Identification of individual-level clinical factors associated with increased risk of death during heatwaves: a time-stratified case-crossover study using national primary care rec... by Shakoor Hajat, Ross Thompson, Sari Kovats, Emer O’Connell, Helen Macintyre

“…Patient’s data were obtained from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. …”
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Impact of mHealth and eHealth on oral health literacy: A systematic review by Ravinder S Saini, Shubham Chopra, Yahya Ahmed Assiri, Fahad Hussain Alhamoudi, Sunil Kumar Vaddamanu, Mudita Chaturvedi, Mohamed Saheer Kuruniyan, Morteza Banakar, Artak Heboyan

“…Methods Original research on the function of mHealth and eHealth in enhancing oral health literacy was identified through searches of PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore, Dimensions, and the Cochrane Library. …”
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Exploring the Perceptions of Voice-Assisted Technology as a Tool for Speech and Voice Difficulties: Focus Group Study Among People With Parkinson Disease and Their Carers by Jodie Mills, Orla Duffy, Katy Pedlow, George Kernohan

“…Common household devices that use voice-assisted technology (VAT) require users to speak slowly, clearly, and loudly for the technology to function. For people with PD, this can be challenging, but this also suggests that VAT may have potential as a therapeutic tool. …”
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The effect of hope-based counseling on perceived stress and the quality of life in pregnant women experiencing nausea and vomiting: a randomized control trial by Mahsa Piri, Azam Maleki, Omid Saed

“…Perceived stress is known to worsen NVP by increasing sensitivity to symptoms and disrupting gastrointestinal function. Aim This study aims to determine how hope-based counseling can help reduce perceived stress and improve the quality of life for pregnant women experiencing these symptoms. …”
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Serum Sclerostin, Body Composition, and Sarcopenia in Hemodialysis Patients with Diabetes by Maria Carolina Medeiros, Natalia Rocha, Elba Bandeira, Isabel Dantas, Conceição Chaves, Mario Oliveira, Francisco Bandeira

“…Sclerostin (Scl) is an osteoblast-inhibiting glycoprotein that is secreted mainly by osteocytes and is regulated by hormonal changes and skeletal loading. Decreased physical function and high serum Scl concentrations have been reported in chronic renal failure patients but little is known to date about the differences between diabetic and non-diabetic patients on hemodialysis who are susceptible to both sarcopenia and bone fragility. …”
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Improving Nutritional Status in Chronic Heart Failure Patients: Effectiveness of a Transtheoretical Model-Based Stepwise Nutritional Management Program by Yuan D, Xue Y, Zhou Y

“…No significant differences in baseline data were found between the two groups (P > 0.05). …”
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Feasibility Study and Implementation of Pedestrian Walkway with an Emphasis on TND Approach (Case Study: Modares Street at Kermanshah) by Mahin Nastaran, Arezou Jamshidi Sheikhabadi, Mojtaba Lorzangeneh

“…Also, by putting this value in Cochran's formula, the sample size is estimated to be 384 people, and simple random sampling has been done. Also, for data analysis, SPSS analytical software was used in the form of Pearson correlation statistical tests and multivariate regression, and univariate T-test. …”
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Analyzing the impact of battery technical performance and driving conditions on the overall economic feasibility of a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) system implemented in the Japan electric... by Muhammad Arsalan, Etoju Jacob, Zifei Nie, Hooman Farzaneh

“…This research focuses on the techno-economic feasibility of V2G systems by developing an integrated simulation model and experimental validation framework which not only evaluates the impact of battery energy management and charging infrastructure on V2G system performance but also a detailed economic analysis of V2G applications assessing the financial benefits gained from trading the V2G system with the grid during peak periods, using real-time electricity tariffs and demand data obtained from the Japan Electric Power Exchange (JEPX) market. …”
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Current situation and related factors of fatigue among doctors and nurses in tertiary general hospitals in Northeast China by Bin Wang, Wenshu Yang, Yu Wang, Xu Chen, Dongmei Liu, Bao Yin, Haidong Bao, Dong Wang, Surui He

“…A cross-sectional survey was conducted among healthcare workers who met the inclusion criteria in two tertiary general hospitals in Dalian, Liaoning Province, Northeast China. The survey data collected in the structured questionnaire include fatigue, general demographic characteristics, work situation, perceived stress, insomnia symptoms, workplace violence, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, family function, and doctor-patient relationship. …”
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Effects of zeolite-amended sandy soil on moisture, ash, and protein content of Swiss Chard by Olwetu Antonia Sindesi, Bongani Ncube, Muinat Nike Lewu, Azwimbavhi Reckson Mulidzi, Francis Bayo Lewu

“…The experiment was laid out in a completely randomised block design with four treatments 0; 10; 20 and 30% zeolite application to sandy soil, all at 12 kg sandy soil or sandy soil and zeolite mixture. Data were analysed using analysis of variance (ANOVA), and treatment means were compared using Fisher’s least significant difference test at a 5% probability level. …”
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The Robust Vessel Segmentation and Centerline Extraction: One-Stage Deep Learning Approach by Rostislav Epifanov, Yana Fedotova, Savely Dyachuk, Alexandr Gostev, Andrei Karpenko, Rustam Mullyadzhanov

