Experimental use of mycobacterial antigens in tuberculin skin test on water buffalo by Alessandra Martucciello, Federica Signorelli, Piera Mazzone, Francesco Grandoni, Giovanna Cappelli, Lucia Boccia, Giuseppe Parente, Monica Cagiola, Maria Beatrice Boniotti, Esterina De Carlo, Francesco Napolitano, Giorgio Galiero

“… In Italy, bovine tuberculosis (TB) control in the water buffalo population is mainly carried out using the tuberculin skin test (TST). …”
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Gender differences in efficiency of the telemedicine care of heart failure patients. The results from the TeleEduCare-HF study by Agata Bielecka-Dąbrowa, Dariusz Trzmielak, Agata Sakowicz, Kamil Janikowski, Maciej Banach

“…The mean left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was 43% (SD: 30–58) for men, and 57% (45–63) for women (p = 0.0001), and women suffered mainly from heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. …”
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Evaluation of Prayer Windows with Inscriptions Located Around the Mausoleum of Eyup Sultan by Saliha Tanık, Aliye Öten

“…As an example of an application specific to the Ottoman period in Islamic architecture and art, our main aim has been to bring the prayer windows opened in the cemeteries around Eyüp Tomb to the discipline of Art History in the context of form, ornamentation, writing, and death. …”
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Automated Quantification of Retinopathy of Prematurity Stage via Ultrawidefield OCT by Spencer S. Burt, BA, Aaron S. Coyner, PhD, Elizabeth V. Roti, BS, Yakub Bayhaqi, PhD, John Jackson, MD, Mani K. Woodward, MS, Shuibin Ni, PhD, Susan R. Ostmo, MS, Guangru Liang, BS, Yali Jia, PhD, David Huang, MD, Michael F. Chiang, MD, Benjamin K. Young, MD, Yifan Jian, PhD, John Peter Campbell, MD

“…The ANVTV was compared between infants with stage 1 to 3 ROP using a Kruskal–Wallis test and tracked over time in all infants with stage 3 ROP. Main Outcome Measurements: Cross sectional and longitudinal association between ANVTV and stages 1 to 3 ROP. …”
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Consonant Error Patterns in Children with Functional Dysarthria and Dysarthria with Language Retardation by Zhenping LIN, Zhuoming CHEN, Yuchang LI, Na LI, Zhimei LIU, Xian XIE, Dan LI

“…The dysarthria with language retardation children's higher error rate of substitution were affricate consonant (45.56%) and lateral consonant (33.33%); the highest error rate of ellipsis were fricative consonant (7.78%); the higher error rate of distortion were lateral consonant (26.67%) and fricativeconsonant (21.11%).Conclusion:In terms of pronunciation location, no matter functional dysarthria children or dysarthria with language retardation children, the higher rate of consonant errors were blade-alveolar consonant, blade-palatal consonant and lingual surface consonant; the lower rate consonant errors was labial consonant; the main consonant error type were substitution and distortion. …”
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Review and Prospect of Research on Urban Walking Safety and Environmental Influencing Factors Thereof by Lin LI, Yu YE, Yong CHEN

“…Research methods have also been developed from single-specialty technical analysis to multi-dimensional integrated research, which promotes the comprehensive application of research methods from such fields as environmental psychology, traffic safety and road engineering in the research on walking safety.ConclusionThis research reveals the development direction, main context and research hotspots on walking safety and environmental influencing factors thereof, highlights the significant influence of multi-level built environment factors on walking safety and walkers' safety perception, and provides theoretical support for empirical researches on walking safety environment. …”
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On the issue of creating an algorithm for assessing safety culture in modern healthcare institutions by O.P. Yavorovsky, I.V. Serheta, R.P. Brukhno, Yu.M. Skaletskyi, V.D. Chopchyk, D.V. Varyvonchyk, V.I. Zenkina

