Assessment of Treatment Outcomes and Associated Factors Among Pediatric Patients With Burkitt Lymphoma at Kenyatta National Hospital by Divya Kumari Toor, Amsalu Degu, Peter N. Karimi

“…Kaplan–Meier survival and Cox regression analyses were employed to determine the survival time and predictors of mortality, respectively. …”
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Role of the Notch signaling pathway in porcine oocyte maturation by Pil-Soo Jeong, Hyo-Gu Kang, Dabin Cha, Se-Been Jeon, Min Ju Kim, Bong-Seok Song, Bo-Woong Sim, Sanghoon Lee

“…In vitro maturation (IVM) and parthenogenetic activation of oocytes were employed to examine the effects of Notch signaling inhibition on meiotic progression and embryogenesis of COCs using RO4929097 (RO), an inhibitor of γ secretase. …”
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Magnitude and Risk of Dying among Low Birth Weight Neonates in Rural Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Akine Eshete, Abebe Alemu, Taddes Alemu Zerfu

“…Community-based mixed-method approach design was employed between September and October 2016 to identify and enroll study participants in rural Gedeo, Southern Ethiopia. …”
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Prevalence of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Comorbidity in the Canadian Community Health Survey 20022003 by Frank Mo, Lisa M. Pogany, Felix C.K. Li, Howard Morrison

“…Logistic regression was then employed to determine the potential strength of association between various effects. …”
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Approaches to implementing and financing primary health care in Kenya: a case of seven counties by Janette Karimi, Salim Hussien, Elizabeth Wangia, Mercy-Irene Kimani, Mohamud Mohamed, Melissa Wanda, Rosemarie Muganda, Rachel Ndirangu, Daniel Mwai, Mercy Wanjala, Fadhila Richter

“…This scholarly article delineates the outcomes of an investigative assessment reviewing the current state and trajectory of PHC implementation, focusing on the PCN implementation, and analyzing PHC financing modalities in 7 counties in Kenya.MethodsThis study employed a mixed-methodological approach to gather data from seven counties; Garissa, Nyeri, Makueni, Vihiga, Kisumu, Nakuru, and Mombasa. …”
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TWIST1 regulates HK2 ubiquitination degradation to promote pancreatic cancer invasion and metastasis by Xinxing Wang, Mingze Ma, Shuai Shao, Xianwen Xu, Chuan Qin, Ruxin Gao, Zhenhai Zhang

“…Western blotting was employed to detect proteins related to cuproptosis and apoptosis, while ubiquitination assays assessed TWIST1's regulation of HK2 ubiquitination. …”
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The role of C-reactive protein in predicting all-cause mortality among Chinese arthritis patients: implications for public health education and promotion by Shuchao Ye, Damei Ye, Changyi Lin, Dongming Lu, Xuelan You, Chaoyan Xu, Yongyang Wu

“…Kaplan–Meier survival curves and Cox proportional hazards regression models were employed to assess the relationship between CRP levels and mortality risk, emphasizing the potential for targeted health education and promotion interventions.ResultsA total of 3,413 participants were analyzed, with 87 deaths recorded during the 10-year follow-up period. …”
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Non-Invasive Cancer Detection Using Blood Test and Predictive Modeling Approach by Tarawneh AS, Al Omari AK, Al-khlifeh EM, Tarawneh FS, Alghamdi M, Alrowaily MA, Alkhazi IS, Hassanat AB

“…Several cutting-edge classifiers were employed for the prediction analysis. In addition, we experimented with the dataset’s missing values using the histogram gradient boosting (HGB) model.Results: The feature ranking method demonstrated the ability to distinguish cancer patients from healthy individuals based on hematological features such as WBCs, red blood cell (RBC) counts, and platelet (PLT) counts, in addition to age and creatinine level. …”
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Association between vitamin D levels and preserved ratio impaired spirometry: an investigation of mediating roles of systemic inflammation and metabolic indicators by Tong Lin, Shanshan Huang, Fen Zhou, Xingkai Shen, Haiyan Mao

“…Baseline characteristics were assessed, and multivariate logistic regression models were employed to examine the relationship between vitamin D and PRISm. …”
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Phthalates toxicity in vivo to rats, mice, birds, and fish: A thematic scoping review by Mohammad Shah Alam, Zannatul Maowa, Mohammad Nazmol Hasan