“…In addition, we conducted a robustness analysis to evaluate the model stability under small rigid and deformable transformations of the input data, and benchmarked its robustness against the widely used VMTK toolkit.…”
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IndoHerb: Indonesia medicinal plants recognition using transfer learning and deep learning by Muhammad Salman Ikrar Musyaffa, Novanto Yudistira, Muhammad Arif Rahman, Ahmad Hoirul Basori, Andi Besse Firdausiah Mansur, Jati Batoro

“…The experimental setup featured essential hyperparameters, including the ExponentialLR scheduler with a gamma value of 0.9, a learning rate of 0.001, the Cross-Entropy Loss function, the Adam optimizer, and a training epoch count of 50. …”
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WHO malaria nucleic acid amplification test external quality assessment scheme: results of eleven distributions over 6 years by Rebecca M. Thomson, Jane A. Cunningham, Michelle M. Gatton, Sean C. Murphy, Maria de la Paz Ade, Xavier C. Ding, Sandra Incardona, Eric Legrand, Naomi Lucchi, Didier Menard, Samuel L. Nsobya, Agatha C. Saez, Jaya Shrivastava, Peter L. Chiodini

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Change in mental health service utilization from pre- to post-COVID-19 period in the United States by Md Rezaul Kader, Mohammod Mahmudur Rahman, Piali Dey Bristi, Foyez Ahmmed

“…Along with the univariate analysis, bivariate analysis was conducted using the Chi-square and Cochran-Armitage trend tests. …”
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The prognostic role of albumin-bilirubin grade in the mortality of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma patients by Fatemeh Dayyan, Farhad Zamani, Hossein Ajdarkosh, Mahmoodreza khoonsari, Amirhossein Faraji, Mehdi Nikkhah, Akram Nourian, Fahimeh Safarnezhad Tameshkel, Elham Sobhrakhshankhah

“…Abstract Objective Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) has a low survival rate of 5–17%, despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment. Liver function impacts disease prognosis, and the albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) score is a new assessment model for this purpose. …”
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Improving image reconstruction to quantify dynamic whole-body PET/CT: Q.Clear versus OSEM by Sam Springer, Jeremy Basset-Sagarminaga, Tineke van de Weijer, Vera B. Schrauwen-Hinderling, Walter H. Backes, Roel Wierts

“…$${K}_{i}$$ K i values were calculated using Patlak analysis. Finally, bootstrapping was used to investigate the effect of image noise levels on $${K}_{i}$$ K i values (bias and precision) as a function of magnitude of $${K}_{i}$$ K i and volume-of-interest (VOI) size for both computationally simulated TACs ( $${K}_{i}$$ K i  = 1.0–50.0·10–3·ml·cm−3·min−1) and the measured TACs. …”
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“Youth 2.0 project”: Multi-professional Intervention to Protect Adolescents from NPS and Other Drug Use by V. Rapaccini, S. Biscontini, A. Molinaro, G.P. Di Loreto, A. Pasini, O. Corazza, A. Metastasio

“…Considering also the function of self-care medication that some adolescents attribute to cannabinoids, these preliminary data lead us to assume that the “Youth 2.0 Project” provided a valid alternative to drug consumption especially for what concerns cannabinoids and derivatives.…”
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Effect of adding fenofibrate versus curcumin to glimepiride in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial by Eman M. Nada, Nashwa M. El-Gharbawy, Haidy Abbas, Rehab H. Werida

“…Paired t-test and one-way ANOVA were used for normally distributed data. However, the Wilcoxon signed-rank and the Kruskal–Wallis tests were used to analyze non-normally distributed data. …”
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A Prediction Model of Stable Warfarin Doses in Patients After Mechanical Heart Valve Replacement Based on a Machine Learning Algorithm by Bowen Guo, Cong Chen, Junhang Jia, Jubing Zheng, Yue Song, Taoshuai Liu, Kui Zhang, Yang Li, Ran Dong

“…The support vector machine radial basis function (SVM Radial) algorithm showed the best performance of all models, with the highest R2 value of 0.98 and the lowest MAE of 0.14 mg/day (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.11–0.17). …”
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A rapid method for methanol quantification in spirits using UV-visible spectroscopy and FTIR by Ronick S. Shadrack, Krishna K. Kotra, Daniel Tari, Hancy Tabi, Jacinta Botleng, Rolina Kelep, Ladyshia Regenvanu

“…In this work, methanol content in ethanol was assessed in two approaches using UV-Vis with a developed calibration technique and FTIR spectroscopy with a factory default scan function at every 2 nanometer (nm). For UV-Vis method, potassium dichromate was used as the chromogenic reagent, tested with methanol concentration ranging from 0.12% to 1% (mV−1). …”
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