Background Contrast‐associated acute kidney injury (CA‐AKI) is associated with substantial morbidity and may be prevented by using less contrast during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Neal Yuan +7 more
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In higher education, the key resource for the achievement of institutional objectives is the enhancement of high-quality education and the highest level of student satisfaction. Quality assurance cultivates a successful education system in the country.
Salman Ahmed Khatani, Shams Hamid
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Revealing Social Functions through Pragmatic Genealogies [PDF]
There is an under-appreciated tradition of genealogical explanation that is centrally concerned with social functions. I shall refer to it as the tradition of pragmatic genealogy.
Queloz, Matthieu
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Design and rationale of a multi-center, pragmatic, open-label randomized trial of antimicrobial therapy - the study of clinical efficacy of antimicrobial therapy strategy using pragmatic design in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (CleanUP-IPF) clinical trial [PDF]
Compelling data have linked disease progression in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) with lung dysbiosis and the resulting dysregulated local and systemic immune response.
A Mishra +43 more
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Applying Item Response Theory (IRT) Modeling to an Observational Measure of Childhood Pragmatics: The Pragmatics Observational Measure-2 [PDF]
Assessment of pragmatic language abilities of children is important across a number of childhood developmental disorders including ADHD, language impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Cordier, Reinie +5 more
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The value of information in multi-scale feedback systems
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) can be described as system of information flows that dynamically interact across scales to adapt and survive. CAS often consist of many components that work toward a shared goal and interact across different informational ...
Louisa Jane Di Felice +3 more
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The Right to “Do Politics” and Not Just to Speak: Thinking About the Constitutional Protections for Political Action [PDF]
Syfte: Det övergripande syftet med avhandlingen är att utveckla en intressentbaseradutvärderingsmetod för att utvärdera informationssystem. Jag har valt attkalla utvärderingsmetoden för VISU (Verksamhetsutvecklande InformationssystemUtvärdering).
Bauer, Robert F.
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Lidando com piadas na aula de ESL: uma proposta pedagógica centrada na compreensão [PDF]
This paper makes a pedagogical proposal to delve into jokes in the ESL classroom and sensitise learners to their complexity. It consists of five instructional phases and is based, on the one hand, on another proposal to teach the pragmatics of speech ...
Padilla Cruz, Manuel
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ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie +4 more
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A Model for the Pragmatic Analysis of Gossip
Gossip is a positive or a negative evaluative information about contextually determined and deviant acts of third party(ies) (most often non-present, but potentially present in the conversation).
Fareed Al-Hindawi, Hassan Abukrooz
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