The impact of chronic kidney disease on developed countries from a health economics perspective: A systematic scoping review. by Sarah Elshahat, Paul Cockwell, Alexander P Maxwell, Matthew Griffin, Timothy O'Brien, Ciaran O'Neill

“…To illustrate these challenges and inform cost-effectiveness analyses, we undertook a comprehensive systematic scoping review that explored costs, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and life expectancy (LE) amongst individuals with CKD. Costs were examined from a health system and societal perspective, and HRQoL was assessed from a societal and patient perspective. …”
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A Data Mining Approach Identified Salivary Biomarkers That Discriminate between Two Obesity Measures by Ping Shi, J. Max Goodson

“…An aggregated importance ranking was constructed by averaging the rank ordering of variables from individual list, weighted by the classification performance of respective models. …”
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Supplementation with serine-enriched non-essential amino acids from minimum essential medium promotes blastocyst development of in vitro-fertilized bovine embryos by Nobuhiko ITAMI, Yuji HIRAO

“…Non-essential amino acids (NEAAs) are widely used for the culture of bovine embryos fertilized in vitro; however, the necessity and optimal concentration of individual NEAA must be verified to produce four-criteria-compliant blastocysts. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 vaccinations in India: a state-wise analysis by Abhigayan Adhikary, Manoranjan Pal, Raju Maiti

“…The modified model considers the cumulative proportion of individuals having the first COVID-19 vaccine shot in each state as the explanatory variable. …”
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Éducation au patrimoine en langue minorée by Marie-Anne Châteaureynaud

“…Over time, the notion of heritage education emerged and in 2005, in Faro, UNESCO produced a framework convention that evoked a right to heritage and underlined the importance of local cultures in a globalised world.Whether tangible or intangible, the heritage linked to minority languages is thus also the subject of a cultural right from which pupils must be able to benefit.The transmission of the heritage of minority languages and cultures is a central issue because (UNESCO, 2003) "the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and skills - as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated with them - that communities, groups and, where appropriate, individuals" are part of cultural heritage. Thus, the theme of heritage education, a transversal and multidisciplinary theme, is envisaged as a "sharing of emotional and artistic experiences" (Musset 2012) in order to identify a community of values and to appropriate a common history, a common culture, in an intercultural dimension of otherness which allows an opening to the other.This paper aims to clarify the place of cultural heritage in the teaching of Occitan in Aquitaine in a socio-didactic framework.After having defined the notion of heritage, we will draw up an assessment of the place it currently occupies in the teaching of Occitan based on a corpus of pedagogical projects and a corpus of online resources. …”
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Classification of Projects in the Oil and Gas Industry by A. V. Vlasov

“…Consequently, the classification of projects in project management for individual sectors may be applied only for that sector of the economy the shape and type of the project and have their classification criteria. …”
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Focal Choroidal Elevations: Localized Pigment Epithelial Contour Alterations due to Isolated Choroidal Vessels by Rachel L. Chu, Nicole A. Pannullo, Eric J. Sigler

“…The objective of this case series was to describe the clinical and imaging features of focal choroidal elevations (FCE), which are chorioretinal contour changes induced by individual choroidal vessels within an overall thin-appearing choroid. …”
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Physical and occupational therapy service delivery models for populations identified as hard-to-reach: A scoping review. by Kenneth S Noguchi, Muhib Masrur, Lori Letts, Susanne Sinclair, Sarah Wojkowski, Julie Richardson

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Despite common and individual needs, barriers, and facilitators in hard-to-reach groups in the literature, there is a need for studies with larger sample sizes, rigorous methodology and a conscious effort to publish the results of interventions to generate stronger recommendations for practice.…”
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Air Quality Status in Wuhan City during and One Year after the COVID-19 Lockdown by Crystal Jane Ethan, Kingsley Katleho Mokoena, Yan Yu

“…Using the independent t-test, the means of air quality index (AQI) and individual air pollutants concentration during the lockdown were compared with the means after the lockdown. …”
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Clinical and Biochemical Features Used to Classify Type-1 and Type-2 Diabetes: A Scoping Review by Ulagamadesan Venkatesan, Anandakumar Amutha, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Ranjit Unnikrishnan, Bagavandas Mappillairajan, Viswanathan Mohan

“…This review comprehensively examines the utility of these features in accurately categorizing individuals into T1D and T2D subtypes, providing valuable insights for clinical practice. …”
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Registered report protocol: A scoping review to identify potential predictors as features for developing automated estimation of the probability of being frail in secondary care. by Dirk H van Dalen, Angèle P M Kerckhoffs, Esther de Vries

