Looking under the hood of a hybrid two-way texting intervention to improve early retention on antiretroviral therapy in Malawi: an implementation fidelity evaluation by Robin E. Klabbers, Caryl Feldacker, Jacqueline Huwa, Christine Kiruthu-Kamamia, Agness Thawani, Hannock Tweya

“…Results The 468 2wT participants had a median of 52 study weeks (interquartile range [IQR] 34 – 52) with 6 ART appointments (IQR 4—7) of which 2 (IQR 1 – 3) were missed. On average, participants received a motivation message for 75% (IQR 56%—83%) of enrolled weeks, a reminder before 83% (IQR 67%—100%) of appointments, and after 67% (IQR 0%—100%) of missed appointments. …”
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Dietary β-Mannanase Affects the Growth, Antioxidant, and Immunes Responses of African Catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and Its Challenge Against Aeromonas hydrophila Infection by Ibrahim Adeshina, Bilal Ahamad Paray, Eijaz Ahmed Bhat, Shahid Sherzada, Olaolu O. Fawole, Dalhatu J. Bawa, Thais Pereira da Cruz, Lateef O. Tiamiyu

“…Its production has increased by 20% annually on average during the last 20 years, but the occurrence of fish diseases, especially bacterial such as Aeromonas hydrophila infections, is hindering its activities. …”
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Teknologi Realitas Virtual pada Perangkat Bergerak untuk Media Pengenalan Lingkungan Haji by Usaid Syawahidul Chaq, Febriliyan Samopa

“…The results of the User Acceptance Test (UAT) show that the application functionality test is 100% valid and the average non-functionality test reaches a value of 80.17% in the category "Very good". …”
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Los grupos en las organizaciones empresariales: sistemas dinámicos, complejos y adaptativos. Una aproximación teórica desde el estudio de diversos modelos by Elieth Diez Cejas

“…En este sentido, para el desarrollo empírico de esta investigación se hizo necesario realizar un abordaje teórico de los planteamientos que se tienen de diversos modelos de grupos que están operando en las empresas logrando, de esta manera, una visión compleja y global en los niveles de evaluación e intervención de los grupos en el contexto organizacional-empresarial.…”
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Cardio-metabolic-related plasma proteins reveal biological links between cardiovascular diseases and fragility fractures: a cohort and Mendelian randomisation investigationResearch... by Karl Michaëlsson, Rui Zheng, John A. Baron, Tove Fall, Alicja Wolk, Lars Lind, Jonas Höijer, Carl Brunius, Eva Warensjö Lemming, Olga E. Titova, Bodil Svennblad, Susanna C. Larsson, Shuai Yuan, Håkan Melhus, Liisa Byberg, Hannah L. Brooke

“…We primarily aimed to discover and replicate the association of 274 cardio-metabolic-related proteins with future rates of hip and any fracture in two separate population-based cohorts, with a total of 12,314 women and men. Findings: The average age at baseline was 68 years in the discovery cohort of women and 74 years in the mixed-sex replication cohort. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution and driving force analysis of drought characteristics in the Yellow River Basin by Meiying Wang, Yangbo Chen, Jingyu Li, Yanjun Zhao

“…Summer precipitation accounted for 53 % of the annual average. Downstream precipitation was 83.9 % and 25.3 % higher than that upstream and midstream, respectively. …”
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Usefulness of Automatic Speech Recognition Assessment of Children With Speech Sound Disorders: Validation Study by Do Hyung Kim, Joo Won Jeong, Dayoung Kang, Taekyung Ahn, Yeonjung Hong, Younggon Im, Jaewon Kim, Min Jung Kim, Dae-Hyun Jang

