Early Changes in Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN) Can Predict Mortality in Acute Pancreatitis: Comparative Study between BISAP Score, APACHE-II, and Other Laboratory Markers—A Prospective Observational Study by Elizabeth Pando, Piero Alberti, Rodrigo Mata, María José Gomez, Laura Vidal, Arturo Cirera, Cristina Dopazo, Laia Blanco, Concepción Gomez, Mireia Caralt, Joaquim Balsells, Ramón Charco

“…Rise in BUN was the only score related to mortality on the multivariate analysis (p=0.000, OR: 12.7; CI 95%: 4.2−16.6). On the comparative analysis of AUC, the rise in BUN was an accurate test in predicting mortality (AUC: 0.842) and persisting multiorgan failure (AUC: 0.828), similar to the BISAP score (AUC: 0.836 and 0.850) and APACHE-II (AUC: 0.756 and 0.741). …”
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Groundwater vulnerability and, risk assessment of seawater intrusion for the development of a strategy plan towards sustainability: Case of the Souss-Massa coastal area, Morocco by Yassine Ez-zaouy, Lhoussaine Bouchaou, Mohammed Hssaisoune, Abdelhaq Aangri, Gianluigi Busico, Saadou Oumarou Danni, Oumaima Attar, Mohamed Nehmadou, Aicha Saad, Yassine Ait Brahim

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Incidence and temporal patterns of true recurrences and second primaries in women with breast cancer: A 10-year competing risk-adjusted analysis by Silvia Mancini, Lauro Bucchi, Annibale Biggeri, Orietta Giuliani, Flavia Baldacchini, Alessandra Ravaioli, Federica Zamagni, Fabio Falcini, Rosa Vattiato

“…Results: The cumulative incidence was 13.7 % (95 % confidence interval (CI), 12.2–15.3 %) for TRs and 4.6 % (95 % CI, 3.7–5.7 %) for SBCs. …”
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Power Transmission for Millimeter-Wave Indoor/Outdoor Wearable IoT Devices Using Grounded Coplanar Waveguide-Fed On-Body Antenna by Fuad Erman, Slawomir Koziel, Alhareth Zyoud, Leifur Leifsson, Ubaid Ullah, Shaker Alkaraki

“…The size of the proposed structure is small and can collect power with high efficiency due to the short wavelength of millimeter wave (mm-wave) in contrast to UHF antennas.…”
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Consumo alimentar e estado nutricional de crianças menores de seis meses acompanhadas na Atenção Primária à Saúde: uma análise temporal de 2016 a 2021 by Caroline Albach, Emilaine Ferreira dos Santos, Nadianne Thais Gabardo Xavier Negrão, Angelica Rocha de Freitas Melhem, Paula Chuproski Saldan

“…Método: Estudo ecológico com base em dados do SISVAN Web, de consumo alimentar (AME) e índices antropométricos (peso/idade, peso/altura, altura/idade e IMC/idade). …”
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Fatal poisonings in Nordic countries in 2022 among people who use drugs by Pirkko Kriikku, Hilde Marie E. Edvardsen, Gunilla Thelander, Svava Thordardottir, Charlotte Uggerhøj Andersen, Ilkka Ojanperä, Anna K. Jönsson, Joachim Frost, Simon Kjær Hermansen, Gerd J.M. Delaveris, Kirsten Wiese Simonsen

“…The death rate (number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) among PWUD in 2022 was highest in Norway (8.03), followed by Iceland (7.20) and Finland (5.95), and lowest in Denmark (5.09). …”
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Determination of arsenic and cadmium uptake by rice from topsoil by Desheng Yang, Zhechuan Liu, Wenqi Zhao, Ting Du, Shengyang Fan, Zhuang Xiong, Shaobing Peng, Xiaoxiao Li, Fei Wang

