Effects of Dust Event Days on Influenza: Evidence from Arid Environments in Lanzhou by Ling Zhang, Sheng Li, Bo Wang, Ce Liu, Li He, Xiaobing Shan, Kai Zhang, Bin Luo

“…The case-crossover design combined with conditional Poisson regression models was used to estimate the lagging effects of PM and dust events on influenza. …”
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Sustainability in Reconstructive Breast Surgery: An Eco-audit of the Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap Pathway by Zahra Ahmed, BSc (Hons), Alexander Zargaran, MRCS, David Zargaran, MRCS, Sara Sousi, MRes, Keiron Hakimnia, Sevasti Panagiota Glynou, BSc (Hons), Julie Davies, PhD, Stephen Hamilton, FRCS (Plast), Afshin Mosahebi, FRCS (Plast)

“…Conclusions:. This study estimates the carbon footprint of the DIEP pathway. …”
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Assessing the Health and Economic Outcomes of a 9-Valent HPV Vaccination Program in the United Kingdom by Kwame Owusu-Edusei, Cody Palmer, Olga Ovcinnikova, Giampiero Favato, Vincent Daniels

“…**Background:** The United Kingdom (UK) switched from using the 4-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Gardasil®) to the 9-valent vaccine (Gardasil 9®) in 2021. **Objective:** To estimate and compare the health and economic outcomes of 2 HPV vaccination programs in the UK targeting girls and boys aged 12-13 years from the perspective of the UK National Health Service. …”
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Geospatial mapping of drug-resistant tuberculosis prevalence in Africa at national and sub-national levels by Alemneh Mekuriaw Liyew, Archie C.A. Clements, Fasil Wagnew, Beth Gilmour, Kefyalew Addis Alene

“…Results: We estimated 148,239 DR-TB cases (95% uncertainty interval: 17,499-313,683) in Africa, showing significant variation by country. …”
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Health-Related Quality-of-Life Utility Values in Adults With Late-Onset Pompe Disease: Analyses of EQ-5D Data From the PROPEL Clinical Trial by Alison Griffiths, Simon Shohet, Neil Johnson, Alasdair MacCulloch

“…There were few patients in PROPEL who could walk ≤75 m at any time point in the study, hence, these utility estimates should be interpreted with caution. EQ-5D-3L utility estimates from PROPEL were consistent with previously reported EQ-5D-3L values in LOPD. …”
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Differentiated approach at the choice of chronic hepatitis C antiviral therapy mode (real clinical practice experience) by I. Yu. Pirogova, N. B. Kovaleva, E. P. Patlusov, E. S. Radchenko

“…Aim of the study. To estimate efficacy and safety of cepeginterferon-alpha 2b (cPEG-IFNα2b) and ribavirin combination for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC), to define necessity of IL-28V genetic polymorphism diagnostics, to estimate liver elastometry scores at the background of antiviral therapy. …”
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Genetic background of body reserves in laying hens through backfat thickness phenotyping by Bédère, Nicolas, Dupont, Joëlle, Baumard, Yannick, Staub, Christophe, Gourichon, David, Frédéric, Elleboudt, Le Roy, Pascale, Zerjal, Tatiana

“…Linear mixed models enabled to estimate variance components and calculate genetic parameters. …”
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Exploring the efficacy of psychotherapies for depression: a multiverse meta-analysis by Eirini Karyotaki, Pim Cuijpers, Constantin Yves Plessen, Clara Miguel, Marketa Ciharova

“…We defined all possible meta-analyses emerging from combinations of these inclusion criteria and estimated the resulting pooled effect sizes with fixed-effect, random-effects, 3-level, robust variance estimation, p-uniform and PET-PEESE (precision-effect test and precision-effect estimate with SE) meta-analysis models. …”
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Fruit size prediction of tomato cultivars using machine learning algorithms by Masaaki Takahashi, Yasushi Kawasaki, Hiroki Naito, Hiroki Naito, Unseok Lee, Koichi Yoshi

“…For constructing the models, the fruit weight estimated from the fruit diameter obtained over time for each cumulative temperature after anthesis was used as explanatory variable and the fruit weight at harvest was used as objective variable. …”
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Association between breastfeeding duration and educational attainment in rural Southwest Uganda: a population-based cohort study by Shamsudeen Mohammed, Clara Calvert, Joseph O Mugisha, Makanga Ronald, Gershim Asiki, Judith R Glynn, Laura L Oakley, Milly Marston

