Deep Learning for Identification and Characterization of Ca ii Absorption Lines: A Multitask Convolutional Neural Network Approach by Yang Liu, Jie Li, Linqing Gao, Haotong Zhang, Zhenghua Xu, Yu Wang, Wenbin Lin

“…This translates to a dramatic reduction in manual inspection workload, paving the way for efficient and automated Ca ii absorber identification. In real-world applications on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 and DR12, our model successfully rediscovered 321 known Ca ii absorbers while identifying potential candidates in an additional 381 spectra. …”
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Comparative effectiveness of urine drug screening strategies alongside opioid agonist treatment in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based observational study protocol by Malcolm Maclure, M Eugenia Socías, Evan Wood, Paul Gustafson, Robert W Platt, Bohdan Nosyk, Jeong Eun Min, Micah Piske, Julie Bruneau, U Siebert, P Todd Korthuis, Paxton Bach, B Carolina Guerra-Alejos, Megan Kurz, Laura M Dale, X Joan Hu, Kyle Kampman, Tom Loughin

“…The study will draw on eight linked health administrative databases from British Columbia. Our primary outcomes include OAT discontinuation and all-cause mortality. …”
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Call to Action: Lead Pharmacy into the Next Decade by Gregory Zumach, Kerry K Fierke, Gardner Lepp, Bridget McGugan, Marta Brooks, Anthony Olson, Andrew Bartlett, Nilushi Karunaratne, Betty Exintaris

“… Introduction The pace of change in healthcare and throughout the world will only continue to escalate. This evolution of continuously changing information requires us to be responsive and innovative. …”
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Providing a customer satisfaction model of non-attendance services in the social security organization by Hossein Barzgar, Vahid Sanavi Garoosiyan, ali hossein zadeh

“…The statistical population of the present study includes the customers of Khorasan Razavi Social Security Organization, which was considered to be 384 people by Cochran's formula, and simple random sampling method was used. The collection tool in this research includes a researcher-made questionnaire derived from the qualitative method. …”
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Presenting the entrepreneurship development model in the national oil refining industry with the approach of environmental damage prevention by Jalal Abdi, Reza Yousefi Saeedabadi, Maryam Taghvaee Yazdi

“…The government can cause entrepreneurship through policy implementation in ministries and institutions (Sharifzade et al, 2016). In today's world, the development of entrepreneurship has become a key policy and entrepreneurship has become the most strategic and economic tool of advanced societies. …”
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Incidence of seroma and postoperative complications after breast surgery before and during the Covid-19 pandemic: results from a retrospective multicenter analysis by Maximilian Heinz Beck, Izabela A. Brachaczek, Pimrapat Gebert, Jens-Uwe Blohmer, Askin C. Kaya, Julia S. M. Zimmermann, Julia C. Radosa, Maria M. Karsten

“…Additional real-world evidence is needed for understanding both early and late complications following breast surgery in the context of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 endemic.…”
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Computational Simulation of Virtual Patients Reduces Dataset Bias and Improves Machine Learning-Based Detection of ARDS from Noisy Heterogeneous ICU Datasets by Konstantin Sharafutdinov, Sebastian Johannes Fritsch, Mina Iravani, Pejman Farhadi Ghalati, Sina Saffaran, Declan G. Bates, Jonathan G. Hardman, Richard Polzin, Hannah Mayer, Gernot Marx, Johannes Bickenbach, Andreas Schuppert

“…<italic>Goal:</italic> Machine learning (ML) technologies that leverage large-scale patient data are promising tools predicting disease evolution in individual patients. …”
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Safety and Effectiveness of BPaL-Based Regimens to Treat Multidrug-Resistant TB: First Experience of an Italian Tuberculosis Referral Hospital by Gina Gualano, Maria Musso, Paola Mencarini, Silvia Mosti, Carlotta Cerva, Pietro Vittozzi, Antonio Mazzarelli, Angela Cannas, Assunta Navarra, Stefania Ianniello, Paolo Faccendini, Fabrizio Palmieri

“…<b>Results</b>: Seventeen patients completed the BPaL/BPaLM regimen, with a treatment success rate of 90% (17/19), consistent with the literature data. Eleven patients out of the nineteen retained in care (58%) complained about symptoms consistent with adverse events (AEs). …”
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Compound weather and climate extremes in the Asian region: science-informed recommendations for policy by R. Krishnan, Chirag Dhara, Takeshi Horinouchi, C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, A. P. Dimri, A. P. Dimri, M. Singh Shrestha, P. Swapna, M. K. Roxy, Seok-Woo Son, Seok-Woo Son, D. C. Ayantika, Faye Abigail T. Cruz, Fangli Qiao

“…However, significant gaps remain in our understanding of the drivers and mechanisms behind these events. …”
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LncRNA TUG1 mitigates chronic kidney disease through miR-542-3p/HIF-1α/VEGF axis by Luoxiang Qian, Wanru Hu, Yanping Wang, Yousuf Abdulkarim Waheed, Shuqun Hu, Dong Sun, Shulin Li

