Equity in Basic Medical Education accreditation standards: a scoping review protocol by Usman Mahboob, Muhammad Irfan, Neelofar Shaheen, Ahsan Sethi

“…The scoping review entails the collection and synthesis of literature and does not require ethical approval as per local regulations, as it does not involve primary data collection or interaction with human participants. …”
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Older Adults Accessing HIV Care and Treatment and Adherence in the IeDEA Central Africa Cohort by Jamie Newman, Jeniffer Iriondo-Perez, Jennifer Hemingway-Foday, Anna Freeman, Wilfred Akam, Ashu Balimba, Lucien Kalenga, Marcel Mbaya, Brigitte Mfangam Molu, Henri Mukumbi, Théodore Niyongabo, Joseph Atibu, Innocent Azinyue, Modeste Kiumbu

“…Adults who were not heavy drinkers reported better adherence as compared to those who reported drinking three or more alcoholic beverages per day (P<0.001). Conclusions. Older adults differed from their younger counterparts in terms of medication adherence, sociodemographic, behavioral, and clinical characteristics.…”
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DisCo P-ad: Distance-Correlation-Based <i><b>p</b></i>-Value Adjustment Enhances Multiple Testing Corrections for Metabolomics by Debmalya Nandy, Debashis Ghosh, Katerina Kechris

“…Background: Due to scientific advancements in high-throughput data production technologies, omics studies, such as genomics and metabolomics, often give rise to numerous measurements per sample/subject containing several noisy variables that potentially cloud the true signals relevant to the desired study outcome(s). …”
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Demographics and regional trends of ischemic heart disease-related mortality in older adults in the United States, 1999-2020. by Fakhar Latif, Muhammad Moiz Nasir, Wajeeh Ur Rehman, Mohammed Hamza, Jishanth Mattumpuram, Komail Khalid Meer, Helme Silvet, Alon Yarkoni, Mouhamed Amr Sabouni, Nabil Braiteh, Keyoor Patel, Abdulqadir J Nashwan

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We used data from the CDC WONDER database from 1999-2020 to identify trends in the IHD-related mortality of patients ≥ 75 years in the US. AAMRs per 100,000 population and APC were calculated and categorized by year, sex, race, and geographic divisions.…”
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Incidence, Causes, and Perinatal Outcomes of “Near-Miss” Obstetric Emergencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from a Tertiary Referral Center of Western Rajasthan, India... by Garima Yadav, Charu Sharma, Pratibha Singh, Vrushti Solanki, Swati Chhabra, Priyanka Kathuria, Meenakshi Gothwal, Manisha Jhirwal, Shashank Shekhar

“…Results: The incidence of “near-miss” obstetric emergencies was -30.7 per 1000 live births. Over the 3 years of data obtained, 152 near-miss cases were found. …”
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Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial on the use of intraoperative ultrasound-guided laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy (UGLOC) as a method of fertility preservation in the... by Srdjan Saso, Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami, Jan Yvan Jos Verbakel, Benjamin P Jones, Joseph Yazbek, Mona El-Bahrawy, Lorraine S Kasaven

“…This study will evaluate the effect on ovarian reserve following two different surgical interventions for the management of benign ovarian cysts.Methods and analysis We will conduct a two-armed randomised controlled trial comparing laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy, considered gold standard treatment as per the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Green Top guidelines for the management of benign ovarian cysts, with ultrasound-guided laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy (UGLOC), a novel method of FPS. …”
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The peak efficiency of initial antihypertensive therapy of primary open-angle glaucoma considering the factors that reduce adherence to the ther by N.G. Glazko, T.M. Volobueva, E.A. Egorov

“…Egorov </p> <p> Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation </p> <p> Glaucoma treatment is a combined approach including selection of antihypertensive drugs to achieve the target pressure and their regular use by a patient as per the prescribed regimen. Along with a minimum number of instillations, prostaglandin analogues demonstrate the maximum hypotensive effect at the start of treatment. …”
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Translation of Ancient Works During the First Two Years of the Full-scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine by Svyatoslav Zubchenko

“…The goal of the work determined the solution of a number of specific tasks, the essence and sequence of which are determined by the logic of the research: 1) to find out the state of the publishing market in the first and second year of the full-scale invasion; 2) to analyze the reading tendencies of Ukrainian citizens (number of books read per year, place of purchase of new books, language of reading, most popular genres; 3) to form an idea about the Ukrainian translator of this period (problems of relocation, income, the most popular languages for translation); 4) to systematize the translations from Latin and ancient Greek published in 2022-2024, the publishers who took care of them and the cohort of translators who worked with classical material. …”
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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Is there a need for cardiac arrest centers? by Pešić Ivan, Kasap Ana, Crevar Đuro

“…Introduction:The large "Eureca One" study, which included emergency medical services from Serbia, found that the incidence of out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in Europe ranges between 19.0 and 104.0 per 100,000 inhabitants. In Sombor, the incidence of initiated CPR was recorded at 74/100,000, while in 2018, the incidence of initiated resuscitation increased to 109.4/100,000. …”
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Staging of Primary Abdominal Lymphomas: Comparison of Whole-Body MRI with Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and 18F-FDG-PET/CT by Alessandro Stecco, Francesco Buemi, Martina Quagliozzi, Mariangela Lombardi, Alberto Santagostino, Gian Mauro Sacchetti, Alessandro Carriero

