Using Inverse Distance Weighting to Determine Spatial Distributions of Airborne Chemical Elements. Case Study: Douala, Cameroon by Joseph Magloire Fossokeng Mouafo, Claudiu Tănăselia, André Nana Yakam, Jules Richard Priso, Mohammed Ketata, Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor

“…This study uses inverse distance weighting in the analysis of chemical elements from the barks of 254 trees to map heavy metals in the air of the city of Douala, Cameroon during the dry seasons (December to February, when monthly rainfall is low) of 2022. …”
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‘‘Near Miss’’ Obstetric Cases: 4 Years Experience of a Tertiary Center by Hüseyin Cengiz, Cihan Kaya, Ramazan Ateş, Yusuf Ziya Yener, Murat Ekin, Levent Yaşar

“…Cases were identified through a retrospective analysis of hospital records of pregnancy-related complications reported between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2011. For each case of near miss morbidity and maternal death, data on demographic characteristics were collected, including the patient’s age, parity, previous deliveries, and gestational age at delivery. …”
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Number of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography Procedures Required for Short Biliary Cannulation Time by Koichiro Mandai, Koji Uno, Yasutoshi Fujii, Takuji Kawamura, Kenjiro Yasuda

“…We retrospectively analyzed 605 ERCP procedures performed for bile duct cannulation in patients with native papilla at our institution between March 2012 and December 2015. The successful procedures were divided into 2 groups: group L and group S (cannulation time>15 minutes and ≤15 minutes, resp.). …”
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Incidence and management of dystocia of dairy cows in Manoharganj upazila of Cumilla district, Bangladesh by Al Wasef, Md. Rashedul Islam

“…A total of 83 cases of dystocia were the subject of a retrospective investigation between January 2021 and December 2023 to determine the incidence of dystocia in dairy cows in Manoharganj upazila of Cumilla district, Bangladesh. …”
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Following intravenous thrombolysis, the outcome of diabetes mellitus associated with acute ischemic stroke was predicted via machine learning by Xiaoqing Liu, Miaoran Wang, Rui Wen, Haoyue Zhu, Ying Xiao, Qian He, Yangdi Shi, Zhe Hong, Bing Xu

“…The analysis was conducted using data from Shenyang First People’s Hospital, involving 3,478 AIS patients with diabetes who received thrombolytic therapy from January 2018 to December 2023, ultimately focusing on 1,314 patients after screening. …”
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Therapeutic experience and key techniques of tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy by Yuanpeng Zhang, Xinwei Li, Gen Yang, Lei Liu, Xiaoping Zhang, Wencheng Li

“…Clinical data of 40 cases of conventional PCNL and tubeless PCNL patients operated by the same surgeon between December 2023 and April 2024 were analyzed. The changes in the preoperative and postoperative renal function, hemoglobin and inflammatory markers were evaluated, and the operative time, pain scores, and length of hospital stay were also included. …”
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Antibiotic prescribing patterns at outpatient clinics in Western and Coastal Kenya. by Melanie Kiener, Caroline Ichura, Bryson A Ndenga, Francis M Mutuku, Christabel A Winter, Victoria Okuta, Laura Mwambingu, Kevin Ogamba, Karren N Shaita, Charles Ronga, Philip Chebii, Jael Amugongo, Said Malumbo, Omar Godana, Zainab Jembe, Charles Ng'ang'a, Mwangosho Mazera, A Desiree LaBeaud

“…We reviewed 1,526 visits among 1,059 people who sought care from December 2019-February 2022. Median age was 16 (IQR 6-35) and 22% were under 5. 30% of malaria RDTs were positive and 3% of dengue RT-qPCRs were positive. …”
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Predicting early cessation of exclusive breastfeeding using machine learning techniques. by Freja Marie Nejsum, Rikke Wiingreen, Andreas Kryger Jensen, Ellen Christine Leth Løkkegaard, Bo Mølholm Hansen

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Utilizing a nationwide dataset from Statistics Denmark, including infants born between the 1st of January 2014 and the 31st of December 2015, we employed random forest machine learning to develop two predictive models. …”
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Ecology of endolithic bryozoans: colony development, growth rates and interactions of species in the genus Immergentia by Mildred J. Johnson, Sarah Lemer, Masato Hirose, Sebastian H. Decker, Thomas Schwaha

“…Immergentia cf. suecica had a higher proportion of reproductive zooids from December to March compared to other months. In growth experiment 2, the bryozoans were fed a culture mixture of Chaetoceros calcitrans and Tisochrysis lutea which was compared with a control. …”
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Effects of Programmatic Assessment in Clinical Reasoning Courses in General Practice by ZHAI Jiayi, LU Yuan, SHI Jianjun, YU Dehua

