ENT Quality Improvement Program as a tool to improve the collection of morbidity and mortality data: a multisite audit carried out over 6 months by Sadie Khwaja, Haroon Saeed, Rachel Edmiston, Rajesh Anmolsingh, B Nirmal Kumar, Rajeev Advani, Alex Bowen, Mohammed El-Amin, Jennifer Gilchrist, Anna Harrison, Katharine Hamlett, Clodagh Mangan, Edward Noon, Rohan Pinto, Daniel Prescott, William Spiller, Sara Timms, Antonia Tse, Alex Yao

“…Objective This project aims to assess the role of a standardised process of data collection to improve morbidity and mortality data across the region.Design Six hospitals within the North West (UK) were recruited and adopted the ENT Quality Improvement Program (QIP) into their daily practice. …”
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Enhancing precision of flood estimation in EOS-04 SAR imagery: a statistical approach by Y. V. Sai Bhageerath, A. V. Suresh Babu, K. H. V. Durga Rao, K. Sreenivas, Prakash Chauhan

“…This best fit ellipse encapsulates the general flood characteristics observed across disparate geographic regions, providing a unified representation. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Iranian version of the attitudes to disability scale in people with physical disabilities by Mahnaz Pouresmaeil, Tahereh Dehdari, Isa Mohammadi Zeidi, Neda Mohammadi, Seyed Habib A Rahmati

“…This psychometric study employed a forward-backward translation process to translate the general items of the ADS from English to Persian. …”
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Evaluating the quality and reliability of oncologic breast reconstruction videos on youtube by Daniel Soroudi, Israel Falade, Nina Mehta, Alexis Gursky, Raymond Yin, Siyou Song, Esther Kim

“…Oncologic breast reconstruction (OBR) is a complex process that requires consideration of multiple factors, including chemoradiation, extent of cancer treatment, and surgical approach. …”
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Development and evaluation of a Wikipedia based group assessment to enhance science communication by Katelyn Mroczek, Pru Mitchell, Pru Mitchell, Brian Patrick McSharry, Alice Woods, Belinda Spry, Timothy Paustian, Thiru Vanniasinkam

“…Notably, 60% found it useful, and half indicated that they learned from their peers through the collaborative process. Students rated the readability of both Wikipedia and AI articles and assessed the accuracy and their suitability for a general audience. …”
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An Evaluation of Future Climate Change Impacts on Key Elements of the Water–Carbon Cycle Using a Physics-Based Ecohydrological Model in Sanchuan River Basin, Loess Plateau by Yujie Yuan, Xueping Zhu, Xuerui Gao, Xuehua Zhao

“…While a considerable number of investigations have scrutinized the repercussions of impending climatic transformations on either the carbon or water cycles, there is a scarcity of studies delving into the effects of future climate change on the coupled water–carbon process and its interrelationships. Based on this, the Sanchuan River Basin, an ecologically fragile region of the Loess Plateau, was chosen as the research area. …”
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Organization of rehabilitation programs for cancer patients based on an interdisciplinary approach by M. F. Ballyuzek, A. K. Ionova, M. V. Mashkova, B. P. Stepanov, O. L. Chagunava

“…A low commitment of oncologists to refer patients to multidisciplinary hospitals for supporting general medical treatment programs, which involve the work of multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams, especially at the initial stages of cancer, was revealed. …”
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Optimizing Outdoor Micro-Space Design for Prolonged Activity Duration: A Study Integrating Rough Set Theory and the PSO-SVR Algorithm by Jingwen Tian, Zimo Chen, Lingling Yuan, Hongtao Zhou

“…Additionally, comparative analysis shows that the PSO-SVR model outperforms traditional methods (e.g., BPNN, RF, and SVR) in terms of accuracy and generalization for predictions. …”
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Using and implementing care bundles for patients with acute admission for COPD: qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ experience in four hospitals in England by Sarah Purdy, Katherine Morton, Anna King, Sue Jenkins, Ali Shaw, Melanie Chalder, James Calvert

“…This paper reports a thematic analysis of data from observation and interviews with professionals.Results Healthcare professionals generally experienced care bundles as positive for standardising working practices and patient care, valuing how bundles could support a clear care pathway for patients, enable transitions between settings and identify postdischarge support required by patients. …”
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Effects of Driving Current Ripple Fluctuations on the Liquefied Layer of the Armature–Rail Interface in Railguns by Wen Tian, Gongwei Wang, Ying Zhao, Weikang Zhao, Weiqun Yuan, Ping Yan

