Causal impact of adopting irrigation technology on agriculture in Ethiopia: Evidence from a propensity score matching by Markose Chekol Zewdie, Jan Cools, Steven Van Passel

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Real-world andexanet alfa utilization and the association between delay in administration due to hospital transfer and all-cause inpatient mortality by Huiqiao Fan, Youssef Bessada, Craig I. Coleman

“…Methods: This was a retrospective study using National Inpatient Sample data. Hospitalizations with procedural codes for andexanet alfa and a billing code for bleeding were included. …”
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Investigating Experiences With Scarring Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People: Mixed Methods Study by Nora Yanyi Sun, Kanika Kamal, Alex Sogomon Keuroghlian

“…Applying inductive thematic analysis, all posts and comments were coded and codes were sorted into overarching themes.  …”
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Association between previous rheumatoid arthritis and COVID-19 and its severity: a nationwide cohort study in South Korea by Hyo Geun Choi, Younghee Jung, Mihye Kwon

“…RA was confirmed using the diagnostic code (International Classification of Disease, Tenth Revision) and medication claim codes. …”
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Hybrid intelligence framework for optimizing shear capacity of lightweight FRP-reinforced concrete beams by Iman Faridmehr, Moncef L. Nehdi, Mohammad Ali Sahraei, Kiyanets Aleksandr Valerievich, Chiara Bedon

“…The hybrid intelligence models reached superior predictive accuracy over traditional codes, achieving R2 values of 0.89. Notably, for beams without stirrups, model predictions closely matched experimental data, with a lower average ratio (1.02) compared to Eurocode (1.65) and ACI (1.58). …”
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Identifying genetic variants associated with the ICD10 (International Classification of Diseases10)-based diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease using a large-scale biomedical databa... by Fahad Alkhalfan, Alex Gyftopoulos, Yi-Ju Chen, Charles H Williams, James A Perry, Charles C Hong

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>Disease assignment based on ICD10 codes may underestimate prevalence; however, for CeVD, this does not appear to be the case. …”
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Exploring the effects of coronary artery disease as a preexisting comorbidity on mortality in hospitalized septic patients: a retrospective observation study by Anmol Multani, Greg Stahl, Kerry Johnson, Scott Goade, Robert D. Arnce

“…Septic patients were identified using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision sepsis codes. To identify septic patients with preexisting CAD, we used International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes for CAD. …”
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Deep Learning Segmentation Techniques for Atherosclerotic Plaque on Ultrasound Imaging: A Systematic Review by Laura De Rosa, Serena L’Abbate, Eduarda Mota da Silva, Mauro Andretta, Elisabetta Bianchini, Vincenzo Gemignani, Claudia Kusmic, Francesco Faita

“…To facilitate broader clinical adoption, future research should prioritize methodological standardization, external validation, data and code sharing, and integrating 3D US technologies.…”
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Flood risk mapping and performance efficiency evaluation of machine learning algorithms: Best practice in northern Iran by M. Shirmohammadi, M. Shirmohammadi, S. Pirasteh, W. Li, D. Mafi-Gholami

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Exposure to low-dose ambient fine particulate matter PM2.5 and Alzheimer's disease, non-Alzheimer's dementia, and Parkinson's disease in North Carolina. by Sung Han Rhew, Julia Kravchenko, H Kim Lyerly

“…Residents in the Study group of elevated air particulate matter (87 zip codes with PM2.5≥10μg/m3) were compared to the residents in the Control group with low levels of air particulate matter (81 zip codes with PM2.5≤7.61μg/m3), and were found to have higher age-adjusted rates of mortality and hospital admissions for AD, non-AD dementia, and PD, including a most pronounced increase in AD mortality (323/100,000 vs. 257/100,000, respectively). …”
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Renewable energy as an auxiliary to heat pumps: Performance evaluation of hybrid solar-geothermal-systems by Rabih Murr, Jalal Faraj, Hicham El Hage, Mahmoud Khaled

“…The thermal modeling of the aforementioned combinations in addition to baseline HP were developed and examined using an in-house computational code. To ensure that the input data used in the computational code are reliable, experiments were conducted to validate that the geothermal water temperature is higher than the ambient temperature in winter, in addition to confirming the analytical thermal modeling of the solar air heater. …”
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Evaluation of Seismic Site Amplification Using 1D Site Response Analyses at Ba Dinh Square Area, Vietnam by Ngoc-Long Tran, Muhammad Aaqib, Ba-Phu Nguyen, Duy-Duan Nguyen, Viet-Linh Tran, Van-Quang Nguyen

