Prevalence of symptoms suggestive of sleep apnea among children and its impact on academic performance by Silvia D. Boyajian, Muna A. Salameh, Kholoud Alzyoud, Enas A. Amaireh, Lujayn Badah, Malek Al Qutami, Mira Alsharayri, Osama Abubaker, Rzan Shwashreh

“…The prevalence of OSA (defined as SRBD score > 33%) was reported as a proportion along with its 95% confidence interval. Results Out of the 2000 questionnaires distributed, 1798 were analyzed. …”
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Evaluating pre-processing and deep learning methods in medical imaging: Combined effectiveness across multiple modalities by Thien B. Nguyen-Tat, Tran Quang Hung, Pham Tien Nam, Vuong M. Ngo

“…The performance of these combinations was evaluated through experiments carried out on eight diverse and commonly used datasets encompassing various medical imaging modalities. …”
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Continuous overnight monitoring of body temperature during embryo transfer cycles as a proxy for establishing progesterone fluctuations by comparison with P4 blood progesterone res... by T.G. Knowles, J.A. García-Velasco, M. Toribio, N. Garrido, A.I. Barrio Pedraza, C. Colomé Rakosnik, A. Salazar Vera, R. Milnes

“…This established a strong linear relationship between LnP4 and ST, and cross correlation was carried out which identified the optimum predictor of levels of LnP4 was ST measured on the day prior to blood sampling. …”
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Efficacy of combined colorectal cancer treatment in senile patients by P. V. Tsarkov, D. R. Markaryan, V. M. Nekoval

“…The retrospective and prospective analysis of primary CRC patients, who were operated in The First Sechenov Moscow State Medical University and Petrovsky National Research Center of Surgery in April, 2006 to May, 2014 was carried out. Overall 122 patients with CRC of the II-IV stage of senile age were selected, whose mean age was 79 (75-95) years. …”
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Early weight gain after stopping smoking: a predictor of overall large weight gain? A single-site retrospective cohort study by Alexandra Pankova, Eva Kralikova, Kamila Zvolska, Lenka Stepankova, Milan Blaha, Petra Ovesna, Paul Aveyard

“…We examined whether early large postcessation weight gain predicts overall large weight gain.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Primary care setting—smoking cessation centre in Prague, Czech Republic.Participants Out of 3537 patients treated between 2005 and 2013, 1050 were continuous abstainers (verified by carbon monoxide measurement) at 1-year follow-up and formed the cohort of the current report. 48.7% were women (n=511) with the mean age of 46 (±14.4) years.Methods In this retrospective cohort study, all patients underwent usual tobacco dependence treatment using evidence-based methods. …”
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Clinical characteristics of patients with coronary artery disease by smoking status by Olga V. Nakhratova, Daria P. Tsygankova, Joseph M. Tsenter, Evgeny D. Bazdyrev

“…MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data of 381 patients with CAD hospitalized for routine myocardial revascularization were analyzed. Out of examined patients, 107 were considered active smokers. …”
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Bibliotherapy Services in Public Libraries: the Case of Lithuania by Jurgita Girčienė, Miglė Damijonaitytė

“…It was found that in most libraries, at least one bibliotherapy service is provided by their own staff. Out of them, slightly more than twice (both qualitatively and quantitatively) of services are attributable to passive bibliotherapy, exclusively covering an intrapersonal level of communication, based on recommendations of books to be read, which is traditionally more characteristic of these institutions, rather than those to be associated with its active variety, which includes an individual interaction of a reader with a librarian inspired by the read book, or a group one - with the members of the book club led by them that integrates an interpersonal level of communication as well. …”
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La atención de las necesidades educativas especiales y la labor docente en la escuela primaria / Response to Special Educational Needs and Teaching Efforts in Elementary School by Mayela Dabdub-Moreira, Alejandra Pineda-Cordero

“…To gather this information, interviews were carried out with fifteen first to sixth grade primary school teachers in a private elementary school in Moravia, Costa Rica. …”
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Sistem Object Tracking pada Quadcopter Menggunakan Segmentasi Citra dengan Deteksi Warna HSV dan Metode Regresi Linier Berbasis Raspberry Pi by Fahmi Erza, Hurriyatul Fitriyah, Eko Setiawan

“…Quadcopter technology can actually facilitate human work in monitoring and tracking, such as in the case of tracking the elderly or children with special needs automatically so that relatives can carry out surveillance using drones. So this research was planned to create a system on a drone so it can detect objects and follow them. …”
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Evaluasi SIMRS pada Manajemen Sumber Daya Manusia dengan Framework COBIT 5 by I Nyoman Angga Prabawa, I Made Oka Widyantara, Made Sudarma

“…The SIMRS evaluation is needed for each party involved in its implementation. It is carried out to measure the SIMRS implements and to ensure human resources involved have been well managed. …”
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Histological chorioamnionitis and its predictors among mothers with premature rupture of membranes delivering at tertiary hospitals in Uganda: a multicenter cross-sectional study by Ibrahim Abdi Abdinasir, Marie Pascaline Sabine Ishimwe, Maxwell Okello, Paul Byaruhanga, Ralph Samson Enyamitoit, Theoneste Hakizimana

