Comparison of the Effectiveness of Time Management Training, Motivational Strategies, and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies Training on Female Senior Elementary School Students’ Academic Self-Concept by Zahra Salmani, Ali Mehdad, Mohammad Ali Nadi Khorasgan

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Daily versus three-times-weekly azithromycin in Chinese patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis: protocol for a prospective, open-label and randomised controlled trial by Jing Li, Fei Chen, Wei Xiao, Feng Li, Lan Chen, Ting He, Yanxiong Mao, Aiping Zou, Bo Fan, Weihao Ni, Huimin You, Wenjiang Fu

“…Eligible patients with high-resolution CT defined NCFB will be randomly divided into three groups, which will receive either 250 mg daily azithromycin, or 500 mg three-times-weekly azithromycin or no treatment for 6 months. …”
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Substitution time of natural food by artificial diet on survival rate and growth of pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) postlarvae during rearing in low salinity media by Ferdinand Hukama Taqwa, Daniel Djokosetiyanto, Ridwan Affandi

“… This research was conducted to determine natural food substitution time by artificial diet   after salinity acclimatization from 20 ppt until 2 ppt, which can increase survival and growth of (Litopenaeus vannamei) postlarvae during rearing period. …”
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Clinical Evaluation of a Rapid Reciprocal-Flow PCR Assay and Real-Time PCR Assay with Quenching Probe for Detection of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Complex by Kosuke Kosai, Keisuke Matsumoto, Takahisa Ishikawa, Yasuhide Kawamoto, Norihiko Akamatsu, Kenji Ota, Fujiko Mitsumoto-Kaseida, Norihito Kaku, Hiroo Hasegawa, Koichi Izumikawa, Hiroshi Mukae, Katsunori Yanagihara

“…This study investigated the diagnostic efficiencies of two assays for the detection of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> complex: (1) the reciprocal-flow real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based GeneSoC assay and (2) the real-time PCR based GENECUBE MTB assay with quenching probe. …”
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Mixed methods evaluation of the Getting it Right First Time programme in elective orthopaedic surgery in England: an analysis from the National Joint Registry and Hospital Episode Statistics by Stephen Morris, James Mason, Rosalind Raine, Peter Martin, Naomi J Fulop, Elena Pizzo, Andrew Hutchings, Helen Barratt, Jean Ledger, Raj Mehta, Sarah Jasim, Fiona Aspinal, Rafael Gafoor

“…Objective To evaluate the impact of the ‘Getting it Right First Time’ (GIRFT) national improvement programme in orthopaedics, which started in 2012.Design Mixed-methods study comprising statistical analysis of linked national datasets (National Joint Registry; Hospital Episode Statistics; Patient-Reported Outcomes); economic analysis and qualitative case studies in six National Health Service (NHS) Trusts.Setting NHS elective orthopaedic surgery in England.Participants 736 088 patients who underwent primary hip or knee replacement at 126 NHS Trusts between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2018, plus 50 NHS staff.Intervention Improvement bundle including ‘deep dive’ visits by senior clinician to NHS Trusts, informed by bespoke set of routine performance data, to discuss how improvements could be made locally.Main outcome measures Number of procedures conducted by low volume surgeons; use of uncemented hip implants in patients &gt;65; arthroscopy in year prior to knee replacement; hospital length of stay; emergency readmissions within 30 days; revision surgery within 1 year; health-related quality of life and functional status.Results National trends demonstrated substantial improvements beginning prior to GIRFT. …”
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Timely short-term specialised palliative home care for older people with frailty and their family: a mixed-methods pilot randomised controlled trial and process evaluation by Lieve Van den Block, Kim de Nooijer, Lara Pivodic, Peter Pype, Nele Van Den Noortgate, Rose Miranda, Kim Eecloo, Stefanie De Buyser, Aurelie Joos, Katlijn Van Mulders

“…Objective The primary study aims were to evaluate the implementation, mechanisms and context of a timely short-term specialised palliative care intervention for older people with frailty (Frailty+ intervention) as well as to assess the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial to evaluate Frailty+. …”
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Peculiarities of determining the circle of recipients of one-time financial assistance in case of death of a serviceman, person liable for military service or reservist under martial law by О. V. Dzhafarova, S. O. Shatrava, О. V. Pohorilets

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Longer disease progression milestone-free time in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis treated versus not treated with intravenous edaravone: results from an administrative claims analysis by James D Berry, Melissa Hagan, Jeffrey Zhang, Ying Liu, Malgorzata Ciepielewska

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LiveDrive AI: A Pilot Study of a Machine Learning-Powered Diagnostic System for Real-Time, Non-Invasive Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment by Firas Al-Hindawi, Peter Serhan, Yonas E. Geda, Francis Tsow, Teresa Wu, Erica Forzani

