Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Vancomycin in Hemodialysis Patients in a Hospital in North-East Romania by Aurelia Crețu, Luanda Irina Mititiuc, Iulia-Daniela Lungu, Mihaela Mihaila, Irina Dima, Adrian Covic, Cristina Mihaela Ghiciuc

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: a therapeutic level of vancomycin can often be difficult to achieve because of different reasons, mainly in hemodialysis patients.…”
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The Data Heterogeneity Issue Regarding COVID-19 Lung Imaging in Federated Learning: An Experimental Study by Fatimah Alhafiz, Abdullah Basuhail

“…Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative framework for collaborative learning, offering robust model training across institutions while ensuring data privacy. …”
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Modeling smeared fiber-matrix pullout strength of steel fiber-reinforced concrete with various types of steel fiber and its tensile and compressive strength by Yuxin Xu, Tengfei Xu, Guilin Li, Tianyu Xie

“…This physically-significant approach not only provides a reliable tool for designing and optimizing SFRC materials but also offers new insights into the mechanisms of fiber reinforcement in concrete.…”
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Cost-effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation (TM) for treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). by Erik J Groessl, Thomas R Rutledge

“…The higher health care costs associated with non-response to therapy offset intervention cost differences. Findings were robust to variability.…”
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Social Strata Differentials in Reproductive Behavior among Agricultural Families in the Krummhörn Region (East Frisia, 1720-1874) by Kai P. Willführ, Charlotte Störmer

“…Poisson and Cox regression models are used to analyze the age at first reproduction, fertility, the sex ratio of the offspring, sex-specific infant/child survival, and the number of children. …”
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Optimizing data collection for obstetrical ultrasound research at the primary health care level in rural Uganda by Renny Ssembatya, Abimbola Leslie, Kristen DeStigter, Erika M. Edwards, Joyce Nayiga, Samalie Nakibirango, Julian P. Arapa, Nicholas Bahati, Blandina Busingye, Thomas Eremu, Mary Nakafeero, Micheal F. Ssenoga, Frank B. Williams, Delia Horn

“…However, data collection in the low-income country setting, especially in rural areas, has been a challenge for researchers, policy makers, and public health officials. Here, we describe the methodology, experience and lessons learned while collecting data at lower-level primary health care facilities in rural Uganda. …”
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Difficult to Treat Focal, Stiff Person Syndrome of the Left Upper Extremity by Nathan E. Esplin, John W. Stelzer, Timothy B. Legare, Sayed K. Ali

“…It is a disorder of reduced GABA activity leading to increased muscle tone and often painful spasms. It generally presents in the axial musculature but rarely can involve only one limb, typically a lower extremity. …”
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Underutilized and neglected crop species and their role in enhancing household food security amid climate change, Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia by Dessalegn Shiferaw Yesuph, Dabalke Dabala Dalka, Masresha Tadesse Baye

“…However, producing and consuming these crops is often associated with poverty. The analysis revealed that 50 % of respondents have poor food consumption, 30 % are at the borderline, and only 20 % are at an acceptable level. …”
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« A Single Tone Coming Out Of A Vast, Empty Space » : John Adams, le contemporain au risque de l’anachronisme by Mathieu Duplay

“…While John Adams’s operas often rely on anachronism and temporal distance, his early cantata Harmonium (1980‑81) already raises the question of dissociation and remoteness from the self: first, because it gives pride of place to a famous Emily Dickinson poem about alienation and disaster; secondly, because it also conducts a musical exploration of sound perceived as a paradoxical combination of immediacy and estrangement, presence and emptiness, as if music itself were seen as expressing the quintessence of the contemporary.…”
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Licensing of Forest Pesticide Applicators in Florida by Frederick M. Fishel

“…Published by the UF Pesticide Information Office, July 2006. …”
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Enhancing Buck-Boost Converter Efficiency and Dynamic Responses with Sliding Mode Control Technique by Salah Hilo Mohammed Al-Attwani, Mustafa Teke, Ethar Sulaiman Yaseen Yaseen, Enes Bektaş, Nurettin Gökşenli

