Health Care Costs attributable to Hospital-diagnosed Back Pain: A Longitudinal Register-based Study of the Danish Population by Rikke Søgaard, Jan Sørensen

“…**Conclusion:** At the disease stage where back pain leads to contact with specialised health care, diseased individuals appear to use on average three times more health care than non-diseased individuals. …”
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Valorization of Food Waste to Produce Eco-Friendly Means of Corrosion Protection and “Green” Synthesis of Nanoparticles by Georgii Vasyliev, Victoria Vorobyova

“…The extracts were found to inhibit the corrosion rate 2-3 times, while only radish cake extract inhibited both the corrosion and scaling rates. …”
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Efisiensi Big Data Menggunakan Improved Nearest Neighbor by Aditya Hari Bawono, Ahmad Afif Supianto

“…The proposed method resulted in 3 times faster than kNN. The accuracy of the proposed method is13% better results than kNN.   …”
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Exploring the impact of health literacy on pregnant women from ethnic minority groups: A scoping review. by Sarah E Feldman, Laura Lennox, Natasha Dsouza, Keivan Armani

“…Maternal mortality rates for BAME women can be up to four times higher than for white women. This scoping review aimed to assess the impact of health literacy on BAME pregnant women's health outcomes and experiences. …”
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Multifaceted barriers associated with clinical breast examination in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel analytical approach. by Castro Ayebeng, Joshua Okyere, Christiana Okantey, Isaac Yeboah Addo

“…However, surprisingly, women who faced travel-alone barriers were 1.19 times (95%CI: 1.10-1.28) more likely to utilise CBE than those who did not face this barrier.…”
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THE TOTAL LEUKOCYTE COUNT OF ELDERLY PATIENTS CONFIRMED COVID-19 WITH/WITHOUT A VENTILATOR IN A SURABAYA GENERAL HOSPITAL IN 2021 by Safira Indah Fitriani, Nur Septia Handayani, Erlinda Widyastuti, Anita Kurniati

“…Age above 70 years old increases the risk of patients requiring a ventilator up to 1.7 times compared to patients under 70 years old. The highest leukocyte count was 20.880/mm3, and the lowest was 3.760/mm3. …”
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TREM-2 Receptor Expression Increases with 25(OH)D Vitamin Serum Levels in Patients with Pulmonary Sarcoidosis by Maria Bucova, Magda Suchankova, Elena Tibenska, Eva Tedlova, Juraj Demian, Ivan Majer, Helena Novosadova, Miroslav Tedla

“…The total number of TREM-2 positive cells was 5.7 times higher and the percentage of TREM-2 positive cells was also significantly increased in BALF of PS patients with normal compared to PS patients with low 25(OH)D vitamin serum levels. …”
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CRISIS OF TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS IN ITS RESTORATION by Larysa Samoilenko, Viacheslav Sharyi, Alina Zahrebelna

“…Various strategies are analyzed, which government institutions can adopt to ensure transparency, accessibility, and the timely dissemination of information to citizens. …”
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The Impact of Maternal Age and Educational Level on Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip Diagnosis and Screening: A Descriptive Comparative Study by Moh’d S. Dawod, Mohammad N. Alswerki, Amr Z. Abuqudiri, Ashraf A. Albadaineh, Leena M. Mahmoud, Dania J. Altarawneh, Nour H. Rbeihat, Rogayah M. Alkhanazreh

“…Many factors (either maternal or child-related) that hinder timely DDH screening have been previously investigated. …”
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Giant Hydatid Cyst Originating From Psoas Muscle Extending to the Iliac Bone: A Case Report by Mohammad Hadi Niakan, Fatemeh Mirparsa, Hamid Zaferani Arani, Sedighe Hooshmandi, Elham Peyravi

“…This case contributes to the limited literature on muscular hydatid disease and highlights the importance of awareness among healthcare providers to ensure timely diagnosis and management.…”
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Drift-Alfvén wave turbulence induced particle and heat transport in I-mode pedestal plasmas by Junang Zhang, Lu Wang, Weixin Guo

