P-57 SUSCEPTIBILITY PATTERNS AND EMPIRICAL ANTIBIOTIC GUIDANCE FOR URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS by Carolina Vazquez, Gonzalo Gomez Perdiguero, Esteban Gonzalez Ballerga, Ilse Sorena Pardo Ivirico, Agustin Di Santo, Camila Maria Briz, Maria Dolores Murga, Ana Palazzo, Lorena Notari, Josefina Pages, Julia Brutti, Brenda Osso Sanchez, Manuel Mendizabal, Margarita Anders, Diego Giunta, Gisela Gualano, Agostina Romero, Alina Zerega, Pablo Calzetta, Martin Elizondo, Maria Laura Garrido, Maximiliano Castro, Astrid Smud, Jesica Milena Tomatis, Natalie J. Vilcinskas, Diego Arufe, Melisa Dirchowlf, Fernando Cairo, Nelly Gutierrez Acevedo, Adrian Gadano, Sebastian Marciano

“…Patients / Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional study using data from the prospective registry of bacterial infections in adult patients with cirrhosis in Argentina and Uruguay. …”
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Towards reconstructing the numeral classifier system of Proto-Tivoid by Michael Terhemen Angitso, Roland Kießling

“…Ugare kù-kwà (9/10) ‘palm nut’, both used for counting items such as mangos and cashews, attest to the application of different cognitive models. …”
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Effectiveness of bed nets and media awareness in dengue control: A fuzzy analysis by Shobha Islam, Md. Shahidul Islam, Md. Kamrujjaman

“…It is found that using bed nets is a more effective strategy for dengue control than media coverage regarding vaccination.…”
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Statistical Evaluation and Optimization of Sol-Gel Dip Coating Deposition Parameters of Multilayered Conversion Coatings for Anticorrosive Alumina Film by Antonio Vitor Castro Braga, Dalva Cristina Baptista do Lago, André Rocha Pimenta, Lilian Ferreira de Senna

“…Nonetheless, the deposition parameters used to produce the MCCs can affect this performance, and the optimum conditions are generally found using univariate studies. …”
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Detection of cell‐free DNA fragmentation and copy number alterations in cerebrospinal fluid from glioma patients by Florent Mouliere, Richard Mair, Dineika Chandrananda, Francesco Marass, Christopher G Smith, Jing Su, James Morris, Colin Watts, Kevin M Brindle, Nitzan Rosenfeld

“…We used shallow whole‐genome sequencing (sWGS, at a coverage of < 0.4×) of cell‐free DNA from the CSF of 13 patients with primary glioma to determine somatic copy number alterations and DNA fragmentation patterns. …”
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HackerRank: Identifying key hackers in underground forums by Cheng Huang, Yongyan Guo, Wenbo Guo, Ying Li

“…To demonstrate the validity of proposed method, we applied HackerRank to five different underground forums separately. Compared to using social network analysis and content analysis alone, HackerRank increases the coverage rate of five underground forums by 3.14% and 16.19% on average. …”
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Nature-Friendly Water-Based Resin Paints with SiO2 Nanoparticles for Electrostatic Spraying by Hai Li, Byungil Hwang, Eunchong Kim, Hoseong Song, Seungwoo Hong, Jun Young Cheong, Jongbae Moon, Sooman Lim

“…Our experimental procedure involves formulating water-based paints; applying them via electrostatic spraying; and analyzing their stability, coverage, and adhesion properties. The findings demonstrated that the paints maintained stability and showed improved adhesion and uniformity without using a toxic solvent-based resin, particularly on substrates with extended anodizing treatment. …”
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“It’s sink or swim for us”: The lived experiences of Filipino nurses in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic by Denise Borbolla, Ohemaa Nkansa-Dwamena

“…Six nurses were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling, and interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using IPA. …”
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Awkward defects around the elbow: The radial recurrent artery flap revisited by Maksud M. Devale, Rohit P. Munot, Chirag A. Bhansali, Neeraj D. Bhaban

