Can the adherence to quality of care indicators for early rheumatoid arthritis in clinical practice reduce risk of hospitalisation? Retrospective cohort study based on the Record L... by Carlo Alberto Scirè, Antonella Zambon, Greta Carrara, Anna Zanetti, Lisa Argnani

“…Future interventions to improve the adherence to quality standards of care in this setting should decrease the risk of hospitalisation with a significant impact on individual and population health.…”
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Leveraging two-dimensional pre-trained vision transformers for three-dimensional model generation via masked autoencoders by Muhammad Sajid, Kaleem Razzaq Malik, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Tauqeer Safdar Malik, Masoud Alajmi, Ali Haider Khan, Amir Haider, Seada Hussen

“…Abstract Although the Transformer architecture has established itself as the industry standard for jobs involving natural language processing, it still has few uses in computer vision. …”
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Enhancing Secure Medical Data Communication Through Integration of LSB and DCT for Robust Analysis in Image Steganography by Ramyashree, P. S. Venugopala, S. Raghavendra, Vijay S. Kubihal

“…This method integrate audio data into medical images, specifically DICOM-standard images without compromising their visual integrity. …”
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Evaluation the Efficacy of ELISA IgG, IgM and IgA Tests for Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori by Hogir Mohammed Shukri Saadi, Ali Yahya Saeed

“…The efficacy of three different ELISA tests (IgG, IgM, IgA) was assessed taking culture as a gold standard method. pylori was found in 70.93%, 30.23% and 5.81% by ELISA IgG, IgA and IgM tests respectively. …”
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Factors Associated with Midterm Visual Field Variability in Patients with Stable Glaucoma by Maria Emília V. Guimarães, Carolina P. B. Gracitelli, Syril Dorairaj, Fábio N. Kanadani, Tiago S. Prata

“…The 5 latest VFI scores were used to calculate the mean, the standard deviation (SD), and the coefficient of variation (CV). …”
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Assessment of environmental impacts of heavy metal pollution in rice in Nanning, China by Jing Zhang, Peng Li, Siyan Li, Zhongqi Lyu

“…Rice was evaluated through the national standard of Food Safety and Food Contaminant Limits. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Three Diagnostic Methods for Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections among Schoolchildren in Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia by Shegaw Belay, Getaneh Alemu, Tadesse Hailu

“…The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were calculated against the combined result as a “gold” standard. The strength of agreement between the diagnostic methods was determined by the Kappa value. …”
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Assessment of antenatal care quality in Ethiopia: Facility-based study using service provision assessment data. by Addisu Alehegn Alemu, Alec Welsh, Theodros Getachew, Marjan Khajehei

“…<h4>Results</h4>The mean ANC quality score was 11 (standard deviation [SD]: 3.8). Blood pressure measurement was the most commonly performed ANC component, at 79.5%, and breast examination for cancer screening was the most neglected component of ANC, at 3.3%. …”
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Analisis Representasi dan Stereotip Gender dalam Film Animasi Anak by Hilmi Dafa Rabani, Kunto Adi Wibowo, Detta Rahmawan

“…These portrayals align with conventional beauty standards, associating physical  attractiveness with popularity and positive traits, while characters that do not fit these norms are  less favored. …”
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Assessment of aluminium level in commercial pasteurized and UHT milk in Bangladesh and their potential health risks by Ishrat Jahan, Kazi Md. Al-Noman, Shabbir Ahmed, Mst. Umme Habiba, S. A. Masudul Hoque, Abu Sadeque Md. Selim, Md. Morshedur Rahman

“…The instrumental precision for Al was 0.0212 mg/kg as a limit of detection (LOD) and 0.0643 mg/kg as a limit of quantification (LOQ), with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of 3.2%. The multi-element standard containing Al exhibited linearity in the concentration ranged from 0-0.5 mg/kg with a correlation coefficient value of 0.9994. …”
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Tumor tissue samples collection for scientific research in morphology and molecular oncology by O. R. Khabarov, B. D. Seferov, K. A. Aliev, D. V. Zima, E. P. Golubinskaya, E. Yu. Zyablitskaya

“…The formed biocollection made it possible to carry out a number of initiative and funded domestic and international scientific projects at the request of clinicians and fundamental researchers, as well as to improve the quality standards of morphological and molecular genetic oncology diagnostics. …”
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Successful ventilation through a Rüsch intubation guide catheter in severe laryngotracheal stenosis by Victoria Van Regemorter, Arnaud Potié, Sandra Schmitz, Jean-Louis Scholtes, Laurent Veevaete, Michel Van Boven

