The Effect of Board Risk Management on Financial Performance of Selected Saccos in Kiruhura District, Uganda. by Kyabarong, Benon, Agaba, Moses, Munyabonera, Francisis, Byamukama, Eliab Mpora, Kikawa, Cliff, Ahabwe, Oliver

“…A total population of 342 persons was used at a confidence level of 95% or an error of 0.05. Two stages separated the data that was collected for analysis. …”
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The use of noninvasive measurements of intracranial pressure in patients with traumatic brain injury: a narrative review by Bárbara Caroline Dias Faria, Luiz Gustavo Guimarães Sacramento, André Vitor Rocha Queiroz, Fernanda de Andrade Dias Leite, Henrique Lacerda Lage Lopes de Oliveira, Thais Yuki Kimura, Rodrigo Moreira Faleiro

“…Conclusions Noninvasive ICP monitoring methods may be used in the near future to guide TBI patients' management.…”
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Linking Digital Footprint Data into Longitudinal Population Studies by Romana Burgess, Andy Boyd, Oliver Davis, Louise AC Millard, Mark Mumme, Sarah Robertson, Andy Skinner, Zhuoni Xiao, Anya Skatova

“…Conclusions While the linkage digital footprint data to LPS remains in early stages, our framework provides a methodological foundation for overcoming current challenges. …”
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Streptococcus agalactiae colonization and screening approach in high-risk pregnant women in southern Brazil by Jeane Zanini da Rocha, Jéssica Feltraco, Vanessa Radin, Carla Vitola Gonçalves, Pedro Eduardo Almeida da Silva, Andrea von Groll

“…Grenade culture was considered an easy and low-cost method, while GeneXpert presented higher cost and error rate of 10%. However, 23.3% of the pregnant women were diagnosed exclusively by GeneXpert and the results were obtained in two hours. …”
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Mesoscopic Numerical Simulation of Freeze–Thaw Damage in Hydraulic Concrete by Ruijun Wang, Yunhui Liu, Jun Liu, Yang Li, Ruibao Jin, Gang Liang, Ningning Yu, Jing Hu, Hekuan Zhou, Yaofei Jia, Yanxiong Liu

“…This study also explored the changes in the mechanical properties of concrete with variations in ITZ parameters and coarse aggregate content. The conclusions drawn are as follows: A comparison with experimental data showed that the model ensures that the relative error of each mechanical property parameter does not exceed 7%, verifying the model’s rationality. …”
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Risk of Superficial Fungal Infections in WHIM Syndrome by Jennifer Strong, Rutha Adhanom, Caleb S. Kim, Yoshine Saito, Jasmine C. Meltzer, Patrick Hallaert, Sophia Martinez, Abigail Salancy, Heidi H. Kong, Edward W. Cowen, Leslie Castelo-Soccio, Philip M. Murphy, David H. McDermott, Isaac Brownell

“…Abstract Introduction WHIM syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant inborn error of immunity caused by gain-of-function mutations in the chemokine receptor CXCR4. …”
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Metabolites Link Intake of a Healthy Diet to Better Insulin and Glucose Homeostasis in the Microbiome and Insulin Longitudinal Evaluation Study (MILES) by Alexis C Wood, Danielle J Lee, Patricia A Sheridan, Elizabeth T Jensen, Gautam Ramesh, Alain G Bertoni, Stephen S Rich, Yii-Der I Chen, David M Herrington, Jerome I Rotter, Mark O Goodarzi

“…A Bonferroni correction was applied to control the family-wise error rate at 5%. Results: Fifty-five metabolites were significantly associated with ≥1 diet score (all P < 1.7∗10–5). …”
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Automatic Evaluation of Bone Age Using Hand Radiographs and Pancorporal Radiographs in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis by Ifrah Andleeb, Bilal Zahid Hussain, Julie Joncas, Soraya Barchi, Marjolaine Roy-Beaudry, Stefan Parent, Guy Grimard, Hubert Labelle, Luc Duong

“…<b>Results:</b> The model achieves an average mean absolute error (MAE) of 4.87 months on more than 250 clinical testing AIS patient dataset. …”
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Sleep Apnea Events Recognition Based on Polysomnographic Recordings: A Large-Scale Multi-Channel Machine Learning approach by Nicolo La Porta, Stefano Scafa, Michela Papandrea, Filippo Molinari, Alessandro Puiatti

“…<italic>Goal:</italic> The gold standard for detecting the presence of apneic events is a time and effort-consuming manual evaluation of type I polysomnographic recordings by experts, often not error-free. Such acquisition protocol requires dedicated facilities resulting in high costs and long waiting lists. …”
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Association of Model-Predicted Epigenetic Age and Female Infertility by Elena Pozdysheva, Vitaly Korchagin, Tatiana Rumyantseva, Daria Ogneva, Vera Zhivotova, Irina Gaponova, Konstantin Mironov, Vasily Akimkin

“…All women with an EAA of ≥3 years (n = 6) had a history of infertility. Conclusions: In this study, no statistically significant associations were observed between EAA/EAD and AMH, body mass index, infertility, or ART failure in women.…”
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Cross-sectional study of myopia prevalence and associated risk factors among children and adolescents in Shaanxi Province, China, in 2021 by Yi-Ming Guo, Guan-Chen Liu, Junhan Wei, Jiaqi Wang, Jiejing Bi, Juan Huang, Dang-Xia Zhou, Lu Ye

