Summary of Canadian Guidelines for the Initial Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: An Evidence-Based Update by the Canadian Infectious Diseases Society and the Canadian Tho... by Lionel A Mandell, Thomas J Marrie, Ronald F Grossman, Anthony W Chow, Robert H Hyland, the Canadian CAP Working Group

“…Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a serious illness with a significant impact on individual patients and society as a whole. Over the past several years, there have been significant advances in our knowledge and understanding of the etiology of the disease, and an appreciation of problems such as mixed infections and increasing antimicrobial resistance. …”
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Idea of Synergistic and Comprehensive Treatment of Malignant Tumors with Traditional Chinese Medicine Discussed from Theory of “Cancer State” by Zhong LI

“…In this study, I reflect on the current situation of TCM synergistic treatment of malignant tumors and analyze “cancer state theory”, with the hope of enriching the theoretical base of TCM evidence-based treatment of malignant tumors and providing new ideas and references for the individualized use of medicines in the clinical TCM evidence-based treatment of malignant tumors.…”
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Listen to the Scientists: Effects of Exposure to Scientists and General Media Consumption on Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Mechanisms During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Jessica M. Szczuka, Judith Meinert, Nicole C. Krämer

“…A segment of the sample comprises individuals recruited independently, while others were sourced from an online panel. …”
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Customization of health insurance premiums using machine learning and explainable AI by Manohar Kapse, Vinod Sharma, Rutuj Vidhale, Varun Vellanki

“…Finally, the explainable AI was used to predict the weightage of each variable in determining the price of the insurance policy for the individuals. The findings provide crucial insights into the factors such as demographic factors and lifestyle that effectively influence the pricing of health insurance premiums vis a vis their impact on various customer segments. …”
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Victory Gardeners: Food and Gardening as part of a Healthy Lifestyle and Community by Maxine Hunter, William J. Lester, Hannah Wooten, Erin E. Harlow, Tiare Silvasy, LuAnn Duncan, Rebecca Elliott, Samantha DeForge, Danielle Treadwell

“…During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals and families turned to gardening as a source of supplemental food and physical and emotional wellness. …”
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Reputation Revision Method for Selecting Cloud Services Based on Prior Knowledge and a Market Mechanism by Qingtao Wu, Xulong Zhang, Mingchuan Zhang, Ying Lou, Ruijuan Zheng, Wangyang Wei

“…However, it is difficult to provide objective evaluations in open and dynamic environments because of the possibilities of malicious evaluations, individual preferences, and intentional praise. In this study, we propose a novel unfair rating filtering method for a reputation revision system. …”
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The Study of a Battery Energy Storage System Based on the Hexagonal Modular Multilevel Direct AC/AC Converter (Hexverter) by Chong Zhang, Daozhuo Jiang, Xuan Zhang, Jiaxi Chen, Chuang Ruan, Yiqiao Liang

“…After that, a SOC balancing control strategy is proposed, including the branch SOC balancing between the converter’s six branches and the individual SOC balancing between the 14 cascaded converter cells in each branch, which is realized by controlling currents in branch modules. …”
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Meaning of the experience of tattooing the body on young adults belonging to single-parent families by Alejandro Barbosa-González, Jessica Tatiana Alvira-Quesada

“…The analysis implemented allowed identifying individual factors and also establishing similarities and differences among participants. …”
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RETRACTED: An Adaptive Hierarchical Network Model for Studying the Structure of Economic Network by Xiaoteng Yang, Zhenqiang Wu, Shumaila Javaid

“…In this paper, an Adaptive Hierarchical Network Model is proposed to study the problem of hierarchical relationships arising from different individuals in the economic domain. In the presented dynamically evolving network model, new directed edges are generated depending on the existing nodes and the hierarchical structures among the network, and these edges decay over time. …”
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Household Solid Fuel Use and Associated Factors in Somaliland: A Multilevel Analysis of Data From 2020 Somaliland Demographic and Health Survey by Mustafe Abdillahi Ali, Abdirizak Hassan Abokor, Omer Adam Farih, Hodo Abdikarim, Abdirashid M Yousuf, Abdisalam Hassan Muse

“…We employed multilevel logistic regression to examine the influence of individual and community-level variables on fuel choice. …”
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From health inequalities to equitable health equality: ethical governance in healthcare empowers equity as social justice by Charles Biradzem Dine, Rondeau Dany

“…This healthcare intervention mechanism informs context-sensitive healthcare efforts to ensure that all the people in need communities and individuals are given equal opportunities to have what it takes to be healthy.…”
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Understanding participation intention and word-of-mouth intention in voter contact: A framework based on the theory of planned behaviour by Nguyễn Thanh Nhàn

“…Survey data from 322 individuals were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). …”
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Student Engagement Cultures in Russian Student Representation: Party-Goers, Pragmatists and Citizens by Dmitry B. Efimov, Alexey S. Batishchev, Alexander A. Kostyuk, Angelina M. Makhson, Matvey Yu. Svoyski

“…The analysis results allow us to highlight three main student cultures of participation in representation bodies: the basic one is characterized by a predominant focus on personal socialization and individual development, the pragmatic one emphasizes the importance of financial and career incentives, while the civic one includes an orientation towards social recognition, helping others, and addressing public issues. …”
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The potential cost of regulation of methane and nitrous oxide emissions in U.S. agriculture by Tshepelayi Kabata, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin

“…Results and conclusions We find that such regulations might reduce output by an average of about 2%, although the results for individual states vary quite widely.…”
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Living, Caring, Learning - Changing mindsets and enabling goals for people with haemophilia by Cruickshank Anne-Louise

“…She reflects on the importance of prophylaxis and how tailoring treatment to meet individual needs not only helps to prevent bleeds but can make goals and aspirations attainable. …”
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A Different Approach to Legislative Bodies: Reflections on the History of Parliament Oral History Project and Laws Around Abortion by Emma Peplow, Priscilla Pivatto

“…The paper discusses memories of some controversial legislation where individuals have deeply-held beliefs: laws around abortion. …”
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Electronic Medical Record Entity Recognition via Machine Reading Comprehension and Biaffine by Jun Cao, Xian Zhou, Wangping Xiong, Ming Yang, Jianqiang Du, Yanyun Yang, Tianci Li

“…We also remove components to evaluate the contribution of individual components of our model. Experiments on two datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.…”
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The Natural History and Treatment Options for Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms by Joshua E. Loewenstein, Shaneze C. Gayle, E. Jesus Duffis, Charles J. Prestigiacomo, Chirag D. Gandhi

“…The risks and benefits of treatment and conservative management need to be evaluated on an individual basis and are greatly effected by both patient-specific and aneurysm-specific factors, which are presented in this paper. …”
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Artificial Neural Network in the CATS Training System by Yu. V. Popova

“…This approach allows you to build an individual learning trajectory, significantly reduce the time to study academic disciplines and improve the quality of the educational process. …”
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A Review of Eating Disorders and Suicide Risk in Adolescence by Ida F. Dancyger, Victor M. Fornari

“…This review examines the literature during the past 10 years about suicide risk and suicide during adolescence and young adulthood of individuals with eating disorders. Epidemiological surveys are summarized, including suicide rates, parasuicidal behaviors, associated risk factors, and comorbid psychopathology. …”
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