“…It is sub­stantiated that the process of creating an algorithm for analytical assessment of the level of safety culture in modern healthcare institutions should involve the implementation of the following stages: establishing the degree of expression of the leading indicators that are components of each of its main components, using special scales (1ststage), determining the values indicators of ensuring the level of patient safety culture for each of the components using the appropriate generalized formulas (2ndstage), evaluation and meaningful interpretation of the values of indicators of the level of safety culture based on quantitative criteria (3rdstage), determination of collective, group or personalized, according to the content, strategies application of preventive measures aimed at increasing the level of safety culture in each specific case (4thstage).…”
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Modelo de aprendizaje para la selección de un proyecto diseño-construcción (llave en mano) en el sector público A learning model for design-build project selection in the public se... by Alfonso Bastias, Keith R Molenaar

“…This model adjusts parameters and functions using artificial intelligence as the main knowledge engine. This approach can be adapted to many applications of decision support in the design and construction industry.…”
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Demographic and clinical impact on preoperative BREAST-Q ePROM completion and baseline outcomes in women undergoing breast cancer surgery: a quantitative descriptive study at a Dan... by Karin Piil, Volker Jürgen Schmidt, Stine Thestrup Hansen, Lone Bak Hansen, Anna Mejldal, Julie Hougaard Prüsse, Lotte Gebhard Ørsted

“…The BREAST-Q is a PROM in questionnaire format, developed and validated to assess satisfaction and quality of life for breast surgery patients.The hypothesis tested is that considering disparities in geography, age and education among responders is essential for capturing a diverse patient population in future Patent-Reported Outcome Measures initiatives, examining how these characteristics are associated with Patent-Reported Outcome Measures utilisation and outcomes.Design Quantitative descriptive study.Setting Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures were collected between 6 September 2021 and 5 September 2022 from patients recruited from an outpatient clinic at a Plastic- and Breast Surgery Department at a University Hospital in Denmark.Participants Participants include a total of 629 Danish-speaking women diagnosed with breast cancer and scheduled for breast cancer surgery, with a final participation rate of 468.Intervention Preoperative ePROMs and demographic data were collected between September 2020 and 2021 through patients’ secure national digital post-box.Main outcome measures Demographic variables of both responders and non-responders were assessed using t-tests, Mann-Whitney U tests and χ2 tests. …”
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Father’s Perceptions of their Role and Involvement in the Family: A Qualitative Study in a Colombian Sample / Percepciones del padre sobre su rol e involucramiento en la familia: u... by Sonia Carrillo, Milton E. Bermúdez, Liliana Suárez, María Camila Gutiérrez, Ximena Delgado

“…In Colombia research on fathers is scarce and family policies mainly focus on mothers as the principal caregiver. …”
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Growth performance and survival of snakehead Channa striata juvenile with different stocking density reared in recirculation system by Adang Saputra, Tatag Budiardi, Reza Samsudin, Naufal Dwi Rahmadya

“…Until now the production of snakehead still reelies on the catch of nature because cultivation of snakehead is still underdeveloped. The main constraint in snakehead fish farming is high mortality on snakehead juvenile rearing phase. …”
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Hyperspectral estimation of chlorophyll density in winter wheat using fractional-order derivative combined with machine learning by Chenbo Yang, Chenbo Yang, Meichen Feng, Juan Bai, Hui Sun, Rutian Bi, Lifang Song, Chao Wang, Yu Zhao, Wude Yang, Lujie Xiao, Meijun Zhang, Xiaoyan Song

“…Hyperspectral monitoring models for winter wheat ChD were constructed using 8 machine learning algorithms, including partial least squares regression, support vector regression, multi-layer perceptron regression, random forest regression, extra-trees regression (ETsR), decision tree regression, K-nearest neighbors regression, and gaussian process regression, based on the full spectrum band and the band selected by competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS). The main results were as follows: For the 3 types of FOD, GL-FOD was suitable for analyzing the change process of the original spectral curve towards the integer-order derivative spectral curve. …”
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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

“…For this reason, this comprehensive systematic review aims at finding out the truth concerning the efficacy of propolis mouthwashes in treating gingivitis and periodontitis, as its main objective. Data sources Research findings from 6 different databases: China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), PubMed®, Europe PMC, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), BioMed Central, and Google Scholar, were retrieved and examined in addition to a manual search in the references lists. …”
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Tuberculosis disease burden in China: a spatio-temporal clustering and prediction study by Jingzhe Guo, Ce Liu, Fang Liu, Erkai Zhou, Runxue Ma, Ling Zhang, Bin Luo

