Management of Obstetric Perineal Tears: Do Obstetrics and Gynaecology Residents Receive Adequate Training? Results of an Anonymous Survey by A. Cornet, O. Porta, L. Piñeiro, E. Ferriols, I. Gich, J. Calaf

“…Seventy-two major residents from all teaching hospitals in Catalonia. Methods. A questionnaire was designed to evaluate experience, perception of the training and supervision provided. …”
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International Course to Support Nuclear Licensing by User Training in the Areas of Scaling, Uncertainty, and 3D Thermal-Hydraulics/Neutron-Kinetics Coupled Codes: 3D S.UN.COP Semi... by Alessandro Petruzzi, Francesco D'Auria, Tomislav Bajs, Francesc Reventos, Yassin Hassan

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The effect between metabolic syndrome and life expectancy after cancer diagnosis: Catalan cohort study by Tomàs López-Jiménez, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, Talita Duarte-Salles, Anna Palomar-Cros, Diana Puente

“…Abstract This study examines remaining life expectancy (RLE) after a cancer diagnosis, focusing on age, sex, cancer type, and metabolic syndrome (MS) components, using data from the SIDIAP database in Catalonia (2006–2017). RLE was analyzed for 13 cancer types, stratified by sex and MS components. …”
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Treating self-harm behaviors in prisons: implementation of the STEPPS program by Rosa Lorente-Català, Irene Jaén, Xavier Buscà-Huertas, Berta Framis, Azucena García-Palacios

“…This study aimed to examine inmate profiles in prisons located in Catalonia, Spain, and to investigate the STEPPS program’s effectiveness and implementation process. …”
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Automatic monitoring of treated water released from wastewater treatment plants using model-based clustering with density estimation by Sheik Faritha Begum, K Lokeshwaran

“…The Dataset used in this work has been derived from the wastewater treatment plant located in Manresa, a town of 100,000 inhabitants near Barcelona (Catalonia). The plant treats a flow of 35,000 m3/day, mainly domestic wastewater, although wastewater from industries located inside the town is received in the plant too. …”
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Closing the Global Marine 226Ra Budget Reveals the Biological Pump as a Dominant Removal Flux in the Upper Ocean by Bochao Xu, M. Bayani Cardenas, Isaac R. Santos, William C. Burnett, Matthew A. Charette, Valentí Rodellas, Sanzhong Li, Ergang Lian, Zhigang Yu

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Economic development, alcohol consumption and life expectancy in low- and lower-middle-income countries in the Western Pacific Region: a structural equation modelling study by Jürgen Rehm, Huan Jiang, Ahmed S Hassan, Pol Rovira, Kevin D Shield

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Integrating radiological and clinical data for clinically significant prostate cancer detection with machine learning techniques by Luis Mariano Esteban, Ángel Borque-Fernando, Maria Etelvina Escorihuela, Javier Esteban-Escaño, Jose María Abascal, Pol Servian, Juan Morote

“…This study explores modeling using regularization techniques such as ridge regression, LASSO, elastic net, classification tree, tree ensemble models like random forest or XGBoost, and neural networks to predict CsPCa in a dataset of 4799 patients in Catalonia (Spain). An 80–20% split was employed for training and validation. …”
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Seasonal investigation of ultrafine-particle organic composition in an eastern Amazonian rainforest by A. E. Thomas, H. S. Glicker, A. B. Guenther, R. Seco, O. Vega Bustillos, J. Tota, R. A. F. Souza, J. N. Smith

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Discordance, accuracy and reproducibility study of pathologists’ diagnosis of melanoma and melanocytic tumors by Sarah Haggenmüller, Christoph Wies, Julia Abels, Jana T. Winterstein, Lukas Heinlein, Carina Nogueira Garcia, Jochen S. Utikal, Sebastian A. Wohlfeil, Friedegund Meier, Sarah Hobelsberger, Frank F. Gellrich, Mildred Sergon, Axel Hauschild, Lars E. French, Lucie Heinzerling, Justin G. Schlager, Kamran Ghoreschi, Max Schlaak, Franz J. Hilke, Gabriela Poch, Sören Korsing, Cosimo Sarfert, Carola Berking, Markus V. Heppt, Michael Erdmann, Sebastian Haferkamp, Konstantin Drexler, Dirk Schadendorf, Wiebke Sondermann, Matthias Goebeler, Bastian Schilling, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Stefan Fröhling, Mar Llamas-Velasco, Luis C. Requena, Gerardo Ferrara, Maite Fernandez-Figueras, Sylvie Fraitag, Cornelia S. L. Müller, Hans Starz, Heinz Kutzner, Raymond Barnhill, Richard Carr, Kenneth S. Resnik, Stephan Alexander Braun, Tim Holland-Letz, Titus J. Brinker

