Investigating the association of traditional and non-traditional tobacco product use with subclinical and clinical cardiovascular disease: The Cross-Cohort Collaboration- Tobacco w... by Erfan Tasdighi, Kunal K. Jha, Zeina A. Dardari, Ngozi Osuji, Tanuja Rajan, Ellen Boakye, Michael E. Hall, Carlos J. Rodriguez, Andrew C. Stokes, Omar El Shahawy, Emelia J. Benjamin, Aruni Bhatnagar, Andrew P. DeFilippis, Michael J. Blaha

“…White individuals make up the majority (73.1%), although there is good representation of other race and ethnicity groups including African American (15.6%) and Hispanic/Latino individuals (6.4%). …”
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Evaluation of the Magnet Breakaway Force Measurement Accuracy of the NT-800 Sensors for Early Detection of Defects of Their Manufacturing by A. Yu. Kutsepau, A. P. Kren, Y. V. Hnutsenka

“…Thus the absolute measurement error for a sensor with a poorly made sensitive element turned out to be approximately 3 times higher in the range of 200– 300 MPa than that for a sensor with good precision parameters.…”
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Ultra-fast biparametric MRI in prostate cancer assessment: Diagnostic performance and image quality compared to conventional multiparametric MRI by Antonia M. Pausch, Vivien Filleböck, Clara Elsner, Niels J. Rupp, Daniel Eberli, Andreas M. Hötker

“…Results: Inter-reader agreement was good for both mpMRI (κ = 0.83) and ultra-fast bpMRI (κ = 0.87). …”
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Validation of the Maslach burnout inventory-general survey 9-item short version (MBI-GS9) among care aides in Canadian nursing homes by Anni Wang, Yinfei Duan, Seyedehtanaz Saeidzadeh, Peter G. Norton, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…Results The Exhaustion subscale had good reliability with coefficients around 0.66–0.74. …”
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Pengembangan dan Efektivitas Buku Panduan Konseling Karir Ginzberg dengan Teknik Modeling untuk Memilih Studi Lanjut Siswa by I Komang Agus Ugrasena, I Ketut Dharsana, Kadek Suranata

“…., & Wand, Y. (2003) for Selecting Further Studies is effectively used to select student further studies and fulfills the requirements for writing a good guidebook, Dantes (2021), namely (1) High validity value, (2) Value high reliability, (3) Fulfills high practicality tests, (4) Able to adapt to the media used, (5) Fulfills the effectiveness of the contents of the manual.…”
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Capture of 3D Human Motion Pose in Virtual Reality Based on Video Recognition by Qiang Fu, Xingui Zhang, Jinxiu Xu, Haimin Zhang

“…Experiments show that the accuracy of the two-category human motion gesture capture and recognition has achieved good results. The experimental effect of SVC on the recognition of two classifications is excellent. …”
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Efficacy and safety of FOLFIRI/aflibercept in second‐line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer in a real‐world population: Prognostic and predictive markers by Ana Fernández Montes, Nieves Martínez Lago, Marta Covela Rúa, Juan de la Cámara Gómez, Paula González Villaroel, José Carlos Méndez Méndez, Mónica Jorge Fernández, Mercedes Salgado Fernández, Margarita Reboredo López, Guillermo Quintero Aldana, María Luz Pellón Augusto, Begoña Graña Suárez, Jesús García Gómez

“…Exploratory analyses of prognostic and predictive markers of efficacy were performed. Results Patients had good general status (PS 0‐1 96.2%), tumours were mostly RAS‐mutant (75.6%), synchronous (71.8%), and left‐sided (71.8%). …”
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Synergistic interaction between wheat streak mosaic virus and Triticum mosaic virus modulates wheat transcriptome to favor disease severity by Haritha Nunna, Nathan A. Palmer, Gautam Sarath, Stephen N. Wegulo, Satyanarayana Tatineni, Satyanarayana Tatineni

“…This study provides an overview of transcriptomic changes distinctly influenced by TriMV and WSMV either singly or in combination and provides a good correlation between specific transcription factors and genes associated with metabolism to observed phenotypic changes in plant growth and disease synergism.…”
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Factors influencing healthcare workers’ perceived compliance with infection prevention and control standards, North Bank East region, The Gambia, a cross-sectional study by Sheriffo M.K. Darboe, Sandra A. Darfour-Oduro, Godsway Edem Kpene, Abou Kebbeh, Nuha Fofana, Manjally Ndow, Kawsu Sanyang, Dwomoh Duah, Alfred Edwin Yawson, Ernest Kenu, Harriet Affran Bonful

“…About half (50.5%) of the HCWs did not comply with IPC standards. Good attitude of HCWs [aOR = 3.13, 95%CI: 1.17–8.41, p-value = 0.023], accessibility of Personal Protective Equipment [aOR = 2.34, 95%CI: 1.01–5.38; p-value = 0.046], and monitoring of IPC practice [aOR = 3.95, 95%CI: 1.84–8.45; p-value = < 0.001] were independently associated with HCWs perceived compliance with IPC standards. …”
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Development and usability testing of an online platform for provider training and implementation of cognitive-behavioral therapy guided self-help for eating disorders by Laura D’Adamo, Agatha A. Laboe, Jake Goldberg, Carli P. Howe, Molly Fennig Steinhoff, Bianca DePietro, Marie-Laure Firebaugh, Zafra Cooper, Denise E. Wilfley, Ellen E. Fitzsimmons-Craft

