Paravertebral block for management of acute postoperative pain and intercostobrachial neuralgia in major breast surgery by Mercedes Fernández Gacio, Ana Maria Agrelo Lousame, Susana Pereira, Clara Castro, Juliana Santos

“…The optimal technique should be easy to perform, reproducible, with little discomfort to the patient, little complications, allowing good control of acute pain and a decreased incidence of chronic pain, namely intercostobrachial neuralgia for being the most frequent entity. …”
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Divje babe I - poskus uporabe statistične analize množičnih živalskih ostankov v paleolitski arheologiji. I. Določljivi skeletni ostanki jamskega medveda by Ivan Turk, Janez Dirjec

“…In order to avoid further departure from the actual distribution of remains in the vertical, the analysis of samples was performed in strict adherence to the units, with deliberate omission of combining the units to form sedimentary and cultural units. …”
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Identifying and Prioritizing Cultural Barriers to Community-Based Tourism in Iran by Azade Fallahi, Meisam Modarresi, Azim Zarei

“…Structural relationships between challenges were performed using interpretive structural modeling, in which challenges were balanced at five levels. …”
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Case Study for Testing the Validity of NO_<i>x</i>-Ozone Algorithmic Climate Change Functions for Optimising Flight Trajectories by Pratik Rao, Feijia Yin, Volker Grewe, Hiroshi Yamashita, Patrick Jöckel, Sigrun Matthes, Mariano Mertens, Christine Frömming

“…A one-day air traffic simulation is performed in the European airspace on those selected days to obtain both cost-optimised and climate-optimised aircraft trajectories, which more specifically minimised a NO<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mi>x</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>-induced climate effect of O<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>3</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> (O<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>3</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> aCCFs). …”
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The Relation between Resilience, Abnormal Personality Traits and Anger: Testing the Mediating Role of Air Pollution Perception by Sima Hadad, Naeimeh Moheb, Reza Abdi, GholamReza Chalbianloo

“…After examining the type of data distribution and correlation between variables; conceptual model test was performed by PLS method. Considering the value of t and the standardized factor loadings between the questions and the variables were respectively calculated as more than 1.96 and 0.4, there was no need to delete or change the questionnaire questions (Table 4). …”
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CO₂ diffusion in dry and hydrous leucititic melt by L. Koch, L. Koch, B. C. Schmidt

“…To examine the effect of dissolved H<span class="inline-formula">₂</span>O in the melt, experiments were performed for a nominally dry melt (0.18 <span class="inline-formula">±</span> 0.03 wt % H<span class="inline-formula">₂</span>O) and for a hydrous melt containing 3.36 <span class="inline-formula">±</span> 0.28 wt % H<span class="inline-formula">₂</span>O. …”
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Electron Probe Microanalysis of Hf and Ti in Zircon: Significance and Advantage by LI Xiaoli

“…In Exp-Ⅱ measurement, the current beam was set at 300nA, the counting time for Ti was adjusted to 300s and a PET crystal in the high-resolution H type spectrometer (PETH) was utilized; to avoid possible dead time effects in measuring Zr and Hf, EPMA CAL function was performed with fixed Zr and Hf contents using their average values obtained in Exp-Ⅰ. …”
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The role of perceived value and brand identity in improving customers' attitudinal loyalty by Samane behrozi, tahmoris sohrabi

“…A non-probability sampling method was available. Data analysis was performed based on Q et al.'s (2009) perceived value questionnaires, Mael and Ashforth's (1992) brand identity, and Jacoby and Chestnut's (1978) brand loyalty questionnaires. …”
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Whole genome sequencing analysis of antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli : from food to human by Guo, Siyao

“…At the first stage, a retrospective study for antimicrobial resistant E. coli in ready-to-eat (RTE) food sold in retail food premises in Singapore was performed in collaboration with Environmental Health Institute under NEA. …”
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Understanding the role of intravenous iron to treat anaemia following critical care by Shah, A

“…The second phase will involve performing multi-colour flow cytometry to help establish the colony forming potential of the Megakaryocyte Erythroid Progenitor, with a particular focus on the erythroid output, as a marker of erythropoiesis. …”