“…Conclusion: The RRA flap is a useful, simple flap for defects around the elbow joint in select patients providing one stage, reliable, cosmetically acceptable coverage.…”
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Undiagnosed hypertension and its associated factors in India: A rural-urban contrast from the National Family Health Survey (2019-21). by Aritrik Das, Yukti Bhandari, Angad Singh, Jugal Kishore, Sonu Goel

“…Distribution of undiagnosed hypertension according to sociodemographic, anthropometric and health-related behaviour was studied using frequencies and weighted proportions. Choropleth maps were used to depict state-wise distribution of undiagnosed hypertension. …”
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GeneUp: A Program to Select Short PCR Primer Pairs that Occur in Multiple Members of Sequence Lists by G. Pesole, S. Liuni, G. Grillo, P. Belichard, T. Trenkle, J. Welsh, M. McClelland

“…The program uses simulated PCR to find pairs of primers that sample more than one sequence in the list. …”
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Nanoporous Copper Films: How to Grow Porous Films by Magnetron Sputter Deposition by Michał A. Borysiewicz, Patrycja Barańczyk, Jakub Zawadzki, Marek Wzorek, Rafał Zybała, Beata Synkiewicz-Musialska, Paweł Krzyściak

“…Porous copper films used in current collectors have been shown to improve the stability of Li-ion batteries. …”
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A Deep Learning-Driven Black-Box Benchmark Generation Method via Exploratory Landscape Analysis by Haoming Liang, Fuqing Zhao, Tianpeng Xu, Jianlin Zhang

“…Once the feature criteria are met, the resulting topological map point is used to train a neural network to produce a surrogate function that retains the desired landscape characteristics. …”
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Quadratus lumborum block as a component of analgesia in laparoscopic cholecystectomy by S.M. Chooklin, S.S. Chuklin

“…The degree of dermatomal coverage can be influenced by factors such as the volume of local anesthetic used, the specific injection site, and individual anatomical variations. …”
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From CBCT to MR-Linac in Image-Guided Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy Towards Treatment Personalization by Florentina Larisa Coc, Loredana G. Marcu

“…The following aspects are explored based on recent literature: the radiotherapy technique used in conjunction with IGRT, the type and frequency of IGRT, the impact of radiotherapy technique/IGRT on target dosimetry and organs at risk, the influence of IGRT on planning target volume margins, the impact of treatment time on dosimetric outcome and clinical outcomes using IGRT repositioning or an online adaptive plan. …”
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Influence of urban changes on ventilation paths efficiency by Katarzyna Klemm, Weronika Chojna, Anna Dominika Bochenek

“…The assessment of the corridor's effectiveness was carried out using two methods: a visual estimation method, using data from Corine Land Cover, and a morphometric method based on data provided by the Łódź Geodesy Centre. …”
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A scientometric analysis of the thematic structure and analysis of the convergence mapping of medical education. by Mohammad Bagher Negahban

“… This study investigates the thematic structure and conceptual dynamics of research in medical education using scientometric and network analysis approaches. …”
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Pertactin deficiency of Bordetella pertussis: Insights into epidemiology, and perspectives on surveillance and public health impact by Ulrich Heininger, Helena Martini, Jennifer Eeuwijk, Ivana Prokić, Adrienne P. Guignard, Elisa Turriani, Maurine Duchenne, Valérie Berlaimont

“…Pertussis resurgence has been documented even in countries with high pediatric vaccine coverage. The proportion of Bordetella pertussis isolates not expressing pertactin (PRN) has increased in several countries where acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines are used. …”
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Formation of a database of auxiliary information for positioning in an environment with heterogeneous radio transparency by Mikhail N. Krizhanovsky, Olga V. Tikhonova

“…Therefore, research and development aimed at improving the accuracy of indoor positioning systems using a minimum number of stations is of great relevance. …”
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Combining acoustic survey and citizen science data yields enhanced species distribution models for tropical rainforest birds. by Reid Rumelt, Carla Mere Roncal, Arianna Basto, Zuzana Buřivalová, Christopher Searcy

“…Many species distribution modeling analyses have been performed using either structured survey data or unstructured citizen science data; these two pools of data have tradeoffs in terms of data density, spatiotemporal coverage, and accuracy. …”
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