“…This approach holds promise for integration into smartphone or car applications, enabling real-time, continuous cognitive health monitoring. The implications of this work suggest a transformative step towards scalable, real-world solutions for early AD diagnosis, with the potential to improve patient outcomes and disease management.…”
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Deep-Learning-Based Reconstruction of Single-Breath-Hold 3 mm HASTE Improves Abdominal Image Quality and Reduces Acquisition Time: A Quantitative Analysis by Felix Kubicka, Qinxuan Tan, Tom Meyer, Dominik Nickel, Elisabeth Weiland, Moritz Wagner, Stephan Rodrigo Marticorena Garcia

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: DL-HASTE is a robust abdominal MRI technique that improves image quality while at the same time reducing acquisition time compared with the routine clinical HASTE sequence. …”
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Sarah E. Duffy & Michele I. Feist. Time, Metaphor, and Language. A Cognitive Science Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 190 by Inesa Šeškauskienė

“…Duffy & Michele I. Feist. Time, Metaphor, and Language. A Cognitive Science Perspective. …”
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Evaluation of gestational nonpersistent pesticide exposure with newborn size and gestational length in rural Ghana using a novel time-varying extension of multiple informant models by Wylie BJ, Kaali S, Duttweiler L, Ae-Ngibise KA, Mujtaba M, Tawiah C, Gibson E, Calafat AM, Ospina M, Jack DJ, Agyei O, Lee AG, Roberts DJ, Boamah-Kaali EA, Factor-Litvak P, Modest AM, Hauser R, Coull BA, Asante KP

“…We developed a new model for assessing critical windows of vulnerability from irregularly-timed measurements of nonpersistent pesticides, leveraging strengths from multiple informant and distributed lag models. …”
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Plant Density and Time of White Lupine (Lupinus Albus L.) Relay Cropping with Tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.)... by Yirsaw Hunegnaw, Getachew Alemayehu, Dereje Ayalew, Mulatu Kassaye

“…Agronomic strategies such as choosing the optimal row ratio and planting legume crops at the right time are crucial for enhancing crop productivity. …”
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Space-time Characteristics of 16 PM2.5-bound Phthalates (PAEs) in Ambient Air from Shanghai: Profiles, Sources, Meteorological Effects, and Exposure Risks by Janvier Munyaneza, Md Faysal Hossain, Qilong Jia, Yusen Duan, Guangli Xiu

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High Spatial Resolution Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry for the Masses: A Novel Orthogonal ToF FIB-SIMS Instrument with In Situ AFM by James A. Whitby, Fredrik Östlund, Peter Horvath, Mihai Gabureac, Jessica L. Riesterer, Ivo Utke, Markus Hohl, Libor Sedláček, Jaroslav Jiruše, Vinzenz Friedli, Mikhael Bechelany, Johann Michler

“…We describe the design and performance of an orthogonal time-of-flight (TOF) secondary ion mass spectrometer that can be retrofitted to existing focused ion beam (FIB) instruments. …”
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Real-Time Pharmacovigilance: Transforming Population-Based Monitoring of Post-Approval Vaccine Safety Through Rapid Cycle Analysis (RCA)—A Review of the Published Literature by Sampada Gandhi, Michelle R. Iannacone, Andrea Leapley, Li Wang, Mwedusasa Mtenga, Muhammad Younus, Joanne Wu

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Relação entre dois testes funcionais: Teste de levantar-se e se sentar da cadeira de 30s e timed up and go by Carlos Eduardo Campos, Daniela Coelho Zazá, Mauro Heleno Chagas, Hans-Joachim Karl Menzel, Jaqueline Adriane Campos

“… Os testes funcionais de levantar-se e se sentar da cadeira de 30s (TLS30s) e o teste Timed Up and Go (TUG) são utilizados com objetivo de fornecer informações sobre o desempenho da força muscular de membros inferiores e a agilidade funcional em idosos, respectivamente. …”
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Author Correction: A simple model for Behavioral Time Scale Synaptic Plasticity (BTSP) provides content addressable memory with binary synapses and one-shot learning by Yujie Wu, Wolfgang Maass

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Short-Time Intermittent Preexposure of Living Human Donors to Hyperoxia Improves Renal Function in Early Posttransplant Period: A Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial by Kamran Montazeri, Mohammadali Vakily, Azim Honarmand, Parviz Kashefi, Mohammadreza Safavi, Shahram Taheri, Bahram Rasoulian

“…Sixty living kidney donor individuals were assigned to receive either 8–10 L/min oxygen (Group I) by a non-rebreather mask with reservoir bag intermittently for one hour at four times (20, 16, 12, and 1 hours before transplantation) or air (Group II). …”
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SARS-Cov-2 Incidence Monitoring and Statistical Estimation of the Basic and Time-Varying Reproduction Number at the Early Onset of the Pandemic in 45 Sub-Saharan African Countries. by Oduro, Michael Safo, Arhin‐Donkor, Seth, Asiedu, Louis, Kadengye, Damazo T., Iddi, Samuel

“…In this paper, we estimated the transmission potential of COVID-19 across 45 countries in sub-Saharan Africa using three approaches, namely, R0 based on (i) an exponential growth model (ii) maximum likelihood (ML) estimation, and (iii) a time-varying basic reproduction number at the early onset of the pandemic. …”
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