“…Ophthalmological examinations were performed, and refractive error was assessed using non-cycloplegic refraction to determine the spherical equivalent (SE). …”
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A novel MRI-based deep learning imaging biomarker for comprehensive assessment of the lenticulostriate artery-neural complex by Yan Song, Yunlong Jin, Jianguo Wei, Jiajia Wang, Zhong Zheng, Ying Wang, Ru Zeng, Weiping Lu, Bingcang Huang

“…The root mean squared error (RMSE) was then used to assess the correlation between these features and fractional anisotropy (FA) values from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) values from arterial spin labeling (ASL). …”
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Optimizing imputation strategies for mass spectrometry-based proteomics considering intensity and missing value rates by Yuming Shi, Huan Zhong, Jason C. Rogalski, Leonard J. Foster

“…Assuming the causes of MVs could be different in different regions, we then investigated the optimal imputation method in each bin, using normalized root mean square error (NRMSE), and found that the optimal imputation method varies across bins. …”
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Understanding the interplay between stress, anxiety, and depression and their impact on health in traffic police officers by Carlos Ramos-Galarza, Fiamma Flores, Taysha Argoti, Diego D. Díaz-Guerra, Marena de la C. Hernández-Lugo, Yunier Broche-Pérez

“…The models demonstrated a good fit, particularly in the model examining digestive symptoms (CFI.95, RMSEA.06 (.05 -.08), SRMR.04).ConclusionsThe findings indicate a substantial impact of stress, anxiety, and depression on traffic police officers’ health. …”
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Therapeutic Drug Monitoring-Based Population Pharmacokinetics of Amikacin in Patients at a Teaching Hospital by Nadine Arnold Steffens, Estevan Sonego Zimmermann, Francine Johansson Azeredo, Rafael Linden, Luis Junior Finatto, Roberta Zilles Hahn, Alexandre Vargas Schwarzbold, Liliane Souto Pacheco, Natália Brucker

“…A one-compartment model with proportional error model best described amikacin pharmacokinetic parameters, providing a Cl of 1.49 L/h and Vc of 23.18 L. …”
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Pharmacokinetics of Pegaspargase with a Limited Sampling Strategy for Asparaginase Activity Monitoring in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by Cristina Matteo, Antonella Colombini, Marta Cancelliere, Tommaso Ceruti, Ilaria Fuso Nerini, Luca Porcu, Massimo Zucchetti, Daniela Silvestri, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Rosanna Parasole, Luciana Vinti, Nicoletta Bertorello, Daniela Onofrillo, Massimo Provenzi, Elena Chiocca, Luca Lo Nigro, Laura Rachele Bettini, Giacomo Gotti, Silvia Bungaro, Martin Schrappe, Paolo Ubezio, Carmelo Rizzari

“…This model predicts the AUC with 6% average error and 35% maximum error compared to the AUC estimated with all available measures. …”
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Identification of Patients With Congestive Heart Failure From the Electronic Health Records of Two Hospitals: Retrospective Study by Daniel Sumsion, Elijah Davis, Marta Fernandes, Ruoqi Wei, Rebecca Milde, Jet Malou Veltink, Wan-Yee Kong, Yiwen Xiong, Samvrit Rao, Tara Westover, Lydia Petersen, Niels Turley, Arjun Singh, Stephanie Buss, Shibani Mukerji, Sahar Zafar, Sudeshna Das, Valdery Moura Junior, Manohar Ghanta, Aditya Gupta, Jennifer Kim, Katie Stone, Emmanuel Mignot, Dennis Hwang, Lynn Marie Trotti, Gari D Clifford, Umakanth Katwa, Robert Thomas, M Brandon Westover, Haoqi Sun

“…ConclusionsThe proposed EHR-based phenotyping model for CHF achieved excellent performance, external validity, and generalization across two institutions. …”
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Magnetic particle grinding and finishing test of mixed particle size abrasives by Bingyang LIU, Yunlong DING, Wenjie SHAO, Bing HAN, Yan CHEN

“…When the workpiece is machined under the optimal process parameters, the surface roughness Ra of the workpiece decreases from the original value of 0.244 μm to the test value of 0.036 μm, and the absolute value of relative error between the two is 5.26%.ConclusionsThe experimental results show that the established model is effective, and the process parameters that affect the surface roughness Ra of the workpiece are in the order of spindle speed, followed by abrasive mass ratio and abrasive particle size ratio. …”
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Validación psicométrica de la Escala de Malestar Psicológico Kessler 10 (K-10) en personas mayores en España by Esteban Sánchez-Moreno, Lorena P. Gallardo-Peralta, José Luis Gálvez-Nieto

“…Adequate reliability coefficients were obtained for the general factor (α = 0.944; ɷ = 0.945). Conclusions: The K-10 scale showed adequate levels of validity and reliability in the sample. …”
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PERINATAL ASPECTS OF DELIVERY OF WOMEN WITH OBESITY AND GESTATIONAL DIABETES by О. Железняков, В. Лазуренко, І. Васильєва, Т. Фролова, Р. Сафонов, О. Лященко, О. Овчаренко

“…At the level of probability of error (p<0.05), the results of comparisons were considered reliable. …”
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