Use of Cesarean Birth among Robson Groups 2 and 4 at Mizan-Tepi University Hospital, Ethiopia by Margo S. Harrison, Tewodros Liyew, Ephrem Kirub, Biruk Teshome, Andrea Jimenez-Zambrano, Margaret Muldrow, Teklemariam Yarinbab

“…In Robson Group 4, all 4 women delivered by prelabor cesarean had a maternal indication (one was missing data), and 3 of the intrapartum cesareans were indicated by “failed induction or augmentation.” …”
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Accounting for observation biases associated with counts of young when estimating fecundity: case study on the arboreal-nesting red kite (Milvus milvus) by Sollmann, Rahel, Adenot, Nathalie, Spakovszky, Peter, Windt, Jendrik, Mattsson, Brady J.

“…But the model could not estimate parameters when true states were missing from the paired data, which happened frequently in small sample sizes (n = 10 or 25). …”
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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

“…A qualitative analysis based on Bloom’s taxonomy revealed that learning objectives in the “Understand” category (9/11) were more frequently omitted than those in the “Remember” category (2/11). Most of the missing learning objectives were related to the content field of “prevention of complications.” …”
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The Relationship Between Mindset and Poverty Levels in Kisinga Sub-County Kasese District by Kambere, Roggers

“…Children raised in poverty tend to miss school more often because of illness whereby in the family there is no money to take such a child to the hospital and also to school and this has increased the levels of learners' dropout. …”
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Primary Schools’ Determinants of Pupils Academic Performance in Primary Leaving Examinations in Bubaare Sub-County Uganda. by Busingye, Annet

“…Children from disadvantaged families often lacked essential learning materials such as school fees and scholastic supplies, leading to frequent absenteeism or missing examinations. The study concluded that PLE performance is influenced by factors such as recruiting qualified staff, providing instructional materials, implementing effective assessments, managing teacher workloads, fostering positive study habits, and encouraging parental engagement. …”
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Iconic Celebration of Charms and Friendship in Poetry: Fálétí’s “Adébímpé Ọ̀jẹ́dòkun” by Michael Oladejo Afoláyan

“…Adébímpé hissed and mocked the nervous hunter, informing him of a big miss on so-close a target! He then beckoned on an alternative hunter, swearing he would not let go of the grip of the leopard. …”
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Lightweight YOLOv8s-Based Strawberry Plug Seedling Grading Detection and Localization via Channel Pruning by CHEN Junlin, ZHAO Peng, CAO Xianlin, NING Jifeng, YANG Shuqin

“…Despite these advantages, challenges such as missing or underdeveloped seedlings can arise due to seedling quality and environmental factors. …”
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Investigating and Completing Khanlari’s Theory on Metrical Units by Abbas Jahed Jah

“…To resolve this issue, the monosyllabic unit at the end of verses should be independently acknowledged.Adding a Trisyllabic Unit: A trisyllabic unit with the syllable pattern (- - U) is missing from Khanlari’s units. To address this, the unit “Avaze” is introduced following Khanlari’s naming convention.…”
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Evaluating the effects of time-restricted eating on overweight and obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome: A randomized controlled trial study protocol. by Hui Liu, Fuliang Shangguan, Fen Liu, Yu Guo, Huixi Yu, Hanbing Li, Yinhua Su, Zhongyu Li

“…All tests will be conducted using appropriate software, with a significance level set at P<0.05. Missing data will be imputed.<h4>Discussion</h4>The purpose of this study protocol is to further evaluate the effects of TRE in overweight and obese women with PCOS through a randomized controlled trial (RCT). …”
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Reflections on plague in African history (14th–19th c.) by Gérard Chouin

“…If the plague impacted African societies as it did in documented parts of the Old World, we must have missed or misread fundamental processes of change it entailed. …”
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TILTomorrow today: dynamic factors predicting changes in intracranial pressure treatment intensity after traumatic brain injury by Shubhayu Bhattacharyay, Florian D. van Leeuwen, Erta Beqiri, Cecilia A. I. Åkerlund, Lindsay Wilson, Ewout W. Steyerberg, David W. Nelson, Andrew I. R. Maas, David K. Menon, Ari Ercole, the CENTER-TBI investigators and participants

“…We developed the TILTomorrow modelling strategy, which leverages recurrent neural networks to map a token-embedded time series representation of all variables (including missing values) to an ordinal, dynamic prediction of the following day’s five-category therapy intensity level (TIL(Basic)) score. …”
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Evaluation of guided reporting: quality and reading time of automatically generated radiology report in breast magnetic resonance imaging using a dedicated software solution by Martin H. Maurer, Daniel Lorenz, Maximilian Clemens Otterbach, Igor Toker, Alexander Huppertz

“…The errors in all patient reports with major content differences were categorized as content omission errors caused by improper software operation (n = 2) or by missing content in software v. 0.8 displayable with v. 1.7 (n = 4). …”
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Usability and Usefulness of a Symptom Management Coaching System for Patients With Cancer Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Comparative Mixed Methods Study by Savannah Lucia Caterina Glaser, Itske Fraterman, Noah van Brummelen, Valentina Tibollo, Laura Maria Del Campo, Henk Mallo, Sofie Wilgenhof, Szymon Wilk, Vitali Gisko, Vadzim Khadakou, Ronald Cornet, Manuel Ottaviano, Stephanie Medlock

