Effects on maternal and pregnancy outcomes of first-trimester malaria infection among nulliparous women from Kenya, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. by Sequoia I Leuba, Daniel Westreich, Carl L Bose, Andrew F Olshan, Steve M Taylor, Antoinette Tshefu, Adrien Lokangaka, Waldemar A Carlo, Elwyn Chomba, Musaku Mwenechanya, Edward A Liechty, Sherri L Bucher, Osayame A Ekhaguere, Fabian Esamai, Paul Nyongesa, Saleem Jessani, Sarah Saleem, Robert L Goldenberg, Janet L Moore, Tracy L Nolen, Jennifer Hemingway-Foday, Elizabeth M McClure, Marion Koso-Thomas, Richard J Derman, Matthew Hoffman, Steven R Meshnick, Melissa Bauserman

“…<h4>Results</h4>Compared to uninfected women, we observed the adjusted site-specific prevalence differences (PDs) among women with first-trimester malaria of the following pregnancy outcomes: preterm birth among Congolese (aPD = 0.06 [99% CI: -0.04, 0.16]), Kenyan (0.03 [-0.04, 0.09]), and Zambian (0.00 [-0.10, 0.20]) women; low birth weight among Congolese (0.07 [-0.03, 0.16]), Kenyan (0.01 [-0.04, 0.06]) and Zambian (-0.04 [-0.13, 0.16]) women; spontaneous abortion among Congolese (0.00 [-0.05, 0.04]), Kenyan (0.00 [-0.04, 0.04]), and Zambian (0.02 [-0.07, 0.24]) women, and anemia later in pregnancy among Congolese (0.04 [-0.09, 0.16]), Kenyan (0.05 [-0.06, 0.17]), and Zambian (0.07 [-0.12, 0.36]) women. The pooled PD for anemia later in pregnancy (26-30 weeks) was 0.08 [99% CI: 0.00, 0.16].…”
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Academician V. H. Serheiev – Control System Designer, Founder of the Scientific and Design School, Honored Citizen of Kharkiv (on His 110th Birthday) by Elena Tverytnykova, Olena Voitiuk

“…The district was not far from the enterprise and had a well-developed infrastructure, such as kindergartens, schools, shops, a swimming pool and a complex of residential buildings. …”
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Impact of Financial Toxicity on the Health‐Related Quality of Life and Financial Well‐Being of Cancer Patients and Survivors: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom and United S... by Tran Thu Ngan, Emily Tonorezos, Michael Donnelly, Ciaran O'Neill

“…Among those with moderate/severe FT, US participants had significantly higher health utilities compared to their peers in the UK (Mann Whitney test, p = 0.0369). In a pooled analysis of UK and US and after controlling for sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, mild and moderate/severe FT was negatively associated with health utilities (β coff = −0.13, 95% CI: −0.18, −0.08 and β coff = −0.28, 95% CI: −0.34, −0.21, respectively). …”
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<i>In silico</i> search for and analysis of R gene variation in primitive cultivated potato species by A. A. Gurina, M. S. Gancheva, N. V. Alpatieva, E. V. Rogozina

“…The use of primitive cultivated potato species (PCPS) as representatives of the primary gene pool can also be promising in this respect. PCPS are the closest to the early domesticated forms of potato; therefore, their investigation could help understand the evolution of R genes. …”
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Enhancing epigenetic aging clocks in cetaceans: accurate age estimations in small endangered delphinids, killer whales, pilot whales, belugas, humpbacks, and bowhead whales by Joseph A. Zoller, Ake T. Lu, Amin Haghani, Steve Horvath, Todd Robeck

“…In addition, we developed species-specific clocks for enhanced precision, resulting in four blood-specific clocks and eight skin-specific clocks for individual species; all improving upon existing accuracy estimates for previously published species-specific clocks. By pooling methylation data from various studies, we increased our sample size, significantly enhancing the statistical power for building accurate clocks. …”
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Body Mass Index at Pediatric Leukemia Diagnosis and the Risks of Relapse and Mortality: Findings from a Single Institution and Meta-analysis by Ashleigh M. Saenz, Stacie Stapleton, Raquel G. Hernandez, Greg A. Hale, Neil A. Goldenberg, Skai Schwartz, Ernest K. Amankwah

“…We observed a statistically significant association between mortality and obesity status in unadjusted models (imputed: HR = 2.54, 95% CI = 1.15–5.60, p=0.021; complete set: HR = 2.72, 95% CI = 1.26–5.91, p=0.011) that was not statistically significant in both age- and sex-adjusted and multivariable adjusted analyses. The pooled estimate of our finding and previous studies showed an association between overweight/obese and increased risk of mortality for ALL (HR = 1.39, 95% CI = 1.16–1.46) and AML (HR = 1.64, 95% CI = 1.32–2.04). …”
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Clinical Predictors of Aspirin Resistance in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Fan Zhang, Hongyan Zheng

“…We applied either a fixed- or random effects model based on the heterogeneity observed among the included studies. The pooled results were visually displayed using forest plots. …”
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Entomological assessment of hessian fabric transfluthrin vapour emanators as a means to protect against outdoor-biting Aedes after providing them to households for routine use in P... by Chicoye Supreme, Obrillant Damus, Joseph Frederick, Jean-Frantz Lemoine, Christian Raccurt, Justin McBeath, Nosrat Mirzai, Sheila B Ogoma, Vincent Corbel, Daniel Impoinvil, Gerry F Killeen, Cyrille Czeher

