Bacteriological quality of drinking water and its associated factors in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Chala Daba, Leykun Berhanu, Belay Desye, Gete Berihun, Abebe Kassa Geto

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>We found that the bacteriological quality of drinking water did not comply with the World Health Organization and Ethiopia's standard guidelines for drinking water, which call for urgent intervention. …”
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A Three-Stage-Concatenated Non-Linear MMSE Interference Rejection Combining Aided MIMO-OFDM Receiver and its EXIT-Chart Analysis by Jue Chen, Siyao Lu, Tsang-Yi Wang, Jwo-Yuh Wu, Chih-Peng Li, Soon Xin Ng, Robert G. Maunder, Lajos Hanzo

“…In this way, we may achieve the best of both worlds, retaining the interference rejection capability of the MMSE-IRC detector and the superior performance of the NL equalizer. …”
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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Self-Reported Substance Use among Patients with Mental Illness in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study by Kilaye Karino, Joel S. Ambikile, Masunga K. Iseselo

“…Data on self-reported substance use were collected using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) alcohol, smoking, and substance involvement screening test (ASSIST) V3.0. …”
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The Croton genera (Euphorbiaceae) and its richness in chemical constituents with potential range of applications by Carlos Andrés Coy-Barrera, Laura Galvis, Maria Juliana Rueda, Sergio Alejandro Torres-Cortés

“…Conclusion: This revision has a novel and principal aim: to collect information on the biomedicinal, chemical, and industrial applications of extracts from several species distributed across various regions of the world (Africa, South America, Asia, North America, Central America, and South America), providing an objective evaluation of the relevance of the studies cited here and their suitability for scientific scrutiny and systematic reproduction of the results obtained . …”
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Progressive Bounded Error Piecewise Linear Approximation with Resolution Reduction for Time Series Data Compression by Jeng-Wei Lin, Shih-wei Liao, Yu-Hung Tsai, Ching-Che Huang

“…Resolution Reduction (RR) plays an important role. Eight real-world datasets are used to evaluate the proposed method. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Views of Rodney Stark and Bryan Wilson in the Context of Secularisation Paradigms by Büşra Kutluay Çelik

“…We will explore Stark's views on religion and secularisation, including the evidence for secularisation and the proliferation of new religious movements in the modern world. In the final analysis, this paper claims that despite the decline in the influence of traditional religious institutions due to secularisation, religious practices have persisted in different forms or structures.…”
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Digital Age Transformation in Patient-Physician Communication: 25-Year Narrative Review (1999-2023) by Mingming Song, Joel Elson, Dhundy Bastola

“… BackgroundThe evolution of patient-physician communication has changed since the emergence of the World Wide Web. Health information technology (health IT) has become an influential tool, providing patients with access to a breadth of health information electronically. …”
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5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T gene polymorphism as a risk factor for premature coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by Nisreen O. Mohammed, Ibtisam A. Ali, Bahaelddin K. Elamin, Bakri Osman Saeed

“…BackgroundAfrica, like the rest of the world, is experiencing an increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Antimalarial as Repurposing Drug for COVID-19 Following Retraction of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine by Latarissa IR, Khairinisa MA, Iftinan GN, Meiliana A, Sormin IP, Barliana MI, Lestari K

“…During the pandemic, Chloroquine (CQ) and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) demonstrated good potential against COVID-19, but further studies showed both drugs had side effects that were more dangerous than the efficacy. This made World Health Organization (WHO) ban the usage for COVID-19 patients. …”
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Optimal nanofluid selection for photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) systems in adverse climatic conditions by Miqdam T. Chaichan, Hussein A. Kazem, Maytham T. Mahdi, Ali H.A. Al-Waeli, Anees A. Khadom, K. Sopian

“…The second part of the tests was conducted outdoors under harsh climatic conditions, which are among the worst in the world, including some of the harshest weather conditions in Baghdad in July 2022. …”
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Cardiovascular risk associated with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists versus other conventional glucose-lowering drugs in patients with type-2 diabetes: protocol for a nati... by François Schiele, Mikael Mazighi, Nicolas Danchin, Igor Sibon, Gilles Lemesle, Kamel Mohammedi, Laurent Fauchier, Bruno Detournay, Alexandre Caron, Corinne Emery, Camille Nevoret, Lucile Vigié, Christine Massien

