Evolució i reptes de l’Administració pública catalana: cap a una governança inclusiva by Luz Muñoz Márquez

“…Aquestes estratègies són essencials per assegurar que l’Administració pública catalana pugui continuar sent rellevant i eficaç en les pròximes dècades.…”
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Cost Analysis of the Use of Voriconazole, Posaconazole and Micafungin in the Primary Prophylaxis of Invasive Fungal Infections in Recipients of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell T... by Santiago Grau, Carlos Solano, Carol García-Vidal, Isidro Jarque, Jon A. Barrueta, Carmen Peral, Irene Rodríguez, Darío Rubio-Rodríguez, Carlos Rubio-Terrés

“…Therefore, the savings per patient of prophylaxis with voriconazole was €130 to €3,664 and €11,132 to €30,374 compared with posaconazole and micafungin, respectively. …”
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Implementation assessment of the national program for the prevention and control of cerebro-vascular diseases in Cienfuegos. Period 2000-2004. by Rubén Bembibre Taboada, Miguel Angel Buergo Zuaznábar, Julio Cortizo Hernández, Niurka Galende Hernández, Roberto Travieso Peña, Roxilena Manso Martín., Marcos D. Iraola Ferrer

“…<strong>Results:</strong> we found a morbility rate of 192,26 per 100 000 inhabitants. The mortality rates decreased in 11,26 (from 82,51 to 71,25 per 100 000 inhabitants). …”
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LDPC-cat codes for low-overhead quantum computing in 2D by Diego Ruiz, Jérémie Guillaud, Anthony Leverrier, Mazyar Mirrahimi, Christophe Vuillot

“…Assuming a physical phase-flip error probability ϵ ≈ 0.1% per qubit and operation, one hundred logical qubits can be implemented on a 758 cat qubit chip, with a total logical error probability per cycle and per logical qubit ϵ L ≤ 10−8. …”
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To Be or Not To Be: Twitter Presence among Turkish Diplomats by H. Mehmetcik, E. Salihi

“…Firstly, we derive descriptive statistics for several user metrics including raw numbers of tweets per user and per date as well as retweet, reply, and like counts per user. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Operational Efficiency of Intersections in Arterial Considering Pedestrians Yield Rule by Lei Chen, Junjie Li, Yuhang Li, Jiao Yao

“…Furthermore, models of 3 evaluation indices were established, which are number of people passing per unit time, average delay per people, and average yield number per people at intersection. …”
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Exploring Primary Care Streaming Pathway in Emergency Departments in Saudi Arabia: A Qualitative Study by Marwah Hawsawi, Bayan Alilyyani

“…The total streamed patients were ranging from 50 to 60 per shift, which mean 15–20 case per hour. The study highlighted many factors that influence the practice and decision of streaming. …”
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SUSTAINABILITY OF THE WATER REQUIREMENT OF TWO CULTIVARS OF OKRA UNDER THE USE OF COVER CROP AND MINIMUM TILLAGE SYSTEM by Alaa Salih Ati, Shaima Sami Dawod, Kasem Mosa Madlol AL-Halfi

“…The presence of crop residues led to a decrease in water consumption by the crop (mm) and consequently a decrease in the amount of water used (m3) per hectare by 19.26% and an increase in both water productivity by 64.15%, the germination by about 7.3%, plant height (cm) by 22.7%, and the number of leaves per plant 13.6%, and the yield of fresh pods (kg/ha) is approximately 32.5%. …”
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Subetta Treatment Increases Adiponectin Secretion by Mature Human Adipocytes In Vitro by Jim Nicoll, Evgeniy A. Gorbunov, Sergey A. Tarasov, Oleg I. Epstein

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Evaluating the Effect of Cultivars and Seeding Rates on the Yield of Lentil Grown under the Vertisols Production System by Mebrate Tamrat Woldeselassie, Abel Gizaw, Simegnew Aniley

“…There was a positive and significant p<0.001 correlation between grain yield and each of the following: plant height, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, and 100-seed weight. …”
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U.S. farmers market attendance and experiences by Laura Witzling, Bret Shaw, Darlene Wolnik

“…Among the 5,141 respondents, 38.51% reported attending farmers markets infrequently (i.e., five or fewer times per year), and 41.78% reported attending with more regularity (i.e., six or greater times per year). …”
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Carboxypeptidase B1 in dialyzed chronic kidney disease patients by Matej Stančík, Marián Grendár, Marián Mokáň

“…Exploration of the estimated marginal means of Carboxypeptidase B1 revealed that the Carboxypeptidase B1 concentration was significantly higher among patients on twice per week dialysis regimen than among those treated with three dialysis sessions per week.…”
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Els símbols i els drets històrics de Catalunya: l’autogovern com a continuïtat històrica i jurídica by Tomàs de Montagut Estragués