“…This is a promising perspective, being less labor-intensive compared to screening each individual patient by hand. Also, such an automated tool may raise awareness of frailty, especially in those patients who would not be screened for frailty by hand because they seem robust.…”
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Socio-educational intervention program for the smoking prevention in dentistry students by Miguel Ángel Toledo Méndez, Midiala Veloz Fariñas, Tania Quesada Rabelo, Yanexis Valdés Gárciga, José Carlos Toledo Quirós

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the proposed socio-educational intervention program assumes as a distinctive feature the prevention of smoking through phases or stages that interrelate axes, activities and tasks, such as spaces or areas of action located at the individual and group level.</p>…”
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Prediction of Emotional Divorce based on Family Communication Patterns with the Mediating Role of Marital Burnout in Married Female Teachers of Darab City by Zakiye Faraji, Zahra Ghavaminia, Jalal Kalantari

“…The census technique was employed to estimate the sample, estimating the population of 176 individuals. The Revised Family Communication Patterns Scale (RFCP),  Couple Burnout Measure (CBM), and Gottmanns Emotional Divorce Scale (GEDS) were used to collect data. …”
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Perbedaan Paparan Tungau Debu Rumah dengan Status Rhinitis Alergi Berdasarkan Kriteria ISAAC pada Anak di Dua Panti Asuhan Kecamatan Koto Tangah by Dwi Fitria Nova, Selfi Renita Rusjdi, Fachzi Fitri

“…Famili terbanyak adalah Famili Pyrogliphydae yaitu 34,6% (81 tungau). Individu dengan rhinitis alergi berdasarkan kuesioner ISAAC berjumlah 17 orang (41,5%). …”
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The Discriminative Lexicon: A Unified Computational Model for the Lexicon and Lexical Processing in Comprehension and Production Grounded Not in (De)Composition but in Linear Discr... by R. Harald Baayen, Yu-Ying Chuang, Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan, James P. Blevins

“…The discriminative lexicon also incorporates the insight from machine learning that end-to-end modeling is much more effective than working with a cascade of models targeting individual subtasks. The computational engine at the heart of the discriminative lexicon is linear discriminative learning: simple linear networks are used for mapping form onto meaning and meaning onto form, without requiring the hierarchies of post-Bloomfieldian ‘hidden’ constructs such as phonemes, morphemes, and stems. …”
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Job Description of Community Police Officers of the National Police of Ukraine by V. I. Barko, V. V. Barko

“…It has been demonstrated that job descriptions represent a complete description of the specifics of a particular profession, they reveal the content of professional work, as well as the requirements that a profession brings to a person; this is a document that provides a comprehensive, systematic and comprehensive description of the objective characteristics of the profession and the totality of its requirements to individual and psychological features of a man. An important part of the job description is a psychic profile containing a complete description of the actual psychological characteristics and professionally important personal qualities of specialists. …”
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Satisfaction of Students with the Quality of Educational Services at Technical University by D. V. Maltsev, D. S. Repetskiy

“…However, some comments revealed dissatisfaction with the technical means, the quality of the content audiences, the organization of pedagogic assistance and students’ self-directed learning, schedule of classes, quality of teaching materials, organization of traineeships, quality control test, availability of laboratories and computer classes outside the classroom.The assessment of the socio-cultural environment considered aspects of the organization of students’ extracurricular work, the socio-psychological climate; the conditions of life support of the educational process (sanitary and social); socio-cultural activities related to the satisfaction of spiritual and physical needs of an individual; socio-cultural fostering. The main comments are related to the quality of social and living conditions (catering, living conditions in a hostel).The results of the survey showed the need for further research in order to form a generalized (complex) model for assessing the quality of the University activities.…”
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Social factors influencing behavioral intentions to vaccinate: personality traits and cues to action by Zeming Li, Xinying Sun

“…These findings emphasize the importance of incorporating individual differences into public health policies and vaccination promotion strategies. …”
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Sperm Cryopreservation in Canaries to Protect Endangered Songbird Species: Comparison of Different Cryoprotectants by Arda Onur Özkök, Burcu Esin, Eser Akal

“…For this purpose, sperm samples were collected from 12 2‐year‐old male Gloster canaries three times a week using cloacal massage for 4 weeks. After individual evaluation, sperm samples from the canaries were combined. …”
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Determination of Saponins in Leaves of Four Swiss Chard ( Beta vulgaris L.) Cultivars by UHPLC-CAD/QTOF-MS/MS by Agnieszka Mroczek, Urszula Klimczak, Mariusz Kowalczyk

“…The analyzed cultivars differed in the total and individual saponin content. The total saponin content ranged from 125.53 to 397.09 μg/g DW.…”
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