Escala para avaliação de resultados de cirurgia estética do abdome Clinical score scale for outcomes of aesthetic surgery of the abdomen by Alessandra Grassi Salles, Marcus Castro Ferreira, Adelina Fátima do Nascimento Remigio, Rolf Gemperli

“…<br>INTRODUCTION: The standardization of evaluation of outcomes after aesthetic surgery is still a challenge in Plastic Surgery, being mostly of the times based on subjective criteria. …”
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From smoking cessation to physical activity: Can ontology-based methods for automated evidence synthesis generalise across behaviour change domains? [version 2; peer review: 2 appr... by Candice Moore, Emily Hayes, Oscar Castro, Ella Howes, Alison J Wright, Emma Norris, Susan Michie, Robert West

“…Conclusions Smoking cessation annotation methods developed as part of the HBCP were mostly transferable to the physical activity domain. …”
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Research on population quantity and ecological distribution of main snakes in Zhejiang Province by TAO Ji-xing, LIU An-xing, YANG You-jin, SUN Meng-jun, WENG Wei-song

“…According to ecological environment, shrubbery held the greatest snake species, and the main species were Naja atra, P. mucosus, Deinagkistrodon acutus and E. taeniura, farmland and dry land come the secondly and Dinodon rufozonatum, Ptyas korros and Bungarus multicinctus are more frequently seen, garden plot and arbor forest comes the third and E. mandaeina is the main one, Deinagkistrodon acutus concentrates in shrubbery and arbor forest, Zaocys dhumnades and Elaphe carinata live in every environment mentioned above but more frequently appears in shrubby, and Gloydiasb brevicaudus mostly in farmland, dry land, garden plot and shrubby. …”
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Caucasian validation of downstaging from IIB to IIA in T1N1M0 patients within the 9th edition of the non‐small cell lung cancer tumor‐node‐metastasis staging by Jingsheng Cai, Yun Li, Feng Yang

“…This update used data mostly from Asian populations. However, the applicability of these adjustments to Caucasian patients remains uncertain. …”
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CONVERSION TO TACROLIMUS IN PATIENTS WITH LATE ACUTE AND CHRONIC REJECTION OF TRANSPLANTED KIDNEY by E. S. Stolyarevich, L. Y. Artjukhina, I. G. Kim, L. G. Kurenkova, N. D. Fedorova, A. V. Frolov, N. F. Frolova, N. A. Tomilina

“…Tасrolimus (Tac) has been used for rescuing of renal allografts from refractory rejection that occurred during treatment with conventional cyclosporine A (CsA) mostly in the early posttransplant period. Less is known about effect of Tac in cases of late acute rejection. …”
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An Integrated Study of Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), and Its Wild, Cultivated, and Feral Forms by Ying Zhao, Richard I. Milne, Jie Liu, Zhi‐Peng Li, Xiao‐Gang Fu, Ke Li, Amos Kipkoech, Zeng‐Yuan Wu

“…These analyses collectively demonstrate the distinctiveness of var. strigosa, but mostly did not fully separate var. nivea from var. tenacissima. …”
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Inhibitory effects of Levilactobacillus brevis IBRC-M10790 on apoptosis and inflammation induced by Clostridioides difficile culture supernatant in vitro by Masoumeh Azimirad, Maryam Noori, Armitasadat Emami Meibodi, Samira Alipour, Tannaz Salehi, Mohammad Reza Zali, Abbas Yadegar

“…Bacterial virulence factors, mostly toxins, play key roles in CDI pathogenesis. …”
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Knowledge-seeking and knowledge sharing of health services across social networks and communities: a scoping review by Anamitra Bhowmick, Marieke M. van der Zande, Rebecca Harris

“…Conclusion People in diverse community settings acquired, co-constructed, transmitted, or suppressed knowledge about various healthcare services with the support of informal networks, mostly family and friends, combined with mass media sources. …”
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The Wellbeing Thermometer in Patients with Colorectal Cancer: A Validation Study by Marios Adamou, Okezie Uche-Ikonne, Konstantinos Kamposioras

“…Existing wellbeing models focus mostly on a single aspect (e.g., social). The Wellbeing Thermometer (WbT) was developed based on a more holistic framework for wellbeing. …”
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Crisis económica y financiera mundial y opinión periodística editorial by Iván Rodrigo Mendizábal, M.A.

“…In the latter context, the newspapers and its writers, mostly economists, argue the model of dollarization as a scheme of development, but report that any economic model should have a human face. …”
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Delivery of Supported Self‐Management in Primary Care Asthma Reviews: Insights From the IMP2ART Programme by Emma Kinley, Hilary Pinnock, Liz Steed, Kirstie McClatchey

“…Analytical methods included: ALFA Toolkit Multi‐Channel Video Observation (to code and quantify tasks undertaken); the Patient‐Centred Observation Form; and The Behaviour Change Counselling Index (to assess patient‐centeredness and behaviour change counselling used by HCPs). Results HCPs mostly spent time during routine asthma reviews discussing: an individual's asthma condition and management (average of 27.8% of consultation time); collaboratively reviewing and completing a personalised asthma action plan (6.3%) and training for practical self‐management activities (5.4%). …”
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Enhancing Anomaly Detection Performance: Deep Learning Models Evaluation by Yunusa Mohammed Jeddah, Aisha Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Othman Omran Khalifa, Khmaies Ouhada

