Impact of an Early Invasive Strategy versus Conservative Strategy for Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A System... by Catriona Shaw, Dorothea Nitsch, Jasmine Lee, Damian Fogarty, Claire C Sharpe

“…Meta-analysis of the observational studies demonstrated a large degree of heterogeneity (I2 79%) driven in part by study size and heterogeneity across various kidney function levels.…”
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Predicting Acute Postoperative Pain Trajectories and Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescents after Spinal Fusion Surgery by Don Daniel Ocay, Mandy M.J. Li, Pablo Ingelmo, Jean A. Ouellet, M. Gabrielle Pagé, Catherine E. Ferland

“…Acute pain trajectories are associated with long-term outcomes such as persistent pain and functional disability in adults. However, there are limited data on acute postoperative pain trajectories in the pediatric population. …”
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Healthcare utilization of Mexican-American Medicare beneficiaries with and without Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. by Brian Downer, Soham Al Snih, Mukaila Raji, Lin-Na Chou, Yong-Fang Kuo, Kyriakos S Markides, Kenneth J Ottenbacher

“…We also identify sociodemographic, health, and functional characteristics that may contribute to differences in healthcare utilization between Mexican-American Medicare beneficiaries with and without an ADRD diagnosis.…”
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Narva noorte väärtused ja identiteet by Andu Rämmer, Maria Žuravljova, Anne Kivimäe, Maria Anderson

“…A social representation is a system of values, ideas and practices with a twofold function: first, to enable individuals to orient themselves in the everyday world and to master it; and second, to provide codes for social exchange or naming and classifying unambiguously the various aspects of their world and their individual group history. …”
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Evaluating the effect of immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in lung cancer patients by Anet Greib, Songzhu Zhao, Michelle Ploch, Jonathan Henricks, Robert Easterling, Meghana Moodabagil, Gabrielle Lopez, Mingjia Li, Evelyn G. Goodyear, John Sharp, Asrar Alahmadi, Jacob Kaufman, Regan Memmott, Kai He, Peter Shields, David P. Carbone, Gregory A. Otterson, Carolyn J. Presley, Lai Wei, Dwight H. Owen, Kevin Ho

“…Linear and generalized mixed models were used to account for potential confounders of worsening COPD. …”
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Nonlocal Nonlinear Fractional-Order Sequential Hilfer–Caputo Multivalued Boundary-Value Problems by Sotiris K. Ntouyas, Bashir Ahmad, Jessada Tariboon

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Correlates of duration between initial drug use and first drug injection among people who inject drugs in Iran, 2020 by Zahra Abdolahinia, Zahra Jaafari, Ali Karamoozian, Soheil Mehmandoost, Nima Ghalekhani, Mehrdad Khezri, Ghazal Mousavian, Mostafa Shokoohi, Ali Mirzazadeh, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Mohammad Karamouzian, Mohammad Mehdi Gooya, Samaneh Akbarpour, Hamid Sharifi, Fatemeh Tavakoli

“…Methods We analyzed data from the fourth national bio-behavioral surveillance survey among PWID in Iran, conducted in 2020 across 11 cities using respondent-driven sampling (n = 2,684). A generalized linear mixed model with a gamma-distributed dependent variable and log link function was used to investigate the correlates of transition time from non-injection to injection drug use. …”
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SCN1A mutation spectrum in a cohort of Bulgarian patients with GEFS+ phenotype by Valentina Peycheva, Elena Rodopska, Elena Slavkova, Iliyana Aleksandrova, Emil Simeonov, Petia Dimova, Veneta Bojinova, Vanyo Mitev, Albena Jordanova, Daniela Deneva, Dimitrina Hristova, Ivan Litvinenko, Nevyana Ivanova, Kunka Kamenarova, Margarita Panova, Iliana Pacheva, Ivan Ivanov, Maria Bojidarova, Genoveva Tacheva, Dimitar Stamatov, Radka Kaneva

“…Dravet syndrome (DS) is the most severe form of Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures plus (GEFS+) syndrome with a clear genetic component in 85% of the cases. …”
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Interaction study of the effects of environmental exposure and gene polymorphisms of inflammatory and immune-active factors on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Rui Wang, Yuanyuan Li, Yuting Jiang, Xiaona Liu, Hongqi Feng, Zhe Jiao, Bingyun Li, Chang Liu, Yuncheng Shen, Fang Chu, Chenpeng Zhu, Dianjun Sun, Wei Zhang

