Evaluating Traditional Chinese Medicine and Herbal Products for the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Yang Xin Zi Xu, Shengyan Xi, Xiaoyan Qian

“…With the growing popularity of traditional Chinese medicine, we conducted a systemic search in PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase databases on research studies that investigated traditional Chinese medicine during pregnancy. …”
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An Adaptive Parallel Method for Indexing Transportation Moving Objects by Kun-lun Chen, Chuan-wen Li, Guang Lu, Jia-quan Li, Tong Zhang

“…To address this problem and improve the throughput of moving object databases, we propose a GPU-accelerated indexing method, based on a grid data structure, combined with quad-trees. …”
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Association between apolipoprotein E ε4 status and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a meta-analysis by Zijun Ren, Zhenting Guan, Qingliang Guan, Hongjian Guan, Hongjian Guan

“…Materials and methods The relevant English-language articles were identified by searching the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and PubMed databases. The prognostic significance of APOE ε4 status in AD patients was examined on the basis of pooled hazard ratios (HRs). …”
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Data Mining Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenic Gene Transcription Factors and Their Regulatory Network Nodes by Guangxin Yuan, Yu Bai, Yuhang Zhang, Guangyu Xu

“…Based on the differentially expressed gene, the transcriptional regulatory element databases (TRED) were integrated to construct the M. tuberculosis pathogenic gene regulatory network, and the correlation of the network genes with disease was analyzed with the DAVID online annotation tool. …”
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In search of prosociality in rodents: A scoping review. by Valérie Charron, Joey Talbot, Patrick R Labelle, Anne T M Konkle, Hélène Plamondon

“…The goal of this scoping review is to characterize current findings regarding prosocial paradigms in rodents, highlight current gaps in reporting, and identify factors shown to be important in mediating prosocial responses in rodents. Five databases were consulted in search of relevant studies published between 2000 and 2020 (APA PsycInfo, Embase, MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science). …”
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Downregulated Copper Homeostasis-Related Gene FOXO1 as a Novel Indicator for the Prognosis and Immune Response of Breast Cancer by Rong Zeng, Bi Peng, Emin Peng

“…Here, we identified a downregulated Cu homeostasis-related gene FOXO1 and investigated the potential functions of FOXO1 in BRCA through several bioinformation databases. The BRCA patients with high level of FOXO1 displayed favorable prognostic values. …”
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Considerations for ethics review of big data health research: A scoping review. by Marcello Ienca, Agata Ferretti, Samia Hurst, Milo Puhan, Christian Lovis, Effy Vayena

“…In this study, we conducted a scoping review of the literature using five databases to identify and map the major challenges of health-related big data for Ethics Review Committees (ERCs) or analogous institutional review boards. …”
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The Process of Translation and Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of Functional Assessment Tools for Dementia: A Systematized Review by Freddie O'Donald, Clara Calia

“…Methods A systematic search of five electronic databases (CINAHL Plus, EMBASE, PubMed/MEDLINE, PsycINFO) was conducted from inception until September 2023. …”
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Extracting organs of interest from medical images based on convolutional neural network with auxiliary and refined constraints by Fenghui Lian, Yingjie Sun, Meiyu Li

“…We evaluate the proposed framework on two public databases (NIH Pancreas-CT and MICCAI Sliver07). Experimental results show that the proposed network achieves comparable performance to current pancreas segmentation algorithms and outperforms most state-of-the-art liver segmentation methods. …”
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Minimally invasive lateral, posterior, and posterolateral sacroiliac joint fusion for low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Kai Xu, Ya-Ling Li, Song-Hua Xiao, Yong-Wei Pan

“…Methods The PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, and ClinicalTrials.gov databases were comprehensively searched for studies up to 31 August 2024. …”
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Patterns of multimorbidity in primary care electronic health records: A systematic review by Giorgi Beridze, Ahmad Abbadi, Joan Ars, Francesca Remelli, Davide L Vetrano, Caterina Trevisan, Laura-Mónica Pérez, Juan A López-Rodríguez, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga

