El Zika, un Virus Transmitido por Mosquitos by Jorge R. Rey, L. Phil Lounibos, Barry W. Alto, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Cynthia C. Lord, Chelsea T. Smartt, C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly

“…This 7-page fact sheet is the Spanish-language version of ENY-888/IN1120: Zika, a Mosquito-Transmitted Virus and describes the Zika microbe, its mosquito hosts, and the disease it causes. …”
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Quantitative Assessment of Deep Gray Matter Susceptibility and Correlation With Cognition in Patients With Liver Cirrhosis by Wenjun Wu, Yu Su, Ziji Qin, Jiamin Kang, Dongqiao Xiang, Dingxi Liu, Chuansheng Zheng, E. Mark Haacke, Lixia Wang

“…The susceptibility value of the left RN was a predictor variable for the DST, MoCA, and visuospatial–executive scores; those of the right CN and left RN were predictor variables for the naming score, and that of the left SN was an independent predictor variable for the language score. Conclusions Altered susceptibility values of DGM measured by QSM are potential quantitative indicators of cognitive impairment in cirrhotic patients.…”
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Cochlear implantation outcomes in adults: A scoping review. by Isabelle Boisvert, Mariana Reis, Agnes Au, Robert Cowan, Richard C Dowell

“…<h4>Design</h4>A scoping review was conducted to identify English-language, peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2000 and 2018 assessing the outcomes of cochlear implantation in adults who received their first cochlear implant from 2000 onwards. …”
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Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa by Thomas E. O’Shea, Lena C. Grobusch, Mary Zhang, Jeff Neal, Joseph Daron, Richard G. Jones, Christopher Jack, Alice McClure, Gilbert Siame, Dorothy Ndhlovu, Sukaina Bharwani

“…These narratives were used to calibrate the flood maps with insights from Lusaka’s stakeholders using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text Network Analysis (TNA). …”
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Clinical Predictors of Aspirin Resistance in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Fan Zhang, Hongyan Zheng

“…The meta package in the R language software was utilized to synthesize the evidence concerning clinical predictors of AR. …”
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Availability and accessibility of cytotoxic medicines in the WHO model list of essential medicines for childhood cancer in low and lower-middle- income countries: a systematic revi... by Maheeka Seneviwickrama, Sashini Shehana Denagamagei, Surangi Jayakody, Sanjeeva Gunasekera, Guwani Liyanage

“…Peer- reviewed primary studies, national/regional reports, and policy documents published in the English language were included through a thorough literature search using three electronic databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CINAHL. …”
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Steroid use for established bronchopulmonary dysplasia: study protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Roy K Philip, Joanna Seliga-Siwecka, Eduardo Villamor, Maria Pierro, Niazy Al Assaf, Sabina Strashun, Roberto Chioma, Kinga Zielińska, Krzysztof Włodarczyk

“…Here, we report a protocol for a systematic review, which aims to determine the efficacy and long-term safety of postnatal steroids for the treatment of established BPD in preterm infants.Methods and analysis MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane databases and sources of grey literature for conference abstracts and trial registrations will be searched with no time or language restriction. We will include case–control studies, cohort studies and non-randomised or randomised trials that evaluate postnatal steroids for infants diagnosed with moderate or severe established BPD at 36 weeks’ postmenstrual age. …”
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Constant Dizziness Versus Episodic Vertigo in Ménière’s Disease: Health-Related Quality of Life, Cognitive Dissonance, and Postural Problems by Ilmari Pyykkö, Jing Zou, Vinaya Manchaiah

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Socioeconomic position across the life course and falls among middle- and older-aged adults: protocol for a systematic review by Stéphane Cullati, Anita van Zwieten, Catherine Sherrington, Fiona M Blyth, Saman Khalatbari-Soltani, Marcia R Franco, Frerik Smit

“…Cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies with mean or median participant age of &gt;40 years, which report on the association between at least one socioeconomic indicator across the life course and one fall outcome and are published in peer-reviewed academic journals were included. No language or geographic restrictions were imposed. Titles and abstracts were screened by one reviewer with 20% of titles and abstracts also screened by a second reviewer. …”
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Rancher viewpoint diversity in human–wildlife coexistence management: The case of jaguar–livestock interaction in the region of Calakmul, Mexico by Elías J. Gordillo‐Chávez, Claudia Villanueva‐García, Enrique Melo‐Guerrero, Mircea G. Hidalgo‐Mihart, Miguel Lizana‐Avia, Fernando Rodríguez‐López, Victor J. Colino‐Rabanal

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El Zika, un Virus Transmitido por Mosquitos by Jorge R. Rey, L. Phil Lounibos, Barry W. Alto, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Cynthia C. Lord, Chelsea T. Smartt, C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly

