Contemporary principles of hypoxia management in case of ARDS of various origin. Part 1 by A. V. Vlasenko, E. A. Evdokimov, E. P. Rodionov

Get full text

The effectiveness of providing training and ongoing support to foster cultural humility in volunteers serving as mentors to youth of color: a mixed-methods study protocol by Bernadette Sánchez, Amy J. Anderson, Carla Herrera, David L. DuBois, Kay Thursby Bourke, Jean K. Sack, So Jung Lee, Karen Burchwell, Lidia Y. Monjaras-Gaytan, Yesenia Garcia-Murillo

“…The BBBS staff who are responsible for delivering the enhancements receive preparatory training as well as ongoing support with implementation. The study has a mixed-methods design. Survey data, on outcomes (e.g., ethnic/racial identity, sense of mattering, efficacy) aligned with the theory of change, are collected at multiple time points within 12 months from mentors, youth and their parent/guardian, and BBBS staff. …”
Get full text

Lobectomy with ipsilateral central lymph node dissection might be an appropriate surgical method for select cases of isthmic papillary thyroid carcinoma: a retrospective study with propensity scores matching analysis by Bin Wang, Chun-Rong Zhu, Hong Wen, Yuan Fei, Zhu-Juan Wu, Hong Liu, Xin-Min Yao, Jian Wu

Get full text

Evaluating methods to define place of residence in Canadian administrative data and the impact on observed associations with all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes by Danielle K Nagy, Lauren C Bresee, Dean T Eurich, Scot H Simpson

“…This study quantifies the impact of different methods to define residence (rural, urban, metropolitan) on the association with all-cause mortality. …”
Get full text

DEMATEL Method for Contradiction Network Analyzing by Liu Shang, Hu Ji, Cao Zhongliang, Guo Jianhua, Wang Zhongshuang

“…In the process of innovation design,the contradiction network are often constructed as more than one contradiction which interact each other emerge from analyzing step of initial problem situation.It is the key problem for innovation design that how to select important contradiction,root cause contradiction and core contradiction correctly from contradiction network.As the result of analyzing on contradiction interaction pattern and strategy of contradiction network decomposing,oriented graph is used to expressed the interaction between contradictions in the network of contradiction,and the equation to get the cause degree of contradiction to others is built,then the selecting method of important contradiction,root cause contradictions and core contradictions based on DEMATEL is proposed,which involves the calculation of the important weight,causes degree and centers degree of a contradiction.Finally,a case study of reversing winch is used to verify that the proposal method is correct.…”
Get full text

Reducing Heavy Drinking Through the “Sober Curious” Movement in Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study by Paul Russell Ward, Michael Savic, Sarah MacLean, Belinda Lunnay, Antonia Lyons, Tonda Hughes, Kerry London, Gabriel Caluzzi, Simone Pettigrew, Amy Pennay, Samantha Meyer, Tristan Duncan, Nicole Lee

“…For aim 3, we will develop evidence-based interventions leveraging sober curiosity and using citizens’ juries, industry symposia, and policy symposia to develop feasible public health measures and options tailored to the needs of the 4 case study groups. MethodsThe project involves 3 stages. …”
Get full text

Gluteoplasty using the Intramuscular (XYZ) Method by Antonio Donizeti Castilho, Joel Veiga Filho, Dante Gonzalez

“…The aim of the present study was to present the author's experience with gluteoplasty using the intramuscular XYZ method. …”
Get full text

Corrigendum to “Quantitative and stability study of the evolution of a thermoelastic body” [MethodsX 10 (2023) 101983] by Pascal H. Zinsou, Guy Degla, Khalil Ezzinbi

Get full text

Comparative Analysis of Generative Artificial Intelligence Systems in Solving Clinical Pharmacy Problems: Mixed Methods Study by Lulu Li, Pengqiang Du, Xiaojing Huang, Hongwei Zhao, Ming Ni, Meng Yan, Aifeng Wang

