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BACKGROUND: Premarital sex increases the risk of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections including HIV if unprotected and contraception is not used. Thus, the objective of this study was to assess premarital sex in the last twelve months and its predictors among regular undergraduate students of Wolleg…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness and safety/tolerability of perampanel (PER) in people with epilepsy (PWE) treated in everyday clinical practice for focal and generalized seizures, both in the total cohort and by age group. METHODS: The PERMIT Extension study was a pooled analysis of data from PWE included in tw…

Acute massive hemorrhage from CD occurred in 3.0% in our institution. Forty CD patients with massive hemorrhage were reported in last 20 years in Japan. The ratio of male to female was 7.0. Ninety percent of them complicated the small intestinal CD. Massive bleeding was seen mostly in the ileum (82.5%) and next was in…

Within the last 5 to 10 years, health care has seen a plethora of "breakthrough" technologies--client/server computing, multitasking, multi-user operating systems, E-mail, CD-ROM data storage, the Internet, etc. Now, a newer technology is coming of age. This point-of-care technology uses radio-based systems to transmit…

An overview is given of the organisation and working procedures of the evaluation of veterinary medicines in the Netherlands. The results of the evaluation procedure of the last 5 years are discussed together with the problems that have arose for authorities and industry. An overview is also given of the problems that…

The Authors report their experience in the management of paratesticular rhabdomyosarcomas observed in the last 5 years (3 cases). Clinical and instrumental findings are analyzed; their therapeutic planes and suggestions of National Protocol RMS 88 are compared.

The paper deals with problems of screening for neoplasms in the course of follow-up. 58.6% of all tumors were detected by screening. The number of cases of advanced cancer has stayed unchanged within the last 5 years.

The surgical technique described in this article consists of performing an 0.8-mm stapedotomy at the posterior third part of the footplate using a large 6 mm square vein graft interposition and performing a vigorous inflation of the middle ear as early as the twenty-fourth postoperative hour. This technique allowed the…

We describe a dermal flap for use in protecting an especially vulnerable carotid artery from rupture after a radical neck dissection. We have used this flap successfully in 3 patients in the last 5 years.

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The science and technology of intermediate moisture foods has advanced during the last 25 years. Developments during this period are reviewed. Knowledge of the relationship of water activity and food degradation has advanced considerably during this period. Many new intermediate moisture foods have been developed. Seve…

A 61-year-old man presented to the pulmonary clinic with symptoms of dyspnea and productive cough for the last 6 months. Within the last 2 months, he started noticing bulging of his eyes associated with blurry vision. He denied hemoptysis, fever, night sweats, weight loss, skin rash, and dry eyes or mouth. He…

PURPOSE: To describe hospital bed utilization in the final 6 months of life in patients dying of cancer in Ontario, Canada. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Hospital separation records were linked to a population-based cancer registry to identify factors associated with hospitalization in the 203,713 patients who died of cancer…

Peatlands are significant carbon (C) stores, playing a key role in nature-based climate change mitigation. While the effectiveness of non-forested peatlands as C reservoirs is increasingly recognized, the C sequestration function of forested peatlands remains poorly documented, despite their widespread distribution. He…

UNLABELLED: Seizures in infancy have highly variable courses and underlying etiologies. However, there are only a few long-term follow-up studies regarding infantile-onset epilepsy. Therefore, we aimed to describe the clinical courses, seizure outcomes, and risk factors of infantile-onset epilepsy followed up for more…

: A systematic review of the research conducted on Cooperative Learning in Physical Education in the last 5 years (2014-2019).: Seven databases were used to select those articles that included information on the implementation of Cooperative Learning in the different educational stages. After the exclusion criteria, 15…

Organic photovoltaic devices are on the verge of commercialization with power conversion efficiencies exceeding 10 % in laboratory cells and above 8.5 % in modules. However, one of the main limitations hindering their mass scale production is the debatable inferior stability of organic photovoltaic devices in…

We aim to evaluate the impact of age and duration of symptoms on surgical outcome of the patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR) who had been treated by single-level microscopic anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). We retrospectively evaluated 68 patients (48 female and 20 male) with a mean ag…