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Aging towards walkable futures: insights from a multidisciplinary workshop held in Barcelona, Spain by Enric Vall-Garcia, Laura Delgado-Ortiz, Lisa Alcock, Laura Coll-Planas, José Augusto García-Navarro, Susanne Iwarsson, Josep Maria Jansà, Carl-Philipp Jansen, Sarah Koch, Simon Schwartz, Merja Rantakokko, Adelaida Sarukhan, Willeke van Staalduinen, Lynn Rochester, Judith Garcia-Aymerich

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Author Correction: Typical and extreme weather datasets for studying the resilience of buildings to climate change and heatwaves by Anaïs Machard, Agnese Salvati, Mamak P. Tootkaboni, Abhishek Gaur, Jiwei Zou, Liangzhu Leon Wang, Fuad Baba, Hua Ge, Facundo Bre, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Xuan Luo, Ronnen Levinson, Sang Hoon Lee, Tianzhen Hong, Marcelo Salles Olinger, Rayner Maurício e Silva Machado, Emeli Lalesca Aparecida da Guarda, Rodolfo Kirch Veiga, Roberto Lamberts, Afshin Afshari, Delphine Ramon, Hoang Ngoc Dung Ngo, Abantika Sengupta, Hilde Breesch, Nicolas Heijmans, Jade Deltour, Xavier Kuborn, Sana Sayadi, Bin Qian, Chen Zhang, Ramin Rahif, Shady Attia, Philipp Stern, Peter Holzer

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The Interannual Variability of Global Burned Area Is Mostly Explained by Climatic Drivers by Andrina Gincheva, Juli G. Pausas, Miguel Ángel Torres‐Vázquez, Joaquín Bedia, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, John T. Abatzoglou, Josep A. Sánchez‐Espigares, Emilio Chuvieco, Sonia Jerez, Antonello Provenzale, Ricardo M. Trigo, Marco Turco

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Within-species variation in the gut microbiome of medaka (Oryzias latipes) is driven by the interaction of light intensity and genetic background by Evangelista, Charlotte, Kamenova, Stefaniya, Diaz Pauli, Beatriz, Sandkjenn, Joakim, Vøllestad, Leif Asbjørn, Edeline, Eric, Trosvik, Pål, de Muinck, Eric Jacques

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A multidisciplinary pain management program for patients with chronic low back pain: a randomized, single-blind, controlled, feasibility study by Anna Dalmau-Roig, Christian Dürsteler, Mirari Ochandorena-Acha, Francisco Vilchez-Oya, Inés Martin-Villalba, Amadeu Obach, Marc Terradas-Monllor

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Noninsulin Antidiabetic Drugs for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Are We Respecting Their Contraindications? by Irene Ruiz-Tamayo, Josep Franch-Nadal, Manel Mata-Cases, Dídac Mauricio, Xavier Cos, Antonio Rodriguez-Poncelas, Joan Barrot, Gabriel Coll-de-Tuero, Xavier Mundet-Tudurí

“…Electronic medical records were retrieved from all T2DM subjects who attended primary care centers pertaining to the Catalan Health Institute in Catalonia in 2013 and were pharmacologically treated with any NIAD alone or in combination. …”
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Clinical efficacy of a virtual reality tool for the treatment of obesity: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial by Dimitra Anastasiadou, Jose Antonio Ramos-Quiroga, Mel Slater, Bernhard Spanlang, Desiderio Cano Porras, Marta Comas, Andreea Ciudin, Gemma Parramon Puig, Julia Vázquez-De Sebastián, Pilar Lusilla-Palacios

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EV Hybrid Battery With Integrated Multilevel Neutral-Point-Clamped Interfacing and Lossless Intermodule State-of-Charge Balancing by Gabriel Garcia-Rojas, Sergio Busquets-Monge, Alber Filba-Martinez, Turev Sarikurt, Salvador Alepuz, Josep Bordonau

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Genome-Wide and Gene-Specific Epigenomic Platforms for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Biomarker Development Trials by Christina Michailidi, Ethan Soudry, Mariana Brait, Leonel Maldonado, Andrew Jaffe, Carmen Ili-Gangas, Priscilla Brebi-Mieville, Jimena Perez, Myoung Sook Kim, Xiaoli Zhong, Quiang Yang, Blanca Valle, Stephen J. Meltzer, Michael Torbenson, Manel Esteller, David Sidransky, Rafael Guerrero-Preston

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Assessment of clinical prognosis in autoimmune encephalitis: Girona score by Gary Álvarez Bravo, Giuseppe Guglielmini, Ana Quiroga Varela, Almudena Boix Lago, Ariadna Gifreu Fraixinó, Daniele Urso, Daniele Urso, Daniele Urso, Daniele Urso, Giancarlo Logroscino, Giancarlo Logroscino, Giancarlo Logroscino, Giancarlo Logroscino, Lluís Ramió-Torrentà

“…Josep Trueta of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. ACPE-Gi score included 14 items, and every item was scored from 0 to 3, depending on their severity with a sum ranging from 0 to 41.ResultsACPE-Gi score measured the severity in the acute phase and grouped the patients into three groups: mild (<8; 32%), moderate (8 to 15; 60%), and severe (>15; 8%). …”
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