Trends in incidence and mortality of prostate cancer in Ningbo City from 2011 to 2023 by ZHANG Qun，WANG Yong，CHEN Jieping，BAO Kaifang，FENG Yueyi，Wang Xiaoli

“…The crude incidence of prostate cancer in the groups aged 50-<60 years, 60-<70 years, 70-<80 years and ≥80 years showed upward trends (AAPC=11.657%, 14.031%, 10.734% and 5.300%, all P<0.05). A total of 3 739 deaths were reported, and the crude mortality, Chinese-standardized mortality and world-standardized mortality were 9.66/105, 5.23/105 and 3.71/105, respectively, showing upward trends (AAPC=8.458%, 3.620% and 3.602%, all P<0.05). …”
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Association between triglyceride-glucose index and clinical outcomes among patients with chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis by Jinli Tuo, Zhong Li, Linshen Xie

“…Pooled results indicated that elevated TyG index was significantly related to increased risk for all-cause mortality (HR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.13–1.31, P<0.001). …”
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Treatment Patterns and Health Care Costs in Commercially Insured Patients with Follicular Lymphoma by Nathan H. Fowler, Guifang Chen, Stephen Lim, Stephanie Manson, Qiufei Ma, Frank Li

“…**Background:** Few studies have estimated the real-world economic burden such as all-cause and follicular lymphoma-related costs and health care resource utilization (HCRU) in patients with follicular lymphoma (FL). …”
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Lack of Tissue Virological Response as a Predictor of Relapse in Chronic Hepatitis D after Completion Bulevirtide Therapy by P. O. Bogomolov, N. A. Shub, N. A. Gasilova, A. A. Belyakova, T. G. Lidzhieva, E. A. Kondrasheva, N. A. Barsukova, M. V. Arapova, E. A. Isaeva, S. V. Koblov, M. V. Kalashnikov, O. S. Kuzymina, A. Yu. Demyanov, A. O. Bueverov, I. V. Maev

“…At the end of treatment, all patients underwent liver biopsy to detect HDV RNA in liver tissue.Results. …”
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Novel machine learning-driven comparative analysis of CSP, STFT, and CSP-STFT fusion for EEG data classification across multiple meditation and non-meditation sessions in BCI pipel... by Nalinda D. Liyanagedera, Corinne A. Bareham, Heather Kempton, Hans W. Guesgen

“…At the end of the study, when considering all the tests, the overall classification accuracy using SCP alone was 67.1%, and it was 67.8% for STFT alone. …”
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Global climate changes and the evolution of area suitability for marmosets of genus Callithrix by Cesar Rogerio Leal do Amaral, Antonio Carlos de Freitas, Rodrigo Goldenberg-Barbosa, Anna Luiza dos Santos Donato, Izar Aximoff, Victor Cordeiro de Moura, Dafne Adriana Abreu dos Anjos

“…The presented results are far from being optimistic. Almost all Callithrix species except for C. jacchus will experience about 30% to 70% reduction of potential habitats between 2040 and 2060. …”
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Cost analysis of MOUD implementation and sustainability in Massachusetts jails by Danielle Ryan, Don Lochana Ekanayake, Elizabeth Evans, Edmond Hayes, Thomas Senst, Peter D. Friedmann, Kathryn E. McCollister, Sean M. Murphy

“…Abstract Background In 2018 Massachusetts mandated that county jails offer all FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) to incarcerated individuals with OUD. …”
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Patterns of Comorbidity and Multimorbidity Among Patients With Multiple Sclerosis in a Large US Commercially Insured and Medicare Advantage Population by Dingwei Dai, Ajay Sharma, Amy L. Phillips, Carroline Lobo

“…Medicare Advantage patients were older (age <65: 53.3 [7.9]; age ≥65: 70.8 [5.2]) vs commercial (age, 45.7 [10.2]), had greater comorbidity burden (Charlson Comorbidity Index; age <65: 1.17 [1.64], age ≥65: 1.65 [1.95]) vs commercial (0.53 [1.02]) (all _P_ < .0001). Symptoms specific to MS (ie, malaise, fatigue, depression, spasms, fibromyalgia, convulsions) were more common among patients younger than 65 (all _P_ < .0001). …”
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Risk prediction models for dysphagia after radiotherapy among patients with head and neck cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by You Pu, Jin Yang, Lian Shui, Qianlong Tang, Xianqin Zhang, Guangguo Liu

