Pulmonary Function Tests in Emergency Department Pediatric Patients with Acute Wheezing/Asthma Exacerbation by Kathryn Giordano, Elena Rodriguez, Nicole Green, Milena Armani, Joan Richards, Thomas H. Shaffer, Magdy W. Attia

“…Design/Method. A prospective pilot study in pediatric patients (3 to 18 yrs) with asthma/wheezing was conducted in an ED setting using respiratory inductance plethysmography and pneumotachography. …”
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Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding FoodDrug Interaction in the Intensive Care and Emergency Hospitals by Samir Y Lafi, Aram Salih Mohammed Amin Kamali, Bayan Omar Sharif

“…The validity of the questionnaire was given to a panel of 7 experts, a pilot study was carried out to check the reliability of the questionnaire which determined through the use of stability reliability (test-retest) approach which was estimated as r = 0.81.  …”
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Packed bed optofluidic microreactors with Au decorated TiO2 nanoflowers for visible light photocatalytic water purification by Yujiao Zhu, Pui Hong Yeung, Tsz Wing Lo, Yao Chai, Yat Lam Wong, Ying Chen, Huaming Yang, Weixing Yu, Anatoly V. Zayats, Fengjia Xie, Xuming Zhang

“…Here, we present a novel planar packed-bed optofluidic microreactor (PPOM) using titanium dioxide nanoflowers (TNFs) decorated with gold nanoparticles (Au/TNFs) and conduct a pilot study on efficient visible light-driven water purification. …”
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A Social Media Dataset and H-GNN-Based Contrastive Learning Scheme for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis by Jiao Peng, Yue He, Yongjuan Chang, Yanyan Lu, Pengfei Zhang, Zhonghong Ou, Qingzhi Yu

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Service Learning in Medical Education: Basic Approaches to Discipline Design by M. V. Prokhorova, O. R. Chepyuk, A. E. Mazanova, N. G. Briandinskaia, S. V. Nemirova

“…The paper proposes an approach to the design of the Service Learning discipline in a medical university, based on a detailed sociological study, a comparative review of the experiences of other countries, and the results of a pilot project at the Privolzhsky Research Medical University (Nizhny Novgorod). …”
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Testing of diagnostic test-systems for detection of antibodies to foot-and-mouth disease virus structural proteins with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for their serotype specifi... by N. N. Lugovskaya, E. A. Silanteva, T. V. Okovytaya, A. A. Kharitonova, Y. M. Gochmuradov, E. A. Razgulyaeva, O. O. Budina, E. A. Yasneva

“…All used test-systems detected apparent serotype-specific activity (homologous reaction) as well as cross-reacting virus-specific antibodies that was accounted for some reasons related to conservative epitopes in amino acid sequence of FMDV virion capsid VP1–VP3 polypeptides, accessibility of internal conservative epitopes of VP4 polypeptide for the animal’s immune system during virus replication or vaccine antigen (virus) destruction in the animal’s body in the process of immunity development, as well as the pilot anti-FMD vaccine composition, etc. Nevertheless, the analysis of a large data set (about 3,500 tests) showed that the homologous serotype-specific reaction in general was significantly higher and predominant, the proportion of virus-specific non-protective antibodies, including cross-reacting ones, was not significant and did not distort the results of ELISA tests of anti-FMD vaccine for its immunogenicity. …”
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International Standards of Implementing Mediation within Criminal Proceedings and the State of Its Realization in Ukraine by T. H. Fomina

“…Starting from 2019, two pilot projects have been implementing in Ukraine, which demonstrated positive results in this direction: “Restorative Program of Juveniles Suspected in Committing a Criminal Offense” and “Implementation of Restorative Justice in Ukraine”. …”
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Water quality prediction and carbon reduction mechanisms in wastewater treatment in Northwest cities using Random Forest Regression model by Jingjing Sun, Xin Guan, Xiaojun Sun, Xiaojing Cao, Yepei Tan, Jiarong Liao

“…By utilizing online monitoring data from pilot systems, it conducts an in-depth analysis of the impacts of different wastewater treatment processes on water quality parameters. …”
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Investigating the implementation of a new protocol and clinical tool designed to assess the audiological needs of individuals with hearing loss in clinical settings by Mathieu Hotton, Mathieu Hotton, Loonan Chauvette, Sandie Poulin, Jean-Pierre Gagné, Jean-Pierre Gagné

“…The Québec Audiological Assessment Protocol for Younger and Older Adults (QAAP-YOA) was recently developed for this purpose. This pilot study is the third phase in the development of the QAAP-YOA. …”
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Distinguishing classes of neuroactive drugs based on computational physicochemical properties and experimental phenotypic profiling in planarians. by Danielle Ireland, Christina Rabeler, Sagar Rao, Rudy J Richardson, Eva-Maria S Collins

