Longitudinal Utilization of Invasive Pain Treatment Procedures Among Veterans with Chronic Pain Following Use of Whole Health Services and Complementary and Integrative Health Ther... by Zeliadt SB, DeFaccio R, Carey EP, Etingen B, Rosser EW, Suri P, Chen JA, Bokhour BG, Coggeshall S

“…School of Public Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA; 6Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center (ERIC), VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, WA, USA; 7Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, USA; 8Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USACorrespondence: Steven B Zeliadt, VA Center of Innovation (COIN) for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, 1660 South Columbian Way, S-15, Seattle, WA, 98108, USA, Tel +1 206 277-4175, Fax +1 206 764-2935, Email steven.zeliadt@va.govObjective: To assess whether Whole Health, a system of care that emphasizes non-pharmacological approaches for chronic pain management, is associated with changes in downstream utilization of invasive pain treatment procedures.Methods: Longitudinal retrospective cohort analysis of VHA administrative data. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tests for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis by Sun Y, Hu D, Yu M, Liang SB, Zheng Y, Wang X, Tong G

“…Yuxin Sun,1,* Die Hu,1,* Mingkun Yu,2 Shi-Bing Liang,3– 5 Youyou Zheng,6 Xin Wang,7 Guangdong Tong1,8 1Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Oncology, Binzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Binzhou, People’s Republic of China; 3Clinical Study Center, Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, People’s Republic of China; 4Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, People’s Republic of China; 5Postdoctoral Research Station, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, People’s Republic of China; 6Institute of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 7Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sanbo Brian Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 8Department of Liver Disease, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Guangdong Tong, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China, Email tgd755@163.comPurpose: In recent decades, numerous non-invasive tests (NITs) for diagnosing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have been developed, however, a comprehensive comparison of their relative diagnostic accuracies is lacking. …”
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Hybrid precoding and power allocation for mmWave NOMA systems based on time delay line arrays by Gangcan SUN, Xinli WU, Wanming HAO, Zhengyu ZHU

“…Results:Simulation analysis:(1)The figure6(a)show that the SE of the proposed scheme is higher than that of the conventional phase-shifter modulation network with fully-connected and sub-connected hybrid precoding structures; In addition, the system SE of the fullconnected structure under the proposed scheme is better than that of the hybrid-connected and sub-connected structures.(2) the figure6(b) show that the EE of the system under the proposed scheme is also better than that of the conventional phase-shifter network-based and fully-digital precoding structures; Also, the system SE of the sub-connected structure under the proposed scheme is better than that of the hybrid-connected and fully-connected structures. (3) The figure7(a) show that the SE of the system increases as the number of antennas increases;The figure7(b)show that the EE of the system decreases as the number of antennas increases. (4) The figure8(a) and (b) show that compared with the mmWave orthogonal multiple access (OMA) system based on the time-delayed line array, and the proposed scheme can achieve better performance in terms of EE and SE.(5)the figure9(a) show that the performance of the proposed improved K-means user grouping algorithm is better than the K-means user grouping algorithm.Although the K-means can be done better based on the state information of the channel,the randomness of its initial cluster head will affect the convergence of the algorithm and the system performance. …”
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Teaching healthy eating habits to children, to maintain good health throughout life through Greek primary school textbooks 1975-2020. [Enseigner de saines habitudes alimentaires au... by Archontia VASILOPOULOU

“…The books of primary school, including physical sciences subjects, constituted the body of the study, edited from 1975-2020, since they are the main source of nutritional information for students. Results. The methodology of study was defined as thematically analysis of the books content and was based on the categorization of words and phrases, according to their content. …”
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Global vaccine research and application hotspots and trends: a systematic bibliometric analysis based on SCIE highly cited papers by Liming Liang, Xinyu Wang, Yue Zhu, Xu Xia, Runfeng Shi, Huilin Cao, Meixin He, Yuyu Wang, Caizhen You

“…In view of these facts, the current situation, status, problems and development trends of vaccine research and application were explored through bibliometric analysis of highly cited papers in the vaccine field within the time frame of 2014–2024, and the countries, institutions, authors, funding agencies and other relevant information that contributed most to vaccine research and application were summarised.Design Bibliometric analysis through data analysis and visual mapping.Data sources Scientific articles.Data extraction and synthesis ‘Vaccine’ and ‘vaccines’ were used in the WoS database to retrieve the publications and to adequately collect the data; Microsoft Excel was used for data analysis; and VOSviewer was used for visual description of data. …”
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Analysis of the effect of initial hemostasis resuscitation with recombinant human coagulation factor VII a on the treatment of postoperative hemorrhage in cardiac surgery by Yan Yu, Maomao Liu, Xuran Lu, Li Yu, Nan Liu

