Motor transport development in Klaipėda district in 1900-1939 by Julius Žukas

“…At the end of 1937, there were 390 passenger cars, 99 trucks, and 40 buses registered in the district. …”
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Türk Yükseköğreniminin ISCED Geniş ve Dar Alan Sınıflaması by Metin Toprak, Deniz Kolat, Mehmet Şengül, Armağan Erdoğan

“…Öğretimelemanlarının en fazla olduğu beş geniş alan sağlık ve refah (%37,7),mühendislik, imalat ve inşaat (%15,4), eğitim (%13,6), işletme, yönetim vehukuk (%9,9) ve doğa bilimleri, matematik ve istatistiktir (%5,9). …”
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A Microfluidic Biosensor for Quantitative Detection of <i>Salmonella</i> in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yutong Wu, Yang Liu, Jinchen Ma, Shanxi Zhu, Xiaojun Zhao, Huawei Mou, Xuanqi Ke, Zhisheng Wu, Yifei Wang, Sheng Lin, Wuzhen Qi

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Proper timing or ERCP and cholecystectomy on acute cholecystitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Giuliana Fulco Gonçalvez, Louise Lopes Barros, Sofia Emereciano Gurgel, Kleyton Santos de Medeiros, Irami Araújo Filho

“…Different outcomes were evaluated, with preoperative ERCP as an intervention and intraoperative ERCP as the control: length of stays (four trials with mean differences – MD = -1.44; 95% confidence interval – 95%CI -3,87–0,98); bile leak (odds ratio – OR = 0.67; 95%CI 0.11–4.09); cholangitis (OR = 1.32; 95%CI 0.29–5.98); bleeding from sphincterotomy (OR = 0.98; 95%CI 0.20–4.86); wound infection (OR = 0.33; 95%CI 0.04–3.14); incisional bleeding (OR = 0.5; 95%CI 0.04–5.70); elevated amylase activity (OR = 5.22; 95%CI 2.17–12.59); acute pancreatitis (OR = 4.61; 95%CI 1.72–12.38); operative time (MD = -6,26; 95%CI -37.24–24.73); failure rate (OR = 1.74; 95%CI 0.99–3.05); conversion (OR = 1.34; 95%CI 0.6–2.96); morbidity (OR = 2.75; 95%CI 1.7–4.47). …”
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Anthropometric, aerobic and muscle power profile of young costa rican basketball players by Randall Gutiérrez-Vargas, José Alexis Ugalde-Ramírez, José Pino-Ortega, José Andrés Trejos-Montoya, Luis Blanco-Romero, Braulio Sánchez-Ureña, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Vargas, Daniel Rojas-Valverde

“…The assessment was carried outa on 99 young players (43 women and 56 men; 18 guards, 51 forwards and 30 centers; 42 in the U16 category and 57 in the U18 category) from eight different teams. …”
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In situ construction of MOF derived CoNC anchored on N-doped carbon xerogel sphere as efficient bifunctional ORR/OER electrocatalyst for Zn-air batteries by Hong Jin, Dejian Lin, Laihong Zhou, Guojun Zha, Huanwen Wu, Shuigen Li, Minhua Jiang, Ping Huang, Haijiao Xie

“…CoNC@NCXS exhibited excellent ORR/OER activity in alkaline electrolytes with the ORR onset potential of 0.99 V, the half-wave potential (E1/2) of 0.78 V at 10 mA cm−2 and the OER overpotential of 360 mV at 10 mA cm−2. …”
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Mewujudkan Good Governance Melalui Penguatan Budaya Birokrasi by Jayadi Jayadi, Maria Magdalena Widiantari, Zulin Nurchayati, Endang Murti

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Five lessons from a mid-level health manager intervention to increase uptake of tuberculosis prevention therapy in Uganda: ‘it is a completely different thing to implement what you... by Jason Johnson-Peretz, Canice Christian, Cecilia Akatukwasa, Fred Atwine, Elijah Kakande, Moses R. Kamya, Diane V. Havlir, Carol S. Camlin, Gabriel Chamie

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Optimizing Operating Room Efficiency for Primary Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Using Performance Benchmarks by Koorosh Kashanian, BMSc, Matey Juric, BSc, Tim Ramsay, PhD, Pascal Fallavollita, PhD, Paul E. Beaulé, MD, FAAOS, FRCSC

“…Results: The percentage of cases meeting individual benchmarks for APT was 50.17%; procedure time was 95.25%; AFT was 99.67%; turnover was 65.25%. The means were: APT 11:00 min, Surgical Prep Time 9:00 min, procedure time 55:00 min, AFT 3:00 min, and turnover 19:00 min. …”
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Factors Affecting Inpatient Mortality in Elderly People with Acute Kidney Injury by Muhammad Abdul Mabood Khalil, Safia Awan, Rabeea Azmat, Muhammad Ashhad Ullah Khalil, Nazish Naseer, Jackson Tan

