Evaluation and validation of a clinical decision support system for dose optimisation in hospitalized patients with (morbid) obesity – a retrospective, observational study by Lianne Brand, L. Mitrov-Winkelmolen, T. M. Kuijper, T. M. Bosch, L. L. Krens

“…Abstract Background Obesity changes a patient’s pharmacokinetics and pharmacotherapeutic advices should be personalized to ensure proper treatment. Currently, implementations of advices regarding the obese population are lacking and weight and body mass index (BMI) are rarely monitored. …”
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Numerical Study of Surrounding Rock Damage in Deep-Buried Tunnels for Building-Integrated Underground Structures by Penglin Zhang, Chong Zhang, Weitao Chen, Chunhui He, Yang Liu, Zhaofei Chu

“…A constitutive model suitable for simulating rock mass damage was developed and implemented in the LS-DYNA (version R12) code via a user-defined material model, with parameters determined using the Hoek–Brown failure criterion. …”
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Psychological distress and PTSD among clinicians in Roma, Lesotho during the COVID-19 pandemic by Muila Kambulandu, Radiance M. Ogundipe, Mariel Bryden, Lebohang Sao, Dave M. Thompson, Chelsea M. McGuire, Brian W. Jack

“…Joseph’s Hospital in Roma and its four Health Centres. Additional open- and closed-ended questions were added for context. …”
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A hybrid computational model of cancer spheroid growth with ribose-induced collagen stiffening by Margherita Botticelli, John Metzcar, Thomas Phillips, Susan Cox, Pradeep Keshavanarayana, Pradeep Keshavanarayana, Fabian Spill

“…We employed a hybrid discrete-continuous model implemented in PhysiCell to simulate spheroid dynamics, successfully replicating three-dimensional in vitro experiments. …”
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Genome‐wide screening of abberant methylated drivers combined with relative risk loci in bladder cancer by Chuanjie Zhang, Kangjie Shen, Yuxiao Zheng, Feng Qi, Jun Luo

“…Kruskal‐Wallis test was implemented for comparisons between risk with other clinical variables. …”
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THE INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION PROCESS IN AZERBAIJAN by Samira Huseyn qizi Abasova

“…The following research methods were employed such as the observation method, data grouping, statistical analysis, and data comparison. Additionally, the authors provided an expert evaluation of the higher education system in Azerbaijan by applying SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats within the current educational framework. …”
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Evaluation of constitutive modeling for dynamic plastic-fracture modeling of dual phase (DP590) steel sheets by F. Najafnia, H. Talebi-Ghadikolaee, A.H. Bamdad, E. Dorchepour, R. Hashemi

“…The calibrated criteria are implemented into the finite element (FE) code Abaqus/Explicit via user subroutines, and numerical simulations are conducted to evaluate the models' accuracy beyond calibration conditions. …”
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The Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic on Local Government Performance in Service Delivery. A Case Study of Kabale District Local Government. by Musinguzi, Joshua

“…The government should provide soft loans to business operators like Emyooga such that the businesses can be implemented hence bringing service nearer to the people and this in turn will increase the tax revenue of the government helping to meet other services like education in the district. …”
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Angiogenesis Dynamics: A Computational Model of Intravascular Flow Within a Structural Adaptive Vascular Network by Sahar Jafari Nivlouei, Ana Guerra, Jorge Belinha, Naside Mangir, Sheila MacNeil, Christiane Salgado, Fernando Jorge Monteiro, Renato Natal Jorge

“…Results: The model successfully predicts the branching process with a total capillary volume fraction deviation of less than 15% compared to experimental data. Additionally, it implements blood flow through the capillary network and calculates the distribution of intravascular pressure and vessel wall shear stress. …”
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Optimized Physiological Monitoring System for COVID-19 Using VLC-Based 3D Localization and Markov Chain Analysis by Eduardo Viera Riquelme, Diego Alonso Candia, Ismael Soto, Carolina Lagos, Pablo Palacios Jativa, Raul Carrasco, Cesar Azurdia Meza, Ivan Sanchez

“…The VLC-based localization system was implemented using three LED beacons and optimized through Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). …”
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Integrated care programmes for sport and work participation, performance of physical activities and quality of life among orthopaedic surgery patients: a systematic review with met... by Maurits W van Tulder, Pieter Coenen, Gino M Kerkhoffs, Gerben Hulsegge, Joost G Daams, Rutger C van Geenen, Judith A Huirne, Johannes R Anema, P Paul Kuijer

“…Objectives Orthopaedic surgery is primarily aimed at improving function and pain reduction. Additional integrated care may enhance patient’s participation in sports and work, possibly improving performance of physical activities and quality of life (QoL). …”
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Achieving universal energy access in remote locations using HOMER energy model: a techno-economic and environmental analysis of hybrid microgrid systems for rural electrification i... by Christopher Garrett Lewis, Christopher Garrett Lewis, Muzan Williams Ijeoma, Muzan Williams Ijeoma, Rahimat Oyiza Yakubu, Benjamin Nnamdi Chukwu, Hao Chen, Michael Carbajales-Dale

