Comparative effectiveness of different transarterial embolization therapies alone or in combination with local ablative or adjuvant systemic treatments for unresectable hepatocellu... by Konstantinos Katsanos, Panagiotis Kitrou, Stavros Spiliopoulos, Ioannis Maroulis, Theodore Petsas, Dimitris Karnabatidis

“…Quality of evidence remains mostly low to moderate because of clinical diversity.…”
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Formation of aggregates and carbon sequestration in ameliorated tepetates in the Río Texcoco basin, Mexico by Aurelio Báez-Pérez, Jorge D. Etchevers-Barra, Christian Prat, Claudia Hidalgo-Moreno

“…The tepetates were arbitrarily classified as (I) recently broken up; (II) affected by severe erosion; (III) cultivated mostly under monoculture; (IV) cultivated with Leguminosae for at least 20 years and receiving approximately 2 Mg·ha-1 of farm yard manure (FYM) per year; (V) cultivated under no-tillage and few external inputs; (VI) cultivated with cereals and Leguminosae and receiving more than Mg·ha-1 per year of FYM; (VII) Used as greenhouse bed; (VIII) cultivared with no-tillage and approximately 5 to 10 Mg·ha-1 of FYM; (IX) used as greenhouse bed and addition of approximately 2 Mg·ha-1 of composted wood residues per year. …”
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PO51 | Thrombocythemia associated with a non-canonical JAK2 mutation: a case report

“…A 2018 Belgian-Romanian study found R1063H in 14 JAK2-V617F+ patients, mostly with ET, suggesting possible inheritance. The mutation was also found in a 2019 German patient with triple-negative MF, and in a 2023 Brazilian ET patient. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigation of dissimilar weld characterization in laser welding of duplex 2205 and AISI 1060 steel: Microstructure, mechanical properties and weld geo... by Mohammad Behzad Botlani Esfahani, Arash Karimipour, Mohammad Akbari, Ali Abdollahi, Mohammad Najafi

“…According to the tensile tests results, the joint fracture surface of the carbon steel side of the joint showed a brittle fracture mechanism due to the martensitic nature of the microstructure of carbon steel, while the fracture cross-section of the DSS side of the joint had a mostly ductile fracture mode, as compared to carbon steel. …”
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Clinical Phenotypes and Age-Related Differences in Presentation, Treatment, and Outcome of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Vietnamese Multicenter Research by Ngoc-Thanh-Van Nguyen, Diep Tuan Tran, Pham Le An, Sy Van Hoang, Hoai-An Nguyen, Hoa Ngoc Chau

“…Valvular heart disease (VHD) was the leading cause of heart failure (35.9%). 78.6% had at least two comorbidities, mostly hypertension (68.6%). 30.6% of the patients were hospitalized, with a median stay of 7.0 (4.0–10.0) days and inhospital mortality of 4.8%. …”
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A Moldura de uma Existência Cosmopolita: Cultivo de Sentimentos Públicos uma Leitura Arendtiana / Framing a Cosmopolitan Existence: The Cultivation of Public Feelings an Arendtian... by Bethania Assy

“…It refers not only to diminishing concrete public spaces (the fabrication, the <em>poiesis</em> of the world), but mostly to annihilating intersubjective spaces of actions, of praxis (subjective in-between space), responsible for increasing our capacity of public imagination.…”
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Rhabdoid choroid plexus carcinoma: a rare histological type Carcinoma de plexus coroides de tipo rabdoide: un tipo histológico raro by Martha Lilia Tena-Suck, Juan Luis Gómez-Amador, Alma Ortiz-Plata, C. Salina-Lara, Daniel Rembao-Bojórquez, Rosalba Vega-Orozco

“…Primary central nervous system atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors mostly occur during early childhood and are almost invariably fatal. …”
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El género Bromus en los Andes Centrales de Suramérica El género Bromus en los Andes Centrales de Suramérica by Pinto Escobar Polidoro

“…<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">A preliminary taxonomic revision of the brorne-grass species is found in Bolivia and Perú, with keys, drawings (mostly of type specimens), synonymies, descriptions and extensive specimen citations, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">5 </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">species are recognized: <em>Bromus</em></span><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US"> catharticus, </span></em><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">B. …”
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Flash Glucose Monitoring and Diabetes Mellitus Induced by Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: An Approach to Clinical Practice by Pablo Rodríguez de Vera-Gómez, Ana Piñar-Gutiérrez, Raquel Guerrero-Vázquez, Virginia Bellido, Cristóbal Morales-Portillo, María Pilar Sancho-Márquez, Pablo Espejo-García, Noelia Gros-Herguido, Gema López-Gallardo, María Asunción Martínez-Brocca, Alfonso Soto-Moreno

“…A total of 7 cases were identified, mostly males (n=6; 85.7%), with a mean age of 64.9 years. …”
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Impact of Midfoot Charcot Arthropathy (Brodsky Type 1) on Patient Reported Outcome Scores by Seth J. Tysor BS, Christopher E. Gross MD, Daniel J. Scott MBA, MD, Joshua L. Morningstar BS, Joseph Cutrone BS, Michael Otten MD

