenda, the circulation of the preferred frames and attention and support of the public. …”
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Reviewing imaging discoveries in tuberculosis affecting extraspinal osteoarticular regions by Anuj Garg, Anil Kumar Singh, Rahul Sidheshwar Ranjan, Ashok Yadav, Ramesh Chandra Rajput, Shashikant Kumar

“…The introduction of advanced imaging techniques, with magnetic resonance imaging as the preferred method, has revolutionized the diagnosis of musculoskeletal TB. …”
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“The era of the slaves is over”: Gender and work conditions in cleaning businesses in Argentina by Lorena Capogrossi

“…The analyzed dimensions make it possible to characterize the sector as an option that is preferable to other jobs, such as remunerated domestic work, because the relationship of dependency with these businesses grants a certain formality that did not exist before in most work trajectories of the interviewed women. …”
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Adsorption performance of basic fuchsin on alkali-activated diatomite by Yong-Hua Zhao, Jin-Tao Geng, Jie-Chuan Cai, Yu-Fu Cai, Chun-Yan Cao

“…The pseudo-first-order kinetics and the Sips isotherm model were preferable to describe the adsorption process of basic fuchsin on alkali-activated diatomite-115 and the thermodynamic parameters indicated that the adsorption process was endothermic and spontaneous.…”
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Ben Fletcher et les IWW sur les quais de Philadelphie. Un modèle de syndicalisme interracial au début du 20e siècle by Peter Cole

“…He did so in an era of rampant racism, anti-unionism, and xenophobia and without signing a contract, preferring to enforce their demands via the ever-present threat of a strike. …”
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‘Bang-whang-whang goes the drum’ : Robert Browning ou l’énergie comique de l’homme-orchestre by Yann Tholoniat

“…Robert Browning’s vis comica has long been overlooked, some readers from the Browning Society, founded in 1887, preferring to see a philosopher in the poet, and some critics, like George Santayana, choosing to dismiss Browning’s ‘poetry of barbarism’. …”
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Russian industry in the context of digital transformation by I. N. Ivanov, L. V. Orlova, G. M. Sundukova

“…The problems of Russian industry and the reasons for their occurrence were analysed. The preference for the so-called “horizontal” model based not on tough measures to support industries and companies, but on the creation of a comfortable environment for the functioning of all participants in the industrial market was emphasised. …”
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A Study of Supplier Selection Method Based on SVM for Weighting Expert Evaluation by Li Zhao, Wenjing Qi, Meihong Zhu

“…We first use the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier to classify the historical evaluation data of experts and calculate the experts’ evaluation credibility, then determine the weights of the evaluation experts, finally assemble the weighted evaluation results, and get a preference order of choosing suppliers. The main contribution of this method is that it overcomes the shortcomings of multiple conversions and large loss on evaluation information, maintains the initial evaluation information to the maximum extent, and improves the credibility of evaluation results and the fairness and scientificity of supplier selection. …”
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Transition Characteristic Analysis of Traffic Evolution Process for Urban Traffic Network by Longfei Wang, Hong Chen, Yang Li

“…Analysis and numerical results demonstrated that the methodology permits extracting many useful traffic transition characteristics including stability, preference, activity, and attractiveness. In addition, more information about the relationships between these characteristics was extracted, which should be helpful in understanding the complex behavior of the temporal evolution features of traffic patterns.…”
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A Critical Evaluation of CALL and MALL Products for Learning and Teaching American English by İbrahim Halil Topal

“…There is even a scientific foundation for this personal preference, suggesting that these varieties (particularly American English) are understood better. …”
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What constitutes a new party? The lack of a standard operationalization and the way forward by Gideon Rahat

“…No one approach seems to be substantially preferable to the others. Thus, the way forward is to establish a database that will include the data already produced on party newness. …”
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