“…A measured in-situ shear wave velocity profile and corresponding geotechnical site investigation and laboratory test data are utilized to develop the site model for site-specific ground response analysis. …”
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Independent Predictors of Heat-Related Illness-Induced Acute Respiratory Failure: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Study by Wan-Yin Kuo, Chien-Cheng Huang, Chien-Chin Hsu, Hung-Jung Lin, Shih-Bin Su, Chung-Feng Liu, Mei-I Sung, Chi-An Chen, How-Ran Guo

“…Methods: Patients aged 20 years and above diagnosed with HRI (ICD-9-CM code 992 or ICD-10 code T67) who visited the EDs of the three hospitals in Tainan, Taiwan between January 2010 and October 2021, were included. …”
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Taxonomy of chronic illness research recruitment: a restricted scoping review by Rosalynn C. Austin, Bjørg Karlsen, Alison Richardson, Glyn Elwyn, Marianne Storm, Anne M. L. Husebø, Kristin H. Urstad

“…Included articles were critically assessed and data extracted. A code book was used to examine findings and results sections line by line, both deductively and inductively. …”
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Health- and Non–Health-Related Corporate Social Responsibility Statements in Top Selling Restaurant Chains in the U.S. Between 2012 and 2018: A Content Analysis by Megan P. Mueller, PhD, Alyssa Leib, MS, Deborah C. Glik, PhD, Sara N. Bleich, PhD, Jason Wang, PhD, Catherine M. Crespi, PhD, May C. Wang, DrPH

“…There were increases in corporate social responsibility statements by chain restaurants over the study period from 186 corporate social responsibility statements in 2012 to 1,218 corporate social responsibility statements in 2018, with most statements focused on philanthropy (37.1% of coded statements), community activities that were not health related (18.4% of coded statements), and sustainability initiatives (18.3% of coded statements). …”
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Simulation of the mitigation of tungsten divertor target erosion by real-time lithium powder injection on EAST by Yudie He, Chaofeng Sang, Yihan Wu, Yilin Wang, Wei Xu, Chen Zhang, Guizhong Zuo, Yanjie Zhang, Dezhen Wang

“…This work developed the impurity migration and wall composition dynamics code based on the WallDYN physical model and coupled it with other codes to simulate the evolution of impurity migration and surface composition during particle irradiation. …”
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Hidden costs of surgical complications: a retrospective cohort study by Franck Verdonk, Yann Parc, Jalal Assouad, Alain Sautet, François-Xavier Ladant, Morgan Roupret, Edward Kong, Ljubica Ristovska, Aurélia Retbi, Emmanuel Chartier Kastler, Harry Etienne, Victor Mardon, Maxim Scrumeda, Abou Kane Diallo, Julien Hedou, Pierre Rufat

“…Objectives To quantify how surgical complications impact hospital revenue when their effect on the volume of admissions is considered.Design Retrospective analysis of comprehensive administrative data.Setting Three university hospitals in France.Participants 54 637 inpatient stays between 2017 and 2023 in 4 surgical departments (abdominal, orthopedics, thoracic, and urology).Main outcome measures Stays were categorized by their diagnosis-related group and occurrence of one or more complications, according to International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision diagnosis codes. …”
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Adverse events in clinically complex elderly patients with atrial fibrillation according to oral anticoagulation statusResearch in context by Tommaso Bucci, Giulio Francesco Romiti, Hironori Ishiguchi, Luigi Gerra, Marta Mantovani, Bi Huang, Marco Proietti, Gregory Y.H. Lip

“…Methods: We conducted a retrospective study utilising data from the TriNetX network. Based on ICD-10-CM codes entered between 2020 and 2022, AF patients aged ≥75 years on long-term OAC with CC were categorised into two groups based on OAC use in the year before entering the study (maintained vs discontinued). …”
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Fire Test Study and FDS Verification of Spray Water Volume for Small-Sized Bookstores in the Revitalization of Historical Buildings by Peng Du, Jing Liu, Cheng Zhang, Zhixin Zheng, Guangyue Gu, Jiaming Zhao, Feng Yan, Songtao Liu, Rutian Li, Jun Zhang

“…This study lays the foundation for the analysis of the combustion characteristics of small bookstores and provides data support for the installation of simple sprinkler systems in small bookstores.…”
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SOLEDGE3X integrated core-edge modelling of tungsten sources, migration, and radiation in WEST plasmas by N. Varadarajan, H. Bufferand, G. Ciraolo, L. Cappelli, P. Tamain, N. Rivals, S. Sureshkumar, V. Quadri, L. de Gianni

“…The W impurity species was introduced in the multi-component edge fluid code SOLEDGE3X, in its 2D transport version. To do so, several physical ingredients have been implemented. …”
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