“…Median bicarbonate 18 versus 17 between those who survived and those who died was associated with less mortality (OR: 0.94, P=0.02, 95% CI: 0.89–0.99). History of hypertension (OR: 0.49, P=0.03, 95% CI: 0.25–0.95) and high admission creatinine (OR: 0.68, P=0.01, 95% CI: 0.50–0.91) were also associated with less mortality. …”
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Exclusive Breast-Feeding Practice and Associated Factors among HIV-Positive Mothers in Governmental Health Facilities, Southern Ethiopia by Lewam Mebratu, Selamawit Mengesha, Yadessa Tegene, Abraham Alano, Alemayehu Toma

“…Mothers who had attended the recommended four antenatal visits [AOR: 3.01, 95% CI (1.1–8.28)], who had disclosed their serostatus [AOR: 3.17, 95% CI (1.12–8.99)], who had sufficient knowledge about infant feeding practice [AOR: 3.32, 95% CI (1.15–9.55)], and favorable attitude towards infant feeding practice [AOR: 5.39, 95% CI (1.65–17.6)] were more likely to practice exclusive breastfeeding. …”
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Quality assessment of packaged water brands in a university teaching hospital in southern Nigeria by Ekanem AM, Benson SA, Ekpuk IN, Amafaye WD, Akpan IE, Udo AI, Edem SA, David E, Akpabio KO, Nneamaka AA

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Adherence to four healthy lifestyles and their influencing factors among residents aged 35 to 75 years in Fujian province: a longitudinal study by Ze YANG, Xin FANG, Yefa ZHANG, Wenling ZHONG, Tiehui CHEN, Jingyu CHEN, Yanrong YIN, Xiaoqing LI

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Simultaneous Quantification of Aspirin, Its Metabolite Salicylic Acid, and Salvianolic Acid B in Human Plasma Using UPLC-MS/MS by Weiyi Cao, Hezhi Yao, Zhenzhen Qian, Yi Wu, Shuge Wang, Rui Li, Rui Gao

“…Calibration curves in the range 5–6000 ng/mL, all with correlation coefficients greater than 0.99, were established using linear regression models for salvianolic acid B and acetylsalicylic acid and a quadratic model for salicylic acid. …”
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海南东寨港国家级自然保护区红树林潮沟海陆蛙种群数量调查 by 冯尔辉, 罗战, 朱萧文, 施雪岩, 梁笑, 杨卓, 吴庭天, 王力军

“…调查表明：海陆蛙主要分布在管理局、道学和三江片区，而塔市和博度片区海陆蛙分布基本处于空白状态；3个年度海陆蛙种群密度基本一致，由高到低依次为三江、道学和管理局；2020年度三江种群密度为221.6只/hm²、道学164.7只/hm²和管理局137.4只/hm²，明显高于2022年度（三江151.2只/hm²、道学144.8只/hm²和管理局116.3只/hm²）和2021年度（三江113.2只/hm²、道学99.6只/hm²和管理局51.9只/hm²）；2020—2022年三江、道学和管理局片区总的海陆蛙种群数量分别为6 498、3 357、4 847只。…”
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The Urinary Liver-Type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (L-FABP) in Early Detection and Outcome Prediction of Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury by Ghi Nguyen Hai, Binh Nguyen Gia, Hoa Do Thanh, Cuong Nguyen Thai, Duc Vu Anh, Anh Duong Duc, Duong Le Xuan Xuan

“…Results: 212 patients with the mean age of 66.5 ± 16.2 (range 18-99) years were included (60.4% male). 54 (25.5%) patients had sepsis, and septic shock was developed in 158 (74.53%) cases. 143 (67.5%) patients were complicated with AKI. …”
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Effect of Microwave Pretreatment on Grindability of Lead-Zinc Ore by Qing Yu, Dexin Ding, Wenguang Chen, Nan Hu, Lingling Wu, Qiucai Zhang, Yulong Liu, Zhijun Zhang, Feng Li, Xilong Xue, Zhaopeng Li, Guicheng He

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Multi-scale feature fusion of deep convolutional neural networks on cancerous tumor detection and classification using biomedical images by U. M. Prakash, S. Iniyan, Ashit Kumar Dutta, Shtwai Alsubai, Janjhyam Venkata Naga Ramesh, Sachi Nandan Mohanty, Khasim Vali Dudekula

“…The experimental validation of the MFFDCNN-CTDC approach exhibited a superior accuracy value of 98.78% and 99.02% over existing techniques under ISIC 2017 and HAM10000 datasets.…”
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Advanced artificial intelligence with federated learning framework for privacy-preserving cyberthreat detection in IoT-assisted sustainable smart cities by Mahmoud Ragab, Ehab Bahaudien Ashary, Bandar M. Alghamdi, Rania Aboalela, Naif Alsaadi, Louai A. Maghrabi, Khalid H. Allehaibi

“…The performance validation of the AAIFLF-PPCD technique exhibited a superior accuracy value of 99.47% over existing models under diverse measures.…”
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Can real-time surveillance systems of suspected suicide accurately reflect national suicide rates? Age-specific and sex-specific findings from the first two years of the COVID-19 p... by Nav Kapur, Louis Appleby, Pauline Turnbull, Su-Gwan Tham, Saied Ibrahim, Cathryn Rodway

“…Using the pre-pandemic period as the baseline, we found a lower rate of suicide in the remainder of 2020 compared with the pre-pandemic period (0.80–0.99). This fall reflected lower numbers of deaths in men aged 25–44 between April and December 2020. …”
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