Rising congenital syphilis rates in Canada, 1993–2022 by Ashorkor Tetteh, Nadifa Abdi, Victoria Moore, Geneviève Gravel

“…Infectious syphilis data from the same time period for females of reproductive age were also analyzed.ResultsThe national rate of confirmed early congenital syphilis was 127-fold higher in 2022 than in 1993, increasing from 0.3 to 32.7 cases per 100,000 live births. Case counts began increasing rapidly in 2018, with the highest case count observed to date (n = 115) occurring in 2022. …”
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Spatial Soil Erosion Modeling for Improved Land Management in Gumara Watershed, Ethiopia by Gizachew Ayalew Tiruneh, Mersha Ayalew, Mamaru Ayalew, T. D. Mequanent, Chandrakala M., Dessie Tibebe, José Miguel Reichert

“…The results indicated that the soil erosion extent was classified into four categories as per the erosion rate, and 5.45% of the catchment explained very high erosion (> 200 ton ha−1 yr−1) followed by 17.24% classified as high (50–200 ton ha−1 yr−1). …”
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Human Following Robot Berbasis IoT untuk Otomatisasi Troli: Meningkatkan Pembelajaran dalam Mata Kuliah Airport Automation by Sunardi Sunardi, Muhammad Rafli Fazal, Adha Febriansyah, Asep Muhamad Soleh, Parjan Parjan, Hadi Prayitno

“…Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa troli ini mampu mempertahankan stabilitas dengan menyesuaikan sudut kemiringan terhadap kecepatan: inklinasi pitch naik 5° untuk setiap peningkatan 0,8–1,0 m/s, mencapai 90° pada kecepatan 15,0 m/s, sementara roll meningkat 2,5° per 0,8–1,0 m/s, mencapai 45°. Troli ini telah diverifikasi di Bandara Sultan Mahmud Badarrudin II, memberikan pelatihan yang berharga bagi para taruna di Politeknik Penerbangan Palembang.…”
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Comparison of glaucoma progression rate in glaucoma patients at different stages using guided progression analysis with optical coherence tomography by Okan Akmaz, Murat Gokhan Tokac, Murat Garli, Tuncay Kusbeci

“…The average, superior and inferior quadrant thinning rates (expressed in micrometers per year) of GCIPL and RNFL in the OCT GPA program were compared between groups. …”
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Clinical Benefits of Parasternal Block with Multihole Catheters when Inserted before Sternotomy by Vedat Eljezi, Crispin Jallas, Bruno Pereira, Melanie Chasteloux, Christian Dualé, Lionel Camilleri

“…Local anesthetic administration followed by continued infusion at 3 mL hr–1 of ropivacaine 2 mg mL–1 per catheter for 48 h postoperatively upon patient arrival in the intensive care unit. …”
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Circulating Galectin-3 and Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence after Catheter Ablation: A Meta-Analysis by Guangping Zhang, Yongquan Wu

“…Moreover, higher baseline Gal-3 levels were independently associated with a significantly higher risk of AF recurrence after catheter ablation (risk ratio: 1.17 per unit of Gal-3; 95% CI: 1.01 - 1.35; p = 0.03; I2 = 40%), which was independent of age, gender, and left atrial dimension. …”
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Morphological characterization of spleen and bursa of Fabricius of Pekin ducks in selenium-deficient area by Ye. E. Lazareva

“…The experimental study was carried out in 85 day-old ducks divided into two groups, control group and test group, 40 ducks per group, the experiment lasted for 120 days. Control group was fed with standard mixed feed for meat-type poultry. …”
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Purchase subsidies for 100% zero-emissions vehicle sales goals: Effectiveness, government cost, and supplier capture by Chandan Bhardwaj, Jonn Axsen

“…Results indicate that a subsidy-dominated policy mix needs to increase subsidy values to at least $40,000 per ZEV by 2035 to achieve the 100% goal in Canada. …”
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Drug utilization study of mood stabilizers and antipsychotics drugs among bipolar disorder patients by Lolita Lolita, Johan Ika Meiliana

“…This study employed two methods to analyse the data: calculating the percentage of rational prescriptions and computing based on the defined daily dose (DDD) per 1000 patient days. In this study, there were 28 respondents between the ages of 26 and 46, with 98 total bipolar cases. 53.6% of participants were female, while 46.4% were male. …”
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Detecting and quantifying deep sea benthic life using advanced object detection by Karthik H. Iyer, Camilla M. Marnor, Daniel W. Schmid, Ebbe H. Hartz

