Factors influencing extrauterine growth retardation in singleton-non-small for gestational age infants in China: A prospective multicenter study by Ya-Sen Wang, Wei Shen, Fan Wu, Jian Mao, Ling Liu, Yan-Mei Chang, Rong Zhang, Xiu-Zhen Ye, Yin-Ping Qiu, Li Ma, Rui Cheng, Hui Wu, Dong-Mei Chen, Zhi Zheng, Xin-Zhu Lin, Xiao-Mei Tong

“…The use of full-course antenatal steroids, greater BW as a percentile of the Fenton curve, breastfeeding initiation and faster average velocity of weight growth effectively protected against EUGR (P = 0.008, P < 0.001, P < 0.001 and P < 0.001, respectively). …”
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Dynamic gas supply mechanism and theoretical production modes of free gas-rich deep coal reservoirs by Shida CHEN, Taiyuan ZHANG, Dazhen TANG, Hao XU, Shu TAO, Song LI, Shuling TANG

“…The pressure drop funnel, adsorbed gas exhibited a relatively low average desorption rate, with gas supply units concentrated primarily in high-permeability stimulated zones. …”
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Performance, Metabolism, and Economic Implications of Replacing Soybean Meal with Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles in Feedlot Cattle Diets by Andrei L. R. Brunetto, Guilherme L. Deolindo, Ana Luiza de F. dos Santos, Luisa Nora, Maksuel Gatto de Vitt, Renato S. de Jesus, Bruna Klein, Luiz Eduardo Lobo e Silva, Roger Wagner, Gilberto V. Kozloski, Aleksandro S. da Silva

“…The 24 animals received diets with 80% concentrate, containing either DDGS or soybean meal, and no significant differences were observed in terms of body weight (<i>p</i> = 0.92), feed intake (<i>p</i> = 0.98), or feed efficiency (<i>p</i> = 0.97) between the two treatments. The average daily gain was 1.25 and 1.28 kg for cattle in the DDGS and soybean meal groups, respectively (<i>p</i> = 0.92). …”
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Optimizing treatment for depression in primary care using psychotherapy versus antidepressant medication in a low-resource setting: protocol for the OptimizeD randomized controlled... by Julia R. Pozuelo, Anuja Lahiri, Rahul S. P. Singh, Arvind Kushwah, Mimansa Khanduri, Akanksha Shukla, Azaz Khan, Sruthi G., Varun Shende, Yashika Parashar, Yashwant K. Mehra, Anant Bhan, Ronald C. Kessler, Daisy R. Singla, John A. Naslund, Karmel W. Choi, Pim Cuijpers, Robert DeRubeis, Mohammad M. Herzallah, Chunling Lu, Jordan W. Smoller, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Abhijit R. Rozatkar, Tamonud Modak, Michelle Melwyn Joel, Debasis Biswas, Shubham Atal, Umay Kulsum, Steven D. Hollon, Vikram Patel

“…Abstract Background Psychotherapy and antidepressant medications are first-line treatments for depression, and they both have significant treatment effects on average. However, treatment response varies widely across patients, and neither approach is universally effective. …”
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Investigating the Factors Influencing the Resilience Capacity of Rural Households Affected by Drought: A Case Study of the Villages of Zehak City by A.R. Sani Heidary, M. Daneshvar Kakhki, M. Sabouhi, H. Mohammadi

“…Results and Discussion The results of the state of resilience capacity of rural households in the region indicated that the average value of their resilience capacity is 26.27, which shows the low level of resilience capacity in the region. …”
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Bordetella pertussis exhibits genomic diversity within patients and laboratory culture by E. Bouda, Y. Peng, M. M. Williams, P. K. Cassiday, T. H. Skoff, H. Ju, H. Fueston, D. Kurien, D. Morales, M. Cole, E. A. Travanty, D. Santoro, P. M. Snippes Vagnone, K. Mitchell, M. Martinez, Y. Unoarumhi, M. Bentz, S. Nobles, J. Heuser, M. L. Tondella, L. C. Pawloski, M. R. Weigand

