Volvulus of the ascending and transverse colon in a 4-year-old child: a case report by Eya Lamloum, Yosra Ben Ahmed, Mariem Marzouki, Intissar Chibani, Faouzi Nouira, Said Jlidi

“…Physical exam revealed a distended and tender abdomen, mostly in the epigastrium and right side. Basic blood tests were not revealing. …”
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In-plane bearing capacity analysis of concrete catenary arch with rigid skeleton: test and simulation by Zengwu Liu, Jianting Zhou, Jingzhou Xin, Yanghao Zhuang, Yonghui Fan, Kun Wang

“…Abstract Although the rigid skeleton concrete arch has been widely used in engineering, the research on the failure mode and bearing capacity of this kind of arch is very few, and the previous research on the bearing capacity of arch is mostly concrete arch or concrete filled steel tube arch. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Incidence, Prehospital Evaluation, and Presentation of Ischemic Stroke at a Nonurban Comprehensive Stroke Center by Cesar Velasco, Brandon Wattai, Scott Buchle, Alicia Richardson, Varun Padmanaban, Kathy J. Morrison, Raymond Reichwein, Ephraim Church, Scott D. Simon, Kevin M. Cockroft

“…Patient demographics, comorbidities, and symptom severity were mostly similar over the two time periods, and the number of patients with a final diagnosis of stroke was also similar. …”
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THE COST OF NUTRITION ALTERNATIVES FOR PREMATURE INFANTS IN RUSSIA by K. V. Gerasimova, M. V. Avxentyeva, I. A. Belyaeva

“…The use of BM fortifier increased the cost of BM up to 176 rubles per 100 ml. The results were mostly sensitive to the individual pumping set and AF costs fluctuations: sensitivity analysis showed that BM became more cost-effective when the price of powdered AF was over 937 rubles per package. …”
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Comparative analysis of chloroplast genomes and phylogenetic analysis of Vitex by XIU Zhiying1, ZHAO Yanling1, CHENG Yongqin2, JIA Yun3, YANG Yanci1*

“…Vitex L. is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical areas, mostly as woody trees or shrubs, and contains many plants with medicinal, ornamental and ecological values. …”
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The Evaluation of Profitability, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Financial Risk in Asset Management Companies in Iran by Hanieh Hekmat, Farnoosh Keshavarz mirza mohammadi

“…This revealed that the active AMCs mostly preferred short-term debts to long-term ones. …”
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Bacteriophage Resistance, Adhesin’s and Toxin’s Genes Profile of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Causing Infections in Children and Adolescents by Nikolaos Giormezis, Assimina Rechenioti, Konstantinos Doumanas, Christos Sotiropoulos, Fotini Paliogianni, Fevronia Kolonitsiou

“…Twenty-five <i>S. aureus</i> (31.3%) were resistant to Bacteriophage K, mostly from ocular and ear infections. Twelve <i>S. aureus</i> (15%) were PVL-positive, seven (8.8%) positive for <i>tst</i>, 18 (22.5%) were <i>eta</i>-positive and 46 were (57.5%) <i>etb</i>-positive. …”
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Human papillomavirus vaccine uptake and associated factors among adolescent girls in Bona district, Sidama regional state, Ethiopia: a community-based study design by Getahun Tiruye, Getahun Tiruye, Aster Sodo, Abera Kenay Tura, Anteneh Dirar, Anteneh Dirar, Adera Debella, Kasiye Shiferaw

“…IntroductionIn developing nations, adult women’s cancer deaths are mostly caused by cervical cancer. Vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the cost-effective global strategies for cervical cancer prevention, though vaccine uptake remains low in low-resource settings like Ethiopia. …”
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Improving Phosphate Acquisition from Soil via Higher Plants While Approaching Peak Phosphorus Worldwide: A Critical Review of Current Concepts and Misconceptions by Jörg Gerke

“…In particular, which plant species mostly benefit from P mobilization by legume-released carboxylates is unknown. …”
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Cassava flour separation using inverse cyclone Separação de farinha de mandioca em um ciclone inverso by Carlos A. Herrera, Miguel E. Rosillo, Alberto García

“…In developing countries cassava starch is produced mostly rurally using artisan methods through wet-way processes that consume as much as 37 m³ of water per processed ton. …”
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Estimating Rice Panicle Temperature with Three-Layer Model by Yanyan Wang, Hiroki Oue, Zhijun Luo, Ming Chen, Shiyu Liu, Chunhuo Zhou, Xiaowu He

