PREOPERATIVE ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY IN PATIENTS WITHOUT REFLUX SYMPTOMS UNDERGOING LAPAROSCOPIC SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY: UTILITY OR FUTILITY?

Preoperative esophagogastroduodenoscopy in patients without reflux symptoms undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: utility or futility?

Tagleb S Mazahreh,1 Abdelwahab J Aleshawi,1 Nabil A Al-Zoubi,1 Mohammed Z Allouh,2,3 Khaled A Jadallah,4 Rasheed Elayyan,1 Nathan M Novotny51Department of General Surgery and Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan; 2Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Scienc

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Development of a power transmission device for bicycles and verification of its effectiveness using musculoskeletal model

Bicycles have been recognized for their advantages such as low environmental impact, health improvement, and maintenance of transportation function in times of disaster, and demand for bicycles is increasing as social conditions change.The pedaling of a conventional Artichoke bicycle nowadays turns a crank to rotate the front gear, which is transmi

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Occupational accidents in Malta and the role of the occupational health and safety authority: A twenty-year analysis

The Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OHSA) was established in Malta in 2002.Since then, trends indicate that non-fatal accidents have decreased in Malta, while changes in fatal accidents are less clear.Since these trends have not been statistically investigated before, this study aims to do so.The study also aims to analyse the link betwee

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