Clostridium difficile-associated disease in versatile hospital patient population and risk factors for its development by Ya. N. Yarushina, G. B. Kolotova, V. A. Rudnov, V. A. Bagin

“…Predictors of C. difficile-associated diarrhea risk were following: the age over 65 years (OR=3.43; 95%CI 1.06-11.08; р=0.0409), Charlson comorbidity index over 2 points (OR=2,92, 95%CI 1.33-6.44; р=0.0114), presence of anemia (OR=4,35, 95%CI 1.98-9.54; р=0.0003), admission to intensive care unit with staying for more than 1 day (OR=10.59; 95%CI 2.35-47.69; р=0.0002) and in surgical departments (OR=2.46; 95%CI 1.16-5.20; р=0.0276), surgical intervention (OR=3.06; 95%CI 1.33-7.04; р=0.0120), hospital stay for 5 days (OR=3.87; 95%CI 1.87-8.01; р=0.0004), chronic dialysis at chronic renal failure (OR=8.56; 95% of CI 1,05-69,69; р=0,0210), installation of an urethral catheter (OR=3,43; 95% of CI 1.06-11.08; р=0.0409), proton pump inhibitors (PPI) therapy for over 7 days (OR=7.76; 95% CI 1.69-35.53; р=0.0032), antibacterial therapy for over 5 days (OR=4.10; 95%CI 1.93-8.68; р=0.0003), more than one course} of antibacterial treatment (OR=5.31; 95% CI 1.12-25.03; р=0.0365), ceftriaxone therapy (OR=3.21; 95%CI 1.51-6.82; р=0.0036). …”
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Evaluation on role of the chest pain nurse in emergency management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (专职胸痛护士在ST段抬高型急性心肌梗死患者急救中的应用研究)... by QIAN Hongmei (钱宏梅), WEI Yingying (韦莹莹), WANG Yan (王艳)

“…Methods Basing on the requirement of chest pain center construction, a group of chest pain full-time nurses were recruited in emergency room and catheter room for Digital subtraction angiography (DSA), and the emergency care process of STEMI patients was modified. …”
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Safety and feasibility evaluation of a novel robotic surgical system in gynecological surgery application by Yuanbo Tao, Jun Wang, ShiChao Han, Jing Na, Ya Li

“…There were no statistically significant differences (P ​> ​0.05) in surgical time, the difference in hemoglobin levels before and after surgery, the time of first flatus after surgery, the duration of indwelling catheter, the duration of indwelling drainage tube, and drainage volume at 48 and 72 ​h postoperatively between the two groups. …”
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Prevalence of β-lactam antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli isolated from a neonatal intensive care unit by Jian Zhou, Jingqian Zhou, Min Chen, Pan Lü, Chunming Jiang

“…Among these, 62 cases presented strains, which were resistant against at least one of seven ß-lactam antibiotics associated with conditions such as ventilator-associated pneumonia (35/62), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (14/62), necrotizing enterocolitis (7/62), skin infection (1/62), and neonatal septicemia (5/62). …”
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Emergence and clinical challenges of ST11-K64 carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: molecular insights and implications for antimicrobial resistance and virulence in Southwes... by Linlin LI, Jiahui Liang, Huan Zhang, Jing Guo, Shan LI, Meng Li

“…However, central intravenous catheter use (P = 0.001), mechanical ventilation (P = 0.002), tracheal intubation (P = 0.006), and tracheotomy (P = 0.041) were significantly more common in ST11-K64 CRKP cases. …”
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Esophageal oxyhemoglobin saturation as a resuscitative metric in hemorrhagic shock by Julia Garcia Mancebo, Kristen Sack, Padraic Romfh, Yifeng Peng, John Kheir

