Advances in Traditional Chinese Medicine research in diabetic kidney disease treatment by Shiyi Shen, Huiyun Zhong, Xiaoshi Zhou, Guolin Li, Changji Zhang, Yulian Zhu, Yong Yang

“…Over recent decades, extensive research has explored the mechanisms of TCM for preventing and managing DKD, with substantial studies that endorse the therapeutic benefits of TCM compounds and single agents in the medical intervention of DKD.Objective This review lays the foundation for future evidence-based research efforts and provide a reference point for DKD investigation.Methods The relevant literature published in Chinese and English up to 30 June 2023, was sourced from PubMed, Cochrane Library, VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals (VIP), Wanfang Data, CNKI, and China Biology Medicine disc (CBM). …”
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Re-use of Building Products in the Netherlands by Loriane Icibaci

“…It postulates that the internal relations of the industrial process, as well as relations that go beyond the industrial boundary, are sources of perturbations in the natural system, which is driven by human activities and motivate changes in material and substance flows by demand for services provided by products. …”
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Manufacturing Process Development for <i>Bison bison</i> Organ-Specific Lyophilized Extracts: Formulation and Benchmarking of Antioxidant Activities for Nutraceutical Preparations by Alexandre Porcello, Kim Girardet, Basste Hadjab, Kelly Lourenço, Corinne Scaletta, Philippe Abdel-Sayed, Nathalie Hirt-Burri, Lee Ann Applegate, Alexis E. Laurent

“…Lyophilized organ extracts from livestock such as beef or elk are widely commercially proposed as animal-sourced nutraceuticals. Such preparations contain blends of vitamins and nutrients that may be employed for general or specific dietary supplementation. …”
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Economic evaluation of [18F]fluorocholine PET/CT in pre operative assessment of hyperfunctional parathyroids in primary hyperparathyroidism: a cost effectiveness analysis by Adel Mamou, Sihame Chkair, Olivier Gilly, Laurent Maimoun, Yassine Mamou, Sean C. Sheppard, Pierre Olivier Kotzki, Benjamin Lallemant, Vincent Boudousq

“…Costs were calculated from the perspective of the French healthcare system, and utilities were sourced from the literature and validated by experts. …”
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The association between vitamin D intake and the prevalence and mortality of asthma in the US adults by Yu Lei, Yu Luo, Yi Wang, Caiyang Liu, Lei Luo, Ji Li

“…The data for this analysis were sourced from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey database. …”
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of penpulimab plus carboplatin-paclitaxel as first-line treatment for metastatic squamous non-small-cell lung cancer in China by Luwei Wang, Jiasheng Chen, Lihui Lin, Xiaowei Huang

“…Clinical efficacy data were sourced from the AK105-302 trial, while drug costs were derived from national tender prices. …”
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Are tailored primary care services for social inclusion good value for money? A health economics evaluation with Monte-Carlo probabilistic sensitivity analysis comparing tailored s... by Síle Kelly, Anne Dee, Patrick O’Donnell

“…The analysis compares cost outcomes between SEP who have access to a tailored SIPC service with those who do not. Methods A cost analysis of the part-time SIPC service, based on available Irish-sourced data on the usage and costs of acute care in the Health Service Executive (HSE), and a literature review were used to identify the cost and outcome parameters of the economic framework. …”
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WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Articles 9 and 10 implementation for sustainable tobacco control—a scoping review protocol by Sonu Goel, Diksha Walia, Priyobrat Rajkhowa, Chirag Goel

“…Through an exhaustive search strategy, relevant literature published from 2013 onwards will be sourced from databases including PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, Web of Science, Scopus, government websites, and reports. …”
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A real-world pharmacovigilance study of omalizumab using disproportionality analysis in the FDA adverse drug events reporting system database by Yongfu Song, Zhuang Wang, Na Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Tieshi Zhu, Yongji Wang

“…To conduct a comprehensive evaluation of its safety in larger populations, this study conducted an extensive analysis of data sourced from the America Food and Drug Administration’s Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), with the aim of elucidating adverse drug events associated with omalizumab in real-world settings. …”
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BED-YOLO: An Enhanced YOLOv10n-Based Tomato Leaf Disease Detection Algorithm by Qing Wang, Ning Yan, Yasen Qin, Xuedong Zhang, Xu Li

“…Traditional diagnostic methods rely on expert visual inspection, which is not only laborious but also prone to subjective bias. …”
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Real-Time Detection of Forest Fires Using FireNet-CNN and Explainable AI Techniques by Gazi Mohammad Imdadul Alam, Naima Tasnia, Tapu Biswas, Md. Jakir Hossen, Sharia Arfin Tanim, Md Saef Ullah Miah