“…The frequency of DW branch in the laboratory frame is about 200 kHz, the poloidal phase velocity propagating in the direction of electron diamagnetic drift is around $7.0\,{\text{km}} \cdot {{\text{s}}^{ - 1}}$ , and the relative magnitude of normalized fluctuations of electron temperature, density and magnetic field are $| {\frac{{{{\tilde T}_e}}}{{{T_{e0}}}}} |/| {\frac{{{{\tilde n}_e}}}{{{n_0}}}} | \approx 0.1$ and $| {{\tilde{\mathbf b}}} |/| {\frac{{{{\tilde n}_e}}}{{{n_0}}}}| \approx 8.3 \times {10^{ - 4}}$ , respectively, which are all consistent with the characteristics of WCM observed in C-Mod experiment. …”
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Regional processes in Hungary - From PHARE to Smart specialisation by Viktória Józsa

“…Europeanisation and regionalization, European convergence versus local divergence are important and timely questions as regards the future of EU cohesion policy, that originally aimed to reduce economic, social and territorial inequalities. …”
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Trace element composition of snow cover components in the city of Chita and its environs by Evgeniy A. Bondarevich

“…A low content of ionic forms of elements in the aqueous phase of snow was revealed, with an excess of the maximum permissible concentration for Mn by 1.5-2 times under technogenesis conditions. The concentrations of water-soluble forms of trace elements were comparable to data from other regions. …”
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Rapid Landslide Detection Following an Extreme Rainfall Event Using Remote Sensing Indices, Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, and Probabilistic Methods by Aikaterini-Alexandra Chrysafi, Paraskevas Tsangaratos, Ioanna Ilia, Wei Chen

“…The rapid detection of landslide phenomena that may be triggered by extreme rainfall events is a critical point concerning timely response and the implementation of mitigation measures. …”
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Incremental benefits from the increasing in the production of koi fish Cyprinus carpio var. koi culture by Iis Diatin, Dini F Nuristy, Ahmad Teduh, Muhammad Mujahid

“…Stocking pattern management could increase ornamental fish production and its benefit margin up to 1.5 times higher. That investment criteria has shown NPV at value of IDR3,824 million, net BCR 4.96, IRR 86.0%, and PP 1.7 years. …”
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Measuring Transducer for Air Gap Capacitive Sensor in Hydrogenerator by A. S. Levytskyi, I. O. Zaitsev, V. O. Bereznychenko, O. E. Sukhorukova

“…The aim of this paper was to develop a secondary measuring transducer providing accuracy and resolution for a capacitive gap sensor formed by coplanar parallel electrodes.It is shown that the reliability and safety of operation of powerful HG inextricably depend on the timely detection of their defects, especially during operation. …”
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Effects of proton pump inhibitors and histamine-2 receptor antagonists on response to fidaxomicin or vancomycin in patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea by Thomas Louie, Karl Weiss, Mark A Miller, Kathleen Mullane, Derrick W Crook, Sherwood L Gorbach

“…However, it is not known whether the use of PPIs or histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs) concurrently with CDAD-targeted antibiotic treatment affects clinical response or recurrence rates.Design In two phase 3 trials, patients with toxin-positive CDAD were randomised to receive fidaxomicin 200 mg twice daily or vancomycin 125 mg four times daily for 10 days. Only inpatients with CDAD (due to complete medication record availability) were included in this post hoc analysis: 701 patients, of whom 446 (64%) used PPIs or H2RAs during study drug treatment or follow-up. …”
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Assessing drywell designs for managed aquifer recharge via canals and repurposed wells by Salini Sasidharan, Scott A. Bradford

“…Deeper drywells substantially enhanced both I and R; a 20 cm diameter drywell at 55 m depth infiltrated 1.9 × 105 m3 and recharged 3.56 × 104 m3 within a year, with faster arrival times of recharge water. The study also proposes integrating drywells into existing irrigation canal networks. …”
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Avian colibacillosis – current aspects by A. O. Gerasimova, O. B. Novikova, A. A. Savicheva

“…Colibacillosis prevention includes improvement of poultry keeping practice (control of feed and water quality, disinfection, pest control, microclimate control) as well as timely complex vaccination of all poultry. The disease shall be treated taking into account primary etiological factors and bacteria sensitivity to antimicrobials.…”
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Covid 19 and beyond: a procedure for HVAC systems to address infectious aerosol illness transmission by Douglas Stuart Walkinshaw, Raymond Henry Horstman

“…To further this new end, this paper develops the formulae needed to set conditioned air recirculation rates through such filters for design infectious aerosol emission and inhalation rates, HID values, exposure times and occupancies, and target significantly lower than currently normal airborne infection reproduction rates. …”
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