Yield, silage quality, and feeding preference of late‐summer sown pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone) in Southern Kyushu by Genki Ishigaki, Mitsuhiro Niimi, Hikaru Shigedomi, Yuuto Sasaki, Sachiko Idota, Yasuyuki Ishii

“…Methods Pearl millet was sown in mid‐September for 3 years to examine its growth, DM yields in early December, and decrease in DM percentage after frost exposure. …”
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Elevation of preoperative cystatin C as an early predictor of contrast-induced nephropathy in patients receiving percutaneous coronary intervention by Guoqiang Gu, Ningning Yu, Yaqing Zhou, Wei Cui

“…The secondary objective was to evaluate associations between preoperative CysC and renal biomarkers. Methods: From December 2014 to December 2015, 341 patients with normal renal function were enrolled into the study at our medical centre. …”
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Investigation and analysis of cycles and spatial correlation model of Iranian monthly rainfalls by rahmatollah shojaei moghadam, Mostafa karampoor, behroz nasiri, naser tahmasebipour

“…Meanwhile, there are two middle-cycle 25-year cycles in January-July and two long-term 50-year cycles in March and December, indicating a trend in the March and December rainfall. …”
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A GA-Based BP Artificial Neural Network for Estimating Monthly Surface Air Temperature of the Antarctic during 1960–2019 by Miao Fang

“…., SAT did not show a significant cooling trend in January and December during 1960–1989 and a significant warming trend in January, June, July, and December during 1990–2019. …”
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Specifics of Transformation Projects in Universities and the Work of the Project Team by S. N. Apenko, G. Z. Efimova, M. Yu. Semenov

“…The peculiarities of exclusion and withdrawal of employees from the project team – what are the reasons for it and what actions are taken by the head of the team to replace the withdrawn participant (selection of a new or redistribution of functions of the withdrawn to the remaining employees or another option) are considered separately.The conclusions presented in the article are based on the materials of an empirical sociological study conducted during the year (in the period from December 2021 to December 2022) by the method of indepth semi-formalized interviews with 78 representatives of administrative and managerial staff, scientific and pedagogical workers, heads of departments and deans of universities in three regional classical universities (in Siberian and Volga Federal Districts of the Russian Federation).Based on the results of the empirical study, the authors come to several conclusions. …”
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Association of CHA2DS2-VASC Score with in-Hospital Cardiovascular Adverse Events in Patients with Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Caoyang Fang, Zhenfei Chen, Jing Zhang, Xiaoqin Jin, Mengsi Yang

“…A total of 210 STEMI patients who visited the Chest Pain Center of the Second People‘s Hospital of Hefei from December 2019 to December 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Result of Surgery to Patients with Brain Tumor in Cienfuegos by Jorge Luis Acevedo Cardoso, Samuel Sánchez Sánchez, Yoniel Suárez Guerrero, Tamara García Alfonso de Armas, Wendy Gómez Menéndez

“…Gustavo Aldereguía Lima de Cienfuegos, covering the period between January 2012 and December 2015. The universe consisted of 53 patients. …”
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Usefulness of perampanel as initial monotherapy in children with non-lesional focal epilepsy by Hideaki Kanemura, Yoshihiro Miyasato, Yutaro Tomi, Fumikazu Sano

“…This retrospective review included participants recruited from among epilepsy outpatients treated at the authors’ hospital between January 01, 2000, and December 31, 2019 in the CBZ group and between January 01, 2020, and December 31, 2022 in the PER group. …”
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Etude démographique du magot (Macaca sylvanus) dans le site touristique des cascades d’Ouzoud (Maroc) by Abderrazak El Alami, Abderrahman Chait

“…Between February and December 2007, the initial group was divided into two independent groups, consisting of 23 and 13 individuals. …”
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Productivity Analysis Using the Multi Factor Productivity Measurement Model (MFPMM) as an Effort to Increase Competitiveness (Case Study: WL Alumunium Yogyakarta) by Grita Supriyanto Dewi, Khairun Nadiyah

“…The results of productivity calculations using the MFPMM show that PI was in a row October-November 2015, November-December 2015; December-January 2016; January-February 2016; February-March 2016; March-April 2016; April-May 2016 of 1.0064; 1.2370; 0.8545; 0.9016; 0.9607; 1,1,068; 0.7348. …”
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The Role of Endoscopy in the Treatment of Biliary Complications after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation by Alexey V. Kurenkov, Yury S. Teterin, Oleg D. Olisov, Petr A. Yartsev, Murad S. Novruzbekov, Kubay M. Magomedov

