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ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Liver transplant outcome: a comparison between high and low MELD score recipients [PDF]
Objective: To compare low and high MELD scores and investigatewhether existing renal dysfunction has an effect on transplantoutcome. Methods: Data was prospectively collected among 237liver transplants (216 patients) between March 2003 and March2009 ...
Andre Ibrahim David +9 more
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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目的探讨终末期肝病模型(MELD)在慢性肝衰竭患者预后判断的意义。方法对152例慢性肝衰竭患者的临床资料进行回顾性分析,计算入院时MELD分值及药物治疗2周后MELD分值与入院时MELD分值的差值ΔMELD,同时了解患者3个月病死率。结果9例患者在3个月内死亡,MELD分值在MELD≤9 ...
纪民, 刘威, 崔振兴, 王淑兰
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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HOPE has improved outcomes in ECD liver transplantation and allowed the safe utilization of increasingly marginal grafts with favorable results. ABSTRACT Background The advent of machine perfusion (MP) has significantly improved post‐liver transplantation (post‐LT) outcomes, potentially enabling the use of increasingly marginal grafts and expanding the
Gerti Dajti +16 more
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Background Eurotransplant liver transplant candidates are prioritized by Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD), a 90-day waitlist survival risk score based on the INR, creatinine and bilirubin.
H. C. de Ferrante +4 more
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This multicenter, observational study reveals distinct alterations in the microbial spectrum of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) associated with proton pump inhibitor use. These results are especially relevant for guiding empiric antibiotic therapy of SBP.
Philip Kitchen +13 more
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