Failure Mode and Effect Analysis for a Programmable Logic Controller-Based Control Unit for a Miniature Neutron Source Reactor Pneumatic Transfer System by H. K. Obeng, E. O. Amponsah-Abu, B. J. B. Nayrko, R. Edziah, P. D. Gasu, A.G. Ampong

“…To address these situations, a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) has been used to design and construct a control unit to facilitate a CNAA application for GHARR-1. …”
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La presencia de las Unidades Educativas del Milenio (UEM- Ecuador) en Facebook / The presence on facebook of the “Millennium Educational Units” (UEM-Ecuador) by Gabriel Cevallos, Edvaldo Couto, Verónica Ficoseco

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Evaluating attachment-based family therapy in residential treatment in the United States: does adolescents’ increased attachment security to caregivers lead to decreases in depressive symptoms? by Guy Diamond, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Jody Russon, Michael Roeske

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Frekuensi Hepatitis B dan Hepatitis C Positif pada Darah Donor di Unit Transfusi Darah Cabang Padang pada Tahun 2012 by Dewi Oktavia, Rismawati Yaswir, Nora Harminarti

“…Telah dilakukan penelitian deskriptif retrospektif terhadap frekuensi hepatitis B dan hepatitis C positif pada darah donor di Unit Transfusi Darah Cabang Padang tahun 2012. Jumlah donor yang tercatat di Unit Transfusi Darah Cabang Padang mulai dari Januari 2012 sampai Desember 2012 adalah 26.306 donor, terdiri dari 19.949 donor sukarela dan 6.357 donor pengganti. …”
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Adherence to Hemodialysis and Associated Factors among End Stage Renal Disease Patients at Selected Nephrology Units in Rwanda: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study by Marie Claire Mukakarangwa, Geldine Chironda, Busisiwe Bhengu, Godfrey Katende

“…The purpose of this study was to determine the level of adherence to hemodialysis and the associated factors among End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients in selected nephrology units in Rwanda. Methods. This was a descriptive cross-sectional design involving 41 participants. …”
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Delirium management and current practice among Intensive Care Units Doctors, Khartoum [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Mudawi Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, Sheema Hamid Seidna Hamid, Hana Eltayeb Salih Elamin, Ghada Omer Hamad Abd El-Raheem

“…The Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) and Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC) are the most commonly used methods for assessing delirium. …”
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Tobacco Use, Risk Perceptions, and Characteristics of Adults Who Used a Heated Tobacco Product (IQOS) in the United States: Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Hui G Cheng, Brendan Noggle, Andrea R Vansickel, Edward G Largo, Pierpaolo Magnani

“… BackgroundThe Tobacco Heating System (THS; commercialized as IQOS) is a smoke-free heated tobacco product introduced in the United States in 2019 and authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration as a modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) in 2020. …”
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Risk factors associated with mortality and pathogen characteristics of bloodstream infection-induced severe sepsis in the pediatric intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study by Jian Chen, Jian Chen, Haixin Huang, Ruichen Zhang, Yueqiang Fu, Chunmei Jing

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Mortality trends and disparities for coexisting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular disease: A retrospective analysis of deaths in the United States from 1999-2020. by Aman Goyal, Humza Saeed, Wania Sultan, Ajeet Singh, Abdullah, Muhammad Khubaib Arshad, Zubair Amin, Mah I Kan Changez, Gauranga Mahalwar, Rozi Khan, Wael AlJaroudi

“…This study analyzes mortality trends and disparities among individuals in the United States (US) affected by both CVD and COPD.<h4>Methods</h4>This study analyzed death certificates from the CDC WONDER database for individuals aged 25 and older who died between 1999 and 2020 with both CVD (ICD I00-I99) and COPD (ICD J41-J44). …”
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Efficiency Analysis of the 946–P-1–B Centrifugal Pump in PT Installation and Shipment Area. Pertamina Refinery Unit II Production Sungai Pakning by Ridwan Abdurrahman, Rizki Fitriadi Romadhani

“…The 946-P-1B pump is a pump used for crude feed pumps or can be said to transfer crude oil from the tank to the distillation unit. Based on analysis of the calculation data, it can be concluded that the efficiency of the 946-P-1 B pump has a range of between 47% and 55%. …”
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Assessment of the Logical Prescription of Albumin Drug According to Guideline and Patient Safety for Inpatients in Intensive Care Units of Iranian Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study by Naghme Dashti, Hesamoddin Hosseinjani, Saeid Eslami, Seyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Hasan Vakili Arki

