Patient outcomes and health care resource utilization in acute pancreatitis-related central nervous system complications: insights from a national cohort study by Muhammad Shahzil, Ammad Javaid Chaudhary, Saad Javaid, Vishali Moond, Gokturk Tepe, Muhammad Saad Faisal, Muhammad Ali Khaqan, Anas Kutait

“…Conclusion Patients with AP who develop CE face worse outcomes, including increased mortality risk, prolonged hospital stay, and greater resource utilization. Timely identification and effective management of CE in AP may reduce mortality and ease the health care burden associated with this neurological complication.…”
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Conceptual Framework of an Effective Decision Support System in Forest Fire Management by Kadir Alperen Coşkuner, Ertuğrul Bilgili

“…Forest fire management organizations require accurate, timely and readily available information to be successful in forest fire suppression. …”
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Information Communication Technology and Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda: A Case Study of Equity Bank in Kabale Municipality by Sabiiti, Ignatius

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The Western Alpine arc: a review and new kinematic model by Brunsmann, Quentin, Rosenberg, Claudio Luca, Bellahsen, Nicolas

“…The southernmost External Zone is mainly inherited from the Pyrenean orogeny and was weakly reactivated in the Miocene, probably accommodating very small parts of Africa–Europe convergence since Late Miocene times. In the Internal Zone, the E–W strike of the Ligurian Alps is probably associated with 50° counterclockwise rotation of the northern Apennines.…”
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A case report of fatal familial insomnia with cerebrospinal fluid leukocytosis during the COVID-19 epidemic and review of the literature by Zheng Wang, Yueqi Huang, Shuqi Wang, Jiefang Chen, Gesang Meiduo, Man Jin, Xiaoying Zhang

“…This case suggests that patients with FFI may also have elevated white blood cells in cerebrospinal fluid and timely detection of Tau protein in cerebrospinal fluid is helpful for early identification of FFI. …”
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New horizons for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treatment through PosturalSpine^® D’Amanti Method by Francesca Campoli, Maria Chiara Parisi, Antonino Zoffoli, Donatella Di Corrado, Vincenzo Francavilla, Elvira Padua, Giuseppe Messina

“…The first group was treated with a new method with PosturalSpine® D’Amanti method, twice a week for 30 min per session while the second group was treated with kinesitherapy and traditional tools three times week for 45 min per session. The two groups are similar in the anthropometric characteristics, in baseline Risser index and in the Cobb angles average and no statistically significant differences were found between the two groups. …”
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A Comparison of Pattern of Pregnancy Loss in Women with Infertility Undergoing IVF and Women with Unexplained Recurrent Miscarriages Who Conceive Spontaneously by Vidya A. Tamhankar, Beiyu Liu, Junhao Yan, Tin-Chiu Li

“…The clinical pregnancy loss rate in Group I (14.3%) was significantly lower than that of Group II (25.8%, p<0.001) and this was independent of the cause of infertility. However the timing of pregnancy loss was similar between Groups I and II. …”
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Transportation considerations in underserved patient populations receiving multidisciplinary head and neck cancer care by Luke Stanisce, Donald H Solomon, Liam O'Neill, Nadir Ahmad, Brian Swendseid, Gregory J Kubicek, Yekaterina Koshkareva

“…Patients who used public transportation were 3.3 and 4.6 times more likely to miss treatment (p = 0.001) and surveillance (p = 0.014) visits, respectively. …”
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Wafer-Level Characterization and Monitoring Platform for Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes by Samuel Parent, Frederic Vachon, Valerie Gauthier, Steve Lamoureux, Alexandre Paquette, Jacob Deschamps, Tommy Rossignol, Nicolas Roy, Philippe Arsenault, Henri Dautet, Serge A. Charlebois, Jean-Francois Pratte

“…The platform gives full access to SPAD characteristics in Geiger mode such as the dark noise, photon detection efficiency and timing resolution. The integrated circuit and its configuration are described in detail as well as results obtained on different SPAD test structures. …”
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Meropenem Continuous Infusion in a Septic Patient with Periprosthetic Infection and End-Stage Renal Disease Undergoing Prolonged Intermittent Renal Replacement Therapy by Assiya Kadralinova, Maiya Konkayeva, Serik Dzhandayev, Aidos Konkayev

“…The patient was treated with a continuous infusion of meropenem 2 g per day receiving renal replacement therapy three times a week (12 h). Also during hospitalization, the patient underwent hip disarticulation and excision of necrotic tissues. …”
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Persistent Cryptococcal Brain Infection despite Prolonged Immunorecovery in an HIV-Positive Patient by Tom Wingfield, Jo Baxter, Amit Herwadkar, Daniel du Plessis, Tom J. Blanchard, F. Javier Vilar, Anoop Varma

