Prevalence and Temporal Distribution of Extrasystoles in Septic ICU Patients: The Feasibility of Predicting Fluid Responsiveness Using Extrasystoles by Johannes Enevoldsen, Cristhian Potes, Minnan Xu-Wilson, Simon T. Vistisen

“…With this extrasystolic availability, we believe the method to be considered for clinical use, provided that future studies validate the method’s fluid responsiveness prediction ability.…”
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Prioritizing DevOps Implementation Guidelines for Sustainable Software Projects by Muhammad Zohaib, Ahmed Alsanad, Areej Abdullah Alhogail

“…The highest priority guidelines for sustainable DevOps implementation include: (i) fostering a collaborative culture with shared goals, (ii) assessing the organization’s readiness for a microservices architecture, and (iii) educating executives about the benefits of DevOps to gain resource and budget support. We believe that this comprehensive study will aid practitioners in understanding the core principles and guidelines for sustainable DevOps implementation.…”
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Determination of HIF1Ars11549465 Polymorphism in Elite Skiers by Canan Sercan, Korkut Ulucan, Fatih Bilici, Ömer Kaynar

“…The higher prevalence of CC genotype and C allele in the athlete group is similar to the previous studies on different groups of athletes. We believe that this study will be an important reference for further studies.…”
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Unlocking Female Fertility with a Specific Reproductive Exercise Program: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trail by Barbara Petra Kovács, Júlia Balog, Barbara Sebők, Márton Keszthelyi, Szabolcs Várbíró

“…The 70 min full body “reproductive gymnastics”, includes strengthening, stretching, and relaxation exercises combined with yoga-inspired moves and diaphragmatic breathing with meditation elements to activate the parasympathetic pathway and stress relief. We believe we can improve fertility through the combination of natural supplements and our targeted, moderate physiotherapy program in women with DOR.…”
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Coping behavior in diadic relations for partners with normative and disturbed development by Natalya S. Shipova

“…Following foreign scientists, we believe that the disease represents general stress and is accompanied by specific functions, since the focus is on the physical illness of one partner, which adds dynamics to dyadic stress and the process of overcoming. …”
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A Phenomenological Study on the Intersections of High School Students’ Educational Trajectories in Different Types of High Schools in Turkey by Mustafa Sever, Burcu Çıldır, Ayşe Gülsüm Akçatepe

“…The main result of the research shows that although students are positioned in different trajectories, the essence of their student practices does not change. We believe that this result should be explained from the perspective that the existence of different types of schools or different routes for students cannot guarantee the social mobility of individuals, but continues to serve the reproduction of all the historical and social contingencies that create these students' positionality.…”
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Enhancing Carriers’ Confinement by Introducing BAlGaN Quantum Barriers for the Better Optoelectronic Performance of Deep UV LEDs by Jamshad Bashir, Muhammad Usman, Dmitri Sergeevich Arteev, Zoya Noor, Ahmed Ali

“…Our whole analysis is based on numerical techniques but we believe that fabricating the proposed type of LEDs will result in desirable light extraction and external quantum efficiencies.…”
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An educational needs analysis of sustainable dietary education for nutrition teachers: an application of the IPA, Borich needs assessment and The locus for focus model by Eunseo Yang, Borham Yoon

“…Conclusion The results of this study underscore the need to support the nutrition teachers’ perception and practice of sustainable dietary education in the environment and society domains. We believe that the educational needs and priorities proposed in this study will be considered in the future development and modification of sustainable dietary education programs.…”
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Enabling LTE and WiFi Coexisting in 5 GHz for Efficient Spectrum Utilization by Hongyu Sun, Zhiyi Fang, Qun Liu, Zheng Lu, Ting Zhu

“…While these two technologies improve the spectrum utilization by using time division access schema, we believe that more efficient spectrum utilization can be achieved by enabling simultaneous transmissions from LTE and WiFi. …”
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Atypical Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Presenting as Stroke by Pradeepthi Badugu, Modupe Idowu

“…An atypical presentation of disease in a patient with cardiovascular risk factors may therefore be extremely difficult to diagnose. We believe that TTP should be considered for any patient presenting with stroke and thrombocytopenia.…”
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Between Charybdis and Scylla—an Odyssey in AL amyloidosis: insights and learnings from a narrative review and case report series by Hani Sabbour, Ahmad Alhuraiji, Amr Hanbali, Faraz Khan, Jawahir Alameri, Sultan Alzaher, Dania Mohty, Giovanni Palladini