“…We describe an effective alternative to standard endotracheal intubation using a Rüsch flexible intubation guide catheter. …”
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Holographic thermodynamic relation for dissipative and non-dissipative universes in a flat FLRW cosmology by Nobuyoshi Komatsu

“…Abstract Horizon thermodynamics and cosmological equations in standard cosmology provide a holographic-like connection between thermodynamic quantities on a cosmological horizon and in the bulk. …”
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Clinical Guidelines for Acupotomy Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis by Working Group of Acupotomy Medical Branch of China Association of Chinese Medicine, XIU Zhongbiao, CHEN Changxian, ZHANG Jianxin, LV Yanan, WEI Song, ZHOU Yu, WAN Quanqing, ZENG Weiquan, CHEN Guoqiang, HUANG Huirong, CAI Zhaolian, YAN Guohong, ZHAI Hongye, LIN Huayang, LIU Hong, ZHANG Liangzhi

“…The clinical diagnosis and treatment guidelines for knee osteoarthritis based on the evidence-based medicine concept and method have significant implication, in standardizing the diagnosis and treatment of knee osteoarthritis, and improve the therapeutic effect of acupotomy treatment for knee osteoarthritis. …”
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بررسی عوامل پیشگویی‌کننده‌ی اضطراب مادران مبتلا به دیابت بارداری by وحید نهتانی, نوشین پیمان

“…در تحلیل رگرسیون، بیشترین پیشگویی‌کننده مربوط به متغیر سه ماهه بارداری، ارتباط مستقیم (0/001 = P، 0/678 = B standard) در زمینه‌ی نگرانی تغییرات بدنی و تحصیلات، بیشترین ارتباط معکوس (0/001 = P، -0/382= B standard) در زمینه‌ی نگرانی زایمان بود.نتیجه‌گیری: عوامل جمعیت‌شناختی مانند شغل، تحصیلات و وضعیت بارداری تأثیر معنی‌داری بر اضطراب بارداری دارند. …”
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Prevalence of Intestinal Schistosomiasis and Associated Factors among School Children in Wondo District, Ethiopia by Mustafa Geleto Ansha, Kemal Ahmed Kuti, Ephrem Girma

“…Additionally, biannual mass drug administration with praziquantel is required according to the WHO standard.…”
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Pharmacist-Led Digital Health Interventions for Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review by Christy A, Fernanda F, Insani WN, Abdulah R

“…We used the PRISMA reporting standard to implement and report the results. A total of 19 studies were included. …”
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EFFECT OF IRRIGATION INTERVAL ON GROWTH AND ARTEMISININ CONTENT OF WORMWOOD (Artemisia annua L.) CHEN YOUNG VARIETY IN SOKOTO by Lawal Gandi ABDULKADIR, Adamu Aliyu ALIERO, Hassan Muhammad MAISHANU, Abdullahi Yahaya ABBAS

“…The calibration curve was constructed by plotting the peak area against the concentration by the external standard method on five concentration levels of artemisinin standard (5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 µg/ml), with three injections per level. …”
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Obstacle Avoidance for Ship Navigation Safety Combining Heuristic Search Algorithm and Improved ACO Algorithm by Dan Wang, Yan Jing

“…Traditional obstacle avoidance methods mainly rely on the navigator's empirical judgement, but there are limitations and risks associated with this method. The standard ant colony optimisation algorithm tends to fall into local optimal solutions during path search, while the A* algorithm is easily limited by the search space when dealing with large-scale problems. …”
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The Global Burden and Trends of Legionella spp. Infection-Associated Diseases from 1990 to 2021: An Observational Study by Yonghong Zhong, Linfeng Shen, Yan Zhou, Yibo Sun, Xiaofang Fu, Huaqiong Huang

“…We aimed to systematically analyzed the long-term trends in Legionella spp. infection-associated diseases (LSIADs) burden from 1990 to 2021. Methods Age-standardized disability-adjusted life years (ASR-DALYs) and age-standardized death rates (ASDRs) of LSIADs from 1990 to 2021 were accessed from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021, which utilized the Bayesian hierarchical meta-regression tool and the Cause of Death Ensemble model to estimate these metrics. …”
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