Machine learning cluster analysis identifies increased 12-month mortality risk in transcatheter aortic valve replacement recipients by Thomas Meredith, Thomas Meredith, Thomas Meredith, Farhan Mohammed, Amy Pomeroy, Sebastiano Barbieri, Sebastiano Barbieri, Erik Meijering, Louisa Jorm, David Roy, Jason Kovacic, Jason Kovacic, Jason Kovacic, Jason Kovacic, Michael Feneley, Michael Feneley, Michael Feneley, Christopher Hayward, Christopher Hayward, Christopher Hayward, David Muller, David Muller, David Muller, Mayooran Namasivayam, Mayooran Namasivayam, Mayooran Namasivayam

“…Cluster assignment demonstrated greater predictive power for 12-month mortality as compared with conventional risk and frailty calculators.Conclusionk-means clustering identified two prognostically distinct phenogroups of patients who had undergone TAVR with better discriminatory power than conventional risk and frailty calculators. …”
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Segmentasi Citra X-Ray Dada Menggunakan Metode Modifikasi Deeplabv3+ by Rima Tri Wahyuningrum, Maughfirotul Jannah, Budi Dwi Satoto, Amillia Kartika Sari, Anggraini Dwi Sensusiati

“…The latest developments in September 2022 the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide reached 608,328,548 with 6,501,469 patients who died. While in Indonesia confirmed COVID-19 reached 6,408,806 with 157,892 patients who died. …”
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Signatures of lower respiratory tract microbiome in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia using shotgun metagenomic sequencing by Ting-Yu Yen, Ching Hsu, Ni-Chung Lee, Chao-Szu Wu, Hsin Wang, Kuan-Yi Lee, Chia-Ray Lin, Chun-Yi Lu, Mo-Li Tsai, Tzu-Yu Liu, Che Lin, Chien-Yu Chen, Luan-Yin Chang, Feipei Lai, Li-Min Huang

“…Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study to recruit children under 18 who required admission to an intensive care unit for community-acquired pneumonia between December 2019 and February 2022. …”
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Phase I study of efineptakin alfa (NT-I7) for the treatment of Kaposi sarcoma by Leonard D’Amico, Martin Cheever, Steven P Fling, Anna Wright, Kathryn Lurain, Ramya Ramaswami, Irene Ekwede, Thomas S Uldrick, Robert Yarchoan, Judith C Kaiser, Angela Shaulov Kask, Manoj P Menon, Paul Couey, Eli Burnham, Allysson Angeldekao, Byung Ha Lee, Li-Lian Kwok, Chia-Ching Jackie Wang

“…Six participants were treated at DL1, and two were treated at DL2. The study was closed to accrual after enrolment of the second participant on DL2 due to termination of study funding. …”
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Editorial by Daniel Halliday

“…When some inherit and others do not, the resulting inequalities are apparently due to differences in luck or circumstance. …”
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Psychosocial risks and mental health of health and social care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by Nadia Vilahur Chiaraviglio

“…Health and social care workers were frontline workers not only because of their closeness to the virus, but because of the distress and moral dilemmas they faced while seeing people die in isolation or having to choose between one respirator, and too many patients. The pandemic was officially declared over by WHO in May 2023, and the world has been eager to return to normality, to overcome, to forget. …”
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Multidisciplinary care in pediatric severe asthma: A comparative outcomes analysis by Adam S. Price, MD, Akilah A. Jefferson-Shah, MD, Robert D. Pesek, MD, Erhan Ararat, MD, Safia F. Nawaz, MD, Matthew Pertzborn, MD, Kim Cobb, RT, Haley Long, RT, Monica Y. Miller, LMSW, Brandi N. Whitaker, PhD, Stacie M. Jones, MD, Scott Stewart, MS, Daniel Liu, MD, Tamara T. Perry, MD

“…Objective: Our aim was to compare asthma outcomes between SACs and SDCs clinics and examine longitudinal health outcomes for patients with severe asthma who were followed in SACs. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study comparing pediatric asthma outcomes among patients with severe asthma between 2018 and 2022 who were treated at the multidisciplinary Arkansas Children's SAC with those of patients with severe asthma treated at SDCs. …”
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Most prevalent jobs of young master’s degree graduates by detailed field of study by Marc Frenette, Tomasz Handler

