Development and implementation of a 3d-HDR brachytherapy program for cervical cancer in a sub-Saharan African centre by Joseph, A, Balogun, O, Adegboyega, B, Salako, O, Irabor, OC, Ajose, A, Adeneye, S, Alabi, A, Ohazurike, E, Ogamba, CF, Oladipo, A, Fagbemide, O, Habeebu, M, Puthoff, D, Onitilo, A, Ngwa, W, Nwachukwu, C

“…</p> <p><strong>RESULTS:&nbsp;</strong>The 3D-HDR brachytherapy program was successfully implemented, with five cases treated in the first 2 months despite challenges such as high equipment costs, expertise and proficiency needs, and source replacement delays. …”

Heterogeneity in definitions of surgical site infection after cranial surgery limits the validity of research findings in neurosurgery: a systematic review by Majidi, N, Sivakumar, A, Vogt, A, Ranganathan, S, Ashkan, K, Price, SJ, Lee, KS

“…Subspecialties included were neuro-oncology (n = 103,19.8%), neurotrauma (n = 92,17.7%), paediatric neurosurgery (n = 56,10.8%), functional neurosurgery (n = 52,10.0%), neurovascular (n = 38,7.3%), skull base (n = 37,7.1%), cerebrospinal fluid dynamics (n = 11,2.1%), and general neurosurgical cases (n = 149,28.7%). A hundred and sixty-nine (32.6%) studies reported SSI-CRAN definitions. …”

‘An unimaginable challenge’: a cross-cultural qualitative study of ethics and decision-making around tracheostomy ventilation in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by Ozeki-Hayashi, R, Wilkinson, D

“…We used three hypothetical cases to explore decision-making. Conversations were transcribed and thematically analyzed. …”

Heterotic string compactification and quiver gauge theory on toric geometry by Sun, C

“…After explicitly computing the Diophantine equation of five block cases, we use this structure to re-organize the result in a form that can be applied to arbitrary block numbers. …”

ECG analysis of ventricular fibrillation dynamics reflects ischaemic progression subject to variability in patient anatomy and electrode location by Martinez-Navarro, H, Bertrand, A, Doste, R, Smith, H, Tomek, J, Ristagno, G, Oliveira, RS, Weber dos Santos, R, Pandit, SV, Rodriguez, B

“…Ischaemia in the remote myocardium modulated fibrillation dynamics. Cases presenting a mildly ischaemic remote myocardium yielded sustained VF, enabled by the high proliferation of phase singularities (PS, 11–22) causing remarkably disorganised activation patterns. …”

Episcopacy and parochialism in early South African Anglicanism: Bishop Robert Gray and the antecedent churches of the Cape Colony, 1806-72 by Bester, M

“…It explores the nature of opposition that Gray’s episcopacy faced from the fourteen independent worshipping congregations established privately or by the colonial state between 1806 and 1847, and how he brought these disputes to resolution, or, in some cases, failed to do so.</p> <p>Anglicanism in the Cape Colony prior to Gray was a state-dominated minority denomination established under a system of colonial ordinances. …”

Niemann-Pick type c disease: pathogenesis and therapy by Colaco, A

“…<p>Niemann-Pick disease Type C is a rare, lysosomal storage disorder caused by defects in either <em>NPC1</em> (95% of cases) or <em>NPC2</em>, and characterized by progressive neurodegeneration that ultimately results in premature death. …”

The molecular pathogenesis of FUS mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using in vivo and in vitro models by Kent, L

“…Fused in sarcoma (FUS) is an RNA binding protein, and mutations in the FUS gene are responsible for approximately 4% of familial and &amp;LT;1% of sporadic ALS cases. This work uses <em>in vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em> models to examine the cellular effects of FUS mutations and the potential mechanisms of motor neuron toxicity.…”

First-in-man study of the PSMA Minibody IR800-IAB2M for molecularly targeted intraoperative fluorescence guidance during radical prostatectomy by Hamdy, FC, Lamb, AD, Tullis, IDC, Verrill, C, Rombach, I, Rao, SR, Colling, R, Barber, PR, Volpi, D, Barbera-Martin, L, Lopez, JF, Omer, A, Hewitt, A, Lovell, S, Niederer, J, Lambert, A, Snoeck, J, Thomson, C, Leslie, T, Bryant, RJ, Mascioni, A, Jia, F, Torgov, M, Wilson, I, Gudas, J, Wu, AM, Olafsen, T, Vojnovic, B

