Treatment of Palatal Myoclonus with Botulinum Toxin Injection by Mursalin M. Anis, Natasha Pollak

“…Knowledge of the temporal onset of postinjection side effects and symptomatic relief may aid physicians in dose titration and surveillance. We present suggestions on titrating the botulinum toxin dose to optimal levels. …”
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Online multi‐object tracking based on time and frequency domain features by Mahbubeh Nazarloo, Meisam Yadollahzadeh‐Tabari, Homayun Motameni

“…Its application can be found in video motion analysis, smart interfaces, and visual surveillance. It is a challenging issue due to difficulties made by a variable number of objects and interaction between them. …”
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Global Fluoroquinolone Resistance Epidemiology and Implictions for Clinical Use by Axel Dalhoff

“…This paper on the fluoroquinolone resistance epidemiology stratifies the data according to the different prescription patterns by either primary or tertiary caregivers and by indication. Global surveillance studies demonstrate that fluoroquinolone resistance rates increased in the past years in almost all bacterial species except S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae, causing community-acquired respiratory tract infections. …”
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Physical Activity among Veterans and Nonveterans with Diabetes by Erin D. Bouldin, Gayle E. Reiber

“…Data from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System were used in this study. Respondents were classified as having diabetes if they reported ever being diagnosed with diabetes except during pregnancy. …”
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Infectious disease phylodynamics with occurrence data by Leo A. Featherstone, Francesca Di Giallonardo, Edward C. Holmes, Timothy G. Vaughan, Sebastián Duchêne

“…With the increasing genomic surveillance of pathogens, especially during the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic, new practical questions about their use are emerging. …”
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“It’s about finding and knowing myself”: Why Johannesburg-based South African Millennials consume self-help media by Simphiwe Emmanuel Rens

“…The article presents evidence to demonstrate that self-help media texts are consumed by the interviewees to gratify a psychosocial need for self-knowledge where they engage self-help media texts as surveillance mediums on which they rely to better “find” and “know” themselves in relation to others, as far as socially “acceptable” interpersonal behaviour is concerned. …”
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Food Safety Challenges towards Safe, Healthy, and Nutritious Street Foods in Bangladesh by Md. Khairuzzaman, Fatema Moni Chowdhury, Sharmin Zaman, Arafat Al Mamun, Md. Latiful Bari

“…This may be partly attributed to improved surveillance, increased global trade and travel, changes in modern food production, the impact of modern lifestyles, changes in food consumption, and the emergence of new pathogens. …”
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Out of place: thoracic splenosis—a case report by Gaston Becherano, Eitan Podgaetz, Shair Ahmed, Sigrid Ringenberg, Gary Schwartz

“…During oncological surveillance, a computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest revealed a mediastinal mass, which raised concern for metastatic seminoma or a primary tumor. …”
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Viral hepatitis B epidemiology in Sakha republic (Yakutia) by S. I. Semenov, R. G. Savvin, S. G. Nikitina, S. S. Maksimova, V. G. Krivoshapkin, S. S. Sleptsova

“…Data of the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) for Sakha republic (report form #1) and results of enzyme-linked immunoassay (EIA) for viral hepatitis markers (HBsAg, a-HBcor IgG, a-HDV, a-HCV) in population of 17 areas of republic were utilized.Results. …”
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IAPSM’s Position Paper on Pneumococcal Vaccine (PCV) for Adult Immunization in India by Chythra R. Rao, Veena G. Kamath, Anuradha Nadda, Swayam P. Parida, Nikita Sharma, Kapil Goel, Ranjitha S. Shetty, Madhur Verma, Arvind Kumar Singh, Abhisek Mishra, Swosti Kiran, Lalit Sankhe, Madhu Gupta

“…Hence, documenting population demographics with surveillance on serotype specific pneumococcal disease burden in adults is needed. …”
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Design of Unmanned Vehicle System for Disaster Detection by Ming-Chih Chen, Chien-Hsing Chen, Ming-Sheng Huang, Jheng-Yu Ciou, Guo-Tai Zhang

