Direct non-medical costs and influencing factors of patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with targeted therapy: A cross-sectional study in Vietnam by Van Chinh Nguyen, Thi Thai Hoa Nguyen, Nguyen Nguyet Tram Luu, Khanh Linh Dao, Thi Thanh Huong Tran, Huy Tuan Kiet Pham

“… To estimate the direct non-medical costs and related factors for patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with estimated glomerular filtration rate (EGFR) mutations who received first-line targeted therapy, a cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2022 to December 2023. …”
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How state taxes and policies targeting soda consumption modify the association between school vending machines and student dietary behaviors: a cross-sectional analysis. by Daniel R Taber, Jamie F Chriqui, Renee Vuillaume, Frank J Chaloupka

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Research on Small-Target Detection of Flax Pests and Diseases in Natural Environment by Integrating Similarity-Aware Activation Module and Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network Mod... by Manxi Zhong, Yue Li, Yuhong Gao

“…Finally, this paper proposes a YOLOv8n model with a four-headed detection design, which significantly enhances the detection capability for small targets such as pests and diseases with a size of 4 × 4 pixels or larger by introducing new detection heads and optimizing feature extraction. …”
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Targeting Liver Biopsies For Optimal Biopsy Site In Diffused Liver Disease Using Real-Time Shear Wave Elastography: A Prospective, Single Center Study by Naushaba Malik, Shahbakht Aftab, Rida Noor, Noor Aftab, Rizwan, Rehan

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Increased lipoprotein (a) as an additional factor in the failure to achieve target blood pressure levels and lipid spectrum optimal parameters in patients with arterial hypertensio... by S. S. Vedenskaya, O. G. Smolenskaya

“…In most cases, patients of both groups did not reach the target blood pressure levels (63.9% — group 1, 55.3% — group 2), despite the fact that the average blood pressure figures were relatively low (132;83 mmHg in each group). …”
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eEF2K is a poor prognostic factor and novel molecular target in pancreatic cancer: regulating tumor growth and progression via the tumor microenvironment by Didem Karakas, Ahmed Ashour, Hamada Ahmed Mokhlis, Nermin Kahraman, Recep Bayraktar, Sayra Dilmac, Nashwa N. Kabil, Mumin Alper Erdogan, Egemen Dere, Engin Ulukaya, Bulent Ozpolat

“…Abstract Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal cancers, with an average survival time of only six months following diagnosis, even with currently available therapies. …”
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Rethinking composite quantification by capturing biological and ecological diversity across multiple dimensions by Ioan Sîrbu, Ana-Maria Benedek, Monica Sîrbu

“…Still, very few research targets combining different measures to quantify diversity under its various aspects and here we aim to fill this gap. …”
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Trends in lower extremity peripheral arterial disease incidence since 1990 and forecasting future statistics using Global Burden of Disease 2021: a time-series analysis by Jiacheng Li, Chengxin Weng, Tiehao Wang, Wei Lu, Lihong Lin, Jiawen Wu, Guobing Cheng, Qiang Hu, Yi Guo

“…These findings emphasize the importance of targeted resource allocation and strategic prevention efforts.…”
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Global, regional, and national burdens of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease attributable to smoking from 1990 to 2021 by Pengyue Zhang, Jie Zhu, Xinlei Chen, Chunhui Tao, Jianmei Zhou, Zhenhua Zhang, Xiaodan Hong

“…Strengthened tobacco control and targeted NAFLD prevention strategies are urgently needed.…”
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A tutorial on ‘capped utilisation’ as a metric and key performance target in NHS England’s Model Hospital operating theatres database: caution for international healthcare systems... by Chen Zhang, Claire Dunstan, Jaideep J. Pandit

“…Abstract The National Health Service (NHS) in England has set hospitals a target of achieving > 85% in a metric called ‘capped theatre utilisation’ (CTU), as central to its post-pandemic surgical waiting list recovery planning. …”
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Dynamics of age characteristics and prevalence of concomitant cardiovascular and non-sardiovascular diseases in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during epidemic wave: data from... by M. M. Lukyanov, S. Yu. Martsevich, A. A. Pulin, N. P. Kutishenko, E. Yu. Andreenko, V. P. Voronina, V. A. Dindikova, N. A. Dmitrieva, A. V. Zagrebelny, A. N. Makoveeva, O. V. Lerman, E. Yu. Okshina, А. S. Sgibneva, A. A. Smirnov, E. N. Belova, V. G. Klyashtorny, E. V. Kudryashov, O. E. Karpov, O. M. Drapkina

