Diagnostic inequalities relating to physical healthcare among people with mental health conditions: a systematic reviewResearch in context by Elisa Liberati, Sarah Kelly, Annabel Price, Natalie Richards, John Gibson, Annabelle Olsson, Stella Watkins, Emily Smith, Serena Cole, Isla Kuhn, Graham Martin

“…A minority of studies adopted a design that specifically measured professional- and service-related factors associated with diagnostic inequalities. …”
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“Near Miss” Obstetric Events and Maternal Deaths in a Tertiary Care Hospital: An Audit by Roopa PS, Shailja Verma, Lavanya Rai, Pratap Kumar, Murlidhar V. Pai, Jyothi Shetty

“…Objectives. (1) To determine the frequency of maternal near miss, maternal near miss incidence ratio (MNMR), maternal near miss to mortality ratio and mortality index. (2) To compare the nature of near miss events with that of maternal mortality. (3) To see the trend of near miss events. Design. Audit. Setting. Kasturba Hospital, Manipal University, Manipal, India. …”
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Effect of Initial Cable Tension on Cable-Stayed Bridge Performance and a New Construction Method by Hamid Dehghani, Ehsan Dehghani, Mehdi Sharifi, Seyed Rohollah Hoseini Vaez

“…This paper presents a new construction method for cable-stayed bridges based on the finding that adjusting the cable tension to the design value is not necessary during construction and operation. …”
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Analyzing the observational capabilities of a Moon-based platform for monitoring Earth’s outgoing radiation by Guang Liu, Runbo Dong, Yin Jin, Mengxiong Zhou, Hanlin Ye, Rui Song, Jan-Peter Muller, Huadong Guo

“…These findings offer valuable insights that can guide the design of sensor parameters for forthcoming missions.…”
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The Role of Thoracic Medial Branch Blocks in Managing Chronic Mid and Upper Back Pain: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Control Trial with a 2-Year Followup by Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Vijay Singh, Frank J. E. Falco, Kimberly A. Cash, Vidyasagar Pampati, Bert Fellows

“…Study Design. A randomized, double-blind, active-control trial. …”
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The art of talent management: keys to maximizing performance in the travel industry by Diana Mogrovejo, Jorge Franco-Medina, Alex Pacheco

“…A non-experimental quantitative design with a descriptive and correlational approach was used, collecting data through structured surveys applied to employees in the sector. …”
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Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Iron Deficiency Anemia by Neslihan Yerebasmaz, Şeyma Asiltürk, Erdem Fadıllıoğlu, Özlem Şengül, Serdar Yalvaç, Ömer Kandemir

“… OBJECTIVE: To determine whether gestational diabetes mellitus is influenced by the presence of iron deficiency anemia in early pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN: This retrospective cohort study included 131 gestational diabetes mellitus and 300 non-gestational diabetes mellitus pregnants that were screened and diagnosed between the 24-28 week of gestation. …”
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROLE OF THE FAMILY WITH LEVEL OF DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY by Ali Sairozi, Cherlys Tin Lutfiandini, Endah sri Wijayanti, Iswatun Iswatun

“…Methods: the research used a cross-sectional design, the samples in this study were elderly people and families who lived at home with elderly people in Sungegeneng Village, Sekaran District, Lamongan Regency who met the inclusion criteria with a sample size of 39 people. …”
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Diabetes mellitus educational intervention in patients at risk from a medical office. Nuevitas, 2020-2023 by Maigret Calderón Cruz, Julio Michel Arias Manganelly, Olenis Alicia Aldana Ramos, Lieter Ailed Vidal Rodríguez, Pedro Figueredo Guerra, Aned Hernández Clavijo

“…<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: intervention study, with a before and after design, which included 120 patients over 18 years of age with diabetes mellitus risk factors, belonging to Medical Office No. 6, in Nuevitas, Camagüey province. …”
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Does the Apoptosis Value of Cumulus Cells Play a Role in Rescue Oocyte in Vitro Maturation? by Tulay Irez, Sinem Ercan Dogan, Enver Ciraci, Saadet Busra Aksoyer, Muhammet Sait Toprak, Nurten Dayioglu, Onur Guralp

“… OBJECTIVE: In this study, we aimed to investigate the role of the cumulus cell’s apoptosis parameter in the maturation of immature rescue oocytes. STUDY DESIGN: In this experimental study, donated immature germinal vesicle oocytes were cultured for, in vitro maturation, embryo development in matured germinal vesicle oocytes were compared with apoptotic properties of cumulus cells. …”
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Impact of Vehicular Countdown Signals on Driving Psychologies and Behaviors: Taking China as an Example by Fuquan Pan, Lixia Zhang, Changxi Ma, Haiyuan Li, Jinshun Yang, Tao Liu, Fengyuan Wang, Shushan Chai