“…Early initiation of treatment should be considered until the diagnosis is definitively ruled out. Further research is needed to explore the underlying causes of HCA to inform targeted preventive measures.…”
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Clinical Features and Prognosis of Double-Positive Anti-MDA5 and Anti-CCP Antibodies in Dermatomyositis: A Retrospective Study by Xu X, Zhu L, Li S, Wang G, Ge Y

“…Xiayu Xu,1 Longyang Zhu,2 Sizhao Li,3 Guochun Wang,3 Yongpeng Ge3 1Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan Province, People’s Republic of China; 2Peking University, China-Japan Friendship School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Rheumatology, The Key Laboratory of Myositis, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Yongpeng Ge, Department of Rheumatology, The Key Laboratory of Myositis, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, 100029, People’s Republic of China, Email [email protected]: To investigate the clinical features and prognosis of anti-melanoma differentiation-related gene 5 (MDA5) antibody and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody double-positive dermatomyositis (DM) (MDA5+/CCP+ DM).Methods: A retrospective analysis of 264 consecutive cases of MDA5+ DM hospitalized from March 2018 to March 2022, and patients with anti-CCP antibodies were screened out. Patients from MDA5+/CCP- served as the control. …”
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Implementasi Algoritme Clefia 128-Bit untuk Pengamanan Modul Komunikasi Lora by Muhammad Fadhli Iman, Ari Kusyanti, Rakhmadhanny Primananda

“…From the results of the tests carried out in the study, the Clefia 128-bit algorithm is proven to be able to prevent sniffing and known-plaintext-attack attacks. …”
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Pengembangan Sistem Manajemen Pelatihan Kerja di Kota Surakarta by Affriza Brilyan Relo Pambudi Agus Putra, Shelvie Nidya Neyman, Hendra Rahmawan

“…The agencies involved in the job training program do not yet have a strategic plan and some business processes are carried out manually. Seeing the condition of the problem, it is necessary to have a system development plan for government agencies (in this case the related Office). …”
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Impacts of National Reimbursement Drug Price Negotiation on drug accessibility, utilization, and cost in China: a systematic review by Zheng Zhu, Jiawei Zhang, Zhihu Xu, Quan Wang, Yu Qi, Li Yang

“…The published studies indicated the implementation of the NRDPN policy decreased drug prices, ranging from 24 to 72%, which increased the affordability of success-negotiated drugs (refer to those medications that have undergone a successful price negotiation process between pharmaceutical companies and healthcare authorities) and decreased out-of-pocket expenditures. The availability rate increased form 27% to 47%. …”
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Association between Dysfunctional Beliefs and Coping Strategy among Persons Suffering from Substance Use Disorder by Prosenjit Ghosh, Saptarshi Paul Choudhury, Subho Panja

“…Aims and Objectives: This study was done to evaluate the various sociodemographic variables and illness parameters in persons with substance use disorder and their association with important subscales of COPE, to find out the association between DAS and COPE and also to assess the dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes in persons with SUD and the coping methods used in terms of stress. …”
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The effect of bacterial overgrowth syndrome and bacterial translocation on the course of liver cirrhosis by M. S. Zharkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…For diagnostics of bacterial overgrowth syndrome in the bowel hydrogen breath test was carried out. Possible bacterial translocation from intestine to ascitic fluid was assessed by the presence of bacterial DNA by PCR method. …”
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Klasifikasi Teks Hadis Bukhari Terjemahan Indonesia Menggunakan Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (CRNN) by Muhammad Yuslan Abu Bakar, Adiwijaya Adiwijaya

“…While Recurrent Neural Networks are used as a classification method by carrying out capabilities that can be used as very long contextual information specifically on sequential data such as text data by relying on the ‘memory’ it has. …”
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Impacts of Dryopteris serrato-dentata (Beddome) Hayata (Dhekishak) and Blumealacera DC. (Shialmutra) on rice and weed as growth inhibitor: an evaluation through the use of manure a... by Md. Tutul Hossen, Md. Liton Mia, Uttam Kumer Sarker, Ahmed Khairul Hasan, Md. Abdus Salam, Md. Shafiqul Islam

“…., manures and fertilizers (t ha−1): Control (R1), Residues1.5 + Cowdung 5 (R2), Residues1.5 + Cowdung 2.5 + 50% of recommended dose Fertilizer (R3), Residues 1.5 + Vermicompost 5 (R4), Residues 1.5 + Vermicompost 2.5 + 50% of recommended dose Fertilizer (R5), Residues 1.5 + Trichocompost 10 (R6) and Residues 1.5 + Trichocompost 5 + 50% of recommended dose Fertilizer (R7) and was laid out in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. …”
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Analisis Sentimen Wacana Pemindahan Ibu Kota Indonesia Menggunakan Algoritma Support Vector Machine (SVM) by Primandani Arsi, Retno Waluyo

“…The classification technique is carried out into 2 classes, namely positive and negative. …”
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