Predictive value of bedside diaphragmatic ultrasonography for extubation success in critically ill patients after general anaesthesia: A meta-analysis with trial sequential analysi... by Lan Ma, Na Zhou, Kaiming Yuan, Zihao Xue, Kai Lv, Jingying Huang

“…Quality was assessed via the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS), and publication bias was evaluated through funnel plots and Egger’s test. Cumulative meta-analysis, sub-group analyses, and TSA were used to explore heterogeneity and assess evidence reliability. …”
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Risk Assessments of Water Inrush from Coal Seam Floor during Deep Mining Using a Data Fusion Approach Based on Grey System Theory by Yaru Guo, Shuning Dong, Yonghong Hao, Zaibin Liu, Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, Wenke Wang, Yaoquan Gao, Pei Li, Ming Zhang

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Oura Ring as a Tool for Ovulation Detection: Validation Analysis by Nina Thigpen, Shyamal Patel, Xi Zhang

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Collecting Real-World Data via an In-Home Smart Medication Dispenser: Longitudinal Observational Study of Survey Panel Persistency, Response Rates, and Psychometric Properties by Benjamin Ogorek, Thomas Rhoads, Erica Smith

“…Patients were grouped by mean response rates in the 12th month (<90% vs ≥90%) to observe differential response rate trends. …”
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Results from the PROmoting Early Childhood Outside cluster randomized trial evaluating an outdoor play intervention in early childhood education centres by Rachel Ramsden, Dawn Mount, Yingyi Lin, Emily Fox, Susan Herrington, Janet Loebach, Adina Cox, Anita Bundy, Amber Fyfe-Johnson, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Michelle Stone, Mark S. Tremblay, Mariana Brussoni

“…Controlling for gender, weather and temperature, there were no changes in children’s outdoor play participation following implementation of the PRO-ECO intervention in the between-group analysis. Within-group comparisons also revealed no change in play participation following the PRO-ECO intervention, however, the intervention group showed a positive effect (OR = 1.28, 95% CI = 0.97, 1.70) in play participation 6 months after implementation of the intervention. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACTS OF RISKS ON BONDED AND UNBONDED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS by Ayodeji OKE

“…Questionnaires were administered on 337 respondents out of which 242 were returned while 236 were certified fit for analysis. Mean item score was used for ranking the identified factors while Kruskal-Wallis and Mann- Whitney tests were employed to examine relationship and differences in sample means of different groups of respondents respectively. …”
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Analysis of Ethereum transactions during the prevention and investigation of criminal offenses by V. V. Nosov, O. V. Manzhai, Ye. V. Panchenko

“…The key standards that characterize the work of the Ethereum platform have been analyzed, explanations of key terms have been provided. The essential data in the blockchain for analysis have been highlighted, the procedure for accessing the Ethereum blockchain transactions has been described. …”
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Impact of surgical site infection (SSI) following gynaecological cancer surgery in the UK: a trainee-led multicentre audit and service evaluation by Rachel L O’Donnell, Georgios Angelopoulos, James P Beirne, Ioannis Biliatis, Helen Bolton, Melissa Bradbury, Elaine Craig, Ketan Gajjar, Michelle L Mackintosh, Wendy MacNab, Thumuluru Kavitha Madhuri, Mark McComiskey, Eva Myriokefalitaki, Claire L Newton, Nithya Ratnavelu, Sian E Taylor, Amudha Thangavelu, Sarah A Rhodes, Emma J Crosbie, Richard J Edmondson, Yee-Loi Louise Wan

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Ecological-trophic structure of soil microbial communities in the the middle Ob floodplain by Ellina G. Nikitkina, Inna V. Lushchaeva, Victor A. Nikitkin, Sergey N. Kirpotin, Larisa G. Kolesnichenko

“…The relationship of bacteria of different physiological groups with seasonal variations and physical and chemical properties of soils, and the links between bacteria were identified and evaluated. …”
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Helping people with psychosis with a low-cost intervention DIALOG+: protocol for the economic evaluation in a randomised control trial in India and Pakistan by Victoria Jane Bird, Sara Evans-Lacko, Lakshmi Venkatraman, Padmavati Ramachandran, Ashar Muhammad Malik, Renata Peppl, Sana Zehra Zehra Sajun, Onaiza Qureshi, Krishna Priya, Hufsa Sarwar

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Study of the genetic polymorphism of diploid wheat Triticum boeoticum Boiss. using SSR markers by M. A. Abbasov

