Factors associated with prolonged length of stay following cardiac surgery in a major referral hospital in Oman: a retrospective observational study by Paul Aylin, Ahmed Almashrafi, Hilal Alsabti, Mirdavron Mukaddirov, Baskaran Balan

“…Objectives Two objectives were set for this study. The first was to identify factors influencing prolonged postoperative length of stay (LOS) following cardiac surgery. …”
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Rock fracture mode and acoustic emission characteristics under true triaxial single-sided unloading path by Longpei Ma, Longpei Ma, Chongyan Liu, Guangming Zhao, Guangming Zhao

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Patient-Centric Structural Determinants of Adherence Rates Among Asthma Populations: Exploring the Potential of Patient Activation and Encouragement Tool TRUSTR to Improve Adherenc... by Asim Zia, Arthur Brassart, Sheila Thomas, Fen Ye, Judith J. Stephenson, C. Daniel Mullins, Christopher A. Jones

“…Fourteen additional SEMs were estimated to lateralize TRUSTR findings and conduct sensitivity analysis. …”
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Exploration of analgesic and anthelmintic activities of Artocarpus chaplasha ROXB. leaves supported by in silico molecular docking by S M Sohag, Sharmin Nur Toma, Md. Niaj Morshed, Md. Al Imran Imon, Md. Monirul Islam, Md. Ibnul Piash, Naznin Shahria, Imran Mahmud

“…Analgesic activity was assessed using the acetic acid-induced writhing test on Swiss albino mice, while anthelmintic effects were evaluated against Paramphistomum cervi. In silico molecular docking suggested that catechin hydrate and kaempferol could be promising alternatives for analgesic activity due to their higher binding energy with COX-1 and COX-2. …”
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Dysbiosis and extraintestinal cancers by Ruishan He, Pingqian Qi, Linzhen Shu, Yidan Ding, Peng Zeng, Guosheng Wen, Ying Xiong, Huan Deng

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Cacao floral traits are shaped by the interaction of flower position with genotype by Seunghyun Lim, Insuck Baek, Seok Min Hong, Yoonjung Lee, Silvas Kirubakaran, Moon S. Kim, Lyndel W. Meinhardt, Sunchung Park, Ezekiel Ahn

“…Significant variations were observed between genotypes and across vertical positions, highlighting the roles of genetic and environmental factors in cacao reproductive biology. …”
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Prediction models for cognitive impairment in middle-aged patients with cerebral small vessel disease by Wei Zheng, Xiaoyan Qin, Ronghua Mu, Peng Yang, Bingqin Huang, Bingqin Huang, Zhixuan Song, Xiqi Zhu, Xiqi Zhu

“…Additionally, decision curve analysis (DCA) was conducted to justify the clinical relevance of the study, and the DeLong test was utilized to compare the areas under two correlated receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves.ResultsNine texture features of the hippocampus were selected to construct radiomics model. The AUC values of the brain volume, radiomics, and combined models in the test set were 0.593, 0.843, and 0.817, respectively. …”
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Impact of Chorea on Self-care Activity, Employment, and Health-care Resource Use in Patients with Huntington’s Disease by Daniel O. Claassen, Jonathan DeCourcy, Jennifer Mellor, Charlotte Johnston, Ravi G. Iyer

“…**Results:** HD patients with (n=287) and without (n=140) chorea were identified. Patients with chorea were less likely to be employed full-time (16.7% vs 25.7%; _P_<0.04) and more likely to be on long-term sick leave (17.4% vs 5.0%; _P_<0.01). …”
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Effect of HBeAg/anti-HBe coexistence on HBeAg seroconversion in treatment-naïve chronic hepatitis B patients with peginterferon-α by Kaimin Song, Huitong Wang, Dawu Zeng, Yunyun Qian, Zhixiang Guo, Huatang Zhang, Yijuan Zheng, Yongjun Zhou, Xueping Yu, Zhijun Su

“…Methods: Data from HBeAg-positive treatment-naïve CHB patients were retrospectively analyzed. Clinical characteristics of the HBeAg/anti-HBe coexistence group were compared with those of the anti-HBe-negative group. …”
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A vueltas con el derecho a la vivienda y la normativa actual que lo regula by Carolina del Carmen Castillo Martínez