“…MethodsForty-eight clinically validated questions were selected via stratified sampling from real-world sources (eg, hospital consultations, clinical case banks, and national pharmacist training databases). …”
Get full text

Universal method for contact fatigue determination by Igor Stepankin, Abdrakhman Naizabekov, Evgeniy Pozdnyakov, Dmitry Kuis, Sergey Lezhnev, Yevgeniy Panin

“…At the same time, there is no information about surface hardening, which is one of the main ways to increase contact fatigue. In this case, traditional approaches to the study of the wear mechanism do not make it possible to predict the operational evolution of the loaded surface of the part. …”
Get full text

Re-Shaping the Political Field One Visual Fragment at a Time: The Tunisian Conundrum by Giulia Montanari, Javier Toscano

Get full text

Risk Assessment of Rockburst with a LS-FAHP-CRITIC Method: A Case in Gaojiapu Coal Mine, North of China by Jinkui Zhang, Xianggang Cheng, Wei Qiao, Weidong Lv, Hu He, Linming Dou, Tao Hou, Zhongyi Tang, Xiangsheng Meng, Shikang Song

Get full text

Needs-based provision of medical care to nursing home residents: protocol for a mixed-methods study by Ansgar Gerhardus, Jonas Czwikla, Maike Schulz, Franziska Heinze, Thomas Kalwitzki, Daniel Gand, Annika Schmidt, Chrysanthi Tsiasioti, Antje Schwinger, Stephan Kloep, Guido Schmiemann, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Heinz Rothgang

“…The purpose of this mixed-methods study is to systematically assess, evaluate and explain met and unmet medical care needs in German nursing homes and to develop solutions where medical care is found to be inappropriate.Methods and analysis First, statutory health insurance claims data are analysed to identify differences in the utilisation of medical care between nursing home residents and community-dwelling elderly with and without need for long-term care. …”
Get full text

Method for modelling the number of HIV and AIDS cases using least square spline Biresponse nonparametric negative binomial regression by Arip Ramadan, Nur Chamidah, I Nyoman Budiantara, Budi Lestari, Dursun Aydin

“…Thus, the proposed method has better prediction fit than the classical method. • This study discusses new statistical modeling method for the number of HIV and AIDS cases influenced by early-age marriages and contraceptive users where the response variables are correlated with each other. • The model estimation results show that the number of HIV and AIDS cases in Indonesia will decrease if the early-age marriages percentage increases and the contraceptive users percentage decreases. • The results are useful to provide a scientific basis for making policies to control the number of HIV and AIDS cases in Indonesia.…”
Get full text

An application of the augmented synthetic control method within a target trial framework: the case of the soda tax policy in California by Fan Zhao, Risha Gidwani, May C. Wang, Liwei Chen, Roch A. Nianogo

Get full text

Comparing MCDM Methods of AHP, TOPSIS and PROMETHEE: A Study on the Selection of Ship Main Engine System by Sümeyra Uzun, Halim Kazan

“…Going for multiple criterion decision making methods fend us to reach optimum solutions in the case of facing decision problems. …”
Get full text

A Study on the Financial Health of Listed Real Estate Companies via Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods by Wenbao Wang, Wenhe Lin, Enhao Chen, Zhizhuan Zheng

Get full text

RTide: Automating the Tidal Response Method by Thomas Monahan, Tianning Tang, Stephen Roberts, Thomas A. A. Adcock

“…By taking a nonparametric approach, our framework enables the investigation of phenomena that heretofore could not be accounted for straightforwardly, as illustrated by several case studies on tide–surge interaction, riverine tides, and storm surge. …”
Get full text

Method for evaluating the performance of antiskid devices by I. A. Zharov, A. A. Alekseev

“…In this work, the following is additionally done: - A calculation method is proposed that finds the limit of the performance of an antiskid device with specified parameters. …”
Get full text