Effectiveness of biomarker-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection: the BATCH RCT by Cherry-Ann Waldron, Philip Pallmann, Simon Schoenbuchner, Debbie Harris, Lucy Brookes-Howell, Céu Mateus, Jolanta Bernatoniene, Katrina Cathie, Saul N Faust, Josie Henley, Lucy Hinds, Kerry Hood, Chao Huang, Sarah Jones, Sarah Kotecha, Sarah Milosevic, Helen Nabwera, Sanjay Patel, Stéphane Paulus, Colin VE Powell, Jenny Preston, Huasheng Xiang, Emma Thomas-Jones, Enitan D Carrol

“…The sample size of 1942 was determined, based on detecting a 1-day reduction in IV antibiotic use (90% power, two-sided) and on a non-inferiority margin of 5% absolute risk difference (RD) in the composite safety outcome (90% power, one-sided), while allowing for up to 10% loss to follow-up. …”
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Mind the blind spot: lessons from fungal community sequencing in a plant–soil feedback experiment by Mengshuai Liu, Jose G. Maciá-Vicente, Jasper van Ruijven, Wopke van der Werf, Zhenling Cui, Fusuo Zhang, Chunxu Song, Liesje Mommer

“…However, we cannot rule out that our results were affected by the high abundance of one particular cellulose-degrading fungus. …”
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Improving flow of patients with hyperglycaemia (non-DKA/non-HHS) from the emergency department by Vithiya Umaipalan, Omar Mustafa, Sophie Harris

“…Results and discussion: There were decreases in the length of ED stay for patients with hyperglycaemia (Fig 1). However, there is no improvement in the time from admission to glucose check or insulin administration. …”
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新編中學生考試焦慮因應量表：以潛在類別分析取向探究學生因應組型及預測因子 Coping Scale With Test Anxiety (COSTA) for Adolescent Students: Exploring Coping Profiles and Predictors Through a Latent Class Analysis Approa... by 趙子揚 Tzu-Yang Chao

“…The responses were scored using a five-point Likert scale, where students indicated how well each statement applied to them by selecting one of the following options: “completely untrue,” “mostly untrue,” “somewhat true,” “mostly true,” and “completely true,” scored from 1 to 5 points, respectively. …”
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The VIP trial: a randomised controlled trial of the clinical effectiveness of a Victim Improvement Package (VIP) for the reduction of continued symptoms of depression or anxiety in... by Victoria Vickerstaff, Vari M Drennan, Marta Buszewicz, Anthony Kessel, Gerard Leavey, Jonathan Cooke, Chris Brewin, Teresa Lee, Marc Serfaty, Jessica Satchell, Gloria Laycock

“…The VIP showed no overall benefit; mean VIP −0.41 (SD 0.89) vs mean TAU −0.19 (SD 1.11); standardised mean difference −0.039; 95% CI (−0.39, 0.31), although stratified analyses suggested an effect in burglary victims (n=27, standardised mean difference −0.61; 95% CI (−1.22, –0.002), p=0.049).Conclusions Community crime had long-lasting impacts. …”
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Green Public Transport in Poland—Planning the Process of the Electrification of the Bus Fleet of Vehicles by Norbert Chamier-Gliszczynski, Adam Wyszomirski, Cezary Balewski, Michał Kłodawski

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Renovationist Church Episcopate in USSR in 1941-1945: Transformations of Political Views by I. V. Petrov

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Target recognition in diverse synthetic aperture radar image datasets with low size weight and power processing hardware by Richard O. Lane, Wendy J. Holmes, Timothy Lamont‐Smith

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The estate topos in B. K. Zaytsev’s novel The Golden Pattern: originality of implementation and reception of L. N. Tolstoy’s prose by V. G.  Andreeva

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UAV Path Planning under Dynamic Threats Using an Improved PSO Algorithm by Jong-Jin Shin, Hyochoong Bang

