Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Propensity Score and Geospatial Cohort Analysis of 3,952 Patients by Dominique J. Monlezun, Alfred T. Samura, Ritesh S. Patel, Tariq E. Thannoun, Prakash Balan

“…Each additional $10,000 above median household income was associated with a decrease in the total number of cardiac arrests per zip code by 2.86 (95%CI -4.26- -1.46; p<0.001); zip codes with a median income above $54,600 versus the federal poverty level had 14.62 fewer arrests (p<0.001). …”
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Grounds and conditions for the application of preventive measures during the pre-trial investigation of corruption criminal offenses by V. V. Romaniuk, R. I. Login

“…It is emphasized that when deciding on the application of preventive measures in the category of criminal proceedings under study, it is necessary to clarify the presence of risks stipulated in Part 2 of Article 177 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and justify their sufficiency in relation to the elements of the mechanism of committing a specific corruption criminal offense. …”
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Analysis of Overburden Structure and Pressure-Relief Effect of Hard Roof Blasting and Cutting by Hao Liu, Jin Dai, Jinquan Jiang, Pu Wang, Jiqiang Yang

“…Moreover, a mechanics model of a three-hinged arch structure (THAS) and a universal distinct element code (UDEC) numerical model with regard to the overlying rock movement were established to study the relationship among the rotation angle of key blocks in the THAS, the width of the roadway and the wall force beside it, and the optimal cutting position and cutting angle to reveal the pressure-relief effect of roof blasting and cutting and its influence on the support stability of the roadway. …”
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Changes in the legal regulation of criminal proceedings under martial law by O. V. Salmanov

“…However, the analysis of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine shows that some of the innovations are generally positive, but certain aspects of legal regulation may raise doubts and concerns, and are quite controversial and controversial. …”
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Peculiarities of the special knowledge application in the investigation of taking a government official or law enforcement officer as hostage by O. Yu. Prokopenko

“…The purpose of the study is to investigate the scientific findings on the definition of the concept of “special knowledge” and to clarify its role in the investigation of criminal proceedings under Article 349 “Taking a government official or law enforcement officer as a hostage” of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. To achieve this goal, the study used the following methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison, critical thinking, and systemic and structural methods, with the aim of conducting a thorough study of theoretical developments, results of investigative and judicial practice, systematising the results and formulating conclusions. …”
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Effectiveness of breathing exercises on urinary symptoms, muscle activity, and strength in women with multiple sclerosis and urinary incontinence—a study protocol for a randomized... by Atieh Nazem, Shabnam ShahAli, Mehdi Dadgoo, Holakoo Mohsenifar, Ismail Ebrahimi Takamjani, Laleh Abadi Marand

“…Trial registration The trial was registered in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials with code IRCT20180916041051N3 and was approved on 23 May 2024. …”
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Quantitative Characterization of Overburden Rock Development Pattern in the Goaf at Different Key Stratum Locations Based on DEM by Xiaoqiang Zhang, Bolin Hu, Jiaxing Zou, Chuandong Liu, Yuanfan Ji

“…Based on this, a three-dimensional solid model was established in PFC (Particle Flow Code) software to analyze the fissure development pattern of the overburden rock and the development height of the water-conducting fracture zone when the main key stratum of the rock seam is in different positions by simulating the excavation process of the coal seam. …”
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The Measurement of Neutron Contamination in High Energy X-Ray Radiotherapy Using a He-3 Gas Dosimeter by Alireza Vejdani, Mehdi Momennezhad, Sara Mohammadi, Vajiheh Vejdani Noghreiyan, Atefeh Rostami

“…In this study, Monte Carlo (MC) code was utilized to prepare the correct proportion of neutron dose. …”
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One-year Prevalence, Comorbidities, and Cost of Hospitalizations for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the United States by Christopher M. Blanchette, Emily Zacherle, Joshua M. Noone, Bryce A. Van Doren, Debosree Roy, Reuben Howden

“…**Results:** Of 840 242 patients with COPD (10.8% of the NIS sample population), 0.08% (684) had a primary or secondary diagnosis code for AATD. COPD+AATD were younger (56 vs 70, p<0.0001) and as a result, less likely to be covered by Medicare (44% vs 62%, p<0.0001). …”
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Self-testing for pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ping Teresa Yeh, Caitlin E Kennedy, Manjulaa Narasimhan, Karima Gholbzouri

“…We conducted a systematic review of pregnancy self-testing effectiveness, values and preferences and cost.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis using the Grading of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach.Data sources PubMed, CINAHL, LILACS and EMBASE and four trial registries were searched through 2 November 2020.Eligibility criteria for selecting studies We included trials and observational studies that compared urine self-testing for pregnancy to health worker-led pregnancy testing on effectiveness outcomes; quantitative and qualitative studies describing values and preferences of end users and health workers and costs of pregnancy self-testing.Data extraction and synthesis Two independent reviewers used standardised methods to search, screen and code included studies. Risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration and Evidence Project tools. …”
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INDEPENDENCE AND FINANCIAL EXPERTISE OF AUDIT COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Saidu MUSA, Muhammed Kamaldeen Usman, Paul B. Ogunwole

