Geography and age drive racial and ethnic disparities in hospital mortality for paediatric community-acquired pneumonia in the United States: a retrospective population based cohor... by Cody-Aaron L. Gathers, Nadir Yehya, Anireddy Reddy, Paula M. Magee, Vanessa C. Denny, Michelle R. Mayeda, Amanda O’Halloran, Sanjiv D. Mehta, Stephanie Wanamaker, Jessica C. Fowler, Garrett Keim

“…We hypothesized that geographic region and age would inform the association between race or ethnicity and mortality in community-acquired pneumonia. …”
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Peer-based Retention Of people who Use Drugs in Rural Research (PROUD-R2): a multisite, randomised, 12-month trial to compare efficacy of standard versus peer-based approaches to r... by Morgan Brown, Miriam R Elman, Jodi Lapidus, April M Young, Kathryn E Lancaster, Sarann Bielavitz, Ryan R Cook, Gillian Leichtling, Edward Freeman, Angela T Estadt, Rhonda Alexander, Caiti Barrie, Kandi Conn, Rhody Elzaghal, Lisa Maybrier, Renee McDowell, Cathy Neal, Elizabeth N Waddell, P Todd Korthuis

“…Introduction Rural communities bear a disproportionate share of the opioid and methamphetamine use disorder epidemics. …”
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Regulatory and legal basement of decentralization in local self-government according to the legislation of Ukraine and Poland by Shatilo V.

“…In addition, unlike Poland, whose Constitution reflects legislative changes due to the reform of local self-government with a view to decentralization, these changes have not been made to the Constitution of Ukraine due to the martial law in Ukraine. …”
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The Texture and Color Matching of Oil Painting Materials Based on Multimedia Visual Communication by Feng Wang, Haozhang Sun

“…And, the expressiveness of oil painting texture has been improved by 10%. This shows that the texture and color matching scheme of the oil painting material in this study is effective.…”
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EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE NOVOSIBIRSK BIOMEDICAL CO-AUTHORSHIP NETWORK by I. I. Titov, A. A. Blinov

“…The distribution of organizations by scientific activity has a fat tail and obeys the Pareto principle: 83% of publications and 75% of authors belong to the 20% of the most active organizations. …”
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The Impulsive Model with Pest Density and Its Change Rate Dependent Feedback Control by Ihsan Ullah Khan, Sanyi Tang

“…The analytical methods developed in this paper will be very beneficial to study other generalized models with state-dependent feedback control.…”
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Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Hepatitis E Vaccination in Reproductive-Age Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Vaidas Jotautis, Antigoni Sarantaki

“…Studies were included if they reported outcomes on HEV239′s safety or efficacy in women of childbearing age, with data being extracted and analyzed for immunogenicity, HEV incidence, and maternal adverse events. …”
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Non-linear development in statistical learning of visual orthographic regularities by Rujun Duan, Qi Sun, Xiuhong Tong

“…Yet, the developmental trajectory of visual statistical learning has not been fully examined in the orthographic learning domain. …”
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Reconstruction of Araucaria araucana cone production reveals warming intensifies regionally synchronized masting by Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Fidel A. Roig, Davide Ascoli, Carlos LeQuesne, Martin Hadad

“…Masting patterns can respond to changes in climate, but natural long‐term variability in masting behavior (i.e., baseline variability) is poorly understood. …”
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Prediction of Visual Acuity after anti-VEGF Therapy in Diabetic Macular Edema by Machine Learning by Ying Zhang, Fabao Xu, Zhenzhe Lin, Jiawei Wang, Chao Huang, Min Wei, Weibin Zhai, Jianqiao Li

“…The ensemble algorithm (linear regression + random forest regressor) performed best in VA and VA variance predictions. In the validation set, the mean absolute errors (MAEs) of VA predictions were 0.137-0.153 logMAR (within 7-8 letters), and the mean square errors (MSEs) were 0.033-0.045 logMAR (within 2-3 letters) for the 1-month VA predictions, respectively. …”
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Renal impairment and in-hospital adverse renal events in critically ill patients assessed by age-adapted estimated glomerular filtration rate criteria by Chong Zhang, Weiru Liang, Meng Ning, Bin Su, Tingting Guo, Kun Hu, Wei Su, Yi Chen, Wenjin Peng, Yingwu Liu