“…Based on whether initial hemostatic resuscitation was completed during the application of rFVIIa, patients were divided into an initial hemostatic resuscitation group and an un-initial hemostatic resuscitation group. Baseline information, medical history, surgery-related data, postoperative bleeding volume, transfusion product volume, and overall mortality data were collected for each patient, and the postoperative bleeding volume, transfusion volume, and overall mortality rate were compared between the two groups, thus evaluating the effectiveness of initial hemostatic resuscitation on the treatment of postoperative bleeding with recombinant human coagulation factor VIIa in cardiac surgery. …”
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Production performance of eel Anguilla bicolor bicolor with the addition of calsium carbonat by Ardyen Saputra, Tatag Budiardi, Eddy Supriyono

“…The sustainability of eel culture and overcome slowly growth arising in this cultivation was needed enough information on their biology at growth. One of the aspects that needs to be examined in an effort to increase the growth is the water quality of culture media. …”
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بررسی ویژگی‌های فیریکی و مکانیکی تخته‌خرده‌چوب یک لایه از ترکیب چوب کهور -خرده‌چوب صنعتی by محمد نوری راد, هدایت اله امینیان, لعیا جمالی راد, وحید وزیری

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Associations of meteorological factors and ambient air pollutants with mumps incidence in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: boosted regression tree model analysis by Xianglong LIU, Linlin CHEN, Jiayu YU, Rui GONG, Yaogeng CHEN, Yu ZHAO

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Contamination of Legionella pneumophila in metro cooling tower water and its influencing factors in a city by Rong PENG, Bin SHI, Huaiji WANG, Junling LIU, Fang WANG

“…We collected water samples from the cooling towers during the early, middle, and late stages of cooling tower operation to detect Legionella pneumophila and water quality related indicators. Information on the environment and hygiene management measures of the cooling towers was obtained through on-site investigation and questionnaire survey. …”
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Identifikasi Pengaruh Pandemi Covid-19 terhadap Perilaku Pengguna Twitter dengan Pendekatan Social Network Analysis by Diana Purwitasari, Apriantoni Apriantoni, Agus Budi Raharjo

“…Twitter, a flexible social media for discussing and exchanging opinions, has become popular in disseminating COVID-19  dynamic and up-to-date information. It makes twitter relevant as a medium of knowledge extraction in identifying user behavior changes. …”
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Caracterización reológica avanzada de betunes tradicionales y modificados utilizados actualmente en Chile Advanced rheological characterization of traditional and modified bitumens... by Felipe Araya, Álvaro González, Rodrigo Delgadillo, Carlos Wahr, Gabriel García, Rogelio Zúñiga

“…Only by executing tests under the aforementioned conditions, it is actually possible to achieve information and results comparable to the ones provided by Superpave.…”
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Internet-Based Dementia Prevention Intervention (DementiaRisk): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial and Knowledge Translation by Anthony J Levinson, Stephanie Ayers, Sandra Clark, Rebekah Woodburn, Maureen Dobbins, Dante Duarte, Roland Grad, Nick Kates, Sharon Marr, Doug Oliver, Alexandra Papaioannou, Karen Saperson, Henry Siu, Gillian Strudwick, Richard Sztramko, Sarah Neil-Sztramko

“…Outcomes and feasibility will be assessed using the Information Assessment Method for patients and consumers. …”
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PROcalcitonin and NEWS2 evaluation for Timely identification of sepsis and Optimal use of antibiotics in the emergency department (PRONTO): protocol for a multicentre, open-label,... by David Taylor-Robinson, Steve Goodacre, Neil French, Richard Body, Kerenza Hood, Emma Thomas-Jones, Jane Daniels, Sarah Walker, Ingeborg Welters, Mike Bradburn, Paul Schmidt, Enitan Carrol, Lucy Brookes-Howell, Sarah Milosevic, Andrew Tabner, Philip Pallmann, Stephen Aston, Gavin Barlow, Emma Richards, Emmanuel Nsutebu, Philip Howard, Matthew Inada-Kim, Stacy Todd, Fiona McGill, Martin Llewelyn, Louis Wihelmus Niessen, Joanne Euden, Julie Carman, Stephanie Gilbert, Sam Clarkstone, Jacqui Hughes, Lena Meister, Angela Brain, Matthew Scarborough, Sian O'Shea, Claire James