“…However, SvO2 monitoring is challenging as it requires an invasive catheter and frequent blood sampling. Non-invasive methods, including near-infrared spectroscopy, have demonstrated low sensitivity to tissue dysoxia.Methods We fabricated a new device that uses resonance Raman spectroscopy (RRS) to quantify oxyhemoglobin saturation (ShbO2) in the esophagus (eShbO2), tongue (tShbO2), and liver (hShbO2). …”
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The burden of acute respiratory infection attributable to fine particulate matter brought by dust storms among children under 5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries by Hong Lu, Mingkun Tong, Ruohan Wang, Ning Kang, Xueqiu Ni, Jianyu Deng, Jiajianghui Li, Pengfei Li, Tianjia Guan, Tong Zhu, Tao Xue

“…The dust PM2.5 exposure was derived from the integration of two well-recognized datasets, and matched to each participant at the community level. …”
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Potential and limitations of noise-based surface-wave tomography for numerical site effect estimation: a case study in the French Rhône valley by Lavoué, François, Froment, Bérénice, Gélis, Céline, Boué, Pierre,  Chaljub, Emmanuel, Stehly, Laurent, Beauprêtre, Sophie, De Martin, Florent,  Gisselbrecht, Loïc, Pilz, Marco, Moiriat, Denis, Cushing, Edward Marc

“…This work makes use of two dedicated datasets. On one hand, we use earthquake recordings acquired by a network of broadband stations deployed over the target site over 8 months, in order to estimate seismic amplification in the basin with respect to a rock-site reference via Standard Spectral Ratios (SSR), which we consider as our reference for evaluating our numerical results. …”
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Development, validation, and clinical application of a machine learning model for risk stratification and management of cervical cancer screening based on full-genotyping hrHPV tes... by Binhua Dong, Zhen Lu, Tianjie Yang, Junfeng Wang, Yan Zhang, Xunyuan Tuo, Juntao Wang, Shaomei Lin, Hongning Cai, Huan Cheng, Xiaoli Cao, Xinxin Huang, Zheng Zheng, Chong Miao, Yue Wang, Huifeng Xue, Shuxia Xu, Xianhua Liu, Huachun Zou, Pengming Sun

“…Of these, 254,434 (age [years, median, IQR]: 48, 42–54), 297,479 (49, 43–55), 38,500 (37, 32–44), 1950 (38, 33–46), 1590 (53, 47–58), 779 (38, 31–49) and 4311 (40, 33–50) were in the development, temporal validation and external validation 1–5 datasets, respectively. The final simplified clinical risk prediction model includes hrHPV, number of HPV genotypes, cervical cytology, HPV16, HPV18, age, HPV52, HPV39 and gynecological examination. …”
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Exploring the role of methylation-driven gene IFFO1 in pancreatic adenocarcinoma diagnosis, prognosis and cellular functions by XU Ziqi, HU Ruizhi, LI Junjian, WANG Hongxia, SANG Youzhou

“…Results: Through the cross-screening of five datasets, 41 MDG in PAAD were identified. Among these, IFFO1 was found to be the gene most closely associated with the prognosis of PAAD [hazard ratio (HR)=0.28, P<0.001]. …”
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Application of fine nursing management for patients undergoing simultaneous bilateral lobectomy (精细化护理干预在同期双侧肺叶切除术患者中的应用) by BAI Xue (白雪), ZHAO Ying (赵莹), ZHENG Yue (郑悦), LIU Dongying (刘东颖), LI Huiyan (李惠艳)

“…The indwelling time of catheter, length of postoperative hospital stay, hospitalization costs and postoperative complications were recorded. …”
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Treatment Planning Strategies for Interstitial Ultrasound Ablation of Prostate Cancer by Pragya Gupta, Tamas Heffter, Muhammad Zubair, I-Chow Hsu, E. Clif Burdette, Chris J. Diederich

“…This involves the integration with a FDA 510(k) cleared catheter-based ultrasound interstitial applicators and delivery system. …”
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BDC-DAL: A new algorithm using blueprint difference convolution and dual auxiliary supervision for lightweight face anti-spoofing(BDC-DAL：基于蓝图差分卷积和双重辅助监督的轻量化人脸活体检测算法)... by 叶继华(YE Jihua), 梁芳昕(LIANG Fangxin), 王超(WANG Chao), 肖顺杰(XIAO Shunjie), 宗义(ZONG Yi), 江爱文(JIANG Aiwen)

