Are school-based violence prevention interventions inclusive and effective for children with disabilities? A systematic review of global evidenceResearch in context by Emily Eldred, Karen Devries, Anja Zinke-Allmang, Rizwana Mallick, Waliyah Mughis, Lena Morgon Banks, Amiya Bhatia

“…We applied criteria to assess disability inclusion and conducted a narrative synthesis of study characteristics, adaptations to intervention and/or data collection design, and effect estimates. We assessed risk of bias using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool. …”
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Cost-effectiveness and budget impact of covering Burkitt lymphoma in children under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme by Richmond Owusu, Dakota Pritchard, Lieke Fleur Heupink, Godwin Gulbi, Brian Asare, Ivy Amankwah, Joycelyn Azeez, Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt, Lydia Dsane-Selby, Ruby Aileen Mensah, William Omane-Adjekum, Francis Ruiz, Mohamed Gad, Justice Nonvignon, Lumbwe Chola, Ghana Health Technology Assessment Technical Working Group

“…Methods We developed a Markov model in Microsoft Excel to estimate the costs and effects of BL treatment when National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was provided compared to the status quo where NHIS does not cover care for childhood cancer. …”
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Prevalence of neutropenia in the U.S. among reproductive-aged women: a population-based analysis of NHANES 2013–2020 by Junfeng Chen, Shuangna Song, Yiran Li

“…Results The data of a total of 5,250 female participants, representing a multiracial population of 51.17 million in the United States, were analyzed in the present study. Meanwhile, the estimated neutropenia incidence was 7.09% (95% CI: 6.16−8.01%), which indicated a prevalence among approximately 36.2 million U.S. citizens. …”
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Shorter versus longer durations of antibiotic treatment for patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Gordon Guyatt, Arnav Agarwal, Mark Loeb, John Basmaji, Ya Gao, Maryam Ghadimi, Layla Bakaa, Luis Enrique Colunga Lozano, Saad Asif, Aninditee Das

“…We will perform random-effects modelling for meta-analyses, with study weights generated using the inverse variance method, and will assess certainty in effect estimates using Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology. …”
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Highly Stable Antitumor Silver-Lipid Nanoparticles Optimized for Targeted Therapy by Darwish A, Sándor N, Szenti I, Marosvölgyi T, Juhász K, Rónavári A, Kachal E, Kutus B, Kónya Z, Balogi Z

“…Encapsulation efficiency was estimated to be between 18.7 and 25.5%. Purified LAgs had higher density as compared to free AgNPs revealed by DGC, indicating that a considerable fraction of liposomes contained AgNPs. …”
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Low Serum miR-607 Level as a Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker in Patients of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Preliminary Study by Dawei Jiang, Xiangfei Yuan, Jianqi Ni, Lan Shen, Min Cai, Liu Xu

“…The diagnostic value was estimated via receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. …”
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Public insight into knee osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional study from the West Bank, Palestine by Haya Jebreen Mohammed Warasna, Bashar Yaser Hasan Awad, Mohamad A. Banat, Mohammad Yaser Hasan Awad, Ahmed Farid Gadelmawla, Jameel Suliman, Tarek A. Owais, Ahmad J. Warasna

“…Abstract Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is a significant global health concern and is characterized by the degeneration of joint structures, leading to pain, stiffness, and functional limitations It is estimated that 654.1 million individuals are affected by osteoarthritis worldwide, with females, especially those older than 60 years of age, being the population most impacted. …”
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Healthy Eating Index-2015 and Dietary Total Antioxidant Capacity as Predictors of Prediabetes: A Case-Control Study by Jamal Rahmani, Karim Parastouei, Maryam Taghdir, Heitor O. Santos, Farinaz Hosseini Balam, Mohsen Saberi Isfeedvajani

“…The lowest tertile of HEI-2015 and DTAC was considered as the reference category, and logistic regression was used to estimate the relationship between prediabetes with HEI-215 and DTAC. …”
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Glossina pallidipes Density and Trypanosome Infection Rate in Arba Minch Zuria District of Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Ephrem Tora, Wasihun Seyoum, Firew Lejebo

“…Therefore, this study was conducted to estimate the apparent density, infection rate of trypanosomes in Glossina pallidipes, and the trypanosome species involved in Arba Minch Zuria district of Southern Ethiopia. …”
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Post-stroke outcome prediction based on lesion-derived features by Maedeh Khalilian, Olivier Godefroy, Martine Roussel, Amir Mousavi, Ardalan Aarabi

“…We extracted four lesion-derived feature sets: lesion masks, probabilistic structural disconnection maps (pSDMs), structural and indirectly estimated functional connectivity strengths between brain regions, and topological properties of functional and structural brain networks to predict motor, executive, and processing speed deficits in 340 S patients, employing PCA-based ridge regression with leave-one-out cross validation.The findings revealed that both structural disconnection map patterns and lesion masks were strong predictors of functional deficits. …”
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Statistical Downscaling Method for Vegetation Optical Depth Based on NDVI by Wang Xinyu, Fang Shibo, Han Jiahao

