Efficiency of Protective Interventions on Irinotecan-Induced Diarrhea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yanxi He MB, Lili Wu MM, Xiaoyi Qi MD,PhD, Xuan Wang MM, Bing He BS, Wei Zhang MM, Wenjing Zhao MB, Mingming Deng MB, Xia Xiong MB, Yu Wang MB, Sicheng Liang PhD

“…Subgroup analysis revealed that the monotherapy group (RR: 0.48, 95% CI: 0.21-1.13, I 2  = 0%) and combination therapy group (RR: 0.14, 95% CI: 0.06-0.32, I 2  = 0%) in the risk of high-grade diarrhea had no significant heterogeneity within the groups, and traditional herbal medicines (Kampo medicine Hangeshashin-to, PHY906 and hot ironing with Moxa Salt Packet on Tianshu and Shangjuxu) were effective preventive measures (RR:0.20, 95% CI: 0.07-0.60, I 2  = 0%). …”
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Sources of Debt Accumulation in Resource-Dependent Provinces by Ronald D. Kneebone

“…The business cycle added 1.5 points and the commodity-price cycle decreased the debt ratio by 6.1 points. Ironically, given assumptions about party proclivities, it was Progressive Conservative government policies that added most of that debt, and NDP government policies that made the most progress in reducing it. …”
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Areas and factors associated with patients’ dissatisfaction with glaucoma care by Foo VH, Tan SE, Chen DZ, Perera SA, Sabayanagam C, Fenwick EK, Wong TT, Lamoureux EL

“…Conclusion: Although less than one tenth of glaucoma patients were dissatisfied with the overall glaucoma service, one in four patients were dissatisfied with three specific aspects of care. A lower IOP, ironically, and education level were associated with overall dissatisfaction. …”
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Translating the therapeutic potential of neurotrophic factors to clinical ‘proof of concept’: A personal saga achieving a career-long quest by Raymond T. Bartus

“…As advances continue to be made in both fields, ironically, they may now be poised to complement each other to produce a translational breakthrough. …”
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Pinceladas de fragmentación urbana en la narrativa de Alberto Fuguet. Postmodernidad y destellos McOndianos en la Santiago de Chile de Por favor, rebobinar by G. Gatti

“…We will underline the modalities –sometimes merely descriptive, some others ironic or critical– according to which the urban and night scene of Santiago of Chile reflects the fragmentation in human exchanges and the fleetingness of the values of the present age. …”
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Impact of Operative Delay on Sepsis and Mortality in Patients with Acute Diverticulitis by Robin F. Irons, Michael E. Kwiatt, Michael J. Minarich, John P. Gaughan, Francis R. Spitz, Steven J. McClane

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China’s State-Owned Enterprises and Canada’s FDI Policy by Wendy Dobson

“…This is particularly ironic given that, as Canada’s foreign-investment rules become cloudier and more prone to government interference, in China itself, regimes governing foreign direct investment (FDI) and state-owned enterprises are becoming increasingly transparent and market-oriented. …”
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POETIC JUSTICE DALAM KARYA-KARYA SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO: SEBUAH AJARAN MORAL DALAM MENJALANI HIDUP by Diah Ariani Arimbi

“…Using poetic justice in scrunitizing the works of Sapardi one can easily understand that in the battle between the virtue versus the vice, the virtue will win and be rewarded while the vice will be defeated and punished, and often virtue will replace vice in ironic twist. Sapardi’s works also show that in the quest of truth, sacrifice is necessary action as through sacrifice transformation from bad to good will take place.  …”
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Sources of Debt Accumulation in Resource-Dependent Provinces by Ronald D. Kneebone

“…The business cycle added 1.5 points and the commodity-price cycle decreased the debt ratio by 6.1 points. Ironically, given assumptions about party proclivities, it was Progressive Conservative government policies that added most of that debt, and NDP government policies that made the most progress in reducing it. …”
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台灣兒童圖畫書出版產業之困境與願景：從插畫創作者之角度檢視 The Dilemma and Vision of the Children’s Picture Book Industry in Taiwan: A Perspective of Illustrators... by Bin I, Wei-ting Liu

