Causes of visiting mixed dentition children dental clinic (a retrospective study). by Heran Ibrahim, Rwa Al‐Qazzaz, Mahmoud Kanan

“…The reasons for their visit were divided into the following five groups: general checkup, esthetic reasons, pain, missing/multiple teeth and emergency visit. While the type of the treatment delivered was divided into: Preventive treatment, conservative treatment, pulp therapy and surgical treatment. …”
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Efficient Feature Selection and Hyperparameter Tuning for Improved Speech Signal-Based Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis via Machine Learning Techniques by Deepak Painuli, Suyash Bhardwaj, Utku Kose

“…Among the 12 ML models evaluated, the RF model with the RFE-generated feature subset (RFE-50) emerged as the top performer. It achieved an accuracy of 96.46%, a recall of 0.96, a precision of 0.97, an F1-score of 0.96, and an AUC score of 0.998, marking the highest performance metrics reported for this dataset in recent studies. …”
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Developing and piloting a peer quality improvement coaching protocol for front-line healthcare staff by Siobhán Eithne McCarthy, Petar Popivanov, Mairead Finn

“…PQIC effectiveness was assessed using evaluation tools identified in the literature.Results Effectiveness; strategies and models; moderating factors and methods for evaluation of QIC emerged from the literature. Together with Bloom’s taxonomy and Kirkpatrick’s educational model, these themes informed the development of this PQIC protocol. …”
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UAV launch methods by Oleksandr Dobrodomov, Vladyslav Proroka, Oleksii Kulyk

“… Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, have emerged as a rapidly evolving field with immense potential across diverse applications. …”
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Implementation of a rapid host-protein diagnostic test for distinguishing bacterial and viral infections in adults presenting to urgent care centers: a pragmatic cohort study by Boaz Kalmovich, Daniella Rahamim-Cohen, Ilan Yehoshua, Sara Kivity, Noam Orvieto, Shirley Shapiro Ben David

“…Physicians reported MMBV aided patient management in 2494/2901 (86.0%) cases and contributed to avoiding emergency department referrals in 595/2901 (20.5%). …”
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Muscle Architecture of Leg Muscles: Functional and Clinical Significance by Gurpreet Kaur, Rekha Lalwani, Manal M. Khan, Sunita A Athavale

“…This study contributes baseline normative data for musculoskeletal modelling platforms and simulation tools – an emerging area in biomechanics and tendon transfers. …”
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Beliefs about HIV cure: A qualitative study of people living with HIV in Soweto, South Africa by Fatima Laher, Naledi Mahlangu, Mbalenhle Sibiya

“…Results: Participants had knowledge of the concept of cure as eradication, not remission. Three main themes emerged about possible HIV cures. Firstly, hope and scepticism: people feared unequal access to technologies. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review and Bucher Indirect Comparison: Tildrakizumab versus Guselkumab by Kristian Garn Du Jardin, Pepi Hurtado Lopez, Mette Lange, Rachael McCool, Silvia Maeso Naval, Sandra Quickert

“…Interleukin-23 (IL-23) has emerged as a key player in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and tildrakizumab and guselkumab are both immunomodulatory agents that inhibit the p19 subunit of IL-23. …”
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Evolving prognostic paradigms in lung adenocarcinoma with brain metastases: a web-based predictive model enhanced by machine learning by Min Liang, Zhiwen Zhang, Langming Wu, Mafeng Chen, Shifan Tan, Jian Huang

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The scholarly and practice profile of respiratory therapists in Canada: A cross-sectional survey by Marco Zaccagnini, André Bussières, Peter Nugus, Andrew West, Aliki Thomas

“…# Introduction Respiratory therapists (RTs) are expected to provide high-quality care for patients with chronic and acute cardiopulmonary conditions across the lifespan by staying abreast of emerging scientific evidence and effectively integrating it into clinical practice. …”
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Citizens perceptions of urban freight transport: an international comparison by João Guilherme da Costa Braga França, Kinga Kijewska, Stanislaw Iwan, Cassiano Augusto Isler, Leise Kelli de Oliveira