“…Five states submitted, on average, five isolates per patient specimen following culture confirmation to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for molecular characterization. …”
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Mortality Projections, Regional Disparities in the Burden of Neonatal Disorders, and the Status of Achieving SDG Targets by 2030 in South Asia: Insights from the Global Burden of D... by Manya Soni, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Ashok Kumar Balaraman, Rangaswamy Roopashree, Mandeep Kaur, Manish Srivastava, Amit Barwal, G. V. Siva Prasad, Pranchal Rajput, Rukshar Syed, Gajendra Sharma, Sunil Kumar, Ganesh Bushi, Nagavalli Chilakam, Sakshi Pandey, Manvinder Brar, Rachana Mehta, Sanjit Sah, Muhammed Shabil, Abhay M. Gaidhane, Mahendra Singh

“…Mortality forecasts for the period 2022–2031, attributed to various neonatal disorders, were produced employing the Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average model in R software. Additionally, an analysis of overall neonatal mortality trends from 1980 to 2021 was conducted, supplemented by a heat map that compares DALYs attributable to various neonatal disorders across South Asian countries in 2021. …”
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Quality of Care and Outcomes of Inpatients with COPD: A Multi-Center Study in China by Wang F, Wang M, Chen X, Song A, Zeng H, Chen J, Wang L, Jiang W, Jiang M, Shi W, Li Y, Zhong H, Chen R, Liang Z

“…The 30-day readmission rate was 7.1%. The average exacerbation rate was 0.94 per patient during the following year, and the one-year mortality rate was 7.2%. …”
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Cluster randomised controlled trial of screening for atrial fibrillation in people aged 70 years and over to reduce stroke: protocol for the pilot study for the SAFER trial by Martin R Cowie, Stephen Morris, Gregory Lip, Richard J McManus, Stephen Sutton, Jonathan Mant, Simon J Griffin, Sarah Hoare, Jenni Burt, Rachel Johnson, Mark Lown, Alison Powell, Natalie Armstrong, FD Richard Hobbs, Trudie Lobban, Rakesh Narendra Modi, Ben Freedman, David A Fitzmaurice, Stephen Kaptoge, Jenny Lund, Duncan Edwards, Kate Williams, H Thom, Francesco Fusco, Michael J Sweeting, Andrew Dymond, The SAFER Authorship Group

“…The aim of the pilot study is to assess feasibility of the main trial and inform implementation of screening and trial procedures.Methods and analysis SAFER is planned to be a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (RCT) of over 100 000 participants aged 70 years and over, not on long-term anticoagulation therapy at baseline, with an average follow-up of 5 years. …”
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Seasonal effects on growth, digestibility, and metabolism of preweaning dairy calves in the southeastern United States by Ansley M. Roper, Ruth M. Orellana Rivas, Jing Gao, Thiago N. Marins, C.G. Savegnago, Thalyane Rodrigues, Victor H.L.R. Melo, Diego Ferreira de Araújo, Juliana Goncalves de Souza, Pedro Melendez, John K. Bernard, Sha Tao

“…Linear regression analysis between ADG and environmental parameters was performed using the GLM procedure. …”
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Designing a Dynamic Model for Evaluating Construction Investment Projects A System Dynamics Approach by Majid Moatamedi, Mohammad Hossein Darvish Motevlli

“…The error value of the model in the predicted value and the actual value is very small on average, which indicates the high accuracy of the model in predicting the behavior of the reference. …”
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Validez, confiabilidad y percentiles de un cuestionario que mide los niveles de actividad en adolescentes que viven a moderada altitud del Perú (Validity, reliability, and percent... by Marco Antonio Cossio-Bolaños, Ruben Vidal-Espinoza, Jose Sulla-Torres, Cristian Luarte-Rocha, Jaime Pacheco-Carrillo, Rossana Gomez-Campos

“…Percentiles were established. The average age of boys was 15.24 ± 1.82 years old, whilst girls were 15.39 ± 1.64 years old. …”
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Sewage sludge from Taxco de Alarcón wastewater treatment plant as substrate to cultivate Panicum maximum by Erik Yoel Carreto-Morales, Jazmin Alaide López-Díaz, Mariana Martínez-Castrejón, Oscar Talavera-Mendoza, Roberto Carlos Almazán-Núñez, Giovanni Hernández-Flores

