Can Obesity Prevalence Explain COVID-19 Indicators (Cases, Mortality, and Recovery)? A Comparative Study in OECD Countries by Yuval Arbel, Chaim Fialkoff, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner

“…Yet, other scholars argue in favor of the existence of an obesity survival paradox and criticize the former group of studies on the grounds that they lack controls for race, socioeconomic status, or quality of care. …”
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Mediators of monocyte chemotaxis and matrix remodeling are associated with mortality and pulmonary fibroproliferation in patients with severe COVID-19. by Sarah E Holton, Mallorie Mitchem, Hamid Chalian, Sudhakar Pipavath, Eric D Morrell, Pavan K Bhatraju, Jessica A Hamerman, Cate Speake, Uma Malhotra, Mark M Wurfel, Steven E Ziegler, Carmen Mikacenic

“…We hypothesized that protein mediators of tissue remodeling and monocyte chemotaxis are elevated in the plasma and endotracheal aspirates of critically ill patients with COVID-19 who subsequently develop features of pulmonary fibroproliferation. …”
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A scoping review of the post-discharge care needs of babies requiring surgery in the first year of life. by Francesca Giulia Maraschin, Fidelis Jacklyn Adella, Shobhana Nagraj

“…Our scoping review aimed to identify the complex care needs of babies post-surgery for critical congenital cardiac conditions and non-cardiac conditions. …”
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Evaluation of Carboxymethyl Cellulose/Gelatin Hydrogel-Based Dressing Containing Cefdinir for Wound Healing Promotion in Animal Model by Zahra Soleimani, Hadi Baharifar, Najmeh Najmoddin, Kamyar Khoshnevisan

“…The skin serves as a critical barrier against external pathogens, and its wound healing is a complex biological process that requires careful management to ensure optimal tissue regeneration. …”
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State-of-the-art and future trends in electric vehicle charging infrastructure: A review by Sudev V., Sindhu M.R.

“…One of the most significant aspects of this “GO GREEN” is the sustainable mobility sector, which focuses not only on reducing the usage of fossil fuels but also on enhancing the efficiency of the transportation system. The most critical infrastructure required in the sustainable transportation ecosystem is the Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) as it plays a crucial role in increasing the acceptance of Electric Vehicles (EVs). …”
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Outcome measures for assessing the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions on equinus foot deformity in post-stroke patients with triceps surae spasticity: A scoping review. by Isabella Campanini, Maria Chiara Bò, Maria Chiara Bassi, Benedetta Damiano, Sara Scaltriti, Mirco Lusuardi, Andrea Merlo

“…TS spasticity was assessed by manual maneuvers performed by clinicians (mainly using the Ashworth Scale), functional tests, mechanical evaluation through robotic devices, or instrumental analysis and imaging (such as the torque-angle ratio, the H-reflex, and ultrasound images). A thorough critical appraisal of the construct validity of the scales and of the statistics employed was provided, particularly focusing on the choice of parametric and non-parametric approaches when using ordinal scales. …”
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Effect of seasonality on the dynamics of an imitation-based vaccination model with public health intervention by Bruno Buonomo, Giuseppe Carbone, Alberto d'Onofrio

“…We show that in the general case the stability critically depends on the 'shape' of the periodically varying transmission rate. …”
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On occurrence of some avian bacterial diseases and biosafety provision by T. V. Kurmakaeva, S. S. Kozak, E. S. Baranovich

“…The proportion of infectious diseases in general avian pathology is known to vary significantly, while bacterial infections play a critical role in avian disease occurrence and incidence. …”
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DIGITALISATION OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE BALANCING FOR EDUCATIONAL QUALITY ASSURANCE AT A DISPLACED UNIVERSITY by Oleksandr Spivakovsky, Daria Malchykova, Viktoria Yatsenko

“…The article identifies the factors from the external and internal environment that affect university functioning and the quality of education under extreme operating conditions. It presents the critical contexts of enhanced digital transformation of the academic process and compensation tools for crisis education management. …”
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Barriers to accessing mental health services for women with perinatal mental illness: systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies in the UK by Megan Sambrook Smith, Vanessa Lawrence, Euan Sadler, Abigail Easter

