Obtaining patient phenotypes in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, and their association with clinical severity and mortality by Fernando García-García, Dae-Jin Lee, Mónica Nieves-Ermecheo, Olaia Bronte, Pedro Pablo España, José María Quintana, Rosario Menéndez, Antoni Torres, Luis Alberto Ruiz Iturriaga, Isabel Urrutia, COVID-19 & Air Pollution Working Group

“…The optimal cluster model parameters –including k, the number of phenotypes– were chosen automatically, by maximizing the average Silhouette score across the training set. …”
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Role of Psychological Distress in the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care and Self-Management Behaviors of Elderly Patients with T2DM Chronic Complications by Sun X, Wang X, Zhou R, Deng W, Jiang J, Shi Y

“…Student’s t-test, one-way ANOVA or the nonparametric analysis (Mann–Whitney U-test), Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation model (SEM) were used to analyse the data.Results: A total of 264 participants (157 males [59.47%], with an average age of 71.07± 6.47 years) were included in the study; their duration of T2DM ranged from 5 to 30 years, with a mean duration of 11.19± 6.96 years. …”
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Beyond Chemistry: Investigating the Physical, Pharmacological, and Computational Aspects of Polyoxometalate Integrated Solid Lipid Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment by Khan R, Tulain UR, Shah HS, Usman F, Chohan TA, Iqbal J, Kazi M, Ijaz M, Erum A, Malik NS, Mahmood A

“…The zeta capacitance was measured to be − 32.57± 6.44 mV with average particle dimension of 160.5± 8.61 nm and polydispersity index (PDI) of around 0.3814± 0.096. …”
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The Prevalence of Dermoscopy Use Among Dermatology Residents in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Cross-Sectional Study by Abdullah Almeziny, Rahaf Almutairi, Amal Altamimi, Khloud Alshehri, Latifah Almehaideb, Asem Shadid, Mohammed Al Mashali

“…Over half of the participants (n=34, 54.0%) owned a dermoscope, and a substantial number of them (n=23, 36.5%) reported conducting 21-30 clinic consultations per month on average. More than half of the participants (n=36, 57.1%) had received dermoscopy training, and 16 (36.4%) had used dermoscopy for 2 years. …”
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Global, regional, and national epidemiology of childhood neuroblastoma (1990–2021): a statistical analysis of incidence, mortality, and DALYsResearch in context by Jusen Nong, Cheng Su, Changhua Li, Congjun Wang, Wei Li, Yong Li, Peng Chen, Yanqiang Li, Zihao Li, Xinjin She, Zuxin Yuan, Sentian Liu, Chao Chen, Qian Liao, Yige Luo, Bo Shi

“…Trends were assessed using Joinpoint regression models to compute the annual percent change (APC) and log-transformed linear regression models to calculate the estimated average annual percentage change (EAPC). Findings: Globally, the incidence of neuroblastoma in children in 2021 was 5560 cases (95% UI, 3734.21–7560.03), with 1977 deaths (95% UI, 1445.04–2528.54), and 174,186.30 DALYs (95% UI, 127,104.64–223,265.92). …”
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Clinical significance of determining individual intraocular pressure in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma in ophthalmological practice by S.V. Balalin, V.P. Fokin, O.V. Yuferov, S.Z. Boskhomdzhieva

“…<br> <b>Patients and Methods:</b> tolerant IOP was determined using software and the effectiveness of drug treatment was analyzed in 341 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (498 eyes). The average age of the patients was 69.5±0.39 years. Patients were divided into groups according to the level of IOP (P0, mm Hg), which was measured against the background of the initial drug therapy: with normal values of ophthalmotonous&nbsp;(fr om 11 to 21 mm Hg) — 69.7% (347 eyes), with moderately increased IOP values (fr om 22 to 32 mm Hg) — 26.5% (132 eyes) and high IOP values&nbsp;(over 32 mm Hg) — 3.8% (19 eyes). …”
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Effectiveness of Mobile Health–Based Gamification Interventions for Improving Physical Activity in Individuals With Cardiovascular Diseases: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of... by Tianzhuo Yu, Monica Parry, Tianyue Yu, Linqi Xu, Yuejin Wu, Ting Zeng, Xin Leng, Qian Tong, Feng Li

