Systematic review of the economic impact of novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis specific antigen-based skin tests for detection of TB infection compared with tuberculin skin test and... by Lara Goscé, Kasim Allel, Yohhei Hamada, Elena Surkova, Irina Kontsevaya, Ting Ting Wang, Wan-Hsin Liu, Alexander Matveev, Liliya Eugenevna Ziganshina, Alexei Korobitsyn, Nazir Ismail, Saima Bashir, Claudia M Denkinger, Ibrahim Abubakar, Peter J White, Molebogeng X Rangaka

“…One study in Brazil assessed cost-effectiveness of C-TST and Diaskintest and seven in Russia assessed the Diaskintest, while none evaluated C-Tb or DPPD. The review showed on average, Diaskintest kit costs (in 2021 USD) $1.60 (1.50 - 1.70), while full unit costs were estimated at $5.07. …”
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Ecological assessment of extreme temperature and fine particulate matter (pm2.5) impact on diabetes service and outcomes in Thailand by Bumi Herman, Jason Kai Wei Lee, Xihao Du, Yot Terawattananon

“…Results The analysis revealed an annual average maximum temperature of 38.6 °C and an average PM2.5 concentration of 21.6 µg/m³. …”
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Research on Lightweight Dynamic Security Protocol for Intelligent In-Vehicle CAN Bus by Yuanhao Wang, Yinan Xu, Zhiquan Liu, Suya Liu, Yujing Wu

“…Additionally, for different vehicle models, the average CAN bus load rate was reduced by 8.28%. The proposed security mechanism ensures the security, real-time performance, and freshness of CAN bus messages while reducing bus load, providing a more efficient and reliable solution for the cybersecurity of intelligent and connected vehicles.…”
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Characterization and Optimization of Coal-Biomass Blends for Syngas Production as Alternative Transport Fuel Sources for Two-Stroke Internal Combustion Engines in Tricycles-Tuk Tuk... by Benson Kariuki, Paul Njogu, Joseph Kamau, Robert Kinyua

“…The study revealed that calorific values of the fuel sources were as follows: Mui basin coal, 20.41 ± 0.15 MJ/kg; P. juliflora, 18.68 ± 0.17 MJ/kg; and H. compressa, 18.69 ± 0.00 MJ/kg, while rice husks had 12.95 ± 0.1 MJ/kg. Blending was also found to improve calorific values by average values of 0.4 MJ/kg for P. juliflora, 1.3 MJ/kg for H. compressa, and 2.28 MJ/kg for rice husk. …”
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Randomized Quantization for Privacy in Resource Constrained Machine Learning at-the-Edge and Federated Learning by Ce Feng, Parv Venkitasubramaniam

“…RQP-SGD is evaluated on MNIST and the Breast Cancer Diagnostic dataset, showing an average 10.62% utility improvement over the deterministic quantization-based projected DP-SGD while maintaining (1.0, 0)-DP. …”
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Excess mortality in Europe and Serbia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 by Marinković Ivan, Galjak Marko

“…According to this indicator (based on preliminary data), only 25% of excess deaths in Serbia in 2020 were caused by COVID-19, while the European average was 54%. However, in many (primarily Eastern European) countries in 2020, the indirect consequences of COVID-19 on the health of the population were more significant than the direct ones. …”
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Investigation of the Thermal Vibration Behavior of an Orthogonal Woven Composite Nozzle Based on RVE Analysis by Lin Wang, Xiaoniu Li, Congze Fan, Wenzhe Song, Yiwei Chen, Yufeng Jin, Xiaobo Han, Jinghua Zheng

“…When the inner wall temperature rises from 25 °C to 300 °C, 2ND and 3ND frequencies decrease by an average of 30.39%, while bending and torsion frequencies decline by an average of 54.80%, primarily attributed to the decline modulus. …”
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Intravenous antibiotic use in a private mining hospital in North West Province, South Africa by D Seimela, J M Du Plessis, M Vorster, A F Van Niekerk

“…At review, the prevalence of adding IV antibiotics to another IV antibiotic was 0.7%. The average length of hospital stay was 5.8 days, while patients continuously received IV antibiotics for 3.4 days on average. …”
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Attribution and scarcity analysis of blue and green water resources in a river basin under climate and environmental change by Yang Liu, Zhaoyang Zeng, Chengguang Lai, Sijing He, Jie Jiang, Zhaoli Wang

“…BW is strongly driven by precipitation and negatively affected by potential evapotranspiration (PET), while GW is primarily influenced by PET. From 2003 to 2016, the HRB experienced moderate blue water scarcity (average of 1.16) and moderate green water scarcity (average of 0.70). …”
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The Efficacy of Fluvoxamine in Preventing the Aging Process of Mouse Neural Stem Cells in a Di-galactose-Induced Model in a Culture Medium by M Jafari Barmak, S Bagheri, A Ghanbari, S Javedansirat

