Outcomes for efavirenz versus nevirapine-containing regimens for treatment of HIV-1 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Prinitha Pillay, Nathan Ford, Zara Shubber, Rashida A Ferrand

“…EFV was more likely to achieve virologic success than NVP, though marginally significant, in both randomised controlled trials (RR 1.04 [1.00-1.08] I(2) = 0%) and observational studies (RR 1.06 [1.00-1.12] I(2) = 68%).…”
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Market concentration, digital transformation, and bank credit risk in China: evidence from GMM estimation by YingShan Xu, Ainul Mohsein bt Abdul Mohsin, Fan Yang

“…As market concentration increases, the risk-reducing effect of digital transformation is likely to diminish. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the impact is stronger in small and medium-sized banks, indicating that digital transformation has higher marginal governance benefits for banks with limited resources and capabilities. …”
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SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT USING BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK by V. M. Rukhlinskiy, A. A. Khaustov, A. S. Molotovnik

“…This mathematical model allows to determine the following, based on the data on adverse events and hazard identification: the probability of various adverse events in all dangers occurrence, the risk level for each of the identified hazards, the most likely consequences of the given danger oc- currence. …”
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“Cuz They Straight and Everything”: Barriers to Reporting Among Gay Latino Male Sexual Assault Survivors by Daniel Jacobson López, Antonio García

“…The study consisted of 14 gay Latino sexual assault survivors from six cities in the United States who participated in one-on-one semistructured in-depth interviews. Our data revealed three themes: (a) Bias and Discrimination, which describes how racism, homophobia, and gendered ideology serve as barriers to reporting sexual assault; (b) the Unjust Reporting Process focuses on the unnecessarily difficult, complex, and unclear timely reporting process; and (c) Retraumatization, which describes how participants were likely to be retraumatized by reporting. …”
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Assessing motorcyclist injury severity on curved road segments with temporal dynamics and unobserved heterogeneity by Monire Jafari, Michael Starewich, Ahmed Hossain, Swastika Barua, Nawaf Alnawmasi, Xinyue Ye, Subasish Das

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Flood risk perception among households in flood-prone areas of the Itang watershed, lower Baro Akobo Basin, southwest Ethiopia by Shibiru Chengu, Mohammed Assen, Elias Gebeyehu

“…Homeowners were less likely to perceive high flood risk compared to renters (coefficient = −1.664, p = 0.007), suggesting greater confidence or resources to mitigate flood risks. …”
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Social inequalities at the transition to higher education: the role of personality for graduates from vocational and general schools by David Nika

“…Therefore, this study distinguishes between graduates from general schools, as well as from vocational schools with a general and a specific higher education entrance qualification. Drawing on data of the two most recent cohorts of the school leaver cohort of the German Student Life Cycle Panel, logistic regression models with interaction terms are employed and average marginal effects are reported. …”
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The effect of badger culling on breakdown prolongation and recurrence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds in Great Britain. by Katerina Karolemeas, Christl A Donnelly, Andrew J K Conlan, Andrew P Mitchell, Richard S Clifton-Hadley, Paul Upton, James L N Wood, Trevelyan J McKinley

“…Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) data were re-analysed to examine the effects of two culling strategies on breakdown prolongation and recurrence, during and after culling, using a Bayesian hierarchical model. …”
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Integrated geophysical assessment of the Abu Roash C member for hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Sitra Field Abu El Gharadig Basin, Egypt by Hadeel M. Kamel, Walid M. Mabrouk, Ahmed M. Metwally

“…Lithological and petrographic analyses—encompassing core descriptions, lithofacies classification, and porosity measurements—suggest a paleoenvironment of shallow marine to marginal marine setting, likely influenced by tidal and storm processes, which explains the observed lithologic heterogeneity. …”
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Determination of Industry Indicators of Financial Analysis of Enterprises (on the Example of the Industry for the Production of Crude Oil and Natural Gas) by N. A. Bukharin, M. B. Laskin, S. V. Pupentsova

“…In the course of the study, the authors solved the following tasks: proposed stages of analysis for determining industry financial indicators, tested the hypothesis of a lognormal distribution of marginal distributions of the main financial indicators of the sample, tested the hypothesis of a jointly normal distribution of a multi-factor random vector of financial indicators of the sample, obtained the most likely values of financial analysis indicators for the industry of crude oil and natural gas production.Results. …”
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The role of Cultural Socialization and Contextual Factors on the Subjective Well-Being of Immigrant Adolescent Girls at the Beginning and End of Adolescence: A life course perspect... by Elaheh Hejazi, Ahmad Baseri, Zahra Naghsh, simin ebrahimi

