Developing a quality and safety surveillance system: A protocol for a realist review and synthesis of the literature. by Busra Ertugrul, Jaspreet Kaur Dullat, Therese McDonnell, Marcella O'Dowd, Eilish McAuliffe

“…<h4>Background</h4>Patient harm as a result of unsafe care remains a growing global health concern, and traditional efforts prioritising tracking errors and voluntary reporting to detect adverse events result in very low error detection rates. In attempting to address this, some countries have developed patient safety surveillance systems where several data sources are combined and interrogated to detect errors and deterioration as well as to highlight good practices. …”
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Understanding barriers to optimal supervision and delivery of the National Certificate (vocational) curriculum through TVET college lecturers’ reflective evaluations by Angelona Rewhydah Williams, Karel Prins, Bongani Innocent Nkambule, Sindile Amina Ngubane

“…The findings problematized (1) the Department of Higher Education and Training’s failure to monitor and evaluate curriculum delivery processes; (2) a lack of comprehensive professional development opportunities for classroom-based lecturers; (3) poor coordination of work-integrated learning (WIL) programs and processes; (4) curriculum supervisors’ limited time for classroom visits due to heavy administrative workload; (5) the absence of communities of practice for knowledge sharing purposes among lecturers; (6) students' language barriers, which led to low pass rates; (7) shortage of qualified student support practitioners and onsite academic support programs; and (8) unreliable Internet connectivity and rigid access to technology infrastructure. …”
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A Modified Sine Cosine Algorithm Based on A Novel Locally Weighted Method for Global Optimization Problems by Shahad Mohammed, Nazar Hussein, Mohammed Alkahya

“…These limitations encompass restricted resolution, slow convergence rates, and difficulties in achieving global optimization when dealing with complex, multi-dimensional spaces. …”
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Traditional medicine and COVID-19: influence on the recovery and satisfaction of the Tsáchila nationality by Walter Patricio Castelo Rivas, David Isrrael Gallardo Córdova, Allison Juliana Zúñiga García, Jesica Liliana Cueva Toaquiza, Ángel Ramón Sabando García

“…A total of 1,003 members of the Tsáchila nationality participated in the study, to whom a questionnaire consisting of 22 closed questions was applied through non-probabilistic sampling. The data were analyzed through processes of convergent validity, discriminant validity and modeling of structural equations developed in SPSS24 and AMOS 24. …”
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Towards Supporting Exploratory Search over the Arabic Web Content: The Case of ArabXplore by Al-Agha Iyad, Abed Ahmed

“…Due to the huge amount of data published on the Web, the Web search process has become more difficult, and it is sometimes hard to get the expected results, especially when the users are less certain about their information needs. …”
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ATM is associated with the prognosis of colorectal cancer: a systematic review by Pei Wu, Zelin Wen

“…Studies had to meet the inclusion criteria as well as include processes such as data extraction and quality evaluation. …”
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Investigation of kinetics, thermodynamics, and isotherms of the simultaneous removal of heavy metal ions by activated carbon from cypress fruit by Alaa M Al-Ma’abreh, Manal AlKhabbas, Samer Alawaideh, Samer Hasan Hussein-Al-Ali, Dareen A Hmedat, Gada Edris, Razan Ataallah Abuassaf, Mariam A Hamed

“…Additionally, equilibrium data are best characterized by the Langmuir isotherm model, indicating monolayer adsorption of the heavy metal ions mixture. …”
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An innovative method for measuring the hysteresis effects of soil moisture on meteorological variables at various time scales and climate conditions by Qing Tian, Jianzhong Lu, Xiaoling Chen

“…Understanding the feedback and reactions of soil moisture to meteorological factors in meteorological-hydrological processes is essential due to the growing importance of soil moisture in energy and water cycles in critical zones. …”
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A discrete choice experiment with health professions trainees to improve the urban-rural health care access disparity in Appalachia: Study protocol. by Chris Gillette, Jan Ostermann, Sarah Garvick, Chris Everett, Dawn Caviness, Aylin A Aguilar