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Older Adult Online Learning during COVID-19 in Taiwan: Based on Teachers' Perspective by Ya-Hui Lee, Yi-Fen Wang, Hsien-Ta Cha

“…The study findings are listed as follows: 1) Adult teachers encountered difficulties, including older learners did not have the required equipment nor stable connections, not familiar with operating phones to participate in online classes, extra burdens for older learners' vision resulted in learning drop-outs, and the lack of experience in operating the equipment that disturbed the courses, the decreased learning quality worsened the learning situation. 2) Adult teachers coped by asking family members to assist with the equipment, demonstrating and taking pictures of the steps, spending more time preparing for teaching, and using various teaching methods to enhance the interactions.This study found that adult teachers need to adapt their teaching strategies to the characteristics of older learners to transition from physical to online teaching. …”
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Enhancing Crop Classification in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) Using Transformer-Based Multi-Source Data Fusion with Thermal Observations by Y. Qi, E. Mandanici, M. Helmy, F. Trevisiol, G. Bitelli

“…Using satellite imagery and agricultural surveys, we constructed a temporal dataset covering 2020 with 27 biweekly time steps. After filtering out underrepresented crop types with insufficient samples for machine learning training, nine crop types remained. …”
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New Horizons In The Treatment Of Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer by Zein El Amir

“…The stakeholders need to take urgent and applicable steps in the right direction. …”
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Anatomy In The Undergraduate Medical Curriculum; Blending The Old And New by Ayesha Yousaf

“…The stakeholders need to take urgent and applicable steps in the right direction. …”
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Direct oral penicillin challenge in secondary care with low-risk patients: the SPACE mixed-methods study with cost-effectiveness analysis by Mamidipudi Thirumala Krishna, Yogini H Jani, Iestyn Williams, Ruben Mujica-Mota, Rebecca Bestwick, Michele Siciliano, Robert Michael West, Rashmeet Bhogal, Bee Yean Ng, Kornelija Kildonaviciute, Rachel Pollard, Nicola Jones, Louise Dunsmure, Mairead McErlean, Neil Powell, Chidanand C Hullur, Ariyur Balaji, Jonathan Sandoe, Amena Warner, Ron Daniels, Caroline Thomas, Siraj A Misbah, Louise Savic

“…We combined prospectively collected individual patient data on the time that clinical and non-clinical staff spent in screening and risk stratification and retrospectively, collected data on staff time inputs into all DPC steps, to value time inputs according to the midpoint of the salary scales for the title and grade of staff and derived the costs of the full DPC pathway. …”
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THE PROGRAM OF ADAPTATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONNEL WITHIN A QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL ORGANIZATION (REVIEW) by N. G. Zolotareva, S. V. Strelkov, V. A. Strelkova

“…In doing so, pharmacies need to take a number of steps to improve the quality of the workforce, its activities and involvement in the process of formation of NPS and QMS. …”
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Direct determination of aluminum in low-enriched UAlx targets (UAlx-Al) by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry by Sabine Neusatz Guilhen, Alexandre Luiz de Souza, Marycel Elena Barboza Cotrim, Maria Aparecida Faustino Pires

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Lens Modeling of STRIDES Strongly Lensed Quasars Using Neural Posterior Estimation by Sydney Erickson, Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Phil Marshall, Martin Millon, Simon Birrer, Aaron Roodman, Thomas Schmidt, Tommaso Treu, Stefan Schuldt, Anowar J. Shajib, Padma Venkatraman, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

“…To enable time-delay cosmography from a sample of ${ \mathcal O }(1{0}^{3})$ lenses, which will soon become available from surveys like the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time and the Euclid Wide Survey, we require fast and standardizable modeling techniques. …”
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Furtherance of Multilevel Inverter and Evolution of a Packed Inverter Unit for Dynamic Loads by Premkumar R, Vimal Juliet A, Vijayaraja L

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All-Russian extraordinary commission (Cheka) and Russian Orthodox Church in 1918 by Sergei Leonov

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