Histopathologic Outcomes of Robotic Radical Prostatectomy by Vipul R. Patel, Sagar Shah, David Arend

“…The positive margin rate per 100 cases was: 13% (1–100), 8% (101–200), 13% (201–300), 5% (301–400), and 8% (401–500). …”
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Ingreso y calidad del aire en ciudades: ¿Existe una curva de Kuznets para las emisiones del transporte en la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México? by Vanessa Pérez-Cirera, Elisa Schmelkes, Oliver López-Corona, Francisco Carrera, Ana Paula García-Teruel, Graciela Teruel

“…Se construyó una base de datos con información de 2010, 2012 y 2014, con datos del Módulo de Condiciones Socioeconómicas (MCS) del Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) para una muestra representativa de 1 582 hogares, con datos de ingreso anual e ingreso per cápita por hogar, así como sobre la ubicación del hogar, el número y modelo de los vehículos que éste posee y un estimado propio sobre distancias recorridas, para ponderar las emisiones con el modelo MOVES-México, que utiliza las mediciones de monitoreo atmosférico existentes en la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México (ZMVM).Resultados: Existe una relación monotónica (lineal positiva) entre el monóxido de carbono (CO) y el dióxido de carbono equivalente (CO2eq), y cuadrática (Uinvertida) para los óxidos de nitrógeno (NOx), por mucho, los menos abundantes de los tres gases.Conclusiones: Inclusive a niveles de ingreso por encima de los puntos de inflexión observados en la literatura, los hogares más ricos siguen sin internalizar el costo social de contaminar. …”
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High Prevalence of Prediabetes and Associated Risk Factors in Urban Areas of Pontianak, Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Indah Budiastutik, Martha I. Kartasurya, Hertanto W. Subagio, Bagoes Widjanarko

“…Interview using a structured questionnaire were performed to obtain data on predictor variables (age, sex, education, income, health insurance, tobacco use, history of hypertension, gout, high cholesterol level, frequency of exercise per week, and diabetic education). The prevalence of prediabetes among subjects was significantly high (76.4%). …”
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Human and entomological determinants of malaria transmission in the Lihir Islands of Papua New Guinea: A cross-sectional study. by Pere Millat-Martínez, Michelle Katusele, Bernadine Kasian, Elias Omera, Esther Jamea, Lina Lorry, Aina Casellas, Dan Ouchi, Chilaka Wali, Sylvia Raulo, Arthur Elizah, Peter Kaman, Absalom Dau, Muker Sakur, Lemen Kilepak, Siub Yabu, Nelson Koata, John Kave, Michael Toa, Christopher Urakusie, Charles Kongs, Frank Kisba, Moses Laman, Oriol Mitjà, William Pomat, Quique Bassat, Stephan Karl, Bàrbara Baro

“…Entomological inoculation rates ranged from 26.9 (95%CI: 12.3-45.2) infective bites per person-year in the MIZ to 441.3 (95%CI: 315.7-572.1) in the non-MIZ.…”
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Analysis of pulmonary sequestration cases, based on the 11-year birth defects surveillance data of Changsha hospitals by Ruobin Xie, Tao-Sha Wang, Yanling Wang, Wei-Dong Wang

“…The main factors affecting the survival of children with PS were maternal education level, maternal age of 30–34 years,annual per capita income, number of pregnancies, and the coexistence of other congenital abnormalities. …”
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Unleashing the potential of chatbots in mental health: bibliometric analysis by Qing Han, Chenyang Zhao

“…The number of articles published in Journal of Medical Internet Research was exceptionally high, accounting for 12.26% of the total number of articles, and JMIR Mental Health is the most influential publication sources in terms of average citations per article. Collaboration among universities in the USA, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Singapore demonstrated a high level. …”
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Assessing Associations of Nurse‐Managed Hypertension Care on Pharmacotherapy, Lifestyle Counseling, and Prevalence of Comorbid Cardiometabolic Diseases in All Patients With Hyperte... by Charlotte Ivarsson, Monica Bergqvist, Per Wändell, Sebastian Lindblom, Anders Norrman, Julia Eriksson, Jan Hasselström, Christina Sandlund, Axel C. Carlsson

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Analisis Sentimen Kebijakan New Normal dengan Menggunakan Automated Lexicon Senti N-Gram by Rifki Akbar Siregar, Yuita Arum Sari, Indriati Indriati

“…Berdasarkan hasil pengujian yang telah diperoleh dapat disimpulkan bahwa proses stemming serta proses translasi kata satu per satu yang dilakukan dapat memengaruhi kata berdasarkan konteksnya.   …”
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Engaging stakeholders in the co-development of programs or interventions using Intervention Mapping: A scoping review. by Umair Majid, Claire Kim, Albina Cako, Anna R Gagliardi

“…The number of studies published per year increased since 2008 and doubled in 2016 and 2017. …”
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Ferroelectric Transistor-Based Synaptic Crossbar Arrays: The Impact of Ferroelectric Thickness and Device-Circuit Interactions by Chunguang Wang, Sumeet Kumar Gupta

“…Based on this analysis, we investigate the impact of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\text {FE}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in conjunction with other design parameters, such as number of bits stored per device (bit slice), wordline (WL) activation schemes, and FeFETs width on the error probability, area, energy, and latency of CiM at the array level. …”
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A Toolchain for Assisting Migration of Software Executables Towards Post-Quantum Cryptography by Norrathep Rattanavipanon, Jakapan Suaboot, Warodom Werapun