“…During the electromagnetic launching process, the actual current input into the launcher is obtained by controlling the discharge of the pulsed power supply. …”
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Parkinson’s Disease Management via Wearable Sensors: A Systematic Review by Huma Mughal, Abdul Rehman Javed, Muhammad Rizwan, Ahmad S. Almadhor, Natalia Kryvinska

“…It is categorized by motor symptoms that affect a patient’s motor skills and non-motor symptoms that affect the general health of a PD patient. The quality of life of a patient with PD is highly compromised. …”
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Describing team development within a novel GP-led urgent care centre model: a qualitative study by Azeem Majeed, Geva Greenfield, Sarah Morton, Shamini Gnani, Agnieszka Igantowicz

“…Our aim was therefore to describe staff members' perspectives of team development within the GP-led UCC model.Design Open-ended semistructured interviews, analysed using thematic content analysis.Setting GP-led urgent care centres in two academic teaching hospitals in London.Participants 15 UCC staff members including six GPs, four ENPs, two receptionists and three managers.Results Overall participants were positive about the interprofessional team that had developed and recognised that this process had taken time. …”
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Efficiency of Innovation and Investment Development of the Country’s Energy Complex in Conditions of Instability by Babych Dmitriy V., Chobitok Viktoriia I., Chobitok Ihor O.

“…Also to develop appropriate institutional mechanisms for their improvement on the basis of generalization and integration of current foreign experience, comparative analysis of the formation of modern models, taking into account the peculiarities of innovation and investment processes in a particular region. …”
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Scaling up Business Plans in Tajikistan: a qualitative study of the history, barriers, facilitators and lessons learnt by Sarah S Werner, Gulara Afandiyeva, Gulzira Karimova, Sabine Kiefer, Nasrullo Abdujabborov, Muazamma Dzhamalova, Ilhom Bandaev, Helen Prytherch

“…Objective To describe the history and process of implementation of Business Plans and to identify barriers, facilitators and lessons learnt from scaling up Business Plans. …”
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Evidence for sweep signatures in antibiotic-resistant strains in three species of bacteria by Anjani Pradhananga, Lorena Benitez-Rivera, Candace Clark, Kaho H. Tisthammer, Pleuni S. Pennings

“…In future studies, more detailed analysis of such sweep signatures is warranted.…”
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A qualitative study on the impact of bleeding disorders on the daily life of Dutch women by Tessa C. M. van Gastel, Lorynn Teela, Manon E. L. Degenaar-Dujardin, Vicky Lehmann, Marjolein Peters, Karin Fijnvandraat, Lotte Haverman

“…Accessible informational materials for both women and HCPs, as well as platforms for sharing experiences, may help facilitate this process.…”
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Deep convolutional fuzzy neural networks with stork optimization on chronic cardiovascular disease monitoring for pervasive healthcare services by Nuzaiha Mohamed, Reem Lafi Almutairi, Sayda Abdelrahim, Randa Alharbi, Fahad M. Alhomayani, Amer Alsulami, Salem Alkhalaf

“…Employing newly established data analysis techniques and inspecting a patient’s health record might help recognize CVD promptly. …”
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Research on Tongue Image Segmentation and Classification Methods Based on Deep Learning and Machine Learning by Bin Liu, Zeya Wang, Kang Yu, Yunfeng Wang, Haiying Zhang, Tingting Song, Hao Yang

“…This approach not only achieves an intersection over union (IoU) score above 0.95 across three tongue image datasets but also significantly reduces the labor-intensive annotation process required for training traditional segmentation models while improving the generalization capability of the segmentation model. …”
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Violence Detection From Industrial Surveillance Videos Using Deep Learning by Hamza Khan, Xiaohong Yuan, Letu Qingge, Kaushik Roy

“…Next, SoftMax classifier processes the extracted features to categorize frame sequences as violent or non-violent. …”
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Synergistic Antitumor Effect of Doxorubicin and Tacrolimus (FK506) on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Lines by Francesca Capone, Eliana Guerriero, Angela Sorice, Giovanni Colonna, Gabriella Storti, Jessica Pagliuca, Giuseppe Castello, Susan Costantini

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