Will the increase of medical equipment affect medical expenditure? Empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment in China by Qiwei Deng, Zhongliang Zhou, Chi Shen, Dan Cao, Dantong Zhao, Yaxin Zhao, Jianmin Gao

“…Methods Quasi-experimental research design with a difference-in-differences approach was adopted to explore whether an increase in the number of large-scale medical equipment impacts on outpatient and inpatient costs. …”
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Variation Diagnosis of Maximum Precipitation in Jiangxi Province in 60 Years by WU Shaofei, WANG Qi, HUANG Binbin, JU Xiang, XU Changbao, HE Miao

“…Hourly precipitation data of 91 meteorological stations in Jiangxi Province during 1954—2012 were selected to analyze the variation of maximum precipitation in consecutive 1 h,3 h,6 h,12 h and 24 h using hydrologic variation diagnostic system (HDMS) .Firstly,in the detailed diagnosis,linear trend,Kendall and Spearman methods were used for trend test,and M-K,cumulative anomaly,ordered clustering,sliding F,sliding rank sum and other test methods were adopted for jump diagnosis.Secondly,the efficiency coefficient R² was employed to determine the final diagnosis results and conduct the spatio-temporal analysis.Finally,the spatial characteristics of the occurrence frequency of maximum precipitation greater than or equal to 16 mm,30 mm and 50 mm were analyzed.The results show the followings:① The spatial distribution characteristics of maximum precipitation in Max1 h,Max3 h,Max6 h,Max12 h and Max24 h were similar in Jiangxi Province.With the increase in duration,most stations with variations witnessed a jumping increase.Those with significant variations were more in the northern plain than in the southern mountain area,namely that the spatial distribution was dense in the north and sparse in the south.② The degree of precipitation series variation was positively and negatively correlated with elevation in the southern mountain area and the northern plain area,respectively.Studies have shown that atmospheric circulation indexes AO (Arctic oscillation),NAO (North Atlantic oscillation) and PNA (Pacific-North American oscillation) had negative,positive and negative correlations with precipitation at stations in the study area,respectively.Therefore,the atmospheric circulation indexes have correlations with the change of precipitation series in Jiangxi Province,which are one of the causes of the maximum precipitation variation in the period.③ The frequency of regional rainstorms gradually decreased with the increase in duration,and rainstorm events in the northern plain area were less than those in other mountain areas due to the influence of topographic factors.Through the analysis of hourly precipitation data of many years in Jiangxi Province,this paper is expected to provide some reference for short-term rainstorm forecast and flood warning.…”
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Abstractive Summarization of Historical Documents: A New Dataset and Novel Method Using a Domain-Specific Pretrained Model by Keerthana Murugaraj, Salima Lamsiyah, Christoph Schommer

“…Specifically, our method adopts an encoder-decoder architecture, combining the pre-trained HistBERT encoder with a randomly initialized Transformer decoder. …”
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Enterprises as Complex Systems: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Resilience by Dimitry Borissov

“…The study advocates for adopting resilience engineering and collective mindfulness to anticipate, detect, and manage errors effectively, ensuring organizational stability and growth. …”
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F6H8 as an Intraoperative Tool and F6H8/Silicone Oil as a Postoperative Tamponade in Inferior Retinal Detachment with Inferior PVR by Gian Marco Tosi, Davide Marigliani, Tommaso Bacci, Napoleone Romeo, Angelo Balestrazzi, Gianluca Martone, Tomaso Caporossi

“…The surgical technique adopted is very simple and safe. The optimal F6H8/SO ratio seems to be between 50/50 and 30/70.…”
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Crash Prediction on Expressway Incorporating Traffic Flow Continuity Parameters Based on Machine Learning Approach by Tian Lei, Jia Peng, Xingliang Liu, Qin Luo

“…Random forest (RF) is then adopted to specify the quantitative relationship between specific variable and crash risk. …”
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The Role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Participatory Conservation of Heritage Areas by Hamid Salimi, Somayeh Fadaei Nezhad Bahramjerdi, Rana Tootoonchi

“…Various methods such as community workshops and collaborative mapping exercises have been adopted. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have emerged as a valuable tool in facilitating stakeholder participation. …”
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“Solutions in Hieroglyphic”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Picturesque Language,” and the Ancient Near East by Mathieu Duplay

“…Il s’agit de montrer en quoi elles infléchissent la réflexion d’Emerson sur la nature sémiotique du langage, compliquent ses rapports avec la pensée contemporaine et déterminent l’attitude qu’il adopte vis-à-vis de sa propre écriture, d’une manière qui, du point de vue du vingt-et-unième siècle, conserve une grande actualité.…”
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Geomagnetically Induced Current Model in New Zealand Across Multiple Disturbances: Validation and Extension to Non‐Monitored Transformers by D. H. Mac Manus, C. J. Rodger, M. Ingham, M. A. Clilverd, M. Dalzell, T. Divett, G. S. Richardson, T. Petersen

