The Health‐Related Quality of Life for Cemented Versus Uncemented Hemiarthroplasty in Elderly Patients With Femoral Neck Fractures: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Randomi... by Mohanad Samaheen, Maen Mohammad, Mikhail Salzmann, Nikolai Ramadanov

“…The outcomes of 1‐year mortality, requirement for additional surgeries, surgery duration, risk of pulmonary embolism, pressure sores or ulcers, intraoperative fractures, and periprosthetic or postoperative fractures demonstrated significant differences between the two groups. …”
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A machine learning approach for vocal fold segmentation and disorder classification based on ensemble method by S. M. Nuruzzaman Nobel, S. M. Masfequier Rahman Swapno, Md. Rajibul Islam, Mejdl Safran, Sultan Alfarhood, M. F. Mridha

“…These exceptional outcomes highlight the system’s ability to classify different VF illnesses precisely. In addition, we utilized the UNet-BiGRU model for segmentation, which attained a training accuracy of 92.55%, a validation accuracy of 89.87%, and a significant test accuracy of 91.47%. …”
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Towards compressive and tensile strengths of hybrid steel and PVA fibre-reinforced cementitious composites: Experimental and analytical by Gang Chen, Mingyan Lv, Haitang Zhu, Jianwen Zhang, Le Zhang

“…However, the appropriate hybrid ratio for achieving a positive hybrid effect needs to be explored. In addition, currently available analytical/statistical models for predicting the strength of HFRCCs are far from satisfactory and, therefore, need to be improved. …”
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Temporal variation of Manning roughness coefficient in furrow irrigation and its relationship with various field parameters by Hadi Rezaei Rad, Hamed Ebrahimian, Abdolmajid Liaghat, Fatemeh Khalaji, Mahshid Shabani Arani

“…Higher roughness coefficients were observed in the advance phase. Additionally, findings suggested that if the advance phase is short relative to the total irrigation time, the Manning’s n from the advance phase can be applied to the whole irrigation event without separate consideration for storage phase roughness. …”
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Dual-hybrid intrusion detection system to detect False Data Injection in smart grids. by Saad Hammood Mohammed, Mandeep S Jit Singh, Abdulmajeed Al-Jumaily, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Md Shabiul Islam, Abdulmajeed M Alenezi, Mohamed S Soliman

“…The proposed methodology combines Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) for hybrid feature selection, ensuring the selection of the most relevant features for detecting FDIAs. Additionally, the IDS employs a hybrid deep learning classifier that integrates Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks to capture the smart grid data's spatial and temporal features. …”
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Use of behavioural activation to manage pain: a systematic scoping review by G Lorimer Moseley, Marianne Gillam, Martin Jones, Sandra Walsh, Richard John Gray, Trevor Barker, Tesfahun Eshetie, Kate M. Gunn, Kham Tran

“…Background Behavioural activation (BA) is an effective treatment for depression; however, it is unclear if it can be used to manage pain.Objectives To conduct a scoping review of primary research that reported using BA to support people living with chronic pain to understand how BA had been used in relation to pain. In addition, we wanted to understand whether there were any reported changes in that pain, and how and who delivered BA.Eligibility criteria Primary research published in English.Sources of evidence We searched seven databases MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, Ovid Emcare, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Scopus and Web of Science, for primary research. …”
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Myocardin-Related Transcription Factor A (MRTF-A) Regulates the Balance between Adipogenesis and Osteogenesis of Human Adipose Stem Cells by Laura Hyväri, Sari Vanhatupa, Heidi T. Halonen, Minna Kääriäinen, Susanna Miettinen

“…Image-based analysis of Phalloidin staining revealed that MRTF-A inhibition reduced the F-actin formation and parallel orientation of the actin filaments. Additionally, MRTF-A inhibition affected the protein amounts of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), myosin light chain (MLC), and phosphorylated MLC suggesting that MRTF-A would regulate differentiation through SRF activity. …”
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Triple pillars of sustainable finance: The role of green finance, CSR, and digitalization on bank performance in Bangladesh by Shaikh Masrick Hasan, K. M. Anwarul Islam, Tawfiq Taleb Tawfiq, Priya Saha

“…Conversely, digitalization shows a statistically significant negative effect on performance, implying that initial implementation costs and challenges may outweigh the benefits. In addition, control variables, including default rate and bank size, exhibit a statistically significant negative relationship with performance measures. …”
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Comparative analysis of the parapatellar and subpatellar approaches in reducing peripheral knee pain post-intramedullary tibial fracture surgery by Shaoyu Han, Bingjun Cui, Lang Wu, Chuangong Wang, Zhixiang Chen

“…Overall, the parapatellar group outperformed the control group (P = 0.01). Additionally, long-term follow-up revealed potential advantages of the parapatellar approach in improving long-term functional outcomes. …”
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Prognostic significance of lymph node ratio in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: insights from the South Asian population by Sajida Qureshi, Waqas Ahmad Abbasi, Hira Abdul Jalil, Saba Mughal, Muhammad Saeed Quraishy

