Experimental evidence-based construction of electroacupuncture for ischemic stroke: a meta-analysis and systematic review by Yaoguang Guo, Sihan Hu, Sihan Hu, Shiman Luo, Lang Tu, Yao Tang, Fang Zeng, Fang Zeng, Fang Zeng

“…Improvements were also noted in neurological deficit scores [MD = −0.59, 95%CI (−0.92, −0.27), p < 0.05] and modified Neurological Severity Scores (mNSS) [MD = -5.68, 95%CI (−7.41, −3.95), p < 0.05], highlighting functional recovery. …”
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Long-term drought and risk of infant mortality in Africa: A cross-sectional study. by Pin Wang, Tormod Rogne, Joshua L Warren, Ernest O Asare, Robert A Akum, N'datchoh E Toure, Joseph S Ross, Kai Chen

“…<h4>Background</h4>As extreme events such as drought and flood are projected to increase in frequency and intensity under climate change, there is still large missing evidence on how drought exposure potentially impacts mortality among young children. …”
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Large Language Model Approach for Zero-Shot Information Extraction and Clustering of Japanese Radiology Reports: Algorithm Development and Validation by Yosuke Yamagishi, Yuta Nakamura, Shouhei Hanaoka, Osamu Abe

“…ResultsThe tumor size was accurately identified in 99 out of 135 reports (73.3%), with errors in 36 reports (26.7%), primarily due to missing or incorrect size information. Tumor location and laterality were identified with greater accuracy in 112 out of 135 reports (83%); however, 23 reports (17%) contained errors mainly due to empty values or incorrect data. …”
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Body morphometric measurements of Azakheli buffaloes: A neglected animal genetic resource of Pakistan by S. Rahman, I. Zahoor, R. Amjad, A. Basheer

“…The values of mean plus- minus standard error for male morphometry were 183.43±1.140 (CG), 147.26±0.556 (BL), 69.85±0.523 (BD), 130.22±0.500 (HW), 125.60±0.558 (HH), 50.06±0.416 (FL), 24.38±0.325 (FW), 23.08±0.919 (EL), 16.10±0.289 (EW), 42.2402±0.957 (HL), 17.34±0.355 (HC), 55.93±0.403 (NL), 44.09±0.568 (NW), 42.59±0.309 (RL), 51.91±0.614 (RW), 46.83±0.708 (TW), 24.05±0.375 (PBD), 67.86±1.551 (TL), 17.19±0.292 (TC), 9.85±0.332 (TesL), 7.46±0.248 (TesW), and 19.32±0.584 (SC). …”
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Ethics of Procuring and Using Organs or Tissue from Infants and Newborns for Transplantation, Research, or Commercial Purposes: Protocol for a Bioethics Scoping Review [version 1;... by Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Joe Brierley, Jerry Menikoff, Trung Nguyen, Brian D. Earp, Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu, Xiu Lim, Maide Barış, David Shaw, Melanie T Almonte

“…The review will be limited to articles published in English, which increases the risk of missing relevant sources published in other languages. …”
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Survival in patients with CKD 3–5 after 12 months of exercise training – a post-hoc analysis of the RENEXC trial by Sara Denguir, Matthias Hellberg, Martin Almquist, Naomi Clyne

“…Patients were categorized into five groups: improved ≥ 5%, unchanged, deteriorated ≥ 5%, non-completers, missing data. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were used and adjusted for age, sex, comorbidity, time on dialysis and time with a kidney transplant. …”
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Nowcasting to Monitor Real-Time Mpox Trends During the 2022 Outbreak in New York City: Evaluation Using Reportable Disease Data Stratified by Race or Ethnicity by Rebecca Rohrer, Allegra Wilson, Jennifer Baumgartner, Nicole Burton, Ray R Ortiz, Alan Dorsinville, Lucretia E Jones, Sharon K Greene

“…Of these, 812 (25%) had missing onset dates, and of these, 230 (28%) had unknown race or ethnicity. …”
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Obtaining patient phenotypes in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, and their association with clinical severity and mortality by Fernando García-García, Dae-Jin Lee, Mónica Nieves-Ermecheo, Olaia Bronte, Pedro Pablo España, José María Quintana, Rosario Menéndez, Antoni Torres, Luis Alberto Ruiz Iturriaga, Isabel Urrutia, COVID-19 & Air Pollution Working Group

“…We proposed a sequence of machine learning stages: feature scaling, missing data imputation, reduction of data dimensionality via Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA), and clustering with the k-means algorithm. …”
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Effectiveness of a Mobile Health Intervention (DOT Selfie) in Increasing Treatment Adherence Monitoring and Support for Patients With Tuberculosis in Uganda: Randomized Controlled... by Juliet Nabbuye Sekandi, Esther Buregyeya, Sarah Zalwango, Damalie Nakkonde, Patrick Kaggwa, Trang Ho Thu Quach, David Asiimwe, Lynn Atuyambe, Kevin Dobbin

