Risk Factors of Noncompliance to Preventive Mass Drug Administration for Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis: A Case-Control Study in Jawi District, Northwest Ethiopia by Fetene Mihretu, Gebeyehu Tsega, Melesse Belayneh, Mesafint Molla Adane

“…Then, data were entered and cleaned by using the EPI DATA software, and analyses were conducted using SPSS version 26. …”
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Expert decision-making in clinicians: An auto-analytic ethnographic study of operational decision-making in urgent care. by Nicola Irvine, Robert Van Der Meer, Itamar Megiddo

“…A grounded theoretical model of expert decision-making was created via Gioia Methodology. Decision types were categorised to identify differences in solutions as well as decision processes.…”
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What’s Going On With Me and How Can I Better Manage My Health? The Potential of GPT-4 to Transform Discharge Letters Into Patient-Centered Letters to Enhance Patient Safety: Prospe... by Felix Eisinger, Friederike Holderried, Moritz Mahling, Christian Stegemann–Philipps, Anne Herrmann–Werner, Eric Nazarenus, Alessandra Sonanini, Martina Guthoff, Carsten Eickhoff, Martin Holderried

“…Most of the missing learning objectives were related to the content field of “prevention of complications.” …”
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Agreement Between Provider-Completed and Patient-Completed Preoperative Frailty Screening Using the Clinical Risk Analysis Index: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study by Mehraneh Khalighi, Amy C Thomas, Karl J Brown, Katherine C Ritchey

“…MethodsOrthopedic physicians and physician assistants completed the RAI-C assessment on veterans aged 65 years and older undergoing elective total joint arthroplasty (eg, total hip or knee arthroplasty) and documented scores into the electronic health record during their preoperative clinic evaluation. …”
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Upper Quarter Injury Rates and Risk in United States High School Athletes Prior To and During the Prolonged Sport Stoppage by Garrett Bullock, Charles Thigpen, Albert Prats-Uribe, R. Gill Gilliand, Ellen Shanley

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity to evaluate the potential added burden abrupt and prolonged sport stoppage had on upper quarter injury risk…”
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Robotic Versus Open Pancreatoduodenectomy With Vein Resection and Reconstruction: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis by Niccolò Napoli, MD, PhD, FEBS, Emanuele Federico Kauffmann, MD, PhD, FEBS, Michael Ginesini, MD, Armando Di Dato, MD, Virginia Viti, MD, Cesare Gianfaldoni, MD, Lucrezia Lami, MD, Carla Cappelli, MD, Maria Isabella Rotondo, MD, Daniela Campani, MD, Gabriella Amorese, MD, Caterina Vivaldi, MD, Silvia Cesario, MD, Laura Bernardini, MD, Enrico Vasile, MD, Fabio Vistoli, MD, PhD, FEBS, Ugo Boggi, MD, FEBS

“…This was an intention-to-treat study designed to demonstrate the noninferiority of robotic to open PD-VR (2011–2021) based on SPC. …”
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Mendelian Randomization Reveals Potential Causal Relationships Between DNA Damage Repair-Related Genes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Zhihao Qi, Quan Li, Shuhua Yang, Chun Fu, Burong Hu

“…The GWAS summarized data for IBD and its two subtypes, Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), were acquired from the FinnGen study. We elected from genetic variants located within or near 2000 DDR-related genes in cis, which are closely associated with DDR-related gene changes. …”
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A Novel, Patient-Specific Mathematical Pathology Approach for Assessment of Surgical Volume: Application to Ductal Carcinoma in situ of The Breast by Mary E. Edgerton, Yao-Li Chuang, Paul Macklin, Wei Yang, Elaine L. Bearer, Vittorio Cristini

“…In accordance with biological observations, our model simulates the diffusion-limited in situ tumors with a relatively short phase of fast initial growth, followed by a prolonged slow-growth phase where tumor size is constrained primarily by the relative weight of cell mitosis and death. …”
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Predictive factors of fibrotic interstitial lung abnormality on high-resolution computed tomography scans: a prospective observational study by Kazuya Ichikado, Hidenori Ichiyasu, Kazuhiro Iyonaga, Kodai Kawamura, Yuko Yasuda, Keisuke Anan, Hiroko Okabayashi, Kimitaka Akaike, Noritaka Higashi, Takeshi Johkoh, Kiminori Fujimoto, Tetsuo Saito, Jun Morinaga, Minoru Yoshida, Katsuhiko Mitsuzaki, Takuro Sakagami