“…However, the relationship between age-adapted estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) criteria and in-hospital MARE has not been extensively studied in critically ill patients. …”
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Outbreaks of Foodborne Disease Associated with Fruit and Vegetable Juices, 1922–2019 by Matthew Krug, Travis Chapin, Michelle Danyluk, Renee Goodrich-Schneider, Keith Schneider, Linda Harris, Randy Worobo

“… This document provides an overview of juice-related foodborne outbreaks between 1922-2019. This information is useful to juice processors to aid in the identification of pertinent microorganisms, and also reviews locations, venues of juice preparations, and severity of juice-associated outbreaks.  …”
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Feasibility Analysis of Illustrated Concept Map-Based Handouts on Plant and Animal Organ System Material by Erna Diana, Mulyadi

“…Based on the results of media and material feasibility tests, it can be concluded that the Handout is Based on Illustrated Concept Maps on Plant and Animal Organ System Material at MAS Al-Manar Aceh Besar.…”
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Stationary solutions to a hybrid viscous hydrodynamic model with classical boundaries by Federica Di Michele, Bruno Rubino, Rosella Sampalmieri, Kateryna Stiepanova

“…Compared to previous results from the same line of research, here we assume that the device at the boundaries of the domain behaves classically, while quantum effects are localised in the central part of it. …”
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Impact of communication anxiety on L2 WTC of middle school students: Mediating effects of growth language mindset and language learning motivation. by Juan Wang, Tongquan Zhou, Cunying Fan

“…Nonetheless, the potential mediating roles of learners' beliefs like growth language mindset and language learning motivation have not been thoroughly investigated, particularly in the context of middle school language learners. …”
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Information campaigns and local authorities by Mariekie Burger

“…As the failures of the authoritarian top-down development approach became evident, it is not '8 solution to remove the electricity cables of non-payers, neither is it a solution to modify behaviour only. …”
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Equilibrium expectations for non-Gaussian fluctuations near a QCD critical point by Karthein Jamie M., Pradeep Maneesha, Rajagopal Krishna, Stephanov Mikhail, Yin Yi

“…With the highly anticipated results from the Beam Energy Scan II program at RHIC being recently revealed, an understanding of particle-number fluctuations and their significance as a potential signature of a possible QCD critical point is crucial. …”
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Detection of Candida tropicalis from camel mastitis by S. A. Esmaeel, S. F. H. Al-Abedi, M. A. Altaliby, Q. T. Al-Obaidi

“…The present study was conducted to detect Candida tropicalis as a cause of camel mastitis (CM) us-ing routine diagnostic tests including Sabouraud’s dextrose agar (SDA) and API (analytical profile index) test strips, which were confirmed through amplification of the 18S rRNA gene of C. tropicalis using conventional polymerase chain reaction (c-PCR) technique and to investigate of the virulence genes of C. tropicalis including secreted aspartyl proteinase (SAPT4) and agglutinin-like sequence (ALST1) genes using c-PCR. Between January 2023 and May 2023, seventy mastitis milk samples were obtained from camels in Wasit province, Iraq. …”

Thermo-poroelastic analysis of drilling fluid pressure and temperature on wellbore stresses in the Mansouri oilfield, SW Iran by Alireza Pirhadi, Pooria Kianoush, Shahab Varkouhi, Reza Shirinabadi, Adel Shirazy, Aref Shirazi, Arash Ebrahimabadi

“…Additionally, a 55–60° azimuth demonstrates the highest mud limit among horizontal wells, while a 20° contrast is observed between formation temperature and drilling fluid in the optimal azimuth. …”
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Applications of Subleading-Color Amplitudes in N = 4 SYM Theory by Stephen G. Naculich, Horatiu Nastase, Howard J. Schnitzer

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