“…Globalization and shifting lifestyles are likely contributing factors to the observed decline in cultural socialization (Hazeri & Sharifi, 2009). …”
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Value of Pulmonary Cavity Wall Thickness Characteristics and Accompanying CT Signs in the Differential Diagnosis of Thick-wall Cancerous Cavities and Inflammatory Cavities by Zi’ao WANG, Huijie JIANG, Sheng ZHAO, Jinping LI, Zhongqi SUN, Hao LI

“…In CT scans, thick-wall cancerous cavitations were more likely to appear lobulated and exhibit spiculated margins, pleural traction signs, vascular convergence signs, mural nodules, and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. …”
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Characteristics of male perpetrators of intimate partner violence and implications for women's HIV status: A pooled analysis of cohabiting couples from 27 countries in Africa (2000... by Salome Kuchukhidze, Dimitra Panagiotoglou, Marie-Claude Boily, Souleymane Diabaté, Jeffrey W Imai-Eaton, Heidi Stöckl, Francisco Mbofana, Rhoda K Wanyenze, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

“…Men who perpetrated IPV were more likely to be living with HIV (aPR = 1.09; 95%CI: 1.01-1.16). …”
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Country compliance with WHO-recommended antenatal care guidelines: equity analysis of the 2015–2016 Demography and Health Survey in Myanmar by Camille Raynes-Greenow, Ngatho Samuel Mugo, Kyaw Swa Mya

“…Pregnant women from urban areas (adjusted risk ratio (aRR): 4.86, 95% CI 2.44 to 9.68) were more than four times more likely to have adequate ANC components compared with women from rural areas. …”
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Prevalence of substance use amongst people living with human immunodeficiency virus who attend primary healthcare services in Mthatha, South Africa by Ramprakash Kaswa, Marietjie de Villiers

“…The growing culture of substance use amongst PLWH is a serious threat adding to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic and is likely to compromise the continuity of HIV care. …”
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RPMB predicts the disease-free survival of head-and-neck squamous carcinoma after adjuvant concurrent radio-chemotherapy by Ning An, Yongchun Zhang, Haijun Lu, Xue Yang

“…PurposeCurrently, adjuvant concurrent radio-chemotherapy (ACRT) is the standard of care for head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC) with microscopically involved surgical margins (MISM) and/or extra-nodal extension (ENE), whereas the toxicity of cisplatin-based chemotherapy is non-negligible.MethodsIn the current study, we identified a novel biomarker, referred to as RPMB (Repair Gene Promoter Methylation Burden), with the aim of identifying the subset of HNSC patients who are likely to respond favorably to ACRT. …”
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Environmental outcomes of landscape-scale agricultural transitions in the Upper Midwestern U.S. by Rebecca Fudge, Rebecca Fudge, Alison Lovdal, Emily Zimmerman, Lisa Kushner, Julie Grossman

“…Our results indicate that all four systems are likely to reduce topsoil loss when compared to maize and soybean systems, and that the more transformative systems—agroforestry and pastured livestock—have the greatest potential to reduce nitrate loss. …”
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Exploring mental health symptoms in elite athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis on sex differences. by Liang-Tseng Kuo, Sung-Huang Laurent Tsai, Udit Dave, William A Marmor, Reena Olsen, Bridget Jivanelli, Michelle E Kew, Daphne I Ling

“…Female athletes were more likely to report anxiety, depression, and distress. …”
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Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria in 2023 and geodynamics of the Caucasus-Anatolian region by V. B. Svalova

“…In the case that no large earthquake occurs in the East Anatolian fault in 1–2 years, this event is likely to occur in 100 years only.…”
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A Cross-sectional Study Examining the Effects of Periodontitis, Implant, and Prosthesis Characteristics on the Peri-implant Status by Ankit Mahajan, Jyoti Kumari, Mohammed Ahsan Razi, Ria Sahay, Isha Badalia, Tannu Priya

“…Peri-implant disease is more likely to occur in patients with untreated periodontitis. …”
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