P redicting the amount of country imports toward assessing trade balance and its effect on the balance of payments (BOP) and finally money supply, general level of prices and the rate of economic growth is of paramount importance. Therefore, economic policymakers seriously need a model which cannot only predict the volume of imports well but also be capable of re...

You have accessJournal of UrologyTrauma/Reconstruction/Diversion: Urethral Reconstruction (including Stricture, Diverticulum) I (MP03)1 Sep 2021MP03-17 ORAL MUCOSA GRAFTING (OMG) OR EXCISION AND PRIMARY ANASTOMOSIS (EPA) FOR THE TREATMENT OF RADIATION-ASSOCIATED URETHRAL STRICTURES: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Matthias D. Hofer, Dmitriy Nikolavsky, Connor Policastro, Brian J Flynn, Kirk Redger, Allen ...

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Many years ago, I waited behind a tall man at the coat check scientific congress. He handed in his coat, left my jacket and then suddenly noticed name tag. James M Tanner. This was before word starstruck invented, but remember thinking “Of course, that is somebody's name!”. But not just any name. As paediatrician, use Tanner stages test named after him to grade child's pubertal development. had...

Background: Several risk factors for severe COVID-19 have been identified 1 . An important question is whether in addition to these generic factors, patients with a potentially altered immune response, either by disease (inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRDs)) or use of immunomodulatory agents (IA), carry higher lower COVID-19. In addition, several other potential suggested, such as vitamin D s...

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