“…This unusually protracted case highlights the difficulties in differentiating relapsing cryptococcal meningitis from immune reconstitution and raises questions concerning the optimum timing of initiation of combined antiretroviral therapy in such patients.…”
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Artificial Intelligence in Educational Data Mining and Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning and Machine Teaching: Analysis of Scientific Knowledge by Eloy López-Meneses, Luis López-Catalán, Noelia Pelícano-Piris, Pedro C. Mellado-Moreno

“…Through EDM, student data are analyzed to predict student performance and enable timely interventions. HITL-ML ensures that educators remain in control, allowing them to adjust the system according to their pedagogical goals and minimizing potential biases. …”
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Distinct changes to hippocampal and medial entorhinal circuits emerge across the progression of cognitive deficits in epilepsy by Yu Feng, Keziah S. Diego, Zhe Dong, Zoé Christenson Wick, Lucia Page-Harley, Veronica Page-Harley, Julia Schnipper, Sophia I. Lamsifer, Zachary T. Pennington, Lauren M. Vetere, Paul A. Philipsberg, Ivan Soler, Albert Jurkowski, Christin J. Rosado, Nadia N. Khan, Denise J. Cai, Tristan Shuman

“…We found that HPC synchronization deficits (including reduced theta power, coherence, and altered interneuron spike timing) emerged within 3 weeks of Pilo-SE, aligning with early-onset, relatively subtle memory deficits. …”
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Ischemic Changes in the Mucous Membrane of the Transverse Colon as a Complication of Acute Pancreatitis by D. A. Semenov, S. G. Shapovalyants, D. E. Seleznev, O. I. Yudin, S. V. Korolev, N. A. Gracheva, L. M. Mikhaleva, K. S. Paramonenko

“…During colonoscopy, ischemic changes of the colon mucosa were detected in a timely manner. Negative results of analysis for toxins A and B of Clostridioides difficile and pathogenic intestinal flora were obtained. …”
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Nurses’ Experience of Using an Application to Support New Parents after Early Discharge: An Intervention Study by Dorthe Boe Danbjørg, Lis Wagner, Bjarne Rønde Kristensen, Jane Clemensen

“…The nurses on the postnatal ward consider that the use of the app gives families easier access to timely information and support. Conclusions. The app gives the nurses the possibility to offer support and information to the parents being early discharged. …”
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Coxiella Endocarditis as the Cause of Recurrent Fever and Brain Abscess in a Patient with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review by Ioannis A. Ziogas, Alexandros P. Evangeliou, Olga Tsachouridou, Alexandra Arvanitaki, Afroditi Tsona, Vassilios Kamperidis, Marianthi Papagianni, Theofilos Panagiotidis, Ilias A. Tourtounis, George Giannakoulas, Symeon Metallidis

“…Patients with congenital heart disease are particularly vulnerable to IE. Timely diagnosis and antibiotic management are of paramount importance in order to avoid the potentially fatal sequelae.…”
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Immune Vulnerability of Infants to Tuberculosis by Koen Vanden Driessche, Alexander Persson, Ben J. Marais, Pamela J. Fink, Kevin B. Urdahl

“…As a result, infected infants are 5–10 times more likely than adults to develop active tuberculosis (TB) and have higher rates of severe disseminated disease, including miliary TB and meningitis. …”
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Selection of cam mechanisms for driving the plunger of high-pressure pump of diesel engines using Mathcad program by A. P. Zhigadlo, Yu. P. Makushev, T. A. Polyakova, V. V. Ryndin

“…A comparative analysis of the combined graphs showed that the maximum speed of the cam pusher with a concave profile is 1,5 times greater than for cams with a tangential or convex profile. …”
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Heme alters biofilm formation in Mycobacterium abscessus by Hadia Aftab, Jessica Samudio, Grace Wang, Lily Le, Rajesh K. Soni, Rebecca K. Donegan

“…During infection, the CF lung can have more than 10 times the extracellular heme than that of a healthy lung. …”
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Life cycle comparison of industrial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling and mining supply chains by Michael L. Machala, Xi Chen, Samantha P. Bunke, Gregory Forbes, Akarys Yegizbay, Jacques A. de Chalendar, Inês L. Azevedo, Sally Benson, William A. Tarpeh

“…Electricity consumption is identified as the principal contributor to all LIB recycling environmental impacts, and different electricity sources can change greenhouse gas emissions up to five times. Supply chain steps that precede refinement (material extraction and transport) contribute marginally to the environmental impacts of circular LIB supply chains (<4%), but are more significant in conventional supply chains (30%). …”
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