“…The comparative analysis underscores causal relationships between urban flow challenges and freight problems, demonstrating that urban flow issues are more critical than infrastructure or environmental concerns in both cities. Differences also emerge in the perceived effectiveness of initiatives: while truck restrictions are highly valued in Belo Horizonte, loading and unloading areas and clearer signage are more impactful in Szczecin. …”
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Unveiling personalized and gamification-based cybersecurity risks within financial institutions by Amna Shahzadi, Kashif Ishaq, Naeem A. Nawaz, Fadhilah Rosdi, Fawad Ali Khan

“…Gamification has emerged as a transformative e-business strategy, introducing innovative methods to engage customers and drive sales. …”
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Effect of the hour-1 bundle on clinical outcomes in patients with sepsis and septic shock: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. by Shukun Hong, Hongye Wang, Xiaoguang Fan, Jian Liu, Lujun Qiao

“…<h4>Background</h4>According to the 2018 bundle guidelines of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, many emergency departments and intensive care units currently adopt the hour-1 bundle as a standard practice for sepsis management. …”
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Below the Schwinger critical magnetic field value, quantum vacuum and gamma-ray bursts delay by Iver H. Brevik, Moshe M. Chaichian, Anca Tureanu

“…Therefore, finding out whether one could encounter some consequences of interest also for the values of the magnetic field below the Schwinger critical point, we invoke the next higher-order effect in QED, which is emerging from the Quantum Vacuum Effect. The latter is equivalent to the use of the Euler-Heisenberg effective theory in nonlinear electrodynamics, where the Lagrangian has now a term with a higher power, B4. …”
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Association between Emission Parameters and Material-phase Concentrations of Phthalate Plasticizers and their Alternatives by Chenyang Bi, Clara M. A. Eichler, Chunyi Wang, John C. Little

“…In this work, we measured key parameters governing the emission of several phthalates and also their most recent emerging alternatives. Measurements include the gas-phase concentration in equilibrium with the material, y0, and the vapor pressure, p*, using polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sheets with relatively high, but accurately known levels of the material-phase concentration, C0, of the target plasticizers. …”
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Kalmyks of the Salsky district in the context of national politics and ethno-social processes in the 1920s by Anton Viktorovich Averyanov

“…There was an integration of ethnic minorities into the emerging socio-economic and cultural space. A unique situation developed in the Salsky district, where the Don Cossacks-Kalmyks, due to changed political conditions, lost their status as a leading social group, which led to their marginalization and required the development of new state policy approaches to involve them in the economic development of the region. …”
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Air Quality Assessment by Moss Biomonitoring and Trace Metals Atmospheric Deposition by Pranvera Lazo, Alda Kika, Flora Qarri, Lirim Bekteshi, Shaniko Allajbeu, Trajce Stafilov

“…Fe, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn were mostly higher between a few regions with few obvious anomalies positioned in the center of the country with high industrial activity, in the areas with heavy traffic, and in the cross-borders of Albania with Monte Negro and Greece mostly emerging from the local contribution of anthropogenic activities, local lithology, and transboundary pollution sources. …”
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Investigating factors influencing utilization of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy among unaccompanied young refugees: an exploratory analysis by Barbara Kasparik, Madina Farani, Elisa Pfeiffer, Cedric Sachser, Rita Rosner

“…In the logistic regression analysis, PTSD emerged as a significant predictor of intended use (B = 2.66, p <.05). …”
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Medial sural artery perforator free flap for small- to medium-sized defects in head and neck reconstruction: a suitable replacement for radial forearm free flap by Yulian Zhang, Keran Pan, Jian Wu, Xi Tang

“…A dominant perforator of the medial sural artery emerges constantly near the point which is approximately 15 cm from the popliteal fossa center vertically, and 3 cm from the postor midline of the leg horizontally. …”
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Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life—we can do better every time in every child by Rebeccah Slater, Suellen Walker, Christopher Eccleston, Carlo Bellieni, Tanvi Hirekodi, Ricardo Carbajal, Lucinda Smart, William Laughey, Maria M. Cobo, Stefan Friedrichsdorf

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