Business Intelligence Model of Regional Hospitals using HGOD Discovery by Hengki Hengki, Rahmat Gernowo, Oky Dwi Nurhayati

“…Based on data from the Regional General Hospital in the Bangka Belitung Islands province, the Gross Death Rate (GDR) is the general death rate for every 1000 patients discharged of 108,430 compared to the health department standard of <45. …”
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Drug Insurance and Psoriasis Severity: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Laurence Mainville, Hélène Veillette, Paul R. Fortin

“…The type of drug insurance may have a negative impact on access to treatment for patients covered by public plans compared with private plans. **Objectives:** In patients with psoriasis treated with advanced therapy in public vs private drug insurance groups, we compared: (1) psoriasis severity scores when an advanced therapy was prescribed, (2) psoriasis severity scores at follow-up, (3) treatment response, and (4) delay between prescription and first dose of advanced therapy. …”
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Efficacy of SG Shield in reducing droplet contamination during collection of oropharyngeal swab culture specimens by Phui-Sze Angie Au-Yong, Xuanxuan Chen, Wen Hao Low, Keen Chong Chau, Stephanie Fook-Chong, Shariq Ali Khan

“…Results: The SG Shield significantly reduced droplet dispersion to 0% compared to the controls (99.0%, P = 0.001). The face shield also significantly reduced droplet contamination but to a lesser extent (80.0%) compared to the control group (P = 0.001). …”
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Transanal Irrigation for Managing Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction in Japan by Atsushi Sengoku, Shinichi Noto, Masashi Nomi, Anton Emmanuel, Tatsunori Murata, Toshiki Mimura

“…In the model, SCI patients using TAI due to NBD were compared with SCI patients not responding to TAI and continuing with SBC. …”
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A flexible way to study composites in ecology using structural equation modeling by Xi Yu, Florian Schuberth, Jörg Henseler

“…Consequently, this specification allows for a more in-depth model assessment. Compared to the one-step approach, the H–O specification offers more modeling flexibility. …”
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Enhanced genome editing with a Streptococcus equinus Cas9 by Jingtong Liu, Yao Wang, Jingjing Wei, Shengzhou Wang, Miaomiao Li, Zheyong Huang, Sufang Zhang, Huihui Liu, Jinhai Huang, Yongming Wang

“…Four of the tested orthologs displayed enhanced specificity compared to SpCas9. Of particular interest is SeqCas9, which recognizes a simple NNG PAM and displays activity and specificity comparable to SpCas9-HF1. …”
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Adulthood consequences of spinal deformity surgeries in neurofibromatosis type 1 patients by Arihiko Tsukamoto, Koki Uno, Teppei Suzuki, Masaaki Ito, Keita Nakashima, Kenichiro Kakutani, Yoshiki Takeoka

“…X-rays, surgery, complications, survival rate, employment status, and married rate were evaluated. HR-QOL was compared with those of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis(AIS) operated in our hospital. …”
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Laser Based ¹³C-urea Breath Test in Quantitative Assessment of Bacterial Colonization, Severity of Inflammation and Atrophy in Gastric Mucosa by E. V. Stepanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Aim: to compare the results of 13C-UBT with the data of morphological analysis of the gastric and duodenal mucosa obtained during gastroduodenoscopy in gastritis and peptic ulcer. …”
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Onward Christian soldiers! Christians in the army by A. van de Beek

“… On the topic of Christians in the army, the author compares two traditions in Christian theology, one of which being Eusebius. …”
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Enhanced zebra optimization algorithm and applications of power allocation in SDWN by LI Jiajia, DONG Ligang, JIANG Xian

“…Experimental results demonstrate that EZOA exhibits superior competitiveness compared to six other well-established algorithms on the IEEE CEC 2014 benchmark function set. …”
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Stable Isotope Characteristics of Akiri Vein Copper Mineralization, Nasarawa, Nigeria by IO Folorunso, RB Bale, JID Adekeye

“…Carbon and oxygen isotope analyses of Akiri siderite range between δ13C values (-1.05 to -1.71‰) and δ13O values (-14.94 to -15.18) respectively. δ 13C isotopic composition is comparable to values expected for Cretaceous marine carbonates. …”
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Paul and sophistic rhetoric: a perspective on his argumentation in the Letter to the Galations by J. S. de Vos

“…To that end, some models which start from a ‘Platonic’ view of rhetoric are compared with a model which combines a ‘(neo-)sophistic’ or constructionist view with a ‘rhetoric of power.’ …”
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Optimal Load Dispatch for Hydro Power Plants. by Nkwasibwe Wilber

“…The solution is obtained by comparing the amount of water discharged by each generating unit for the old approach currently being used by power plant operators and after comparing, a new approach is suggested in this report for optimization. …”
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Systemic delivery of AAV5, AAV8, and AAV9 packaging a C5-12-microdystrophin-FLAG expression cassette in non-human primates by Mengping Liu, Erica Cook, Yanshan Dai, Erich Ehlert, Francois du Plessis, Jacek Lubelski, Bogdan G. Sleczka, Petia Shipkova, Zhuyin Li, Joshua Gamse, David Gordon, Leonard P. Adam, Paul C. Levesque, Glen B. Banks

“…The C5-12 promoter was highly selective for heart and skeletal muscles, when compared to off-target tissues such as peripheral blood mononuclear cells, lung, liver, and kidney. …”
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Russian-Persian Schools as an Element of Imperial Russia’s Soft Power Policy in Northern Persia: Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries by Vladimir O. Kulakov

“…Analytical and generalization methods — with comparative into historiographic and archival materials — have proved most instrumental therein. …”
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The impact of death and caring for the dying and their families on surgeons - an AI assisted systematic scoping review by Jun Rong Tan, Yun Ting Ong, Victoria Jia En Fam, Annushkha Sinnathamby, Nila Ravindran, Yaoyi Ng, Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna

“…The need for effective longitudinal and personalized assessment tools is clear.…”
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Prophylactic antibiotics in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Reducing postoperative infection risk–A meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis by Shufeng Wang, Qing Gao, Xiaogang Qi, Lihua Hong, Hai Huang

“…Studies involving low-risk patients and those with acute cholecystitis inclusion did not demonstrate a clear advantage in SSI reduction with prophylactic antibiotics. …”
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Effect of Wheat Germ on Quality of Wheat Bread Dough by Lehat Yousif M. Noori, Dler Amin Sabir

“…Afterward, the dough’s rheological characteristics and the endmost quality characteristics of the bread were analyzed and compared to the control sample from both the Sensory evaluation and physical evaluation sentiments. …”
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Thulaganyo ya seretotumišo (sa Sepedi), pesalema (ya Bibele) le sefela sa kereke (ya Lutere) by Mawatle J. Mojalefa

“…In the content of traditional praise poem, the poet uses the traditional events which are not extracted from his own source. When comparing psalm and hymnal content events, it is clear that they have similarities with traditional praise poem content. …”
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Tuzūkāt-i Tīmūrī as a Source on Chagatai Military Tactics, Late Fourteenth to Early Fifteenth Centuries by Leonid A. Bobrov, Aibolat K. Kushkumbayev, Zhaksylyk М. Sabitov, Myltykbayuly

“…Some of the descriptions are not that clear to contemporary researchers while those were obvious enough to the seventeenth-century authors. …”
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