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Evaluating Implementation Costs of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocol in Colorectal Surgery: A Systematic Review
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols have been well documented in the current literature to improve healthcare outcomes by decreasing length of stay, resource utilization, and morbidity without inc...
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Open AccessUnraveling attributes of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake in the U.S.: a large nationwide study
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are useful tools to combat the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, but vaccine reluctance threatens these vaccines’ effectiveness. To address COVID-19 vaccine reluctance and ensur...
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Sacral Nerve Stimulation: Choices vs Non-surgical Care for Fecal Incontinence
Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) has revolutionized the surgical treatment of fecal incontinence (FI). Patients that previously were treated only with medication to minimal benefit or colostomy can now get signi...
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Analytical and Observational Investigation of Colors Effects on Drag Reduction in Penguins
All 18 extant species of penguin are strongly countershaded, having dark dorsal and light ventral coloration. In this paper, the thermal effects of this body color in penguins are investigated through analytic...
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Transitioning to Telemedicine During COVID-19: Impact on Perceptions and Use of Telemedicine Procedures for the Diagnosis of Autism in Toddlers
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the use of telemedicine as an avenue to address the need for diagnostic clarification in young children at risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Although preliminary rese...
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Open AccessMüller glial responses compensate for degenerating photoreceptors in retinitis pigmentosa
Photoreceptor degeneration caused by genetic defects leads to retinitis pigmentosa, a rare disease typically diagnosed in adolescents and young adults. In most cases, rod loss occurs first, followed by cone lo...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: NEMF mutations that impair ribosome-associated quality control are associated with neuromuscular disease
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessNEMF mutations that impair ribosome-associated quality control are associated with neuromuscular disease
A hallmark of neurodegeneration is defective protein quality control. The E3 ligase Listerin (LTN1/Ltn1) acts in a specialized protein quality control pathway—Ribosome-associated Quality Control (RQC)—by media...
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Medical Ethics Issues in Dementia and End of Life
I review ethical and legal challenges for end of life (EOL) care in dementia. Is access to hospice care for dementia patients impacted by Medicare’s terminal prognosis requirement? Are dementia-specific advanc...
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Minimally invasive techniques in the management of pilonidal disease
Pilonidal sinus disease (PD) is a chronic condition involved in natal cleft. Excision surgery carries equally morbid course of recovery to that of disease itself. Minimally invasive treatments therefore have b...
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FPGA Hardware Implementation of Smart Home Autonomous System Based on Deep Learning
The use of deep learning algorithms, as a core element of artificial intelligence, has attracted increased attention from industrial and academic institutes recently. One important use of deep learning is to p...
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Proactive Approach for the Prevention of DDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing Environments
Contemporary security systems attempt to provide protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks; however, they mostly use a variety of computing and hardware resources for load distribution an...
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Open AccessSecond Order Rate Constants of Donor-Strand Exchange Reveal Individual Amino Acid Residues Important in Determining the Subunit Specificity of Pilus Biogenesis
P pili are hair-like adhesive structures that are assembled on the outer membrane (OM) of uropathogenic Escherichia coli by the chaperone-usher pathway. In this pathway, chaperone-subunit complexes are formed in ...
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Reputation Prediction in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using RBF Neural Networks
Security is one of the major challenges in the design and implementation of protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). ‘Cooperation for corporate well-being’ is one of the major principles being followed in c...
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Television and the election
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The effective use of sound films
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Report on sixth experimental series, “The study of the mind” by Professor Sir Cyril Burt
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Effects of a stereoscopic sound motion picture on the learning of a perceptual-motor task
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Propaganda, debate, and impartial presentation as determiners of attitude change
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Effects of fear-arousing communications