“…The research is useful to the field as it offers more insights into the control strategy that significantly improves the performance of converters concerning efficiency and stabilization. …”
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The inaccurate citation of the “Universal Declaration of Animal Rights” (UDAR) in the scientific literature: a scoping review by Alexandre Azevedo, Martin Whiting, Manuel Magalhães-Sant’Ana

“…The 1978 UDAR version was most often cited. Among 305 screened publications, 47.9% contained erroneous or misleading claims about the UDAR. …”
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Coûts de la monopolisation des femelles et investissements reproductifs des mâles macaques crabiers (Macaca fascicularis) : importance de la valeur sociale et reproductive des feme... by Cédric Girard‑Buttoz, Michael Heistermann, Muhammad Agil, Panji Ahmad Fauzan, Antje Engelhardt

“…Les mâles étaient plus vigilants et plus agressifs envers les autres mâles lorsqu’ils monopolisaient des femelles de rangs élevés ou celles avec qui ils partageaient de forts liens sociaux. Nos résultats offrent une nouvelle dimension à l’étude des décisions reproductives en montrant que les mâles non seulement préfèrent copuler avec des femelles de qualité supérieure mais tendent également à accroitre leurs chances d’assurer leur paternité avec ces femelles par le biais d’une monopolisation optimale.…”
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Designing a model for re-employment of employees during retirement (Study case: Ministry of Education) by Fatemeh Fatemeh Bina Baji, Hamid Rezaei Far, Mohammad Mohammadi, Monireh Salehnia

“…Considering the country's demographic changes and the effects and consequences of transitioning the age structure of the population, it is expected that the number of retirees in our society will continue to increase in the future decades (Statistical and Socioeconomic Analysis Office, 2019). On the other hand, regarding the financial resources of the education organization, it is stated that the share of the education budget from the public resources of the government in 1401 is 9.6%; while the share of the education budget from the government's public resources in 1400 was 12.7 percent (Fars News Agency, 2022). …”
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Pulmonary Vein Occlusion and Lung Infarction after Radiofrequency Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation by Julyan Al Fori, Maryam Al Belushi, Mohammed Al Shuraiqi, Ghalia Al Mohanny, Rashid Al Umairi, Nasser Al Busaidi

“…However, pulmonary vein occlusion is a potentially rare, sometimes severe, complication which may present clinically as nonspecific respiratory symptoms, signifying pulmonary vein stenosis, that are often underrecognized or misdiagnosed, leading to progression of the low-grade stenosis to complete occlusion if not treated with timely intervention (Alfudhili et al., 2017). …”
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When aging meets digitisation: can urban digital technology innovations enhance the well-being of older adults? by Yajing Wu, Xianglei Zhu

“…Our study highlights the crucial role of urban digital innovation in enhancing elderly well-being. It offers valuable insights for policymakers to promote digital inclusion, social support, and sustainable urban development strategies that benefit older adults. …”
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The Effects of Affinity Mediated Clonal Expansion of Premigrant Thymocytes on the Periphery T-Cell Repertoire by Guanyu Wang

“…The immune system maintains a highly diverse T-cell repertoire,which is shaped by active interactions between developing thymocytesand endogenous peptide/MHC molecules through the principle ofpositive and negative selections. Detours et al. developed aquantitative model addressing key immunologic notions such asselection, alloreactivity, and self-restriction. …”
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Structural Competency: A Faculty Development Workshop Series for Anti-racism in Medical Education by Shani R. Scott, Cristina M. Gonzalez, Chenshu Zhang, Iman Hassan

“…Methods We delivered four 90-minute workshops at an urban academic medical center from March through April of 2021. Workshops were offered to interdisciplinary faculty. We evaluated this workshop series with a pre- and postintervention survey assessing attitudes and confidence, and a postintervention satisfaction survey. …”
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Research Hotspots and Trend Analysis of Barrier Dam Break Mechanism Based on CiteSpace by LI Yan'ang, HAN Peifeng, HUANG Shijie, YANG Guocheng, GONG Yukai, LIU Rui

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On the Role of Climate Forcing by Volcanic Sulphate and Volcanic Ash by Baerbel Langmann

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