Predicting largest expected aftershock ground motions using automated machine learning (AutoML)-based scheme by Xiaohui Yu, Meng Wang, Chaolie Ning, Kun Ji

“…We collected 2500 sets of mainshock and in-situ aftershock recordings from a global database to train the AutoML model. Notably, even without aftershock rupture parameters as inputs, our predicted Sa shows significant agreement with actual recorded aftershock ground motions. …”
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Global, regional, and national esophageal cancer deaths and DALYs attributable to diet low in vegetables and fruits, 1990–2019: analysis for the global burden of disease study by Bing Cui, Aqin Chen, Chengcheng Xu

“…BackgroundThis study aimed to comprehensively assess the global, regional, and national burden of esophageal cancer (EC) attributable to inadequate vegetable and fruit intake from 1990 to 2019 and explore the potential impact of existing dietary intervention programs on EC prevention.MethodsUsing the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (GBD 2019) database, we conducted descriptive analyses stratified by age, sex, Socio-demographic Index (SDI), and regional levels. …”
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Intracranial otogenic complications in adults: new factors that influenced its onset, frequency and nature by Małgorzata Wierzbicka, Michalina Staśkiewicz, Oskar Rosiak, Katarzyna Karmelita-Katulska, Witold Szyfter, Wojciech Gawęcki

“…Methods Retrospective analysis of patients documentation concerning urgent procedures of intracranial otogenic complications at tertiary-referral otolaryngology department. Analysed database—pre-COVID-19 cohort (January–February 2019/2020): 1434 otological outpatient visits, 509 planned otosurgeries and 17 urgent otological procedures; COVID-19 cohort (March–April 2020/2021): 1150, 566 and 20 respectively. …”
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Evaluation of the association between lymph node ratio and long-term survival in patients after surgery for lymph node-positive bladder cancer: a SEER population-based study with e... by Tao Chen, Xinchang Zou, Yihe Li, Lifen Peng, Zhen Song, Haichao Chao, Bin Fu, Tao Zeng

“…This included 3767 patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database and 144 patients from two Chinese hospitals forming the external validation cohort. …”
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A Novel Stacked Model for Classification of Vocal Cord Paralysis Over Imbalanced Vocal Data by K. Jayashree Hegde, K. Manjula Shenoy, K. Devaraja

“…Voice samples from the Saarbruecken Voice Database (SVD) for healthy and VCP are selected of the vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/ over neutral, high, low, and low-high-low pitch conditions and the phrase. …”
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Association of Intensive Endoscopic Burden with Esophageal Cancer Detection: A Nationwide Cohort Study by Yeunji Lee, Eunyoung Lee, Bumhee Park, Gil Ho Lee, Sun Gyo Lim, Sung Jae Shin, Choong-Kyun Noh, Kee Myung Lee

“…Methods: This retrospective population-based study used the Korean National Cancer Screening Program database, comprising 32,774,742 males and females aged ≥40 years between 2015 and 2019. …”
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Life cycle assessment for calcination process of flue gas desulfurization gypsum and transformation into β-CaSO4·0.5H2O by Payal Bakshi, Asokan Pappu, Dhiraj Kumar Bharti

“…Environmental impact of calcination process is evaluated by life cycle assessment method using openLCA software and ecoinvent database in conformance with ISO 14040–14044. System boundary covers stages of procedure with cradle-to-gate approach. …”
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Identification of a New m6A Regulator-Related Methylation Signature for Predicting the Prognosis and Immune Microenvironment of Patients with Pancreatic Cancer by Tianle Zou, Dan Shi, Weiwei Wang, Guoyong Chen, Xianbin Zhang, Yu Tian, Peng Gong

“…Genes associated with m6A RNA methylation were compiled from the existing body of research and made available for download from the m6Avar database. The LASSO Cox regression method was used to construct a 4-gene methylation signature, which was then used to classify all PC patients included in the TCGA dataset into either a low- or high-risk group. …”
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Volatile Organic Compounds and Carbonyls Pollution in Mexico City and an Urban Industrialized Area of Central Mexico by Elizabeth Vega, Omar Ramírez, Gabriela Sánchez-Reyna, Judith C. Chow, John G. Watson, Diego López-Veneroni, Monica Jaimes-Palomera

“…Lifetime cancer risks (LCR) from benzene ranged from 1.5 × 10−5 to 6.1 × 10−5 in 2006 and from 8.8 × 10−6 to 2.2 × 10−5 in 2012 for the urban MER site. This database establishes baselines for evaluating the effectiveness of emission reduction strategies.…”
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Safety and effectiveness of appropriately and inappropriately dosed rivaroxaban or apixaban versus warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation: a cohort study with nested case–co... by Luis Alberto García Rodríguez, Pareen Vora, Luke Roberts, Gunnar Brobert, Samuel Fatoba, María Eugenia Sáez, Antonio González-Pérez

