Prothrombin complex concentrate for reversal of oral anticoagulants in patients with oral anticoagulation-related critical bleeding: a systematic review of randomised clinical tria... by Christian Ovesen, Jan Purrucker, Josefine Grundtvig, Theis Bech Mikkelsen, Christian Gluud, Janus Christian Jakobsen, Hanne Christensen, Thorsten Steiner

“…Results Three trials, randomising a total of 291 participants, evaluated PCC against two different active comparators in participants with VKA-related critical bleeding, and two trials, randomising a total of 534 participants, evaluated PCC against two different active comparators in participants with factor Xa-related critical bleeding. …”
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Pediatric endoscopic retrograde pancreatography expertise in chronic pancreatitis: a single-center analysis by Hongxi Guo, Juan Luo, Hu Yang, Jun Yang, Hongqiang Bian, Xufei Duan, Xin Wang

“…Pediatric CP presents unique clinical features compared to adult cases. Endoscopic retrograde pancreatography (ERP) serves as a valuable and safe tool for diagnosing and treating CP in adults. …”
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Incident prescriptions for common cardiovascular medications: comparison of recent versus pre-2020 medication adherence and discontinuation in three universal health care systems by Candace D. McNaughton, Peter C. Austin, Cynthia A. Jackevicius, Anna Chu, Jessalyn K. Holodinsky, Michael D. Hill, Colleen M. Norris, Mukesh Kumar, Noreen Kamal, Douglas S. Lee, Nadia Khan, Manav V. Vyas, Raed A. Joundi, Moira K. Kapral, Amy Y. X. Yu

“…Similarly adjusted Cox proportional hazards models compared hazard of discontinuation over one year of follow-up between the two time periods. …”
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Changes in Internet Activities and Influencing Factors for Problematic Internet Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Korean Adolescents: Repeated Cross-Sectional Study by Sol I Kim, Jae-Chan Jin, Seo-Koo Yoo, Doug Hyun Han

“…The Patient Health Questionnaire 9 scores for 2018, 2019, and 2023 decreased compared to those in 2020, 2021, and 2022 (F5=3.07; P=.007). …”
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Evolution Characteristics of Soil and Water Conservation Carbon Pool and Its Carbon Sink Potential in Typical Small Watershed of the Loess Plateau by HE Guokai, WANG Kaibo, REN Zongping, XU Guoce, DONG Pengbei, WANG Pu

“…The types of soil and water conservation measures were mainly terraced grassland and slope grassland. (2) The SOC density of different soil and water conservation measures increased compared with the bare land on the slope, and the SOC density of terraced measures was higher than that of slope measures. …”
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Prevalence of communicable, non-communicable diseases, disabilities and related risk factors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan: Findings from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Integrated Populat... by Ziaul Haq, Saima Afaq, Muhammad Ibrahim, Zala, Muhammad Asim

“…Hepatitis B is more common in females (0.8%) and in rural settings (0.6%) compared to males (0.3%) and urban settings (0.2%), respectively. …”
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Density functional theory calculation for understanding the roles of biochar in immobilizing exchangeable Al3 + and enhancing soil quality in acidic soils by Debo He, Xinyi Liu, Dongni Hu, Ping Lei, Jinbo Zhang, Zhixin Dong, Bo Zhu

“…Through incubation experiments, we compared the effects of biochar and lime on soil properties. …”
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Spatial and temporal variation of Antarctic microbial interactions: a study around the west Antarctic Peninsula by Swan L. S. Sow, Willem H. van de Poll, Rachel Eveleth, Jeremy J. Rich, Hugh W. Ducklow, Patrick D. Rozema, Catherine M. Luria, Henk Bolhuis, Michael P. Meredith, Linda A. Amaral-Zettler, Julia C. Engelmann

“…Along the WAP, Palmer corresponds to a warmer region with lesser sea ice extent in the north compared to Rothera ~ 400 km to the south. Comprehensive and comparative, year-round assessments of the WAP microbial community dynamics in coastal surface waters at these two locations are imperative to understand the effects of regional climate warming variations on microbial community dynamics, but this is still lacking. …”
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Efficacy of medical thoracoscopy combined with fibrinolytic therapy in the treatment of complicated parapneumonic effusions and empyema by Feng-Fu Zhan, Mao-Hong Huang, Yan-Ping Du, Yan Chen, Han-Han Chen, Yi-Li Lin, Yi-Yuan Chen, Ling Cai, Xiao-Bin Zhang

“…Complication rates and hospitalization costs were comparable between the groups (P > 0.05). Conclusions Medical thoracoscopy combined with fibrinolytic therapy offers significant advantages in the management of complicated parapneumonic effusions and empyema. …”
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Advancing arabic dialect detection with hybrid stacked transformer models by Hager Saleh, Hager Saleh, Hager Saleh, Abdulaziz AlMohimeed, Rasha Hassan, Mandour M. Ibrahim, Saeed Hamood Alsamhi, Moatamad Refaat Hassan, Sherif Mostafa

“…For Shami, the Stacking-Transformer achieves the highest performance in all rates compared to other models with 89.73 accuracy, 89.596 precision, 89.73 recall, and 89.574 F1-score. …”
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Geographic and socioeconomic variation of sodium and potassium intake in Italy: results from the MINISAL-GIRCSI programme by Simona Giampaoli, Francesco P Cappuccio, Chen Ji, Luigi Palmieri, Diego Vanuzzo, Chiara Donfrancesco, Renato Ippolito, Pasquale Strazzullo

