A Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) based framework and implementation tool for dietitians at South African central and tertiary public hospitals by Vertharani Nolene Naicker, Jane W. Muchiri, Keshan Naidoo, Modiehi Heather Legodi

“…National data on permanently employed dietitians in public hospitals were used to determine the facility type. Available working time (AWT) was determined using WISN calculations and SA labour regulations. …”
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Dynamic Task Planning for Multi-Arm Harvesting Robots Under Multiple Constraints Using Deep Reinforcement Learning by Feng Xie, Zhengwei Guo, Tao Li, Qingchun Feng, Chunjiang Zhao

“…Finally, we conduct extensive numerical simulations in static environments; when the harvesting targets are set to 25 and 50, the execution time is reduced by 10.7% and 3.1%, respectively, compared to traditional methods. …”
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Recycling and Reusing Polyethylene Waste as Antistatic and Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Materials by Mostafizur Rahaman, Ibrahim Abdullah Al Ghufais, Govindasami Periyasami, Ali Aldalbahi

“…To achieve this, a conductive carbon black has been mixed with the PE waste at different weight percent values by ultrasonication via a solution mixing process. Mixing time for sonication was determined by ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) spectra. …”
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Masquelet’s induced membrane technique in the upper limb: a systematic review of the current outcomes by Davide Pederiva, Lapo De Luca, Cesare Faldini, Luigi Branca Vergano

“…PMMA was used as a spacer in all cases, with antibiotics added in 77% of them. The average time interval between the first and second phases of the procedure was 9.5 weeks, and bone union took an average of 5.5 months. …”
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Metformin Regulating miR-34a Pathway to Inhibit Egr1 in Rat Mesangial Cells Cultured with High Glucose by Can Wu, Ningning Qin, Huiwen Ren, Min Yang, Shuang Liu, Qiuyue Wang

“…And MCs were transfected with small interfering RNA for silencing Egr1 and SIRT1. Quantitative real-time PCR was used to assay the transcription levels of Egr1 mRNA and miR-34a. …”
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Impact of invasive and noninvasive pneumococcal diseases on adult populations: risk factors and vaccination status by Hasip Kahraman, Pınar Yıldız, Şenay Yılmaz, Gül Durmaz, Muzaffer Bilgin, Derya Çağlayan

“…Our findings highlight the critical role of comorbidities and intensive care unit admissions in affecting patient outcomes, stressing the importance of timely interventions and enhanced health strategies to improve vaccination rates and overall outcomes in high-risk populations.…”
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Using the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System for Doxycycline-inducible Gene Expression in RAW264.7 Macrophage Cells to Study Phagocytosis by Parsa Kamali, Gregory Fairn

“…Alternative transient approaches, such as electroporation or transduction with lentiviral vectors, typically cause cell death (electroporation) or can be time-consuming to generate numerous lentivirus when using different genes of interest. …”
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An Empirical Model of the Occurrence Rate of Low Latitude Post‐Sunset Plasma Irregularities Derived From CHAMP and Swarm Magnetic Observations by C. Stolle, T. A. Siddiqui, L. Schreiter, S. K. Das, I. Rusch, M. Rother, E. Doornbos

“…The model predicts the occurrence probability of EPDs for a given longitude, day of year, local time and solar activity, for the altitude range of about 350–510 km, and low geographic latitudes of ±45°. …”
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Vibration of Shaft System in the Mixed-Flow Pump Induced by the Rotor-Stator Interaction under Partial Load Conditions by Wei Li, Leilei Ji, Weidong Shi, Yulu Wang, Ling Zhou, Xiaoping Jiang

“…The distribution of the relative velocity and the vorticity in the rotor-stator interaction region at a certain position of the mixed-flow pump impeller was captured; the axis orbit diagram and the time-domain diagram of shaft system were acquired as well. …”
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Contributing factors to postoperative surgical site infections in pituitary neuroendocrine tumors undergoing endonasal transsphenoidal resection by Lei Wang, Shanxian Liu, Jie Zheng, Rui Li, Zhenyi Xing

“…Univariate analysis showed no significant association of intracranial infections with factors like smoking history, previous craniotomy, operation time, hypertension, preoperative sphenoid sinusitis, BMI, and age. …”
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Synthesis‐Style Auto‐Correlation‐Based Transformer: A Learner on Ionospheric TEC Series Forecasting by Yuhuan Yuan, Guozhen Xia, Xinmiao Zhang, Chen Zhou