“… Detection of anomalies within video streams continues to be challenging, mostly due to the complexities involved in distinguishing abnormal activities from normal ones. …”
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Pediatric Brain Tumor Risk Associated with Head Computed Tomography: Systematic Literature Review by Dilara R. Kuznetsova, Diana A. Gabdullina, Alina F. Makhmudova, Elena V. Bochkina, Elizaveta O. Platonova, Bogdan O. Zhirnov, Elnara E. Akhmetgareeva, Liliya S. Atangulova, Ruslan S. Shein, Kristina I. Rakhimova, Vlastilin V. Pakalnis, Elza R. Ganieva

“…The minimal estimated risk of tumor induction due to head CT in children is mostly offset by its diagnostic imaging benefits considering the clinical indications to minimize radiation dose. …”
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The value of whole-body MRI instead of only brain MRI in addition to 18 F-FDG PET/CT in the staging of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer by Hanna Holmstrand, M Lindskog, A Sundin, T Hansen

“…The clinical work-up in patients with locally advanced NSCLC mostly includes 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) because of its high sensitivity for malignant lesion detection; however, specificity is lower. …”
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The added value and potential of long-term radio occultation data for climatological wind field monitoring by I. Nimac, J. Danzer, G. Kirchengast, G. Kirchengast

“…RO- and ERA5-derived geostrophic winds mostly showed good agreement (within 2 m s<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span>). …”
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SPRINT INDIA: Regional Variations in Primary and Secondary Stroke Outcomes Based on Baseline Characteristics in North and South Indian Sites by Somasundaram Kumaravelu, Shweta Jain Verma, Rimpi Arora, Deepti Arora, KS Arya Devi, Aneesh Dhasan, Padmavathyamma Narayanapillai Sylaja, Dheeraj Khurana, Pamidimukkala Vijaya, Biman Ray, Vivek Nambiar, Sanjith Aaron, Gaurav Mittal, Sundarachary Nagarjunakonda, Aparna Pai, Yerasu Muralidhar Reddy, Sunil Narayan, Nomal Borah, Rupjyoti Das, Girish Kulkarni, Vikram Huded, Thomas Mathew, Madakasira Vasantha Padma Srivastava, Rohit Bhatia, Pawan Ojha, Jayanta Roy, Sherly Abraham, Anand Vaishnav, Arvind Sharma, Shaikh Afshan Jabeen, Abhishek Pathak, Sanjeev Bhoi, Sudhir Sharma, Sulena Sulena, Aralikatte Onkarappa Saroja, Neetu Ramrakhiani, Madhusudhan Byadarahalli Kempegowda, Sankar Gorthi, Mahesh Kate, Tina George, Ivy Sebastian, Meenakshi Sharma, Rupinder Dhaliwal, Rahul Huilgol, Jeyaraj Durai Pandian

“…Results: South Indian stroke patients were predominantly rural (60.1%) and less educated (58.2%), while North Indian patients were mostly urban (64.2%). South Indian patients had higher incidence of ischemic stroke (91.1% vs. 73.5%, P = 0.001) and higher rates of large artery atherosclerosis (33.6% vs. 19.7%, P = 0.001), hypertension, type 2 diabetes, smoking, and alcohol consumption, but better medication adherence. …”
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Ab initio and experimental study of sulphur/samarium codoped-TiO2 and its visible light photocatalytic activity towards the degradation of orange II dye by Moro Haruna, Charles Kwame Bandoh, Francis Opoku, Eric Selorm Agorku

“…Recent research efforts have been focused mostly on using semiconductor photocatalysts to degrade hazardous organic contaminants from wastewater. …”
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CORELATION OF PARENTS' PROFILES OF CHILDREN WITH LATE CLEFT REPAIR IN SURABAYA CLEFT LIP AND PALATE CENTRE (JANUARY 2015–DECEMBER 2017) by Laras Puspita Ningrum, Iswinarno Doso Saputro, Lobredia Zarasade

“…Patients' parents in both groups were mostly 31- 40 years old, were high school graduated, has one child, earned less than 1.5 million rupiah a month, and lived less than 100 kms from Surabaya. …”
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Baseline echocardiographic variables as predictors of hemodynamically significant cytokine release syndrome in adults treated with CD19 CAR T-cell therapy for hematological maligna... by Andres E. Daryanani, Muhannad A. Abbasi, Maria F. Gomez Ardila, Eduardo Tellez-Garcia, Juan M. Garzon-Dangond, Yi Lin, Jonas Paludo, Joerg Herrmann, Stephen M. Ansell, Allison C. Rosenthal, Hector R. Villarraga

“…The incidence of CTRCD was 4.5% and occurred mostly in the setting of CRS ≥ 2. Conclusion No specific echocardiographic variables predicted the development of CRS ≥ 2, and therefore the mechanism leading to hemodynamic decompensation and producing worsening hypoxia and hypotension could be multifactorial and not directly cardiac mediated.…”
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Efeito de épocas de semeadura e regimes hídricos em duas cultivares de arroz de sequeiro Effect of planting dates and water regimes on two upland rice cultivars by Rogério T. de Faria, Marcos V. Folegatti

“…Grain yield was high for sowing in October (5400 to 6000 kg ha-1) and lower for sowing in December (1600 to 4800 kg ha-1) due to the low temperature at seed filling stages, mostly for the late cultivar (IAPAR 64). No significant differences between irrigated treatments were observed, but water deficit caused a grain yield decrease of up to 50% and delayed flowering. …”
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