Preventive effects of 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine on community-acquired pneumonia hospitalization in older individuals in China: A case-control study by Na Liu, Lei Wang, Lin Luan, Huaqing Wang

“…The vaccination data of PPSV23 was obtained from Suzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention. …”
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Utility of a patient similarity-based digital tool for risk communication to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: perspectives from primary care physicians in ambulatory care. by Ruiheng Ong, Chirk Jenn Ng, Kalaipriya Gunasekaran, Hang Liu, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee, Ngiap Chuan Tan

“…Participants went through three hypothetical case scenarios using the digital tool under direct observation and shared their perspectives on its utility during an in-depth interview. Data were coded and analysed using thematic analysis.…”
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Administrative suspension of operations for violations of industrial safety: theoretical and practical issues by M. A. Buchakova, M. D. Vershilo

“…The main issues of law enforcement activity on the application of administrative punishment in the form of administrative suspension of operations for identified offenses in the field of industrial safety of hazardous production facilities.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that Russian legislation allows the resumption of activities after the expiration of the period of its suspension without eliminating violations of industrial safety.The methodology of research is logical analysis of Russian legislation, statistical data and judicial decisions concerning enforcement of administrative suspension of operations in Russia.The main results. …”
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Women’s satisfaction with health extension services and its associated factors in Hawassa City, Sidama region, Southern Ethiopia by Bargude Balta, Zufan Ayele

“…A multistage sampling technique was used to allocate 363 study participants. Data were checked for completeness and consistency, then, coded and entered into Epidata version 4.6, exported to the SPSS, IBM version 26. …”
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Outcomes in asymptomatic, severe aortic stenosis. by Anette Borger Kvaslerud, Kenan Santic, Amjad Iqbal Hussain, Andreas Auensen, Arnt Fiane, Helge Skulstad, Lars Aaberge, Lars Gullestad, Kaspar Broch

“…<h4>Materials and methods</h4>We reviewed the medical records of every patient given the ICD-10-code for aortic stenosis (I35.0) at Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, between Dec 1st, 2002 and Dec 31st, 2016. …”
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Vitamin D supplementation and breast cancer prevention: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. by Francesca Sperati, Patrizia Vici, Marcello Maugeri-Saccà, Saverio Stranges, Nancy Santesso, Luciano Mariani, Antonio Giordano, Domenico Sergi, Laura Pizzuti, Luigi Di Lauro, Maurizio Montella, Anna Crispo, Marcella Mottolese, Maddalena Barba

“…Two reviewers independently extracted data on methodological quality, participants, intervention, comparison and outcomes. …”
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Design Hybrid Algorithm for Video Encoding by Ghada Tahir Qasim, Toqa Zuhair, Sahar Saleh, Amena Emad

“…Due to the fact that all the studies and researches that have been found were focused on the use of some  of the ways of encrypting the texts like data encryption standard (DES) in encrypting video files ,and the fact that all the weakness points were related to the calculations, so in this research, many of these methods were connected with modification required to reduce the calculations and to obtain the speed of encrypting video files and give them a high privacy. …”
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Occurrences, human harm and years of life lost due to natural disasters in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010-2022: a cohort study by Roberta Fernanda da Paz de Souza Paiva, Ana Luiza de Oliveira Maia, Juliana Beloti Giarola Martins

“…Methods: This is a prospective cohort study, with data from the Integrated Disaster Information System and the Brazilian National Health System Hospital Information System. …”
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3D CFD analysis of species transport and electrochemical behavior in a PEM electrolyzer by Safiye Nur Ozdemir

“…A commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code from the ANSYS package was employed to solve the computational model. …”
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MAVM-UNet: multiscale aggregated vision MambaU-Net for field rice pest detection by Congqi Zhang, Ting Zhang, Guanyu Shang

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The Effect of Fatigue on the Static and Dynamic Balance in Karate Kata and Kumite Elite Men by Masoud Mirmoezzi, Heydar Sadeghi, Mahdi Jafari, Lotfali Lotfi

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Relationship between milk feeding pattern and preschool children weight in Sari ‎ by zahra shafi poor, moohamad ali rezae, kolsoom fadakar, reza ali moohamad poor

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Cost-effectiveness of cranial implants compared with autologous bone grafts by Vita M. Klieverik, Pierre A. Robe, Marvick S.M. Muradin, Peter A. Woerdeman

“…Material and methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients who underwent cranioplasty between 2014 and 2020. We collected data on the costs of cranioplasty using each patient's diagnosis and treatment combination (DBC) code. …”
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Crafting dental specialities in Iran: insights from a qualitative study by Tayebe Rojhanian, Michael Aryan Kya, Shahram Yazdani, Mohammad-Pooyan Jadidfard

“…Methods A qualitative case study was carried out, involving the review of 25 in-depth interviews and 47 documents. The data were organised using Atlas.ti (version 7.57) software and analysed through content analysis. …”
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Pattern of antibiotic use over two decades in Iran: a national level assessment based on WHO AWaRe classification from 2000 to 2019 by Maryam Taghizadeh-Ghehi, Mohammad Effatpanah, Mohadeseh Balvardi, Hossein Khalili

“…METHODS: Pharmaceutical whole sales data were used to study the consumption of systemic antibacterial agents (J01 group in WHO ATC 2020) from 2000 to 2019. …”
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The Importance of Fulfillment of Family Needs at Critical Care Units by Zahra Khoshnodi, Shademan Reza Masouleh, Seyedeh Fatemeh Seyed Fazelpour, Ehsan Kazem Nezhad Leyli

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Information Processor by Jia-Rey Chang

“…When Alan Turing first invented the room-sized “Turing Machine” to decipher Nazi codes, he couldn’t have expected that this giant machine could one day be put into one’s pocket and efficiently compute a million times more data. …”
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Evaluating the impact of common clinical confounders on performance of deep-learning-based sepsis risk assessment by Shikha Chaganti, Vivek Singh, Alasdair Edward Gent, Rishikesan Kamaleswaran, Ali Kamen

“…IntroductionEarly identification of sepsis in the emergency department using machine learning remains a challenging problem, primarily due to the lack of a gold standard for sepsis diagnosis, the heterogeneity in clinical presentations, and the impact of confounding conditions.MethodsIn this work, we present a deep-learning-based predictive model designed to enable early detection of patients at risk of developing sepsis, using data from the first 24 h of admission. The model is based on routine blood test results commonly performed on patients, including CBC (Complete Blood Count), CMP (Comprehensive Metabolic Panel), lipid panels, vital signs, age, and sex. …”
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What are the implications for practice that arise from studies of medication taking? A systematic review of qualitative research. by Mohammed Ahmed Rashid, Nadia Llanwarne, Natalie Heyns, Fiona Walter, Jonathan Mant

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>5 databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, SCOPUS, CINAHL) were systematically searched to identify published research papers using qualitative methodologies, which explored medication-taking experiences in patients, citizens, carers, relatives and clinicians. Data were extracted independently by at least two clinician reviewers. …”
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Economic burden and determinants among hospitalized patients with epilepsy in Thailand by Surachai Phimha, Prapassara Sirikarn, Somsak Tiamkao

“…Methods This was a prevalence-based cost-of-illness study using data from the Thailand National Health Security Office database. …”
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