“…En este trabajo se realiza un recorrido breve por algunas cuestiones que alberga el derecho a la vivienda y la normativa actual que lo regula y se exponen algunas valoraciones críticas que asoman como avance de problemas que, lamentablemente, parece que van a persistir sin solución, en perjuicio de quienes siguen viendo limitada su posibilidad de acceso a la vivienda, en definitiva, de los más vulnerables …”
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Biomarkers to predict the outcomes of surgical intervention for aortic dissection by Abanob G. Hanna, Fabian Jimenez Contreras, Omar M. Sharaf, Griffin P. Stinson, Philip J. Hess

“…Methods Relevant biomarkers were selected if they had predictive value in inflammatory disease processes and/or cardiovascular disease. …”
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Tendencias actuales hacia el tratamiento de las diferencias Individuales en la clase de Educación Física. Un enfoque desde el Ecuador by Mariela Santana Olivera, Teresa de Jesús Guzmán Leyva, Fernando Emilio Valladares Fuente, Karel Ávila Almeida

“…Por otra parte, se realizó una breve panorámica sobre la realidad educativa ecuatoriana en relación con los aspectos pedagógicos y didácticos que de alguna forma u otra se vinculan con las diferencias individuales inherentes de los procesos educativos por edades y por sistemas de enseñanza. …”
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Gender disparity in living organ donation: a qualitative analysis of experiences and perceptions of female donors in Pakistan by Muhammad Ishaq, Javeria Saleem, Ruhma Binte Shahzad, Mahrukh Iqbal, Abida Tehreem, Raja Sajjad Asghar, Aleena Touqeer, Gul Mehar Javaid Bukkhari

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Development of Predictive Models for Progression from Diabetic Kidney Disease to End-Stage Renal Disease in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Hu H, Mu X, Zhao S, Yang M, Zhou H

“…Cox regression analysis and competing risk regression were employed to identify independent predictors. …”
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Comparison of serum ischemia modified albumin levels between preeclamptic and healthy pregnant women by Dinç Zuhal, Çakar Erbil, Kumru Pınar, Erel Özcan, Neşelioğlu Salim, Cimsit Nilüfer, Boz Gizem

“…Patients were divided into 3 groups; severe preeclampsia(n=29), non-severe preeclampsia(n=37) and healthy pregnant(n=68). …”
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Evaluating empirical and machine learning approaches for reference evapotranspiration estimation using limited climatic variables in Nepal by Erica Shrestha, Suyog Poudyal, Anup Ghimire, Shrena Maharjan, Manoj Lamichhane, Sushant Mehan

“…We assessed the performance of six widely used empirical models (Hargreaves Samani, modified Hargreaves Samani, Romanenko, Schendel, Priestley-Taylor, and Makkink) and four ML models (random forest, extreme gradient boosting, deep neural network, and long short-term memory) to estimate ET0 with limited climatic variables in Nepal. Two strategies were applied: (1) the proposed ML models were tested at each weather station using leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV), (2) meteorological stations were grouped into three clusters using the K-means clustering and model performance were evaluated on each cluster. …”
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Association between prognostic nutritional index and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality in American adults with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by Yuqing Lei, Shaohong Tao, Yubo Yang, Fang Xie, Weining Xie

“…Kaplan–Meier survival curves were utilized to visualize the survival distribution across different levels of PNI. …”
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Soybean biochar as highly efficient adsorbent for ofloxacin from aqueous and CO2 from gaseous phase: Mathematical modelling and regeneration studies by Vaishnavi Gomase, Tejaswini Rathi, Aparna Muley, D. Saravanan, Ravin Jugade

“…Batch adsorption experiments were optimized using response surface methodology (RSM), resulting in over 95 % adsorption efficiency. …”
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An Insurance Value Modeling Approach That Captures the Wider Value of a Novel Antimicrobial to Health Systems, Patients, and the Population by Mei S. Chan, Richard Holloway, Robert King, Rosie Polya, Rebecca Sloan, Jack C. Kowalik, Tom Ashfield, Luke S.P. Moore, Thomas Porter, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard

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Using Deep Learning to Identify High-Risk Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction by Zhibo Wang, Xin Chen, Xi Tan, Lingfeng Yang, Kartik Kannapur, Justin L. Vincent, Garin N. Kessler, Boshu Ru, Mei Yang

“…The best AUCs of DL models without a buffer window in predicting HF hospitalizations and worsening HF events in the total patient cohort were 0.977 and 0.972; with a 7-day buffer window the best AUCs were 0.573 and 0.608, respectively. …”
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