“…Consonant error rates were 10.58% (327/3090) and 11.86% (331/2790) for the APAC and U-TAP, respectively. On average, there were 2.60 (SD 1.54) and 3.07 (SD 1.39) discrepancies per child for correctly produced phonemes, and 7.87 (SD 3.66) and 7.57 (SD 4.85) discrepancies per child for incorrectly produced phonemes, based on the APAC and U-TAP, respectively. …”
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High-fat diet promotes gestational diabetes mellitus through modulating gut microbiota and bile acid metabolism by Lei Yao, Xuefei Zhou, Xianqi Jiang, Hao Chen, Yuanliang Li, Xiao Xiong, Yan Tang, Haogang Zhang, Pengfei Qiao

“…Bile acids of serum, fecal samples from human and mice were analysised. Body weight, average feed intake, blood glucose, insulin levels and oral glucose tolerance test was performed among each groups. …”
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Transmantle pressure under the influence of free breathing: non-invasive quantification of the aqueduct pressure gradient in healthy adults by Pan Liu, Kimi Owashi, Heimiri Monnier, Serge Metanbou, Cyrille Capel, Olivier Balédent

“…Males had a longer aqueduct than females (17.9 ± 3.1 mm vs. 15 ± 2.5 mm, p < 0.01) and a larger average diameter (2.0 ± 0.2 mm vs. 1.8 ± 0.3 mm, p = 0.024), but there was no gender difference in resistance values (p = 0.25). …”
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Buenas prácticas para la protección del software by Carolina A. Canitrot

“…Todo ello con el fin de comprender la importancia que reviste la adopción de ciertas prácticas para una correcta protección y buscando en última instancia, eliminar o disminuir, las deficiencias o vacíos normativos. De esta manera, se desarrollará un apartado especialmente enfocado en la importancia que revisten los contratos en la materia bajo estudio, detallando en cada oportunidad las cláusulas que deberían estar presentes a cada situación en particular. …”
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Combining UAS LiDAR, Sonar, and Radar Altimetry for River Hydraulic Characterization by Monica Coppo Frias, Alexander Rietz Vesterhauge, Daniel Haugård Olesen, Filippo Bandini, Henrik Grosen, Sune Yde Nielsen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein

“…The riverbed elevation cross-sections have an average error of 32 cm relative to RTK GNSS ground-truth measurements. …”
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The relation of MEFV gene variants to clinical phenotype and selected laboratory markers in Egyptian patients with familial Mediterranean fever by Hala T. El-Bassyouni, Ghada Nour Eldeen, Mona F. Sokkar, Mohamed B. Taher, Mohammed M. Sayed-Ahmed, Iman I. Salama, Hala M. Raslan

“…In addition, MEFV genetic variants were investigated using a real-time PCR genotyping assay and direct sequencing of exon 2 and exon 10 of the MEFV gene. Results The average age of FMF cases was 18.01±8.73 years (with a range between 2 and 34 years), and the female/male ratio was 1.07. …”
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Addressing the “Black Hole” of Low Back Pain Care With Clinical Decision Support: User-Centered Design and Initial Usability Study by Robert S Rudin, Patricia M Herman, Robert Vining

“…ResultsThe 5 participating users had an average of 18.5 years of practicing chiropractic medicine. …”
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Mangrove biomass productivity and sediment carbon storage assessment at selected sites in Mauritius: the effect of tidal inundation, forest age and mineral availability by M D D Doodee, S D D V Rughooputh, S Jawaheer

“…It is noteworthy that the Ferney forest with a relatively lower salinity (5–15 ppt) and the only forest that had already reached a steady state in 2010, had a relatively much higher AGB (326.2 ± 26.3 t ha ^−1 ) than the global average for Rhizophora mucronata (94.8 t ha ^−1 ), let alone Rhizophora spp. (281 t ha ^−1 ). …”
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Prospective and Mental Change in Decision-Making in Critical Scenarios of Organizations (Review Article) by D. Vallejo, L. Sanandrés, V. Ruiz