“…We calculated age-for-grade based on whether a child was on, over, or under the official age for a grade. Generalised estimating equations and binary logistic regression estimated the effect of breastfeeding duration on being 2 years, 3 or more years, or any years over-age for grade in primary school, adjusting for socioeconomic status and maternal-child characteristics. …”
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Current and future burden of breast cancer in Asia: A GLOBOCAN data analysis for 2022 and 2050 by Mengxia Fu, Zhiming Peng, Min Wu, Dapeng Lv, Yanping Li, Shuzhen Lyu

“…This study seeks to analyze the burden of breast cancer in Asia based on the most recent GLOBOCAN 2022 estimates. Methods: Data were obtained from GLOBOCAN 2022. …”
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Emission Characteristics, OFPs, and Mitigation Perspectives of VOCs from Refining Industry in China’s Petrochemical Bases by Gulbanu Hini, Kexin Gao, Yi Zheng, Maimaiti Simayi, Shaodong Xie

“…Sector-based volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from the refining industry in seven petrochemical-developed provinces in China were estimated for 1990–2019 and projected for 2020–2030 under the business-as-usual (BAU), new policy control (NPC), and the highest control (HC) scenarios. …”
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The Accuracy of the NSQIP Universal Surgical Risk Calculator Compared to Operation-Specific Calculators by Mark E. Cohen, PhD, Yaoming Liu, PhD, Bruce L. Hall, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS, Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, FACS

“…While operation-specific RCs might be assumed to have advantages over a universal RC, their reliance on smaller datasets may reduce their ability to accurately estimate predictor effects. In the present study, this tradeoff between operation specificity and accuracy, in estimating the effects of predictor variables, favors the N-R, though the clinical impact is likely to be negligible.…”
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Risk of Dementia and Its Associated Factors Among the Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Attending a Tertiary Cardiac Hospital of Dhaka City: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Fardina Rahman Omi, Lingkan Barua, Palash Chandra Banik, Syed Mosfiqur Rahman, Mithila Faruque

“…Furthermore, no dementia risk prediction tool has yet been applied to estimate the risk in any population in Bangladesh. …”
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Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) downscaling based on multi-source remote sensing, in-situ observation, and machine learning in China by Mi Wang, Zhuowei Hu, Xiangping Liu, Wenxing Hou

“…In this study, we utilized ERA5-Land, TerraClimate, and GLDAS time series, vegetation indices, land cover types, terrain, and surface temperature data as predictors to estimate VPD using three machine learning models, named RF-VPD. …”
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Effects of dam fear and stress on metrics of puppy welfare in commercial breeding kennels by Aynsley C. Romaniuk, Shanis Barnard, Traci Shreyer, Candace Croney

“…There were significant positive associations between dams’ exploration and stationary durations and puppies’ durations of the same respective behaviors during the isolation tests (exploration: $$\:\text{{\rm\:X}}$$ 2 (1) = 9.472, p = 0.002; stationary: $$\:\text{{\rm\:X}}$$ 2 (1) = 5.226, p = 0.022), 8 W Post dam FGMs and 8 W Post puppy FGMs (estimate: 0.0003, SE = 0.0001, p = 0.002), and 4 W Post dam HCCs and 4 W Post litter FGMs (estimate: 0.052, SE = 0.025, p = 0.053). …”
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Thirty-year trends of anxiety disorders among adolescents based on the 2019 Global Burden of Disease Study by Jing Guo, Fan Yang, Shan Zhang, Xiaohan Liu, Ning Huang

“…From 1990 to 2019, the estimated annual percentage change of incidence of anxiety disorders decreased by 2.2%. …”
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Psychological distress in adolescence and later economic and health outcomes in the United States population: A retrospective and modeling study. by Nathaniel Z Counts, Noemi Kreif, Timothy B Creedon, David E Bloom

“…Understanding the extent to which economic benefits may offset policy costs would support more effective policymaking. This study estimates the relationship between adolescent psychological distress and later health and economic outcomes and uses these estimates to determine the potential economic effects of a hypothetical policy.…”
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A Binocular Vision-Assisted Method for the Accurate Positioning and Landing of Quadrotor UAVs by Jie Yang, Kunling He, Jie Zhang, Jiacheng Li, Qian Chen, Xiaohui Wei, Hanlin Sheng

“…The system incorporates a Kalman filter-based target motion state estimation method and a binocular vision-based depth camera target height estimation method to achieve precise positioning. …”
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Completion of the Central Italy daily precipitation instrumental data series from 1951 to 2019 by Gamal AbdElNasser Allam Abouzied, Guoqiang Tang, Simon Michael Papalexiou, Martyn P. Clark, Eleonora Aruffo, Piero Di Carlo

“…Many accuracy indicators have been utilized to evaluate the performance of the strategies' estimations and the final SCD, such as Correlation Coefficient (CC), Root mean square error (RMSE), Relative bias (Bias %), and Kling‐Gupta efficiency (KGE″). …”
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