Montelukast Use and Patterns of Ambulatory Care among Asian versus Non-Asian Adult Patients with Asthma and/or Allergic Rhinitis in the United States by Joseph Vasey, Shalini Bagga, Huan Huang, Tongsheng Wang, David Thompson

“…Future research should explore the reasons for these differences and whether they can be replicated in non-US settings.…”
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Legal and Moral Aspects of Confidential Cooperation between Individuals and Law Enforcement Agencies by V. M. Davydiuk

“…The legislative regulation of using confidants in Ukraine, as well as the moral aspects of confidential cooperation between individuals and law enforcement agencies have been analyzed. Some reasons that contributed to the regulation of confidential cooperation at the legislative level have been revealed in the historical retrospective; the correlation of the terms of “assistance” and “cooperation” used in the operative and search legislation has been demonstrated. …”
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Adaptive Gaussian Incremental Expectation Stadium Parameter Estimation Algorithm for Sports Video Analysis by Lizhi Geng

“…To overcome the shortcomings of the traditional multiplicative fusion mechanism, this paper proposes an adaptive selection mechanism based on Euclidean distance, which aims to detect deteriorating models in time during the dynamic tracking process and adopt corresponding strategies to construct more reasonable likelihood functions. Based on the Bayesian citation framework, the adaptive selection mechanism is used to combine the sparse discriminative model and the sparse generative model. …”
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Examining the affordable connectivity program and telehealth use: a pilot survey of the affordable connectivity program, telehealth, video and audio visits in a racially diverse, l... by Omolola E. Adepoju, Patrick Dang, Carlos Fuentes, Winston Liaw

“…While this finding is concerning, it offers an opportunity to reflect on potential reasons for ACP adoption gaps, such as digital literacy, device availability, and potential misconceptions about telehealth services.…”
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Prevalence of Bacterial Urinary Tract Infections and Associated Factors among Patients Attending Hospitals in Bushenyi District, Uganda by Martin, Odoki, Adamu, Almustapha Aliero, Julius, Tibyangye, Josephat, Nyabayo Maniga, Eddie, Wampande, Charles, Drago Kato, Ezera, Agwu, Joel, Bazira

“…Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the major causes of morbidity and comorbidities in patients with underlying conditions, and it accounts for the majority of the reasons for hospital visit globally. Sound knowledge of factors associated with UTI may allow timely intervention that can easily bring the disease under control. …”
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Information Access and Promotion of Human Rights: A Case Study of High Court Kabale Municipality. by Akwasiibwe, Bonitah

“…The study results on the opportunities, best practices, and positive aspects inherent to free access to information and the promotion of human rights were; publishing of periodic reports that provide information, advocacy for free access to information, ensuring that legislation is consistent, provision of timely access to the right kind of legal information and information needs to be reasonable and easily understood by the general public. …”
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Theoretical Review of Pay Restructuring in Uganda's Public Service Health Sector. by Olum, Samson, Adyanga, Francis Akena, Ocan, Johnson

“…Like other reforming countries, Uganda also implemented salary structure reform for various reasons, but the most important ones were to pay civil servants a living wage, make remuneration transparent, align the salary structure with the single-spine structure, and consequently increase the number of employees' motivation and efficiency in service delivery. …”
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Management and Utilisation of Land Resources to Attain Economic Sustainability among Christians in West Ankole Diocese, Uganda. by Ahereza, Madelean, Ocan, Johnson, Adyanga, Francis Akena

“…It was anticipated that the primary conclusions of the results would clarify some shortcomings, highlighting gaps in the methods used for the utilization of terrestrial resources, which resulted in development imbalances, high rates of malnutrition, and food shortages while other resources remained idle. The reasons for this were further explored, and potential mitigation strategies were put forth. …”
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Factors Influencing Recentralization of Local Government Functions in Uganda. by Biryomumeisho, Stephen, Ocan, Johnson, Adyanga, Francis Akena

“…The paper recommended that the Parliament should harmonize with the central government on the issue of returning Local revenue collection and management at the local level; give reasonable powers to the local Governments to control top technical leadership; increase funding to Central Government staff to monitor Local Government programs and build the capacity of local leaders to improve service delivery.…”
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Factors associated with delays in seeking tuberculosis treatment among patients at Muhima district hospital, Rwanda by Mercy Nwankwo, Chinenye, Yasmin Omar, Umubyeyi

“…Background: Few studies exist in Rwanda to establish the reasons behind delays in seeking treatment in the health institutions which further affected timely diagnosis and case detection. …”
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Investigation and analysis of the demand for smart home automation in patients with ischemic stroke and functional impairment (脑梗死伴功能障碍患者对智慧居家模块需求的调查分析)... by FEI Cailian (费才莲), XIE Juan (谢娟), ZHANG Jingyi (张静怡), WANG Yu (王瑜), GAO Liandi (高连娣)