“…The chemical analysis detected P, K, Ca, Mg, and S, considered macronutrients in both substrates. …”
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Chemical Abundances of Seven Stars in the GD-1 Stream by Jing-Kun Zhao, Guang-Wei Li, Wako Aoki, Gang Zhao, Guo-Chao Yang, Jian-Rong Shi, Hai-Ning Li, Tadafumi Matsuno, Miho Ishigaki, Takuma Suda, Satoshi Honda, Yu-Qin Chen, Qian-Fan Xing, Hong-Liang Yan, Yong Yang, Xian-Hao Ye

“…Atmospheric parameters were derived via color calibrations ( T _eff ) and iterative spectroscopic analysis. LTE abundances for 14 elements ( α , odd Z, iron peak, n-capture) were measured. …”
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Impact of length of stay on diagnostic yield in the epilepsy monitoring unit: A multi‐center retrospective 12‐year Veterans Health Administration study by Maximillian S. Feygin, Autumn Smith, Sruthi Gopinath Karicheri, Khadar Haroun, Omar Khan, Maria R. Lopez, Stephan Eisenschenk, John Jones, Stephanie Reeder, Alan R. Towne, Christopher Ransom, Karen Medin, James Chen, Tung Tran, Nina I. Garga, Noemi Rincon‐Flores, Marissa Kellogg, Steven Tobochnik, Zulfi Haneef, the Veterans Epilepsy Learning, Collaborative Research, and Operations (VELCRO) investigators

“…Fixed sites did not appear inferior to flexible sites for reaching diagnostic conclusions in our analysis. The higher proportion of earlier diagnoses at fixed sites observed was likely a statistical effect of their predefined shorter admission lengths. …”
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Development and validation of scales measuring self-efficacy and behavioral capability in managing common medical emergencies in dental clinics by Yasmine N. Alawaji, Hussam M. Alqahtani, Abdulmohsen Alfadley, Aram Alshehri, Ali Aboalela, Sahr H. Altuwaijri, Farraj Albalawi, Sara A. Kalagi, Abdulrhman Alghamdi, Abdullah Alshibani, Meshal Alharbi, Meshary Binhotan, Nesrin A. Alharthy

“…Dental trainees with higher graduate point average (GPA) had a mean decrease in self-efficacy by 9.9 points (95% CI: -19.1, -0.6). …”
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Introduction to Special Thematic Issue, part 2 "Microsaccades: Empirical Research and Methodological Advances“ by Rudolf Groner

“…The authors found that the average amplitude of the torsional component of microsaccades during fixation was 0.34 ± 0.07 degrees with velocities following a main sequence with a slope comparable to the horizontal and vertical components. …”
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Identification and leveling of factors affecting the acceptance of excellence model in Islamic Azad University by Seyedeh Somayeh Mousavi Siah Deleh, Samad Jabbari Asl, Musa Rezvani Chaman Zamin

“…In order to analyze the data, the theme analysis method was used, and in order to level the identified criteria, the interpretive structural modeling method was used in MACMIC software. …”
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STABILITY (Symptomatic Review during Biologic Therapy) of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Receiving Infusion Therapy Improves Clinical Outcomes by Kelli Morgan, James Morris, Qiang Cai, Phillip Kilgore, Urska Cvek, Marjan Trutschl, Katelynn T. Lofton, Meher Sindhoora Mavuram, Prerana Ramesh, Nhi Dao, Ahmed Alhaque, Jonathan Steven Alexander

“…To further investigate the impact of STABILITY, we conducted a comparative analysis between IBD patients undergoing STABILITY infusion therapy and LSUHS patients solely on self-injectable biologics. …”
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Control Performance and Preliminary Application Investigation of Novel Rotational Impact Dampers by SHEN Junjie, WANG Jingjing

“…Step 5: The root mean square of the structural response under various initial angle conditions was calculated, and the average value was taken as the vibration reduction index. …”
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