“…Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine from December 2001 to December 2017. The endoscopic treatment program included diagnostic ERCP, endoscopic papillosphincterotomy (EPST), bilioduodenal stenting, nasobiliary drainage, balloon dilatation.Results. …”
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DETERMINANT FACTORS AFFECTING THE INCIDENCE OF PLACENTA ACCRETA by novita dwihastuti hakim, Dwi Izzati, Ernawati

“…Data were collected from the medical records of mothers with placenta accreta from January to December 2022, and the results were analyzed using descriptive analysis. …”
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A Dynamical Z-R Relationship for Precipitation Estimation Based on Radar Echo-Top Height Classification by Wenxin Wu, Haibo Zou, Jiusheng Shan, Shanshan Wu

“…Two statistics of 720 rainfall events in summer (April to June 2017) and 50 rainfall events in winter (December 2017) over the same region show that the correlation coefficient (root-mean-squared error and relative error) between RQPE derived by the new Z-R relationship and observation is significantly increased (decreased) compared to the other two Z-R relationships. …”
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Retropharyngeal Abscess in Adults: Five Case Reports and Review of the Literature by A. Harkani, R. Hassani, T. Ziad, L. Aderdour, H. Nouri, Y. Rochdi, A. Raji

“…We report 5 cases of retropharyngeal abscess collected in the ENT Department of CHU Mohammed VI of Marrakech, during a two-year period (December 2008 to December 2009). Local trauma by foreign body ingestion was the aetiology in four patients. …”
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Characteristics and Outcomes of Shared Bicycle-Related Injuries from a Large Emergency Medical Centre in China, 2017–2021 by Mao Chen, Weiwei Li, Jun Ye, Gang Liu, Chaolin Huang

“…The aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics and outcomes of shared bicycle-related injuries from a large emergency medical centre in China in five years from January 2017 to December 2021. Methods. This study was conducted by reviewing the electronic medical record database of a large hospital in China for cases of shared bicycle-related injuries in five years from January 2017 to December 2021. …”
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Identification of specific risk factors and predictive analytics for cardio-cerebral arterial stenosis: a comparative study utilizing framingham risk stratification insights by Gege Zhang, Sijie Dong, Fanfan Feng, Weihao Kan, Taozhen Shi, Hongmei Ding, Ruiguo Dong

“…This retrospective study included patients admitted for ischemic stroke at the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University from December 2020 to December 2021. All patients underwent CTA, with significant stenosis defined as exceeding 50% for both cerebral and coronary arteries.Patients were categorized into low-, moderate-, and high-risk groups on the basis of the Framingham risk scale. …”
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The readiness of the spontaneous reporting system for COVID-19 vaccines safety monitoring in Croatia by Kovačić Barbara, Pavičić Morana, Skvrce Nikica Mirošević, Tomić Siniša

“…Post-marketing spontaneous reports of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) following COVID-19 immunisation reported to the Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of Croatia (HALMED) were extracted and analysed. 6624 cases reporting 30 655 ADRs following COVID-19 immunisation were received from 27th December 2020 to 31st December 2021. Available data in those cases were compared with data available to the EU network at the time when signals were confirmed and minimisation measures were implemented. 5032 cases, reporting 22 524 ADRs, were assessed as non-serious, and 1,592 cases, reporting 8,131 ADRs as serious. …”
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Air temperature estimation based on environmental parameters using remote sensing data by Chenoor Mohammadi, Manouchehr Farajzadeh, Yousef Ghavdel Rahimi, Abbas Ali Aliakbar Bidokhti

“…The lowest estimation error was found in the months of November and December with a high explanatory coefficient (R2) of 70% and a standard error of 1 ° C.  …”
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Curative Effect of Prebiotics/Probiotics-Assisted Ketogenic Diet on Children with Refractory Epilepsy by Lingying Su, Sai Li, Bo Sun

“…A retrospective analysis was performed on the clinical data of 80 children with refractory epilepsy treated in the hospital between December 2018 and December 2020. According to different treatment methods, they were divided into the KD group (36 cases, KD) and combination group (44 cases, prebiotics/probiotics assisted KD). …”
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Differences in User Perception of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Chatbots and Traditional Tools in Qualitative Data Analysis by Boštjan Šumak, Maja Pušnik, Ines Kožuh, Andrej Šorgo, Saša Brdnik

“…This study investigates researchers’ perceptions of the usability, user experience (UX), mental workload, trust, task complexity, and emotional impact of three tools: Taguette 1.4.1 (a traditional QDA tool), ChatGPT (GPT-4, December 2023 version), and Gemini (formerly Google Bard, December 2023 version). …”
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