The Association of Economic Outcome and Geriatric Syndromes among Older Adults with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) by Min Ji Kwak, Rafia Rasu, Robert O. Morgan, Jessica Lee, Nahid J. Rianon, Holly M. Holmes, Abhijeet Dhoble, Dae Hyun Kim

“…From a multivariable generalized linear regression, delirium increased the cost by 31.5% (95% CI 25.41~37.92) and LOS by 70.3% (95% CI 60.20~83.38). …”
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Evaluating attachment-based family therapy in residential treatment in the United States: does adolescents’ increased attachment security to caregivers lead to decreases in depress... by Guy Diamond, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Jody Russon, Michael Roeske

“…Results The results generally supported hypotheses. Attachment insecurity and depressive symptoms improved over the five weeks of treatment. …”
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Practice patterns on the management of secondary hyperparathyroidism in the United States: Results from a modified Delphi panel. by David E Henner, Beatrice Drambarean, Teresa M Gerbeling, Jessica B Kendrick, William T Kendrick, Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, Thomas L Nickolas, Anjay Rastogi, Anis A Rauf, Brenda Dyson, Michael C Singer, Pooja Desai, Kathleen M Fox, Sunfa Cheng, William Goodman

“…<h4>Results</h4>Panelists generally agreed with KDIGO recommendations, with some differences. …”
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Diurnal Variation of Chemical Characteristics and Source Identification of Fine Particles in the Kaohsiung Harbor by Yu-Lun Tseng, Kwok-Wai Wong, Chung-Shin Yuan, Chitsan Lin

“…The V/Ni ratios of PM2.5 in the Kaohsiung Harbor were generally higher than 2.0. Organic carbon (OC) was superior to elemental carbon (EC) in PM2.5 with the dominance of secondary OC (SOC). …”
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AN EXAMINATION OF CONJUGATIONAL SUFFIXES OF PASSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN FULFULDE by YAHAYA MOHAMMED AHMED

“…According to Khumalo, (2007) passivization is generally, the promotion to grammatical subject of an object NP. …”
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Spatial correlations and risk transmission of virtual water flow at city scale: A case study of the Yellow River Basin by Jingjing Yang, Zhong Ma, Weijing Ma, Xingxing Niu, Ting Mao

“…Notably, the Ningxia Urban Agglomeration (NUA) demonstrates significantly higher VW impact and sensitivity coefficients values than the remaining six urban agglomerations. First-tier cities generally display lower virtual water impact and sensitivity coefficients, whereas emerging cities exhibit the opposite trend. …”
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La Investigación en la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad de Costa Rica by Magda Cecilia Sandí Sandí, Rebecca Vargas Bolaños

“…Se presentan los resultados generales de la investigación y las proyecciones futuras.…”
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Epilepsy and Child History in Dr. Jamal Ahmad Rashid Pediatric Teaching Hospital Sulaymaniyah /Iraq by Awayi Ghazy Abdulkareem

“…The results of survey also showed that most of the children were diagnosed between ages one to five while most of the samples have a generalized seizure. On the other hand, there was a statistical significant association between febrile convulsion and family history of epilepsy depending. …”
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Corn tolerance to florpyrauxifen-benzyl rates and its mixture with atrazine and mesotrione by Amar S. Godar, Jason K. Norsworthy, L. Tom Barber

“…The levels of early injury were largely sustained at 7 WAA, with a few instances of recovery, particularly with a mixture of florpyrauxifen-benzyl at 7.5 g ae ha-1 with the full rate of atrazine. Corn yield loss generally surpassed the respective injury levels. The yield loss was overall the least in 2020 (8 to 46%) and most severe in 2021 (26 to 93%), largely depending on florpyrauxifen-benzyl rates. …”
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The effect of maintenance therapy on Crohn’s disease clinical outcomes by O. B. Schukina, E. A. Kondrashina, A. M. Kharitidis, Ye. G. Vepreva, A. G. Kharitonov, A. Yu. Baranovsky

“…«The steroid-sparing effect» of immunosuppressors was observed generally in all patients with inflammatory form of disease, which provided reduction of steroid dependency rate by 17%. …”
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Accuracy of administrative data for surveillance of healthcare-associated infections: a systematic review by Karel G M Moons, Marc J M Bonten, Maaike S M van Mourik, Pleun Joppe van Duijn, Grace M Lee

