What works, how and in which contexts when supporting parents to implement intensive speech and language therapy at home for children with speech sound disorder? A protocol for a r... by Angela Hassiotis, Mark Donnelly, Laurence Taggart, Emma Pagnamenta, Naomi Leafe, Jill Titterington

“…Relevant secondary data, identified through a formal search strategy, will be selected, appraised, analysed and synthesised using realist principles to test and further refine the initial programme theories. …”
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Precursors of the treatment failure of mycobacteriosis in patients with HIV by M. A. Savchenko

“…The clinical manifestations of pathology, laboratory indicators at different stages of treatment, the scheme and terms of the therapy being carried out were analyzed on the basis of data from medical histories and ambulatory patient records.A statistical analysis was performed, the efficacy of therapy was evaluated using the Kaplan-Meier method, the macrolide in the first line of antibacterial therapy used was taken as the basis.Results. …”
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Practical Steps for Urban Flood Risk Mitigation Using Nature-Based Solutions—A Case Study in <i>New Cairo</i>, Egypt by Walaa S. E. Ismaeel, Nada Ali Mustafa

“…The process started with flood hazard analysis using hydrological data, topographical maps, urban planning, and land use maps, in addition to the history of storm events. …”
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Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Postoperative Delirium in Hip Fracture Surgery Patients: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study by Jacob Raphael, Nadia B. Hensley, Jonathan Chow, K. Gage Parr, John S. McNeil, Steven B. Porter, Monica Taneja, Kenichi Tanaka, Michael Mazzeffi

“…An IPTW adjusted odds ratio for developing postoperative delirium was calculated for patients who received RBC transfusion during surgery or in the 72 hours after. …”
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TECHNOLOGY FOR EFFICIENT USAGE OF HYDROCARBON-CONTAINING WASTE IN PRODUCTION OF MULTI-COMPONENT SOLID FUEL by B. M. Khroustalev, A. N. Pekhota

“…The paper considers modern approaches to usage of hydrocarbon-containing waste as energy resources and presents description of investigations, statistic materials, analysis results on formation of hydrocarbon-containing waste in the Republic of Belarus. …”
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Multi-omics integration and machine learning uncover molecular basal-like subtype of pancreatic cancer and implicate A2ML1 in promoting tumor epithelial-mesenchymal transition by Jiachen Ge, Jianping Cai, Gaolei Zhang, Deyu Li, Lianyuan Tao

“…Methods Transcriptomic, methylation, and mutational data from 168 PC samples were integrated. The molecular subtypes were established and validated across 13 independent cohorts utilizing ten distinct classification methods. …”
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Predicting Functional Decline in Geriatric Abdominal Surgery Patients: Unveiling Incidence, Risk Factors, and Innovative Predictive Models in Thailand by Poungkaew Thitisakulchai, Arunotai Siriussawakul, Sunit Jarungjitaree, Nipaporn Sangarunakul, Piyapat Dajpratham

“…The baseline characteristics including Basic Activities of Daily Living [BADL] and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living [IADL] scores, preoperative laboratory testing and surgical-related data were recorded. Functional status was reassessed one month post-surgery. …”
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Addressing the needs and identifying supports for parents of chronically ill adolescents and young adults in their shared transition from paediatric to adult care: a scoping review... by Kate Murray, Karen Frost, Samantha K Micsinszki, Pranshu Maini, Claudia Tersigni, Sarah Cairns

“…The reference list of all included studies will also be screened to maximise the retrieval of relevant sources. Data will be extracted and analysed quantitatively and qualitatively, with the study procedural and reporting format following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines.Ethics and dissemination This scoping review, through the broad and systematic mapping of existing literature, aims to provide a foundation for developing targeted support systems, strategies and interventions to address the unique needs and barriers faced by parents and caregivers of chronically ill adolescents during this critical transition to adult care.…”
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Unmasking Job Satisfaction: Insights from Tribal India’s Nurses amongst the COVID-19 Pandemic by Vikrant Kabirpanthi, Vikas Gupta, Subramani Palaniyandi

“…The MS Excel spreadsheet was used to enter the collected data. The Chi-square test was performed to find the association between poor JSS score and independent variables. …”
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Prediction of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in older patients with insomnia: a longitudinal population study by Chih-Wei Sung, Cheng-Che Chen, Yun-Ting Chih, Cheng-Yi Fan, Edward Pei-Chuan Huang

