External Validation of the International Prognosis Prediction Model of IgA Nephropathy by Lichao Hu, Yi Fang, Jiaxin Huang, Jin Liu, Lingling Xu, Weichun He

“…These models could anticipate the risk of a 50% reduction in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) or progression to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) subsequent to an IgAN diagnosis via renal biopsy. …”
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Content and face validity in virtual reality with children: a validation in five steps+1 of a wheelchair basketball game by Imanol Ceberio, Mohammad Al-Rashaida, Maitane García, Juan Francisco Lopez Paz, Monika Salgueiro, Nicole Passi, Humberto Pavel, Imanol Amayra

“…The study also criticized the face validity cut-offs often used in adult-focused research, emphasizing the need to adapt them for children´s developmental stages.ConclusionThis study proposes a sixth step not traditionally included in content and face validity processes, specially focusing on the child user. …”
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De la logique à l’algorithme : la traduction dans le design de programmes by Kim Sacks

“…These processes reinforce the non-reversibility of translation : interdependence between layers, compilation, obfuscation, economic stakes, are all instances that seem to provide the basis of concealment of logic as technical dogma, favoring a functional ideology that paradoxically restricts the intelligibility of computational machines.…”
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Energy efficiency as a driver of the circular economy and carbon neutrality in selected countries of Southern Europe: a soft computing approach by Alma Ramčilović Jesih, Goran Šimić, Ljubiša Konatar, Zoran Brljak, Polona Šprajc

“…The research results showed the following: (a) the degree of economic development and membership in the European Union are not significantly related to the level of energy efficiency; (b) most of the sampled countries are in the initial stages of introducing activities to achieve carbon neutrality; and (c) only Slovenia has documented consistent indicators and evident advancements in its efforts to achieve carbon neutrality. …”
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HIV Late Presenters in Asia: Management and Public Health Challenges by Chen Seong Wong, Lyu Wei, Yeon-Sook Kim

“…Many individuals are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection at an advanced stage of illness and are considered late presenters. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Childhood Obesity and Overweight in Erbil City, Kurdistan, Iraq: A Household Survey by Sabah Shareef Mohammed, Sherzad Abdulahad Shabu

“…This study was a household survey based on a cross-sectional study that was conducted, and a multi-stage sampling strategy was used to choose the study sample. …”
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Survival and prognostic factors for primary lung extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma: a retrospective study of data from China and the SEER database by Qiuyu Li, Haoyu Zuo, Chengyang Liu, Jing Yang, Nini Dai

“…Other factors, including age, race, and disease stage, were not significantly associated with survival. …”
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Characterization and Evaluation of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) for Yield and Related Traits in Asosa Zone, Northwestern Ethiopia by Mesay Paulos, Gobeze Loha, Mesfin Kassa

“…All the qualitative characteristics recorded for genotypes showed different modalities and frequencies at vegetative stage with 70.12% of the fully expanded leaflet colour, 74.26% oval terminal leaflet shape, 76.24% petiole green colour, 78.22% stem green colour, 88.27% sparse hair on their stems, 70.41% spreading types, 81.33% rounded base with a point at the top, 90.11% yellowish brown pods at harvest, and 90.06% oval shaped seeds. …”
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Long-term outcomes of drainless anatomical lung resection surgery for pulmonary malignancies by Ting-Fang Kuo, Mong-Wei Lin, Ke-Cheng Chen, Shuenn-Wen Kuo, Pei-Ming Huang, Jang-Ming Lee

“…Most patients had primary lung cancer; four (7%), 43 (74%), seven (12%), and three (5%) had stage 0, I, II, and III, respectively. The median lymph node dissection stations was four, and the number was 17. …”
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Mental health and working constraints of first-year PhD students in health and science in a French university: a cross-sectional study in the context of occupational health monitor... by Barbara Charbotel, Emmanuel Fort, Saloua Ahalli, Yamina Bridai, Nicole Baborier

“…It seems relevant to generalise the medical follow-up of all PhD students as soon as they enter the doctoral programme in order to detect and treat their health problems and psychological disorders at an early stage.…”
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Barriers to accessing mental health services for women with perinatal mental illness: systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies in the UK by Megan Sambrook Smith, Vanessa Lawrence, Euan Sadler, Abigail Easter

