Digital Literacy on SME Business Performance and The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Skills by Intan Novela Q.A, Hunik Sri Runing Sawitri, Asri Laksmi Riani, Suryandari Istiqomah, Anastasia Riani Suprapti, Mugi Harsono

“…Data were collected through online surveys and offline methods. Structural Equation Modeling with Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS) was used to test the hypotheses. …”
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Using positive deviance to enhance HIV care retention in South Africa: development of a compassion-focused program to improve the staff and patient experience by Allison J. Ober, Donald H. Skinner, Laura M. Bogart, Leletu Busakwe, Wadene Davids, Hassan Mahomed, Debbie Ling, Virginia Zweigenthal

“…We used a participatory positive deviance (PD) approach to discover characteristics of primary care facilities with above-average 12-month retention rates to develop an intervention. Methods We conducted 11 in-depth leadership interviews, 9 staff focus groups with 29 participants, 11 patient focus groups with 45 participants, 23 patient shadowing visits, and multiple facility observations in each of 3 high- and 3 low-retention public primary care facilities in Cape Town, South Africa. …”
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Profiling gene alterations in striatonigral neurons associated with incubation of methamphetamine craving by cholera toxin subunit B-based fluorescence-activated cell sorting by Rachel D. Altshuler, Megan A. M. Burke, Kristine T. Garcia, Kenneth Class, Raffaello Cimbro, Xuan Li, Xuan Li

“…Here we combined a newly developed fluorescence-activated sorting (FACS) protocol with fluorescence-conjugated cholera toxin subunit B-647 (CTb-647, a retrograde tracer) to examine gene alterations in the direct-pathway (striatonigral) medium spiny neurons (MSNs) associated with incubation of Meth craving.MethodsWe injected CTb-647 bilaterally into substantia nigra before or after training rats to self-administer Meth or saline (control condition) for 10 days (6 h/d). …”
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Biologic Cost per Effectively Treated Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient in a Large Managed Care Population: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Tao Gu, Neel Shah, Gaurav Deshpande, Derek H. Tang, Debra F. Eisenberg, David J. Harrison

“…**Objectives:** To implement a validated claims-based effectiveness algorithm in a US managed care claims database to compute the 1-year biologic cost per effectively treated patient among first-line biologics approved for moderate-to-severe RA (abatacept, adalimumab, certolizumab pegol, etanercept, golimumab, and infliximab). **Methods:** This retrospective cohort study used administrative claims data for individuals in the HealthCore Integrated Research Database (HIRDSM). …”
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Analysis of Mammography BI-RADS Distribution and Follow-up Ultrasound Assessment: A Single-Center Study by Kankaya B, Buyukasik S, Altundal YE, Topcu FS, Rahmanbakhsh P, Etemad A, Kapan S, Alis H

“…Our goal was to evaluate potential gaps in the current breast cancer screening process by analyzing BI-RADS classifications, follow-up completion rates, and outcomes of completed ultrasound examinations.Patients and Methods: This retrospective study analyzed 1761 Turkish women who underwent screening mammography from 2020– 2022 at the Istanbul Aydin University General Surgery Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey. …”
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes in Asian patients with heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction by Julian Cheong Kiat Tay, Shaw Yang Chia, Siew Hui Michelle Koh, David Kheng Leng Sim, Ping Chai, Seet Yoong Loh, Fazlur Rehman Jaufeerally, Sheldon Shao Guang Lee, Patrick Zhan Yun Lim, Jonathan Yap

“…This study aims to compare the clinical characteristics and outcomes of Asian HFmrEF patients with those of HF patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Methods: Patients admitted nationally for HF between 2008 and 2014 were included in the study. …”
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Treatment Patterns and Health Care Costs in Commercially Insured Patients with Follicular Lymphoma by Nathan H. Fowler, Guifang Chen, Stephen Lim, Stephanie Manson, Qiufei Ma, Frank Li

“…**Objectives:** This study evaluated outcomes in patients who were newly initiated with FL indicated regimens by line of therapy with real-world data. **Methods:** A retrospective study was conducted among patients with FL from MarketScan® databases between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2013. …”
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Real-World Clinical Outcomes and Treatment Patterns Among Black and Non-Black Patients With Prostate Cancer Initiated on Apalutamide in a Urology Setting by Benjamin H. Lowentritt, Carmine Rossi, Erik Muser, Frederic Kinkead, Bronwyn Moore, Patrick Lefebvre, Dominic Pilon, Shawn Du

“…**Objective:** To describe real-world treatment patterns and clinical outcomes among patients with mCSPC or nmCRPC who initiated apalutamide in the United States. **Methods:** A retrospective cohort study of patients with mCSPC or nmCRPC who initiated apalutamide was conducted using electronic medical record data from US community-based urology practices (Feb. 1, 2017–April 1, 2022). …”
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“Inclisiran: Early LDL-C target achievement in a real-life population” by Francesco Briani, Mauro Bagli, Gabriele Venturi, Francesco Bacchion, Antonio Mugnolo

“…This study aims to assess the efficacy and safety of inclisiran in a real-life population within one month from the first administration. Methods: This observational, single-center, retrospective cohort study included patients affected by dyslipidemia who could not achieve their LDL-C target despite a maximum tolerated oral lipid-lowering therapy (LLT). 284 mg Inclisiran was subcutaneously administered. …”
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The Effect of Blood Flow Restriction Therapy on Shoulder Function Following Shoulder Stabilization Surgery: A Case Series by John H. McGinniss, John S. Mason, Jamie B. Morris, Will Pitt, Erin M. Miller, Michael S. Crowell