“…Objective To establish a comprehensive, scientific, and reasonable smart home automation system for patients with ischemic stroke and functional impairment by conducting a questionnaire survey on the requirements of a smart home automation system. …”
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Public and patient involvement (PPI) in the design, execution and dissemination of a trial: the BISTRO trial by David Coyle, Paula Ormandy, Nancy Fernandes da Silva, Simon Davies

“…Given the complexity of the intervention, dropout was reasonably low and did not compromise trial findings, but reasons were not always clear. …”
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A Systemic Approach to Inceptive Constructions in Lithuanian by Rolandas Mikulskas

“…From the emergent grammar (Hopper 2011, 26–29) perspective, adopted in the article, all such “semi-grammaticalized” cases in the samples can reasonably be seen as instantiations of the category of inceptive constructions along with its more grammaticalized instances.  …”
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Understanding Nigeria’s antibiotic resistance crisis among neonates and its future implications by Victor Oluwatomiwa Ajekiigbe, Ikponmwosa Jude Ogieuhi, Temiloluwa Adebayo Odeniyi, Praise Oluwatobi Ogunleke, Josiah Temitope Olatunde, Adedoyin Veronica Babalola, Akintunde Abisoye Omoleke, Tolulope Felix Omitade, Damilare Emmanuel Olakanmi, Adewunmi Akingbola, Chidera Stanley Anthony

“…Studies show a significant rise in multi-drug-resistant infections, with almost half of Escherichia coli and 86% of Staphylococcus aureus strains among newborns resistant to conventionally used antibiotics like penicillin. Some reasons for the continuous trend include but are not limited to unregulated antibiotic purchase and use, inadequate surveillance systems, and cultural determinants and socioeconomic issues. …”
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Extracting Skeleton of the Global Terrorism Network Based on m-Modified Topology Potential by Shuliang Wang, Kanokwan Malang, Hanning Yuan, Aniwat Phaphuangwittayakul, Yuanyuan Lv, Matthew David Lowdermilk, Jing Geng

“…In the spatial perspective, the TPKS-skeleton network preserves reasonably all kinds of spatial information. Our study paves the way to extract the optimal skeleton of the global terrorism network, which might be beneficial for counterterrorism and network analysis in wider areas.…”
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Study on the Prosthesis Structural Design and Vibration Characteristics Based on the Conduction Effect of Human Middle Ear by Wu Ren, Huijuan Yan, Yi Yu, Jinghong Ren, Jinlong Chang, Yidong Wang, Yibo Han

“…The function realization of middle ear prosthesis depends on the vibration response of the prosthesis from the tympanic membrane to the stapes plate on the human auditory perception frequency, which is affected by the way the prosthesis combined with the tympanic membrane, the material, and the geometric shape. In this study, reasonable prosthetic structures had been designed for different types of ossicular chain injuries, and the frequency response characteristics were analyzed by the finite element method then. …”
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Classification of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder with comorbid traits and deep learning algorithms by Xiangning Chen, Yimei Lu, Joan Manuel Cue, Mira V. Han, Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar, Daniel R. Weinberger, Shizhong Han, Zhongming Zhao, Jingchun Chen

“…The finding that PRSs from comorbid traits alone can classify and differentiate SCZ, BIP and MDD reasonably well implies that a majority of the risk variants composing target PRSs are shared with comorbid traits. …”
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Dynamic control of a 10 MW solar-autothermal hybrid biomass gasifier for round-the-clock processing with stable syngas production by Axel Curcio, Sylvain Rodat, Valéry Vuillerme, Stéphane Abanades

“…The feasibility of dynamic control of a solar-autothermal biomass gasifier was successfully demonstrated for the determination of annual process performance with reasonable computational costs, paving the way to stable and controllable solar gasification process operation.…”
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Systemic Inflammatory Responses and Lung Injury following Hip Fracture Surgery Increases Susceptibility to Infection in Aged Rats by Hao Zhang, Tiansheng Sun, Zhi Liu, Jianzheng Zhang, Xiaowei Wang, Jia Liu

“…However, the underlying reasons are not fully understood. The present study investigates the systemic inflammatory response and pulmonary conditions following hip fracture surgery as a means of identifying risk factors for lung infections using an aged rodent model. …”
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Technical Report on the New Ultrasound Lateral Mid-Shaft Approach to the Sciatic Nerve: A Never-Ending Story by Giuseppe Sepolvere, Mario Tedesco, Mario Cibelli, Dario Cirillo, Angelo Sparaco, Giuseppe Gagliardi, Giuseppina Costagliola, Loredana Cristiano, Valeria Rita Scialdone, Maria Rosaria Pasquariello, Fabrizio Di Zazzo, Luigi Merola, Mirco Della Valle, Daniela Arminio, Leonardo Maria Bottazzo, Marco Folliero, Giorgio Ranieri, Domenico Pietro Santonastaso, Antonio Coviello

“…However, for several reasons, performing these approaches may be challenging or disadvantageous in specific categories of patients, particularly in obese patients. …”
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