“…To improve access to mental healthcare for women with perinatal mental illness multilevel strategies are recommended which address individual, organisational, sociocultural and structural-level barriers at different stages of the care pathway.PROSPERO registration number CRD42017060389.…”
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Рrospects of health and medical tourism clusterization in Ukraine by Mariia Bieloborodova

“…The following results were obtained: on the basis of statistical analysis, it was proposed to divide the regions of Ukraine into the following groups: the first - seaside regions,  specialization – family and children's recreational and health tourism; the second – Volyn and Carpathian region, specialization - sanatorium-resort and rehabilitation vacation with an emphasis on inbound tourism; the third – capital and central-eastern regions, specialization – medical tourism; the fourth – regions without a pronounced potential for health and medical tourism, in total make up 46.47% of the area. The stages for the clustering policy implementation of health and medical tourism in Ukraine have been developed. …”
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Serum adropin levels as a potential biomarker for predicting diabetic kidney disease progression by I-Wen Chen, I-Wen Chen, Cheng-Wei Lin, Cheng-Wei Lin, Cheng-Wei Lin, Chia-Ni Lin, Chia-Ni Lin, Szu-Tah Chen, Szu-Tah Chen, Szu-Tah Chen

“…BackgroundTo investigate the value of serum adropin in predicting chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression in subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2D).Materials and methodsSerum adropin levels were measured in normal control and T2D patients with various stage of CKD. CKD progression was defined as ≥ 30% decline from the baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate. …”
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One Health, One Hive: A scoping review of honey bees, climate change, pollutants, and antimicrobial resistance. by Etienne J de Jongh, Sherilee L Harper, Shelby S Yamamoto, Carlee J Wright, Craig W Wilkinson, Soumyaditya Ghosh, Simon J G Otto

“…Two independent reviewers conducted two-stage screening on retrieved articles. To be included, the article had to examine honey bees, AMR, and either climate change or environmental pollution. …”
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Effect of the Preexisting Fissure with Different Fillings in PMMA on Blast-Induced Crack Propagation by Xin Yang, Xiangguo Zeng, Chuanjin Pu, Dingjun Xiao

“…The damage-pressure curve of the far-end wing crack initiation point shows “S”-type change, and the damage-pressure curve shows two obvious damage evolution processes of initial nonlinear and later linear stages. With the increase of the angle, the distance from the borehole to the crack initiation point decreases and the compressive stress wave peak value should increase, but the tensile force peak value decreases. …”
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Augmented reality in patient education and health literacy: a scoping review protocol by Karthik Adapa, Lukasz Mazur, Jennifer Walker, Saumya Jain, Richa Kanwar, Tanzila Zaman, Trusha Taneja

“…Two independent reviewers will screen the studies from the search results in two successive stages of title/abstract screening followed by full-text screening. …”
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La diversion comme genre : L’écriture et ses labyrinthes à l’époque élisabéthaine by Sophie Chiari-Lasserre

“…Dramatists in particular used this peculiar genre to stage deviant trajectories and plots of “seduction”, in the etymological sense of the term. …”
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An investigative experiment in the destruction or damage to property investigation by M. H. Shcherbakovskyi

“…The second group is investigative experiments without the participation of a person, which are conducted to establish the existence of an objective fact, phenomenon, the course of a particular event as a whole or its stages, the mechanism of trace formation. Each type of investigative experiment provides suggestions for a specific location and conditions similar to the circumstances of the offence. …”
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A successful case study of using HCl and viscoelastic diverting acid systems for carbonate matrix acidizing in an oil well with optimized predictive model by Javad Mahdavi Kalatehno, Ehsan Khamehchi, Mostafa Keihanikamal, Fatemeh Yousefmarzi, Matin Dargi, Peyman Daneshfar

“…The research focused on high-temperature formations, employing multi-stage acid injections to evaluate the effectiveness of the acid treatments. …”
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Ecdysone receptor strongly influences larval–pupal–adult transition and melanization in Tuta absoluta by Xiaodi Wang, Jiajia Wu, Jianyang Guo, Nianwan Yang, Fanghao Wan, Zhichuang Lü, Wanxue Liu

“…The relative expression of EcR in the early pupal stage was substantially higher than that in the other instars. …”
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