“…La variant atòmica, uniformista i centralista d’arrel castellana predominarà fins a l’actualitat sobre la visió d’una Espanya plural i integradora dels diversos pobles i nacions que la formen. Catalunya va apostar per la descentralització administrativa amb la Mancomunitat de Catalunya (1914-1925) i per l’autonomia política amb les constitucions espanyoles del 1931 i del 1978. …”
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Effetto supporto, tensione locale e gradiente relativo di tensione nella predizione della vita a fatica by B. Reggiani, A. Freddi

“…Le equazioni proposte dalla nuova teoria per il calcolo della pendenza delle curve S-N e del limite di fatica sono verificate tramite il confronto con dati sperimentali tratti da letteratura. …”
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of proactive home visits compared with site-based community health worker care on antenatal care outcomes in Mali: a cluster-randomised trial by Osondu Ogbuoji, Caroline Whidden, Emily Treleaven, Youssouf Keita, Kassoum Kayentao, Ari Johnson, Jenny X Liu, Minahil Shahid, Mohamed Berthé, Armand Zimmerman, David Charles Boettiger, Coumba Traoré, Mahamadou Sogoba, Saibou Doumbia, Amadou Beydi Cissé

“…The likelihood of the intervention being more cost-effective than the control was 100% at WTP thresholds $0 per ANC utilisation outcome and between $12.5 and $50.00 per ANC utilisation outcome in the CHW- and Full ANC programme perspectives, respectively.Conclusion Our results provide evidence that proactive home visits produce more value per dollar spent as a means of improving the uptake of ANC services compared with fixed-site CHW services.Trial registration number NCT02694055.…”
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Community-based HPV self-collection versus visual inspection with acetic acid in Uganda: a cost-effectiveness analysis of the ASPIRE trial by Joel Singer, Angeli Rawat, Heather Armstrong, Josaphat Byamugisha, Gina S Ogilvie, Alex K Mezei, Heather N Pedersen, Stephen Sy, Catherine Regan, Sheona M Mitchell-Foster, Musa Sekikubo, Jane J Kim, Nicole G Campos

“…The model was used to assess the cost-effectiveness of each arm of ASPIRE, as well as an HPV screen-and-treat strategy (‘HPV-ST’) involving community-based self-collected HPV testing followed by treatment for all HPV-positive women at the clinic.Outcome measures The primary outcomes were reductions in cervical cancer risk and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs), expressed in dollars per year of life saved (YLS).Results HPV-ST was the most effective and cost-effective screening strategy, reducing the lifetime absolute risk of cervical cancer from 4.2% (range: 3.8%–4.7%) to 3.5% (range: 3.2%–4%), 2.8% (range: 2.4%–3.1%) and 2.4% (range: 2.1%–2.7%) with ICERs of US$130 (US$110–US$150) per YLS, US$240 (US$210–US$280) per YLS, and US$470 (US$410–US$550) per YLS when performed one, three and five times per lifetime, respectively. …”
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Global comparison of the economic costs of coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Lan Gao, Susan Brumby, Crystal Man Ying Lee, George Mnatzaganian, Suzanne Robinson, Helen Brown, Rachel Huxley, Anna Peeters, Dan Xu, James Boyd, Sean Randall, Adrienne O’Neil, Sangita Shakya, Sarah Gauci, Anita Shrestha, James Lucas

“…In most countries, the annual cost of CHD exceeds many times the total health expenditure per capita. The pooled direct annual cost of CHD per patient varied from 4.9% to 137.8% of GDP per capita (Int$ purchasing power parity), with pooled percentage of 21.7% (95% CI 15.3, 28.1) for those with CHD. …”
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Message forwarding based on periodically evolving social characteristics in opportunistic mobile networks by Yong-feng HUANG, Yong-qiang DONG, San-feng ZHANG, Guo-xin WU

“…Moreover, a social-aware routing algorithm, PerEvo, was then designed based on them. Extensive trace-driven simulation results show that PerEvo achieves higher message delivery ratio than the existing social-based forwarding schemes, while keep-ing similar routing overhead.…”
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The Caffeine Content of Energy Drinks in accordance with the Information on the Package Label by Said Kudema, Claus Thomas, Helena Ngowi

“…Approximately 28.1 milligrams per 100 milliliters (mg/100 ml) of caffeine was present in the Mo energy drink brand, which was nearly 1.5 times the caffeine concentration listed on the product label. …”
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Diseño y sostenibilidad, de Ricard Huerta by Francesc

“…El llibre no sols consciència sobre la responsabilitat del disseny per a la sostenibilitat, sinó que també proporciona eines per a implementar-la amb efectivitat a la pràctica professional i la docència. …”
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