“…Meta-analysis of 3 studies found the maintenance effect (measured with follow-up averaging 2.5 months after the end of the intervention) was small (Hedges g=0.20, 95% CI 0.12-0.29, 95% PI –0.01 to 0.41). …”
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Novel image registration algorithm for scene-matching navigation by Hongrui YANG, Qiju ZHU, Peixian CAO, Hao GU, Dongdong ZHAO

“…In particular, our algorithm achieves an average matching time of only 1.015 s for multimodal images, meeting real-time performance and robustness requirements for UAV scene–matching navigation. …”
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Secondary aphakic glaucoma in children: a 15-year retrospective study by N.N. Sadovnikova, V.V. Brzheskiy, M.A. Zertsalova, A.Yu. Baranov

“…Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University (SPbGPMU) with an average follow-up period of 8.8±0.2 years. The children were divided into 4 groups by age at the surgical procedure. …”
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Soybean oil, a linoleic acid source, in lamb diets: metabolic, feeding behavior, and ruminal parameters by V. G. O. Lima, L. O. da Silva, J. E. de Freitas Jr., H. D. R. Alba, V. M. Leite, W. P. Silva, D. D. S. Pina, L. C. Leite, C. S. Rodrigues, S. A. Santos, G. G. P. de Carvalho

“…Five rumen-cannulated lambs (average body weight of 47.76 <span class="inline-formula">±</span> 7.14 kg at approximately 15 months of age) were distributed in a 5 <span class="inline-formula">×</span> 5 Latin square design. …”
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Effectivity of prebiotic mannan oligosaccharides as the immunity enhancer and growth response on whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei against white spot disease by Linuwih Aluh Prastiti, Munti Yuhana, Widanarni, Widanarni

“…Shrimps (Litopenaeus vannamei) (the initial average weight was 3.416±0.064 g) were fed at satiation, three times a day. …”
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Exploring the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Physical Performance: An EEG Study in the Context of High-Intensity Endurance by Shanguang Zhao, Majed M. Alhumaid, Hai Li, Xin Wei, Steve SHYH-Ching Chen, Hongke Jiang, Yuwu Gong, Yun Gu, Haiquan Qin

“…Results The SD condition had an average sleep duration of 3.78 ± 0.69 h, while the duration for normal sleep was 7.63 ± 0.52 h. …”
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Analisis Kinerja Intrusion Detection System Berbasis Algoritma Random Forest Menggunakan Dataset Unbalanced Honeynet BSSN by Kuni Inayah, Kalamullah Ramli

“…The analysis results show that IDS modeling based on machine learning has an average accuracy value of more than 90%, a precision value of 91%, a recall value of 90%, and an F1 score of 90%. …”
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Economic evaluation of a randomized controlled trial comparing mifepristone and misoprostol with misoprostol alone in the treatment of early pregnancy loss. by Charlotte C Hamel, Marcus P L M Snijders, Sjors F P J Coppus, Frank P H A Vandenbussche, Didi D M Braat, Eddy M M Adang

“…We found medical treatment with placebo followed by misoprostol to be 26% more expensive compared to mifepristone followed by misoprostol (p = 0.001). Mean average medical costs per patient were significantly lower in the mifepristone group compared to the placebo group (€528.95 ± 328.93 vs €663.77 ± 456.03, respectively; absolute difference €134.82, 95% CI 50,46-219,18, p = 0.002). …”
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Large-scale manufacturing and characterization of CMV-CD19CAR T cells by Stephen J Forman, Xiuli Wang, Ryan Urak, Miriam Walter, Min Guan, Tianxu Han, Vibhuti Vyas, Sheng-Hsuan Chien, Brenna Gittins, Mary C Clark, Sally Mokhtari, Angelo Cardoso, Don J Diamond, John Zaia, Ryotaro Nakamura