“…The proportion of patients with CVDs increased significantly — from 34,2% to 66,7%, on average by 3,7% per week (p<0,001; Incidence Risk Ratio (IRR)=1,037; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1,017-1,058), with chronic non-cardiovascular diseases — from 32,5% to 43,2%, on average by 2,5% per week (p<0,001; IRR=1,025; 95% CI, 1,002-1,049), as well as those with CVDs and/or chronic non-cardiovascular diseases — from 47,5% to 75,3%, on average by 3,2% per week (p<0,001; IRR=1,032; 95% CI, 1,017-1,048). …”
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YOLOv8-CBSE: An Enhanced Computer Vision Model for Detecting the Maturity of Chili Pepper in the Natural Environment by Yane Ma, Shujuan Zhang

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The pharmacoeconomic efficacy of chemotherapy for malignant neoplasms of the bronchus and lung by S. K. Yarovoy, I. B. Shikina

“…For 200 patients with non-small cell non-squamous EGFR positive lung cancer, it is required 1,413.1 courses of chemotherapy and targeted therapy. For 70 patients with non-squamous cell non-small cell lung cancer with ALK mutation, it is required 450.2 courses of chemotherapy and targeted therapy. …”
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The effect of EMG magnitude on the masseter vestibular evoked myogenic potential (mVEMP) by Daniel J. Romero, Gary P. Jacobson, Richard A. Roberts

“…While some individuals did generate differences in EMG activation between sides, there were no significant differences on average EMG activation between sides. Further, while average corrected amplitude asymmetry was similar across EMG targets, some individuals demonstrated large, corrected amplitude asymmetry ratios. …”
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Plant recognition of maize seedling stage in UAV remote sensing images based on H-RT-DETR by Yunlong Wu, Shouqi Yuan, Lingdi Tang

“…Through experiments on the UAV remote sensing data set of maize seedling stage, the mean Average Precision mAP0.5–0.95, mAP0.5 and mAP0.75 of the improved H-RT-DETR model reached 51.2%, 94.7% and 48.1%, respectively, and the Average Recall (AR) reached 68.5%. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Adverse Effects: Protein Kinase Inhibitors Versus Traditional Anticancer Therapies by Ioana Lavinia Radulian, Georgiana Nitulescu, Anca Zanfirescu, George Mihai Nitulescu

“…PKIs showed fewer systemic toxicities, with an average of 230.1 distinct AEs per drug, compared to 537.7 in nonPKIs. …”
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Composite Layer Formation with Island Nanostructures in Vacuum by S. V. Sidorova, I. E. Pimenov, A. D. Kouptsov, A. A. Felde

“…The developed method for forming a composite coating with INS involves the use of a combined target. The results obtained can be used when creating composite thin-film coatings from dielectric and conductive nanoscale structures by magnetron sputtering in vacuum.…”
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Detection-Oriented Evaluation of SAR Dexterous Barrage Jamming Effectiveness by Hai Zhu, Sinong Quan, Shiqi Xing, Haoyu Zhang, Yun Ren

“…Starting from the detection, it divides the evaluation process into two stages: (1) for the case in which the target can be detected under the jamming scenario, two feature parameters, namely, the target exposion area and target relative magnitude, are extracted; (2) for the case in which the target cannot be detected under the jamming scenario, another three feature parameters, namely, jamming relative magnitude, average edge brightness, and local information entropy, are extracted. …”
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A COMMENT ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE PERIOD OF 2018-2024 PREPARED BY THE CSR by V. V. Ivanter, A. A. Shirov, M. S. Gusev, A. K. Moiseev

“…An assessment of the consistency of individual targets set forth in the Strategy is made.…”
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The cost of tsetse control using 'Tiny Targets' in the sleeping sickness endemic forest area of Bonon in Côte d'Ivoire: Implications for comparing costs across different settings. by Fabrice Courtin, Dramane Kaba, Jean-Baptiste Rayaisse, Philippe Solano, Steve J Torr, Alexandra P M Shaw

“…The average annual cost was USD 0.5 per person protected, USD 31.6 per target deployed of which 12% was the cost of the target itself, or USD 471.2 per km2 protected. …”
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