Predictors of severe community-acquired pneumonia associated with coronavirus infection by S. S. Avhaitis

“…In terms of predicting the development of severe CAP, hs-CRP has an advantage over the standard model (AUC = 0.92 vs AUC = 0.72, p < 0.05). …”
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Role of Tailored Timing and Frequency Prompts on the Efficacy of an Internet-Delivered Stress Recovery Intervention for Health Care Workers: Randomized Controlled Trial by Auguste Nomeikaite, Odeta Gelezelyte, Maria Böttche, Gerhard Andersson, Evaldas Kazlauskas

“…MethodsThe 2-arm randomized controlled trial included 87 health care workers (99% female, aged 19-68 years: mean 39.61, SD 11.49): 43 in the standard intervention group and 44 in the tailored prompts group. …”
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Ventricular function assessment using an ultrafast spoiled gradient echo sequence with an intravascular blood pool contrast agent in pediatric patients. by Tayaba Miah, Rithvik Gunda, Gerald Greil, Mohammad Hussain, Qing Zou

“…<h4>Background</h4>Balanced steady-state free processing (bSSFP) MR sequence has long been considered the gold standard method for ventricular function assessment (VFA), and normal values are based on this acquisition. …”
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Improving long-term postoperative survival in a porcine cardiac valve surgery model utilizing cardiopulmonary bypass via left thoracotomy: a single-center experience sharing insigh... by Qingping Xia, Yong Cao, Jialuan Li, Jie Jiang, Xuan Lu, Li Deng

“…Postoperative care was standardized to enhance recovery and survival.ResultAll 196 pigs survived the surgical procedures, with no deaths reported. …”
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Establishment of an Experimental Procedure for Preparing Trial Serum Samples for the Specific Serodiagnosis of Toxocara canis for External Quality Assessment Schemes by Quang Huy Vu, Diep Tuan Tran, Phu Manh Sieu Tran, Van Chuong Le, Thi Diem Phuc Huynh, Quang Sang Bui

“…To establish a procedure for producing standard Toxocara canis serum samples for serodiagnostic testing in EQA. …”
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A Novel Tool for High-Throughput Screening of Granulocyte-Specific Antibodies Using the Automated Flow Cytometric Granulocyte Immunofluorescence Test (Flow-GIFT) by Xuan Duc Nguyen, Thomas Dengler, Monika Schulz-Linkholt, Harald Klüter

“…Sixteen sera were positive in the automated Flow-GIFT, while five of these sera were negative in the standard GIFT (anti—HNA 3a, n = 3; anti—HNA-1b, n = 1) and GAT (anti—HNA-2a, n = 1). …”
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Bank Credit and Loan Repayment During Covid-19 In Kabale District: A Case of Lyamujungu SACCO. by Byamukama, Dicky

“…Data was presented in form of tables as frequencies, percentages, standard deviation, mean. Significance levels were determined for hypothesis. …”
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Safety of Drinking Water from Primary Water Sources and Implications for the General Public in Uganda by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Sarah, Namubiru, Roland, Kamugisha, Ejike, Daniel Eze, Fred, Ssempijja, Alfred, Omachonu Okpanachi, Hellen, Wambui Kinyi, Jovile Kasande, Atusiimirwe, Dickson Stuart, Tayebwa, Joy, Suubo, Edgar Mario, Fernandez, Nathan, Nshakira, Andrew, Tamale

“…All compounds were within international water safety standards except Pb. Hence, there is need for the government of Uganda to establish water filtration systems, particularly for Pb to improve the quality of water for the general public.…”
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The Impact of Politics on Education Sector Performance in Burundi Sub-County Rubanda District. by Aturinda, Bright

“…The questionnaire was used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. …”
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Antistripping potential of cement kiln dust on recycled asphalt pavement. Innovative Infrastructure Solutions by Usman, Kabiru Rogo, Ali, Atheer Muhammed, Wakawa, Yakubu Mamman, Usman, Abbas

“…The fndings confrm that CKD meets ASTM C150 standards for type II and type IIA hydraulic cement for use as a fller in asphalt. …”
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BUILDING THE FORECASTING SYSTEM OF DECISION-MAKING IN CLOUD COMPUTING by Nguyễn Tấn Thuận, Trương Tiến Vũ

“…The paper describes the C4.5 as the optimized algorithm through the division standard of classification in which the Information Gain is used as the criteria for evaluating algorithm C4.5.…”
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Local Projection-Based Stabilized Mixed Finite Element Methods for Kirchhoff Plate Bending Problems by Xuehai Huang

“…And the efficiency of the a posteriori error estimator is proved by standard bubble function argument.…”
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In-Plane Vibration Analysis of Square Plate with Multiple Cutouts by Shuangxia Shi, Yinlang Qi, Changqing Zhang, Qingtai Meng, Yinbei Liu, Guoyong Jin, Bin Xiao

“…To ensure continuity over the entire solution domain, the in-plane displacements are composed of two-dimensional standard Fourier series and supplementary functions. …”
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Judicial Independence in Germany within the European Context by Patrick C. R. Terry

“…Despite much criticism in and outside of Germany, there has so far been no serious attempt in Germany to finally bring its rules on judicial independence more in line with European standards. This short article will first explain how judicial independence is guaranteed in Germany, before examining the system’s weaknesses.…”
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Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis Treated with Debridement and Fluconazole Monotherapy in an Immunosuppressed Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Jennifer Wang, Luther Bartelt, Deborah Yu, Anjali Joshi, Bradley Weinbaum, Tiffany Pierson, Michael Patrizio, Cirle A. Warren, Molly A. Hughes, Gerald Donowitz

“…This case highlights the importance of early recognition of aggressive cellulitis that fails standard empiric antibiotic treatment in an immunocompromised patient. …”
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Recognition of Emotions in Mexican Spanish Speech: An Approach Based on Acoustic Modelling of Emotion-Specific Vowels by Santiago-Omar Caballero-Morales

“…The approach consists in the phoneme acoustic modelling of emotion-specific vowels. For this, a standard phoneme-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system was built with Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), where different phoneme HMMs were built for the consonants and emotion-specific vowels associated with four emotional states (anger, happiness, neutral, sadness). …”
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Semantic composition of robotic solver algorithms on graph structures by Sven Schneider, Sven Schneider, Nico Hochgeschwender, Herman Bruyninckx, Herman Bruyninckx, Herman Bruyninckx

“…The tools rely on mature standards from the Semantic Web. They first synthesize algorithms symbolically, from which they then generate efficient code. …”
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Endoscopy in Canada: Proceedings of the National Roundtable by Noah Switzer, Elijah Dixon, Jill Tinmouth, Nori Bradley, Melina Vassiliou, Steve Schwaitzberg, Anthony Gomes, James Ellsmere, Chris de Gara

“…These included the need for a formal and standardized system of both accreditation and training endoscopists.…”
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Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus by Suman Acharya, Jayant Kumar Yadav, Nischal Khanal, Raju Bhandari, Bikal Ghimire

“…A patient presenting with the features of acute cholecystitis who does not respond to standard treatment should be screened for scrub typhus in a typhus endemic region. …”
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Effect of Pantograph’s Main Structure on the Contact Quality in High-Speed Railway by Jiangwen Wang, Guiming Mei

“…In this paper, the two tension wires of the catenary are discretized by the sine-series expansions, a multibody dynamics theory based on relative coordinates is adopted to describe the dynamic behavior of the pantograph, and the standard deviation (STD) of dynamic contact force is used as the indicator to evaluate the contact quality. …”
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