“…This study investigates the feasibility of implementing community-scale microgrids in rural areas without grid connection access. …”
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Renal parenchymal volume analysis: Clinical and research applications by Carlos Munoz‐Lopez, Kieran Lewis, Nityam Rathi, Eran Maina, Akira Kazama, Anne Wong, Angelica Bartholomew, Worapat Attawettayanon, Yunlin Ye, Zhiling Zhang, Wen Dong, Rebecca A. Campbell, Nicholas Heller, Erick Remer, Christopher Weight, Steven C. Campbell

“…Conclusions Despite the wide availability of PVA, primarily for use in renal transplantation, it has not been widely implemented for other urologic purposes at most centres. …”
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GPC-YOLO: An Improved Lightweight YOLOv8n Network for the Detection of Tomato Maturity in Unstructured Natural Environments by Yaolin Dong, Jinwei Qiao, Na Liu, Yunze He, Shuzan Li, Xucai Hu, Chengyan Yu, Chengyu Zhang

“…The neck network was replaced with the convolutional neural network-based cross-scale feature fusion (CCFF) module to enhance the adaptability of the model to scale changes and to detect many small-scaled objects. Additionally, the integration of the simple attention mechanism (SimAM) and efficient intersection over union (EIoU) loss were implemented to further enhance the detection accuracy by leveraging these lightweight improvements. …”
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Social determinants of health and long‐term conditions in people of Black African and Black Caribbean ethnicity living with HIV in London: A qualitative study by Vlad Kolodin, Birgit Barbini, Denis Onyango, Rachel Musomba, Jia Liu, Rachel K. Y. Hung, Elena Nikiphorou, Lucy Campbell, Frank A. Post, Shema Tariq, Heidi Lempp

“…Conclusions It is necessary to provide ongoing and interactive education to community members who live with HIV, focusing on risks and management of LTCs. Additionally, individuals would benefit from support to navigate increasingly complex and fragmented health services. …”
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Arsenic Exposure During Pregnancy and Childhood: Factors Explaining Changes over a Decade by Paola Rubilar, Macarena Hirmas-Adauy, Mauricio Apablaza, Camila Awad, Xaviera Molina, María Pía Muñoz, Iris Delgado, Nicolás C. Zanetta-Colombo, Carla Castillo-Laborde, María Isabel Matute, Mauricio A. Retamal, Andrea Olea, Paulina Pino, Claudia González, Cristóbal Carvajal, Verónica Iglesias

“…They further emphasize the importance of addressing natural arsenic contamination in water and implementing targeted interventions to reduce disparities associated with socioeconomic and demographic factors.…”
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Evaluation of a multiplex genomic point-of-care strategy for rapid support of older people with respiratory infection in a geriatric hospital over a full winter season by Marion Fayolle, Ludovic Lafaie, Thomas Franck, Marie Blanquet, Fabien de Oliveira, Thomas Bourlet, Bruno Pozzetto, Sylvie Pillet, Thomas Célarier

“…Background: In older patients, it is important to rapidly identify those infected by a significant pathogen in order to implement isolation measures and prescribe appropriate specific treatments when available and indicated. …”
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Capability Analysis of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Emergency Management by Kristina Wolf, Jon P. Mills, Luis Cormier, Ruth Dunn, Olivia Fairless, Adewale Falaye, Stuart Gordon, Oshadee Jayamanne, Carrow Morris-Wiltshire, Eleanor Myall, Francisco Salgado-Castillo, Yashvini Shukla, Luke Taylor, Ellen Robson, Daniel Donoghue, Richard J. Dawson, Elizabeth Lewis, Sim M. Reaney, Elaine Scott, Joel Freedman, Stuart Marshall, Patrick Walker, Helen Hinds

“…As part of the strategic funding programme, in 2023, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) funded a scoping study to assess the potential of satellite data to address issues that the three North East England Local Resilience Forums face at all stages of implementing the UK’s Integrated Emergency Management Framework (IEMF). …”
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Diabetes Mellitus and Hyperlipidemia Status Among Hypertensive Patients in the Community and Influencing Factors Analysis of Blood Pressure Control by Shijia Zhang, Yunou Yang, Xiongfei Chen, Liumei Fan, Jiagang Wu, Xiangyi Liu, Weiquan Lin, Zhiyu Zhai, Guozhen Lin, Hui Liu, Qin Zhou

“…Therefore, comprehensive measures should be implemented to integrate lipid management into community health efforts and to effectively control blood pressure levels among hypertensive patients.…”
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Mixture of prompts learning for vision-language models by Yu Du, Yu Du, Yu Du, Yu Du, Yu Du, Tong Niu, Tong Niu, Tong Niu, Tong Niu, Tong Niu, Rong Zhao, Rong Zhao, Rong Zhao, Rong Zhao, Rong Zhao

“…We also implement semantically grouped text-level supervision, initializing each soft prompt with the token embeddings of manually designed templates from its group and applying a contrastive loss between the resulted text feature and hard prompt encoded text feature. …”
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