“…We proposed a two‐step framework: (a) a time series generative model to produce realistic synthetic TEC data for training, and (b) an auto‐correlation‐based transformer model designed to capture long‐range dependencies in the TEC sequence. …”
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Annual consumption rate of fish types in Tanzania's Singida municipality during 2022 by Amin R. Kazoka, Jilisa Mwalilino, Paul Mtoni

“…This was due to the long-time of unsatisfactory pupil performance in joining secondary schools which may be linked to a lack of Long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. …”
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Studies on Hydration Swelling and Bound Water Type of Sodium- and Polymer-Modified Calcium Bentonite by Yong Wan, Dongdong Guo, Xinminnan Hui, Lei Liu, Yuan Yao

“…Furthermore, a linear relationship exists between the FSI of the same type of bentonite and the T2 relaxation time. Research results can provide data and theoretical basis for quantitative analysis and mechanism of the hydration swelling of bentonite.…”
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Spatial suitability evaluation and layout optimization of emergency shelter: A case study in Tianhe District of Guangzhou City by Bo Tang, Zongyuan Li, Yinzhong Chen

“…Consequently, the number of people in need of evacuation decreased from 387,900 to 80,100, so the reasonable allocation of evacuation space has been significantly improved. At the same time, the optimised scheme increases the density of emergency shelters and reduces the overlap of services to some extent. …”
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Effectiveness of home-based exercise for functional rehabilitation in older adults after hip fracture surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials... by Lijun Zhao, Xiaona Zhao, Bin Dong, Xiaobin Li

“…Compared with control interventions, home-based exercise significantly improved Berg balance scale (BBS, SMD = 0.28, 95%CI: 0.03 to 0.53, P = 0.030), timed-up-and-go test (TUG, SMD = -0.28, 95%CI: -0.50 to -0.07, P = 0.009), Short Fort-36 physical component score (SF-36 PCS, SMD = 0.49, 95%CI: 0.28 to 0.70, P<0.001), and knee extensor strength (SMD = 0.23, 95%CI: 0.09 to 0.37, P = 0.001). …”
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Ranolazine Induced Bradycardia, Renal Failure, and Hyperkalemia: A BRASH Syndrome Variant by Syed Arsalan Akhter Zaidi, Danial Shaikh, Muhammad Saad, Timothy J. Vittorio

“…It was objectively shown to improve exercise capacity and to lengthen the time to symptom onset in patients with coronary artery disease. …”
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Selective response surface methodology for Anti Reflective Coated Nano-film filter thickness optimization in hybrid PVT system by Kundan Kumar Sharma, Prakash Chandra

“…Several nano-film filters are used on the surface of the existing hybrid PVT system to capture solar energy, but they degrade over time, and temperature changes reduce the spectrum radiation absorption capabilities and path length of light rays inside the filter. …”
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Design and evaluation of clock-gating-based approximate multiplier for error-tolerant applications by Venkata Sudhakar Chowdam, Suresh Babu Potladurty, Prasad Reddy karipireddy

“…The multipliers are essential components in real-time applications. Although approximation arithmetic affects the output accuracy in multipliers, it offers a realistic avenue for constructing power-, area--, and speed-efficient digital circuits. …”
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Ultrasound diagnostics of traumatic pancreatitis at combined trauma by O. A. Alekseyechkina, E. Ya. Dubrov, D. A. Kosolapov, V. M. Abuchina

“…Dynamic US-study allows to reveal in due time signs of acute pancreatitis as well as complications. …”
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A systematic scoping review to identify the design and assess the performance of devices for antenatal continuous fetal monitoring. by Kajal K Tamber, Dexter J L Hayes, Stephen J Carey, Jayawan H B Wijekoon, Alexander E P Heazell

“…The device performance of fetal electrocardiography was reduced between 28 to 36 weeks' gestation and during high levels of maternal movement, and increased during night-time rest. Other factors, including maternal body mass index, fetal position, recording location, uterine activity, amniotic fluid index, number of fetuses and smoking status, as well as factors which affected alternative technologies had equivocal effects and require further investigation.…”
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