Screening, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of developmental dysplasia of the hip in Brazilian population: a scoping review by Emily Schaeffer, Patricia Moreno Grangeiro, Patrícia Eduarda Conrado Martins Rocha Jaleca, Sheila Lam, Sana Arora, Daniel Frank Liggio

“…Databases were searched from their inception to February 2024.Eligibility criteria This scoping review included studies on Brazilian patients aged 0–18 years diagnosed with or being assessed for DDH. No language or date restrictions were applied.Data extraction and synthesis Studies were assessed based on title, authors, publication year, study design, sample size, level of evidence, region of Brazil and healthcare setting (public or private). …”
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Quality of Life Philosophy VI. The Concepts by Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…The frame of interpretation is pitched in language and concepts, in fact it creates our perceptions. …”
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Hierarchical graph-based integration network for propaganda detection in textual news articles on social media by Pir Noman Ahmad, Jiequn Guo, Nagwa M. AboElenein, Qazi Mazhar ul Haq, Sadique Ahmad, Abeer D. Algarni, Abdelhamied A. Ateya

“…Existing graph-based models, such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), have achieved notable success in Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, utilizing GNN-based models for propaganda detection remains challenging because of the challenges related to mining distinct word interactions and storing nonconsecutive and broad contextual data. …”
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Classifications of haemodialysis vascular access stenosis: a scoping review by Petr Waldauf, Michael Corr, Stephen O’neill, Katerina Lawrie, Jan Malik, Libor Janousek, Stepan Maly, Jaroslav Chlupac

“…This review aims to present a comprehensive summary and propose further methodological approaches.Design A systematic review of the literature, evaluating classifications for dialysis-related VA stenosis.Data sources Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar and the ClinicalTrials.gov registry were searched from inception to 7 December 2024.Eligibility criteria All articles containing classifications regarding dialysis VA were eligible, with no restrictions on the study type or language of the full text.Data extraction and synthesis Two independent researchers performed the search and initial screening. …”
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The Association of Oxidative Stress Status with Open-Angle Glaucoma and Exfoliation Glaucoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Binghua Tang, Shengjie Li, Wenjun Cao, Xinghuai Sun

“…We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and the Web of Science for randomized controlled trials written in the English language between January 1, 1990, and November 30, 2016. …”
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Informing proactive wildfire management that benefits vulnerable communities and ecological values by L. Mae Lacey, Justin P. Suraci, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Blake S. Busse, Brett G. Dickson

“…Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.…”
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Audio-visual event localization with dual temporal-aware scene understanding and image-text knowledge bridging by Pufen Zhang, Jiaxiang Wang, Meng Wan, Song Zhang, Jie Jing, Lianhong Ding, Peng Shi

“…Recently, transferring the pre-trained knowledge from Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training model (CLIP) has shown remarkable results across various tasks. …”
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A deep learning analysis for dual healthcare system users and risk of opioid use disorder by Ying Yin, Elizabeth Workman, Phillip Ma, Yan Cheng, Yijun Shao, Joseph L. Goulet, Friedhelm Sandbrink, Cynthia Brandt, Christopher Spevak, Jacob T. Kean, William Becker, Alexander Libin, Nawar Shara, Helen M. Sheriff, Jorie Butler, Rajeev M. Agrawal, Joel Kupersmith, Qing Zeng-Trietler

“…Of the cohort, 146,688(17%) had OUD, determined through Natural Language Processing of clinical notes and ICD-9/10 diagnoses. …”
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Effective community engagement in one health research in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review by Sidney Sangong, Farrukh Ishaque Saah, Luchuo Engelbert Bain

“…The barriers to effective CE included: inadequate community research literacy levels, contextual disparities in CE, inadequate dissemination of research findings, language barriers and ineffective and uncoordinated stakeholder involvement. …”
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Racialized migrant women’s discrimination in maternal care: a scoping review by Jasmine Therese Arcilla, Alexandra Nanou, Sarah Hamed, Fatumo Osman

“…Methodology This scoping review mapped out all available English-language scientific empirical literature published between 2012 and 2023. …”
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Impaired network organization in mild age‐related hearing loss by Zhaopeng Tong, Chunhua Xing, Xiaomin Xu, Jin‐Jing Xu, Yuanqing Wu, Richard Salvi, Xindao Yin, Fei Zhao, Yu‐Chen Chen, Yuexin Cai