“…However, the strict requirements of randomised controlled trials to avoid most confounding factors are at the expense of external validity. Using national real-world data, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of GLP-1RAs in association with metformin especially on cardiovascular events, hospitalisation for heart failure and all-cause death in comparison with other diabetes treatment schemes using dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitors, sulfonylureas/glinides or insulin also associated with metformin. …”
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A Novel Electrical Load Forecasting Model for Extreme Weather Events Based on Improved Gated Spiking Neural P Systems and Frequency Enhanced Channel Attention Mechanism by Yuanshuo Guo, Jun Wang, Yan Zhong, Tao Wang, Zeyuan Sui

“…We conducted extensive comparative experiments with ten baseline models on three real-world datasets, compared with GSNP model and TCN-GSNP model, the coefficient of determination (R2) of the FATCN-LF-FAGSNP model increases and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), mean absolute error (MAE) and relative absolute error (RAE) reduce, the LF accuracy (measured by R2) of the proposed hybrid model gets 99.7% in seasonal LF task. …”
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Teknologi Realitas Virtual pada Perangkat Bergerak untuk Media Pengenalan Lingkungan Haji by Usaid Syawahidul Chaq, Febriliyan Samopa

“…Virtual reality is a technology that allows users to interact with virtual environments so that they feel sensations like in the real world. This research aims to develop a media recognition to the Hajj environment by utilizing virtual reality technology on mobile devices. …”
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Patterns of Comorbidity and Multimorbidity Among Patients With Multiple Sclerosis in a Large US Commercially Insured and Medicare Advantage Population by Dingwei Dai, Ajay Sharma, Amy L. Phillips, Carroline Lobo

“…**Background:** Comorbidities are common in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), thus increasing the complexity of disease management and economic burden and worsening their prognosis and quality of life. Real-world evidence comparing comorbidities and multimorbidity patterns of commercially insured vs Medicare enrollees with MS is lacking. …”
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Klasifikasi Jenis Ikan Laut K-Nearest Neighbor Berdasarkan Ekstraksi Ciri 2-Dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis by Yusraka Dimas Al Iman, R Rizal Isnanto, Oky Dwi Nurhayati

“…There are 27,000 fish in the world that have been successfully described, especially in the Indonesian seas. …”
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Design and Application of a Data-computation Integrated Database for Meteorological Grid Data by Wang Shu, Xu Yongjun, He Wenchun, Wu Huanping, Gao Feng, Liu Yuanyuan, Liu Bei, Lü Guanru, Ni Xuelei

“…Performance tests and real-world applications have demonstrated that PostGrid significantly enhances the efficiency of meteorological data services, reducing the time required for traditional aggregation calculations from minutes to just milliseconds. …”
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Hubungan Kadar Albumin Serum dengan Morbiditas dan Mortalitas Maternal Pasien Preeklampsia Berat dan Eklampsia di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Yunike Veronika, Joserizal Resudji, Susila Sastri

“…<br />Kata kunci: preeklampsia berat, eklampsia, albumin serum</p><p> </p><p>Abstract<br />Preeclampsia and eclampsia are major causes of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality in the world, in which serum albumin decreases (hypoalbuminemia) so hypovolemic intravascular pressure will be reduced. …”
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Performance of a hybrid capture-based target enrichment next-generation sequencing for the identification of respiratory pathogens and resistance-associated genes in patients with... by Wei-Yu Hsu, Ting-Wei Kao, Hsin-Ching Cho, Sheng-Yuan Ruan, Tai-Fen Lee, Yu-Tsung Huang, Jung-Yien Chien

“…The study facilitated the implementation of molecular diagnosis by presenting real-world data, whereas future studies are mandated to generalize such an approach toward different clinical settings.…”
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Effect of Multimodal App-Based Interventions on Glycemic Control in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Emma Bodner, Lena Roth, Kathleen Wiencke, Christian Bischoff, Peter EH Schwarz

“…This includes evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as well as from real-world data. The outcome of interest was a reduction in glycated hemoglobin (hemoglobin A1c [HbA1c]; long-term blood glucose measurements). …”
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Mangrove biomass productivity and sediment carbon storage assessment at selected sites in Mauritius: the effect of tidal inundation, forest age and mineral availability by M D D Doodee, S D D V Rughooputh, S Jawaheer

“…Mangals, recognised as key ‘blue carbon’ ecosystems, are amongst the world’s most carbon-dense ecosystems and can sequester a considerable amount of carbon through biological carbon sequestration in their biomass and soils. …”
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