“…Logistic regression model, generalized multifactor dimensionality reduction and crossover analysis were used to analyse the effects of SNPs, gene–gene interactions, and gene-environment interactions on COPD. …”
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Vitality attributes and their associations with intrinsic capacity, resilience, and happiness in community-dwelling adults: Results from Gan-Dau Healthy Longevity Plan Wave 2 by Kuan-Yu Peng, Zhi-Jun Chen, Fong-Ping Tang, Shu-Chiung Lee, Heng-Hsin Tung, Katelyn E. Chen, Liang-Kung Chen, Fei-Yuan Hsiao

“…Methods: This cross-sectional analysis included 981 participants (75.0% female and 49.2% aged between 65−74 years) from the Gan-Dau Healthy Longevity Plan wave 2 cohort. …”
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Bessel–Riesz Operator in Variable Lebesgue Spaces <i>L^p</i>^(·)(<inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi mathvariant="double-struck">R... by Muhammad Nasir, Fehaid Salem Alshammari, Ali Raza

“…We extend existing results by establishing boundedness under more general conditions. The analysis is based on the Hardy–Littlewood maximal function, Hölder’s inequality, and dyadic decomposition techniques. …”
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Effects of Serum Metabolites on the Pancreatic Transcriptome in Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis by Yuanyuan Sun, Qiang Wang, Chenjun Hao, Dongbo Xue

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The Impact of Plasma Density Gradients on Lower Band Chorus Wave Propagation by D. P. Hartley, L. Chen, W. Gu, I. W. Christopher, O. Santolik

“…Here, for the first time, this relationship is investigated more generally by considering the wave normal angle, θk, as a function of the magnitude of all observed density gradients. …”
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Description « communicative » des déterminants français en vue de la didactisation by Lidia Lebas‑Fraczak

“…After examining the general function of the determiner in French, we consider the cases of absence of determiner. …”
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Unveiling Usage Patterns and Explaining Usage of Symptom Checker Apps: Explorative Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study by Anna-Jasmin Wetzel, Christine Preiser, Regina Müller, Stefanie Joos, Roland Koch, Tanja Henking, Hannah Haumann

“…Qualitative data were analyzed through Kuckartz qualitative content analysis. ResultsSignificant predictors of SCA use included the initial occurrence of symptoms, day of measurement (odds ratio [OR] 0.97), self-rated health (OR 0.80, P<.001), and the following International Classification in Primary Care-2–classified symptoms, that are general and unspecified (OR 3.33, P<.001), eye (OR 5.56, P=.001), cardiovascular (OR 8.33, P<.001), musculoskeletal (OR 5.26, P<.001), and skin (OR 4.76, P<.001). …”
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Association between Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Abdominal Aortic Calcification: A Large Cross-Sectional Study by Tao Liu, Ronghua Zuo, Jia Wang, Bing Wang, Lifang Sun, Shasha Wang, Baoyin Li, Jianhui Yao, Conggang Huang, Yesheng Pan, Zhijian Zhu

“…In addition, generalized additive models with smooth functions were used to evaluate the relationship between serum 25(OH)D concentration and the degree of AAC. …”
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On the classification of group invariant solutions of the Barenblatt–Gilman model by a one-dimensional system of subalgebras by Akhtar Hussain, M. Usman

“…By applying symmetry classification to the nonlinear function Φ(σ), six distinct cases emerge. In the general case, Φ(σ) yields a three-dimensional principal algebra. …”
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A Model of Basement Membrane-Associated Gene Signature Predicts Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors by Jiajia Shen, Zhihong Wei, Lizhi Lv, Jingxiong He, Suming Du, Fang Wang, Ye Wang, Lin Ni, Xiaojin Zhang, Fan Pan

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Efficient spectrally-resolved electron transport for thermal property prediction by Jackson R. Harter, Shuxiang Zhou, Sebastian Schunert, Andrea Jokisaari, P. Alex Greaney

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First-Principles Investigation of Excited-State Lattice Dynamics and Mechanical Properties in Diamond by Ying Tian, Fangfang Meng, Duanzheng Wu, Dong Yang, Xiaoma Tao, Zian Li, Jau Tang, Xiang Sun, Junheng Pan

“…This research employs Density Functional Theory (DFT) with the fixed electron occupation method to simulate the electron excitation. …”
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