Hispanic Patients Undergoing Spinal Fusion for Neuromuscular Scoliosis Sustain Health Inequalities by Armando S. Martinez, David Momtaz, Travis Kotzur, Alexandra McLennan, Abdullah Ghali, Farhan Ahmad, Ebubechi Adindu, Alan C. Santiago-Rodriquez, Ali Seifi, Brian Smith

“…Hispanic patients undergoing spinal fusion with instrumentation had longer lengths of stay (LOS) (10.0 vs. 7.6 days, p<0.001), longer periods from admission to surgery (wait time) (1.6 vs. 1.0 days, p=0.046), and longer recovery times (8.5 vs. 6.7 days, p<0.001). …”
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Investigating the antioxidant effects of Cucurbita maxima Duchesne extract on motor coordination and memory impairment induced by scopolamine in rats by Najmeh Asgharzadeh, Fatemeh Azizi, Mohammadreza Hojjati, Leila Roohi, Zahra Rabiei, Mehrdad Shahrani-Korani

“…Results: The results from the MWM indicated that animals receiving SCOP along with CM extract at concentrations of 50, 100, and 200 mg/kg spent significantly more time on the target platform compared to the SCOP-only group. …”
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Prediction of the Risk of Laparoscopy-Assisted Gastrectomy by Comparing Visceral Fat Area and Body Mass Index by Yongke Liu, Dong Guo, Zhaojian Niu, Yuliang Wang, Guanghua Fu, Yanbing Zhou, Qingkai Xue, Xinliang Jin, Zhiqi Gong

“…The patients were divided into two groups according to BMI (≤25 kg/m2: BMI-L group; >25 kg/m2: BMI-H group) and VFA (≤100 cm2: VFA-L group; >100 cm2: VFA-H group). Clinical outcomes were compared between the BMI and VFA subgroups. …”
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Is ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation a reliable treatment option for unifocal T1aN0M0 papillary thyroid carcinoma in the isthmus: a retrospective comparative study based on... by Gongli Zhou, Dong Xu, Beibei Zhang, Ruiqing Su, Ke Xu, Xuefeng Zhang, Feng Li, Wei Zhao, Tingting Cai

“…The mean initial volume of the PTCI group vs the PTCL group decreased significantly from 65.4 ± 69.79 vs 86.38 ± 87.09 mm³ (range 10.92-427.58 vs 3.05-471.6 mm³) to 0 vs 0 mm³ at a mean follow-up time of 31.12 ± 12.5 months (range 12-60 months); their VRR increased significantly from −618.62 ± 655.61% vs −789.85 ± 1135.07% at 1 month to 100% vs 100% at 48 months. …”
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PERSonalised Incentives for Supporting Tobacco cessation (PERSIST) among healthcare employees: a randomised controlled trial protocol by Alex Burdorf, Jasper V Been, Frank J Van Lenthe, Nienke W Boderie, Johannes LW van Kippersluis, Diarmaid T Ó Ceallaigh, Márta K Radó

“…The intervention under study is the provision of personalised incentives on validated smoking cessation at several time points after the smoking cessation programme. …”
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Video Laryngoscopy for Endotracheal Intubation: A Consideration for Manual In-Line Stabilization Without Cervical Collar Versus Full Immobilization by Aramvanitch K, Leela-Amornsin S, Tienpratarn W, Nuanprom P, Aussavanodom S, Yuksen C, Boonsri S, Boonjarus N, Sanepim S

“…The success rate of VL intubation showed no difference between the full immobilization group and the MILS without a cervical hard collar group (28 [100%] vs 28 [100%]; 24 [85.71%] vs 27 [96.43%] on first attempt; 4 [14.29%] vs 1 [3.57%] on second attempt; p-value 0.352). …”
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Evaluation of ChatGPT-4 for the detection of surgical site infections from electronic health records after colorectal surgery: A pilot diagnostic accuracy study by Josep M. Badia, Daniel Casanova-Portoles, Estela Membrilla, Carles Rubiés, Miquel Pujol, Joan Sancho

“…Results: ChatGPT achieved a sensitivity of 100 %, correctly identifying all SSIs detected by manual methods. …”
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High‐Performance Flexible Gas Sensor Using Natural Rubber/MXene Composite for Selective and Stable VOC Detection by Na Kong, Ting Ren, Hui Yang, Mia Angela N. Judicpa, Ken Aldren S. Usman, Xu Zhao, Yanqiu Shao, Joselito M. Razal, Jinlong Tao, Jizhen Zhang

“…Among the six selected target volatile gases, the composite sensor exhibited a strong response value (82% toward 100 ppm NH3) with the fastest response/recovery time (12.3 s/15.5 s) to NH3. …”
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Cellular automata model based power network attack prediction technology by Lijuan YE, Yiting WANG, Licheng ZHU

“…The prediction range of the traditional power network attack range prediction technology was not wide enough, resulting in the poor effect of power network security improvement.For this reason, a power network attack prediction technology based on cellular automata model was proposed.A cellular automata model was built, regarding the cells in the cellular automata as power cells, a cell vitality value conversion rule was established and combined with the attack probability of attackers to predict the development and change of power cells.The power network attack was predicted according to the change trend of central power cells and neighboring power cells.The experimental result shows that, under the influence of time factors, the predicted attack node location of the proposed power network attack prediction technology based on cellular automata model is basically consistent with the original node, and the predicted load removal is always below 100 MW, the proposed technology is more effective.…”
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Efficient routing algorithm for opportunistic networks based on network coding by Zhi REN, Zhi-hu LIU, Yu-kun YAO, Qian-bin CHEN

