Effects of Adoption of Agricultural Technologies on Irish Potato Yield in Ol Kalou Sub-County Kenya: Application of Endogenous Switching Regression Model by David Kihoro, Geofrey Kingori Gathungu, Rael Nkatha Mwirigi, Vicky Nyambura Wairimu

“…However, despite the high potential of about 30 tonnes per hectare (ha), smallholder farmers in Kenya realize low Irish potato yields ranging from 4-8 tonnes per ha due to limited uptake of agricultural technologies. …”
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Effects of Diet on Larval Survival, Growth, and Development of the Sea Cucumber Holothuria leucospilota by Zonghe Yu, Hong Wu, Youkai Tu, Zesen Hong, Jiewen Luo

“…Densities of juveniles attaching to settlement plates varied with treatments, and the values were very low for the larvae only fed microalgae (A, 2.39±1.95 ind per plate) or yeast (E, 2.13±1.05 ind per plate)—only ~5% of the maximum number settling in treatment B (45.56±7.24 ind per plate). …”
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Deep Learning for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection and Severity Assessment: A Multimodal Signals Fusion Multiscale Transformer Model by Zhang Y, Zhou L, Zhu S, Zhou Y, Wang Z, Ma L, Yuan Y, Xie Y, Niu X, Su Y, Liu H, Hei X, Shi Z, Ren X, Shi Y

“…Two public datasets, Apnea-ECG dataset (consisting of 8 recordings) and UCD dataset (consisting of 21 recordings), were used to compare the results with those of previous studies.Results: In the hospital dataset, the accuracy (Acc) values of per-segment and per-recording detection were 91.38 and 96.08%, respectively. …”
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Is vaginal breech delivery associated with higher risk for perinatal death and cerebral palsy compared with vaginal cephalic birth? Registry-based cohort study in Norway by Guro L Andersen, Solveig Bjellmo, Sissel Hjelle, Pål Richard Romundstad, Torstein Vik, Marit Petra Martinussen, Dag Moster

“…Among these, NNM was 0.9 per 1000 compared with 0.3 per 1000 in vaginal cephalic delivery, and 0.8 per 1000 in those actually born by caesarean delivery (CD) in breech. …”
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Non-symbiotic N2 fixation is less sensitive to changes in temperature than carbon mineralization in Northern forest soils by Eduardo Vázquez, Marie Spohn

“…We found a positive correlation between non-symbiotic N2 fixation per area and mean annual temperature (MAT). This relationship was caused by the positive relationship between the organic layer stock and MAT rather than by the direct effect of temperature on the process rate. …”
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Economic evaluation of integrated services for non-communicable diseases and HIV: costs and client outcomes in rural Malawi by Luckson Dullie, Emily B Wroe, Elizabeth L Dunbar, Noel Kalanga, Lawrence Nazimera, Adarsh Shah, Bright Mailosi, Chiyembekezo Kachimanga, Ryan K McBain, Natalie Price, Mahlet Gizaw, Chantelle Boudreaux, Liberty Neba

“…Furthermore, we measured clinical outcomes for HIV (viral load), hypertension (controlled blood pressure), diabetes (average blood glucose), asthma (asthma severity) and epilepsy (seizure frequency).Results The annualised total cost of providing integrated HIV and NCD care was $2 461 901 to provide care to 9471 enrollees, or $260 per capita. This compared with $2 138 907 for standalone HIV services received by 6541 individuals, or $327 per capita. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomography May Help Distinguish Glaucoma from Suprasellar Tumor-Associated Optic Disc by Michael Mimouni, Hadas Stiebel-Kalish, Irena Serov, Gabriel Chodick, Mohammad Zbedat, Dan D. Gaton

“…In multivariate, glaucoma was associated with increased total RNFL thickness (OR = 1.116 per μm, P=0.008), increased disc area (OR = 2.402 per 100 μm2, P=0.002), and decreased rim area (OR = 0.272 per 100 μm2, P=0.011). …”
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Cancer incidence and the influence of immunosuppressive agents in Korean patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a retrospective cohort study by Soo-Kyung Cho, Jung-Yong Han, Yena Jeon, Seung-Hun You, Sun-Young Jung, Eun Jin Jang, Yoon-Kyoung Sung

“…During a follow-up of 62,268.5 PYs, 368 patients developed cancer. The IRs per 10,000 PYs for total, solid, and hematologic cancers were 59.07, 54.09, and 5.78, respectively. …”
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Characterization and quantification of solid waste in rural regions by S. Syafrudin, J.M. Masjhoer, M. Maryono

“…The processed data were analyzed using a quantitative descriptive method.FINDINGS: The results showed that the average waste generation was 0.29 kilograms per person per day. It shows that the waste generation in the study area is categorized in small-town classification. 75 percent of solid waste generated is food waste and leaves. …”
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Exploring drug utilization patterns, healthcare resource utilization, and epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis in Colombia: a retrospective claims database study by Daniel G. Fernández-Ávila, Monica Betancur, Amira Kronfly, Edwin Jáuregui