“…The highest prescription rate was in the Intensive Care Unit of Heart Surgery (ICUOH), at 36.83%, and the lowest in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), at 0.63%. …”
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Part I—Real-World Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Associated Costs in Later Lines of Therapy in the United States by Ehab L. Atallah, Rodrigo Maegawa, Dominick Latremouille-Viau, Carmine Rossi, Annie Guérin, Eric Q. Wu, Pallavi Patwardhan

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Association between platelet count and 30-day in-hospital mortality among intensive care unit patients with sepsis: a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Jun Wang, Pan Zhou, Xin Li, Li Zhou, Zhe Deng

“…BackgroundThe relationship between platelet count and sepsis outcomes in intensive care units (ICUs) requires comprehensive investigation through large-scale multicenter studies.MethodsIn this multicenter retrospective cohort study, we analyzed 17,977 sepsis patients from 208 U.S. hospitals (2014–2015) using the eICU Collaborative Research Database v2.0. …”
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Post-marketing safety surveillance for the recombinant zoster vaccine (Shingrix), vaccine adverse event reporting system, United States, October 2017–April 2024 by Yamin Shu, Wenxin Cheng, Xucheng He, Liu Huang, Wei Chen, Qilin Zhang

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A Comparison of the Glasgow Coma Scale Score with Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Scale to Predict Patients’ Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes in Intensive Care Units by Rostam Jalali, Mansour Rezaei

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Returns to scale in decision-making units with integer-valued or mixed inputs and integer-valued or real outputs using radial models in data envelopment analysis by Zeinab Tavassoli, Mohsen Rostami-MalKhalifeh, Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, Tofigh allahVieanloo

“…Purpose: The current paper tries to determine the type of returns to scale in a decision-making unit under the condition that integer-valued inputs or outputs are present.Methodology: This paper introduces radial models for determining the value and type of Returns to Scale (RTS) in 4 scenarios, including single integer-valued input – single real output (scenario one), mixed inputs – exclusively real outputs (scenario two), exclusively integer-valued inputs – exclusively real outputs (scenario three), and exclusively integer-valued inputs – exclusively integer-valued outputs (scenario four); in each scenario, the values of the left RTS and right RTS are determined, and the RTS type is then determined on that basis. …”
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Use of testosterone replacement therapy in the rehabilitation of patients with intensive care unit-associated weakness and hospital-associated deconditioning: the Singapore General Hospital rehabilitation experience by Geoffrey Sithamparapillai Samuel, Du Soon Swee

“…Introduction: Rehabilitation medicine in a tertiary care hospital involves attending to many patients affected by intensive care unit (ICU)-associated weakness (ICU-AW) and hospital-associated deconditioning (HAD). …”
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Seeking Out High Risk Population: The Prevalence Characteristics and Outcome of Diabetic Patients of Arab Ethnicity Hospitalized in Internal Medical and Acute Coronary Units in Israel by William Nseir, Shehadeh Haj, Basma Beshara, Julnar Mograbi, Ohad Cohen

“…Retrospective analysis of the prevalence of diabetes and the outcome of diabetic in comparison to nondiabetic patients hospitalized in the internal medicine and intensive cardiac units in two major hospitals with one-year postdischarge data between 1.1.2009 and 31.12.2009. …”
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A Short Report on the Markov Property of DNA Sequences on 200-bp Genomic Units of ENCODE/Broad ChromHMM Annotations: A Computational Perspective by Hyun-Seok Park

“…The objective of this short report was to determine the impact of primary DNA sequence on the epigenomic landscape across 200-base pair genomic units by integrating nine publicly available ChromHMM Browser Extensible Data files of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project. …”
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Improvement in Quality Metrics Outcomes and Patient and Family Satisfaction in a Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit after Creation of a Dedicated Neurocritical Care Team by Yaw Sarpong, Premkumar Nattanmai, Ginger Schelp, Robert Bell, Keerthivaas Premkumar, Erin Stapleton, Ashley McCormick, Christopher R. Newey

“…Dedicated neurointensivists have been shown to improve outcome measurements in the neurosciences intensive care unit (NSICU). Quality outcome data in relation to patient and family satisfaction is lacking. …”
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