“…Secondary outcomes included treatment completion, loss to follow-up, death, and reasons for missed videos in the intervention group. …”
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Second-line treatment patterns and outcomes in advanced HCC after progression on atezolizumab/bevacizumab by Meng Wu, Claudia A.M. Fulgenzi, Antonio D’Alessio, Alessio Cortellini, Ciro Celsa, Giulia F. Manfredi, Bernardo Stefanini, Y. Linda Wu, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Anwaar Saeed, Angelo Pirozzi, Tiziana Pressiani, Lorenza Rimassa, Martin Schoenlein, Kornelius Schulze, Johann von Felden, Yehia Mohamed, Ahmed O. Kaseb, Arndt Vogel, Natascha Roehlen, Marianna Silletta, Naoshi Nishida, Masatoshi Kudo, Caterina Vivaldi, Lorenz Balcar, Bernhard Scheiner, Matthias Pinter, Amit G. Singal, Joshua Glover, Susanna Ulahannan, Fredrich Foerster, Arndt Weinmann, Peter R. Galle, Neehar D. Parikh, Wei-Fan Hsu, Alessandro Parisi, Hong Jae Chon, David J. Pinato, Celina Ang

“…In the second line, 155 patients were treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), 45 with immune checkpoint inhibitor (IO)-based regimens, and 3 had missing data. Median PPS of the whole cohort (mPPS) was 6.0 months (95% CI 5.2-7.2). …”
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Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy of Lung Nodules in Chest Computed Tomography Using Artificial Intelligence: Retrospective Analysis by Weiqi Liu, You Wu, Zhuozhao Zheng, Mark Bittle, Wei Yu, Hadi Kharrazi

“…It specifically examined the report modification rates and missed and misdiagnosed rates of junior radiologists with and without AI assistance. …”
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Healthy Kai (Food) Checker Web-Based Tool to Support Healthy Food Policy Implementation: Development and Usability Study by Magda Rosin, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Elaine Umali, Sally Mackay

“…Of 18 potential functions and features, 11 were prioritized by the study team, including basic and advanced searches for products, sorting list options, the ability to compile a list of selected products, a means to report products missing from the database, and ability to use on different devices. …”
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Pooled prevalence and associated factors of traditional uvulectom among children in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Solomon Demis Kebede, Kindu Agmas, Demewoz Kefale, Amare Kassaw, Tigabu Munye Aytenew

“…Heterogeneity among the included studies was assessed using a forest plot, I2 statistics, and Egger's test, ensuring the robustness and reliability of the findings. Missing data was handled by random effect model and sensitivity analysis. …”
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Peringkasan Artikel Berbahasa Indonesia Menggunakan TextRank dengan Pembobotan BM25 by Yurdha Fadhila Hernawan, Putra Pandu Adikara, Randy Cahya Wihandika

“…An automatic summarization is needed to help people to get the concise informations without ruin the context and missing the point. One way to get a summarize of the document is to find a collection of important sentences in the document that can represent the original document as a whole. …”
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Risk prediction models for feeding intolerance in patients with enteral nutrition: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Huijiao Chen, Jin Han, Jing Li, Jianhua Xiong, Dong Wang, Mingming Han, Yuehao Shen, Wenli Lu

“…The data from the selected studies should be extracted, including study design, subjects, duration of follow-up, data sources, outcome measures, sample size, handling of missing data, continuous variable handling methods, variable selection, final predictors, model development and performance, and form of model presentation. …”
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Investigating Smartphone-Based Sensing Features for Depression Severity Prediction: Observation Study by Yannik Terhorst, Eva-Maria Messner, Kennedy Opoku Asare, Christian Montag, Christopher Kannen, Harald Baumeister

“…Depression severity was assessed using the 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire. Missing data were handled by multiple imputations. …”
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Factors influencing survival outcomes in patients with stroke at three tertiary hospitals in Zimbabwe: A 12-month longitudinal study. by Farayi Kaseke, Lovemore Gwanzura, Cuthbert Musarurwa, Elizabeth Gori, Tawanda Nyengerai, Timothy Kaseke, Aimee Stewart

“…However, 51 patients were excluded from the analysis due to either missing information or loss to follow-up. Among the remaining 137 patients who were tracked over a 12-month period, 42% were censored, and 58% were deceased. …”
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To what extent does the CO₂ diurnal cycle impact flux estimates derived from global and regional inversions? by S. Munassar, S. Munassar, S. Munassar, C. Rödenbeck, M. Gałkowski, M. Gałkowski, F.-T. Koch, F.-T. Koch, K. U. Totsche, K. U. Totsche, S. Botía, C. Gerbig

“…<p>Ignoring the diurnal cycle in surface-to-atmosphere CO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> fluxes leads to a systematic bias in CO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> mole fraction simulations sampled at daytime because the daily mean flux systematically misses the CO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> uptake during the daytime hours. …”
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Capital structure, profitability, and short-term solvency of nascent SMEs in Ghana: An empirical study by Karikari Amoa-Gyarteng, Shepherd Dhliwayo

“…Additionally, while nascent SMEs must prioritize maintaining liquidity to safeguard against unforeseen contingencies, this comes at a high cost in terms of missed opportunities that could significantly enhance the company’s long-term return on assets. …”
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Effect of Auditory Integration Training on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Auditory Attention Disorder by HUANG Qijun, ZHOU Kun, LIU Zhenhuan, YANG Jie

“…Before and after treatment, the missing number method was used to evaluate the auditory attention Gesell child development scale was used to evaluate the language and social communication skills; Psycho educational profile-3 (PEP-3) was used to evaluate the communication and behavior skills; Childhood autism rating scale (CARS) and autism behavior checklist (ABC) were used to evaluate the typical symptoms of autism.Results1) Auditory attention: compared with that before treatment, the scores of the auditory attention of both groups significantly increased after treatment (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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