“…Quality assessment was conducted using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme for qualitative studies.Results Of 9882 papers identified, 35 studies met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Fake News Detection and Classification: A Comparative Study of Convolutional Neural Networks, Large Language Models, and Natural Language Processing Models by Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Nikolaos D. Tselikas, Dimitrios K. Nasiopoulos

“…In an era where fake news detection has become a pressing issue due to its profound impacts on public opinion, democracy, and social trust, accurately identifying and classifying false information is a critical challenge. In this study, the effectiveness is investigated of advanced machine learning models—convolutional neural networks (CNNs), bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT), and generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs)—for robust fake news classification. …”
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Foucault in Sulawesi: Challenging the Roots of Ethnic Discourse in South Sulawesi by Muh Adnan Malewa

“…In searching for the roots of this conflict, the researcher used a historical research methodology by interacting with various historical archives and research results heuristically, which were then deconstructed according to a metanarrative of source criticism in order to analyze the chronology of the birth of the ethnic identity of the people of South Sulawesi. …”
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Refining Sparse Cell-ID Trajectory of Public Service Vehicles by Spatiotemporal Modelling by Kemin Zhu, Junli Liu, Xianfeng Song, Weifeng Wang, Hao Chen

“…Mobile phone data have become a critical data source for transportation research. While a cell-id trajectory was routinely reorganized by International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), it potentially allows to analyze transportation behaviors and social interaction of total population, with a full temporal coverage at low cost. …”
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Risk Prediction for Ship Encounter Situation Awareness Using Long Short-Term Memory Based Deep Learning on Intership Behaviors by Jie Ma, Wenkai Li, Chengfeng Jia, Chunwei Zhang, Yu Zhang

“…Encounter risk prediction is critical for safe ship navigation, especially in congested waters, where ships sail very near to each other during various encounter situations. …”
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Drop-size-dependent effects in leading-edge rain erosion and their impact on erosion-safe mode operation by N. Barfknecht, D. von Terzi

“…The findings highlight the criticality of drop-size effects in rain erosion modeling for wind turbine blades, impacting lifetime predictions, ESM viability and the parameter space of leading-edge erosion. …”
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Vaccination status and hepatitis A immunity in children: insights from a large-scale study in Turkey by Metin Yigit, Furkan Kalayci

“…Conclusion These findings underscore the critical need for targeted interventions to close vaccination gaps, especially among older, unvaccinated children who exhibit lower immunity levels. …”
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The development, feasibility and credibility of intra-abdominal pressure measurement techniques: A scoping review. by ZhiRu Li, HuaFen Wang, FangYan Lu

“…Considering the cost and invasiveness, direct measurement is not recommended as a routine method for IAP measurement and should be preserved for critically ill patients where standard techniques are contraindicated or could be inaccurate. …”
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Quality Assurance System Using Statistical Process Control: An Implementation for Image Cytometry by David Chiu, Martial Guillaud, Dennis Cox, Michele Follen, Calum MacAulay

“…Conclusions: QA programs are critical for ensuring data integrity and therefore for the conduct of multicenter clinical trials.…”
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Systematic review of interventions for improving the performance of community health workers in low-income and middle-income countries by Paul Montgomery, Madeleine Ballard

“…Objective To systematically review and critically appraise the evidence for the effects of interventions to improve the performance of community health workers (CHWs) for community-based primary healthcare in low- and middle-income countries.Design Systematic review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.Methods 19 electronic databases were searched with a highly sensitive prespecified strategy and the grey literature examined, completed July 2016. …”
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Exploring Anharmonicity-induced high thermoelectric performance in α-In2X3 (X=S, Se) monolayers by Victor José Ramirez Rivera, Fredy Mamani Gonzalo, Maurício Jeomar Piotrowski, Efracio Mamani Flores

“…The growing interest in thermoelectric materials stems from their capability to convert thermal energy into electrical power, addressing critical challenges in sustainable energy generation and utilization. …”
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