Real-World Treatment Patterns in Men with Castration- Resistant Prostate Cancer Receiving Docetaxel by Keith L. Davis, Benjamin Gutierrez, Teresa Zyczynski, James A. Kaye

“…To help understand these patterns, a retrospective study was conducted and is reported here. **Methods:** Medical records from 394 patients treated in the United States were reviewed. …”
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“I definitely cannot afford to be feeling poorly if there’s no need to be”: a qualitative evaluation of antiviral uptake following suspected occupational exposure to avian influenz... by Riinu Pae, Lucy Findlater, Richard Amlôt, Fernando Capelastegui, Gavin Dabrera, Clare Humphreys, Jharna Kumbang, Isabel Oliver

“…Methods We interviewed 14 individuals occupationally exposed to avian influenza and conducted focus groups with 15 public health professionals involved in advising and arranging antivirals. …”
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Effect of Boundary Layer Evolution on Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Formaldehyde (HCHO) Concentrations at a High-altitude Observatory in Western India by Mriganka Sekhar Biswas, G. Pandithurai, M. Y. Aslam, Rohit D. Patil, V. Anilkumar, Shrikant D. Dudhambe, Christophe Lerot, Isebelle De Smedt, Michel Van Roozendael, Anoop S. Mahajan

“…This study reports observations of NO2 and HCHO using the Multi AXis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) technique at the High Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory (HACPL), Mahabaleshwar in the rural Western Ghats region of India. Measurements were conducted during the pre-monsoon season between 25th April and 30th May 2018. …”
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Clinico-spirometrical correlation of newly detected COPD patients with known tobacco smoking exposure or biomass smoke exposure presenting to a teaching institution in Vadodara, Gu... by Bhavesh Patel, G Mothiganesh, Arti D. Shah, Chirag H. Chakravarti, Parshwa Naik, Princee Patel

“…Materials and Methods: The Department of Respiratory Medicine conducted an observational cross-section study on individuals with recently discovered COPD. …”
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Limited transmission of avian influenza viruses, avulaviruses, coronaviruses and Chlamydia sp. at the interface between wild birds and a free-range duck farm by Chloé Le Gall-Ladevèze, Benjamin Vollot, Julien Hirschinger, Laëtitia Lèbre, Rachid Aaziz, Karine Laroucau, Jean-Luc Guérin, Mathilde Paul, Julien Cappelle, Guillaume Le Loc’h

“…From 2019 through 2021, a longitudinal study was conducted on wild birds, domestic ducks and their shared environment on farms. …”
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Strategic control of excess tellurium to achieve high figure-of-merit in Te-rich Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 by Ranu Bhatt, Rishikesh Kumar, Pramod Bhatt, Pankaj Patro, Shovit Bhattacharya, Mani Navaneethan, Soumen Samanta, Ajay Singh

“…The cumulative effect of drastically reduced thermal conductivity (κ ~ 0.8 W/m-K at 300 K), and enhanced power factor resulted in a record zT value ~ 2.2 at 300 K in Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 + 5 wt% Te, with an average zT value up to 1.35 in temperatures ranging from 303 to 573 K. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of burn-out among Nigerian medical doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study by Ruth Eshikotse Pius, Janet Ngozi Ajuluchukwu, Alero Ann Roberts

“…This study aims to examine the level of burn-out among Nigerian medical doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic and explore possible associations between burn-out and sociodemographic, work-related and COVID-19-related factors.Methodology A cross-sectional study was conducted among 251 medical doctors in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria. …”
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A Clinical Study on Functional Outcome of Percutaneous Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy under Local Anesthesia by Suryansh Nema, Varun Kumar Agarwal

“…Materials and Methods: This interventional study was conducted between November 2020 and October 2021 in our Orthopaedics Department after the clearance of the Ethical Committee. …”
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Clinical and Cost Burden of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: Descriptive Analysis Using a US Administrative Claims Database by Sue Perera, Liyuan Ma, Raj Punwaney, Sulabha Ramachandran

“…**Methods:** This was a retrospective cohort study (HO-15-16077) conducted in the US Truven MarketScan Commercial database. …”
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MLHI-Net: multi-level hybrid lightweight water body segmentation network for urban shoreline detection by Jianhua Ye, Pan Li, Yunda Zhang, Ze Guo, Shoujin Zeng, Youji Zhan