“…The choice context will be the recruitment of these trainees for their first job. Data will be analyzed using mixed logit analysis. …”
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Nurse training to enhance adherence counselling for HIV-tuberculosis coinfection in South Africa: Integrative review by Victoire Ticha, Million Bimerew, Rene D. Phetlhu

“…Exclusion criteria included non-English articles, conference proceedings and irrelevant studies. Thematic data analysis synthesised findings. Results: Three main themes emerged: participant identification, key programme content and programme implementation process, crucial for effective training programme development. …”
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A Novel YOLOv10-Based Algorithm for Accurate Steel Surface Defect Detection by Liefa Liao, Chao Song, Shouluan Wu, Jianglong Fu

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Harvesting effects, recovery mechanisms, and management strategies for a long-lived and structural precious coral. by Ignasi Montero-Serra, Cristina Linares, Marina García, Francesca Pancaldi, Maša Frleta-Valić, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux, Frederic Zuberer, Djamel Merad, Pierre Drap, Joaquim Garrabou

“…Adversely, low mortality of partially harvested adults and a large proportion of colonies showing new branches highlighted the importance of re-growth in the recovery process. The demographic projections obtained through stochastic models confirmed that the recovery rates of C. rubrum can be strongly modulated depending on harvesting procedures. …”
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MODEL OF TECTONIC EARTHQUAKE PREPARATION AND OCCURRENCE AND ITS PRECURSORS IN CONDITIONS OF CRUSTAL STRETCHING by R. M. Semenov, V. V. Kashkovsky, M. N. Lopatin

“…Different models have been proposed to describe earthquake preparation and occurrence, depending on the mechanisms and the rates of geodynamic processes. One of the models considers crustal stretching that is characteristic of formation of rift structures. …”
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Perioperative management with DMARDs in rheumatic diseases: a scoping review of clinical guidelines by Alice Terrett, Athena Chin, Mihye Kwon, Samuel Whittle, Catherine Hill

“…Abstract Objective Patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases have high rates of surgical procedures including joint replacements despite the use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). …”
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WHY CHANGE FAILS IN IT: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DIAGNOSIS OF SYSTEMIC FAILURE PATTERNS AND ROOT CAUSES by Галина Лучко, Олег Дугін

“… Organizational change in IT companies continues to fail at alarming rates, with reported failure frequencies ranging from 60% to 80% – despite decades of evolving change management methodologies. …”
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Automated multi-class MRI brain tumor classification and segmentation using deformable attention and saliency mapping by Erfan Zarenia, Amirhossein Akhlaghi Far, Khosro Rezaee

“…To improve tumor characterization, we applied data augmentation techniques to MR images and developed a hierarchical multiscale deformable attention module (MS-DAM). …”
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ELABORATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SURVEY OF WELLS WITH THE AID OF JET DEVICES AFTER HYDRAULIC FRACTURING by A. E. Verisokin, G. A. Shlein

“…The pressure build-up curve was processed at each well under study. The obtained data were processed by D. …”
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Effectiveness of surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Gustavo C Machado, Paulo H Ferreira, Ian A Harris, Marina B Pinheiro, Bart W Koes, Maurits van Tulder, Magdalena Rzewuska, Chris G Maher, Manuela L Ferreira

“…Decompression plus fusion is not more effective than decompression alone. Interspinous process spacer devices result in higher reoperation rates than bony decompression.…”
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SURVIVAL OUTCOMES OF AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN LYMPHOMA PATIENTS by Elif Yıldız, Güven Çetin, Özge Pasin

“…This study also aimed to compare these outcomes with survival and relapse rates reported in the literature, identifying potential areas for further investigation into the underlying causes of observed differences. …”
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INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 AFTER ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL AND HEREDITARY DISEASES OF HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM by O.P. Shevchenko, O.M. Tsirulnikova, A.V Bougrov, Y.E. Lourie, I.E. Tsirulnikova, D.S. Mnatsakanyan, O.E. Gichkun, S.V. Gautier

“…A year later concentrations of total and free IGF-1, and PAPP-A remained at normal rates. Increase of total and free IGF-1 after liver transplantation may contribute to restoration of endocrine regulation of growth, reparative and anabolic processes, and normal physical development of children.…”
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