“…The purpose of this short article is to present results for master’s degree graduates aged 25 to 34 collected on the 2021 Census of Population. Only individuals who worked during the census reference week (May 2 to 8, 2021) and who completed a Canadian master’s degree program are included. …”
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Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“… Encyclopedia of the Yoruba is a single-volume encyclopedia that is comprised of 285 entries of short essays written by 188 authors who are predominantly scholars and academic researchers from Africa, Europe and North America. …”
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The Effect of Prognostic Nutritional Index and Systemic Inflammatory Index in Endometrioid Type Endometrial Cancer by Varol Gulseren, Mine Daggez, Ertugrul Sen, Mehmet Dolanbay, Fulya Caglı, Bulent Ozcelik, İbrahim Serdar Serin, Kemal Gungorduk

“…STUDY DESIGN: This is a retrospective cohort study on reviews of patient records who were diagnosed with EC and underwent treatment between January 2014 and 2021. …”
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Evaluation of risk factors associated with fragility fractures and recommendations to optimise bone health in children with long-term neurological condition by Xue Yi Jessica Leow, Jonathan Tian Ci Tan, Tong Hong Yeo, Kenneth Pak Leung Wong, Arjandas Mahadev, Bixia Ang, Rashida Farhad Vasanwala, Zhi Min Ng

“…In Singapore, this has not been studied systematically. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the risk factors associated with fragility fractures in children with LTNC. …”
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Generalized Propensity Score Matching with Multilevel Treatment Options by Onur Baser

“…**Objectives:** This article reviews PSM and illustrates their use when there are more than two treatment choices, which is very common in health services research. …”
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PISA 2022: The impact of school-environment predictors on the performance of Spanish students by Pablo Javier Ortega-Rodríguez

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A Qualitative Study on the Tax Amnesty Perception of Income Taxpayers: The Case of Türkiye by Serap Püren

“…It is understood from the literature that the opinions on tax amnesty practices are divided into two as positive and negative and that there is no full consensus on the subject. …”
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The Yugoslav National Front: Attempt(s) to unify the Yugointegralists extreme right 1935-1939 by Dragosavljević Vasilije

“…The concept of a national front arose in the ranks of the senatorial club of the Yugoslav Radical Peasant Democracy party, and over time, other Yugoslav integralist political organizations accepted it - the Yugoslav People's Party, the YNM Zbor, and several political factions that arose in the process of the disintegration of Bogoljub Jevtić's political group. …”
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A Qualitative analysis of parturients’ experience of spinal anesthesia and postoperative complaints by R Arunachalam, DS Sudhakar, R Selvakumar, T Prathiba Bharathi, K Murugesan, Rakesh Anbazhagan, Rashmi Dhungana

“…Background: Cesarean deliveries have increased globally, with regional anesthesia being the preferred technique. Despite the advantages of the procedure, parturients experience apprehension regarding pain, mobility, and complications. …”
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Ill-treatment and torture by police officers from the perspective of the public prosecutor by Krstić Gordana Z.

“…However, in addition to effectiveness, adequacy and urgency in order to achieve the goals of the investigation, it is necessary to ensure independence and the public prosecutors who conduct the investigation must have a neutral and independent attitude in relation to the suspected police officers. …”
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Why women refuse Postpartum IUCD? by Jayshree J. Upadhye, Smita K. Parate, Aditi J. Upadhye, Rasika D. Zade

“…Background: Women are highly motivated and receptive to accepting family planning methods during the antenatal period. Hence, we conducted this study to evaluate the refusal rate and reasons for the refusal of postpartum Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices (PPIUCD). …”
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Prevalence of Anxiety among Qassim university female medical students during Covid-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia by Athari Almutairi, Saulat Jahan

“…In the younger age group (18-22 years), those who perceived their academic performance as 'poor or fair, and those living alone or with relatives and friends had higher anxiety scores, and the differences were statistically significant at *p*=0.042, *p*=0.018, and *p*=0.01, respectively…”
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Choanal Atresia: Clinical Features and Factors Affecting Its Surgical Outcomes by Abhilasha Somashekhar, Prem Kumar, Sandhya Poothatta Manolikandy, Syed Mohammed Shoib

“…Materials and methods: It is a retrospective study, which includes the systematic analysis of case files of patients who underwent surgical treatment for choanal atresia from the year 2015 to 2022. …”
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