“…<h4>Results</h4>Across all three entomological field assessments, little evidence of protection against wild Ae. aegypti was observed, regardless of weather conditions, transfluthrin formulation or emanator placement: A generalized linear mixed model fitted to the pooled data from all three assessment rounds (921 females caught over 5129 hours) estimated a relative landing rate [95% Confidence interval] of 0.87 [0.73, 1.04] for users of treated versus untreated emanators (P = 0.1241). …”
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Relevance of tumor boards for the inclusion of patients in oncological clinical trials by Hendrik Dapper, Maurice Dantes, Peter Herschbach, Hana Algül, Volker Heinemann

“…Finally, the data of the respective university hospitals were anonymized, pooled and analyzed. Results A total of 1797 case discussions were reviewed. …”
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Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials: Efficacy and Safety of Colchicine for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease by Elie Akl, Nazanin Sahami, Christopher Labos, Jacques Genest, Ali Zgheib, Nicolo Piazza, Sanjit Jolly

“…Study-level data on efficacy and safety outcomes were pooled using the Peto method. The primary outcome was the composite of cardiovascular (CV) death, myocardial infarction (MI), or stroke. …”
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Pain Perception of the First Eye versus the Second Eye during Phacoemulsification under Local Anesthesia for Patients Going through Cataract Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-A... by Chuying Shi, Jinqiu Yuan, Benny Zee

“…Overall, eight studies were included in the meta-analysis. The analysis of pooled data showed that the pain scores of the first eye shortly after surgery under local anesthesia were significantly lower as compared to the second eye (WMD: 0.69; 95% CI: 0.40, 0.98; P<0.00001). …”
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Comparison of Deep-Learning-Based Segmentation Models: Using Top View Person Images by Imran Ahmed, Misbah Ahmad, Fakhri Alam Khan, Muhammad Asif

“…The network consists of a set of max-pooling and convolution layers to identify pixel-wise class labels and prediction of the mask. …”
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Effect of short message service reminders in improving optimal antenatal care, skilled birth attendance and postnatal care in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review a... by Tesfahun Hailemariam, Asmamaw Atnafu, Lemma Derseh Gezie, Binyam Tilahun

“…A measure of the random-effects model was used to estimate the pooled effect size expressed as Relative Risk (RR) with a 95%CI. …”
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer patients with autoimmune disease: Safety and efficacy by Jiayuan Le, Yuming Sun, Guangtong Deng, Yating Dian, Yanli Xie, Furong Zeng

“…The main summary measures used were pooled rate and risk ratio (RR) with 95% confidential interval (CI), which were analyzed using R statistic software. …”
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The effect of cheese intake on osteoarthritis: a Mendelian randomization study by Song Wen, Zehan Huang, Bin Zhang, Yuqing Huang

“…Additionally, the fixed-effects model also demonstrated a causal inverse association between cheese intake and OA, with a pooled meta-analysis OR of 0.95 (95% CI = 0.94–0.97, p < 0.0001). …”
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Prevalence of childhood mental disorders in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis to inform policymaking by Charlotte Waddell, Christine Schwartz, Jenny Lou Barican, Donna Yung, Yufei Zheng, Katholiki Georgiades

“…We conducted meta-analyses using a random effects logistic model (using R metafor package).Findings Fourteen studies in 11 countries met inclusion criteria, published from 2003 to 2020 with a pooled sample of 61 545 children aged 4–18 years, including eight reporting service use. …”
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Gender characteristics, social determinants, and seasonal patterns of malaria incidence, relapse, and mortality in Sistan and Baluchistan province and other province of Iran: A sys... by Maryam Khazaee-Pool, Mahmood Moosazadeh, Mehran Asadi-Aliabadi, Fereshteh Yazdani, Koen Ponnet

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Improved Asphalt Pavement Crack Detection Model Based on Shuffle Attention and Feature Fusion by Tursun Mamat, Abdukeram Dolkun, Runchang He, Yonghui Zhang, Zulipapar Nigat, Hanchen Du

“…Simultaneously, the Shuffle Attention mechanism and the transplanted spatial pyramid pooling-fast (SPP-F) reuse structure are introduced in the feature extraction network to enhance the model’s attention to detection targets. …”
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Types de dominance agressive dans une colonie constituée exclusivement de males chimpanzés : intensité, fréquence, durée et direction de l'agression by Nerea Amezcua Valmala, Javier de Echegaray y Díaz de Otazu, Belén Fernández Castilla, Catarina Casanova, Fernando Colmenares

“…Second, we investigated whether the rank order of individuals varied depending on whether we assessed occurrence of aggression or duration of aggressive episodes for each one of the three levels and for the pooled category. Next, we correlated the two rank orders thus obtained. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with modern contraceptive use among women of reproductive age in 20 African countries: a large population-based study by Robert Akparibo, Paschal Awingura Apanga, Maxwell Tii Kumbeni, Emmanuel Awine Ayamga, Mark B Ulanja

“…We used random effects meta-analysis to pool adjusted estimates across the 20 countries.Results The overall prevalence of modern CP use was 26% and ranged from 6% in Guinea to 62% in Zimbabwe. …”
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