“…Methods From September to December 2022, 38 master&apos;s degree students of the Medical School of Tongji University were divided into the in-service group (16) and residential training group (22). …”
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Cranioplasty Results after the Use of a Polyester Urethane Dural Substitute (Neuro-Patch®) as an Adhesion Prevention Material in Traumatic Decompressive Craniectomy by Tae Seok Jeong, Woo Kyung Kim, Myung Jin Jang

“…Methods We retrospectively analyzed patients with traumatic brain injury who underwent decompressive craniectomy followed by cranioplasty from January 2015 to December 2018. Patients were analyzed according to whether they received treatment with Neuro-Patch® or not (Neuro-Patch® group, n=71; control group, n=55). …”
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Intravitreal Dexamethasone in the Management of Delayed-Onset Bleb-Associated Endophthalmitis by David J. Jacobs, Avinash Pathengay, Harry W. Flynn, Theodore Leng, Darlene Miller, Wei Shi

“…Retrospective nonrandomized comparative case series of BAE at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute between January 1, 1996 and December 31, 2009. Clinical data were compared using the 2-sided Student's t-test for patients who received IVD and patients who did not receive IVD. …”
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Foodborne Event Detection Based on Social Media Mining: A Systematic Review by Silvano Salaris, Honoria Ocagli, Alessandra Casamento, Corrado Lanera, Dario Gregori

“…This review analyzed studies published up to December 2024 that utilized social media data and data mining to predict and prevent foodborne diseases. …”
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A Comparative Spatiotemporal Analysis for Long-Term Trends of Hydrometeorological Variables in Maritsa River Basin by Mehmet Seren Korkmaz, Kevser Merkür Başkesen, Ertuğrul Sunan

“…In the monthly evapotranspiration trend analysis, a statistically significant increase is observed except for November, December, June and July. Trend increases were visualized using the graphical method ITA. …”
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The Labial Adhesion in Postmenopausal Women: A Systematic Review by Nastaran Mahmoudnejad, Mohammad Hamidi Madani, Roozbeh Roohinezhad

“…The included studies were in English and published from 1985 until December 2023 with the keywords including vulvar diseases, agglutination, menopause, postmenopause, and recurrence. …”
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Image and Histologic Characterization of Intracranial Neoplasias by Martha Yudey Rodríguez Pino, Dianarelys Villafuerte Delgado, Thaimí Conde Cueto, Odalys Yanes Isray, Adelaida Martínez Godoy, Carlos Rafael Rivera Prieto

“…Gustavo Aldereguía Lima” from Cienfuegos province, from January 1st, 2003 to December 31st , 2007. All the patients had undergone a computarized tomography and had the histological post operatory diagnosis of primary or secondary neoplasms of the intracranial central nervous system. …”
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Association between blood–urea–nitrogen-to-albumin ratio and in-hospital mortality in patients diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019: a retrospective cohort study by Ruoqing Zhou, Dianzhu Pan

“…Methods This retrospective observational study enrolled a cohort of 1027 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between December 2022 and March 2023. Multivariate Cox regression analyses were used to ascertain the independent association between BAR and in-hospital mortality among patients with COVID-19. …”
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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Epidemiology of and its Complications by Julio Armando Sánchez Delgado, Nailé Edita Sánchez Lara

“…<br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive, analytical, retrospective, case/control study was carried out at the César Fornet Frutos Polyclinic in the Banes municipality, from September to December 2021. The universe included all individuals diagnosed with the disease. …”
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Causes of admissions and in-hospital mortality among patients admitted to critical care units in primary and secondary hospitals in Vietnam in 2018: a multicentre retrospective stu... by Vu Quoc Dat, Bui Thi Khanh Linh, Giang Bao Kim

“…Objective The goal of this study was to describe the burden of disease and in-hospital mortality among patients admitted to the critical care units (CCUs) in Vietnam.Design Retrospective study.Setting The whole 1-year data of admissions to CCUs were collected from 34 hospitals from January to December 2018.Participants A total of 44 013 episodes of admission to CCUs were analysed.Primary outcome We used International Classification of Diseases-11 codes to assess the primary diagnosis associated with admissions and in-hospitals mortality. …”
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Emotional and physical experiences of people with neovascular age-related macular degeneration during the injection process in Germany: a qualitative study by Oliver Zeitz, Martina Breuning, Christine Holmberg, Christian Wolfram, Anne Thier

“…We recruited participants all over Germany via ophthalmologists, eye clinics, general practitioners, care bases and support groups between June 2018 and December 2020 and selected a subsample of study participants with nvAMD who were either undergoing or had previously undergone vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor therapy. …”
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