“…To validate the proposed methodology, a dataset, CityWater, was constructed, with multiple fields and climatic conditions, and a substantial number of experiments were conducted on this and other public datasets. Experimental results show that MLHI-Net outperforms other advanced segmentation networks in Mean Intersection over Union (MIoU) and Pixel Accuracy (PA) on the CityWater and USVInland datasets, with MIoU of 97.86% and PA of 98.92% on the CityWater dataset, and MIoU of 98.12% and PA of 99.10% on the USVInland dataset. …”
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Exploring knowledge, attitudes, practices, and determinants regarding emergency contraception use among female university students in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo: a cros... by Patricia Lukusa Mishika, Olivier Mukuku, Amos Kamundu, Kaymarlin Govender, Stanislas Okitotsho Wembonyama, André Kabamba Mutombo

“…Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 677 female students from two universities in Goma who were selected via a cluster sampling method. …”
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The Role of Sulfur Emission from the Petroleum Industry on Ultrafine Particle Number Concentration in Singapore by Suyi Hou, Weihan Li, Liudongqing Yang, Guorong Chen, Yilin Zhang, Mikinori Kuwata

“…To identify the sources of ultrafine particles, a year-long observation of the number size distribution was conducted in Singapore in 2018 and 2019. The concentrations of CO, CO2, CH4, and SO2 were also monitored. …”
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma From 2000 to 2022 by TAN Meijuan, YANG Shijie, XU Xiequn

“…Cite Space 5.7.R5 software was employed to conduct cluster analysis and explosive keyword detection on co-cited literature.ResultsA total of 4866 MTC related literature (3688 articles and 918 reviews) were obtained. …”
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Estimating the safe mud weight window for drilling operations through pre-stack seismic inversion, a case study in one of the Southwestern Iran oil fields by Mohammad Sadegh Mahmoudian, Yousef Shiri, Ahmad Vaezian

“…The pre-stack seismic inversion is conducted by constructing a velocity model and utilizing angle gather aggregation, statistical wavelet extraction, and initial model creation. …”
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Cost-Minimization Analysis for Subcutaneous Daratumumab in the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma in Three Gulf Countries by Anas Hamad, Shereen Elazzazy, Ruba Y. Taha, Hani Osman, Sana Alblooshi, Islam Elkonaissi, Mustaqeem A. Siddiqui, Khalil Al-Farsi, Mohammed Al Lamki, Sali Emara, Gihan H. Elsisi

“…One-way sensitivity analyses were also conducted. **Results:** The model showed that the use of dara-SC in NDMM patients who were eligible or ineligible for ASCT resulted in lower non-drug costs, including premedication drug costs, adverse-effect costs, administration costs, medical staff costs, and indirect costs. …”
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The Relationship of Body Composition and Sleep Quality with VO2max in Adolescent Athletes at Sidoarjo Sports High School and Sewon 1 High School by Fathirani Mutiara, Rahadyana Muslichah, Mirza Hapsari Sakti Titis Penggalih

“…Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 106 athletes selected by purposive sampling. …”
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Challenges and Barriers of Online Teaching: Perspective of Faculty in a Private Medical College of Lahore by Naureen Omar, Ifra Aslam, Syeda Mahnoor Nadeem, Ramsha Batool, Umbreen Navied, Muhammad Subhan Feroze

“…Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted from Sep-Dec, 2021 in FMH College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore. …”
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A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study integrating genome-wide association studies, expression quantitative trait locus, and methylation quantitative trait locus data reveal... by Zhou An, Meichun Zeng, Xianhua Wang

“…Methods: Two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of smoking and Barrett’s esophagus. …”
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Hemorrhagic syndrome at liver cirrhosis by I. A. Kurkina, O. S. Volkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Active search of the laboratory methods is conducted, allowing to estimate the risk of bleeding in liver cirrhosis patients. …”
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HISS: Snakemake-based workflows for performing SMRT-RenSeq assembly, AgRenSeq and dRenSeq for the discovery of novel plant disease resistance genes by Thomas M. Adams, Moray Smith, Yuhan Wang, Lynn H. Brown, Micha M. Bayer, Ingo Hein

“…Results Here we present HISS, consisting of three workflows which take a user from raw RenSeq reads to the identification of candidates for disease resistance genes. These workflows conduct the assembly of enriched HiFi reads from an accession with the resistance phenotype of interest. …”
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