Point-of-care lung ultrasound in detecting pneumonia: A systematic review by Iqra Abid, Nadia Qureshi, Nicola Lategan, Simon Williams, Sidra Shahid

“… # Material and Methods This systematic review examined systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and original research from 2017 to 2021, comparing point-of-care LUS and CXR in diagnosing pneumonia among adults, pediatrics and geriatrics. …”
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Bidimensionally partitioned online sequential broad learning system for large-scale data stream modeling by Wei Guo, Jianjiang Yu, Caigen Zhou, Xiaofeng Yuan, Zhanxiu Wang

“…By doing so, the scale and computational complexity of the original high-order model are substantially diminished, thus significantly improving its learning efficiency and usability for large-scale complex learning tasks. …”
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Finding Ways to Lift Barriers to Care for Chronic Pain Patients: Outcomes of Using Internet-Based Self-Management Activities to Reduce Pain and Improve Quality of Life by Kevin Rod

“…These patients committed to study from a group of 515 patients with chronic noncancer pain of different origins who were stable on their levels of pain, anxiety, and depression for 12 consecutive months before start of study and could not afford noninsured treatment modalities like physiotherapy, psychology, nutrition, or exercise therapy consultation. …”
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One Nudge Can Be Enough:Reducing Cigarette ButtLittering in Public Areas by Artsiom Klunin, Matúš Sloboda, Emília Sičáková-Beblavá, Patrik Pavlovský

“…Findings: The results suggest that a single behavioural intervention may be sufficient to achieve the desired behavioural change, and reinforcing its effects within a relatively short time period with a follow-up intervention may not deliver any additional statistically significant effects. Originality/Value: This research contributes to public administration research, specifically by applying behavioural insights and experimental approaches to studying public policies. …”
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SSR analysis of the genomic DNA of perspective Uzbek hexaploid winter wheat varieties by A. T. Adylova, G. K. Norbekov, E. E. Khurshut, E. V.  Nikitina, F. N. Kushanov

“…It showed that Uzbekistan breeding varieties are divided into two main clusters, which may be evidence of their common origin.  A genetic formula has been developed for each Uzbek wheat variety. …”
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Under the Light of the Population Register Dated 1857 An Evaluation upon the Socio-Economic Lives of the Gypsy Living in İstanbul by Ayşegül Kuş

“…Actually the interest shown in the Gypsies is closely related to their ethnic origins, their life styles and their physical traits. …”
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Sensory quality and nutritional composition of carrot (Daucus carota L.) genotypes as affected by fertilization in production system in Cameroon by Maxime Merlin Tonfack Djoufack, Eric Bertrand Kouam, Edith Marius Kouam Foko, Mariette Anoumaa, Pierre Marie Kaktcham, François Ngoufack Zambou

“…Therefore, the objective of this work was to determine the probable origin of poor carrot quality in production basins in Cameroon. …”
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Luminescent Iridium–Terpyridine Complexes with Various Bis-Cyclometalated Ligands by Ko Ikeda, Natsumi Yano, Makoto Handa, Yusuke Kataoka

“…The density functional theory calculations revealed that the luminescence originates from the triplet metal–ligand to ligand charge transfer (³MLL′CT) excited state.…”
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Biomechanical insights into anterolateral vertebral screw fixation in osteoporotic spines: a comparative study of fixation methods and positions using porcine vertebrae by Ming-Kai Hsieh, Yun-Da Li, Weng-Pin Chen, De-Mei Lee, Ching-Lung Tai

“…Results A 4-week decalcification process, bone mineral density in the porcine vertebrae decreased to approximately 48% (p < 0.05) of the original value, categorizing them as osteoporotic. …”
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Edge-Preserving Probabilistic Downsampling for Reliable Medical Segmentation in Resource-Constrained Environments by Shahzad Ali, Yu Rim Lee, Soo Young Park, Won Young Tak, Soon Ki Jung

“…This study introduces a novel approach, Edge-Preserving Probabilistic Downsampling (EPD), designed to retain critical details and bridge the performance gap between networks trained on original and downsampled resolutions. It leverages class uncertainty within a local window to produce soft labels, with the window size determining the downsampling factor. …”
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Textiloma intrabdominal incidental by Yunia Tusen Toledo, Jorge Luis García Menocal Hernández, Carlos Arturo Rodríguez López-Calleja, Ana Marina Chao Fernández, Ivon Zoila Navarrete Baldassarri, Ludmila Martínez Leyva