“…Patients with a high LNR had a higher mortality rate (70%) compared to those with a low LNR (41.7%) and 0 LNR (12%) (p = 0.002). Additionally, patients with a high LNR (>0.1) were associated with poorer overall survival (OS) (30.0% vs. 58.3% vs. 88.0%, p < 0.001). …”
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Multi-label text classification via secondary use of large clinical real-world data sets by Sai Pavan Kumar Veeranki, Akhila Abdulnazar, Diether Kramer, Markus Kreuzthaler, David Benjamin Lumenta

“…A prototypical front-end application for coding support was additionally implemented. The problem of predicting procedure codes from a given operative report can be successfully modelled as a multi-label classification task, with a promising performance. …”
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MGATAF: multi-channel graph attention network with adaptive fusion for cancer-drug response prediction by Dhekra Saeed, Huanlai Xing, Barakat AlBadani, Li Feng, Raeed Al-Sabri, Monir Abdullah, Amir Rehman

“…Future research can expand on this work by exploring additional data modalities and refining the adaptive fusion mechanisms.…”
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Microbial diversity and metabolomics analysis of colon contents exposed to cadmium and polystyrene microplastics by Dechun Chen, Liyu Pan, Xuan Ran, Junyu Huang, Xiaohua Teng, Falong Yang, Haifeng Liu

“…Cadmium and microplastics, common pollutants, can accumulate in the body, impacting the intestinal barrier and harming livestock breeding. …”
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Stability of a Rock Tunnel Passing through Talus-Like Formations: A Case Study in Southwestern China by Shaoqiang Zhang, Wenqiang Li, Jiashan Tan, Bokuan Li, Xiaochang Li, Shuaifeng Wang, Zixin Zhang

“…It is found that the excavation of lower benches released the surrounding rock pressure around upper benches, resulting in the decrease of the surrounding rock pressure on the primary lining and the stress of steel arches. In addition, the monitoring data revealed that the primary lining sustained bias pressure from the surrounding rock mass, which thereby caused unsymmetrical deformation of the primary lining, in accordance with the monitored displacement data. …”
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Taenia solium Cysticercosis and Taeniosis Reporting in the Current Medical and Veterinary Diseases Reporting Systems in Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study by Fredy Mlowe, James Mlangwa, Ernatus Mkupasi, Andrea S. Winkler, Antony D. Nyerere, Ayubu Churi, Helena Ngowi, Esron Karimuribo

“…It is concluded that the MDRS did not provide for specific reporting of taeniosis and NCC. …”
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Multiclass Supervised Learning Approach for SAR-COV2 Severity and Scope Prediction: SC2SSP Framework by Shaik Khasim Saheb, B. Narayanan, T.V. Narayana Rao

“…The model may also utilize preprocessing techniques which are Gaussian smoothing for handling imbalanced data, such as oversampling or under sampling, as well as feature extraction methods such as Local Binary Pattern to identify the most relevant input features for the prediction task. Additionally, a classifier such as XGBoost can also be used to further improve the model's performance. …”
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Eco-anthropologie et primatologie pour la conservation de la biodiversité : un projet collaboratif dans le Parc National de Moukalaba-Doudou, Gabon by Naoki Matsuura, Yuji Takenoshita, Juichi Yamagiwa

“…African tropical rainforests are decreasing rapidly because of the expansion of agricultural lands and commercial logging. In addition to habitat loss resulting from deforestation, an increase in the bushmeat trade threatens some wildlife species with extinction. …”
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Understanding Daily, Emotional, and Physical Burdens and Needs of Parents Caring for Children with Type 1 Diabetes by Heike Saßmann, Su-Jong Kim-Dorner, Verena Berndt, Torben Biester, Andrea Dehn-Hindenberg, Bettina Heidtmann, Norbert Jorch, Eggert Lilienthal, Nicole Nellen-Hellmuth, Andreas Neu, Katja Schaaf, Ralph Ziegler, Karin Lange

“…Independent of the level of burden, 78% of parents wanted additional diabetes training. Conclusion. Despite parents reporting high emotional burdens in connection with diabetes care, HbA1c and the gender of the reporting parent were the only risk factors. …”
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New insights on the shell-crusher shark Ptychodus decurrens Agassiz, 1838 (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) based on the first known articulated dentition from the Upper Cretaceous... by Manuel Amadori, Sanja Japundžić, Jacopo Amalfitano, Luca Giusberti, Eliana Fornaciari, Patrick L. Jambura, Jürgen Kriwet

“…This compels us to reconsider the use of terms such as high- and low-crowned as well as cuspidate and un-cuspidate. In addition, specimens previously assigned to dubious species (P. depressus, P. levis and P. oweni) or even varieties (P. polygyrus var. sulcatus and P. decurrens var. multiplicatus) are reassigned here to P. decurrens based on a careful comparison of the type materials. …”
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Scientometric Evaluation of Research Productivity on Diabetes from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the Last Two Decades (2000-2019) by Zohair Jamil Gazzaz, Nadeem Shafique Butt, Nadeem Alam Zubairi, Ahmad Azam Malik

“…Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a leading global cause of morbidity and mortality with additional threats from known prevalent risk factors. …”
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