“… # Study Design Prospective case series # Methods Military cadets who underwent shoulder stabilization surgery completed six weeks of upper extremity BFR training, beginning post-op week six. …”
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One stage transanal versus one stage laparoscopic-assisted transanal endorectal pull-through in managing Hirschsprung’s disease in pediatric age group; a retrospective study by Ahmed Elrouby, Sameh Shehata, Saber Waheeb, Ahmed Khairi, Doaa AbdAl-Aziz, Baher Looka

“…Our study compared the surgical and functional outcomes of both approaches. Methods Our retrospective study included 72 pediatric patients presented with Hirschsprung’s Disease to Elshatby University Hospital, 40 patients were treated by TAERPT (Group A) and 32 patients were treated by LAERPT (Group B). …”
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Electromyographic Characteristics of a Single Motion Shoulder Exercise: A Pilot Study Investigating a Novel Shoulder Exercise by Michael J Henehan, Tamar Brand-Perez, Jeffrey C Peng, Masaaki Tsuruike

“… # Study Design Case-controlled, cohort study # Methods Nineteen healthy men and women without shoulder pain or dysfunction were studied. …”
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Safety and accuracy of digitally supported primary and secondary urgent care telephone triage in England: an observational study using routine data by Vanashree Sexton, Catherine Grimley, Jeremy Dale, Helen Atherton, Gary Abel

“…We explore the system’s safety and accuracy relative to patients’ use of emergency departments (EDs) and in-patient care in the subsequent 24 h. Methods Descriptive analyses were used to investigate outcomes of 98,946 calls that underwent primary and secondary triage. …”
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Transformer-Based Person Detection in Paired RGB-T Aerial Images With VTSaR Dataset by Xiangqing Zhang, Yan Feng, Nan Wang, Guohua Lu, Shaohui Mei

“…Extensive experiments conducted on the Heridal and VTSaR datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of light-weighted VTSaRNet in achieving impressive metrics precision of 98.3%, recall of 96.78%, mAP@0.5 of 98.73%, and mAP@0.5:0.95 of 73.98% under self-built VTSaR dataset, respectively). …”
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Post-marketing safety surveillance for the recombinant zoster vaccine (Shingrix), vaccine adverse event reporting system, United States, October 2017–April 2024 by Yamin Shu, Wenxin Cheng, Xucheng He, Liu Huang, Wei Chen, Qilin Zhang

“…The purpose of this study was to provide comprehensively worldwide post-marketing safety information about RZV using data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Methods: We searched for and analyzed adverse event (AE) reports of RZV submitted to U.S. …”
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Water Risk and Mining Firms’ Stock Return by Maryam Davallou, Shirin Mehrali

“…The purpose of the current research is to test the pricing of water risk in mining companies of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) and to estimate the drop in the value of their shares in the event of a water crisis. MethodsConsidering that the availability of water resources hinges on rainfall levels in the catchment area, we assessed water risk using the Standard Precipitation Index (SPI). …”
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Modulation of the thiol redox proteome by sugarcane ash-derived silica nanoparticles: insights into chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology by Arthur D. Stem, Cole R. Michel, Peter S. Harris, Keegan L. Rogers, Matthew Gibb, Carlos A. Roncal-Jimenez, Richard Reisdorph, Richard J. Johnson, James R. Roede, Kristofer S. Fritz, Jared M. Brown

“…SiNPs have high potential for generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and their accumulation in kidney could result in oxidative stress induced kidney damage consistent with CKDu pathology. Methods In order to characterize the impact of sugarcane ash derived (SAD) SiNPs on human kidney proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) cells and identify potential mechanisms of toxicity, HK-2 cells were exposed to treatments of either pristine, manufactured, 200 nm SiNPs or SAD SiNPs and changes to cellular energy metabolism and redox state were determined. …”
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Turismo en Mallorca by Macià Blázquez Salom

“…Geography can help inform this political debate on the transformation of the system of production, consumption and social relations oriented towards a necessary contraction and convergence of the metabolic flow per capita, for the improvement of human welfare and by redistributive, egalitarian and consensual methods. …”
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Medicaid Eligibility and Time to Re-incarceration Among Previously Incarcerated Subjects With Schizophrenia by Chris Kozma, Michael Dickson, Jacqueline Pesa, Carmela J. Benson

“…**Objective:** To assess the relationship between Medicaid eligibility and risk of re-incarceration among previously incarcerated schizophrenia diagnosed subjects. **Methods:** Study subjects were selected between January 1, 2006 and September 30, 2011 from a single state Medicaid database that was combined with department of corrections data. …”
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Comparative efficacy of clopidogrel-aspirin combination therapy versus aspirin monotherapy in preventing recurrent events in transient ischemic attack and minor stroke: a systemati... by Ahmad Mujtaba Bhutto, Rana Ali Raza, Mohammad Bilal Abbasi, Iman Jauhar, Naeemullah Arbani, Muhammad Mubashir, Abdul Raheem, Taha Basit Ameen, Syed Muhammad Sinaan Ali

“…This meta-analysis aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of DAPT compared to aspirin monotherapy in preventing recurrent stroke. Methods We performed a systematic search of electronic databases including PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, and Scopus up to April 1, 2024. …”
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