“…Frente a tal escenario, se pretende exponer consideraciones acerca de la presencia de estas tres tradiciones filosóficas en la manera científica argumentado liderazgo y neurociencia como eje del conocimiento y sobre su valor para la toma de decisiones fundamentados en la dialéctica paradigmática hacia un nuevo modelo mental e innovador, la prospectiva es útil para comprender las estructuras que requieren nuevos modelos de planificación del futuro en lo posible y lo deseable. …”
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Artificial intelligence-based, non-invasive assessment of the central aortic pressure in adults after operative or interventional treatment of aortic coarctation by Renate Oberhoffer, Peter Ewert, Harald Kaemmerer, Nicole Nagdyman, Oliver Dewald, Frank Klawonn, Michael Huntgeburth, Andreas Eicken, Christian Meierhofer, Sebastian Freilinger, Martin Middeke, Pinar Bambul Heck, Annika Freiberger, Frank Harig, Manuel Lösch, Fritz Mellert, Fabian von Scheidt, Elsa Ury, Nicole Wolfrum, Ann-Sophie Kaemmerer-Suleiman, Mathieu N. Suleiman

“…Pulse wave velocity, indicative of aortic stiffness, averaged 9.1 m/s, with higher values in 13 patients (27.7%), including 4 after end–end anastomosis, 2 after graft interposition and 7 after stent placement/angioplasty as the most recent procedure. …”
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Maintenance of patient-reported health-related quality of life post neoadjuvant relugolix prior to the initiation of prostate radiation therapy by Min Jung Koh, Min Ji Koh, Jessica Y. Hsueh, Lindsey Gallagher, Malika Danner, Alan Zwart, Marilyn Ayoob, Deepak Kumar, Michael Carrasquilla, Paul Leger, Nancy A. Dawson, Simeng Suy, Sean P. Collins

“…Our investigation determined clinical significance based on minimally important difference (MID) calculated as 0.5 times the baseline standard deviation.ResultsAmong the 87 patients, average age was 71 years, 42% were non-white, and 24% were considered obese (BMI ≥30 kg/m²). …”
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Concentrations and health risks of metal elements in ambient air PM2.5 in two urban districts of Hefei city from 2015 to 2023: analysis of monitoring data by Yu ZHU, Linling YU, Derui YAN, Changchun XIAO

“…The concentrations of aluminum, selenium, and antimony in the PM2.5 samples collected in Yaohai district were higher than those in Baohe district (Zaluminum = – 3.505, Paluminum < 0.001; Zselenium = – 2.148, Pselenium = 0.032; Zantimony = – 4.919, Pantimony < 0.001), while the differences in the concentrations of other metal elements between the two districts were not significant (P > 0.05 for all). The annual average concentrations of antimony, arsenic, cadmium, lead, selenium, and thallium in the two districts gradually decreased over the years, while aluminum first decreased and then increased. …”
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Characterization of Shigella flexneri serotype 6 strains from geographically diverse low- and middle-income countries by Caitlin E. Gabor, Charlotte E. Chong, Jose M. Lemme-Dumit, Tracy H. Hazen, Kate S. Baker, Karen L. Kotloff, Irene N. Kasumba, Sharon M. Tennant, Henry Badji, M. Jahangir Hossain, Richard Omore, Benjamin Ochieng, Alex O. Awuor, Billy Ogwel, Jane Juma, Eileen M. Barry, David A. Rasko

“…Complete sequencing of 11 clinical Sf6 strains, demonstrated that the Sf6 virulence plasmid (pINV) is ~38 kb smaller than the average non-Sf6 pINV (~228 kb). Comparisons of S. flexneri species level antibiotic susceptibility highlighted that clinical Sf6 isolates from Africa in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) and Vaccine Impact on Diarrhea in Africa (VIDA) study demonstrated geographic, serotype-specific susceptibility pattern. …”
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Self-reported knowledge and difficulties towards palliative care among healthcare professionals in rural China: a cross-sectional study by Junwei Niu, Min Feng, Changhui Song, Hui Xie

“…Results Among the 255 participants (Mean[age]: 34.82 ± 7.04), 71.8% were females, 57.3% were physicians, and the average work experience was 10.20 years. Regarding PC experience, 48.2% had participated in 1–2 training sessions annually over the past two years, and 32.2% reported a poor understanding of PC. …”
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