“…Abstract Background The association of insomnia in older patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is not completely elucidated. The current study developed and validated a predictive model for OHCA in older patients using population-based analysis. …”
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Optimizing Chlorophyll-a Concentration Inversion in Coastal Waters Using SVD and Deep Learning Approach by Lili Zhan, Yongxin Xu, Jinshan Zhu, Zhangshuo Liu

“…This study demonstrates that the developed and validated SVD-DNN model has excellent robustness and generalization ability and can be used in combination with Landsat data for long-term retrieval of Chl-a across different time series.…”
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Intraoperative hyperthermia is associated with increased acute kidney injury following cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy: a retrospective cohort s... by Shun-Cai Gao, Jia-Hui Ma, Hao Kong, Rui-Qing Ma, Su-Li Chen, Dong-Xin Wang

“…A multivariable logistic regression model was established to assess the association between hyperthermia and AKI.Results A total of 480 patients were included in the analysis. Of these, 10.6% (51/480) developed AKI within 7 postoperative days. …”
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Application of the metaheuristic algorithms to quantify the GSI based on the RMR classification by Pouya Koureh Davoodi, Farnusch Hajizadeh, Mohammad Rezaei

“…This study addresses this challenge by analyzing data from fourteen different rock types and employing three metaheuristic optimization algorithms, namely Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Simulated Annealing (SA), and Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO), to develop predictive models for quantifying GSI based on the RMR. …”
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Real-world cost-effectiveness of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir as treatment for SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Belgian setting with omicron variant by Sophie Marbaix, Sophie Marbaix, Steven Simoens, Philippe Clevenbergh, Pascal Van Bleyenbergh, Keliane Liberman, Dimitri Dehenau

“…Outcomes were expressed in Quality Adjusted-Life Years (QALYs), hospitalizations, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions, deaths and Long Covid cases, derived from epidemiological data over the first full year of the Omicron variant’s circulation (2022). …”
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Early prediction of sepsis-induced cardiorenal syndrome: superiority of myoglobin over troponin I by Yiguo Liu, Chao Zheng, Xi Liu, Xiao-qin Zhang, Yingying Zhang, Chen Yu

“…Backgrounds This study aimed to perform risk stratification for sepsis-induced cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) and develop an early prediction model enabling the timely identification of high-risk patients within the first 24 h of admission.Methods This study retrospectively extracted septic patient data from the Shanghai Tongji Hospital between 2015 and 2020, with CRS occurrence set as the outcome measure. …”
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‘We have no services for you… so you have to make the best out of it’: A qualitative study of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients’ dissatisfaction with heal... by Line Melby, Roshan das Nair

“…Patients and caregivers provided feedback during analysis and interpretation of data.…”
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Digiwork: how agriculture 4.0 is changing work for farm advisers by Ruth Nettle, Julie Ingram, Margaret Ayre

“…Changes to the work of advisers is a less explored topic within smart farming yet is an important aspect to the way the Agriculture 4.0 is unfolding.MethodWe developed a multidisciplinary framework from the literature relating to work and working life to collect and analyse data with an overarching theoretical framing of advisory practice as socio-symbolic and socio-material relations. …”
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Modeling Rollover Crash Risks: The Influence of Road Infrastructure and Traffic Stream Characteristics by Abolfazl Khishdari, Hamid Mirzahossein, Xia Jin, Shahriar Afandizadeh

“…A dataset comprising three years of crash data (2015–2017) was collected and analyzed. A crash index was developed based on the weight of crash intensity, road type, road length (as dependent variables), and road infrastructure and traffic stream properties (as independent variables). …”
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Prediction of clinical stages of cervical cancer via machine learning integrated with clinical features and ultrasound-based radiomics by Maochun Zhang, Qing Zhang, Xueying Wang, Xiaoli Peng, Jiao Chen, Hanfeng Yang

“…General clinical and ultrasound data of 227 patients with cervical cancer who received transvaginal ultrasonography were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Solar Photovoltaic Systems: Scope, Technologies, Applications, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations by Shoaib Ahmed, Amjad Ali, Jamshed Ahmed Ansari, Sikandar Abdul Qadir, Laveet Kumar

“…This article offers a detailed analysis of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. It examines the distinct qualities and developments of the three generations of solar PV technologies: first-generation crystalline silicon, second-generation thin-film, and third-generation developing technologies, including perovskite and organic cells. …”
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