“…TR also decreased shoot As and Cd accumulation by 30.7% and 67.8% at maturity, with topsoil at 12–15 cm depth contributing an average of 2372 μg As m−2 (30.1%) and 138 μg Cd m−2 (66.1%) to total uptake of As and Cd, respectively. …”
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Unraveling Online Mental Health Through the Lens of Early Maladaptive Schemas: AI-Enabled Content Analysis of Online Mental Health Communities by Beng Heng Ang, Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Mingzhe Du, See-Kiong Ng

“…In addition, the EMS features extracted from our dataset averaged 13.27 (SD 3.05) negative features per schema, with 2.65 (SD 1.07) features per dimension, as supported by existing literature. …”
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Evaluación de dietas basadas en grano entero, sin fibra larga, para engorde de bovinos a corral by A. J. Pordomingo, O. Jonas, M. Adra, Juan N. A., M. P. Azcárate

“…Se utilizaron 48 novillitos y 48 novillos Angus, (155 ± 9,7 y 269 ± 10,8 kg de peso vivo) bloqueados por categoría, estratificados por peso en 4 estratos homogéneos, y asignados de a 4 por corral. …”
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Examining the Use of Machine Learning Algorithms to Enhance the Pediatric Triaging Approach by Aljubran HJ, Aljubran MJ, AlAwami AM, Aljubran MJ, Alkhalifah MA, Alkhalifah MM, Alkhalifah AS, Alabdullah TS

“…Hussain J Aljubran,1 Maitham J Aljubran,2 Ahmed M AlAwami,1 Mohammad J Aljubran,3 Mohammed A Alkhalifah,4 Moayd M Alkhalifah,5 Ahmed S Alkhalifah,6 Tawfik S Alabdullah7 1College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia; 2Pediatric Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 3Department of Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; 4Emergency Medicine Department, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia; 5Neurology Unit, Neurosciences Institute, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; 6Pediatric Department, Qatif Central Hospital, Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia; 7Pediatric Emergency Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Hussain J Aljubran, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, 34212, Saudi Arabia, Tel +966540800696, Email hussainjawad1420@gmail.com Maitham J Aljubran, Pediatric Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, 12212, Saudi Arabia, Tel +966544177737, Email mjmj77550@gmail.comPurpose: Triage systems play a vital role in effectively prioritizing patients according to the seriousness of their condition. …”
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Sustainability of healthcare system improvements, programmes and interventions in acute care settings: protocol for a mixed methods systematic review by Franz E Babl, Sandy Middleton, Julie Cowie, Catherine Wilson, Peter Wilson, Pauline Campbell, Emma Tavender, Lisa Kuhn, Nicola Straiton, Victoria Ramsden, Elizabeth McInnes

“…Findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, presented at international conferences and on social media.PROSPERO registration number PROSPERO CRD42024547535.…”
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Safety profiles of IDH inhibitors: a pharmacovigilance analysis of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database by Ximu Sun, Han Zhou, Yanming Li, Yanhui Luo, Qixiang Guo, Yixin Sun, Chenguang Jia, Bin Wang, Maoquan Qin, Peng Guo

“…Results The reports number of enasidenib, ivosidenib, and olutasidenib was 11 616 357, 10 067 250, and 2 563 464, respectively. A total of 80 enasidenib-related signals involving 15 SOCs, 78 ivosidenib-related signals involving 17 SOCs, and 7 olutasidenib-related signals involving 4 SOCs were obtained. …”
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Las comunidades intermareales de playas de arena del Golfo dede Arauco, Chile by Aldo Hernández, Jose Miguel Bogdanovich, Oscar Inostroza-Michael, Carlos Leal González, Eduardo Hernández-Miranda, Rodrigo Veas, Marco Salamanca, Cristian Chandía

“…Los factores que explicaron esta diferenciación espacial se asociaron con la dinámica sedimentaria, el tipo de playa y la granulometría. …”
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Characteristics and outcomes of women using emergency medical services for third-trimester pregnancy-related problems in India: a prospective observational study by Jennifer A Newberry, Corey B Bills, Elizabeth A Pirrotta, Matthew C Strehlow, G V Ramana Rao, Hyeyoun (Elise) Min, Ann E Evensen, Lawrence Leeman, S V Mahadevan

