Initiation and intensification of insulin therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a budget impact analysis by E. V. Biryukova, V. I. Ignat’eva

“…The weighted average price of 1 IU insulin (according to public procurement data) was used for calculations. …”
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Salt content of sauces in the UK and China: cross-sectional surveys by Yuan Li, Feng J He, Graham A MacGregor, Puhong Zhang, Monique Tan, Jingmin Ding

“…Objectives (1) To assess the changes in the salt content of sauces in the UK in the past 10 years; (2) to compare the salt content of sauces in China with equivalent products sold in the UK and (3) to calculate the proportion of sauce products meeting the salt targets set by the UK Department of Health (DoH).Design Cross-sectional surveys from the nutrition information panels of sauces.Setting Major retailers in London, Beijing and Shijiazhuang operating at data collection times.Main outcome measure Salt content of sauces.Results Relative change in the median salt content of UK products ranged from −70.6% to +3.0% in sauces for which salt targets were set, whereas it ranged from −27.1% to +111.5% in sauces without targets. …”
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Surface defect detection on bolt surface using a real-time fine-tuned YOLOv6 model by Chhaya Gupta, Nasib Singh Gill, Preeti Gulia, Faeiz M. Alserhani, Piyush Kumar Shukla, J. Shreyas

“…Soft Intersection over Union (SIoU) is utilized to augment target detection. The model was trained using a real-time dataset from the bolt manufacturing sector in Panipat, India. …”
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Private Data Incrementalization: Data-Centric Model Development for Clinical Liver Segmentation by Stephanie Batista, Miguel Couceiro, Ricardo Filipe, Paulo Rachinhas, Jorge Isidoro, Inês Domingues

“…This study introduces a <i>Private Data Incrementalization</i>, a data-centric approach to enhance the adaptability of Artificial Neural Networks by progressively exposing them to varied clinical data. As the target of this study is not to propose a new image segmentation model, the existing medical imaging segmentation models—including U-Net, ResUNet++, Fully Convolutional Network, and a modified algorithm based on the Conditional Bernoulli Diffusion Model—are used. …”
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Quantitative study on multi-factor production capacity chart for ultra-high temperature, high pressure, and low permeability gas reservoirs by ZHANG Qian, FAN Zhaoyu, WANG Qin, TANG Huimin, HE Zhihui

“…When water saturation in the target reservoir cores was below the irreducible water saturation (40%), every 10% increase in water saturation corresponded to an average production capacity loss of approximately 12%. …”
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Candesartan effectiveness in essential arterial hypertension and renal arterial hypertension by N. M. Chikhladze, O. A. Sivakova, E. V. Blinova, T. A. Sakhnova, I. P. Kolos, G. N. Litonova, I. E. Chazova

“…Additional hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) therapy increased antihypertensive effect of candesartan. On average, MAU reduced from 63,5±16,8 to 31,7±24,4 mg/d (p&lt;0,0001).Conclusion. …”
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VALUATION OF THE ANTI-LEISHMANIAL POTENTIAL OF SOME PROMINENT LEAD COMPOUNDS AGAINST PYRIDOXAL KINASE IN COMPLEX WITH ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE AND PYRIDOXINE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY by Fabian Audu Ugbe, Abdullahi Muhammad Ayuba, Emmanuel Israel Edache, Anne Jibrin, Oluwagbemiga Tayo Amusan

“…In this study, a molecular docking investigation was performed to assess the Pyridoxal kinase (PDB ID – 6K91) protein targeting ability of five lead molecules, one each of maleimide, arylimidamide-azole hybrid, arylbenzimidazole, diarylidene cyclohexanone, and organoselenium. …”
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Comparison of Fluoxetine (20 Mg) and Amitriptyline (12.5 Mg) As Adjuvants for The Combination of Paracetamol and Morphine in Cancer Patients' Pain Relief by Samawi Husein Ramud, Tasrif Hamdi, Chrismas Gideon Bangun, Yuki Yunanda

“…Background: Pain is one of the most common symptoms in cancer which affects 30–50% of patients on average and rises to 70–90% in cases of advanced disease. …”
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CEG-0598, a novel dual inhibitor of EGFR and C5aR demonstrates in vitro anticancer and antimetastatic activity in prostate cancer cells by Ayed A. Dera, Majed Al Fayi

“…ADME supported favorable small molecule characteristics and selective inhibition profiles. Kinome-wide off-target virtual screening predicted EGFR to have above-average docking scores. …”
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Aumolertinib plus bevacizumab for untreated advanced NSCLC with EGFR sensitive mutation by Lingping Kong, Lina Peng, Xue Yang, Qing Ma, Linlin Zhang, Xia Liu, Diansheng Zhong, Fanlu Meng