“…To address the problem in opportunistic network that t existing epidemic-mechanism-based routing algorithms incur redundant communication overhead during the transmission of data packets,an efficient routing algorithm based on network coding,called NCBER (network-coding-based epidemic routing),was proposed.During the transmission of data packets,NCBER adopts an active XOR coding operation and multicast,and cancels the transmission of the Request control packets,so as to reduce the time used to transmit data packets,as well as the number of control packets.As a result,NCBER cuts down the network overhead and ortens the end-to-end delay of data packets.Theoretical analysis and extensive simulation results show that NCBER outperforms the classical epidemic routing algorithm and its improvement called MRRMR (message redundancy removal of multi-copy routing) in terms of the network overhead and the end-to-end delay,while still keeping the delivery rate at 100%.…”
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SELF REGULATED LEARNING MAHASISWA DITINJAU DARI MOTIF MEMILIH JURUSAN by Yulfiana Rohmatin, Eva Latipah, Yulfiana Rohmatin, Eva Latipah

“… This study aims to describe self-regulated learning of students at the same time examine the relationship between self-regulated learning with student motivation in choosing majors. …”
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Privacy protection mechanism of on-demand disclosure on blockchain by Shaozhuo LI, Na WANG, Xuehui DU

“…Privacy protection has become the key problem that blockchain technology must solve from theory to practice.There is a privacy protection requirement of on-demand disclosure in practical applications.Inspired by multicast secure communication mechanism,a privacy protection mechanism of on-demand disclosure on blockchain was proposed.This mechanism improves the RSA based anonymous multi receiver encryption scheme to realize the disclosure of the private data on the blockchain only to the permitted informed,the anonymity protection of the informed and the traceability of the privacy disclosure.The Quorum blockchain privacy protection mechanism is adopted to realize the safe and efficient distribution of the key between the owner of the private information and the informed.Finally,it is proved that PPM-ODB mechanism can guarantee the privacy of privacy data and its superiority in time and storage cost,and it is suggested that the number of informed people should be less than 100 to obtain a good user experience.…”
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Comparative analysis of database mapping frameworks available in NuGet Manager by Maciej Klimiuk, Paweł Karabowicz, Małgorzata Plechawska-Wójcik

“…The operations were repeated 1, 10, 100, 1000, and 10,000 times, respectively. The execution time of each query was measured using the system StopWatch class available in the .NET environment. …”
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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FLUTTER CHARACTERISTICS IN TRANSONIC FAN BASED ON HARMONIC BALANCE METHOD by ZHANG Xiang, HUANG XiuQuan, ZHANG HengMing, CHEN YuChun

“…Result shows that,an existence of instability risk under unstalled operation at 100%,95% and 90% rotational speed means a supersonic unstalled flutter for the blades. …”
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ORAL CONTROLLED RELEASE MATRIX FORMULATION DESIGN AND THEIRRATE CONTROLLING FACTORS by Maria Ashfaq et al

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Forbush Decrease Characteristics in a Magnetic Cloud by A. S. Petukhova, I. S. Petukhov, S. I. Petukhov

“…The Forbush decrease spectrum for (2–150 GV) rigidities is calculated for the first time. The Forbush decrease amplitude for low rigidities is ∼100%, which can be explained by a large number of forbidden particle trajectories. …”
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ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AT UNIVERSITY FOR REACHING THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT GOAL by Alexander O. Grudzinskiy, Evgeniy V. Chuprunov

“…The paper presents the case study of strategic organizational change in Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, a participant of the «5-100 Program». Key strategic objectives and technologies for organizational change of UNN over the past quarter century are described. …”
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An Embedded Cloud Design for Internet-of-Things by Teemu Laukkarinen, Jukka Suhonen, Marko Hännikäinen

“…The implementation requires only 5122 B of program memory (4% of the available), consumes under 1 ms of CPU time per process in the worst case, and allows over 100 simultaneous services per device.…”
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Research and implementation of pedestrian detection technology based on smart road by Yunpeng WANG, Quyuan LUO, Changle LI, Guoqiang MAO

“…Aiming at the problem of single detection function,higher cost and lower detection efficiency and reliability for current pedestrian detection,which was mostly realized by vehicle mounted equipment,a pedestrian detection technology based on smart road was proposed.By deploying a large number of low-cost,highly reliable Internet of things devices on the road,real-time detection of pedestrian information in the surrounding environment was realized.Early warning information can be provided to vehicles with very low latency wireless communication technology,which can improve road safety.At present,the prototype of the pedestrian detection system has been developed,and verified by field test,the pedestrian detection system can detect pedestrians effectively.Within the detection range of 4 meters,the accuracy of single device can reach 80%,and the accuracy of multiple cross-deployed devices can reach 100%.…”
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Removal of Cr(VI) and Cu(II) Ions from Aqueous Solution by Carbon Prepared from Henna Leaves by T. Shanthi, V. M. Selvarajan

“…The experimental conditions which include pH, contact time, initial concentration, and adsorbent dosage on the metal removal were investigated. …”
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