“…The spatial resolution of downscaled VOD is significantly enhanced, preserving spatial distribution characteristics of original data while accurately reflecting the temporal variation features of VOD.The application of optical vegetation indices are investigated to spatially downscale VOD, offering a reference for further research. 1 km VOD data generated through downscaling facilitates the application of vegetation optical depth at regional scales and plays an important role in monitoring local vegetation changes and estimating related ground parameters with higher spatial resolution.…”
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Impacts of Dryopteris serrato-dentata (Beddome) Hayata (Dhekishak) and Blumealacera DC. (Shialmutra) on rice and weed as growth inhibitor: an evaluation through the use of manure a... by Md. Tutul Hossen, Md. Liton Mia, Uttam Kumer Sarker, Ahmed Khairul Hasan, Md. Abdus Salam, Md. Shafiqul Islam

“…(Shialmutra) residues and to estimate the manures and fertilizers effect with the Dhekishakand Shialmutra residues on boro rice at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, during the period from November 2022 to April 2023. …”
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Inverse association between dietary flavonoid intake and nocturia in middle-aged and older adults from NHANES 2007–2010 by Yu Cai, Ying-Chao Liang, Xin-Yu Hu, Ling Li, De-Liang Liu, Shu-Fang Chu, Hui-Lin Li

“…In addition, we performed weighted logistic regression and weighted quantile sum (WQS) regression by six flavonoid species (isoflavones, anthocyanins, flavan-3-ols, flavanones, flavonoids and flavonols) to estimate a combined mixture sum effect as well as the contribution of each mixture component. …”
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Using Sequence Mining to Predict Complex Systems: A Case Study in Influenza Epidemics by Theyazn H. H. Aldhyani, Manish R. Joshi, Shahab A. AlMaaytah, Ahmed Abdullah Alqarni, Nizar Alsharif

“…Standard measure performance MSE, RMSE, and MAE were employed to estimate the results of the proposed model. The empirical results of the INTS model showed MSE = 0.003, RMSE = 0.036, and MAE = 0.0185, indicating that the errors of the proposed model are very limited. …”
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On the measurement of microclimate by Ilya M. D. Maclean, James P. Duffy, Stef Haesen, Sanne Govaert, Pieter De Frenne, Thomas Vanneste, Jonathan Lenoir, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Marcus W. Rhodes, Koenraad Van Meerbeek

“…We demonstrate that reasonably accurate estimates of air temperature can be obtained with low‐cost and unshielded ultrafine‐wire thermocouples that possess low thermal emissivity and a highly reflective surface. …”
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Survival Status and Predictors of Mortality among Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in Saint Peter’s Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Mikyas Arega Muluneh, Abayneh Birlie Zeru, Behailu Tariku Derseh, Abebaw Molla Kebede

“…The World Health Organization as reported in 2019 revealed that Ethiopia is among the 20 countries with the highest estimated numbers of incident MDR-TB cases. However, supporting evidence is limited in the study area after the Ethiopian national strategic plan for tuberculosis prevention and control is started. …”
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Long-Term Safety and Effectiveness of Dimethyl Fumarate in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Treated in Routine Medical Practice: Final Analysis of the ESTEEM Study by Krupa Shah Pandey, Kathryn Giles, Konstantin Balashov, Richard Macdonell, Jörg Windsheimer, Mikel Martinez, Ivan Božin, Stephanie Raynaud, Matthew Scaramozza, Oksana Mokliatchouk, Zhaonan Sun, Nicholas Belviso, Yayoi Sato, Xiaochen Lin, Annette Okai

“…Adjusted ARR declined by 90% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 90–91%; p < 0.0001), from 0.81 (95% CI 0.79–0.84) 12 months before enrollment to 0.08 (95% CI 0.08–0.09) 6 years after enrollment. The estimated proportion of patients free from confirmed disability progression sustained over 48 weeks was 87.0% at month 60. …”
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Relationship between the ideal and reality in civil service: retrospective approach towards ethical problems in the interwar Lithuanian Republic by Jolanta Palidauskaitė

“…Taking into consideration the fact that journalists often are more interested in abnormal things, that can be estimated as scandalous, the author concludes that an honest civil servant properly performing his official duties is not an exception. …”
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Higher Long‐Term Visit‐to‐Visit Blood Pressure Variability Is Associated With Severe Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in the General Population by Xinyu Zhao, Ying Hui, Jing Li, Xian‐Quan Shi, Shuohua Chen, Han Lv, Shouling Wu, Zhenchang Wang

“…Logistic regression estimated odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). …”
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Genetic Testing as a Prenatal Diagnostic Tool for Thalassemia: A Single-Center Study From Central Thailand by Malasai K, Jittikoon J, Udomsinprasert W, Talungchit P, Youngkong S, Sangroongruangsri S, Mahasirimongkol S, Chaikledkaew U

“…From a governmental perspective, with a full uptake of genetic testing, the incremental budget required was estimated to be 3.7 million USD (131 million THB) for one year.Conclusion: These findings are particularly valuable for policymakers, as they provide robust evidence supporting potential revisions to the reimbursement structure within Thailand’s Universal Health Coverage benefit package, facilitating better management of thalassemia and improving prenatal care.Keywords: cost-benefit analysis, genetic testing, prenatal screening, thalassemia, pregnancy…”
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