Liberal Preoperative Fasting in Adults Undergoing Elective Surgery: A Scoping Review Protocol by Haoyue Gan, Hangcheng Liu, Huaping Huang, Mei He

“…The methodology will follow the six steps of the Arksey and O’Malley methodological framework and be guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Review. …”
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A gender-based review of workplace violence amongst the global health workforce-A scoping review of the literature. by Sioban Nelson, Basnama Ayaz, Andrea L Baumann, Graham Dozois

“…The review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). …”
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Incidence Of Hypoparathyroidism After Total Thyroidectomy for Benign Goitres. A Systematic Review by Muhammad Tahir Ghani, Hafiz Muhammad Ijaz ul Haq, Ibad Ur Rehman, Huma Azam Malik

“…Methods: A systematic search of PubMed, google scholar, Cochrane, and Pakmedinet under PRISMA (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and Meta-analyses) guidelines was performed. …”
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Performance and Efficiency Comparison of U-Net and Ghost U-Net in Road Crack Segmentation with Floating Point and Quantization Optimization by Haidhi Angkawijana Tedja, Onno W. Purbo

“…These findings suggest that Ghost U-Net is preferable for applications prioritizing memory efficiency and inference speed, while U-Net may be better suited for tasks requiring consistent accuracy across different quantization levels. …”
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Breaking the Silence: Unveiling Barriers to Women's Leadership for Sustainable Development in Higher Education by Najmonnisa Khan, Liz Hollingworth

“…., Pakistan as a developing country, and the USA as a developed country. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews PRISMA served as a guide for a formal systematic review of the literature. …”
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The Utilization of Differentiated Learning in Improving Physical Fitness and Active Lifestyle of Junior High School Students: Literature Review in Physical Education by Asep Akbaruddin, Mochamad Fajar Permana, Wahyu Saputra, Sumbara Hambali, Amat Komari, Wawan Sundawan Suherman

“…The analysis of the search and screening of articles was carried out by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) procedure. …”
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First-year Students and Organ Donation: A Multidisciplinary Study Conducted in Eastern India Analyzed by Ordinal Regression by Panchali Datta, Sharmistha Bhattacherjee

“…Background: Organ transplantation is becoming increasingly common and established as the preferred treatment for individuals with end-stage organ failure. …”
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Bayesian Inference for Solar Flare Extremes by B. Griffiths, L. Fawcett, A. C. Green

“…After proposing several methods for analysis and selecting our preferred technique—which substantially increases the precision of estimates of key quantities of interest—we improve upon this technique still further by considering the use of informative prior distributions. …”
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International Normalized Ratio (INR) Increases amongst Two Patients Living with HIV on Warfarin after Being Switched from a Nevirapine to a Dolutegravir-Based Antiretroviral Regime... by Natalie Sang, Sonak Pastakia, Samuel Nyanje

“…With the continued promotion of dolutegravir-based HIV regimens as the preferred option for the treatment of HIV in President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) supported HIV treatment programs in Africa, clinicians must be aware of the potentially life-threatening consequences of switching antiretroviral regimens. …”
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Acting Styles, Nuances and Linguistic Aesthetics: A Case Study of Ibrahim Chatta in Yoruba Films by Adejoke Adetoun Fadirepo, Adeyemi Oluwadamilare Oresanya

“…This study thereby concludes that directors, producers and casting directors should be more creative by developing a sense of professionalism, making preference for quality over quantity in the Yoruba films. …”
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Lessons to be Learned for Gastroenterology from Recent Issues in Clinical Trial Methodology by C Ohmann, J Albrecht

“…Randomized trials are the preferred tool for patient-oriented research, and their main role is to enable the transfer of results from basic research to routine application. …”
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Alkaline activation of different aluminosilicates as an alternative to Portland cement: alkali activated cements or geopolymers by M. Torres-Carrasco, F. Puertas

“…Alkaline activation constitutes an alternative to Portland cement, preferably amorphous or vitreous aluminosilicates and alkaline activator (such as NaOH, Na2CO3 or sodium silicates hydrates). …”

Family Practitioners and Sexually Transmitted Diseases by Marc Steben

“…Assessment of risks for hepatitis B virus infection should include lifestyle indices such as sexual preference, sexual expression, number of partners and alcohol/drug consumption. …”
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Self-Stabilising Quadrupedal Running by Mechanical Design by Panagiotis Chatzakos, Evangelos Papadopoulos

“…Dynamic stability allows running animals to maintain preferred speed during locomotion over rough terrain. …”
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Miniature-inverted-repeat transposable elements contribute to phenotypic variation regulation of rice induced by space environment by Lishan Chen, Qing Yang, Yan Zhang, Yeqing Sun

“…The space environment has been shown to induce the transposable elements insertion polymorphisms of MITEs (MITEs-TIPs), with a notable preference for insertion near genes involved in stress response and phenotype regulation. …”
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Ex Vivo and in Vivo Administration of Fluorescent CNA35 Specifically Marks Cardiac Fibrosis by Sanne de Jong, Lars B. van Middendorp, Robin H.A. Hermans, Jacques M.T. de Bakker, Marti F.A. Bierhuizen, Frits W. Prinzen, Harold V.M. van Rijen, Mario Losen, Marc A. Vos, Marc A.M.J. van Zandvoort

“…For evaluation of cardiac fibrosis, the development of highly specific and preferably noninvasive methods is desired. Our aim was to evaluate CNA35, a protein known to specifically bind to collagen, as a specific marker of cardiac fibrosis. …”
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Diagnosis and Management of Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia with a t(2;13)(q33;q12) Translocation by John S. Wang, Omar Elghawy, Brett R. Kurpiel, Michael G. Douvas

“…Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant is likely the preferred treatment, but this can be limited by patient psychosocial support, age, concomitant medical conditions, and availability of an appropriate donor. …”
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Comparison of Three Sample Preparation Procedures for the Quantification of L-Arginine, Asymmetric Dimethylarginine, and Symmetric Dimethylarginine in Human Plasma Using HPLC-FLD by Anne Marie Voigt Schou-Pedersen, Jens Lykkesfeldt

“…Due to the simplicity and speed of procedure (A), this approach may serve as preferred sample preparation of human plasma samples before HPLC-FLD in providing important information regarding elevated ADMA concentrations.…”
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Social prescribing and students: A scoping review protocol. by Caitlin Muhl, Stephanie Wadge, Tarek Hussein

“…This review will be conducted in accordance with the JBI methodology for scoping reviews and will be reported in line with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). …”
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Je parle pas la langue 1 by Noëlle MATHIS

“…Fragmentation seemed the best writing style as, to quote Roland Barthes recalling Gide, “incoherence is preferable to order that distorts”. The fragments come one after the other, accompanying the hesitations, from one language to another, sending the compass points flying, the flesh of the languages inflamed. …”
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