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Lower body weight and increasing age are significant risk factors for complications following bi-oblique proximal ulnar osteotomy in dogs

Alan Danielski, Isabel de Marcos Carpio, Camilla Danielski et al. · 2023 · Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Abstract OBJECTIVE To report and evaluate the risk factors for complications following bi-oblique proximal ulnar osteotomy (PUO) in dogs. ANIMALS 82 client-owned dogs (93 limbs). METHODS Clinical records of dogs treated with bi-oblique PUO…

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Mary, did you consent?

Blake Hereth · 2021 · Religious Studies

Abstract The Christian and Islamic doctrine of the virgin birth claim God asexually impregnated the Virgin Mary with Jesus, Mary's impregnation was fully consensual ( virgin consent ), and God never acts immorally ( divine goodness ).…

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Do fundamental portfolios outperform in the MENA equity markets?

Rasha Tawfiq Abadi, Florinda Silva · 2019 · International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management

Purpose This study aims to investigate the performance of fundamental weighted portfolios (using sales, cash flows, dividends, book values and a composite of all these variables), an equal weighted portfolio and a smoothed cap-weighted…

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Early surgery within 48 hours of admission for hip fracture did not improve 1-year mortality in Japan: a single-institution cohort study

Hiroki Iida, Yasuhiko Takegami, Yoshihito Sakai et al. · 2024 · HIP International

Introduction: Early surgery for hip fracture, within 48 hours of hospital admission, is effective in reducing mortality. However, the average preoperative waiting time for hip fractures in Japan is 4.5 days and the 1-year mortality rate…

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Variation of spring barley agronomic traits significant for adaption to climate change in latvian breeding programmes

Māra Bleidere, Ieva Mežaka, Linda Legzdiņa et al. · 2012 · Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences.

Variation of spring barley agronomic traits significant for adaption to climate change in latvian breeding programmes Breeding programmes have been recently challenged by climate change. Spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) yield,…

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Fourteen weeks of β-alanine supplementation and HIIT did not improve serum BDNF concentrations and Stroop test performance

Paloma Tavares Mendonça, Yago Medeiros Dutra, Barbara M. Antunes et al. · 2025 · International Journal of Sports Medicine

Abstract This study aimed to investigate whether 14 weeks of β-alanine supplementation and high-intensity intermittent training improves brain-derived neurotrophic factor concentrations and cognitive aspects related to executive functions…

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What’s the impact of voice-hearing experiences on the social relating of young people: A comparison between help-seeking young people who did and did not hear voices

Aikaterini Rammou, Clio Berry, David Fowler et al. · 2023 · PLOS ONE

Limited research has explored the specific impact of voice-hearing experiences upon the social relating of adolescents. This study examined the associations of voice-hearing in youth with social relating, and putative explanatory factors.…

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“The least significant change on bone mineral density scan increased in patients with higher degrees of obesity”

Claire Dorilleau, Lukshe Kanagaratnam, Isabelle Charlot et al. · 2024 · Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Abstract Background : The least significant change (LSC) threshold of 0.03 g/cm² is used to interpret bone mineral density (BMD) scans in the general population. Our working hypothesis was that the current LSC threshold would not be…

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Evaluating a person-centred chronic pain service using indices of reliable and clinically significant change

Katherine Macey, Simon Clarke, Nima Golijani-Moghaddam et al. · 2015 · European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare

Background: Psychological interventions for chronic pain often require substantial individualisation, which can undermine links with the research evidence on which treatment is based. To ensure clients receive effective therapy, evaluation…

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The Addition of the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index to the Prognostic Scoring Systems Did Not Improve Mortality Prediction in Trauma Patients in the Intensive Care Unit

Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Ching-Hua Tsai, Sheng-En Chou et al. · 2023 · Emergency Medicine International

Background. Malnutrition is prevalent among critically ill patients and has been associated with a poor prognosis. This study sought to determine whether the addition of a nutritional indicator to the various variables of prognostic…

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Factitious thyrotoxicosis: how to find it

Pakaworn Vorasart, Chutintorn Sriphrapradang · 2019 · Diagnosis

Abstract Background Although the most common cause of thyrotoxicosis is Graves’ disease, the determination of the cause of thyrotoxicosis is important for establishing appropriate management. Diagnosis of surreptitious ingestion of thyroid…

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Cultural Genocide in Canada? It Did Happen Here.

Ruth Amir · 2018 · aboriginal policy studies

This article explores the significance of the TRC’s assertion that the establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of Canada’s Aboriginal policy that can be described as cultural genocide, against the backdrop…

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PENGEMBANGAN PENDEKATAN EVALUASI THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TECHNIQUE DALAM PEMBELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN JASMANI OLAHRAGA DAN KESEHATAN

Resty Gustiawati, Fahrudin Fahrudin, Febi Kurniawan et al. · 2019 · Multilateral Jurnal Pendidikan Jasmani dan Olahraga

Penelitian ini berjudul “Pengembangan Pendekatan Evaluasi The Most Significant Change Technique dalam Pembelajaran Pendidikan Jasmani Olahraga dan Kesehatan”. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk Mengembangkan Pendekatan Evaluasi The Most…

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Union-Find Decoders For Homological Product Codes

Nicolas Delfosse, Matthew B. Hastings · 2021 · Quantum

Homological product codes are a class of codes that can have improved distance while retaining relatively low stabilizer weight. We show how to build union-find decoders for these codes, using a union-find decoder for one of the codes in…

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Designing a set of criteria for evaluating artificial neural networks trained with physics-based data to replicate molecular dynamics and other particle method trajectories

Alessio Alexiadis · 2024 · Frontiers in Nanotechnology

This article presents an in-depth analysis and evaluation of artificial neural networks (ANNs) when applied to replicate trajectories in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations or other particle methods. This study focuses on several…

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Early Hip Fracture Surgery Within 24 hours did not Reduce the Mortality Rate but Resulted in Less Postoperative Opioid use and a Shorter Length of Stay: A Retrospective Study of 276 Patients From a Tertiary Private Hospital in Thailand

Aasis Unnanuntana, Chirathit Anusitviwat, Vasu Lertsiripatarajit et al. · 2024 · Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation

Introduction The comparative results of early hip fracture surgery including mortality and postoperative complications in Thailand were not reported. Therefore, we conducted this study to compare the outcomes between patients who received…

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An implementation of Bubble Magnification did not improve the video comprehension of individuals with central vision loss

Francisco M Costela, Stephanie M Reeves, Russell L Woods · 2021 · Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Abstract Purpose People with central vision loss (CVL) watch television, videos and movies, but often report difficulty and have reduced video comprehension. An approach to assist viewing videos is electronic magnification of the video…

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