Early empiric anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis therapy for sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa: a protocol of a randomised clinical trial by Mark Conaway, David R Boulware, Scott K Heysell, Stellah G Mpagama, Christopher C Moore, Alphonce Liyoyo, Conrad Muzoora, Catherine Gitige, Bibie Said, Edwin Nuwagira, Rinah Arinaitwe, Rhina Mushagara, Peter Buzaare, Anna Chongolo, Samuel Jjunju, Precious Twesigye, Megan Null, Tania A Thomas

“…Study results will be published in peer-reviewed journals and in the popular press of Tanzania and Uganda. …”
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Diversity and Multiple Infections of <i>Bartonella</i> in Red Deer and Deer Keds by Iva Hammerbauerová, Eva Richtrová, Kateřina Kybicová, Petr Pajer, Jan Votýpka

“…Additionally, <i>B. schoenbuchensis</i> sensu lato and <i>B. bovis</i> were found, together making up 17 genotypes characterized by multi-locus sequence typing, all unique compared to previously published sequences. Nanopore sequencing of selected samples revealed an additional 14 unique <i>Bartonella</i> genotypes, with up to six genotypes co-infecting one deer, highlighting the diversity of ruminant <i>Bartonella</i>. …”
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The influence of cognitive flexibility on research abilities among medical students: cross-section study by Sarah S. Almutawa, Norah A. Alshehri, Abdulrahman A. AlNoshan, Nasser M. AbuDujain, Khaled S. Almutawa, Ahmed S. Almutawa

“…The students were aware of and had a positive attitude towards research, although only 19.5% of them had actually published. Some of the barriers included inadequate time and challenges with follow-up care for patients. …”
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Milk and dairy products – a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023 by Kirsten Bjørklund Holven, Emily Sonestedt

“…In addition, systematic reviews published between January 2011 and January 2022 were considered, screened (555 records) and evaluated (159 records) for this review. …”
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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“…In this essay, I geographically circumnavigate the borderlands of the Russian Empire through secondary studies published since the 1980s to understand how scholars have reinterpreted these policies since gaining access to the imperial administrative perspective. …”
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Risk of Candida Infection and Serious Infections in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Psoriasis Receiving Biologics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled T... by Yue Feng, Baosen Zhou, Zhen Wang, Guijuan Xu, Lili Wang, Tingting Zhang, Yanping Zhang

“…This study included 48 published articles with data from 52 RCTs involving 27297 participants. …”
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Chromite and Its Thin Kosmochlor and Cr-Omphacite Cortex in Amphibolite from the Myanmar Jadeite Deposits by Yu Zhang, Guanghai Shi, Jiabao Wen

“….%) and Al₂O₃ (1.05–15.09 wt.%), similar to the published chromite compositions in jadeitite. Serpentinite was derived from a highly depleted mantle peridotite. …”
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Fourteen-Year Long-Term Results after Gastric Banding by Christine Stroh, Ulrich Hohmann, Harald Schramm, Frank Meyer, Thomas Manger

“…Long-term rates for associated complications increase with every year of follow up, and only a few long-term studies have been published that examine these rates. We present our results after 14 years of postoperative follow up. …”
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De la haine au crime by Charles de Lespinay, Frank Alvarez Pereyre

“…How such an offense is to be dealt with, beyond punishment? With a genuine consideration for a restorative approach, how should we consider prejudices and hatred in the framework of the formal performance of law? …”
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Bytecode-based approach for Ethereum smart contract classification by Dan LIN, Kaixin LIN, Jiajing WU, Zibin ZHENG

“…In recent years, blockchain technology has been widely used and concerned in many fields, including finance, medical care and government affairs.However, due to the immutability of smart contracts and the particularity of the operating environment, various security issues occur frequently.On the one hand, the code security problems of contract developers when writing contracts, on the other hand, there are many high-risk smart contracts in Ethereum, and ordinary users are easily attracted by the high returns provided by high-risk contracts, but they have no way to know the risks of the contracts.However, the research on smart contract security mainly focuses on code security, and there is relatively little research on the identification of contract functions.If the smart contract function can be accurately classified, it will help people better understand the behavior of smart contracts, while ensuring the ecological security of smart contracts and reducing or recovering user losses.Existing smart contract classification methods often rely on the analysis of the source code of smart contracts, but contracts released on Ethereum only mandate the deployment of bytecode, and only a very small number of contracts publish their source code.Therefore, an Ethereum smart contract classification method based on bytecode was proposed.Collect the Ethereum smart contract bytecode and the corresponding category label, and then extract the opcode frequency characteristics and control flow graph characteristics.The characteristic importance is analyzed experimentally to obtain the appropriate graph vector dimension and optimal classification model, and finally the multi-classification task of smart contract in five categories of exchange, finance, gambling, game and high risk is experimentally verified, and the F1 score of the XGBoost classifier reaches 0.913 8.Experimental results show that the algorithm can better complete the classification task of Ethereum smart contracts, and can be applied to the prediction of smart contract categories in reality.…”
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Detection of respiratory frequency rhythm in human alpha phase shifts: topographic distributions in wake and drowsy states by Aleksandar Kalauzi, Zoran Matić, Edin Suljovrujić, Tijana Bojić

