Intravenous immunoglobulin in the management of idiopathic inflammatory myositis: A single centre retrospective review by Jeet Hemantkumar Patel, Lalit Duggal, Ved Chaturvedi, Neeraj Jain, Gurbir Bhandari, Mayank Gupta

“…Participants were classified into cases and controls based on IVIG use for treatment. …”
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“site suitability analysis for integrating large-scale hybrid photovoltaic and concentrated solar power plants in Cameroon using Monte Carlo, analytic hierarchy process, and geographic information system methods” by Fotsing Metegam Isabelle Flora

“…This study identifies optimal locations for hybrid solar PV-CSP (Photovoltaic-Concentrated Solar Power) plants in Cameroon using a combination of decision-making methods, including AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), FAHP (Fuzzy AHP), and MC-AHP (Monte Carlo AHP), alongside GIS (Geographic Information System) for spatial analysis. …”
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Divergencias sexo-genéricas: procesos de subjetivación y trayectorias de vida del colectivo trans en Argentina by Natalia Gil

“…Para ello, trabajamos con base en los testimonios y documentos elaborados por la propia comunidad a fin de estudiar los procesos de subjetivación dados, junto a los desvíos que en los mismos se producen, para finalmente dar con las estrategias políticas tramadas al interior del colectivo. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials Comparing Robotic, Laparoscopic, and Open Pancreatoduodenectomy by Nejo Joseph, MBChB, Chris Varghese, MBChB, James Lucocq, MBChB, Matthew J. McGuinness, MBChB, Samuel Tingle, MBChB, Giovanni Marchegiani, PhD, Kjetil Soreide, PhD, Mohammed Abu-Hilal, Jas Samra, Marc Besselink, PhD, Steve White, Sanjay Pandanaboyana, FRCS

“…Background:. The use of minimally invasive (laparoscopic and robotic) pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) is being increasingly adopted despite the lack of hard evidence to support its utilisation. …”
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Monitoring of hepatitis E virus infection and replication by functional tagging of the ORF2 protein by Maliki Ankavay, Nathalie Da Silva, Angela Pollán, Noémie Oechslin, Katja Dinkelborg, Patrick Behrendt, Darius Moradpour, Jérôme Gouttenoire

“…Understanding of the mechanisms underlying productive HEV infection remains incomplete and would benefit from technological advances improving current model systems. …”
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Recognition and Classification of 3D Objects of Different Details by Islam A. Alexandrov, Maxim S. Mikhailov, Alexander N. Muranov, Vladimir Zh. Kuklin

“…Then, we develop a high-accuracy recognition method based on spectral and topological invariants processed using a convolutional neural network. …”
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THE RESULTS OF MODULAR ENDOPROSTHESIS OF PERIACETABULAR REGION IN TUMOR LESIONS OF THE ACETABULUM AND HIP JOINT by G. D. Iluridze, V. Yu. Karpenko, V. A. Derzhavin, A. V. Bukharov

“…Currently, one of the most modern methods of reconstruction of the pelvic bones is the use of modular endoprostheses based on the conical leg, the advantage of which is the ability to intraoperatively simulate an endoprosthesis that best meets the specific clinical situation. …”
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تأثیر مجموعات المکتبة المرکزیة بجامعة القاهرة فى البحث العلمى فى تخصص المکتبات والمعلومات : دراسة تحلیلیة... by د.سرفیناز أحمد حافظ

“…The study aims to verify the impact of the central library collection at CairoUniversity in preparing theses in the field of library, Archives and informationtechnology based on ISO standard No. 16439 dated 2014 concerning the impactof libraries. …”
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Desafios da liderança na função pública: uma instituição de ensino geral em Songo-Moçambique by Tima Sansão Júnior Ferreira, Adalberto Paulino Falso Armindo

“…O estudo de liderança que se demonstra predominantemente é democrático, que por sua vez, não tem sido exercido na área financeira, em que a liderança tem sido autocrática nas decisões tomadas. …”
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A Two-Fluid Conditional Averaging Paradigm for the Theory and Modeling of Turbulent Premixed Combustion by Vladimir L. Zimont

“…We propose a simpler approach to modeling the conditional Reynolds stresses based on the use of the two-fluid conditional equations of the standard “k-ε” turbulence model, which we formulate using the splitting method. …”
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Characteristics of the gene pool of spring wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.) for resistance to loose smut in the forest-steppe of Western Siberia by E. A. Orlova, N. P. Baechtold

“…Resistance genes in Russian wheat varieties can be traced from cultivars Beloturka, Poltavka, Selivanovsky Hare (using Saratovskaya 29 and its derivatives), and genes from wheatgrass lines AGIS 1 and Grecum 114.…”
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Exclusive breastfeeding practices and factors affecting them in urban areas of Uttar Pradesh by Prakhar Sharma, Neha Bansal, Abha Kaul