“…SUS and USE scores were in the “average” to “good” ranges across cycles. Conclusions Findings from this study demonstrate preliminary feasibility and acceptability of the online platform. …”
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Effect of EOG Signal Filtering on the Removal of Ocular Artifacts and EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interface: A Comprehensive Study by Malik M. Naeem Mannan, M. Ahmad Kamran, Shinil Kang, Myung Yung Jeong

“…Results from statistical testing of time and frequency domain metrics suggested that a low-pass frequency between 6 and 8 Hz could be used as the most optimal filtering frequency of EOG signals, both to maximally overcome/minimize the effect of bidirectional contamination and to achieve good results from artifact removal algorithms. Furthermore, we also used BCI competition IV datasets to show the efficacy of the proposed framework on real EEG signals. …”
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Robust and Long-Lasting Immunity and Protection in Mice Induced by Lipopolyplex-Delivered mRNA Vaccines Expressing the Prefusion Protein of Respiratory Syncytial Virus by Xuchang Shan, Ruiwen Han, Xueting Cheng, Jialuo Bing, Zhenyong Qi, Shucai Sun, Tangqi Wang, Qiaohong Chu, Yao Deng, Desheng Zhai, Wenjie Tan

“…The LPP-delivered mRNA vaccine expressing RSV pre-F induces a robust and long-lasting immune response and protection, indicating good prospects for further development and application.…”
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PALLIATIVE PANCREATODUODENAL RESECTION IN PANCREATIC HEAD CANCER by T. G. Gevorkyan, I. A. Faynshteyn

“…In general, the results were divided into 4 groups: good results were recognized in 16.7% of cases, satisfactory enough — in 26.7%, less satisfactory, but a positive effect — in 50%, non-satisfactory results of treatment were found in 6.6% cases. …”
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Associations between health, productive performance and oral fluid biomarkers in commercial pig farms by Mario Andre S. Ornelas, Edgar Garcia Manzanilla, José J. Cerón, Alba Ortín-Bustillo, María José López-Martínez, Carla Correia-Gomes, Finola C. Leonard, Lorena Franco-Martínez

“…Conclusions Haptoglobin, procalcitonin, oxytocin, creatine kinase and alpha-amylase, measured in oral fluid, should be further studied as good candidates to assess pig herds and predict performance at a batch level, through a non-invasive approach. …”
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A Binocular Vision-Assisted Method for the Accurate Positioning and Landing of Quadrotor UAVs by Jie Yang, Kunling He, Jie Zhang, Jiacheng Li, Qian Chen, Xiaohui Wei, Hanlin Sheng

“…Regarding tracking accuracy, both KF and EKF exhibit good following performance with small steady-state errors when the target is stationary. …”
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European Union legislation regarding waste processing technology by Rymarchuk R., Mykhaniv V.

“…The growing consumption of goods leads to the accumulation of a mass of waste that cannot be quickly processed and has a harmful effect on the environment. …”
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Risk assessment and hierarchical classification of foodborne disease epidemics during major events in Beijing: an empirical study based on surveillance data analysis by Jinru JIANG, Yangbo WU, Tongyu WANG, Chao WANG, Yanlin NIU, Di WANG, Liping LI, Qian CHEN, Yao ZHAO, Xiaochen MA

“…Prevention measures should focus on high and medium risk factors and those at the top of the Borda ordinal, and carry out monitoring and testing in the procurement, storage, processing and other links of raw materials, formulate recipes scientifically, do a good job in personnel health and training, and prevent cross-contamination.…”
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Deep learning-based skin lesion analysis using hybrid ResUNet++ and modified AlexNet-Random Forest for enhanced segmentation and classification. by Saleem Mustafa, Arfan Jaffar, Muhammad Rashid, Sheeraz Akram, Sohail Masood Bhatti

“…Though if it is detected in the early stages the patient has fairly good chance and the aforementioned diseases can be cured. …”
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Role of community health workers in type 2 diabetes mellitus self-management: A scoping review. by Bonaventure Amandi Egbujie, Peter Arthur Delobelle, Naomi Levitt, Thandi Puoane, David Sanders, Brian van Wyk

“…Aligned to this is a growing use of community health workers (CHWs) to deliver T2DM self-management support with good clinical outcomes especially in High Income Countries (HIC). …”
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Efficacy of Xpert MTB/RIF assay in detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis in samples with different results by smear and culture in a coastal city with high incidence of tuberculosis by Gang Feng, Hongyu Jiang, Ying Chen

“…Conclusion The Xpert method has high detection efficiency. It has good diagnostic value in detecting MTB and RR, especially in cases where traditional culture and sputum smear results are negative, and significantly reduces the rate of missed diagnosis.…”
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