“…The model processes images at 28–50 frames per second (fps) for images sized at 1280 pixels, significantly increasing processing speed and reducing annotation workloads by over 1000 times when compared to manual annotation. …”
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Characterization of suicidal behavior in the Province of Villa Clara by Dairon Vázquez Ramos, Ariel Arango Díaz, Yunior Jesús Pacheco Fuentes, Edel Castellanos Sánchez, Yadira Janet Sierra Ruíz, Milagros Caridad Ruíz Ramos

“…Suicide attempts were recorded at a higher rate in female patients between 25 and 59 years old. The highest rate per 100,000 inhabitants of suicide attempts was recorded in the Municipality of Camajuaní (163.6) and the highest mortality rate due to suicide in the Municipality of Corralillo (29.4). …”
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Analysis of Errors on Death Certificate for Trauma Related Death by Jun Hyuk Chang, Sun Hyu Kim, Hyeji Lee, Byungho Choi

“…Results Of a total 140 DCs, average numbers of major and minor errors per DC were 0.8 and 3.7, respectively. There were a total of 2.8 errors for DCs issued at the emergency department (ED) and 5.4 errors for DCs issued beyond ED. …”
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Module to scaffold the process of filling grant documents in English by Cofiya Swartz, Elvira E. Valeeva

“…The main goal of the proposed module is to teach students how to effectively communicate per the requirements and objectives set forth by these grant programs. …”
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Comparative Analysis of YOLOv8 and HSV Methods for Traffic Density Measurement by Prof. I Gede Pasek Suta Wijaya, Muhamad Nizam Azmi, Ario Yudo Husodo

“…Quantitative analysis shows that Location 2 has a higher traffic density compared to Locations 1 and 3, as indicated by the average number of detected vehicles per frame. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the differences between HSV and YOLOv8 segmentation methods for traffic density measurement. …”
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Estimation of Current Water Use over the Complex Topography of the Nile Basin Headwaters: The Case of Ghba Subbasin, Ethiopia by Mehari Gebreyohannes Hiben, Admasu Gebeyehu Awoke, Abraha Adugna Ashenafi

“…Currently, the subbasin has a total livestock population of 1,527,835, and the water demand of which is estimated at 5.3 Mm3 per annum. Hence, the total current water use estimate of the subbasin is 204.1 Mm3.…”
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Nina Façon despre filosofia românească by Titus Lateş

“…Nina Façon ha avuto un importante contributo alla promozione della filosofia romena all’estero e la sua azione in tale senso può essere considerata, per certi versi, come da pioniere. Nel 1939 pubblicò sulla rivista italiana «Sophia», stampata a Napoli, su due numeri consecutivi, una prima presentazione storica della filosofia romena in Italia. …”
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The Sociology of Karl Mannheim’s Knowledge and the Methodological Foundations of the History of Socio-Political Ideas by Alexander A. Chanyshev, Vasilisa A. Kuznetsova

“…The analysis suggests that theory is not only and not so many ideas per se, but also the author’s lived attitude to the specific historical conditions of their existence. …”
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Diffusion Smart-seq3 of breast cancer spheroids to explore spatial tumor biology and test evolutionary principles of tumor heterogeneity by Antony Cougnoux, Loay Mahmoud, Per A. Johnsson, Alper Eroglu, Louise Gsell, Jakob Rosenbauer, Rickard Sandberg, Jean Hausser

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An Observational Study of Glomerular Functions in Beta-thalassemia Major Children by Schwartz Formula and Technetium 99m Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic Acid Renogram by Sukanta Mandal, Tathagata Bose, Rachna Gulati, Manish Singh Ahuja

“…The normal values of GFR were taken from the standard value as per KDIGO guidelines. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. …”
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Use of a Launderable Bed Barrier and Antibiotic Stewardship to Decrease Hospital Onset _Clostridioides difficile_ Infections in an Acute Care Hospital: A Retrospective Pre/Post Cas... by Edmond A. Hooker, Peter J. Mallow, Christine McKinney, Martin L. Gnoni, Francisco Fernandez Gonzales

“…The average monthly rate (per 10&#8239;000 patient-days) was 7.94 (SD 6.30) in the pre-intervention period and 4.71 (SD 4.42) during the post-intervention period. …”
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