“…Background: Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months is the recommended infant feeding practice, with established benefits. …”
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Construction and Validation of a Major Depression Risk Predictive Model for Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: Insights from NHANES 2005–2018 by Li-xiang Zhang, Shan-bing Hou, Fang-fang Zhao, Ting-ting Wang, Ying Jiang, Xiao-juan Zhou, Jiao-yu Cao

“…Methods: Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2005 to 2018, 1098 adults with CHD were included. …”
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Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices (the DAMPen-D study): protocol for a co-design and feasibility study of a flexible and scalab... by Najma Siddiqi, Chao Huang, Maureen Twiddy, Miriam Johnson, Margaret Ogden, Kathryn Sartain, Imogen Featherstone, Jason Boland, Mark Pearson, Catriona Jackson, Gillian Jackson

“…The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of an implementation strategy (designed to help deliver good practice delirium guidelines), participant recruitment and data collection.Methods and analysis Three work packages in three hospices in the UK with public involvement in codesign, study management and stakeholder groups: (1) experience-based codesign to adapt an existing theoretically-informed implementation strategy (Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC)) to implement delirium guidelines in hospices; (2) feasibility study to explore ability to collect demographic, diagnostic and delirium management data from clinical records (n=300), explanatory process data (number of staff engaged in CLECC activities and reasons for non-engagement) and cost data (staff and volunteer hours and pay-grades engaged in implementation activities) and (3) realist process evaluation to assess the acceptability and flexibility of the implementation strategy (preimplementation and postimplementation surveys with hospice staff and management, n=30 at each time point; interviews with hospice staff and management, n=15). …”
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Performance assessment of ChatGPT 4, ChatGPT 3.5, Gemini Advanced Pro 1.5 and Bard 2.0 to problem solving in pathology in French language by Georges Tarris, Laurent Martin

“…Digital teaching diversifies the ways of knowledge assessment, as natural language processing offers the possibility of answering questions posed by students and teachers. Objective This study evaluated ChatGPT's, Bard's and Gemini's performances on second year of medical studies’ (DFGSM2) Pathology exams from the Health Sciences Center of Dijon (France) in 2018–2022. …”
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Sheikh al-Qaraḍāwī’s Independent Reasoning (Ijtihād) in Reformulating Contemporary Islamic Criminal Jurisprudence within the Framework of the Modern State by Gaber Mohamed

“…He believes that Islamic punitive measures primarily aim at promoting values and upholding human rights principles without discrimination based on religion, race, colour, or gender. Al-Qaraḍāwī’s views covered a range of complex criminal issues, including his stance on abolishing the death penalty, gender equality in matters of blood money, retribution between Muslims and non-Muslims, the changing jurisprudential concept of guardianship in retribution cases, the minimum threshold for amputation on theft, criticism of the modern prison system, punishment by stoning, the crime of apostasy, and his critique of the prevailing European narrative on corporal punishments in Islam. …”
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Performance of GGBS Cement Concrete under Natural Carbonation and Accelerated Carbonation Exposure by Jun Zhao, Eskinder Desta Shumuye, Zike Wang, Gashaw Assefa Bezabih

“…One of the primary problems related to reinforced concrete structures is carbonation of concrete. In many cases, depth of carbonation on reinforced concrete structures is used to evaluate concrete service life. …”
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Surfaces and Air Bacteriology of Selected Wards at a Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Hailu Getachew, Awoke Derbie, Daniel Mekonnen

“…Data were entered and analyzed using SPSS version 23 for Windows. Results. Of the total 356 samples processed, 274 were from surfaces and 82 were from air. …”
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Identification of Parkinson’s disease using MRI and genetic data from the PPMI cohort: an improved machine learning fusion approach by Yifeng Yang, Liangyun Hu, Yang Chen, Weidong Gu, Guangwu Lin, YuanZhong Xie, Shengdong Nie

“…Two multi-modal fusion strategies were used: feature-level fusion, where we employed a hybrid feature selection algorithm combining Fisher discriminant analysis, an ensemble Lasso (EnLasso) method, and partial least squares (PLS) regression to identify and integrate the most informative features from neuroimaging and genetic data; and decision-level fusion, where we developed an adaptive ensemble stacking (AE_Stacking) model to synergistically integrate the predictions from multiple base classifiers trained on individual modalities.ResultsThe AE_Stacking model achieving the highest average balanced accuracy of 95.36% and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.974, significantly outperforming feature-level fusion and single-modal models (p &lt; 0.05). …”
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Comparative analysis of the whole transcriptome landscapes of muscle and adipose tissue in Qinchuan beef cattle by Ju Qiu, Zheng Ma, Zhipeng Hong, Xu Yin, Yun Chen, Hafiz Qadeer Ahmed, Linsen Zan, Anning Li

“…Based on the competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) regulatory mechanism, we constructed a lncRNA/circRNA-miRNA-mRNA network consisting of 6 circRNAs, 5 lncRNAs, 6 miRNAs and 27 mRNAs. …”
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