“…The Musshoff-modified Ann Arbor system was used for staging, and diagnostic accuracy was evaluated on a per-node basis. Results. WB-DW-MRI exhibited 100% sensitivity, 96.3% specificity, and 96.1% and 100% positive and negative predictive values (PPV and NPV), respectively. …”
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Statistical Physics Modeling of Sorption Isotherms of Aluminum, Iron, and Indium on Tetraphenylporphyrin (H2TPP) and Tetrakis(4-tolylphenyl)porphyrin (H2TTPP): Phenomenological Inv... by Zainab Elqahtani, Mohamed Ben Yahia, Nada Alfryyan, Shatha Aldaghfag, Fatma Aouaini

“…Overall, the statistical physics modeling of the experimental curves indicated that the number of ions per adsorbent site n was found inferior to 1 for all the adsorption systems (multi-interaction process for the three ions). …”
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Epidemiological trends of head and neck Cancer survivors in Alberta: towards improved understanding of the burden of disease by Jin Soo Song, Patrick Vallance, Vincent Biron, Caroline C. Jeffery

“…Within the cohort, the prevalence of late HNC survivors increased to 13.3 per 100,000 people in 2015. Conclusions There is a significant population of head and neck survivors who are younger, male, and more than 10 years post-treatment. …”
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The effects of cow manure vermicompost and municipal solid waste compost on peppermint (Mentha piperita L.) in Torbat-e-Jam and Rasht regions of Iran by Hossein Ayyobi, Jamal-Ali Olfati, Gholam-Ali Peyvast

“…Plant growth in the Rasht region had the highest number of lateral branches (18), fresh (10.51 g) and dry weight (4.64 g) of plant, fresh (2,102.9 kg ha-1 ) and dry (928.67 kg ha-1 ) yield, leaf area index (0.17) and carotenoids (531.82 mg 100 g-1 ), while the highest oil per plant (0.24 ml plant-1 ) and oil yield (18.49 ml m-2 ), chlorophyll a (7.37 mg 100 g-1 ), b (4.07 mg 100 g-1 ) and total chlorophyll (11.44 mg 100 g-1 ), total phenol (7.48 mg gallic acid equivalent 100 g-1 ) and antioxidant capacity (71.89 (% of inhibition) were obtained from plants grown in the Torbat-e-Jam region. …”
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The Golden Afromontane ecosystems at cross-road: Wetland-based upstream-downstream linkage in Genale Dawa River Basin by Habtamu Temesgen, Haile Ketema, Gezahegn Kebede, Fikadu Woldemariyam, Gebremedihin Tesfaye

“…Results showed that: (1) LULC change occurred non-linearly in the GDRB, with agricultural land continuously increasing while forestland, woodland, and grassland decreased between 2005 and 2020; (2) the estimated ecosystem service value (ESV) of the GDRB was approximately US $10,360.28 million in 2005 and US $9033.06 million per year in 2020, indicating a decline of 12.81 %, resulting in a total net loss of US $1327.22 million from the basin. …”
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Bilateral Double Ureters with Bladder Neck Diverticulum in a Nigerian Woman Masquerading as an Obstetric Fistula by Imran O. Morhason-Bello, Sikiru A. Adebayo, Rukiyat A. Abdusalam, Oluwasomidoyin O. Bello, Kehinde H. Odubamowo, Olatunji O. Lawal, E. Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa, Oladosu A. Ojengbede

“…A 43-year-old woman presented with 20-year history of leakage of urine per vaginam. She had one failed repair attempt. …”
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Fuzzy entropy type II method for optimizing clean and renewable solar energy by M. Ramli, M. Mardlijah, M. Ikhwan, K. Umam

“…The final step is to compare the initial and final parameters based on the results of the modifications.FINDINGS: The solar panels require only 7.3x10-5 degrees of movement per second. This is a very slow movement for a dc motor with a maximum voltage of 12 volts. …”
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Serum Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Levels before and after Intravitreous Ranibizumab Injection for Retinopathy of Prematurity by Xuting Chen, Lin Zhou, Qi Zhang, Yu Xu, Peiquan Zhao, Hongping Xia

“…All the infants had binocular retinopathy and received IVR 0.25 mg per eye as the primary treatment. Serum samples were collected 1 day prior to injection and 1 day, 3 days, and 7 days after IVR treatment. …”
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Bromhexine Hydrochloride Prophylaxis of COVID-19 for Medical Personnel: A Randomized Open-Label Study by Evgeny N. Mikhaylov, Tamara A. Lyubimtseva, Aleksandr D. Vakhrushev, Dmitry Stepanov, Dmitry S. Lebedev, Elena Yu. Vasilieva, Alexandra O. Konradi, Evgeny V. Shlyakhto

“…The study was prematurely terminated after the enrollment of 50 participants without a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection: 25 were assigned to bromhexine hydrochloride treatment (8 mg 3 times per day), and 25 were controls. The composite primary endpoint was a positive nasopharyngeal swab polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for SARS-CoV-2 or signs of clinical infection within 28 days and at week 8. …”
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A 2-Year, Phase IV, Multicentre, Observational Study of Ranibizumab 0.5 mg in Patients with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Routine Clinical Practice: The EPICOHORT... by Sergio Pagliarini, Stephen Beatty, Blandina Lipkova, Eduardo Perez-Salvador Garcia, Stefaan Reynders, Margarita Gekkieva, Abdelkader Si Bouazza, Stefan Pilz

“…Patients were to be treated as per the EU summary of product characteristics (SmPC) in effect during the study. …”
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Validation of devices for characterization of hybrid 3D printed embroidery TENG for energy harvesting by HASAN TAHIR, Benny Malengier, Carla Hertleer, Lieva Van Langenhove

“…Among the possible stitch types (satin, fill, prog. fill, piping, motif, cross, concentric circle, radial, spiral, flexible spiral, stippling, net fill, zigzag net fill, and decorative fill), fill stitch with medium stitch density and 4.5 lines per mm has been used to develop this energy harvesting sample. …”
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