Association of Light’s Criteria with Pleural Fluid Procalcitonin Levels and Ultrasound Thorax with its Impact on the Management of Pleural Effusion: A Cross-sectional Study by BK Likhitha, Keertivardhan D Kulkarni, Madhav Mahawar

“…Management varied from simple effusions treated with aspiration to complex cases that required interventions like intercostal drainage tube insertion or decortication. …”
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From Acceptance to Dependence: Exploring Influences of Smart Healthcare on Continuous Use Intention of Mobile Health Services Among Older Adults with Chronic Illnesses in China by Jiacheng Luo, Kewei Zhang, Qianghong Huang, Shan Jiang, Younghwan Pan

“…The value of mobile health (mHealth) services can only be realized through sustained use. Therefore, this study empirically investigates the continuous use intention of mHealth services from the perspective of older adults with chronic illnesses, integrating the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Value-Based Adoption Model (VAM). …”
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Effect of self-paced sprint interval training and low-volume HIIT on cardiorespiratory fitness: the role of heart rate and power output by Katie L. Hesketh, Katie L. Hesketh, Sam O. Shepherd, Anton J. M. Wagenmakers, Matthew Cocks, Juliette A. Strauss

“…Sessions were completed 3×/week using WattBikes, and a target of >80% HRmax was suggested during the intervals. …”
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A Temporal and Dynamic Approach to Enjambments in French Versified Poetry from the 17th to the late 19th Century by Éliane Delente

“…When the meaning in a line straddles the line break to continue into the next line, which line is concerned by the enjambment? the first, the second, or both? Does enjambment constitute a homogeneous category? …”
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Nonlinear Association Between Serum Uric Acid and Femoral Neck Bone Mineral Density in Male Patients with Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease by Tan J, Wang L, Li H, Wang H, Yang X

“…Participants were stratified into tertiles based on femoral neck BMD. Gender-stratified linear regression analyses were performed to assess the relationship between SUA and femoral neck BMD. …”
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Cambios morfométricos cardiacos en adultos hipertensos luego de practicar la necropsia by Adys Castro Barberena, María Teresa Martínez Barroso, Georgina Jiménez Estrada, Javier Martínez Navarro, Maricel Castellanos González

“…La información recopilada se procesó en forma computarizada por medio del programa SPSS versión 11,5, para lo cual se realizó una base de datos. …”
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Clinical Features and Predictors of Lethal Outcome in Tick-Borne Encephalitis: A Retrospective Study from Lithuania by G. Rynkevič, E. Žilinskas, D. Streckytė, D. Radzišauskienė, R. Mameniškienė

“…Six hundred and seven case histories were analyzed. Of these, 588 case histories were included in the final analysis. …”
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Analysis of the prognostic value of thyroglobulin antibody change trends during follow-up after 131I treatment in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma by Hua Ge, Wenxin Chen, Zhiyi Lin, Yuxuan Li, Shuting Chen

“…Compared to the Negative Conversion Group, the Stable Group had more postoperative lymph node metastases (P<0.05). Although pre-treatment TgAb levels in the Increase Group were lower than those in the Decrease Group, the Increase Group required significantly more treatments and a higher total dose of 131I (P<0.05). …”
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A systematic scoping review of latent class analysis applied to accelerometry-assessed physical activity and sedentary behavior. by Michael Kebede, Annie Green Howard, Yumeng Ren, Blake Anuskiewicz, Chongzhi Di, Melissa A Troester, Kelly R Evenson

“…<h4>Results</h4>Of 2555 papers found, 66 full-text papers were screened, and 12 papers (11 cross-sectional, 1 cohort) from 8 unique studies were included. Study sample sizes ranged from 217-7931 (mean 2249, standard deviation 2780). …”
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Wastewater Monitoring During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Veneto Region, Italy: Longitudinal Observational Study by Honoria Ocagli, Marco Zambito, Filippo Da Re, Vanessa Groppi, Marco Zampini, Alessia Terrini, Franco Rigoli, Irene Amoruso, Tatjana Baldovin, Vincenzo Baldo, Francesca Russo, Dario Gregori

“…This study investigates the use of WBE to anticipate COVID-19 trends by analyzing the correlation between viral RNA concentrations in wastewater and reported COVID-19 cases in the Veneto region of Italy. …”
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Cell-Specific Regulation of Inflammatory Cytokines and Acute-Phase Proteins by the Glucocorticoid Receptor by Rebecca Winkler, Hong Lu