“…Su forma de presentación clínica puede ser aguda o crónica y se manifiestan meses o años después de la operación quirúrgica original. Objetivos: Presentar un caso poco frecuente de textiloma intrabdominal, sus manifestaciones clínicas, diagnóstico y tratamiento. …”
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Validity of the Alberta Infants Motor Scale in Norwegian infants aged 6–9 months through comparison with Canadian and Dutch scores by Anniken Göthner, Kirsti Riiser, Kirsti Riiser, Kine Melfald Tveten, Kine Melfald Tveten

“…The distribution of the original AIMS scores has not been cross-culturally validated for Norwegian infants. …”
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Biodiversity reporting: Comparing listed entities in the United Kingdom and South Africa by Dino Da Mata, Timothy Lai, Dusan Ecim, Warren Maroun, Dannielle Cerbone

“…The findings help stakeholders assess organisations’ progress in achieving biodiversity objectives and integrating biodiversity considerations into business operations. Originality/value: This study makes two unique contributions to the literature. …”
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Analysis of intracranial lesions in patients with HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis by Wei Song, Li Liu, Tangkai Qi, Zhenyan Wang, Yang Tang, Jianjun Sun, Shuibao Xu, Junyang Yang, Jiangrong Wang, Jun Chen, Renfang Zhang, Yinzhong Shen

“…This study aims to analyze the prevalence, origins, radiological characteristics, treatments, and prognosis of intracranial lesions in patients with HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis, thereby providing references for future clinical decision-making.MethodsThe clinical data of patients diagnosed with HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis and admitted to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre between 2013 and 2019 were collected. …”
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Russian Strategy for Eurasian Integration: Key Elements, Determinants and Prospects for Development by D. S. Alekseev

“…In order to provide a better understanding of the specificities and prospects of Russia’s initiatives, the paper examines the origins and the evolution of the Russian strategy of Eurasian integration, and identifies its key elements. …”
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Fieldwork on animals living in extreme conditions as a source of biomedical innovation by Yvon Le Maho, Aurélie Tasiemski, Fabrice Bertile, Philippe Bulet

“…However, compared with the high number of molecules originating from plants in clinical use, and with the countless unique adaption mechanisms that animals have developed over the course of evolution to cope with environmental constrains, there is still few investigations on wild animals with biomedical objectives, and field studies are far fewer. …”
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Diversification outbreaks and dynamics of Asian leaf-litter frogs, genus Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae), with the description of a new species from Guizhou Province, China by Tao Luo, Zi-Fa Zhao, Zhong-Lian Wang, Chang-Ting Lan, Ming-Yuan Xiao, Huai-Qing Deng, Ning Xiao, Jiang Zhou

“…Despite this, little is known about how orogeny and climate affect the evolution of biodiversity, especially the dynamics of diversification, including origins, peaks and endings. Here, we performed phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of Leptobrachella distributed in Southeast Asia and southern China, based on mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA. …”
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Les redevances coutumières chez les Agni-Djuablin à l’époque précoloniale by Kouablan KOFFI

“…Résumé : Les Agni-Djuablin sont des Akan appartenant au grand groupe Agni de Côte-d’Ivoire. À l’origine, ils sont des Ashanti de la tribu Duaben. …”
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Effect of Pollution Level on Size Distributions and Mixing State of Ambient Black Carbon Particles in an Urban Area during Wintertime by Kangning Li, XiaoFei Wang, Xiaohui Lu, Hong Chen, Xin Yang

“…Trajectory analyses of the air masses showed that they usually originated in local areas or on the North China Plain during haze episodes but mostly migrated from the East China Sea during clean episodes. …”
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Experimental Study on Improving the Compressive Strength of UHPC Turntable by Jiawei Wang, Quansheng Sun

“…We summarize the failure mechanism of the spherical hinge turntable specimens that are expected to play a role in UHPC spherical hinge in engineering applications and construction monitoring. Originality/Value. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to employ the UHPC, steel tube-UHPC, stirrup-UHPC, and directional steel fiber spherical hinge turntables in the swivel construction of bridges. …”
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