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Use of idarucizumab for dabigatran reversal in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation undergoing emergency surgical repair of strangulated femoral hernia
Non-vitamin-K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are approved for stroke prevention in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) and dabigatran exetilate, a direct thrombin inhibitor, was the first one to...
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LLLT for the management of patients with ankylosing spondylitis
This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of the combined low-level laser therapy (LLLT) and passive stretching with combined placebo LLLT laser and the same passive stretching exercises in patients suffer...
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Incidence, diagnostics and management of iatrogenic bile duct injuries: 20 years experience in a high volume centre
The vast majority of bile duct injuries occur in cases of open or laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Numerous reports have demonstrated that the incidence of iatrogenic bile duct injuries (IBDI) has risen from 0.3%...
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Open AccessErlotinib ‘dosing-to-rash’: a phase II intrapatient dose escalation and pharmacologic study of erlotinib in previously treated advanced non-small cell lung cancer
To evaluate the anticancer activity of erlotinib in patients with previously treated, advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose dose is increased to that associated with a maximal level of tolerable sk...
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Incidence, identification of multidrug-resistant pathogens and impact on the outcome after cardiac surgery
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Waves and Instabilities in Space Plasmas
Electromagnetic plasma waves are a ubiquitous feature of space plasmas. They are important agents in propagating energy across different space regions, in providing plasma transport in the absence of collision...
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Homeric Injury Scenes on Ancient Greek Pottery Reveal Medical Knowledge
Most of the 114 injury descriptions in the Iliad and the Odyssey are illustrated on n merous ancient and Hellenistic Greek vases. The present work, by collecting and analyzing many such injury scenes on vases ...
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Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii susceptible only to colistin outbreak in a cardiac surgical intensive care unit
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Design, Architecture and Performance Evaluation of the Wireless Transport Layer Security
Communication protocols for wireless networks have specified security layers, with high-level encryption strength. The dedicated to security layer of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), is the Wireless Transp...
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Synthesis of Novel steroidal isonicotinylhydrazones and thiosemicarbazones from tigogenin
A series of new isonicotinylhydrazones and thiosemicarbazones of various ketosteroids was synthesized. The structures of the compounds were confirmed by NMR and IR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.
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Some Derivatives of 5α-Ketosteroid Hydrazones: Synthesis from Tigogenin and Antituberculosis Activity
Isonicotinoylhydrazones and thiosemicarbazones of some 5α-ketosteroids were synthesized from tigogenin, and their structures were confirmed by NMR and IR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Their antimycobacte...
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Open AccessImpact of alcohol use and its related disorders at work in relavance with family history of alcoholism
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On the efficiency of ELF/VLF generation using HF heating of the auroral electrojet
Using experimental measurements and theoretical analysis, it is shown that the HF/ELF conversion efficiency is controlled by the timescale for electron temperature saturation. This is a function of the ERP and...
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Phase II trial of sequential high-dose chemotherapy with paclitaxel, melphalan and cyclophosphamide, thiotepa and carboplatin with peripheral blood progenitor support in women with responding metastatic breast cancer
A single high-dose cycle of chemotherapy can produce response rates in excess of 50%. However, disease-free survival (DFS) is 15–20% at 5 years. The single most important predictor of prolonged DFS is achievin...
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Demonstration of Sub-Millimeter Radiation Generation from Static Field by a Superluminous Ionization front in Semiconductor Capacitor Array
Generation of frequency upshifted monochromatic radiation in the 100 GHz to FIR range by the interaction of a superluminous photoconducting front with an electrostatic “frozen wave” configuration in a semicond...
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Novel organic-inorganic glasses
The preparation and properties of novel organic-inorganic glasses with phenyl groups covalently bonded to phosphorus in an inorganic glass are presented. Phenyl phosphonic acid (PPA) can be incorporated into t...
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ELF emission generated by the HAARP HF-heater using varying frequency and polarization
We present first observations of the ELF emission generated by the modulated ionospheric HF-heating using the HAARP facility. We focus primarily on the dependence of the polarization and of the amplitude of th...
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Spatio-temporal development of the filaments due to the thermal self-focusing instability near the critical surface in ionospheric plasmas
We study fully nonlinear spatio-temporal development of the thermal self-focusing instability of high-power radio waves near the critical surface of the ionosphere. These simulations improve on our earlier wor...
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Global and local geospace modeling in ISTP
The objective of the University of Maryland ISTP theory project is the development of the analytical and computational tools, which, combined with the data collected by the space and ground-based ISTP sensors,...
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Time Series Analysis of Magnetospheric Activity Using Nonlinear Dynamical Methods
Several attempts have been made to describe and predict the dynamical behavior of the Earth’s magnetosphere as it is reflected in geomagnetic time series. Early results indicated that the dimension is low so t...