“…The model was evaluated using two augmented datasets: Dataset A and Dataset B, which consist of fire and non-fire images sourced from multiple video and image datasets. FireNet-CNN&#x2019;s architecture, which includes 2.75 million parameters and a compact model size of 10.58 MB, has been meticulously optimized for fire detection tasks. …”
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Evaluating the generalisability of region-naïve machine learning algorithms for the identification of epilepsy in low-resource settings. by Ioana Duta, Symon M Kariuki, Anthony K Ngugi, Angelina Kakooza Mwesige, Honorati Masanja, Daniel M Mwanga, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Ryan Wagner, J Helen Cross, Josemir W Sander, Charles R Newton, Arjune Sen, Gabriel Davis Jones

“…Here, we use a novel approach to assess the suitability and applicability of such clinical tools to aid screening and diagnosis of active convulsive epilepsy in settings beyond their original training contexts.<h4>Methods</h4>We sourced data from the Study of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Sites dataset, which includes demographic information and clinical variables related to diagnosing epilepsy across five sub-Saharan African sites. …”
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Tumor ViT-GRU-XAI: Advanced Brain Tumor Diagnosis Framework: Vision Transformer and GRU Integration for Improved MRI Analysis: A Case Study of Egypt by Mohammed Aly, Abdullatif Ghallab, Islam S. Fathi

“…This combined model outperforms current diagnostic methods. Our framework was applied to primary MRI data sourced from the National Cancer Institute in Cairo, Egypt, and Brast2013/2015. …”
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Investigating the relationship between the monetary policy shock through the exchange rate channel on the management quality index in the banking system: by examining the productiv... by Farhad Sharifi Bagha, Jafar Haqiqat, Zahra Karimi Takanloo

“…Therefore, using 96 variables of seasonal time series data affecting the management quality index within the bank productivity approach which is one of the most important indicators of assessing the health of the banking system, and employing the factor-added empirical model (FAVAR), the effect of monetary policy via the exchange rate channel on the management quality index in the banking system was investigated during the period of 1378:1-1401:4</p> <p style="text-align: left;">In order to investigate the mechanism of the impact of monetary policy shocks via exchange rate channel on the variables affecting the health of the banking system, the two-stage method of principal components was used. Therefore, first, the following equation was estimated without considering the Yt vector, based on which the number of optimal factors was selected. …”
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Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Syndromes: Small Bowel Cancer Risk and Endoscopic Surveillance Strategies by Edoardo Borsotti, Francesca Laura Nava, Felice Benedicenti, Laura Cini, Andrea Magarotto, Davide Ferrari, Paolo Cantù, Marco Vitellaro, Emanuele Rausa, Federica Cavalcoli

“…This review aims to evaluate and compare current endoscopic techniques for small bowel surveillance in these patients. <b>Methods:</b> A comprehensive review was conducted using peer-reviewed studies sourced from PubMed. …”
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Comparative efficacy of dietary interventions for glycemic control and pregnancy outcomes in gestational diabetes: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Jiaoyang Di, Jingjing Fan, Fangxu Ma

“…Data were sourced from PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, and CNKI up to September 3, 2024. …”
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The association of COVID- 19 parental immunization and transmission of disease to offspring: a retrospective study by Milad Maghsoudi, Majid Keivanfar, Seyede Shahrbanoo Daniali, Roya Kelishadi

“…Data were sourced from the recorded PERSIAN Birth Cohort data and telephone interviews, focusing on demographic information, child's COVID- 19 exposure during follow-up, infection, and vaccination status of each family member. …”
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis in British troops following jungle training in Belize: Cumulative incidence and potential risk practices by Ngwa Niba Rawlings, Mark Bailey, Peter Craig, Orin Courtenay

“…Data were sourced from Defence Public Health Unit, Military Environmental Health Department and British Army Training Support Unit Belize. …”
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Secular trend in disease burden of atrial fibrillation/flutter in China from 1992 to 2021 and its projection in 25 years by Chuanmeng Zhang, Xiaohong Zhang, Ruifang Zhou, Kun Ji, Xiangwei Ding, Ming Chu, Fan Wang

“…Methods The incidence and death data of AF/AFL in China from 1992 to 2021 were sourced from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 database. …”
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The application of blockchain with a comparative approach and its impact on risk, flexibility and internal control evaluation by mohammadsadegh aminipoor, HamidReza GholamniaRoshan, azadeh kiapour, Iman Dadashi

“…The sampling method was cluster-stratified random method of sampling. …”
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