“…Clinical laboratory evaluations are expressed as medians and interquartile ranges for each evaluation time point, and boxplots were created for graphical representation. The percentages of abnormal clinical laboratory results were compared between the groups using chi-square or Fisher’s exact tests. …”
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Morphofunctional characteristics of leaves and fruits in Maloideae (Rosaceae): a. Microstructure of surface tissues by T. Kh. Kumachova, A. S. Voronkov, A. V. Babosha, A. S. Ryabchenko

“…In the study of the surface of C. oblonga fruits, numerous rather large stomata with peristomatic rings and cuticular cushions were found similar to those in leaves.Conclusion. Surface structures of leaves and fruits in subfam. …”
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Global digital elevation model (GDEM) product generation by correcting ASTER GDEM elevation with ICESat-2 altimeter data by B. Li, B. Li, B. Li, B. Li, H. Xie, H. Xie, S. Liu, Z. Ye, Z. Hong, Q. Weng, Q. Weng, Q. Weng, Y. Sun, Q. Xu, X. Tong

“…<p>Advancements in scientific inquiry and practical applications have created a higher demand for the accuracy of global digital elevation models (GDEMs), especially for GDEMs whose main data source is optical imagery. …”
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Predictive Factors for Access-Site Pain Chronicity after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention via Radial Artery Access by Liuda Brogiene, Giedre Baksyte, Agne Klimaite, Martynas Paliokas, Andrius Macas

“…Data of selected patients (n = 161) who underwent elective PCI were collected prospectively and analysed in 2020. …”
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Artificial-Intelligence-Based Investigation on Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes in Response to Population Growth in South Punjab, Pakistan by Tanweer Abbas, Muhammad Shoaib, Raffaele Albano, Muhammad Azhar Inam Baig, Irfan Ali, Hafiz Umar Farid, Muhammad Usman Ali

“…This negative impact directly relates to climate change, sustainable agriculture, inflation, and food security at local and global levels. …”
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STABILITY OF DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE PROFESSIONALS’ EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE by A. M. Beloborodov, E. E. Symaniuk

“…To clarify the degree of stability of purposefully created emotional intelligence, repeated diagnostics of the competencies mastered by students was carried out one and a half years after. …”
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Yunvjian decoction attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury by inhibiting NF-κB/NLRP3 pathway and pyroptosis by Fanxuan Zhang, Fang Wang, Lisha Zhao, Leqian Wang, Wenjing Li, Feihua Huang, Feihua Huang, Nani Wang, Nani Wang

“…Analysis of pneumonia-related lung injury samples from patients in the Gene Expression Omnibus dataset GSE40012 indicated that NOD-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3)-mediated pyroptosis was a primary mechanism in ALI. …”
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African animal trypanocide resistance: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Ewan, Thomas MacLeod, Susan, Christina Welburn

“…Methods: A total of seven electronic databases were screened for an article on trypanocide resistance in AATr by using keywords on preclinical and clinical trials with the number of animals with treatment relapse, days taken to relapse, and resistant gene markers using the PRISMA checklist. Data were cleaned using the SR deduplicator and covidence and analyzed using Cochrane RevMan®. …”
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Financial Inclusion and Refugees’ Self-Reliance: An Assessment for Women’s Economic Empowerment at Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Southwestern Uganda. by Mugisha, Abbas, Kaaya, Siraje

“…The study recommends that creating credit facilities to enterprising women refugees will encourage trade within and outside the settlement and this could reduce vulnerability while improving the economy of the refugees and host community. …”
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The Contributions of Mgahinga Gorilla National Park Towards Economic Development of Kisoro District: A Case Study of Gisozi Parish. by Munyambabazi, Danny

“…This is because farmers in surrounding areas still engage themselves in growing traditional crops such as sorghum, wheat, maize, and many others which do not create a market in tourist campsites.…”
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The Role of Local Government Councils in Emancipating Special Interest Groups: A Case Study of PWDs in Bukimbiri Sub-County Kisoro District. by Kamusiime, Daniel

“…Based on the findings there is many challenges to PWDs in the study area especially economic challenges the government should create awareness in the society about challenges of PWDs and their rights in general, this should be through media, mass meetings, posters, community education, political and social or spiritual gatherings and also it may be included in school curriculum from primary to university level, this will help people to be aware about value of PWDs their rights and challenges for the whole community to participate in protecting them.…”
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The Role of Local Government Councils in Emancipating Special Interest Groups: A Case Study of PWDs in Bukimbiri Sub County Kisoro District . by Kamusiime, Daniel

“…Based on the findings there are many challenges to PWDs in the study area especially economic challenges the government should create awareness in society about the challenges of PWDs and their rights in general, this should be through media, mass meetings, posters, community education, political and social or spiritual gatherings and also it may be included in school curriculum from primary to university level, this will help people to be aware about value of PWDs their rights and challenges for the whole community to participate in protecting them.…”
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