“…The vehicle is also equipped with a video surveillance camera to monitor the scene and find injured persons. …”
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Mucinous Cystadenoma of the Appendix in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erthematosus by Debrah A Wirtzfeld, Lorne M Price, Maire A Duggan, Shaun AC Medlicott, Francis R Sutherland

“…While systemic lupus erythematosus can lead to cutaneous mucinosis, an association with mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix has not been previously reported. Surveillance for metachronous colonic neoplasms is warranted in patients diagnosed with a mucinous neoplasm of the appendix.…”
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Herpesvirus Infections After Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy and Bispecific Antibodies: A Review by Joseph Sassine, Emily A. Siegrist, Roy F. Chemaly

“…Clinically significant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections can affect up to 10% of patients after CAR-T, depending on the CAR-T product target, post-CAR-T complications such as cytokine release syndrome and the need for glucocorticoid therapy. Surveillance and prophylactic strategies for CMV need to be developed, whereas the risk factors for and the burden of CMV infections after BsAb are not yet well-defined. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic in Brunei Darussalam by Wei Shan Ang, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Yong Sze Ong, Yatinesh Kumari, Long Chiau Ming, Loh Teng-Hern Tan

“…The key success factors are effective pandemic containment measures, public communication strategy, and enhanced surveillance mechanisms supported by the mass testing program and contact tracing. …”
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There’s (not) an App for that: situating smartphones, Excel and the techno-political interfaces and infrastructures of digital solutions for COVID-19 by Luke Heemsbergen, Catherine Bennett, Monique Mann

“…The paper offers new insights to pandemic politics by shifting questions from digital contact tracing and pandemic surveillance interfaces to understanding CTA as infrastructures of public health. …”
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Machine Learning for Predicting Distant Metastasis of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Using the SEER Database by Zhen-Tian Guo, Kun Tian, Xi-Yuan Xie, Yu-Hang Zhang, De-Bao Fang

“…Demographic data of MTC patients were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database of the National Institutes of Health between 2004 and 2015 to develop six ML algorithm models. …”
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Risk Factors for Child Mortality in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Population-Based Data by Michael N. K. Babayara, Bright Addo

“…This study was a population-based case control study utilizing data (2007–2011) from the Demographic Surveillance System database of the Navrongo Health Research Center. …”
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Conservative Management of Placenta Percreta: Three Cases and a Review of the Literature regarding Conservative Management of Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) Disorders. by M. Patabendige, J. M. P. Sanjeewa, A. M. A. K. G. Amarasekara, R. P. Herath

“…Use of a combined approach with symphysial-fundal height, serum beta-HCG, and ultrasonographic volume of placental mass with colour Doppler may guide the surveillance of these conservatively managed cases. However, at least one magnetic resonance imaging three months postoperatively may predict a further risk of delayed haemorrhage.…”
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Central Venous Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Hemodialysis Patients: Another Patient Safety Bundle? by B Lynn Johnston, John M Conly

“…A 1996 hospital-wide survey of nosocomial bacteremia in an Israeli university hospital (2) found that 9% of infected patients were on chronic hemodialysis. Surveillance in 73 hospitals in England between 1997 and 2001 found a CVC BSI rate of 21/1000 nephrology patients at risk who were hospitalized in teaching hospitals (3). …”
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A Deep Learning Model for YOLOv9-based Human Abnormal Activity Detection: Violence and Non-Violence Classification by 𝐒𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧, Shakila Rahman, 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐍𝐮𝐫, 𝐀𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐟, 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐧, JIA UDDIN

“…Abnormal activity detection is crucial for video surveillance and security systems, aiming to identify behaviors that deviate from normal patterns and may indicate threats or incidents such as theft, vandalism, accidents, and aggression. …”
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