“…To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, this study conducts extensive tests on OULU-NPU and CelebA-Spoof, two recognized face anti-spoofing datasets. The test results are compared with those by performing the current mainstream deep learning face anti-spoofing algorithms and other lightweight network models. …”
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Improving the hydrological consistency of a process-based solute-transport model by simultaneous calibration of streamflow and stream concentrations by J. Salmon-Monviola, O. Fovet, M. Hrachowitz

“…Evaluation using independent datasets indicated that the model usually reproduced dynamics of groundwater level and soil moisture in upslope and riparian zones correctly for all calibration scenarios. …”
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Long-Term Evaluation of GCOM-C/SGLI Reflectance and Water Quality Products: Variability Among JAXA G-Portal and JASMES by Salem Ibrahim Salem, Mitsuhiro Toratani, Hiroto Higa, SeungHyun Son, Eko Siswanto, Joji Ishizaka

“…Both G-Portal and JASMES show lower agreement with AERONET-OC and cruise datasets at shorter wavelengths but demonstrate improved agreement at longer wavelengths (530 nm, 565 nm, and 670 nm). …”
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Treatment of autonomous intestinal neuropathy in critical care by prucalopride and multistrain probiotic by A. L. Kovaleva, A. I. Ulyanin, O. Yu. Kiselyova, Ye. A. Poluektova, O. S. Shifrin, A. S. Tertychny, V. T. Ivashkin

“…At the 3rd day of treatment patient noticed improvement in the state of health: decrease in right-sided lumbar pain and general weakness, decrease in body temperature up to subfebrile level. Catheter-collected urine sample contained no admixture of pus. …”
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Rates of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections in Hospitalized Non-Immunocompromised Pediatric Patients: A 9-Year Retrospective Study at a Lebanese Tertiary Medica... by Zakhour R, Khafaja S, Korman R, Boutros CF, El Zein Z, Chmaisse A, Haj M, Haddara A, El-Houry Z, Jbahi M, Chamseddine S, Bou Karroum S, Al Oweini D, Youssef YS, Youssef N, Nasser M, Fayad D, Abi Farraj F, El Nakib C, Isaac I, Lteif M, Araj GF, Dbaibo GS

“…Previous infection with the same organism during the previous 12 months, urinary catheter or cardiac catheterization in the past 30 days had high percentages of infections with MDR GNB. …”
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Security and religion in democratizing Tunisia: re-enacting surveillance through religious narratives and gendered dynamics by Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu, Alessandra Bonci

“…The analysis of the work of wa’ydhat allows us to highlight the connections between local and global narratives of security, which emphasize the role of women as central in the fight against terrorism due to their purported inherent “peaceful” qualities, and their actual role as watchers within a system of surveillance and control. …”
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Benchmarking data-driven inversion methods for the estimation of local CO₂ emissions from synthetic satellite images of XCO₂ and NO₂ by D. Santaren, J. Hakkarainen, G. Kuhlmann, E. Koene, F. Chevallier, I. Ialongo, H. Lindqvist, J. Nurmela, J. Tamminen, L. Amorós, D. Brunner, G. Broquet

“…Several ensembles of estimations are conducted using different scenarios for the available synthetic datasets. These ensembles are used to analyze the sensitivity of performance to (1) data loss due to cloud cover, (2) uncertainty in the wind, or (3) the added value of simultaneous NO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> images. …”
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Evaluation of Learners’ Satisfaction with Open Flexible and Distance Learning Services at the University of Lagos Distance Learning Institute by Adenike Oladipo, Esther O. Oladele, Oladipupo Ajeyalemi, Folashade Afolabi, Peter O. Olayiwola, Johnson A. Adewara, Andrew Akala, Uchenna Udeani

“…En outre, les diplômés de DLI sont légèrement satisfaits du processus d'achèvement du programme tel que le traitement des résultats et la convocation avec des réponses moyennes de 7,74 et 7,44, mais insatisfaits des toilettes avec une moyenne de 5,02. …”
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