“…In England and Wales, the law allows the use of deferred consent in approved research situations (including ED studies) where the time dependent nature of intervention would not allow true informed consent to be obtained. PRONTO has approval for a deferred consent process to be used. …”
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Inflammatory markers predict efficacy of immunotherapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a preliminary exploratory study by Yingqing Zhang, Na Yan, Yan Feng, Yonglei Wu, Yuejiao Sun, Xixi Gao, Chao Gu, Xiaolong Ma, Feng Gao, Hui Zhang, Jiaqi Zhou

“…All patients were collected for clinical information, including baseline blood indicator (NLR, PLR, LMR, SII, CRP, RDW, PCV and PCT) levels before PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor therapy and blood indicator levels and imaging evaluation results every two cycles after PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor therapy. …”
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An integrated microbiome- and metabolome-genome-wide association study reveals the role of heritable ruminal microbial carbohydrate metabolism in lactation performance in Holstein... by Chenguang Zhang, Huifeng Liu, Xingwei Jiang, Zhihong Zhang, Xinfeng Hou, Yue Wang, Dangdang Wang, Zongjun Li, Yangchun Cao, Shengru Wu, Sharon A. Huws, Junhu Yao

“…Next, the same significant SNP variants were used to integrate information from genome-wide association studies (GWASs), microbiome-GWASs, metabolome-GWASs, and microbiome-wide association studies (mWASs). …”
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Risk Factors for Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study by Yanqi Kou, Shicai Ye, Yuan Tian, Ke Yang, Ling Qin, Zhe Huang, Botao Luo, Yanping Ha, Liping Zhan, Ruyin Ye, Yujie Huang, Qing Zhang, Kun He, Mouji Liang, Jieming Zheng, Haoyuan Huang, Chunyi Wu, Lei Ge, Yuping Yang

“…For external validation, 1746 patients with AMI were included in the publicly available MIMIC-IV (Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV) database. Propensity score matching was adjusted for demographics, and the Boruta algorithm identified key predictors. …”
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Sarcopenia is a risk factor for postoperative delirium in geriatric hip fracture patients: a retrospective study by Yi-Ming Qi, Hao-Tao Li, Shi-Min Chang, Sun-Jun Hu, Shou-Chao Du, Chen-Dong Liu, Yong-Qian Chu, Yun-Feng Rui, Yun-Feng Rui

“…The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of POD and sarcopenia in geriatric patients undergoing hip fracture surgeries and to investigate the correlation between preoperative sarcopenia and POD.MethodsAfter applying specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, the information of 234 patients were retrospectively collected. …”
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Obtaining patient phenotypes in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, and their association with clinical severity and mortality by Fernando García-García, Dae-Jin Lee, Mónica Nieves-Ermecheo, Olaia Bronte, Pedro Pablo España, José María Quintana, Rosario Menéndez, Antoni Torres, Luis Alberto Ruiz Iturriaga, Isabel Urrutia, COVID-19 & Air Pollution Working Group

“…Our clustering algorithm identified k=3 distinct phenotypes and 18 strongly informative variables: Phenotype A (788 cases [50.9% prevalence] – age $$\sim$$ ∼ 57, Charlson comorbidity $$\sim$$ ∼ 1, pneumonia CURB-65 score $$\sim$$ ∼ 0 to 1, respiratory rate at admission $$\sim$$ ∼ 18 min-1, FiO2 $$\sim$$ ∼ 21%, C-reactive protein CRP $$\sim$$ ∼ 49.5 mg/dL [median within cluster]); phenotype B (620 cases [40.0%] – age $$\sim$$ ∼ 75, Charlson $$\sim$$ ∼ 5, CURB-65 $$\sim$$ ∼ 1 to 2, respiration $$\sim$$ ∼ 20 min-1, FiO2 $$\sim$$ ∼ 21%, CRP $$\sim$$ ∼ 101.5 mg/dL); and phenotype C (140 cases [9.0%] – age $$\sim$$ ∼ 71, Charlson $$\sim$$ ∼ 4, CURB-65 $$\sim$$ ∼ 0 to 2, respiration $$\sim$$ ∼ 30 min-1, FiO2 $$\sim$$ ∼ 38%, CRP $$\sim$$ ∼ 152.3 mg/dL). …”
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Heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction: retrospective study of ejection fraction trajectory risk by Robert J.H. Miller, Majid Nabipoor, Erik Youngson, Gynter Kotrri, Nowell M. Fine, Jonathan G. Howlett, Ian D. Paterson, Justin Ezekowitz, Finlay A. McAlister

“…Categorizing HFmrEF patients based on LVEF trajectory provides meaningful clinical information and may assist clinicians with management decisions.…”
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