“…The results show that: 1) <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathsf {QED}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> discerns quantum-vulnerable from quantum-safe executables with 100% accuracy in the synthetic dataset; 2) <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathsf {QED}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is practical and scalable, completing analyses on average in less than 4 seconds per real-world executable; and 3) <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathsf {QED}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> reduces the manual workload required by analysts to identify quantum-vulnerable executables in the real-world dataset by more than 90%.…”
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Prevalence, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Associated Factors of Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonization Rate among Old-Age Patients with Respiratory Tract Infection Attending Sheik H... by Surafel Mekuria, Ayichew Seyoum, Zerihun Ataro, Tigist Abebe, Kedir Urgessa

“…Sputum samples were collected and examined for S. pneumoniae using the culture and biochemical tests as per the standard procedures. The Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion method was used for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. …”
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Augmented Reality Navigation System Enhances the Accuracy of Spinal Surgery Pedicle Screw Placement: A Randomized, Multicenter, Parallel‐Controlled Clinical Trial by Yichao Ma, Jiangpeng Wu, Yanlong Dong, Hongmei Tang, Xiaojun Ma

“…In the FAS sensitivity analysis, the success rate was 98.0% (344 out of 351) in the experimental group and 91.7% (319 out of 348) in the control group, with a difference and 95% confidence interval of 6.3% [2.9% and 9.8%, respectively]. In the per‐protocol set (PPS) analysis, the difference in the excellent and good rates of screw placement between the experimental and control groups, and the 95% confidence interval was 6.4% [3.3%–9.5%], with a p value of 0.0001 for the superiority test. …”
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Biochar and bentonite application improves aeolian sandy soil health and enhances soil carbon sequestration and emission reduction potential by Liang Weijing, Tang Jiaxi, Li Yu, Song Sizhu, Jiang Xiaoyu, Hao Liyu, Tao Shuyu, He Miaomiao

“…The carbon sequestration potential of biochar application was equivalent to offsetting CO2 emissions by approximately 100 million tons per year of the study.…”
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Propensity score matched cohort study on magnesium supplementation and mortality in critically ill patients with HFpEF by Lijun Song, Jianjun Ying, Min Li, Lan Ying, Chenliang Zhao

“…After matching, the study’s final cohort balanced at 1970 patients, with 985 patients per group. The results showed that magnesium intake significantly contributed to a decrease in the 28-day all-cause mortality rate (hazard ratio [HR], 0.682; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.539–0.863), particularly in subgroups such as older patients (HR, 0.65; 95% CI 0.52–0.81), females (HR, 0.55; 95% CI 0.41–0.73), and those with hypertension (HR, 0.62; 95% CI 0.48–0.79) or without diabetes (HR, 0.54; 95% CI 0.41–0.71). …”
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Simulation of Fire Emergency Evacuation in a Primary School Based on Pathfinder Software by Mahdi Safari, Reza Afkhami, Mohammad Amerzadeh, Vida Zaroushani

“…The average passenger flow rate was only 1.35 persons per second, indicating a slow evacuation process. …”
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Mortality trends and disparities for coexisting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular disease: A retrospective analysis of deaths in the United States from 1999-... by Aman Goyal, Humza Saeed, Wania Sultan, Ajeet Singh, Abdullah, Muhammad Khubaib Arshad, Zubair Amin, Mah I Kan Changez, Gauranga Mahalwar, Rozi Khan, Wael AlJaroudi

“…<h4>Results</h4>Between 1999 and 2020, there were 3,590,124 reported deaths due to coexisting CVD and COPD, with overall AAMR slightly changing from 82.2 to 81.2 per 100,000 population, and a notable rise from 2018 to 2020 (APC: 5.28; 95% CI: 1.83 to 7.22) coinciding with the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Prevalence and Residual Risk of HIV in Volunteer Blood Donors of Zhejiang Province, China, from 2018 to 2022 by Hong Zhu, Wei Ding, Wenjuan Han, Xiaofan Zheng, Yiqing Hu, Jie Dong, Yaling Wu, Danxiao Wu, Jinhui Liu, Faming Zhu

“…The HIV prevalence of blood donors in 12 blood services in Zhejiang Province was 6.11, 6.98, 7.45, 8.21, 8.36, 8.94, 9.04, 9.66, 9.73, 10.22, 11.80, and 12.47 per 100000 donors, without statistically significant difference observed among the services (p>0.05). …”
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Machine-learning-based cost prediction models for inpatients with mental disorders in China by Yuxuan Ma, Xi Tu, Xiaodong Luo, Linlin Hu, Chen Wang

“…To refine the reimbursement of medical costs for inpatients with mental disorders by health insurance, an accurate prediction model is essential. Per-diem payment is a common internationally implemented payment method for medical insurance of inpatients with mental disorders, necessitating the exploration of advanced machine learning methods for predicting the average daily hospitalization costs (ADHC) based on the characteristics of inpatients with mental disorders. …”
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Benefits of the Global Integration Method (Método de Integração Global - MIG) in functional priorities of parents of Brazilian children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorde... by Amanda Aparecida Alves Cunha Nascimento, Deisiane Oliveira Souto, Thalita Karla Flores Cruz, Arthur Felipe Barroso de Lima, Gabriela Silva Oliveira, Vitor Geraldi Haase

“…The MIG protocol consisted of functional task training in a naturalistic environment (City of Tomorrow) combined with the use of a flexible therapeutic suit (MIG Flex) and was conducted for 3 months, five times a week, for 3–4 h per day. Descriptive statistics were used to provide the priority profile. …”
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