“…This 7-page fact sheet is the Spanish-language version of ENY-888/IN1120: Zika, a Mosquito-Transmitted Virus and describes the Zika microbe, its mosquito hosts, and the disease it causes. …”
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Evaluation of change in emergency care knowledge and skills among front-line healthcare providers in Ukraine with the Basic Emergency Care course: a pretest/post-test study by Sean M Kivlehan, Amy Allen, Olha Viun, Dmitry A Makarov, Daniel Schnorr, Sonny Patel, Sergii A Ryzhenko, Phuong Pham, Timothy B Erickson

“…Further iterations should emphasise local language translation and consider expanding clinical skills sessions.…”
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Prospective de novo drug design with deep interactome learning by Kenneth Atz, Leandro Cotos, Clemens Isert, Maria Håkansson, Dorota Focht, Mattis Hilleke, David F. Nippa, Michael Iff, Jann Ledergerber, Carl C. G. Schiebroek, Valentina Romeo, Jan A. Hiss, Daniel Merk, Petra Schneider, Bernd Kuhn, Uwe Grether, Gisbert Schneider

“…This method capitalizes on the unique strengths of both graph neural networks and chemical language models, offering an alternative to the need for application-specific reinforcement, transfer, or few-shot learning. …”
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Antecedents to aggression and the use of coercive measures in inpatient mental health settings: a scoping review protocol by Johan Siqveland, Mette Senneseth, Njål Herman E Sterri, Øyvind Lockertsen, Tonje Lossius Husum, Veronica Lockertsen

“…This review seeks to address this gap by systematically mapping the evidence of these antecedents and exploring their relationship, providing a foundation for future research.Inclusion criteria Studies included were those published from 2014 to the present in the English language, focusing on either adult mental health inpatients or mental healthcare professionals aged 18 years or older involved in episodes of aggression or exposure to coercive measures in both acute and long-term inpatient mental health settings. …”
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Strategic SWOT analysis of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital using Modified Delphi Technique: implications for strengthening national and regional health systems by Cyril Chukwudi Dim, Chinyere Ojiugo Mbachu, Nympha Onyinye Enebe, Wilson Chukwukasi Kassy, Johnpaul Ejikeme Nnagbo, Ikechukwu Emmanuel Obi, Nkiruka Pauline Onodugo, Nwamaka Ngozika Lasebikan, Obinna Donatus Onodugo

“…Results The top strengths were mainly related to the hospital's resources like its large expanse of land, staff capabilities like their skills and training, as well as their prevailing language, and existing hospital partnerships. The identified weaknesses were associated with challenges such as transportation for staff to work, infrastructure (lack of staff accommodation and office space), and health workforce shortages due to migration. …”
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Possibilities to adapt oral history to the research of Soviet and post-Soviet epoch (the problems of the culture of memory and the politics of history) by Aurimas Švedas

“…, but also by trying to wrap the researcher in a spider web of reticence, Aesopian language, and open lies. The lack or fragmentation and uninformative nature of the written sources forces historians to use in their research the method of oral history interviews which offers many new perspectives. …”
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Effects of message framing on self-management behaviour among patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial protocol by Xin Zhang, Feng Li, Hui Guo, Yue Pang, Yandi Liu, Ruitong Gao, Xiaoqian Lian, Tianyue Yu, Lanyu Zhu

“…The message frame provides a new perspective for implementation of a more effective health education in the form of changing information presentation, and the same objective content is described in either positive or negative language or outcomes. Gain framing emphasises the positive consequences of adhering to useful recommendations, while loss framing highlights the negative consequences of the non-adherence. …”
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Medication burden in patients with dialysis-dependent CKD: a systematic review by Xuemei Liu, Ping Chen, Yun Liu, Xiaoyan Jia, Dongmei Xu

“…Data extraction and combining from multiple groups of number (n), mean, and standard deviation (SD) were performed using R programming language (version4.3.1; R Core Team, Vienna, Austria). …”
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ChatGPT-4 Performance on German Continuing Medical Education—Friend or Foe (Trick or Treat)? Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Christian Burisch, Abhav Bellary, Frank Breuckmann, Jan Ehlers, Serge C Thal, Timur Sellmann, Daniel Gödde

“…This study aimed to determine whether medical laypersons can successfully conduct training courses specifically for physicians with the help of a large language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT-4. This study aims to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the impact of using artificial intelligence (AI; specifically ChatGPT) on the acquisition of credit points in German postgraduate medical education. …”
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Early warning systems (EWSs) for chikungunya, dengue, malaria, yellow fever, and Zika outbreaks: What is the evidence? A scoping review. by Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Tatiana Rivera Ramírez, Axel Kroeger, Ernesto Gozzer, Silvia Runge-Ranzinger

“…No restrictions were applied regarding year of publication, language or geographical area.<h4>Findings</h4>Through the first screening, 11,710 documents for dengue, 2,757 for Zika, 2,706 for chikungunya, 24,611 for malaria, and 4,963 for yellow fever were identified. …”
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