12th WINFOCUS world congress on ultrasound in emergency and critical care by Acar, Y, Tezel, O, Salman, N, Cevik, E, Algaba-Montes, M, Oviedo-García, A, Patricio-Bordomás, M, Mahmoud, MZ, Sulieman, A, Ali, A, Mustafa, A, Abdelrahman, I, Bahar, M, Ali, O, Kirchner, H, Prosen, G, Anzic, A, Leeson, P, Bahreini, M, Rasooli, F, Hosseinnejad, H, Blecher, G, Meek, R, Egerton-Warburton, D, Ćuti, EĆ, Belina, S, Vančina, T, Kovačević, I, Rustemović, N, Chang, I, Lee, JH, Kwak, YH, Kim, DK, Cheng, C-Y, Pan, H-Y, Kung, C-T, Ćurčić, E, Pritišanac, E, Planinc, I, Medić, MG, Radonić, R, Fasina, A, Dean, AJ, Panebianco, NL, Henwood, PS, Fochi, O, Favarato, M, Bonanomi, E, Tomić, I, Ha, Y, Toh, H, Harmon, E, Chan, W, Baston, C, Morrison, G, Shofer, F, Hua, A, Kim, S, Tsung, J, Gunaydin, I, Kekec, Z, Ay, MO, Kim, J, Kim, J, Choi, G, Shim, D, Lee, J-H, Ambrozic, J, Prokselj, K, Lucovnik, M, Simenc, GB, Mačiulienė, A, Maleckas, A, Kriščiukaitis, A, Mačiulis, V, Macas, A, Mohite, S, Narancsik, Z, Možina, H, Nikolić, S, Hansel, J, Petrovčič, R, Mršić, U, Orlob, S, Lerchbaumer, M, Schönegger, N, Kaufmann, R, Pan, C-I, Wu, C-H, Pasquale, S, Doniger, SJ, Yellin, S, Chiricolo, G, Potisek, M, Drnovšek, B, Leskovar, B, Robinson, K, Kraft, C, Moser, B, Davis, S, Layman, S, Sayeed, Y, Minardi, J, Pasic, IS, Dzananovic, A, Pasic, A, Zubovic, SV, Hauptman, AG, Brajkovic, AV, Babel, J, Peklic, M, Radonic, V, Bielen, L, Ming, PW, Yezid, NH, Mohammed, FL, Huda, ZA, Ismail, WNW, Isa, WYHW, Fauzi, H, Seeva, P, Mazlan, MZ

“…HenwoodA20 Ultrasonographic diagnosis of tracheal compressionOliviero Fochi, Moreno Favarato, Ezio BonanomiA21 The role of ultrasound in the detection of lung infiltrates in critically ill patients: a pilot studyMarijana Grgić Medić, Ivan Tomić, Radovan RadonićA22 The SAFER Lasso; a novel approach using point-of-care ultrasound to evaluate patients with abdominal complaints in the emergency departmentYoungrock Ha, Hongchuen TohA23 Awareness and use of clinician-performed ultrasound among clinical clerkship facultyElizabeth Harmon, Wilma Chan, Cameron Baston, Gail Morrison, Frances Shofer, Nova Panebianco, Anthony J. …”

A study of some aspects of the epidemiology and treatment of peripheral vascular disease by Hughson, W

“…The objective measurement which was most strongly correlated with patients' symptoms was the ankle systolic pressure measured after exercise, and since this test was far easier to perform than plethysmography I concluded that the Doppler flow meter was the better method of evaluating PVD.…”

A study of the searching behaviour of certain insects feeding on aphids by Dixon, A

“…If the coccinellid is small, and moving slowly, the aphid walks away from it or performs rhythmical kicking movements. This kicking occurs most frequently when an adult aphid is approached by a first instar coccinellid, and doe not appear to be directed at the coccinellid, although it often results in the aphid kicking the larva and causing it to change direction.…”

Molecular and Cellular Studies of Human Hepatitis B Virus Variants by Ong, Hooi Tin

“…The first experimental evidence in favour of such mechanisms derives from studies performed in the transgenic mouse model (Guidotti and Ferrari, 2001). …”
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Severe traumatic brain injury: outcome in patients with diffuse brain injury without surgical lesion managed in Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor Bahru an observational study by Liew Boon, Seng

“…Multiple Mann-Whitney Tests were performed and interpreted if the p value was significant. …”
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Rationale and Design of the Randomized Bayesian Multicenter COME-TAVI Trial in Patients With a New Onset Left Bundle Branch Block by Lena Rivard, MD, MSc, Isabelle Nault, MD, Andrew D. Krahn, MD, Benoit Daneault, MD, Jean-Francois Roux, MD, Madhu Natarajan, MD, Jeffrey S. Healey, MD, MSc, Kenneth Quadros, MD, Roopinder K. Sandhu, MD, MPH, Remi Kouz, MD, Isabelle Greiss, MD, Peter Leong-Sit, MD, Jean Baptiste Gourraud, MD, Walid Ben Ali, MD, PhD, Anita Asgar, MD, Msc, Martin Aguilar, MD, PhD, Raoul Bonan, MD, Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, MD, PhD, Raymond Cartier, MD, Jean-Francois Dorval, MD, Marc Dubuc, MD, Nicolas Dürrleman, MD, MSc, Katia Dyrda, MD, Peter Guerra, MD, Marina Ibrahim, MD, MSc, Reda Ibrahim, MD, Laurent Macle, MD, Blandine Mondesert, MD, Emmanuel Moss, MD, MSc, Alexandre Raymond-Paquin, MD, Denis Roy, MD, Rafik Tadros, MD, PhD, Bernard Thibault, MD, Mario Talajic, MD, Anna Nozza, MSc, Marie-Claude Guertin, PhD, Paul Khairy, MD, PhD