“…Resulting CMV-specific T cells were transduced with a lentiviral vector encoding a second generation CD19R:CD28:ζ/EGFRt CAR and expanded with interleukin 2 (IL-2) and IL-15 for 15 days before characterization.Results CMV-specific T cells were enriched from 0.8%±0.5 of input PBMC to 76.3%±11.6 in nine full-scale qualification runs (absolute yield of 4.2±3.3×106 IFNγ+T cells from an input of 1×109 PBMCs). Average CD19CAR transduction efficiency of CMV-specific T cells was 27.0%±14.2 in the final products, which underwent rapid expansion, resulting in a total cell dose of 6.2±0.9 × 106 CD19CAR-tranduced T cells with CMV specificity (ie, functionally bispecific). …”
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Patterns of beta-blocker use and dose optimization among ambulatory heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) attending public hospitals in Northeast Ethiopia:... by Minimize Hassen, Tsehaynesh Kebede Ebsa, Oumer Sada Muhammed, Tewodros Solomon, Mulat Belete Demessie, Teklehaimanot Fentie Wendie, Nuhamin Alemayehu Tesfaye, Mengistie Yirsaw Gobezie

“…Only 13% of beta-blocker users were on optimal doses, with average daily doses of 27.9 mg for metoprolol succinate, 10.0 mg for carvedilol, and 4.8 mg for bisoprolol. …”
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花椒油中邻苯二甲酸酯类塑化剂的污染现状 及来源分析Pullution status and source analysis of phthalate plasticizers in Zanthoxylum bungeanum oil by 张家余1,2，张逸飞2，薛楚玲1，文成刚1，赵麟1，代倩1，朱翔1, 2 ZHANG Jiayu1,2, ZHANG Yifei2, XUE Chuling1, WEN Chenggang1, ZHAO Lin1,DAI Qian1, ZHU Xiang1, 2"

“…The detection rate and average content of DBP and DEHP in Zanthoxylum bungeanum oil increased with the increase of amides content.Raw materials and production contact materials were the main pollution sources of phthalate plasticizers in Zanthoxylum bungeanum oil.To sum up, there is plasticizer pollution risk in Zanthoxylum bungeanum oil on the market, the monitoring of raw materials should be strengthened, and plasticizer risk throughout the production and storage of Zanthoxylum bungeanum oil should be controlled. …”
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Knowledge Distillation in Object Detection for Resource-Constrained Edge Computing by Arief Setyanto, Theopilus Bayu Sasongko, Muhammad Ainul Fikri, Dhani Ariatmanto, I. Made Artha Agastya, Rakandhiya Daanii Rachmanto, Affan Ardana, In Kee Kim

“…Our evaluation results demonstrate that RV-YOLO-CRD reduces 30% of model size and achieves better mean average precision (mAP) than M-YOLO-CRD. Our experiments show that the M-YOLO-CRD significantly reduces model size (from 245.5 MB to 35.76 MB) and inference time (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$6\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> faster on CPU, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> faster on J. …”
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Effect analysis of radiofrequency catheter ablation in the treatment of 7 children with atrial tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy by Min Zhang, Xiaoxiao Cao, Suqiong Ji, Mohammadreza Kosari, Yong Zhang

“…The weight range was from 15 to 92 kg, the average weight was 34 kg. The results of the intracardiac electrophysiological study of the 7 cases showed that the origin came from the right pulmonary vein in 2 cases, from the left pulmonary vein in 2 cases, from the left atrial appendage in one case, and from the right atrial appendage in 2 cases. …”
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Reinforcement Learning-Based Generative Security Framework for Host Intrusion Detection by Yongsik Kim, Su-Youn Hong, Sungjin Park, Huy Kang Kim

“…The proposed framework demonstrated a high accuracy rate of 96.5% average when faced with different attacks. We compared the accuracy based on the proposed framework detection, textrank, and Seq2Seq model-based keyword extraction methods. …”
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