“…This effect was significantly counteracted by the inhibition of miR-542-3p. Collectively, our findings offer fresh perspectives on how lncRNA TUG1 and the miR-542-3p/HIF-1α/VEGF axis are regulated as renal fibrosis advances.…”
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TOURISM study (Treatment Outcomes in UteRIne SarcoMa): a 10-year retrospective evaluation of practice in the UK by Rebekah Webb, Mohammed Al-Zubaidi, Mark A Baxter, Karin Purshouse, James Robertson, Helen Creedon, Katherine Fair, Asma Sarwar, Laura Hannington, Adam L Peters, Samuel Mcinerney, Karen E Mactier, Georgina E Wood, Mai K Bishr, Leonie Eastlake, Katharine Lankester, Alison L Stillie

“…Patients with carcinosarcomas/mixed Mullerian tumours, non-uterine gynaecological sarcomas and uterine metastases were excluded. …”
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Image depth estimation assisted by multi-view projection by Liman Liu, Jinshan Tian, Guansheng Luo, Siyuan Xu, Chen Zhang, Huaifei Hu, Wenbing Tao

“…Experimental results on the KITTI dataset, vKITTI dataset, and SeasonDepth dataset demonstrate that our method achieves significant improvements compared to other state-of-the-art depth estimation techniques. …”
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Designing an online intervention for adults with addictive eating: a qualitative integrated knowledge translation approach by Phillipa Hay, Amanda L Baker, Clare Collins, Tracy Burrows, Mark Leary, Kirrilly Pursey, Antonio Verdejo-García, Janelle Skinner, Megan C Whatnall

“…The integrated knowledge translation (IKT) framework involves adopting a collaborative research approach to produce and apply knowledge to address real-world needs, resulting in useful and useable recommendations that will more likely be applied in policy and practice. …”
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Threshold responses of freshwater fish community size spectra to invasive species by Bradley Novak, Brent A. Murry, Jeff S. Wesner, Vojsava Gjoni, Caroline C. Arantes, Erin Shepta, Justin P. F. Pomeranz, James R. Junker, Kathrine Zipfel, Andrew Stump, Levi E. Solomon, Kristopher A. Maxson, Jason A. DeBoer

“…Abstract Aquatic invasive species (AIS) threaten biodiversity and ecosystem services around the world, but their management has been hampered by the lack of quantifiable control targets. …”
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Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Its Association with Adrenal Insufficiency: Assessment with the Low-Dose ACTH Stimulation Test by René Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, Adrian Rendon, Maximiliano Barrera-Sánchez, Kevin Erick Gabriel Carlos-Reyna, Neri Alejandro Álvarez-Villalobos, Gloria González-Saldivar, José Gerardo González-González

“…Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major public health care concern that affects the life of millions of people around the world. The association of tuberculosis and adrenal insufficiency is well known; however, it is thought to be less prevalent every time. …”
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Identifying strokes in Nigerian children with sickle cell disease as part of clinical trials: training curriculum for healthcare professionals in low-income settings by Djamila L. Ghafuri, Halima Bello-Manga, Fenella J. Kirkham, Mariana Ciobanu, Edwin Trevathan, Edwin Trevathan, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Michael R. DeBaun, Lori C. Jordan

“…The primary outcome measure in both trials was a clinical stroke based on the World Health Organization definition. Non-neurologist physicians were trained in-person and via video lectures regarding stroke recognition, performing neurological examinations using the adapted Pediatric NIH Stroke Scale, and acute stroke care. …”
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Neuropsychiatric adverse events associated with Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists: a pharmacovigilance analysis of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System database by Wenchao Lu, Shihan Wang, Huilin Tang, Tao Yuan, Wei Zuo, Yuling Liu

“…GLP-1RAs showed an association with headache (ROR 1.74, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.65–1.84), migraine (ROR 1.28, 95%CI 1.06–1.55), and olfactory and sensory nerve abnormalities (ROR 2.44, 95%CI 1.83–3.25; ROR 1.69, 95%CI 1.54–1.85). …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Chemotherapy or EGFR‐TKIs as First‐Line Therapy in NSCLC Patients Harboring Non‐Ex 20 Ins Uncommon EGFR Mutations: A Retrospective Study in China by Chen Liao, Li Bai, Tingting He, Qingle Liang, Defeng Hu, Shipeng Lei, Yong He, Yubo Wang

“…Afatinib performed with great efficacy for the majority of non‐ex 20 ins uncommon EGFR mutations (N = 43, ORR = 41.86%, mPFS = 13.5 months, mOS = 20.8 months), especially in L861Q mutation (mPFS = 18.4 months). …”
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Impact of Novel Guidelines on Multifactorial Control and Its Association with Mortality in Adult Patients with Hypertension and Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: A 4-Year Prospectiv... by Ngoc-Thanh-Van Nguyen, Hoa Ngoc Chau, Nam Hoai Le, Hai Hoang Nguyen, Hoai-An Nguyen

“…These findings demonstrated real-world difficulties in managing hypertension and newly diagnosed diabetes, especially with stringent criteria from novel guidelines. …”
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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

“…Differences between CO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> mixing ratios simulated with daily averaged and hourly NEE from FLUXCOM-X range between around <span class="inline-formula">−</span>2.5 and 7 ppm averaged annually throughout a site network across the world. …”
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