“…A questionnaire survey with 32 questions about driving psychologies and behaviors was designed, and an online survey was conducted. A total of 1051 valid questionnaires were received. …”
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Hardware Efficient Speech Enhancement With Noise Aware Multi-Target Deep Learning by Salinna Abdullah, Majid Zamani, Andreas Demosthenous

“…The proposed SE processor was implemented on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) for proof of concept. Mapping the design on a 65-nm CMOS process led to a chip core area of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3.88~mm^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and a power consumption of 1.91 mW when operating at a 10 MHz clock frequency.…”
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Prediction of tuberculosis-specific mortality for older adult patients with pulmonary tuberculosis by Sihua Wang, Ruohua Gu, Pengfei Ren, Yu Chen, Di Wu, Linlin Li

“…BackgroundThis study aims to identify risk factors associated with tuberculosis-specific mortality (TSM) in older adult patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and to develop a competing risk nomogram for TSM prediction.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study and randomly selected 528 older adult pulmonary TB patients hospitalized in designated hospitals in Henan Province between January 2015 and December 2020. …”
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Extracellular matrix re-normalization to improve cold tumor penetration by oncolytic viruses by Geofrey F. Soko, Geofrey F. Soko, Benson K. Kosgei, Stephene S. Meena, Stephene S. Meena, Ying Jing Ng, Huihui Liang, Bing Zhang, Qingjun Liu, Tielong Xu, Xinju Hou, Xinju Hou, Ray P. S. Han

“…This review explores the latest advancements in strategies designed to improve the intratumoral penetration of OVs to facilitate the penetration of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) into cold tumors. …”
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Dispersion Performance of Polycarboxylate Terpolymers with Different Alkyl Side-Chain Lengths in Pesticide Suspension Concentrate by Xiaodong Yang, Tianrui Ren, Bo Zhang

“…Herein, a series of novel acrylate ester-based polycarboxylate terpolymers (PTs) were designed as dispersant for pesticide suspension concentrate and successfully synthesized in aqueous solutions from the copolymerization of α-methacrylic acid, allyl polyoxyethylene ether, and acrylate (methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, and n-butyl acrylate). …”
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Joint Active/Passive Beamforming Optimization via RWMMSE and Gradient Projection for Downlink IRS-Aided MU-MISO Systems by Seraphin F. Kimaryo, Eduard E. Bahingayi, Kyungchun Lee

“…These two techniques undergo a novel restructuring process, where the RWMMSE framework, originally designed for MIMO systems, is transformed to work with a MISO system. …”
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Hepatoprotective effect anti-inflammatory and antioxidant Ganoderma lucidum ethanol extract on rats exposed to Plumbum acetate by Hernayanti, Laksana Agung, Saryono, Jehloh Latifah

“…This research was conducted experimentally with a Completely Randomized Design consisting of 6 treatments with 4 replications. …”
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Perception of Eco-innovation Based on Educational Attainment by Erika Loučanová, Vladislav Kaputa, Miriam Olšiaková

“…The depth of attention paid to the interdisciplinary impact of innovations and education in society ultimately affects the level of the culture of education and whether the innovations that arise respect people and their environment. Design/methodology/approach: Input data gathered via survey of customers using the Kano questionnaire. …”
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A Mechanism Framework for Clearing Prices in Electricity Market Based on Trusted Capacity of Power Generation Resources by Yuanyuan Lou, Jiekang Wu, Zhen Lei, Xinmiao Liu, Junlei Liu, Xun Lu

“…In response to the challenges faced by the existing capacity market mechanism under the background of energy transformation, such as the unreasonable quantification of the support effect of different power generation resources on the power capacity of power system and the imperfect pricing mechanism of power capacity, a capacity market mechanism for power systems with high proportion renewable energy has been designed. To quickly clarify the capacity support effect of different power generation resources, a capacity credibility factor is introduced to quantify the actual contribution of different power generation resources in capacity supply and to deeply explore the capacity value of power generation resources. …”
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Ultrastructural Changes in Human Trabecular Meshwork Tissue after Laser Trabeculoplasty by Jeffrey R. SooHoo, Leonard K. Seibold, David A. Ammar, Malik Y. Kahook

“…To compare morphologic changes in human trabecular meshwork (TM) after selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) and argon laser trabeculoplasty (ALT). Design. Laboratory evaluation of ex vivo human eye TM after laser trabeculoplasty. …”
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