Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Latin America and the Caribbean: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Martín Brizuela, María Carolina Palermo, Tomás Alconada, María Macarena Sandoval, Eugenia Ramirez Wierzbicki, Joaquín Cantos, Paula Gagetti, Agustín Ciapponi, Ariel Bardach, Silvina Ruvinsky

“…The protocol was registered in PROSPERO database (ID: CRD42023392097).<h4>Results</h4>We included 54 studies with data on nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage and serotypes from 31,803 patients. …”
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Research progress of breast cancer surgery during 2010–2024: a bibliometric analysis by Jiawei Kang, Nan Jiang, Munire Shataer, Tayier Tuersong

“…PurposeThis study seeks to systematically analyze the research literature pertaining to breast cancer surgery from 2010 to 2024, as indexed in the PubMed database, employing bibliometric methodologies.MethodsEmploying the “bibliometrix” package in the R programming language, alongside VOSviewer and CiteSpace software, this research conducted a comprehensive visual analysis of 1,195 publications. …”
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GIS-based frequency ratio and Shannon entropy modeling for landslide susceptibility mapping: A case study in Kundah Taluk, Nilgiris District, India by Senthilkumar Harithaa, Selvaraj Evany Nithya

“…Two bivariate statistical models were employed to evaluate the landslide susceptibility: Frequency ratio (FR) and Shannon entropy (SE). A comprehensive database of past landslides was compiled using satellite imagery and surveying the study region. …”
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Competing Risks Analysis of Cancer-associated Recurrent Thrombosis, Major Bleeds, and Death in a Geriatric Cohort by Joshua D. Brown, Kelley L. Ratermann, Kelley L. Ratermann, Jeffery C. Talbert, Jeffery C. Talbert, Val R. Adams, Val R. Adams

“…**Methods:** We utilized an insurance claims database of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries 65 and older. …”
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Exploring Current Evidence on the Past, the Present, and the Future of the Heart Team: A Narrative Review by Alexandru Burlacu, Adrian Covic, Mircea Cinteza, Paula Madalina Lupu, Radu Deac, Grigore Tinica

“…We searched the electronic database of PubMed, SCOPUS, and Cochrane CENTRAL for studies including Heart Team. …”
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A Qualitative Exploration of Stakeholders’ Preferences for Early-Stage Rectal Cancer Treatment by Merrill E. Rubens, Timothy P. Mayo, Radhika K. Smith, Sean C. Glasgow, Mary C. Politi

“…Adult patients included those diagnosed with early-stage rectal cancer in the past 5 years, recruited from an institutional database. A semi-structured interview guide was developed based on a well-established decision support framework and reviewed by the research team and stakeholders. …”
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Literature Review: Media E-Modul IPS Untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Abad 21 Siswa Sekolah Dasar by Armellia Ulfa, Ganes Gunansyah, Nasution Nasution

“…Penelitian ini menggunakan Systematic Literature Review dengan metode Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analysis (PRISMA) dengan melalui proses identifikasi, penyaringan, dan penentuan artikel terpilih melalui database elektronik yaitu Google Scholar yang dibatasi dari tahun 2021- 2024. …”
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Integrated Bioinformatics Identifies FREM1 as a Diagnostic Gene Signature for Heart Failure by Chenyang Jiang, Weidong Jiang

“…The heart failure microarray datasets and RNA-seq datasets have been downloaded from the public database. Differentially expressed genes (DE genes) are screened out, and then, we analyze their biological functions and pathways. …”
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Ditched and walled enclosures in Prehistoric Iberia (4th-3rd millennia cal. BCE): Like oil and water by Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez, Marcos García-García, Adara López-López, David W. Wheatley

“…We shall formulate and test seven relevant hypotheses by undertaking multiple comparative analyses at various scales on top of a purpose-built database including 345 sites. Among others, we will address questions such as: How frequent or rare are mixed sites? …”
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Soil erosion susceptibility maps and raster dataset for the hydrological basins of North Africa by Adil Salhi, Sara Benabdelouahab, Essam Heggy

