HASTANELERDE MALİYET ANALİZİ: ANKARA’DA HİZMET SUNAN İKİNCİ BASAMAK BİR KAMU HASTANESİ’NDE UYGULAMA - COST ANALYSIS IN HOSPITALS: IMPLEMANTATION IN A SECOND LINE PUBLIC HOSPITAL PROVIDING SERVICES IN ANKARA by Sinem Mut, İsmail Ağırbaş

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Preseason Workload in Collegiate Baseball Pitchers by Bennett Tabaracci, Shraddha Sudhir, Matthew Gauthier, Lindsay Hannigan

“…# Background Upper extremity injuries are common in baseball spanning from youth through professional leagues, especially in preseason. …”
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Colorectal Cancer and Basement Membranes: Clinicopathological Correlations by Charalampos C. Mylonas, Andreas C. Lazaris

“…Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and the second in females. In 2008, an estimated 1.2 million people were diagnosed with and 608,700 people died of CRC. …”
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Survey of nutritional intake status in college baseball players by Yoko Iio, Hana Kozai, Mamoru Tanaka, Yukihiro Mori, Manato Seguchi, Yuka Aoyama, Morihiro Ito

“…The intake of several food groups appeared inadequate, such as potatoes, beans, vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk, and fats.Conclusions The study showed deficiencies in the amount of energy and nutrients such as protein, fat, and carbohydrate in college baseball players. Differences in the intake of carbohydrate, calcium, and insoluble dietary fiber among different performance levels were observed, with significantly higher intake of carbohydrate, calcium, and insoluble dietary fiber in the second team. …”
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Biology of Omaspides pallidipennis Boheman, 1854 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) by Paula A. A. Gomes, Fábio Prezoto, Fernando A. Frieiro-Costa

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An affine invariant approach for dense wide baseline image matching by Fanhuai Shi, Jian Gao, Xixia Huang

“…This article presents an affine invariant method to produce dense correspondences between uncalibrated wide baseline images. Under affine transformations, both point location and its neighborhood texture are changed between views, so dense matching becomes a tough task. …”
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Impact of Financial Literacy on Saving Decisions: Insight from Aseman Project Operated by Barkat Foundation by VAhid Moghadam, Hadi Amiri, Sahar Baharipour, Fatemeh Bagheri, Parisa GHasemian

“…This result provided support for the second hypothesis, demonstrating that membership in Aseman microfinance funds enhanced the participants' saving attitudes. …”
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A Case of Alport Syndrome with Posttransplant Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Disease despite Negative Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Antibodies by EIA Treated with Plasmapheres... by Sumiko I. Armstead, Thomas Hellmark, Jorgen Wieslander, Xin J. Zhou, Ramesh Saxena, Nilum Rajora

“…Posttransplant antiglomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease occurs in approximately 5% of Alport patients and usually ends in irreversible graft failure. …”
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Optimizing Nitrogen Management in Food and Energy Production and Environmental Protection: Summary Statement from the Second International Nitrogen Conference by Ellis Cowling, James Galloway, Cari Furiness, Mary Barber, Ton Bresser, Ken Cassman, Jan Willem Erisman, Richard Haeuber, Robert Howarth, Jerry Melillo, William Moomaw, Arvin Mosier, Kaj Sanders, Sybil Seitzinger, Stan Smeulders, Robert Socolow, Daniel Walters, Ford West, Zhaoliang Zhu

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An Online Map Matching Algorithm Based on Second-Order Hidden Markov Model by Xiao Fu, Jiaxu Zhang, Yue Zhang

“…Case study results show that the accuracy of the proposed algorithm outperforms the baseline algorithm built on the first-order HMM in various testing experiments.…”
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Second-line drug-resistant TB and associated risk factors in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan by S. Moe, I. Azamat, S. Allamuratova, M. Oluya, A. Khristusev, M.L. Rekart, K. Mamitova, G. Bidwell, C. Gomez-Restrepo, B. Kalmuratov, Z. Tigay, N. Parpieva, K. Safaev, N. Sitali, D. Gomez, A. Mikhail, A. Sinha