“…Results: Our cohort was mostly male (58.2%), with mean age 61.73 years, BMI 32.9, and A1C 6.9. …”
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Peculiarities of synthesis and bactericidal properties of nanosilver in colloidal solutions, SiO₂ films and in the textile structure: a review by A. M. Eremenko, I. S. Petryk, Y. P. Mukha, N. V. Vityuk, N. P. Smirnova, A. D. Rudenko

“…The shape of the NPs is mostly spherical, what is confirmed by the presence of a band of surface plasmon resonance in absorption spectra and by electron microscopy measurements. …”
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Comparison of standardized uptake value ratio calculations in amyloid positron emission tomography brain imaging by Karin Knesaurek, Geoffrey Warnock, Lale Kostakoglu, Cyrill Burger

“…The quantification is mostly performed by cortical-to-cerebellum standardized uptake value ratio (SUVr). …”
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The Interplay of Proteinuria and Cachexia from the Perspective of Persian Medicine (PM) by Mohamadsaleh Solgi, Alireza Niknafs

“…Normal urinary protein excretion is less than 150 mg/24 hours and consists mostly of secreted proteins. The normal mean albumin excretion rate (AER) is 5-10 mg/day, with an AER of more than 30 mg/day considered abnormal. …”
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PORTRAITS IN THE MAKING. GERMAN USERS OF ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE by Diana V. BURLACU

“…Consequently, the task of outlining sharp portraits of German users of Romanian as a foreign language (RFL) seems hardly achievable, mostly since there are several parameters to consider, a significant one being exactly their proneness to alteration, due to the ever-changing linguistic process they are involved in. …”
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Age as a Predictor of Overall Survival in Colorectal Cancer by Berenice Carbajal-López, Jossimar Coronel-Hernández, Marytere Herrera, Erika Ruiz-Garcia, Sayako M. Miyagui-Adame, Consuelo Diaz-Romero, Eduardo Osiris Madrigal-Santillán, Priscila Morales Esponda-Mendoza, Carlos Pérez-Plasencia, Germán Calderillo-Ruiz

“…The young population was mostly composed of men (62%; (<i>n</i> = 63), (<i>p</i> = 0.020), with high rates of metastatic disease (44%) (<i>p</i> = 0.001) and right-side tumors (57%), (<i>p</i> = 0.046), and with 44% with a moderate grade (<i>p</i> = 0.750). …”
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WORLDVIEW AND MEMORY IN THE NOVELS OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY META-GENRE AS AN EXPRESSION OF “INTERNAL EMIGRATION” by Antonina V. Anistratenko

“…In the novel we see the pessimistic mode of the ashes, in which the characters are mostly unemployed and homeless, alcoholics, drug addicts, small criminals and cheap prostitutes. …”
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MEZUNİYET ÖNCESİ TIP EĞİTİMİ ULUSAL ÇEKİRDEK EĞİTİM PROGRAMI-2014 VE ACİL TIP EĞİTİMİ: ACİL TIP İLE İLGİLİ TEMEL HEKİMLİK UYGULAMALARININ DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ... by Nilgün Ulutaşdemir, Mehmet Dokur

“…While the number of basic medicine practice is mostly in E category, it is followed by B, C, D, F and A categories respectively. …”
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Comparación de pruebas para medir la fatiga muscular en el entrenamiento de atletas hombres de CrossFit: una revisión sistemática (Comparison of tests to measure muscle fatigue in... by Natanael Cervantes Hernández, Norma Hernandez Nájera, Claudia Esther Carrasco Legleu

“…Studies published in the last 10 years (from 2011 to March 31, 2021) the articles were not limited to a specific language, finding mostly English and Spanish. The main selection was by title, then by abstracting and reading the entire document in potential studies. …”
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Sesbania grandiflora activated carbon as a high-efficiency stable and reusable adsorbent for sustainable fluoride removal by D. Sivakumar, M. Perarul Selvan, J. Nouri, M. Juhi Jabin, S. Priyanka, G. Madhubala

“…X-ray diffraction confirmed that activated carbon from Sesbania grandiflora remained mostly amorphous, with crystallinity increasing from 17.2 percent to 17.4 percent. …”
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Epidemiology of Sepsis in Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a Multi-Specialty Hospital (Experimental Study) by I. N. Tyurin, S. N. Avdeikin, D. N. Protsenko, R. A. Cherpakov, G. M. Mullakaeva, I. A. Kozlov

“…Abdominal sepsis was diagnosed in 72.3% of patients, pulmonary — in 19.7%; in 8% of patients, sepsis complicated the terminal stage of various, mostly oncological, diseases. In 2016, sepsis detectability at admission to ICU increased by 22.1% vs. the 2014 level assumed as 100% (χ2=9.281; P=0.003). …”
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