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Prognostic value of preoperative anorectal manometry parameters for anastomotic leakage after sphincter-preserving surgery for rectal cancer. [PDF]

Int J Colorectal Dis
Chang JG, Kim EB, Kim CW, Yoon YS, Lee JL, Park IJ, Lim SB.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Risk factor analysis and nomogram model development for anastomotic leakage following laparoscopic radical colorectal cancer surgery. [PDF]

World J Surg Oncol
He ZH, Zhou YY, Zhang RN, He YS, Jin YH, Tian FH.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Development and validation of a multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging-based nomogram for predicting feasibility of sphincter-preserving surgery in mid-low rectal cancer. [PDF]

Chin J Cancer Res
Wang J, Chang T, Tang L, Li Q, Gao Z, Gao Q, Hong H, Hou Z, Li W, Li Y, Han Y, Wu W, Wang H, Feng W, Na M, Wang J, Yu M, Zhang B, Li M, Sun Y, Gu J.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Multidisciplinary management of Grade III circumferential mixed hemorrhoids in a patient with Marfan syndrome receiving long-term anticoagulation: a case report. [PDF]

Front Surg
Wei B, Wu X, Zhang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
wiley   +1 more source

Renal atrophy, bowel obstruction, and sciatic nerve impingement secondary to deep endometriosis. [PDF]

CMAJ
Singh SS, Duigenan S, Tanara L, Flaxman TE.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Home foreclosure discounts in auctions without reserve prices

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article estimates foreclosure discounts in Cape Town, South Africa, where, until 2019, foreclosure auctions occurred without reserve prices. Using newly constructed data linking sheriff auction notices to the universe of property transactions, rich property characteristics, and municipal service‐request records, I document large ...
Allan Davids
wiley   +1 more source