“…Patients randomized to noninvasive monitoring receive a wearable continuous electrocardiographic recording and transmitting device for 30 days. Follow-up will be performed at 3, 6, and 12 months. The primary endpoint is a composite outcome designed to capture net clinical benefit. …”
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A Study of the Radiation Tolerance of CVD Diamond to 70 MeV Protons, Fast Neutrons and 200 MeV Pions by Lukas Bäni, Andreas Alexopoulos, Marina Artuso, Felix Bachmair, Marcin Ryszard Bartosik, Helge Christoph Beck, Vincenzo Bellini, Vladimir Belyaev, Benjamin Bentele, Alexandre Bes, Jean-Marie Brom, Gabriele Chiodini, Dominik Chren, Vladimir Cindro, Gilles Claus, Johann Collot, John Cumalat, Sébastien Curtoni, Anne Evelyn Dabrowski, Raffaello D’Alessandro, Denis Dauvergne, Wim De Boer, Christian Dorfer, Marc Dünser, Gerald Eigen, Vladimir Eremin, Jacopo Forneris, Laurent Gallin-Martel, Marie-Laure Gallin-Martel, Kock Kiam Gan, Martin Gastal, Abderrahman Ghimouz, Mathieu Goffe, Joel Goldstein, Alexander Golubev, Andrej Gorišek, Eugene Grigoriev, Jörn Grosse-Knetter, Aidan Grummer, Bojan Hiti, Dmitry Hits, Martin Hoeferkamp, Jérôme Hosselet, Fabian Hügging, Chris Hutson, Jens Janssen, Harris Kagan, Keida Kanxheri, Richard Kass, Mladen Kis, Gregor Kramberger, Sergey Kuleshov, Ana Lacoste, Stefano Lagomarsino, Alessandro Lo Giudice, Ivan López Paz, Eric Lukosi, Chaker Maazouzi, Igor Mandić, Sara Marcatili, Alysia Marino, Cédric Mathieu, Mauro Menichelli, Marko Mikuž, Arianna Morozzi, Francesco Moscatelli, Joshua Moss, Raymond Mountain, Alexander Oh, Paolo Olivero, Daniele Passeri, Heinz Pernegger, Roberto Perrino, Federico Picollo, Michal Pomorski, Renato Potenza, Arnulf Quadt, Fatah Rarbi, Alessandro Re, Michael Reichmann, Shaun Roe, Olivier Rossetto, Diego Alejandro Sanz Becerra, Christian J. Schmidt, Stephen Schnetzer, Silvio Sciortino, Andrea Scorzoni, Sally Seidel, Leonello Servoli, Dale Shane Smith, Bruno Sopko, Vit Sopko, Stefania Spagnolo, Stefan Spanier, Kevin Stenson, Robert Stone, Bjarne Stugu, Concetta Sutera, Michael Traeger, William Trischuk, Marco Truccato, Cristina Tuvè, Jaap Velthuis, Stephen Wagner, Rainer Wallny, Jianchun Wang, Norbert Wermes, Jayashani Wickramasinghe, Mahfoud Yamouni, Justas Zalieckas, Marko Zavrtanik, Kazuhiko Hara, Yoichi Ikegami, Osamu Jinnouchi, Takashi Kohriki, Shingo Mitsui, Ryo Nagai, Susumu Terada, Yoshinobu Unno

“…We also observe the measured data can be described by a universal damage curve for all proton, neutron, and pion irradiations we performed of Chemical Vapor Deposition diamond. Finally, we confirm the spatial uniformity of the collected charge increases with fluence for polycrystalline Chemical Vapor Deposition diamond, and this effect can also be described by a universal curve.…”
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Colombia and Medical Tourism by Ximena Cajiao

“…) [12] Cosmetic Surgeries Performed in Garage Offices can Become a Public Health Problem. …”
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David Brackett. 2016. Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Berkeley: University of California Press by Thomas Johnson

“…As in his other chapters, Brackett’s discussion clarifies how a genre’s legibility “could only be attained via the gradual assembling together of musical sounds, the social connotations of performers and audience, and a shared sense of affect and physical movement that cut across demographic divisions, along with a term or concept that could function as a label” (77). …”
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Neuromuscular electrical stimulation as an adjunct to standard care in improving walking distances in intermittent claudication patients: the NESIC RCT by Burgess Laura, Smith Sasha, Babber Adarsh, Shalhoub Joseph, Fiorentino Francesca, de la Rosa Consuelo Nohpal, Klimowska-Nassar Natalia, Epstein David M, Pérez Troncoso Daniel, Braithwaite Bruce, Chetter Ian, Coulston James, Gohel Manjit, Hinchliffe Robert, Stansby Gerard, Davies Alun H

“…In-person visits were performed at screening/baseline (randomisation), 3 months, 6 months and 12 months. …”
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