Can invasive interventions be avoided with a holistic swallowing therapy program in older patients in intensive care units: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes or oral intake... by Çağla Eliküçük, Fatma Esen Aydinli, Nazan Has Selmi, Cansu Uzunoğlu, Murathan Köksal, Volkan Öter, Belgin Akan, Erdal Birol Bostanci, Güldeniz Argun

“…More studies with better research designs are required to establish whether nutritional intervention is effective in enhancing QoL in this vulnerable group.…”
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Emergence of mcr-8.1-bearing MDR-hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST307 by Jie Sheng, Rory Cave, Mary M. Ter-Stepanyan, Siyu Lu, Yingxiong Wang, Taihang Liu, Hermine V. Mkrtchyan

“…Specifically, isolates designated as ARM03 and ARM06 were resistant to piperacillin-tazobactam, ARM04 and ARM05 had intermediate resistance to both piperacillin-tazobactam and imipenem, and ARM03 showed intermediate resistance to amikacin. …”
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Identification of sex linked molecular markers in Indonesian giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii by Novi Megawati, Alimuddin, Ratu Siti Aliah

“…Specific primers were designed based on female-specific AFLP marker sequences to distinguish male and female sex on the prawns. …”
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A cross-sectional study on the knowledge, attitude and practice of ICU nurses to ICU acquired weakness in grade-A tertiary hospitals in Beijing (北京市三甲医院ICU护士对ICU获得性衰弱的知信行现况调查及影响因素分... by KUANG Lu (旷璐), SHAO Xin (邵欣)

“…Methods A total of 210 ICU nurses from 8 grade-A tertiary hospitals in Beijing were selected by cluster sampling, and a self-designed questionnaire was used to survey them. Results The scores of knowledge, attitude and practice of ICU nurses were (5. 21+-2. 03), (28. 64 +-4. 12) and (26. 06+- 7. 23) respectively. …”
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Regarder au-delà des élections : l’historicité complexe de la participation politique dans la Libye contemporaine by Chiara Loschi, Chiara Pagano

“…In the aftermath of the Gaddafi regime’s fall, when the NATO-backed National Transitional Council proclaimed the start of the country's transition, in August 2011, a growing concern emerged about the future institutional configuration of Libya and the need to designate new authorities through elections. Since then, many international scholars have considered elections as a yardstick to measure the progress of Libya’s regime change and to determine the (im)possibility of democracy or the inability of Libyan society to establish institutionalised modes of governance. …”
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Les aqueducs de Rome : les activités de la Surintendance capitoline, une contribution essentielle à la recherche by Marina Marcelli, Massimiliano Munzi

“…The tool used for this purpose is a Geographical Information System (GIS) designed to collect all the information needed to implement maintenance and conservation activities.The focus of the project was the elevated structures of five aqueducts for a total length of approximately 18 km: Aqua Alexandrina, a Neronian aqueduct on the Caelian Hill, and the three still functioning aqueducts (Aqua Virgo, Aqua Traiana and acquedotto Felice).Carried out by a multidisciplinary team (archaeologists, architects, restorers), the project consisted of assessments of the risk status of the structures based on parameters of various types, such as biological damage, structural and surface degradation, humidity-related phenomena. …”
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Kombinasi Intent Classification dan Named Entity Recognition pada Data Berbahasa Indonesia dengan Metode Dual Intent and Entity Transformer by Zahra Asma Annisa, Rizal Setya Perdana, Putra Pandu Adikara

“…The research was conducted by utilizing secondary data from Helpdesk TIK UB, designing DIET models using PyTorch and Transformers libraries, then evaluating DIET models using f1-score. …”
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Dysplasie faciale chez les chimpanzés sauvages de Sebitoli, parc national de Kibale, Ouganda : approches éthologiques, ethnographiques et agronomiques by Régine Gross, Francis Gumisiriza, Bernard T Kiremire, Andrew Seguya, Sabrina Krief

“…Au total, cinq produits chimiques ont été désignés candidats pour une cause toxique intra-utérine de la malformation faciale des chimpanzés. …”
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Knowledge Distillation in Object Detection for Resource-Constrained Edge Computing by Arief Setyanto, Theopilus Bayu Sasongko, Muhammad Ainul Fikri, Dhani Ariatmanto, I. Made Artha Agastya, Rakandhiya Daanii Rachmanto, Affan Ardana, In Kee Kim

“…Originally, YOLOv4 was designed to use CSPDarkNet53 as its backbone, which requires significant computational power. …”
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Thiol-Disulfide Homeostasis in Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Rats by Enes Aydın, Serpil Mungan Durankaya, Osman Yilmaz, Günay Kirkim, Safiye Aktaş, Salim Neşelioğlu, Özcan Erel, Yüksel Olgun, Abdullah Dalgıç