“…Recently, Taiwan government is showing high interest in “culture and creative industries but ironically ignore the very important one — illustration picture book, and has no other practical plan and policy about it. …”
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Sources of Debt Accumulation in Resource-Dependent Provinces by Ronald D. Kneebone

“…The business cycle added 1.5 points and the commodity-price cycle decreased the debt ratio by 6.1 points. Ironically, given assumptions about party proclivities, it was Progressive Conservative government policies that added most of that debt, and NDP government policies that made the most progress in reducing it. …”
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Exposing additional authors who suppress evidence about radiation-induced thyroid cancer in children: a Comment adding to Tsuda et al.’s response to Schüz et al. (2023) by Colin L. Soskolne

“…Finally, their insistence that the Tsuda et al. study was an ecological study susceptible to “the ecological fallacy” indicated their lack of epidemiological knowledge about ecological studies. Ironically, many of the papers cited by Cléro et al. regarding overdiagnosis were, in fact, ecological studies. …”
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The Context and Challenges for Canada’s Mid-Sized Cities by Almos T. Tassony

“…Many of these options have yet to be explored. Ironically, while the municipal level of government is viewed as being at the bottom of the hierarchy of governments, many city governments are larger, more innovative and more versatile than the provincial governments that oversee them. …”
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BLACK HUMOUR: ORIGIN DESCRIPTION AND AN ATTEMPT OF IDENTIFICATION by Iryna A. Blynova.

“…We interpret black humour as one of the varieties of a comic category; as humour with an admixture of cynicism, the comic effect of which consists in mocking ‘gloomy’, macabre topics; as an ironic-bitter smile of a person about his / her miserable situation in the real world. …”
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The man, the plant, and the insect: shooting host specificity determinants in Serratia marcescens pangenome by Anton E. Shikov, Anton E. Shikov, Anastasiya V. Merkushova, Iuliia A. Savina, Anton A. Nizhnikov, Anton A. Nizhnikov, Kirill S. Antonets, Kirill S. Antonets

“…Interestingly, factors associated with plants also included putative growth-promoting proteins like enzymes performing xenobiotic degradation and releasing ammonium irons. We also identified overrepresented functional annotations within the sets of specificity factors and found that their functional characteristics fell into separate clusters, thus, implying that host adaptation is represented by diverse functional pathways. …”
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China’s State-Owned Enterprises and Canada’s FDI Policy by Wendy Dobson

“…This is particularly ironic given that, as Canada’s foreign-investment rules become cloudier and more prone to government interference, in China itself, regimes governing foreign direct investment (FDI) and state-owned enterprises are becoming increasingly transparent and market-oriented. …”
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Holistic life-cycle investigation of alternative fuel - ammonia by Ng, Wei Long

“…This has led to many industry players to begin adopting measures such as slow steaming, optimizing route plans, and storage of energy through batteries and cold ironing. In addition, alternative fuels have been receiving more attention as the potential reduction of GHG emissions have been found to be very significant. …”
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"Barriers towards the effectiveness of an anti-smoking campaign program in Malacca" by Abdullah, Siti Faidul Maisarah, Ilyas, Ilya Yasnorizar, Mohd Ashraff, Noor Ashmalia

“…And under any political system, social conditioning and chemical habituation make banning tobacco a formidable task and one that would take a long time. Ironically, media campaigns are likely to focus exclusively on encouraging youths not to smoke are likely to be ineffective. …”
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Moderating effects of gender on the relationship between financial knowledge, financial attitude and self-control and financial behaviour among college- bound Gen Y in Klang Valley... by Maarof, Zuhairah

“…However, behaviour wise, male students indicated that they practiced more effective financial behaviour than the female counterpart. Ironically, despite having higher financial knowledge and more positive financial attitude, female students were not at par with male students in the aspect of effective financial behaviour. …”
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Impact of caregiving experience and Social support on the outcome of Patients with schizophrenia by Ishak, Hariani

“…Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness which requiring consistent support from a caretaker in order to provide medication’s supervision, aid in activity of daily living and also for emotional support. Ironically, in view of the chronic course of the illness, it also leads to burden and breakdown among the caretakers. …”
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