“…This systematic review summarises the current evidence on multimorbidity patterns identified in primary care electronic health record (EHR) data. Methods Three databases were searched from inception to April 2022 to identify studies that derived original multimorbidity patterns from primary care EHR data. …”
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Lightweight Adaptation of Classifiers to Users and Contexts: Trends of the Emerging Domain by Elena Vildjiounaite, Georgy Gimel’farb, Vesa Kyllönen, Johannes Peltola

“…However, in practice many applications are used in so diverse situations that no developer can predict them all and collect for each situation adequate training and test databases. Such applications have to adapt to a new user or unknown context at runtime just from interaction with the user, preferably in fairly lightweight ways, that is, requiring limited user effort to collect training data and limited time of performing the adaptation. …”
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Challenges in Emerging Vaccines and Future Promising Candidates against SARS-CoV-2 Variants by Tanmay Ghildiyal, Nishant Rai, Janhvi Mishra Rawat, Maargavi Singh, Jigisha Anand, Gaurav Pant, Gaurav Kumar, Amrullah Shidiki

“…The keywords like COVID-19 vaccine types, VOCs, universal vaccines, bivalent, and other relevant terms were searched in NCBI, Science Direct, and WHO databases to review the published literature. The review provides an integrative discussion on the current state of knowledge on the type of vaccines developed against SARS-CoV-2, the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines concerning the VOCs, and prospects of novel universal, chimeric, and bivalent mRNA vaccines efficacy to fend off existing variants and other emerging coronaviruses. …”
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Is End-Stage Ankle Arthrosis Best Managed with Total Ankle Replacement or Arthrodesis? A Systematic Review by Robert W. Jordan, Gurdip S. Chahal, Anna Chapman

“…We conducted a systematic review according to PRISMA checklist using the online databases Medline and EMBASE after January 1, 2005. …”
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Acupuncture as an independent or adjuvant therapy to standard management for menopausal insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Xiaoni Zhang, Chengyong Liu, Shan Qin, Chaoming Chen, Xiaoqiu Wang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Wenzhong Wu

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Seven literature databases were searched on April 30, 2024, to identify RCTs assessing the effectiveness of acupuncture. …”
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Commercial Diplomacy and Internationalization of SMEs: A Scoping Review by Fatima Alsuwaidi, Muhammad Raziq, Uzma Batool

“…A systematic literature review was conducted using electronic databases with predefined inclusion-exclusion criteria. 191 articles were screened, yielding 19 relevant studies for final analysis. …”
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Preventing and managing antimicrobial resistance in the African region: A scoping review protocol. by Chinwe Juliana Iwu-Jaja, Anelisa Jaca, Ishmael Festus Jaja, Portia Jordan, Phelele Bhengu, Chidozie Declan Iwu, Joseph Okeibunor, Humphrey Karamagi, Prosper Tumusiime, Walter Fuller, Ali Ahmed Yahaya, Charles Wiysonge, Laetitia Gahimbare

“…We will include studies identified through a comprehensive search of peer-reviewed and grey literature databases. In addition, we will search the reference lists of included studies and relevant reviews. …”
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Clear Aligner Treatment: Indications, Advantages, and Adverse Effects—A Systematic Review by Clara Rasborg Hartogsohn, Liselotte Sonnesen

“…<b>Methods</b>: A search was performed in the PubMed and Embase databases, yielding 18 studies eligible for inclusion. …”
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Review of Current Strategies to Address Micronutrient Deficiencies (MNDs) in Ghana: A Scoping Review by Jolene Mateko Azagba-Nyako, Charles Tortoe, Paa Toah Akonor, Alice Padi, Jackline Boateng, Richard Otwey

“…Eligibility criteria for inclusion of information from articles and publications were based on report findings on nutrition-related programmes and policies conducted and implemented in Ghana and should have been published between 2000 and 2024. Databases adopted for this scoping review include Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, AGORA, Hinari and JSTOR. …”
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Patient co-responsibility in the treatment process in the light of coordinated care – Polish experiences by Sabina Karczmarz, Magdalena Bogdan, Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Anna Owczarczyk, Paweł Żuk, Sergii Burma, Leszek Warsz, Kamil Krzysztof Cołoś

“…Scientific articles on the research topic were selected using the following keywords in two electronic databases (PubMed and Scopus): coordinated care, patient responsibility, lifestyle, healthy attitude and primary health care. …”
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