“…These differences are attributed to two main factors: (1) economic imbalances leading to poor TB control in underdeveloped areas, and (2) differences in TB-related policies among provinces causing uneven distribution of disease risks. …”
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Implementation and validation of a new qPCR assay to detect imported human Plasmodium species by Camille Cordier, Samia Hamane, Théo Ghelfenstein-Ferreira, Sarah Dellière, Élodie Da Silva, Blandine Denis, Sandrine Houzé, Valentin Joste, Alexandre Alanio

“…Despite a significant drop of incidence and mortality since 2000, 249million cases and 608,000 deaths have been estimated in 2022, mainly in Africa. Due to the increasing number of travels to endemic areas, incidence of imported malaria is rising in Europe. …”
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Fifteen-second bouts of hyperoxia improve 5-minute time-trial performance in acute hypoxic conditions by Martin Faulhaber, Sina Schneider, Linda K. Rausch, Tobias Dünnwald, Verena Menz, Hannes Gatterer, Michael D. Kennedy, Wolfgang Schobersberger

“…Thereby, one 15-second hyperoxic intervention bout during the test in the intermittent hyperoxia condition was included. Main outcome was the mean power output during the TT. …”
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Process evaluation of Project Daire: a food environment intervention that impacted food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits of primary school children by Naomi Anderson, Sarah F. Brennan, Fiona Lavelle, Sarah E. Moore, Dilara Olgacher, Amy Junkin, Moira Dean, Michelle C. McKinley, Patrick McCole, Ruth F. Hunter, Laura Dunne, Niamh E. O’Connell, Chris T. Elliott, Danielle McCarthy, Jayne V. Woodside

“…DAIRE produced change through four key MOI: social learning, experimental learning, interactive engaging content and real-life connections. Lack of time was the main contextual barrier to implementation and lack of financial cost to schools indicated as a potential facilitator. …”
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Physical health in young males and risk of chronic musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases by middle age: A population-based cohort study. by Aleksandra Turkiewicz, Karin Magnusson, Simon Timpka, Ali Kiadaliri, Andrea Dell'Isola, Martin Englund

“…The most notable associations with specific musculoskeletal conditions were for cardiorespiratory fitness and osteoarthritis (RR 1.23 [95% CI 1.15, 1.32] per 1 SD) and for muscle strength and back pain (RR 1.18 [95% CI 1.12, 1.24] per 1 SD) or shoulder diseases (RR 1.27 [95% CI 1.19, 1.36] per 1 SD). The main limitations include lack of adjustment for genetic factors and environmental exposures from childhood, and that the register data were available for males only.…”
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SEED (Stoke Disease Early Detection Application) - Rancang Bangun Aplikasi Mobile Berbasis Android untuk Mendiagnosis Gejala Dini Penyakit Stroke Menggunakan K-Nearest Neighbor (K-... by Dedin Anike Putra, Muhammad Dimas Setiawan Sanapiah, Azifatul Istna Hanifah, Tri Afirianto

“…This algorith choosen because of its previous accuracy. prototyping model used to develop this application. There are four main features of seed : 1) classification and recommendation, 2) history, 3) health information, and 4) login and register. …”
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Biological embodiment of educational attainment and future risk of breast cancer: findings from a French prospective cohort by Cyrille Delpierre, Raphaële Castagné, Eloïse Berger, Gianluca Severi, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Laura Baglietto, Laure Dossus, Amandine Gelot, Richard Dudouet

“…We focused on biomarkers from several physiological systems examined individually, and jointly through a biological health score (BHS).Design Prospective cohort study.Setting This study, based on a subsample of the French E3N cohort, included women with biological data from four nested case–control studies.Participants The study included 3048 postmenopausal women (17% BC).Main outcome measures We first evaluated the association between educational attainment and each biomarker, separately (N=11) and by combining them into a BHS, indicative of an augmented biological health hazard when elevated. …”
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