“…The main laboratory animals employed were rats (48.37 %) and mice (39.87 %), while the least studied were birds (5.22 %) and fish (6.53 %). …”
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Long-term volume stability of steel slag sand mortar and concrete by Zhenhao Zhou, Qiang Jin, Di Hu, Lin Zhu, Zihua Li, Wanzhong Su

“…The evaluation of steel slag stability typically employs short-term rapid methods, and research on the long-term stability of steel slag sand under natural curing conditions is relatively scarce. …”
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Gambaran Tingkat Depresi pada Pasien Penyakit Ginjal Kronik yang Menjalani Hemodialisis di RSUP DR. M. Djamil Padang by Fitri Amalia, Nadjmir ., Syaiful Azmi Azmi

“…Such changes always lead to malfunction of interpersonal, social and employment. The objective of this study was to describe the level of depression in patients with chronic kidney disease who undergoing hemodialysis at RSUP Dr. …”
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CDK12 antagonizes a viral suppressor of RNAi to modulate antiviral RNAi in Drosophila by Liqin Zhang, Yu Liang, Jiayu Qin, Chen Liu, Mengwei Shang, Xiaoming Sun

“…To counteract this antiviral RNAi response, viruses employ virulence factors known as viral suppressors of RNAi (VSR). …”
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Mapping and Validation of Quantitative Trait Loci on Yield-Related Traits Using Bi-Parental Recombinant Inbred Lines and Reciprocal Single-Segment Substitution Lines in Rice (<i>Or... by Ghulam Ali Manzoor, Changbin Yin, Luyan Zhang, Jiankang Wang

“…Different populations have been developed and employed in QTL mapping; however, the use of reciprocal SSSLs is limited. …”
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Spatial distribution and determinants of anemia among under-five children in Mozambique by Berhan Tekeba, Mulugeta Wassie, Enyew Getaneh Mekonen, Tadesse Tarik Tamir, Agazhe Aemro

“…A multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression analysis was employed to identify the determinants of under-five anemia. …”
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Cognitive impairment, depressive and anxiety disorders among post-COVID-19 survivors: a follow-up study by Ayman A. Aziz, Ahmed A. Latif, Sandra W. Elseesy

“…The Montreal Cognitive Impairment Basic (MoCA-B) was employed to evaluate cognitive impairment. However, anxiety and depressive disorders were identified via structured clinical interview for DSM IV, axis I (SCID-I) and their severity was examined by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) consecutively. …”
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Retrospective analysis of 1539 nasopharyngeal carcinoma cases: chemotherapy should not be excluded for non-Asian patients with T1-2N1M0 stage by Xin-Yu Li, Chang-Ying Zhong, Hui-Xian Xu

“…Utilizing the Rstudio (version: 2024.4.1.748) and R (version: 4.4.1), backward elimination method was employed to screen the variables and multivariate Cox regression analyses was conducted on the screened variables. …”
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Investigation of Potential Profiles and Influencing Factors of Voice Behavior among Chinese Nurses by Shuangying Huang, Hanwen Chen, Liyan Zhang, Xianming Weng, Lingming Zhou, Xiaoqin Ma, Weiyi Wang

“…The present study utilized latent profile analysis to examine the potential profiles, current status, and determinants of nurses' voice behavior on a national scale, with the aim of formulating targeted intervention strategies to enhance nurses' capacity for constructive feedback. Methods This study employed a cross-sectional survey design and recruited nurses from medical institutions in China as research participants between November 2023 and January 2024. …”
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Carboplatin-resistance-related DNA damage repair prognostic gene signature and its association with immune infiltration in breast cancer by Shuwen Dong, Anqi Li, Ruixin Pan, Jin Hong, Zheng Wang, Kunwei Shen

“…Immune infiltration analysis tools were employed to assess the immune microenvironment of patients with varying expression levels of these risk genes. …”
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Evolution laws and control technology of near and far stress field in hard roof mining roadway by Jie HE, Peng CHENG, Le WU, JunPing FAN

“…In response to the challenge of controlling deformation and damage in hard roof strong mining roadways, the study, taking the 15119 return airway of Sijiazhuang as an engineering background, employs a comprehensive research methodology combining theoretical analysis, field measurements, numerical simulations, and industrial experiments to investigate the evolution patterns of stress fields in hard roof mining roadways at various distances and the corresponding control techniques.Research indicates that when a 25-meter coal pillar is retained in the mining area of 15119 Hui Feng Lane, the difficulty in collapsing the hard roof causes stress concentration at a distance. …”
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