“…Among EEG and intracranial measurements, the effect of respiration was prevailingly studied on amplitude/power in all frequency bands.MethodsSince phases of EEG oscillations received less attention, we applied our previously published carrier frequency (CF) mathematical model of human alpha oscillations on a group of 10 young healthy participants in wake and drowsy states, using a 14-channel average reference montage. …”
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Services, models of care, and interventions to improve access to cancer treatment for adults who are socially disadvantaged: A scoping review protocol. by Tara C Horrill, Amber Bourgeois, Max Kleijberg, Janice Linton, Kate Leahy, Kelli I Stajduhar

“…OVID Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL (using EBSCOhost) and Scopus will be searched for peer-reviewed published literature; advanced searches in Google will be done to identify relevant online grey literature reports. …”
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Coordinated One Health investigation and management of outbreaks in humans and animals caused by zoonotic avian influenza viruses by Theresa Enkirch, Andrea Gervelmeyer, Luisa Hallmaier‐Wacker, Angeliki Melidou, Katriina Willgert

“…The document primarily highlights the collaborative framework necessary for interdisciplinary coordinated responses, referring to more detailed guidance and technical reports published elsewhere when applicable. Three scenarios are triggered by suspected outbreaks in animals, including kept animals of listed species, non‐listed species, companion animals and wild birds/mammals. …”
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Prospective study of change in liver function and fat in patients with colorectal liver metastases undergoing preoperative chemotherapy: protocol for the CLiFF Study by Katharine Cresswell, Juan W Valle, Michael Braun, Kat L Parmar, Derek O'Reilly, Jo H Naish, Steve R Williams, William K Lloyd, Lee Malcomson, Colin Bamford, Andrew G Renehan

“…Manuscripts will be published.Trial registration number This study is registered online at www.clinicaltrials.gov (registration number NCT03562234).…”
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Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial on the use of intraoperative ultrasound-guided laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy (UGLOC) as a method of fertility preservation in the... by Srdjan Saso, Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami, Jan Yvan Jos Verbakel, Benjamin P Jones, Joseph Yazbek, Mona El-Bahrawy, Lorraine S Kasaven

“…We aim to randomise 94 patients over 3 years to achieve power of 80% at an alpha level of 0.05.Ethics and dissemination Findings will be published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences and scientific meetings. …”
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Association between Atrial Fibrillation and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Yi Zheng, Guangping Li

“…Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted in several databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Google Scholar, covering research published before December 2023. Odds ratios (ORs) or relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using Stata 12.0 software to assess the association between AF and the risk of AD or VaD. …”
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Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the United States of America by Siarhiej Miskiewicz

“…Tatars provided the annual dances and picnics, organized the funding (dues, fees, fines, loans, donations) for payment of expenses, helped the Society members (death and illness benefits) and Muslims in other countries including the former homeland (Ivje in 1922, Niekrašuncy, Warszawa in 1945 and etc.). They published a newspaper, the prayer books. They took part in the main historical events in the USA: the World War I, the World War II, Korean and Vietnam wars, post-war occupation of Germany, etc. …”
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Maternal Birth Satisfaction Relating to Intraoperative and Early Postpartum Skin-to-Skin Contact with the Neonate During Caesarean Birth: An Integrative Review by Alexandria McCutcheon, Huaqiong Zhou, Mary Steen

“…Key terms were ‘Caesarean birth’, ‘skin-to-skin care’, ‘maternal satisfaction’. Studies published from 2014 to 5 September 2024 in English language were included. …”
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Innovative technologies and social inequalities in health: A scoping review of the literature. by Daniel Weiss, Håvard T Rydland, Emil Øversveen, Magnus Rom Jensen, Solvor Solhaug, Steinar Krokstad

“…A review process was conducted, based on scoping review techniques, searching literature published from January 1, 1996 to November 25, 2016 using MEDLINE, Scopus, and ISI web of science. …”
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Social relationships and their associations with affective symptoms of women with breast cancer: A scoping review. by Yesol Yang, Yufen Lin, Grace Oforiwa Sikapokoo, Se Hee Min, Nicole Caviness-Ashe, Jing Zhang, Leila Ledbetter, Timiya S Nolan

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This scoping review used the framework proposed by Arksey and O'Malley and PRISMA-Sc. Studies published by February 2022 were searched using four databases: MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase (Elsevier), PsycINFO (EBSCOhost), and Web of Science (Clarivate). …”
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