“…The study therefore recommends that government and regulatory agencies should mandate the addition of accounting experts on the board of audit committees rather than the openness of financial expertise covering all fields of management stated in the Nigerian code of Corporate Governance (2016). …”
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Tunnel Back Analysis Based on Differential Evolution Using Stress and Displacement by Joon-Sang An, Kyung-Nam Kang, Ju-Young Choi, Won-Suh Sung, Vathna Suy, Ki-Il Song

“…Back analysis based on the differential evolution algorithm using stress and displacement was established and performed using the finite difference code, FLAC3D, and built-in FISH language. Detailed flowcharts of back analysis based on DEA using both monitored displacement stresses were also suggested. …”
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Etude expérimentale et théorique d’un nouveau composé halogène pnicture Hg$_{12}$Sb$_6 ($Br$_{5,186}$I$_{6,814})$ by Kheit, Messaoud, Merazka, Soumia, Kars, Mohammed, Gómez-Herrero, Adrian, Roisnel, Thierry, Sidoumou, Mohamed

“…The ab initio calculations using the CASTEP code give a gap of 1,7 eV in good agreement with that found experimentally.…”
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Rehabilitation Therapy Utilization in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease in Korea by Han Gil Seo, Sang Jun Park, Jiah Seo, Seong Jun Byun, Byung-Mo Oh

“…Patients were identified using the registration code for PD in the program for rare, intractable disease from the National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort database, which consists of 979,390 Korean residents. …”
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The efficacy and safety of the training process in sumo through autogenic training for professional wrestlers by Yuliya Holenkova, Leonid Vostroknutov, Pavol Bartik

“…For the analysis and visualization of the obtained data it was used the integrated development environment PyCharm Community Edition. The programming code was written in Python. The experiment was conducted in Kharkiv (Ukraine), which has been located in a war zone since February 2022. …”
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Toward the calibration of 2D thermomechanical simulations of magma poor passive continental margins: method, validation and case example by Perron, Paul, Le Pourhiet, Laetitia, Jourdon, Anthony, Cornu, Tristan, Gout, Claude

“…This method integrates a new kinematic module into the pTatin2D code, allowing for calibrating numerical simulations with regional geological and geophysical dataset over time while solving for mechanical balance using Stokes flow to ensure that crustal deformation remains consistent with mantle dynamics. …”
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TARREAN: A Novel Transformer with a Gate Recurrent Unit for Stylized Music Generation by Yumei Zhang, Yulin Zhou, Xiaojiao Lv, Jinshan Li, Heng Lu, Yuping Su, Honghong Yang

“…We evaluated the model using the Essen Associative Code and Folk Song Database, which contains 20,000 folk melodies from Germany, Poland, and China. …”
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MM-HiFuse: multi-modal multi-task hierarchical feature fusion for esophagus cancer staging and differentiation classification by Xiangzuo Huo, Shengwei Tian, Long Yu, Wendong Zhang, Aolun Li, Qimeng Yang, Jinmiao Song

“…Our findings provide evidence for the early diagnosis and accurate staging of esophageal cancer and serve as a new inspiration for the application of multi-modal multitask learning in medical image analysis. Code is available at https://github.com/huoxiangzuo/MM-HiFuse .…”
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A Bayesian phase 2 model based adaptive design to optimise antivenom dosing: Application to a dose-finding trial for a novel Russell's viper antivenom in Myanmar. by James A Watson, Thomas Lamb, Jane Holmes, David A Warrell, Khin Thida Thwin, Zaw Lynn Aung, Min Zaw Oo, Myat Thet Nwe, Frank Smithuis, Elizabeth A Ashley

“…The model based design can identify an optimal dose after fewer patients relative to the rule based design. Open source code for the simulations is made available in order to determine adequate sample sizes for future adaptive snakebite trials. …”
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Research on the Rockburst Tendency and AE Characteristics of Inhomogeneous Coal-Rock Combination Bodies by Yun-liang Tan, Wei-yao Guo, Qing-heng Gu, Tong-bin Zhao, Feng-hai Yu, Shan-chao Hu, Yan-chun Yin

“…In order to research the influence of homogeneity on the rockburst tendency and on AE characteristics of coal-rock combination body, uniaxial compressive tests of inhomogeneous coal-rock combination bodies obeyed by the Weibull distribution were simulated using particle flow code (PFC2D). Macromechanical properties, energy evolution law, and AE characteristics were analyzed. …”
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