“…Objectives To investigate effects of appropriately and inappropriately dosed apixaban/rivaroxaban versus warfarin on effectiveness and safety outcomes in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF).Design Cohort study with nested case–control analyses using primary care electronic health records (IQVIA Medical Research Data UK database).Setting UK primary care.Participants Patients aged ≥18 years with NVAF newly prescribed apixaban (N=14 701), rivaroxaban (N=14 288) or warfarin (N=16 175) between 1 January 2012 and 30 June 2018, and followed up to 31 December 2018.Primary and secondary outcome measures Incident cases of ischaemic stroke/systemic embolism (IS/SE) and intracranial bleeding (ICB). …”
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Impact of a national primary care pay-for-performance scheme on ambulatory care sensitive hospital admissions: a small-area analysis in England by Tim Doran, Christos Grigoroglou, Luke Munford, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Navneet Kapur, Darren Ashcroft, Roger Webb

“…Objective We aimed to spatially describe hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) in England at small-area geographical level and assess whether recorded practice performance under one of the world’s largest primary care pay-for-performance schemes led to reductions in these potentially avoidable hospitalisations for chronic conditions incentivised in the scheme.Setting We obtained numbers of ACSC hospital admissions from the Hospital Episode Statistics database and information on recorded practice performance from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) administrative dataset for 2015/2016. …”
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A Systematic Review of Urban Vegetation Research during 2000–2023: A Bibliometric Analysis by Hassan Boukita, Fathalah Elwahab, Mohamed El Ammari, Abdelazziz Chemchaoui, Boutaina Benchahid, Youssef Haouazine, Najiba Brhadda, Rabea Ziri

“…This study examined 1,081 articles listed in the Scopus database on urban vegetation between 2000 and 2023. …”
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Analysis of emergency centre recidivism for interpersonal violence in a district-level hospital in Cape Town, South Africa by J J Horn, L Bush, D J van Hoving

“…An analysis of a prospectively collected observational database combined with a retrospective chart review was conducted of all trauma patients who presented to Khayelitsha Hospital from 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2022. …”
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Chronic pain is a risk factor for all-cause and cancer-specific mortality in cancer survivors: a population-based cohort study by Yeying Zhang, Yuna Guo

“…This study seeks to unveil the association between chronic pain and all-cause, cancer, as well as non-cancer death in cancer patients based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database. Methods Cancer survivors aged at least 20 (n = 1369) from 3 NHANES (1999–2004) cycles were encompassed. …”
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Tumor tissue samples collection for scientific research in morphology and molecular oncology by O. R. Khabarov, B. D. Seferov, K. A. Aliev, D. V. Zima, E. P. Golubinskaya, E. Yu. Zyablitskaya

“…When working with biocollections, it has to consider having registers of tissue biomaterials of target disorder groups of main localizations with downloading by year from an accessible information system, consider external factors affecting the database (changes in clinical recommendations and classifications, the population of patients served, pandemics and other significant events). …”
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Clinical diagnosis of seasonal influenza by physicians: a retrospective observational study by Hiroyuki Kato, Tadashi Kobayashi, Hiroki Maita, Takashi Akimoto, Fumihiko Matsuoka, Shigeki Funakoshi, Hiroshi Osawa

“…Objective To elucidate the diagnostic accuracy of pretest probability of influenza (%) by physicians and the factors affecting the clinical diagnosis.Design Retrospective, single-centre observational study.Setting A community primary care clinic in Japan.Participants The participants were recruited from a database of studies conducted during the influenza season from December 2017 to April 2019.Primary outcome measure Sensitivity and specificity of the physician’s clinical diagnosis of influenza recorded in the medical record as pretest probability.Results A total of 335 patients (median age, 31 years; male, 66.6%) were analysed in this study. …”
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Different Associations between Lipid Levels and Risk for Heart Failure according to Diabetes Progression by Seung-Hwan Lee, Kyu Na Lee, Jong-Chan Youn, Hun Sung Kim, Kyungdo Han, Mee Kyoung Kim

“…Methods Individuals (n=2,439,978) who underwent health examinations in 2015 to 2016 were identified from the Korean National Health Information Database. Subjects were categorized according to the duration of diabetes (new-onset, <5, 5–10, or ≥10 years) and number of antidiabetic medications. …”
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Association between the triglyceride–glucose index and the risk of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients with acute pancreatitis: a retrospective study by Zheng Wang, Haoyu Zhang, Xiaozhou Xie, Jie Li, Yuchen Jia, Jiongdi Lu, Chongchong Gao, Feng Cao, Fei Li

“…Methods The Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV database was retrospectively searched to identify AP patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit. …”
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Pharmacist-Led Digital Health Interventions for Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review by Christy A, Fernanda F, Insani WN, Abdulah R

“…The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of pharmacist-led digital health interventions for patients with diabetes. The PubMed database was used to select randomized controlled trials that assess the effectiveness of digital health interventions on clinical outcomes among patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes from January 2005 to May 2024. …”
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Exploring genetic associations and drug targets for mitochondrial proteins and schizophrenia risk by Wenxi Sun, Ping Sun, Jin Li, Qun Yang, Qing Tian, Shiting Yuan, Xueying Zhang, Peng Chen, Chuanwei Li, Xiaobin Zhang

“…Moreover, we explored the GWAS catalog and the Drug-Gene Interaction Database (DGIdb) to identify and evaluate potential therapeutic targets. …”
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