“…Here, we used cheminformatics and MTS in the freshwater planarian Dugesia japonica-an invertebrate system used for neurotoxicant testing-to evaluate the extent to which complementary insight could be gained from the two data streams. In this pilot study, our goal was to classify 19 neuroactive compounds into their functional categories: antipsychotics, anxiolytics, and antidepressants. …”
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KIDS CLUB: CHILD-FRIENDLY HOTEL MARKETING STRATEGY by Dian Pramita Sugiarti, I Gede Anom Sastrawan

“…Kids Club: This child-friendly hotel marketing strategy (a HardRock Bali Hotel case study) will be: 1) Becoming a child-friendly hotel pilot. 2) Promote child-friendly kids clubs in every hotel. 3) The change in travelers' perspectives is related to the benefits of Kids Club in Child-Friendly Hotels. …”
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Cross-sectional study measuring the level and relationship of awareness, attitude and willingness to use HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Davao City, Philippines by Von Jay Maico Gillado Gabucan

“…The survey was adapted from multiple studies and was validated and pilot tested. Statistical analysis included descriptive and inferential statistics like correlation, linear regression and structural modelling.Settings This research was conducted in Davao City, Philippines. …”
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Proposal and operational evaluation of a device for external and internal photodynamic therapy treatments by Enrique Navarrete de Gálvez, Pablo Fonda Pascual, José Aguilera Arjona, José Ramón de Andrés Díaz, María Navarrete de Gálvez, Shiran Perera Mohamed, María Victoria de Gálvez Aranda

“…This device is an enhanced version of a previously developed source that has demonstrated efficacy in several pilot studies of photodynamic therapy.The proposed equipment shows significant potential for both medical and research applications, enabling the configuration of emission spectra on demand and the establishment of tailored treatment protocols based on the type of lesion being treated.…”
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Design of retrofit flue gas (CO2) scrubber for dependable clean energy at the Duvha Coal Power Plant by Hlamalani Innocent Baloyi, Leonard U. Okonye, Jianwei Ren

“…The approach for developing a wet CO2 scrubber and LSTG system is based on chemical absorption and is integrated with a pilot plant. The results of the parametric study provide a foundation for a comprehensive industrial system design for South Africa's coal-powered industry. …”
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ICGenomics: A PROGRAM COMPLEX FOR ANALYSIS OF SYMBOL SEQUENCES IN GENOMICS by Y. L. Orlov, A. O. Bragin, I. V. Medvedeva, K. V. Gunbin, P. S. Demenkov, O. V. Vishnevsky, V. G. Levitsky, D. Y. Oshchepkov, N. L. Podkolodnyy, D. A. Afonnikov, I. Grosse, N. A. Kolchanov

“…The pilot program complex for analysis of symbol sequences in genomics, ICGenomics, has been designed for storage, mining, and analysis of sequences related to theoretical and applied genomics. …”
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Long-Term Care at Home (Home LTC) Service in a Rural Community Pharmacy Setting by Megan Ditzman, Stevie Veach, Jessie Schaefer, Kaitlin Luett, Bryan Kendall, Matthew Witry

“…The objectives were to: 1) describe implementation and challenges of pharmacy-provided HOME LTC services, 2) attempt billing for Home LTC services, 3) describe pharmacist clinical interventions including drug therapy problems (DTPs) and 4) measure patient/caregiver satisfaction with the service. Methods: This was a pilot evaluation of a community pharmacist delivered intervention. …”
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The Nonmydriatic Fundus Camera in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: A Cost-Effective Study with Evaluation for Future Large-Scale Application by Giuseppe Scarpa, Francesca Urban, Stela Vujosevic, Michele Tessarin, Giovanni Gallo, Annalisa Visentin, Emanuela Foglia, Lucrezia Ferrario, Edoardo Midena

“…Out of 498 diabetic patients eligible, 80% was enrolled in the screening programme. 115 patients (34%) were referred to an ophthalmologist and 9 cases required prompt treatment for either proliferative DR or macular edema. Based on the pilot data, it emerged that an extensive use of the investigated screening programme, within the Greater Treviso area, could prevent 6 cases of blindness every year, resulting in a saving of €271,543.32 (−13.71%). …”
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Induction training programme of resident doctors: The need of the hour by Md Sameer, Jawahar S. K. Pillai, Biswajeevan Sahoo

“…The modules were implemented in a pilot mode in the study setting, and feedback was collected to understand the effectiveness of the program. …”
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ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS GENETIC STRUCTURE AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES DURING ADAPTATION TO CONTINUOUS CELL CULTURE by Ali Mazloum, N. G. Zinyakov, A. S. Pershin, I. V. Shevchenko, I. Yu. Zhukov, D. N. Fedoseyeva, D. V. Sharypova, A. S. Igolkin, N. N. Vlasova

“…Identifcation of such genes will enable preparation of deletion mutant ASF virus strains as well as development and testing of pilot safe vaccines based on the said virus strains. …”
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Introduction of the Project “Community Police Officer” as a Step towards Strengthening Local Security Infrastructure by O. I. Bezpalova

“…On the basis of studying this experience it is advisable to implement pilot projects aimed at creating a safe environment for citizens, which should implement effective local security infrastructure. …”
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