“…We validate SESMAR using the Global Rainfall Erosivity Database (GloREDa) and the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) datasets as well as published peer-reviewed reports across 20 watersheds, demonstrating a robust agreement in assessing the average annual soil loss values and soil erosion classes in local areas covered by independent study teams. …”
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Evaluation of Background Black Carbon Concentration in India by Maji Smaran, V. Vinoj

“…An independent evaluation of foreground BC after the removal of the background shows major emissions sources similar to the HTAP_v3 (Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution) BC emission database, indicating the strength of the analysis. …”
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The feasibility and safety of robotic‐assisted salvage radical cystectomy by Gal Rinott Mizrahi, Nathan Lawrentschuk, Benjamin Thomas, Philip Dundee

“…Materials and Methods We retrospectively searched the prospectively collected surgical database of two highly experienced robotic urological surgeons for cases of RA‐SRC, defined as RARC performed post‐previous pelvic RT for palliative or oncologic treatment purposes. …”
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Impact of image size reducing for image quality assesment by Yu. I. Golub, F. V. Starovoitov, V. V. Starovoitov

“…For the experiments, we used images from the public TID2013 database with a resolution of 512 × 384 pixels and expert estimates of their quality, as well as photographs taken with a Nikon D5000 digital camera with a resolution of 4288 × 2848 pixels. …”
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The Impact of Race in Male Breast Cancer Treatment and Outcome in the United States: A Population-Based Analysis of 4,279 Patients by Jacob Y. Shin, Lisa A. Kachnic, Ariel E. Hirsch

“…Data were extracted from the NCI SEER database that included population-based registries from 1988 to 2010 and analyzed using SPSS 20.0. 4,279 MBC patients were identified. 3,266 (76.3%) patients were White, 552 (12.9%) Black, 246 (5.7%) Hispanic, and 215 (5.0%) Asian. …”
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HSTCN-NuSVC: A Homogeneous Stacked Deep Ensemble Learner for Classifying Human Actions Using Smartphones by Sarmela Raja Sekaran, Ying Han Pang, Ooi Shih Yin, Lim Zheng You

“…The proposed HSTCN-NuSVC is evaluated using a publicly available database, i.e., UCI HAR, and a subject-independent protocol is implemented. …”
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Synoptic Analysis of Early Heat Waves in Northwest of Iran by Mahmoud Hooshyar, behrouz sobhani, nader parvin

“…They were The elevation data of the middle atmosphere of the atmosphere was extracted from a NCEP / NCAR database on a network with an arc 2/5 × 2/5 degree on the 0 to 70 degree eastern longitude and 0 to 60 degrees north latitude. …”
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The Use of Machine Learning to Support the Diagnosis of Oral Alterations by Rosana Leal do Prado, Juliane Avansini Marsicano, Amanda Keren Frois, Jacques Duílio Brancher

“…Efficient and focused on computer vision, each has specific advantages. A Kaggle database with 5192 images was used, divided into training (70%), validation (15%), and test (15%) sets. …”
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Peer support workers in co-production and co-creation in public mental health and addiction services: Protocol for a scoping review. by Kristina Bakke Aakerblom, Ottar Ness

“…Literature searches are conducted in Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, Oria, WorldCat, Google Scholar, Scopus, Academic Search Elite, Cinahl, and Web of Science, from the inception of each database to January 4, 2021. Expected results are that PSW´s are often described as a frontline worker who spends most of their working hours in a joint effort to co-produce with service users. …”
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Improving 1-year liver allograft survival hazard ratios by Resham­ Ramkissoon, Ashley Rosier, Savitha Iyengar, Timucin Taner, William Sanchez

“…An affinity diagram was used to determine high and intermediate risk factors for mortality and graft loss and, using a REDCap form (a web application used to manage our database) to track actual and potential complications, we calculated a weekly ‘risk metric’ that was introduced at multidisciplinary selection conference meetings.Results We remeasured our EHR at each interval release of the SRTR outcomes and found it to be 0.98 and 0.65 after implementing the ‘risk metric.’ …”
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Medical Cannabis for Chronic Noncancer Pain: A Systematic Review of Health Care Recommendations by Yaping Chang, Meng Zhu, Christopher Vannabouathong, Raman Mundi, Roland S. Chou, Mohit Bhandari

“…We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, the Cochrane database of systematic reviews, and websites for clinical guidelines and recommendations. …”
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