“…Observed sensitivity and positive predictive values of administrative data algorithms for HAI detection were very heterogeneous and generally modest at best, both for within-hospital algorithms and for formal quality indicators; accuracy was particularly poor for the identification of device-associated HAI such as central line associated bloodstream infections. …”
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Effect of Cocoa (<i>Theobroma cacao</i>) Plantation Types on the Distribution of Anuran Communities in Ore, Ondo State, Nigeria by AB Onadeko

“…Diversity indices (Shannon and Margalef) showed that the forest sites had the greatest (3.204 and 4.799) respectively while the pesticide using pure  cocoa farms had the least (1.853 and 2.072). Generally, the result of the study clearly indicated that pesticide use cocoa farms were significantly lower  compared to other sites. …”
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Direction-Specific Signatures of Sport Participation in Center of Pressure Profiles of Division I Athletes by Stephen M. Glass, Scott E. Ross

“…# Background Descriptive and comparative studies of human postural control generally report effects for component or resultant dimensions of a measured signal, which may obscure potentially important information related to off-cardinal directionality. …”
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CAMBIOS EN LA ACTIVIDAD ENZIMÁTICA EN DUODENO Y YEYUNO DE CERDOS DURANTE VARIOS PERIODOS POSDESTETE by D. Ospina, J. Ciro, Y. Román, C. Peláez, A. López, J. Parra

“…El análisis de la actividad enzimática (APN, DPP-IV, LPH, MGA y SI) se realizómediante el método de velocidades iniciales y el diseño estadístico que se empleófue completamente al azar, no obstante, los datos se analizaron mediante la aplicaciónde los modelos lineales generales (GLM) y de la prueba de duncan. Resultados:se evidencia que las enzimas presentaron diferencias (P < 0,01) durante los periodosposdestete. …”
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Minimization of the Bacillus subtilis divisome suggests FtsZ and SepF can form an active Z-ring, and reveals the amino acid transporter BraB as a new cell division influencing fact... by Ilkay Celik Gulsoy, Terrens N V Saaki, Michaela Wenzel, Simon Syvertsson, Taku Morimoto, Tjalling K Siersma, Leendert W Hamoen

“…Assembly of FtsZ is carefully regulated and supported by a dozen conserved cell division proteins. Generally, these proteins are not essential, but removing more than one is in many cases lethal. …”
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Assessment of Malaysia-wide PM2.5 Forecasts from a Global Model by Zhixian Tan, Mohd Talib Latif, Matthew J. Ashfold

“…We found that cycle 46r1 CAMS-GACF performance in Malaysia was generally weaker (critical success index (CSI) = 31%, R2 = 0.36) than reported in other studies (CSI = 20–54%, R2 = 0.32–0.79) focused on other countries, across multiple metrics in both analyses. …”
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Some complex probabilistic hesitant fuzzy aggregation operators and their applications to multi-attribute decision making by Yanpo Yang, Baoquan Ning, Fengjuan Tian, Guihui Lu

“…Abstract As a generalization of complex fuzzy set (CFS), complex hesitation fuzzy set (CHFS) is a powerful tool to express two-dimensional fuzzy information, but it ignores the randomness that exists widely in real life. …”
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The role of music performance anxiety in musical training: four personal histories by Oscar Casanova, María Elena Riaño, Francisco Javier Zarza-Alzugaray, Santos Orejudo

“…However, to mitigate MPA, our informants generally recommend more rational strategies: a realistic focus on objectives coupled with reinforcement of self-esteem. …”
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Clinicians’ experience with infographic summaries from the BMJ Rapid Recommendations: a qualitative user-testing study among residents and interns at a large teaching hospital in S... by Thomas Agoritsas, Per Vandvik, Tiffany Hirschel

“…Plain language summaries helped complement the visuals but could be further highlighted. Despite their generally positive experience, several users had limited understanding of key GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) domains of the quality of evidence and remained uncertain by the implication of weak or conditional recommendations.Conclusion Our study allowed to identify several aspects of guideline formats that improve their understandability and usefulness. …”
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Asking an AI for salary negotiation advice is a matter of concern: Controlled experimental perturbation of ChatGPT for protected and non-protected group discrimination on a context... by R Stuart Geiger, Flynn O'Sullivan, Elsie Wang, Jonathan Lo

“…Our epistemology does not permit us to definitively certify these models as either generally biased or unbiased on the attributes we test, but our study raises matters of concern for stakeholders to further investigate.…”
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