“…However, all studies were considered to have a high risk of bias based on PROBAST assessments. …”
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The Impact of Teacher Training on The Academic Performance of Student's Among Secondary Schools in Mbarara District: A Case Study of Kashari County Uganda. by Amumpaire, Catherine

“…This study would be very important to educational institutions all over the country, county, governments, the Ministry of Education (MoE), educational policymakers, school boards of management, and school head teachers and also form a baseline for further research…”
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The Impact of Teacher Training on The Academic Performance of Student's Among Secondary Schools in Mbarara District: A Case Study of Kashari County Uganda. by Amumpaire, Catherine

“…This study would be very important to educational institutions all over the country, county, governments, the ministry of Education (MoE), educational policymakers, school boards of management, and school head teachers and also form a baseline for further research…”
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Investigating the Suitability of Partial Replacement of Basalt with Scoria as a Base Course Material for a Flexible Pavement. by Wambei, Allan

“…Basalt, scoria and their corresponding percentages satisfied the requirements for plasticity index, linear shrinkage and flakiness index. 5%Scoria-95% Basalt and 10% Scoria-90% Basalt satisfied all the requirements for the base course as per the general specification of roads and bridge works. 15% scoria-85% basalt and 20% scoria-80% basalt did not meet the requirements for ten percent fines value but satisfied all the other requirements for the base course. …”
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Effects of Seasonal Variations in Physical Parameters on Quality of Gravity Flow Water in Kyanamira Sub-County, Kabale District, Uganda by Hannington, Ngabirano, Denis, Byamugisha, Emmanuel, Ntambi

“…Temperatures (20.3˚C - 21.15˚C) for all the study sites were within the recommended limit of 20˚C - 30˚C in water for domestic purposes. …”
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Treatment of chronic hepatitis C by cepeginterferon alpha-2b in combination to ribavirin by M. V. Mayevskaya, O. O. Znoyko, Ye. A. Klimova, S. L. Maximov, S. N. Kizhlo, N. A. Petrochenkova, F. I. Nagimova, Yu. N. Linkova

“…After the first 12 wks of treatment all patients of the 1-st and 2-nd groups received Algeron in the chosen doze of 1,5 mkg/kg up to termination of the treatment course. …”
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MODELLING ZERO-INFLATED OVER DISPERSED DENGUE DATA VIA ZERO-INFLATED POISSON INVERSE GAUSSIAN REGRESSION MODEL: A CASE STUDY OF BANGLADESH by Sukanta Chakraborty, Soma Chowdhury Biswas

“…The proposed model shows that all the meteorological variables are significantly associated with the confirmed positive cases of dengue fever. …”
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A problem of "Raseiniai tank's" history by Arvydas Žardinskas

“…This episode of the initial period of the war was researched by some historians, but almost all of them used the same sources. Therefore, we can find some misconstructions (e.g., that this panzer battle lasted two or even three days), and sometimes even solid authors make basic geographical mistakes. …”
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FREQUENCY OF NEONATAL SEPSIS AMONG NEONATES PRESENTING WITH SEIZURES by Abid Imran, Sijad-Ur- Rehman, Imran Qadir, Kainaat Sheikh, Romana Bibi, Muhammad Idrees

“…MATERIAL AND METHODS:  In this study a total of 195 patients were observed. All neonates were subjected to detailed clinical examination like general physical, neurological examination and detail systemic examination and complete set of baseline investigations. …”
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The Role of Psychology Towards Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing in South Africa by Ntombophelo Sithole-Tetani

“…The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as it is known, is a call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. The third SDG, ‘Good Health and Wellbeing,’ aims to ensure healthy lives, promote well-being for all ages, and halt and reverse global illnesses such as HIV, tuberculosis, and the COVID-19 pandemic, etc. …”
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