“…Here we model the GIC during 25 disturbed periods, ranging from large geomagnetic storms to weakly active periods. We adopt the approach of scaling model output using observed GIC power spectra, finding that it improves the correlations between the maximum model and observed GIC by between 10% and 40% depending on the transformer. …”
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Matters arising: cost-utility and cost-effectiveness analysis of disease-modifying drugs of relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis: a systematic review by Carlo Lazzaro, Roberto Bergamaschi, Mauro Zaffaroni, Rocco Totaro, Damiano Paolicelli

“…In fact, for both the healthcare sector and societal perspectives adopted in our Markov model-based cost-utility analysis, the baseline results showed teriflunomide in RRMS naïve patients to be strongly dominant (that is, producing more QALYs and being, at the same time, cost-saving) vs. …”
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ID3RSNet: cross-subject driver drowsiness detection from raw single-channel EEG with an interpretable residual shrinkage network by Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng, Zhongyuan Guo, Zhongyuan Guo, Sam Kwong

“…First, a base feature extractor is employed to extract the essential features of EEG frequencies; to enhance the discriminative feature learning ability, the residual shrinkage building unit with attention mechanism is adopted to perform adaptive feature recalibration and soft threshold denoising inside the residual network is further applied to achieve automatic feature extraction. …”
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Basis for the Age-related Decline in Intestinal Mucosal Immunity by Douglas L. Schmucker, Robert L. Owen, Robert Outenreath, Karine Thoreux

“…Flow cytometry and lymphocyte adoptive transfer studies showed 3- to 4-fold age-related declines in the homing of antibody-containing cells and mesenteric lymph node lymphocytes to the small intestines of rhesus macaques and rats, respectively. …”
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Dynamic System Simulation to Improve the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Supply Chain Performance and Behaviour on Waste Bank Resik Becik by Ratih Setyaningrum, Vida Auralita, Dwi Izzhati, Pramudi Arsiwi, Tita Thalitha

“…The first scenario is cutting indirect labour costs by $58,83. By adopting this alternative, BSRB reduces expenses from $580,25 to $639,07. …”
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Investigating feature extraction by SIFT methods for prostate cancer early detection by Shadan Mohammed Jihad, Ali A. Alsaud, Firas H. Almukhtar, Shahab Kareem, Raghad Zuhair Yousif

“…The robust SIFT relates to tasks of object recognition within computer vision, in the recognition of prostatic regions where grey-level distributions differ remarkably between benign and malignant tissues. The adopted methodology was based on the comparative analysis and benchmarking of the performance of feature extraction based on SIFT against traditional image processing techniques with a generic representation on a number of metrics: sensitivity, specificity, and overall diagnostic accuracy. …”
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Incremental Instance-Oriented 3D Semantic Mapping via RGB-D Cameras for Unknown Indoor Scene by Wei Li, Junhua Gu, Benwen Chen, Jungong Han

“…To obtain accurate point cloud cluster, we adopt the Gaussian mixture model as an optimizer after processing 2D to 3D projection. …”
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Foresight for Internationalization of Medical Sciences Universities in Iran in the 2040 horizon by Azadeh Ahmadzadeh Ghasab, Majid Heydari, Mohammad Arab

“…Therefore, obtaining insight into potential future scenarios is essential for adopting exclusive and effective strategies. Accordingly, this study aims to identify future scenarios for the internationalization of Medical Sciences Universities in Iran (MSUI) in the 2040 horizon. …”
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Content validation of an activity-based therapy tracking tool in a community setting for people living with spinal cord injury or disease using cognitive debriefing interviews. by Anita Kaiser, Hanan Idd, Katherine Chan, Alexander Djuric, Sandi Marshall, Heather Cairns-Mills, Jennifer Leo, Kristin E Musselman

“…The paper format of the tool, added workload, learning curve and challenge to adopt a new documentation system were considered barriers to tool use.…”
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Enhancing Anticancer Potential: Investigating the Synergistic Impact of Doxorubicin and Curcumin on HeLa and Vero Cells in Vitro by Windy Aristiani, Widea Rossi Desvita, Dika Khayatulisma, Citra Ariani Edityaningrum, Any Guntarti, Laela Hayu Nurani

“…This research aims to determine the synergistic effect of the combination of doxorubicin and curcumin on HeLa and safety in normal cells (Vero cells). This study adopted an experimental design utilizing doxorubicin and curcumin samples with HeLa and Vero cells. …”
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An Analysis of Mathematics Education Quality: Case Study of Adiyaman University by Suat Aşkın, Murat Ayan

“…The atmosphere should be created for the students to attend to and adopt the courses and to take the information which is conveyed to them. …”
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Mitochondrial disease registries worldwide: A scoping review. by Ammanie Abdul-Fatah, Leila Esmaeilisaraji, Crisel Mae Juan, Martin Holcik

“…These include establishing registry objectives, respecting patients and their roles in the registry, adopting international data standards, data evaluations, and considerations to privacy legislation, among others. …”
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