“…The PFS% at 12-month was 81% (95% confidence interval (CI): 64.1–97.9%), the median PFS was 26 months (95% CI: 16.5-35.5) and the ORR reached 85.7%, with an average reduction of the target lesions of 48.2%. …”
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Organic geochemistry and mineralogical characterization of the Paleocene Ranikot Formation shales in selected areas of Southern Indus Basin Pakistan by Hussain Asghar, Saeed Abbas, Muhammad Sabir Khan, Samina Jahandad, Muhammad Hanif, Muhammad Saleem Mughal, Gulfam Hussain

“…The current research, an integration with US EIA report delineated the Ranikot Formation influential target as a shale gas resource. …”
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Technical, Tactical, and Time–Motion Match Profiles of the Forwards, Midfielders, and Defenders of a Men’s Football Serie A Team by Rocco Perrotta, Alexandru Nicolae Ungureanu, Domenico Cherubini, Paolo Riccardo Brustio, Corrado Lupo

“…Technical and tactical indicators, such as ball possession (played balls, successful passes, successful playing patterns, lost balls, ball possession time), offensive play (total and successful dribbles, crosses, assists), and shooting (total shots, shots on target) were obtained by means of Panini Digital (DigitalSoccer Project S.r.l). …”
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Investigation into the Efficient Cooperative Planning Approach for Dual-Arm Picking Sequences of Dwarf, High-Density Safflowers by Zhenguo Zhang, Peng Xu, Binbin Xie, Yunze Wang, Ruimeng Shi, Junye Li, Wenjie Cao, Wenqiang Chu, Chao Zeng

“…Experimental results show that the length of the parallelogram trajectory, after smoothing with the Bézier curve, is reduced by 20.52% compared to the gantry trajectory. In terms of average picking time, the LTSACO algorithm reduces the time by 2.00%, 2.60%, and 5.60% compared to DCACO, IACO, and the traditional ACO algorithm, respectively. …”
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Routine Immunisation Coverage Shows Signs of Recovery at Global Level Postpandemic, but Important Declines Persist in About 20% of Countries by Beth Evans, Laurent Kaiser, Olivia Keiser, Thibaut Jombart

“…<b>Results:</b> We show that mean global DTP third-dose coverage levels remained on average 2.7% [95% confidence intervals: 1.1–4.3%] lower than expected in 2023. …”
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Sustainable Pest Management with Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Loaded with β-Cypermethrin by Min Li, Linmiao Xue, Teng Gao, Zhuo Zhang, Dan Zhao, Xing Li, Zhanhai Kang

“…However, it is highly toxic to non-target organisms such as bees and fish, and its effectiveness is limited by a short duration of action. …”
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A Dual-Camera Eye-Tracking Platform for Rapid Real-Time Diagnosis of Acute Delirium: A Pilot Study by Ahmed Al-Hindawi, Marcela Vizcaychipi, Yiannis Demiris

“…We trained two Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) models that can classify delirium using a pre-existing manual scoring system (Confusion Assessment Method in ICU (CAM-ICU)) as the training target. The first model uses eye movements only which achieves an Area Under the Receiver Operator Curve (AUROC) of 0.67 and a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 0.68. …”
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Benchmarking with a Language Model Initial Selection for Text Classification Tasks by Agus Riyadi, Mate Kovacs, Uwe Serdült, Victor Kryssanov

“…LMDFit benchmarking compares candidate model performances on a target-task small dataset to disqualify less-relevant models from further testing. …”
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Budget impact analysis of dexamethasone intravitreal implant for the treatment of diabetic macular oedema by Fernando de Andrés-Nogales, Enrique Cervera, Félix Armadá, Luis Arias, Itziar Oyagüez, Concha Martínez

“…The approved therapies in use (aflibercept/ranibizumab/dexamethasone) were considered. The target population was estimated from published diabetic macular oedema prevalence (6.41%) and incidence (0.82%) for a population of 25,000 adults. …”
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Evaluation of Xpert^® Carba-R Assay Performance from FecalSwab™ Samples by Nicla Giovacchini, Chiara Chilleri, Ilaria Baccani, Eleonora Riccobono, Gian Maria Rossolini, Alberto Antonelli

“…The best volume was then used to assess the limit of detection (LoD) for each target and compare the accuracy of different FecalSwab^TM storage conditions (room temperature or 4 °C after 16 h compared to T₀). …”
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Design of an efficient multi-objective recognition approach for 8-ball billiards vision system by Jiaying Gao, Qiuyang He, Hong Gao, Zhixin Zhan, Zhe Wu

“…In addition, the Convolution Neural Network (CNN) method is adopted for pattern recognition of each target ball being segmented, i.e. identification of a solid ball or a striped ball. …”
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