“…The age-standardized incidence of RA ranged between 34.7 and 51.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, and the age-standardized prevalence ranged between 0.282 and 0.382 per 100 inhabitants between 2017 and 2022. …”
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Translation of the UK Pediatric Influenza Vaccination Programme in Primary Schools to 13 European Countries Using a Dynamic Transmission Model by Laetitia Gerlier, Judith Hackett, Richard Lawson, Sofia Dos Santos Mendes, Martin Eichner

“…In adults, the range of ORs for PCC was 0.60–0.91 (UK OR=0.41 [0.19; 0.86]). NNV ranges were 6–19 per averted PCC (UK NNV=16), 530–1524 per averted hospitalization (UK NNV=317) and 5298–15 241 per averted ICU admission (UK NNV=2205). …”
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Chlamydia cases in women of reproductive age, 2006–2020: an analysis of surveillance data from Southern China by Peizhen Zhao, Peng Liang, Jinshen Wang, Wenqian Xu, Shujie Huang, Cheng Wang

“…The highest rate was 196.8 per 100,000 population in 2019. Among older women, 9,045 cases were reported, with a mean reported rate of 4.9 per 100,000, rising significantly from 0.01 in 2006 to 9.6 in 2020 (AAPC = 52.6%, 95% CI: 30.3%-78.8%, P < 0.05). …”
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Estimating avoidable burden of stillbirth attributable to greenness improvement in Iran by Yang Yuan, Fatemeh Mayvaneh, Yaqi Wang, Jixing Yang, Yunquan Zhang, Fang Shi

“…For instance, per 0.1-unit increase of NDVI and EVI within a 3000-m buffer was associated with the estimated odds of 0.971 (95 % confidence interval: 0.963–0.978) and 0.957 (0.947–0.968) for stillbirth, respectively. …”
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Long-term trends in the burden of multiple myeloma in China: a Joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort analysis based on GBD 2021 by Yanyu Zhang, Quanxin Su, Jiawen Yu, Xiuli Sun

“…The apc model indicated the net drift was found to be 3.70% (95%CI: 3.32, 4.08%) per year for incidence and 2.57% (95%CI: 2.24, 2.89%) per year for mortality. …”
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Effect of Enriched Feed by Immunostimulant on Immune Response and Growth of Humpback Grouper, Cromileptes altivelis by M. Agus Suprayudi, L. Indriastuti, Mia Setiawati

“…Humpback grouper in average weight of 24.6 ± 0.05 g were reared in a density of 10 fish per aquarium for 34 days.  Diet was supplemented with 4 g yeast per kg diet (diet A), 0.1 g vitamin C per kg diet (diet B), 2.5 g β-glucan (diet C), chromium-yeast 0,015 g/kg diet (diet D) and no supplementation (diet E) as control. …”
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General practitioner use of D-dimer in suspected venous thromboembolism: historical cohort study in one geographical region in the Netherlands by Angel M R Schols, Eline Meijs, Geert-Jan Dinant, Henri E J H Stoffers, Mariëlle M E Krekels, Jochen W L Cals

“…Additionally, we explored the use of an age-adjusted D-dimer cut-off.Results The annual VTE incidence was 0.9 per 1000 inhabitants. GPs annually ordered 5.1 D-dimer tests per 1000 inhabitants. …”
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Economic impact of potentially inappropriate prescribing and related adverse events in older people: a cost-utility analysis using Markov models by Kathleen Bennett, Frank Moriarty, Tom Fahey, Caitriona Cahir

“…For interventions to reduce PIP, at a willingness-to-pay of €45 000 per QALY, targeting NSAIDs would be cost-effective up to the highest intervention cost per person of €1971. …”
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Provider Adherence to the 2020 US Multi-Society Task Force Guidelines for Surveillance After Colonoscopy With Polypectomy by Benjamin E. Cassell, Katherine Scholand, Wyatt Tarter, Camille J. Hochheimer, Colleen Long, Gregory L. Austin

“…Among procedures with 1 to 2 TAs, age (OR 0.86 per 5-year increase; 95% CI: 0.75–0.99), increasing size (OR 0.86 per mm; 95% CI: 0.75–0.99) and polyp number (OR 0.54; 95% CI: 0.33–0.90) were associated with nonadherence. …”
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Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed by X. Tan, B. Liu, X. Tan, X. Tan, Z. Huang, J. Fu

“…The degree of BW and GW scarcity in DRB is low, and the per capita water resources in more than 80 % of DRB exceed 1700 m<span class="inline-formula">³</span> per capita per year. …”
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Effect on Movement and Balance Function with Robot Training for Stroke Patients in Lower Limb Rehabilitation by Zhiyuan WU, Kunbin LI, Shuwei LOU, Xianli YAO, Pingge SUN, Xiaoxing LI

“…The control group received routine rehabilitation training,30 min per day, once a day, five days a week, continuous treatment for eight weeks. …”
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