“…Here, we present a case series reflecting primarily the cardiologist and hematologist perspective to uniquely illustrate key learnings that we believe have the potential to improve diagnosis timelines, treatment initiation, and ultimately improve outcomes for this severe disease. …”
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Allergic Contact Dermatitis Reaction to Permanent Tattoo Containing Paraphenylenediamine: A Case Report by Eliot Parascandolo, Samuel Puglisi, Miguel Marenco, Gregory Puglisi

“…The patient obtained the safety data sheets for the tattoo inks which revealed PPD as an ingredient in every color. We believe this is the first confirmed case of PPD being implicated as the causative agent for ACD to a permanent tattoo. …”
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FLUed: A Novel Four-Layer Model for Simulating Epidemic Dynamics and Assessing Intervention Policies by Chung-Yuan Huang, Tzai-Hung Wen, Yu-Shiuan Tsai

“…We used data from the seasonal influenza A and 2009 swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) epidemics to validate model reliability and suitability and to assess the potential impacts of intervention policies and variation in initial outbreak areas for novel/seasonal influenza A in Taiwan. We believe that the FLUed model represents an effective tool for public health agencies responsible for initiating early responses to potential pandemics.…”
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Congenital anomalies of kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) and associated extra-renal anomalies in fetal autopsies by Esra Çobankent Aytekin, Cem Y. Sanhal, Havva Serap Toru

“…This study aims to determine the subtypes, frequency, and extra-renal defects associated with congenital anomalies of the urinary system, which is the major cause of mortality in fetal and infant autopsies throughout the perinatal and neonatal eras. We believe that our study will contribute to the literature because few autopsy investigations can give this data. …”
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Supervised contrastive pre-training models for mammography screening by Zhenjie Cao, Zhuo Deng, Zhicheng Yang, Jie Ma, Lan Ma

“…Superior results of AUC and specificity/sensitivity have been achieved on two clinically significant mammographic screening tasks in comparison with previously reported State-Of-The-Art approaches. We believe this work is the first to show that supervised contrastive pre-training (SCP) followed by supervised fine-tuning (SF) can outperform the supervised counterpart on these two critical medical imaging tasks.…”
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The Kab Quarterly Newsletter: Issues 8/2024 Graduation Edition. by Sempungu, Godfrey J., Nowaman, Collins, Nuwagaba, Collins, Atukwatse, Sandra

“…As stewards, it is our intention and commitment to continue guiding the institution towards higher accomplishments in the future. Moreover, we believe that by sharing information through this newsletter, our website, and other electronic and offline channels, we can provide accountability to you, our stakeholders. …”
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The KAB Quarterly Newsletter. Issue 8 | 2024 Graduation Edition. by Sempungu, Godfrey J. (Chief Ed.), Nowamani, Collins (Ed.), Nuwagaba, Collins (Ed.), Atukwatse, Sandra (Ed.)

“…As stewards, it is our intention and commitment to continue guiding the institution towards higher accomplishments in the future. Moreover, we believe that by sharing information through this newsletter, our website, and other electronic and offline channels, we can provide accountability to you, our stakeholders. …”
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The KAB Quarterly Newsletter. Issue 8 | 2024 Graduation Edition. by Sempungu, Godfrey J. (Chief Ed.), Nowamani, Collins (Ed.), Nuwagaba, Collins (Ed.), Atukwatse, Sandra (Ed.)

“…As stewards, it is our intention and commitment to continue guiding the institution towards higher accomplishments in the future. Moreover, we believe that by sharing information through this newsletter, our website, and other electronic and offline channels, we can provide accountability to you, our stakeholders. …”
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Water triggered injectable polylactic acid hydrogel based on zwitterionic sulfobetaine modification for incompressible bleeding and tissue anti-adhesion by Xinran Yang, Xiudan Wang, Lizong Tang, Zhiguang Sun, Xing Gao, Yanmei Zhao, Shike Hou, Jie Shi, Qi Lv

“…Additionally, we explored the application of hydrogel materials in the scenario of postoperative bleeding, which can effectively prevent unnecessary adhesion through rapid film formation and the anti-protein property of sulfobetaine. We believe that this multifunctional hemostatic hydrogel has the potential to serve as a prehospital emergency treatment of incompressible bleeding and benefit to the postoperative recovery of patients.…”
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Hypercalcemia in Lung Cancer due to Simultaneously Elevated PTHrP and Ectopic Calcitriol Production: First Case Report by Saed Nemr, Sunitha Alluri, Dhivya Sundaramurthy, Daniel Landry, Gregory Braden

“…There are no reported lung cancer cases with elevated calcitriol as an etiology of hypercalcemia. We believe that the elevated calcitriol levels in this case were due to a PTHrP-independent mechanism, possibly from either ectopic production of calcitriol in tumor cells or from increased activity of 1-alpha hydroxylase in the same cells. …”
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