A current analysis of caregivers’ approaches to fever and antipyretic usage by Meltem Polat, Soner Kara, Hasan Tezer, Anıl Tapısız, Okşan Derinöz, Anıl Dolgun

“…Introduction: The aim of this survey was to investigate the current knowledge, attitudes, and practices of febrile children’s caregivers about fever, antipyretic usage, and temperature measurement methods in a tertiary care hospital. Methodology: A 41-item questionnaire was administered to a convenience sample of febrile children’s caregivers in face-to-face interviews by two research assistants from January 2012 through June 2012 in an urban region of Turkey. …”
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HLA antibodies and their value during renal transplantation by M. Sh. Khubutia, N. V. Borovkova, R. V. Storozhev, N. V. Doronina, M. V. Storozheva, A. S. Pertsev, A. V. Pinchuk

“…Objective: to evaluate the effects of pre-existing HLA antibodies on the posttransplantation period and to study changes in the generation of donor-specific antibodies in recipients after allogeneic cadaveric kidney transplantation.Materials and methods. One hundred and ten serum samples from patients on the kidney transplantation waiting list (WL) were tested for pre-existing HLA antibodies. …”
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Intelligent surgical drainage - digitizing the analysis of drainage fluid in patients with surgical drains. by Anastasia Meckler, Sebastian Künert, Leonardo Poggi, Julia Jeske, Lukas Schipper, Thanusiah Selvamoorthy, Felix Nensa, Bernadette Hosters, Michael Fabian Berger, Ramsi Siaj, Mario Vincent Roser

“…This study demonstrates the potential of mini-spectrometers integrated into surgical drains to improve post-operative drainage management, potentially offering faster, more reliable analyses compared to traditional methods.…”
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Genetic heterogeneity of congenital cerebral palsy and the concept of the neurotropic genome by P. L. Sokolov, N. V. Chebanenko, A. G. Prityko, P. A. Romanov

“…Genetic mutations were confirmed by the methods of next generation sequencing (NGS) in the study of venous blood samples. …”
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Physical condition preparation of combat sport athletes for fighting simulation in experimental research: coach perspective analysis by Trisnar Adi Prabowo

“…The sample is 10 coaches represented by 2 coaches each from karate, judo, taekwondo, boxing, and pencak silat. …”
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Comparison between Thai and Indian Adolescents’ Self-Figure Drawing as Child Abuse Art-Based Assessment by Nisara Jaroenkajornkij, Meghna Girish, Bussakorn Binson, Rachel Lev-Wiesel

“…The research aims to understand the extent to which distinctions or similarities arise in Self-Figure drawings among adolescents from two culturally similar yet distinct backgrounds characterized by differences in religious affiliations, socioeconomic contexts, and political environments. Methods: Employing a mixed-methods approach, the study utilized quantitative measures, including the Traumatic Events Checklist (TEQ-5) and Medical Somatic Dissociation Questionnaire (MSDQ), alongside a qualitative analysis of Self-Figure drawings. …”
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PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND ITS EFFECTS ON DEVELOPING WRITING SKILLS IN BUSINESS ENGLISH STUDENTS by Cristina-Laura ABRUDAN

“…Nowadays probably more than ever, communication has reached an unprecedented level. …”
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Clinical study status of diabetic gastrointestinal diseases by Xuechun Fan, Yanyan Wang, Jingsi Cao, Jing Yu, Jiaxing Tian, Jia Mi

“…In addition, most studies were small sample sizes (≤100), randomized parallel controlled trials and 69.01% of the studies used different methods of blinding. …”
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Designing a Development Model for the Healthcare System in Iran by Hossein Dargahi, Ahmad Arabkhani, Raheb Ghorbani, Israfil Roshdi

“…Therefore, the present study aimed to design a development model for the healthcare system in Iran. Materials and Methods: This study with a mixed-methods research was in 2020-22 fulfilled cross-sectionally. …”
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Analyzing teachers’ scripts from teachers’ reflections after they tried to encourage students’ flexible mathematical thinking by Joona Moberg, Minna Hannula-Sormunen, Markus Hähkiöniemi, Erno Lehtinen

“…The results suggest that the analytic framework developed is functional and robust, paving the way for future investigations with larger samples. This study provided a more profound understanding of how online in-service education can support teachers to develop scripts supporting their competences to teach mathematical flexibility.  …”
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Adaptive Deeping Siamese Residual Network: A Novel Model for Few-Shot Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Yonghua Jiang, Maoli Lu, Zhilin Dong, Zhichao Jiang, Weidong Jiao, Chao Tang, Jianfeng Sun, Zhongyi Xuan