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Pediatric Emergency Department-based Food Insecurity Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Stephanie Ruest, Lana Nguyen, Celeste Corcoran, Susan Duffy

“…We identified statistically significant differences in awareness and use of supplemental food services by FI status, household income, and primary language spoken. Conclusions: Nearly 60% of survey participants in an urban pediatric ED during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced food insecurity, substantially higher than previous reports. …”
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Assessing SPECT/CT for the identification of cartilage lesions in the knee joint: A systematic review by Larissa Rix, Samuel Tushingham, Karina Wright, Martyn Snow

“…Results: PubMed, Science Direct, Web of Knowledge, and NHS databases were searched for English language articles focusing on the diagnostic value of SPECT/CT for knee chondral lesions and knee pain. …”
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From Heritage Building Information Modelling Towards an ‘Echo-Based’ Heritage Digital Twin by Hord Arsalan, David Heesom, Nigel Moore

“…These can then be converted using a novel ‘Architectural Heritage Transformer’ (AHT), which converts plain language descriptions into architectural terminology through a generated taxonomy. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic tools and strategies for the screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis disease and infection: a scoping review by Colin A Russell, Morten Ruhwald, Brooke E Nichols, Shaukat Khan, Tom Ockhuisen, Alexandra de Nooy, Helen E Jenkins, Alvin Han, Sarah Girdwood, Mikashmi Kohli

“…To this end, PubMed, EMBASE and SCOPUS were used to identify any English language reports on the cost-effectiveness of TB infection/disease screening/diagnostic strategies published between 1 January 2017 and 7 October 2023. …”
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Requiem – Alàgbà, Dr., Prince, Mosọbalájé Ajíbádé Àkàndé Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, OON, DLitt., FNAL, JP, a.k.a ‘Pa Fálétí’ to Some; ‘Bàbá Fálétí’ to all and Sundry.... by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith

“…Thankfully, Fálétí heeded his friend’s daring, but honest friendly advice, switching his language choice to Yorùbá, and thus making us all heirs to a lasting legacy undoubtedly steeped in and shaped by quintessential Yorùbá traditions. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the Forgotten Joint Score usage in total hip arthroplasty by Waleed Albishi, Nasser M. AbuDujain, Orfan Arafah, Ibrahim S. Alshaygy, Abdulaziz Almaawi, Zyad A. Aldosari, Mohammed N. Alhuqbani, Omar A. Aldosari, Saad M. Alangari

“…The major goal of the current study was to validate, adapt, and evaluate a Arabic-language FJS-12 (Ar-FJS-12) version in patients who had undergone total hip replacement (THA). …”
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Study on the Influence of Sand Core Compactness on Surface Entropy considering Engineering Disturbance by Ding-li Su, Hang Chen, Xuemiao Xu, Mengxiong Tang, He-song Hu

“…In order to explore the correlation between the compactness of sand core samples and its surface image features and to provide the basis for rapid identification and recognition of core samples in engineering investigation, a typical image data set of sand core samples disturbed by drilling construction in practical engineering has been established, using Python language to compile algorithm to calculate one-dimensional entropy and two-dimensional entropy of 60 groups of sand core samples with different densities. …”
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The System of Sociocultural Adaptation of Foreign Students at Leading Russian Universities (On the Example of Azerbaijani and Chinese Students) by V. Yu. Ledеneva, R. Abdullaev, L. Guseynova

“…The relevance and uniqueness of the study are based on cross-cultural differences between the studied groups, which made it possible to identify both principal and specific features, and their significant difference from Russian culture.The authors of the article concluded that the acceleration of the process of sociocultural adaptation is possible, first of all, through the study of the Russian language and pre-departure training in their homeland, which includes studying of Russian culture, history, traditions and specifics of intercultural communication. …”
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Influence of DPYD Genetic Polymorphisms on 5-Fluorouracil Toxicities in Patients with Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis by Qiang Li, Ying Liu, Hong-Mei Zhang, Yin-Peng Huang, Tian-Yi Wang, Dong-Sheng Li, Hong-Zhi Sun

“…The MEDLINE (1966∼2013), the Cochrane Library Database (Issue 12, 2013), EMBASE (1980∼2013), CINAHL (1982∼2013), Web of Science (1945∼2013), and the Chinese Biomedical Database (CBM) (1982∼2013) were searched without language restrictions. Meta-analyses were conducted with the use of STATA software (Version 12.0, Stata Corporation, College Station, TX, USA). …”
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