“…For other tasks and functionalities, it seems likely that loosening the inclusion criteria would have resulted in sufficient feedback without critical missing usability issues.…”
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Beneficiaries’ satisfaction with health insurance and associated factors in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Abubeker Alebachew Seid, Bizunesh Fantahun Kase, Abdu Hailu Shibeshi, Molla Getie Mehari, Abdulkerim Hassen Moloro

“…To address this, a trim-and-fill analysis imputed 10 hypothetical missing studies, resulting in a more symmetrical funnel plot. …”
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Sentralisasi Pengawasan Informasi Jaringan Menggunakan Blockchain Ethereum by Muhammad Fajar Sidiq, Akbari Indra Basuki, Halim Firdaus, Muhammad Aldi Baihaqi

“…Abstract Centralized monitoring of remote networks is hard to implement due to the high cost, lack of experts, and the missing key technologies. The existing researches are unable to provide a secure, centralized monitoring system that satisfies three security aspects, namely: availability, integrity, and confidentiality. …”
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Gut microbiota drives colon cancer risk associated with diet: a comparative analysis of meat-based and pesco-vegetarian diets by Carlotta De Filippo, Sofia Chioccioli, Niccolò Meriggi, Antonio Dario Troise, Francesco Vitali, Mariela Mejia Monroy, Serdar Özsezen, Katia Tortora, Aurélie Balvay, Claire Maudet, Nathalie Naud, Edwin Fouché, Charline Buisson, Jacques Dupuy, Valérie Bézirard, Sylvie Chevolleau, Valérie Tondereau, Vassilia Theodorou, Claire Maslo, Perrine Aubry, Camille Etienne, Lisa Giovannelli, Vincenzo Longo, Andrea Scaloni, Duccio Cavalieri, Jildau Bouwman, Fabrice Pierre, Philippe Gérard, Françoise Guéraud, Giovanna Caderni

“…Dietary habits also shape gut microbiota, but the role of the combination between diet, the gut microbiota, and the metabolite profile on CRC risk is still missing an unequivocal characterisation. Methods To investigate how gut microbiota affects diet-associated CRC risk, we fed Apc-mutated PIRC rats and azoxymethane (AOM)-induced rats the following diets: a high-risk red/processed meat-based diet (MBD), a normalised risk diet (MBD with α-tocopherol, MBDT), a low-risk pesco-vegetarian diet (PVD), and control diet. …”
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Systematic review on the compliance of WHO guidelines in the management of patients with advanced HIV disease in Africa: The case of cryptococcal antigen screening. by Zuhura Mbwana Ally, Jackline Vicent Mbishi, Mariam Salim Mbwana, Hafidha Mhando Bakari, Swalehe Mustafa Salim, Zarin Nudar Rodoshi, Muhidin Ibrahim Hundisa, Rebecca Mesfin Sileshi, Biruk Demisse Ayalew, Rahma Musoke, Lynn Moshi, Yousef Elias Fakhoury, Haji Mbwana Ally, Habib Omari Ramadhani

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Not screening for CrAg among people with AHD and failure to initiate antifungal medications among eligible patients with cryptococcal antigenemia presents a significant missed opportunity. Emphasis on improving CrAg screening is critical given its proven cost-effective benefits.…”
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Reproducibility and Consistency of Isolation Protocols for Fibroblasts, Smooth Muscle Cells, and Epithelial Cells from the Human Vagina by Jayson Sueters, Rogier Schipperheijn, Judith Huirne, Theo Smit, Zeliha Guler

“…Protocols were derived from published reports on cell isolation by enzymes, with exclusion criteria including the need for specialized equipment, surgical separation of tissue layers, or missing protocol details. Enzymatic digestion with collagenase-I, collagenase-IV, and dispase-II was used for isolation of VECs, collagenase-IV for isolation of SMCs, and collagenase-IA for isolation of FBs. …”
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Assessment of the methodological quality of studies on core outcome sets for respiratory diseases: A systematic review and meta-research study. by Mengjuan Liu, Jiajia Wang, Lu Wang, Xinyi Zhang, Ruiyu Hao, Duolao Wang, Tao Chen, Jiansheng Li

“…For the assessment of study protocols using the COS-STAP statement, the item with the lowest complete reporting rate was "missing data" (Item 9, 40.0%), while "description how outcomes may be dropped/combined, with reasons" (Item 5b, 60.0%) and "dissemination" (Item 11, 60.0%) had relatively low complete reporting rates. …”
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How Does Indonesian Chronic Disease Patient Adhere to Their Treatment? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 11,408 Subjects by Pradipta IS, Aprilio K, Ningsih YF, Pratama MAA, Gatera VA, Alfian SD, Iskandarsyah A, Abdulah R

“…Furthermore, in patient- and condition-related factors, positive perceptions of their health condition, missing 0– 7 days of their regular activity in the last month, being ex- and non-smokers, having no depression symptoms, and having only one chronic disease were associated with treatment nonadherence.Conclusion: Treatment nonadherence for chronic diseases in Indonesia was found to be prevalent. …”
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