“…Unique alleles were found in all loci studied. Cluster analysis allowed the accessions studied to be combined into five major groups. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of 48 weeks of BIC/F/TAF and DRV/c/F/TAF on platelet function in the context of rapid ART start by Akif A. Khawaja, Gary Whitlock, Sarah Fidler, Alfredo Soler-Carracedo, Merle Henderson, Graham P. Taylor, Marta Boffito, Michael Emerson

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Evaluating the Diagnostic Value of Lymphocyte Subsets in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid and Peripheral Blood Across Various Diffuse Interstitial Lung Disease Subtypes by Sonoko Harada, Motoyasu Kato, Kazuyuki Nakagome, Hitoshi Sasano, Yuki Tanabe, Tomohito Takeshige, Yuuki Sandhu, Kei Matsuno, Shoko Ueda, Sumiko Abe, Takayasu Nishimaki, Shun Shinomiya, Jun Ito, Sachiko Miyake, Ko Okumura, Makoto Nagata, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Norihiro Harada

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Evaluating comparative effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for persons receiving opioid agonist therapy for opioid use disorder: protocol for a systematic review by Brian Hutton, Beverley Shea, Kimberly Corace, David Moher, Danielle B Rice, Becky Skidmore, Kednapa Thavorn, Sheena Taha, Dianna Wolfe, Fatemeh Yazdi, Beth A Sproule, Melanie Willows, Patricia Poulin, Gary Garber, Amy Porath, Leila Esmaeilisaraji

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Evaluation of placental growth factor, Vitamin D, and systemic inflammatory index as predictive biomarkers for preeclampsia severity: a retrospective cohort study by Xiaoyan Han, Hua Yang

“…Participants were divided into three groups: control (n = 217), mild preeclampsia (n = 101), and severe preeclampsia (n = 67). …”
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The optimization model for allocating reward to employees using GAHP and cluster analysis by Mehdi Ajalli

“…The research method is practical in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of data collection. For this purpose, first, by designing and distributing a comparative questionnaire of indicators and completing them by the experts of Shahid Fakuri Industries' component manufacturing unit, and by using the group hierarchical analysis process model with Expert Choice software, the weight of the effective indicators in employee evaluation was calculated, then the values of the indicators for 29 employees with using the formula of the normalization function in the Excel software, it is standardized, and the weight of the indicators is multiplied by the standard values of the data, and then the distance matrix and the optimal number of clusters are calculated through the Machaon software, and finally, using the discriminative clustering approach and using the K-means method, data clustering was done with SPSS and Makaon software and a suitable model was presented for allocating rewards to the workers of the parts making unit.…”
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Construction and evaluation of a triage assessment model for patients with acute non-traumatic chest pain: mixed retrospective and prospective observational study by Xuan Zhou, Gangren Jian, Yuefang He, Yating Huang, Jie Zhang, Shengfang Wang, Yunxian Wang, Ruofei Zheng

“…The AUC of our model in the development and validation groups was 0.919 (95%CI: 0.891 ~ 0.974) and 0.904 (95%CI: 0.855 ~ 0.952). …”
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Evaluation and Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life for Individuals with Diabetes Mellitus by Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) System by Frank Mo, Howard Morrison, Bernard C.K. Choi, Lianne Vardy

“…The study was based on the Canadian National Population Survey (NPHS) longitudinal data, from 1994—1995 to 2002—2003. We evaluated overall HUI3 scores and eight attributes (vision, hearing, speech, ambulation, dexterity, emotion, cognition, and pain) between respondents with and without diabetes in relation to demographic characteristics (age, sex, lifestyle, and socioeconomic status using ANCOVA[analysis of covariance]). …”
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Minimum Description Length and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Predictive Modeling by Petr Silhavy, Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler, Radek Silhavy

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Changes in Physical Activity Across Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Based on Smartphone Step Count Data Linked to a Japanese Claims Database: Retrospective Cohort Study by Yoshihide Inayama, Ken Yamaguchi, Kayoko Mizuno, Sachiko Tanaka-Mizuno, Ayami Koike, Nozomi Higashiyama, Mana Taki, Koji Yamanoi, Ryusuke Murakami, Junzo Hamanishi, Satomi Yoshida, Masaki Mandai, Koji Kawakami

“…ConclusionsThe analysis of objective pre- and postdiagnostic step count data provided fundamental information crucial for understanding changes in PA among patients with cancer. …”
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