“…In other words, it reduced the survival of neural stem cells, the number of neurospheres, and the number of cells derived from each neurosphere, while simultaneously it increased the number of aged cells. …”
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Type 1 diabetes genetic risk score variation across ancestries using whole genome sequencing and array-based approaches by Ankit M. Arni, Diane P. Fraser, Seth A. Sharp, Richard A. Oram, Matthew B. Johnson, Michael N. Weedon, Kashyap A. Patel

“…In the overall cohort, WGS-based T1DGRS demonstrated strong correlation with TOPMed-imputed array-based score (r = 0.996, average WGS-based score 0.0028 standard deviations (SD) lower, p < 10− 31), while showing lower correlation with 1000 Genomes-imputed array-based scores (r = 0.981, 0.043 SD lower in WGS, p < 10− 300). …”
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COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF DECAYED PERMANENT TEETH IN CHILDREN USING INDICES NIK, ICDAS AND QUALITY OF THEIR DENTAL HEALTH BY EGOHID CRITERIA by N.I. Smoliar, N.L. Chukhrai

“…Analysis of intensity of permanent tooth caries by the ICDASII 4-6 index has shown that its average value in the age group of 7-year-olds is 1.13±0.06 teeth, while by the ICDASII 1-6 index it is 1.72±0.06 teeth. …”
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Climate Change and Its Impacts on the Planting Regionalization of Potato in Gansu Province, China by Yulan Lu, Junying Han, Guang Li, Zhengang Yan, Lixia Dong, Zhigang Nie, Qiang Liu

“…The average temperature in July showed a decreasing spatial pattern from northeast to southwest, while its tendency rate showed a decreasing trend from west to east and from north to south. …”
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Perceptual-Motor Abilities and Reversal Frequency of Letters and Numbers in Children Diagnosed with Poor Reading Skills by Danjela Ibrahimi, Marcos Aviles, Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz

“…Results: Most children scored between average and 3 stds below average on the motor VMI-6th test, while half of the participants scored between average and 2 stds below average on TVPS-4th. …”
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Modeling Shooting Skills in Adaptive Biathlon for Athletes of Varying Skill Levels Using Virtual Reality Technologies by A.A. Gasanov, M.A. Odintsov, S.V. Leonov, P.Yu. Sukhochev, E.A. Sedogin, M.D. Belousova, I.S. Polikanova

“…It was shown that with an increase in skill level among biathletes, there is a rise in the indicators of “average score” (p < 0.05) and “accuracy” (p < 0.05), while “score deviations” did not demonstrate any patterns. …”
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Impact of Telemedicine Adoption on Hemiplegia in Patients With Stroke in Florida: Longitudinal Observational Study by Yao Li, Mingshan Zhang, Weiling Ke, Wenwen Li

“…The causal mediation analysis shows a negative average causal mediation effect (average causal mediation effect=–0.002, 95% CI –0.003 to –0.002; P<.001), suggesting that telemedicine adoption reduces hemiplegia occurrence, while the average direct effect is not statistically significant (average direct effect=–0.002, 95% CI –0.007 to 0.004; P>.10). …”
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GENETIC VARIABILITY AND DROUGHT PARAMETERS AMONG SOME GRAIN SORGHUM GENOTYPES USING QUANTITATIVE TRAITS AND RAPD MARKERS by Bahaa A. Zarea, M.E.M. El-Sagheer, H.M. Hafez, A.Y.M. Ahmed

“…The Polymorphism information content (PIC) values varied from 0.10 to 0.28 with an average of 0.20. While marker index (MI) varied from 0.40 to 2.76 with an average of 1.31. …”
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The effect of nitrogen fertilization and the use of biostimulators on the chemical composition of grains of two varieties of corn (Zea mays L.). by Marek Niewęgłowski, Anna Sikorska, Marek Gugała, Ewa Krasnodębska, Krystyna Zarzecka

“…The medium-early variety with FAO 240 was characterized by a higher content of total protein (on average by 7.95 g∙kg-1) and crude fat (on average by 1.5 g∙kg-1) compared to the medium-late variety. …”
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Efikasnost terapijskog monitoringa ciklosporina određivanjem C2 i PIK0−4 tokom prva 24 meseca posle transplantacije bubrega by Vavić Neven, Ignjatović Ljiljana, Drašković Biljana, Hrvačević Rajko, Kovačević Zoran, Paunić Zoran

“…Results. On the 6th day the average daily dose of CyA in the group C2 was 10.1±0.8 mg/kg, while in the group C0 it was 7.6±1.6 (p &lt; 0.05). …”
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OUTCOMES OF ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA: A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE by Yakup Unsal, Muhammed Murati, Guler Delibalta, Serdar Bedii Omay

“…Results: The retrospective analysis of AML patients who underwent allogeneic transplantation revealed an average age of 43.2 years. A total of 130 patients received a related donor transplant, while 46 underwent unrelated donor transplantation. …”
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