“…<p><strong> Results</strong></p> Twenty-three patients were evaluated to optimise both the dose of the reagent and the interval between injection and surgery and secure the best possible specificity of fluorescence images. Six cases are presented in detail as exemplars. Overall sensitivity and specificity in detecting non-lymph-node extra-prostatic cancer tissue were 100% and 65%, and 64% and 64% respectively for lymph node positivity. …”

Development and evaluation of a polygenic risk score for lung cancer in never-smoking women: a large-scale prospective Chinese cohort study by Wei, X, Sun, D, Gao, J, Zhang, J, Zhu, M, Yu, C, Ma, Z, Fu, Y, Ji, C, Pei, P, Yang, L, Millwood, IY, Walters, RG, Chen, Y, Du, H, Jin, G, Chen, Z, Hu, Z, Li, L, Shen, H, Lv, J, Ma, H

“…We first performed a large GWAS meta-analysis (8595 cases and 8275 controls) to systematically identify the susceptibility loci for lung cancer in never-smoking Asian women and then generated a PRS using GWAS datasets. …”

The Effect Of Blended Learning And critical Thinking On Tertiary EFL Argumentative Writing In China by Wang, Yuling

“…As no single standard for blending exists, more research reports on blended learning cases are needed. This study aims to examine the effect of blended learning and critical thinking on EFL students’ performance in argumentative writing, and the factors that influence students’ argumentative writing performance in a blended learning environment were explored in the current study. …”
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Love and Other Words / by Lauren, Christina, author 593883, Little, Brown Book Group (Online service) 655987

“…Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.…”
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A review on synergistic coexisting pollutants for efficient photocatalytic reaction in wastewater remediation by F. F.A., Aziz, Aishah, Abdul Jalil, Nurul Sahida, Hassan, Anees Ameera, Fauzi, M. S., Azami, N. W.C., Jusoh, Rohayu, Jusoh

“…Simultaneous removal of dual pollutants via photocatalytic redox reaction has been tremendously explored in the last five years due to effective decontamination of pollutants compared to a single pollutants system. …”
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Spectral, spatial, and temporal characteristics of underwater ambient noise in the Beaufort Sea in 1994 and 2016 by Chen, R., Poulsen, A., Schmidt, H.

“…Ambient noise from the Beaufort Sea recorded in experiments more than 20 years apart (SIMI94 and ICEX16) are compared to determine differences that may be attributed to the region's rapidly changing environment. …”
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Multi-Modal Protein Function Prediction using a Joint Embedding Space from Two Graph Neural Networks by Tysinger, Emma P.

“…There’s a growing need for precise and quick computational prediction methods, filling the gap between sequence discovery and functional understanding. Over recent years there has been an influx of deep-learning protein folding algorithms used for predicting function by transfer learning. …”
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Modeling Electrochemical and Rheological Characteristics of Suspension-Based Electrodes for Redox Flow Cells by Majji, Madhu V, Neyhouse, Bertrand J, Matteucci, Nicholas J, Lennon, Kyle R, Mallia, Christopher T, Fenton Jr., Alexis M, Swan, James W, Brushett, Fikile R

“…Flowable suspension-based electrodes (FSEs) have gained attention in recent years, as the integration of solid materials into electrochemical flow cells can offer improved performance and flexible operation. …”
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High field dynamic nuclear polarization methods: Microwave sources and mechanisms by Mardini, Michael

“…In thirty years of active development, dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) has emerged as a forefront technique for expanding the scope of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance. …”
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Filipino nursesʼ use of smartphones in clinical settings by Bautista, John Robert Razote

“…Next, some items for information-seeking purposes differed according to highest educational attainment and years of clinical experience. Moreover, some items for documentation purposes differed according to age, hospital ownership, and number of patients handled in last shift. …”
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Image classification by multimodal subspace learning by Yu, Jun, Lin, Feng, Seah, Hock Soon, Li, Cuihua, Lin, Ziyu

“…In recent years we witnessed a surge of interest in subspace learning for image classification. …”
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A dual-band compact microstrip antenna using CRLHTL metamaterial by Xu, Yuanheng

“…In recent years, the requirement of antenna become more complex, the traditional single band antenna can not satisfied certain applications, because dual-band antenna can be multi-functional. …”
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