“…This study was performed to understand the glucocorticoid receptor’s (GR’s) effects on chemokine and acute-phase protein expression in human liver, in settings of bacterial infection (modeled using LPS) or inflammation (modeled using TNFα). …”
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Deciphering Regulatory Networks Governing Seedling Emergence in Deep-Sown Direct-Seeded Rice Cultivation by Jasneet Singh, Nitika Sandhu, Aman Kumar, Om Prakash Raigar, Sutej Bains, Gaurav Augustine, Muskan Gupta, Ekta Kharche, Anu Kalia, Navtej Singh Bains, Arvind Kumar

“…From this pool of DEGs, 24 genes were validated using qRT-PCR. …”
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Longitudinal evaluation of cognition after stroke - A systematic scoping review. by Juan Pablo Saa, Tamara Tse, Carolyn Baum, Toby Cumming, Naomi Josman, Miranda Rose, Leeanne Carey

“…Cognition was evaluated with 356 unique instruments, targeting 95 distinct cognitive domains, and 17 mental functions from the ICF. The Mini-Mental State Examination was the most frequently used instrument (117 reports, 46%). …”
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Smart Manufacturing Application in Precision Manufacturing by Amr T. Sufian, Badr M. Abdullah, Oliver J. Miller

“…In this paper, the aim is to demonstrate a practical implementation of a smart manufacturing application using a systematic approach based on conceptual six-gear smart factory roadmap with connectivity, integration and analytics stages to build a smart production management ecosystem using off-the-shelf technologies applied in precision manufacturing. …”
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Tensión entre la democracia inclusiva y la mayoría: el matrimonio igualitario en el Congreso colombiano by Rocío del Pilar Peña Huertas, María Mónica Parada Hernández

“…Quienes abogan porque debe ser el legislador apoyan su argumentación en la base popular que tiene el Parlamento y en las funciones que constitucionalmente le asisten; sin embargo, los detractores de esta corriente basan sus críticas en que el legislador, por su origen, está ligado a la opinión pública, y que esto hace que difícilmente se pueda apartar del juicio de las mayorías, que en ocasiones va en contra de las minorías no representadas. …”
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Association between Healthy Eating Index-2020, alternative Mediterranean Diet scores, and gastrointestinal cancer risk in NHANES 2005–2018 by Weijie Wang, Yu Chang, Geng Chen

“…The 24-hour recall questionnaire was used to collect and assess the participants’ average dietary intake. …”
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EVALUATION OF SMARTNESS OF THE TOURISM DESTINATION WEBSITES OF THE KLAIPEDA REGION by Julius Ramanauskas, Šarūnas Banevičius, Putinas Bielskis

“…In the contemporary era, the concept of smart cities, propelled by telecommunications-based information and communication technologies (ICT), is transforming the urban landscape. …”
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Safety and efficacy of intravenous thrombolysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 93,057 minor stroke patients by Mostafa Hossam El Din Moawad, Talal Salem, Anas Alaaeldin, Youssef Elaraby, Peter D. Awad, Amr Ahmed Khalifa, Ahmed El Naggar, Khaled Ashraf Mohamed, Mohamed Elhalal, Mostafa Badr, Ramy Abdelnaby

“…Therefore, our objective was to determine the safety and efficacy of IVT in treating minor stroke patients (NIHSS ≤ 5). Methods Using the search strategy assigned which was based on three keywords: “mild” or “minor”, “stroke”, and “intravenous thrombolysis”, we searched for eligible articles on PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Scopus from inception till 10th January 2024. …”
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Logistic Regression Model in a Machine Learning Application to Predict Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients with Worse Renal Function One Year after Kidney Transplant: Elderly KTbo... by Ubiracé Fernando Elihimas Júnior, Jamila Pinho Couto, Wallace Pereira, Michel Pompeu Barros de Oliveira Sá, Eduardo Eriko Tenório de França, Filipe Carrilho Aguiar, Diogo Buarque Cordeiro Cabral, Saulo Barbosa Vasconcelos Alencar, Saulo José da Costa Feitosa, Thais Oliveira Claizoni dos Santos, Helen Conceição dos Santos Elihimas, Emilly Pereira Alves, Marcio José de Carvalho Lima, Frederico Castelo Branco Cavalcanti, Paulo Adriano Schwingel

“…We used multivariable logistic regression to estimate odds ratios for elderly vs younger recipients, controlled for demographic, clinical, laboratory, data pre- and post-KT, and death. …”
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Scrutiny on the grammatical error of descriptive text written by the first semester public health students Universitas Faletehan by Kety Soraya

“…There were various frequencies of errors found from each type. Omission errors included 200 (35.33%) from 495 errors of articles, Nouns 90 (19.98%) from 280 error of nouns, preposition 70 (16.05%) from 225 errors of prepositions, conjunction 40 (4.99%) from 70 errors of conjunction, pronoun 30 (4.63%) from 65 of pronouns, verb 40 (7.85%) from 40 errors of verbs, adjective 30 (8.27%) from 30 errors of adjectives. …”
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