“…The two-layer energy budget model which divides the soil layer and canopy layer was widely used to predict rice canopy temperature (Tc), but panicle existed mostly in the upper layer canopy, and we have proved that Tc was different from the upper layer canopy temperature (Tc1), and the upper layer must be separated from the whole canopy for the purpose of estimating Tp. …”
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Outcomes of targeted axillary radiation therapy with omission of axillary dissection in early breast cancer patients with one or two positive sentinel lymph nodes and extracapsular... by Ahmed Orabi, Asmaa G. Ellaithy, Maha Guimei, Maher H. Ibraheem, Waleed Mohamed M. Fadlalla, Mohamed Fathy Abdelfattah Abdelrahman Elithy, Yasmine Hany Abdel Moamen Elzohery, Ahmed S. Abdelmomen, Sherif Nasser Taha

“…Conclusions Within this single-institution study of early breast cancer patients with predominantly luminal A subtype and mostly limited ECE (≤ 2 mm) treated with targeted axillary radiation, omission of ALND did not result in inferior DFS compared to completion ALND. …”
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Biophysical characterisation of the recombinant human frataxin precursor by Ignacio Hugo Castro, Alejandro Ferrari, María Georgina Herrera, Martín Ezequiel Noguera, Lorenzo Maso, Monica Benini, Alessandra Rufini, Roberto Testi, Paola Costantini, Javier Santos

“…The protein was found to be stable and monomeric, with the N‐terminal stretch (residues 1–89) mostly unstructured and the C‐terminal domain properly folded. …”
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Retinal Vascular Response to Hyperoxia in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus without Diabetic Retinopathy by Hamid Safi, Ramin Nourinia, Sare Safi, Ehsan Hadian, Bahareh Kheiri, Hamid Ahmadieh

“…Retinal capillary layers responded differently to hyperoxia-induced challenge, and in normal subjects, the autoregulatory mechanism was mostly effective in the parafoveal DCP. Retinal vascular reactivity was impaired in SCP and DCP at the preclinical stage of DR. …”
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Examining preferences for weight loss interventions among black men and women with overweight or obesity: A qualitative study by Snehaa Ray, Christie I. Idiong, Rachel Anderson, Kate Killion, Curtis Antrum, Michael Puglisi, Jolaade Kalinowski, Kristen Cooksey Stowers, Loneke T. Blackman Carr

“…Black females (n = 16) and Black males (n = 8) were mostly non-Hispanic Black Americans. Key themes that emerged were: (1) the creation of a weight loss program for Black adults, (2) healthy eating barriers, (3) physical activity barriers, (4) healthy living facilitators, and (5) social support. …”
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Synoptic patterns associated with high-frequency sea level extremes in the Adriatic Sea by K. Ruić, J. Šepić, M. Vojković

“…It was shown that HF or compound episodes recorded in the testing period mostly appeared during synoptic situations that highly resembled extracted medoids. …”
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Causal relationship of familial hypercholesterolemia with risk of intestinal vascular disorders: A mendelian randomization study by Gang Wei, Cheng Zhang, Feng-Jie Shen, Hua-Qi Guo, Lin Liu

“…Rs7575840 in 6.5kda upstream of ApoB gene, rs11591147 in PCSK9 gene and rs9644862 in the CDKN2B-AS1 (or named ANRIL; p15AS; PCAT12; CDKN2BAS; CDKN2B-AS; NCRNA00089) gene were illustrated to mostly influence the risk of intestinal vascular diseases. …”
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Ex vivo engineering of phagocytic signals in breast cancer cells for a whole tumor cell-based vaccine by Román Martí-Díaz, Luis Sánchez-del-Campo, María F. Montenegro, Trinidad Hernández-Caselles, Antonio Piñero-Madrona, Juan Cabezas-Herrera, José Neptuno Rodríguez-López

“…Abstract Background Today, cell therapies are constantly evolving and providing new options for cancer patients. These therapies are mostly based on the inoculation of immune cells extracted from a person’s own tumor; however, some studies using whole tumor cell-based vaccines are approaching the level of maturity required for clinical use. …”
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Intra- and interspecific competition between glyphosate-resistant and susceptible junglerice (Echinochloa colona) populations and soybean by Gabriel Picapietra, Horacio A. Acciaresi

“…One soybean plant increased (P < 0.05) junglerice productivity at low densities but had no effect at high densities (8 plants pot−1). Mostly EC-S and EC-R showed the same competitive ability. …”
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COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUG’S EFFICACY IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY GLAUCOMA AT EARLY AND ADVANCED STAGES by Z. A. Dzhumatayeva

“…Side effects were registered in both groups, mostly of local character in the form of hyperemia of mild and moderate, increased pigmentation and growth of eyelashes. …”
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