“…There was a linear association between occupation and sodium excretion (p<0.001). When compared with occupation I (top managerial), occupations III and IV had a 6.5% higher sodium excretion (coefficients: 0.054 (90% credible levels 0.014, 0.093) and 0.064 (0.024, 0.104), respectively). …”
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Hard and soft tissue alterations after the application of different soft tissue grafting materials during immediate dental implant placement: a systematic review and Bayesian netwo... by Ali Azadi, Fatemeh Rezaei, Atoosa Yazdani, Kimia Hejazi, Aryousha Moallem Savasari, Reza Amid, Mahdi Kadkhodazadeh

“…Abstract Background The aim of this review is to compare the clinical outcomes of different soft tissue grafting materials (connective tissue graft (CTG), platelet-rich fibrin (L-PRF), allogenic and xenogenic substitutes) applied in immediate implant placement with each other. …”
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Effect of a tailor-made hydrotherapy on physical functions in patients after unilateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty—A feasibility study by Wai-Wang Chau, Mei-Yan Lau, Tsz-Lung Choi, Gloria Yan-Ting Lam, Michael Tim-Yun Ong, Kevin Ki-Wai Ho

“…Patients who underwent UKA benefited from shorter hospital stays, better range of motion, and lower risk of postoperative complications compared with patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA). …”
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Clinical and Immunological Characteristics of Elderly Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis by LI Zhengfang, WU Chanyuan, MA Mengsi, LI Tingting, WU Xue, MENG Xinyan, ZHANG Sha, WU Lijun

“…Compared with YORA group, EORA group had a higher proportion of male patients(39.3% vs. 22.4%, P=0.012), patients with interstitial lung disease (21.4% vs. 3.1%, P < 0.001), and patients with anemia (10.1% vs. 3.1%, P=0.049).The onset of large joint was more common in the EORA group(53.9% vs. 23.5%, P < 0.001). …”
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Hematobiochemical changes of lead Poisoning and amelioration with Coconut (<i>Cocos nucifera</i> L.) Water in wistar albino rats by Enagbonma Ben Jesuorsemwen, Iyorah Imeda Ebikere, Iyorah Imeda Ebikere, Igiehon Nicholas Ozede, Aimuanmwosa Frank Eghomwanre

“…The mean values of white blood cells, lymphocytes, total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density lipoprotein-cholesterol, low density lipoprotein-cholesterol, low  density lipoprotein-cholesterol/high density lipoproteincholesterol and total cholesterol/high density lipoprotein-cholesterol increased (12.23±0.57(×103μl),   79.83±3.87(%), 64.66±6.01(mg/dl), 89.00±7.94(mg/dl), 22.67±6.93(mg/dl), 21.00±4.58(mg/dl), 1.29±0.62 and 3.36±0.83 respectively ) in the lead group when compared with mean values of control group (5.83±0.74(×103μl), 69.07±10.57(%), 54.00±4.04(mg/dl), 97.33±11.34(mg/dl),   20.00±3.06(mg/dl), 17.00±6.51(mg/dl), 0.97±0.41 and 2.87±0.55 respectively) but the mean values decreased when compared with the mean values of group of 75ml coconut water only and group of 0.10g/l lead + 75ml coconut water, except the mean values of high density lipoprotein-cholesterol. …”
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Comparison of vaginal versus intramuscular progesterone in programmed cycles for frozen-thawed blastocyst transfer in patients with endometriosis by Ziqi Jin, Guoxia Yang, Tianrui Wen, Benyu Miao, Chen Wang, Qingyan Zhang, Fang Gu, Yanwen Xu

“…In the overall cohort, clinical pregnancy rate of the vaginal progesterone group was 49.17%, comparable to 44.06% of the intramuscular progesterone group (aOR 0.82, 95% CI 0.61–1.11). …”
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Modelling and Analysis of Bioretention Systems for Removal of Stormwater Pollutants by Nuwagaba, Emmanuel, Abdulkadir, Taofeeq Sholagberu, Agwe, Michael Tobby, Philip, Tibenderana, Ako, Terseer, Moses N., Twesigye-omwe

“…The parameters tested were Temperature, pH, Electrical Conductivity (EC), Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Total Coliforms (TC), Faecal Coliforms (FC), Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Oil & Grease (OG)The results of the study showed that the bio retention model drastically improved storm water quality by reducing values of EC, TDS, TC, FC, TSS, BOD and OG as compared to the tested raw storm water samples. In Column C, the study showed 39.1% and 48.8 % reduction in TC and TSS concentrations respectively after 20 days of treatment as compared to 10 days. …”
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Design and Implementation of an Automated Prepaid Water Meter: Case Study of National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC). by Akankwasa, John Bosco

“…The same applies to reconnection when a customer clears. This research seeks to solve inconveniences by automating the system. …”
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Strawberry Cultivar Evaluations in Florida: 2006-07 Season by Bielinski M. Santos, Craig K. Chandler, Stephen M. Olson, Teresa W. Olczyk

“…Olczyk, presents the results of a study comparing cultivar performance in multiple locations throughout Florida. …”
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Monitoring Susceptibility of Whiteflies to Imidacloprid and Resistance Management for Nicotinoid Insecticides by David J. Schuster, Sandra Thompson, Roy F. Morris II

“… The purpose of the investigation discussed in this article was to assess and monitor the susceptibility of field populations to imidacloprid and to compare estimates of susceptibility with in-field efficacy of imidacloprid. …”
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