“…Background: This study was designed to assess if thiol-disulfide homeostasis could be used as diagnostic biomarker in noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in a laboratory animal model. …”
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Cohort retention in a pandemic response study: lessons from the SARS-CoV2 Immunity & Reinfection Evaluation (SIREN) study by Anna Howells, Katie Munro, Sarah Foulkes, Atiya Kamal, Jack Haywood, Sophie Russell, Dominic Sparkes, Erika Aquino, Jennie Evans, Dale Weston, Susan Hopkins, Jasmin Islam, Victoria Hall

“…Conducting an intensive prospective cohort study during a pandemic was challenging. We designed an evolving retention programme, informed by emerging evidence on best practice. …”
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Potential public health impacts of gonorrhea vaccination programmes under declining incidences: A modeling study. by Lin Geng, Lilith K Whittles, Borame L Dickens, Martin T W Chio, Yihao Chen, Rayner Kay Jin Tan, Azra Ghani, Jue Tao Lim

“…Evidence suggests that the 4CMenB vaccine designed to protect against Neisseria meningitidis infection may offer partial cross-protection against gonorrhea. …”
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Economic-productive analysis of a mixed cattle-bubaline model mixed model in the Northern region of Corrientes Province in Argentina by Pablo Maldonado-Vargas, Vanesa Guadalupe Mierke, Liliana Laura Pellerano, Guillermo Sebastián Grimaldi, Orlando Alberto Álvarez, Natalia Mercedes Vallejos, Margarita Rosa Itatí Romero, Francisco Daniel Romero, Alexis Sebastián Bandeo, Gonzalo Enrique Tuñón, José Luis Konrad

“…The main economic and productive characteristics were obtained, which generated helpful information for designing the productive systems with buffaloes in subproductive areas and allowed for decision-making in the diverse business systems. …”
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Transformative agency of students as a resource to form civic consciousness in education system by M. V. Pevnaya, A. N. Tarasova, D. F. Telepaeva, D. S. Protasov

“…The study demonstrated that the educational environment is designed and creates conditions for the acquisition of civic experience by young students today. …”
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The Financial Implications of Pancreatic Surgery: The Hospital Is the Big Winner, Not the Surgeon! by Nitzan Zohar, MD, Avinoam Nevler, MD, Sean P. Maher, Matthew C. Rosenthal, Florence Williams, Wilbur B. Bowne, MD, FACS, Charles J. Yeo, MD, FACS, Harish Lavu, MD, FACS

“…During the study period, 159 evaluable patients underwent 1 of 3 designated pancreatic resections included in the analysis. …”
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Isomeric Differentiation of Four Triterpene Acids Using Full Collision Energy Ramp-MS2 Analysis by Li-juan WU, Rui-ru NAN, Qian WANG, Xin CHEN, Wen-jing LIU, Yue-lin SONG

“…The four isomers were firstly divided into two groups, designated as group I (ursolic acid and oleanolic acid) and group II (α-boswellic acid and β-boswellic acid) through the existences of the so-called diagnostic fragment ions. …”
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Sistem Informasi Geografis Penyebaran Usaha Mikro Kecil Menengah (UMKM) di Kabupaten Majalengka by Muhammad Darul Husni Santoso, Ikbal Jamaludin, Evi Dewi Sri Mulyani

“…In this study, the method used in the construction of this system uses the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), this system will be designed with a Web-based Geographic Information System (WebGIS) that uses facilities from Google Maps and the system is tested using the blackbox method. …”
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Leveraging RRT^*: Probabilistically Interpreted Mechanisms Enhanced With P-HOPE and FLEX-OPT for Complex Path Planning by Yujie Miao, Haiyang Liu, Ziqiang Zhang, Yanju Liang

“…First, a powerful strategy, called the P-HOPE (Probability-Driven Heuristic Optimization for Path Exploration) strategy, that integrates multidimensional influencing factors is designed in the proposed RRT<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{\ast }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-PRIME algorithm to optimize target sampling direction by considering angle, direction consistency, and obstacle distribution. …”
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Analisis Kepuasan Pengguna Aplikasi Sidawai Menggunakan End User Computing Statisfaction (EUCS) DAn Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) by Kiki Haerani, Khairul Imtihan, Wafiah Murniati

“…Abstract   The Employee Data Collection System Application (SIDAWAI) is an application designed as a staffing data solution such as employee biodata, position mutation history, rank history, leave history and so on. …”
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Propolis mouthwashes efficacy in managing gingivitis and periodontitis: a systematic review of the latest findings by Muhammed Al-Huda Ballouk, Mohamed Altinawi, Abeer Al-Kafri, Talar S. Zeitounlouian, Piotr S. Fudalej

“…However, it is highly recommended to conduct more rigorous trials with patient-reported outcome measures, extended follow-up periods, larger samples sizes, better-designed methodologies, typified propolis use, and with the implementation of similar indices in order to obtain more reliable, conclusive, and generalisable results. …”
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