How Reproducible Are Abdominal Wall Surgical Techniques? A Methodological Assessment of Technical Reporting in the Contemporary Literature [PDF]
PurposeTo evaluate the completeness and reproducibility of technical reporting in contemporary abdominal wall hernia literature, and to assess the risk of misinterpretation when surgical techniques are classified based solely on titles and abstracts ...
Francesco Brucchi +5 more
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Acronyms and Opportunities for Improving Deep Nets
Recently, several studies have reported promising results with BERT-like methods on acronym tasks. In this study, we find an older rule-based program, Ab3P, not only performs better, but error analysis suggests why.
Kenneth Church, Boxiang Liu
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From Laparoscopic TAPP to l-GPSpX: A Pilot Reclassification of Hernia Surgery Acronyms Using the Muysoms Nomenclature [PDF]
Francesco Brucchi +3 more
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The Role of Aβ in the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease and its Mechanisms [PDF]
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is chronic neurodegenerative dementia representing the most common cause of dementia in the elderly population. It is a major source of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare expenditure worldwide.
Jin Yifei
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English Acronyms in Indonesian School Events
This article investigates the formation of English acronyms used to name school events in an Indonesian setting. The data collected from Instagram and offline sources were taken from April to August 2018 and were classified and analyzed following ...
Rio Rini Diah Moehkardi
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Translating acronyms of “Designated Survivor” into Romanian
The present article is based on research focusing on acronyms, including their forms, spelling and punctuation in English, also discussing various, often contradictory, or ambiguous definitions for so-called “minor” word-formation options.
Attila Imre
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Globalisierung durch reduzierte Fachwörter, oder Elemente einer beinahe universellen Lingua franca? [PDF]
This paper focuses on multi-segmental acronyms (Kurzwörter), whose use was initially condemned by German linguistic purists as a manifestation of language decay. However, the desire for abbreviation has not abated: multi-segmental acronyms are being used
Márta Murányi-Zagyvai
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Glossary of acronyms used in Digital Humanities [PDF]
A glossary of acronyms used in Digital Humanities compiled by the organizer and contributors to a conference on the subject held at the Università degli studi dell’Aquila in the summer of 2022.
Andrew Hopkins
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Abbreviations in English Shipbuilding Terminology and Their Translation into Romanian
Abbreviations represent a substantial element in the English and Romanian word stock as well as in their shipbuilding terminologies. This paper is an analysis of the English abbreviations and their Romanian versions in an attempt to assess the ...
Floriana Popescu
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Acronyms are lexical units that have been thoroughly explored in terms of their morphology or pronun-ciation. However, their semantic value has not been entirely determined yet. The present paper aims at investigating the manner in which a semantic value
Dorota Lajus
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