“…Follow-up rates at 48 hours, 7 days and 42 days were 95.0%, 94.4% and 94.1%, respectively. …”
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Real-World Efficacy and Safety of Avelumab Plus Axitinib in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results from the Ambispective RAVE-Renal Study by Ilya Tsimafeyeu, Vyacheslav Chubenko, Olga Baklanova, Alexey Kalpinskiy, Sufia Safina, Andrei Lebedinets, Vladislav Petkau, Elvira Parsadanova, Maria Turganova, Aleksei Shkurat, Natalia Tovbik, Elena Tkacheva, Yulia Anzhiganova, Olga Novikova, Varvara Bragina, Ruslan Zukov, Rashida Orlova

“…The study population comprised 35.3% favorable, 49% intermediate, and 15.7% poor IMDC risk patients. The median PFS was 14.9 months (95% CI, 11.72–19.08). …”
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Detecting Deception and Ensuring Data Integrity in a Nationwide mHealth Randomized Controlled Trial: Factorial Design Survey Study by Krista M Kezbers, Michael C Robertson, Emily T Hébert, Audrey Montgomery, Michael S Businelle

“…Reasons for exclusion at the screening and enrollment phone call level included having an invalid phone type (6/18, 33.3%), completing multiple prescreeners (6/18, 33.3%), and providing an invalid address (5/18, 27.7%). This resulted in 1409 individuals being eligible after all deception checks were completed. …”
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Increased number concentrations of small particles explain perceived stagnation in air quality over Korea by S. Joo, J. Shin, M. Tesche, N. Dehkhoda, T. Kim, Y. Noh

“…The monthly average PM<span class="inline-formula">_2.5</span> MEE exhibits an increasing trend in Seoul (<span class="inline-formula">+</span>0.04 m<span class="inline-formula">²</span> g<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span> per month) and Ulsan (<span class="inline-formula">+</span>0.07 m<span class="inline-formula">²</span> g<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span> per month). …”
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Antioomycete Nanoformulation for Biocontrol of English Walnut Crown and Root Rot Caused by <i>Phytophthora cinnamomi</i> by Aldo Salinas, Iván Montenegro, Yusser Olguín, Natalia Riquelme, Diyanira Castillo-Novales, Alejandra Larach, Laureano Alvarado, Guillermo Bravo, Alejandro Madrid, Juan E. Álvaro, Ximena Besoain

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Determinants of Low Birth Weight among Newborns Delivered at Public Hospitals in Sidama Zone, South Ethiopia: Unmatched Case-Control Study by Muse Bututa Bekela, Mulugeta Shegaze Shimbre, Teshale Fikadu Gebabo, Mengesha Boko Geta, Abayneh Tunje Tonga, Eshetu Andarge Zeleke, Negussie Boti Sidemo, Agegnehu Bante Getnet

“…The likelihood of having Mid-Upper Arm Circumference MUAC<23 cm was 4.27 times higher among mothers of the cases than among mothers of the controls as compared to having MUAC≥23 cm (AOR=4.27, 95% CI (2.24-8.12)). …”
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Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Different Immune Signatures in HPV- and HPV + Driven Human Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Simin Li, Yang Wang, Rui Sun, Debora Franceschi, Hongying Pan, Chenxuan Wei, Anthony Chukwunonso Ogbuehi, Bernd Lethaus, Vuk Savkovic, Sebastian Gaus, Rüdiger Zimmerer, Dirk Ziebolz, Gerhard Schmalz, Xiao Jiang

“…AREG and TGFBI were pDC marker genes, CXCR3 and CD27 were significantly expressed in T cell-related cells, while MS4A1 and CD19 were mainly expressed in B naïve cells. …”
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