Use of Healthcare Claims Data to Generate Real-World Evidence on Patients With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: Practical Considerations for Research by Nicole Stamas, Tom Vincent, Kathryn Evans, Qian Li, Vanessa Danielson, Reginald Lassagne, Ariel Berger

“…However, as real-world data sources used to generate RWE are typically generated for reasons other than research, rigorous methodology is required to minimize bias and fully unlock their value.…”
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“Energy for Free” in Resonance Electrical Circuits by Ophir Flomenbom

“…The application (for example, a train of LED bulbs) is placed in between the two ends of the electrical resonance part of the circuit; the circuit can power many more light bulbs than just the PSU can. The reason that the coefficient of performance (COP), COP [Formula: see text]/[Formula: see text], is larger than 1 is that the electrical signal is in a resonance that does not decay at all at the PSU frequency f of 30[Formula: see text]kHz. …”
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Diagnosis and Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Learning Algorithm by Gargi Pant Shukla, Santosh Kumar, Saroj Kumar Pandey, Rohit Agarwal, Neeraj Varshney, Ankit Kumar

“…Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and brain tumors are the primary reasons of death. The studies of these diseases are carried out by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and Computed Tomography (CT) scans which require expertise to understand the modality. …”
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From Social Infrastructure to Civic Center. The School as Laboratory of Collaborative Governance Models by Daniela Ciaffi, Emanuela Saporito, Ianira Vassallo

“…We will adopt this perspective in observing what happens inside schools, which seems particularly interesting for at least two reasons. First of all, as the symbol of a public welfare service in crisis, it is simultaneously possible to recognize a certain habit of school communities taking part in the redevelopment of this service, through actions to care for the school building and its pertinent spaces. …”
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Psychosocial Factors in End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients at a Tertiary Hospital in Australia by Charan Bale, Alexandra Douglas, Dev Jegatheesan, Linh Pham, Sonny Huynh, Atul Mulay, Dwarakanathan Ranganathan

“…Adjustment issues (41%), financial concerns (38.5%), domestic assistance (35.2%), and treatment nonadherence (21.3%) were the predominant reasons for social work consultation. Younger age, referral prior to start of dialysis, and unemployment were significant independent predictors of increased risk of adjustment issues (p=0.004, <0.001, and =0.018, resp.). …”
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Spatio-Temporal Segmented Traffic Flow Prediction with ANPRS Data Based on Improved XGBoost by Bo Sun, Tuo Sun, Pengpeng Jiao

“…The experiment results indicate that the proposed framework is convincing, satisfactory, and computationally reasonable.…”
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The problem of teaching speech activities in a foreign language to international law students by A. Bochenkov, T. Ivanova

“…In the absence of a natural language environment, teachers should build the educational process in accordance with a reasonably constructed model of educational and professional communication. …”
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Early Infant Diagnosis Sample Management in Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe, 2017 by Hamufare Mugauri, Owen Mugurungi, Addmore Chadambuka, Tsitsi Juru, Notion Tafara Gombe, Gerald Shambira, Mufuta Tshimanga

“…EID is the entry point to HIV treatment services in exposed infants. We determined reasons for DBS sample rejections and suggested solutions. …”
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The Efficacy and Treatment Fidelity of Kinesiology Taping in Conjunction With Conservative Treatment Interventions Among Individuals With Shoulder Pain: A Systematic Review with M... by Paul A Salamh, Christopher S Cory, William J Hanney, Haley E Condon, Xinliang Liu, Morey J Kolber

“… # Conclusions Adding KT to interventions performed in clinical settings appears to demonstrate efficacy regarding disability and ROM when compared to conservative interventions alone. However, despite reasonably good methodologic quality, fidelity was lacking in a majority of studies. …”
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Denoising of Tourist Street Scene Image Based on ROF Model of Second-Order Partial Differential Equation by Xiaofeng Yang

“…The noise pollution in tourist street view images is caused by various reasons. A major challenge that researchers have been facing is to find a way to effectively remove noise. …”
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Adherence to CRC Screening and Surveillance Guidelines when Using Split-Dose Bowel Preparation by Stacy B. Menees, H. Myra Kim, Grace H. Elta, Sheryl Korsnes, Philip Schoenfeld