“…METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted using extensive programmatic data from 2019 to 2023 in Uzbekistan. We assessed second-line drug-resistant TB (SLDR-TB) rates using phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (pDST). …”
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Second-line treatment patterns and outcomes in advanced HCC after progression on atezolizumab/bevacizumab by Meng Wu, Claudia A.M. Fulgenzi, Antonio D’Alessio, Alessio Cortellini, Ciro Celsa, Giulia F. Manfredi, Bernardo Stefanini, Y. Linda Wu, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Anwaar Saeed, Angelo Pirozzi, Tiziana Pressiani, Lorenza Rimassa, Martin Schoenlein, Kornelius Schulze, Johann von Felden, Yehia Mohamed, Ahmed O. Kaseb, Arndt Vogel, Natascha Roehlen, Marianna Silletta, Naoshi Nishida, Masatoshi Kudo, Caterina Vivaldi, Lorenz Balcar, Bernhard Scheiner, Matthias Pinter, Amit G. Singal, Joshua Glover, Susanna Ulahannan, Fredrich Foerster, Arndt Weinmann, Peter R. Galle, Neehar D. Parikh, Wei-Fan Hsu, Alessandro Parisi, Hong Jae Chon, David J. Pinato, Celina Ang

“…Impact and implications:: There is currently a lack of level 1 data on second-line treatment options for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who progress after frontline atezolizumab plus bevacizumab, as all second-line approvals were established during the frontline sorafenib era. …”
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Racial Fault-lines in “Baseball’s Great Experiment:” Black Perceptions, White Reactions by Henry D. Fetter

“…By so doing, the paper will illuminate the fault-lines that characterized race relations within both the sport of baseball and the larger society as each was confronted with new challenges to long established policies and practices in the years after the Second World War.…”
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Multi-Smart Meter Data Encryption Scheme Basedon Distributed Differential Privacy by Renwu Yan, Yang Zheng, Ning Yu, Cen Liang

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A new phase of China-ASEAN health cooperation: the China-ASEAN Beijing Declaration on Cooperation in Innovation of Health Products and Technologies by Jie Qiao, Siyan Zhan, Minghui Ren, Haijun Wang, Yangmu Huang, Zhenyu Zhang, Yanan Luo, Hui Yin, Zhongwei Jia, Wei Huang, Hong Zhou, Jue Liu, Xiaoyun Liu, Qiudan Sun, Xiaojia Li, Jing Bai, Fangjing Liu, Yihong Liu, Yinzi Jin, Ming Xu, on behalf of China-ASEAN Science and Technology Cooperation Center for Public Health

“…The Center held the Second Annual Forum on China-ASEAN Cooperation in Public Health on June 26–28, 2024, and the participants reached consensus on launching the China-ASEAN Beijing Declaration on Cooperation in Innovation of Health Products and Technologies, which calls on China and ASEAN countries to carry out the following actions: (1) Establish a more effective, open, and inclusive cooperation mechanism for health product innovation towards a China-ASEAN innovation ecosystem; (2) Enhance R&D capabilities by targeting new technologies, methods and appropriate and affordable health products for key populations and addressing diseases prevalent in China and ASEAN; (3) Establish a China-ASEAN Collaboration Center for Health Product Innovation, coordinate regional development plans, and enhance equitable access to pharmaceutical products at the regional level; (4) Accelerate regulatory harmonization in the region by optimizing and improving regulatory modalities of China and ASEAN Countries; and (5) Strengthen cross-sectoral cooperation to build resilient health system and achieve sustainable development of innovation cooperation. …”
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Surgical Outcomes of a Second Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation in Asian Eyes with Refractory Glaucoma by Sze Chuan Ong, Maria Cecilia Aquino, Paul Chew, Victor Koh

“…We aim to evaluate the outcomes of a second AGV in Asian glaucoma. Material and Methods. …”
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Surgical Outcomes and Associated Morbidity of Active and Expectant Management of Second-Trimester Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) by Jessian L. Munoz, Rachel Counts, Amanda E. Lacue, Kayla E. Ireland, Patrick S. Ramsey, Kristyn Brandi

“…<i>Background and Objectives:</i> Management of second-trimester placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) is currently center-dependent with minimal evidence-based practices. …”
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Reliability of the Second and Third Iterations of the Sensory–Motor Dysfunction Questionnaire in a Subclinical Neck Pain Population by Ushani Ambalavanar, Heidi Haavik, Nitika Kumari, Imran Amjad, Nooshin Khobzi Rotondi, Bernadette Ann Murphy

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Calprotectin and Calgranulin C as Biomarkers of Pancreatic Tumors: Baseline Levels and Level Changes after Surgery by Michal Holub, Eva Bartáková, Alžběta Stráníková, Eva Koblihová, Simona Arientová, Marie Blahutová, Jan Máca, Miroslav Ryska

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Analysis of Multifrequency GNSS Signals and an Improved Single-Epoch RTK Method for Medium-Long Baseline by Jian Chen, Jiahui Wang, Kaikun Zhang, Wei Duan, Xingwang Zhao, Chao Liu

“…Second, the fixed WL ambiguities of Galileo and BDS are exploited to elevate the fixed rate of GPS WL ambiguity. …”
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