QALYs: The Math Doesn’t Work by Tia G. Sawhney, Angela Dobes, Sirimon O'Charoen

“…The assessments are used in the development of recommendations for pricing, formulary placement decisions, and health policy decisions. A new bill, H.R. 485, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023, was approved by the US House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee that will, if passed, end the practice of using QALYs in all federal programs.^1,2^ Proponents of the ban say that QALYs undervalue the positive effects of therapeutics on people with disabilities.^3^ We share their concerns. …”
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Innovation Efficiency and the Spatial Correlation Network Characteristics of Intelligent-Manufacturing Enterprises by Ningning Fu

“…This paper took as samples the number of granted patents and R&D investments of IM enterprises listed from 2015 to 2020. …”
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Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases: Old and New Approaches by Momar Ndao

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The Existence of Weak D-Pullback Exponential Attractor for Nonautonomous Dynamical System by Yongjun Li, Xiaona Wei, Yanhong Zhang

“…First, for a process U(t,τ)∣t≥τ, we introduce a new concept, called the weak D-pullback exponential attractor, which is a family of sets M(t)∣t≤T, for any T∈R, satisfying the following: (i) M(t) is compact, (ii) M(t) is positively invariant, that is, U(t,τ)M(τ)⊂M(t), and (iii) there exist k,l>0 such that dist(U(t,τ)B(τ),M(t))≤ke-(t-τ); that is, M(t) pullback exponential attracts B(τ). …”
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Norm inflation for the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation by Wang, Yuzhao, Zine, Younes

“…This ill-posedness result is sharp since DNLS is known to be globally well-posed in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ [16]. The main novelty of our approach is to control the derivative loss from the cubic nonlinearity by the quintic nonlinearity with carefully chosen initial data.…”
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Dirichlet Type Problem for 2D Quaternionic Time-Harmonic Maxwell System in Fractal Domains by Yudier Peña Pérez, Ricardo Abreu Blaya, Paul Bosch, Juan Bory Reyes

“…We investigate an electromagnetic Dirichlet type problem for the 2D quaternionic time-harmonic Maxwell system over a great generality of fractal closed type curves, which bound Jordan domains in R2. The study deals with a novel approach of h-summability condition for the curves, which would be extremely irregular and deserve to be considered fractals. …”
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STUDY OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE PATTERN OF CLINICAL ISOLATES

“…It was found that 75% of the Gram negative and 58% Gram positive clinical isolates have plasmid and probably the higher resistance pattern was due to presence of R-plasmid. …”
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Citrus BMP Implementation in Florida's Gulf Citrus Production Area: Water, Sediment, and Aquatic Weeds by Sanjay Shukla, Robert E. Rouse, S. S. Shukla, Edward A. Hanlon, Kenneth Portier, Thomas A. Obreza

“… Circular 1497, a 12-page publication by S. Shukla, R. E. Rouse, S. S. Shukla, E. A. Hanlon, K. Portier, and T. …”
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Design, Fabrication, and Comparative Study of Electronically Tunable Active Filters by Umesh Kumar, P. Bhushan Mital

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An Investigation of Palladium Oxygen Reduction Catalysts for the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell by G. F. Álvarez, M. Mamlouk, K. Scott

“…Homemade Pd nanoparticles were prepared on Vulcan XC-72R using ethylene glycol as the reducing agent at pH 11. …”
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KORELASI ANTARA WAKTU PANEN DAN KADAR GULA BIJI JAGUNG MANIS (Zea mays saccharata Sturt) by Surtinah Surtinah

“…Hasil analisa menunjukkan bahwa kadar gula optimum = 14.82% diperoleh pada waktu panen pukul 17.00, berdasarkan persamaan regresi y= 8.527 + 0.727 x - 0.022 x2 , dan r2 = 0.782 …”
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Pesticide Safety Miniposter: Pest Control Vehicle Safety by Rebecca W. Baldwin, Stephanie K. Larrick Hill, Philip Koehler, P. A. Mitola, J. C. Medley

“…This poster will serve as a valuable training and refresher tool. Designed by R.W. Baldwin, S.K. Hill, Philip Koehler, P.A. Mitola, and J.C. …”
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Allergic response to nasal administration of dexpanthenol in a child. A case report and a review of the literature by Mikołaj Turski, Małgorzata Łukasiewicz, Piotr Sajdak, Seweryn Ziajor, Artur Bednarski, Justyna Tomasik, Marcel Stodolak

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Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Some Actions of POPs on Female Reproduction by Ewa L. Gregoraszczuk, Anna Ptak

“…Most of the representatives of POPs influence the activation of transcription factors, not only activation of aromatic hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), but also the steroid hormone receptors. This minireview will focus on a variety of PAH activities in oocyte, ovary, placenta, and mammary gland. …”
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Biosorption of Cr(VI) from AqueousSolution Using New Adsorbent: Equilibrium and Thermodynamic Study by Israa G. Zainal

“…The biosorption data was well fitted to Dubinin - Radushkevich (D-R), Freundlich and Tempkin adsorption isotherm models, although the correlation coefficient of Langmuir model was high but the calculated adsorption capacity did not agree with the experimental. …”
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Legal Regulation of Economic Processes at the Macro Level by M. N. Semyakin, A. V. Gubareva, S. P. Stepkin

“…The ideas put forward by R. Coase need to be reconsidered, considering new economic realities. …”
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An Illusion: “A Suzuki Type Coupled Fixed Point Theorem” by Hamed H. Alsulami, Erdal Karapınar, Marwan A. Kutbi, Antonio-Francisco Roldán-López-de-Hierro

“…Finally, we present a fixed point theorem for Suzuki type (α, r)-admissible contractions.…”
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Existence of Solutions for the p(x)-Laplacian Problem with the Critical Sobolev-Hardy Exponent by Yu Mei, Fu Yongqiang, Li Wang

“…Firstly, a principle of concentration compactness in W01,p(x)(Ω) space is established, then by applying it we obtain the existence of solutions for the following p(x)-Laplacian problem: -div (|∇u|p(x)-2∇u)+|u|p(x)-2u=(h(x)|u|ps*(x)-2u/|x|s(x))+f(x,u),  x∈Ω,  u=0,  x∈∂Ω, where Ω⊂ℝN is a bounded domain, 0∈Ω, 1<p-≤p(x)≤p+<N, and f(x,u) satisfies p(x)-growth conditions.…”
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Green’s relations for 2 × 2 matrices over linearly ordered abelian groups by Marilyn Kutti, Valdis Laan

“…In particular, we describe the R-, L- and H-classes of such semigroups and give a simple criterion for determining whether two matrices are D-related. …”
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