“…Endoscopists’ reports cited suboptimal bowel preparation as the most common reason for earlier repeat colonoscopy. On multivariable analysis, patient split-dose preparation noncompliance was significantly associated with guideline-inconsistent recommendation (OR = 2.7) even after adjusting for other patient or bowel preparation-related characteristics. …”
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Pre-Service Primary School Teachers’ Understanding of Biogeochemical Cycles of Elements by Luka Ribič, Iztok Devetak, Robert Potočnik

“…Inadequate teacher training has proven to be the main reason why environmental education has failed to reach its full potential. …”
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Intervention in International Navigation: A Case Study of Seizure of Oil Tankers by States in the Implementation of Domestic and International Cross-Border Sanctions by Reyhane Derogari, Hatam Sadeghi Ziyazi, Somayehsadat Mirilavasani

“…Today, in addition to the traditional interventions and restrictions on navigation that are stated in article110 of UNCLOS, we are facing emerging issues in the field of seas, which can be the reason for the intervention of ships in order to maintain international peace and security, interests and internal laws of states. …”
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Improved Boundary Conditions for Coupled Geospace Models: An Application in Modeling Spacecraft Surface Charging Environment by Yiqun Yu, Shengjun Su, Jinbin Cao, Vania K. Jordanova, Michael H. Denton

“…This study hence demonstrates a reasonable solution to the setting of outer boundary conditions for inner magnetosphere models and is recommended for coupled geospace circulation models.…”
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Influence of Tool Pin Profiles on Aluminium Alloy A356 and Ceramic-Based Nanocomposites for Light Weight Structures by Friction Stir Processing by L. Karthick, Mruthunjaya M., Srinivas. S., Prasanna Venkatesh R., Naveen Kumar Gurajala, Meghavath Mothilal, Hari Banda

“…The increased grain boundary by the influence of different tool pin sizes was the major reason to produces the better mechanical properties in the processed A356/Cr2O3.…”
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Peculiarities of legal regulation of activities of the National Police of Ukraine in the field of ensuring information security in Ukraine by I. D. Kazanchuk, V. P. Yatsenko

“…It has been concluded that in order to improve the legal principles for the organization and activities of cyberpolice units of the National Police in the field of ensuring information security and counteracting cyber threats, first of all, it is necessary to optimize the organizational structure of cyberpolice, reasonably distribute the functions (powers) between cyberpolice units and other subjects combating cyber threats in Ukraine, to create appropriate conditions for reaching a qualitatively new level of interaction between them and coordination of their activities in the field of ensuring information security in modern conditions.…”
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Experimental Study on the Impact Resistance of Closed-Cell Aluminum Foam Protective Materials to RC Piers under Lateral Impact by Xiwu Zhou, Wen Zhang, Xiangyu Wang, Wenchao Zhang, Meng Zhan

“…However, it was found that reasonable density and thickness increases could effectively delay the entry of CCAF into the densification stage, which effectively reduced the shearing effects which occurred when the impact speeds were too high, thereby preventing the shear failure of the piers.…”
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Severe Pulmonary Infection in a 20-Month-Old Female by Yasmeen Mann, Paul Zeller, Kristen Carrillo-Kappus, Melissa Victor, Mary Moore

“…Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) is a common reason for hospitalization of a pediatric patient. …”
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A Decision-Making Method for Ship Collision Avoidance Based on Improved Cultural Particle Swarm by Yisong Zheng, Xiuguo Zhang, Zijing Shang, Siyu Guo, Yiquan Du

“…In order to obtain an effective and reasonable steering angle, this paper proposes a decision-making method for ship collision avoidance based on improved cultural particle swarm. …”
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A stacked CNN and random forest ensemble architecture for complex nursing activity recognition and nurse identification by Arafat Rahman, Nazmun Nahid, Björn Schuller, Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad

“…Abstract Nursing activity recognition has immense importance in the development of smart healthcare management and is an extremely challenging area of research in human activity recognition. The main reasons are an extreme class-imbalance problem and intra-class variability depending on both the subject and the recipient. …”
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