“…However, in practical applications, bearing fault samples are relatively scarce, and the availability of samples for effective model training is even more limited, leading to the suboptimal performance of traditional deep learning methods in bearing fault diagnosis. …”
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Machine Learning Analysis of Arterial Oscillograms for Depression Level Diagnosis in Cardiovascular Health by Vladislav Kaverinsky, Dmytro Vakulenko, Liudmyla Vakulenko, Kyrylo Malakhov

“…Through dimensionality reduction using UMAP, two distinct classes emerged, categorized as lighter and more severe cases. Utilizing machine learning methods, an automated classifier was developed based on correlated ULF indicators, which led to improved classification accuracy. …”
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A Study on the Correlation between C-Reactive Protein Concentration and Teeth with a ≥5 mm Periodontal Pocket in Chronic Periodontitis Patients by Hee-Yung Chang, A-Reum Kim, Sung-Hee Pi, Hyung-Keun You

“…Statistically, patients with a high rate of teeth diagnosed with severe periodontitis are more likely to have higher hs-CRP level. Conclusion. …”
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Is dry needling an effective treatment for tennis elbow? A literature review by Filip Grabowski, Natalia Rulewska, Dagmara Neska, Jakub Siemko, Jakub Chodkowski, Dominika Prystacka-Szar, Justyna Stadler-Szajda, Adrianna Czyżnikiewicz, Wenancjusz Stołowski, Magdalena Bujak, Magdalena Waśniowska

“…Conclusion: Dry needling has shown success in relieving symptoms of chronic lateral epicondylosis that haven't improved with standard therapies. This method is safe, cost-effective, and can be carried out by practitioners skilled in upper extremity anatomy and rehabilitation, but further extensive research with larger sample sizes, randomization, and control groups is needed to more accurately assess the effectiveness of dry needling for treating tendinopathies. …”
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The analysis of the notions of Russian school principals about digital transformation by A. A. Deryabin, I. E. Boytsov, A. A. Popov, P. D. Rabinovich, K. E. Zavedensky, I. S. Tsarkov

“…Consequently, the provision of educational achievements and students’ personal development are largely not perceived by principles of Russian schools as a priority management task.Scientific novelty of the present research lies in the attempt to answer the question of how systematically the digital transformation of the principle is perceived, to apply DigCompOrg to the assessment of these categories by the European Framework of technologically competent educational organisations, as well as to use natural language processing methods to process text answers to open-ended questions of the questionnaire, which made it possible to obtain results on a large sample with wide geographical coverage.Practical significance. …”
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The effect of ultrasonic waves on the amount of total coliform and E-coli in municipal wastewater sludge by Farshad Golbabaei Kootenaei, Nasser Mehrdadi, Mahdi Asadi-Ghalhari, Gholamreza Nabi Bidhendi, Hassan Amini Rad

“…All bacteriological tests were conducted using the MPN method in a few steps of possibility, confirmation and completion and they were performed using 15 tube methods with units of MPN per 100 ml. …”
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Influence of dimethylpolysiloxane addition to frying oils: performance of sunflower oil in discontinuous and continuous laboratory frying by N. Jorge, G. Márquez-Ruiz, M. Martín-Polvillo, M. V. Ruiz-Mendez, M. C. Dobarganes

“…Results indicated that DMPS has a strong positive action in discontinuous frying as differences between samples with and without DMPS were very high and much more pronounced than those attributed to oil unsaturation. …”
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Social Media Advertising and Customer Behavior among Commercial Radio Stations In Kabale Municipality, Uganda by Kanyesigye, Nick, Mwazuna, Alice Ngele, Asiimwe, Judith Bijurenda

“…A cross-sectional mixed-methods design was adopted, targeting a sample of 196 respondents from a total population of 400, comprising radio administrators, presenters and listeners. …”
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An IoT intrusion detection framework based on feature selection and large language models fine-tuning by Huan Ma, Wan Zhang, Dalong Zhang, Baozhan Chen

“…This algorithm utilizes the CMA-ES algorithm for feature search while also taking into account the mutual information and collinearity among features, thereby more effectively reducing redundancy features. Subsequently, we employ the selected representative features to fine-tune LLMs and generate additional attack samples. …”
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Methylation detection in percutaneous lung biopsy preservation fluid: a new strategy to improve lung cancer diagnosis by Guang Yang, Kai Feng, Qing Tian, Yanhong Yang, Wenhao Wang, Huining Liu

“…IntroductionLung cancer is a significant global health threat, particularly in China, where it has high incidence and mortality rates. Current diagnostic methods face challenges, especially in obtaining sufficient tissue samples for accurate diagnosis. …”
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