Routine health data describe adherence and persistence patterns for oral diabetes medication for a virtual cohort in the Khayelitsha sub-district of Cape Town, South Africa. by Tsaone Tamuhla, Peter Raubenheimer, Joel A Dave, Nicki Tiffin

“…Adherence is important for achieving optimal glycaemic control, and management of diabetes with drugs is a lifelong process, so understanding adherence through analysis of longitudinal medications data is important. …”
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Clinical and economic impact of the availability of innovative therapies for advanced lung cancer in men in Latin America: a population-based secondary data studyResearch in contex... by Andrés F. Cardona, Natalia Sánchez, Liliana Gutiérrez-Babativa, Leonardo Rojas, Jairo Zuluaga, Stella Martínez, Lucia Viola, Carlos Carvajal, Juliana Bogoya, Laura Prieto-Pinto, Daniel Samacá-Samacá, Antonio Robles, Joshua Kock, Claudio Martín, Luis Corrales, Luis E. Raez, Vladmir Cordeiro de Lima, Suraj Samtani, Oscar Arrieta

“…We estimated the Years of Life Lost (YLLs) using the life expectancy, the median age of death, and the ADs. …”
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‘It was a joint plan we worked out together’. How the I-WOTCH programme enabled people with chronic non-malignant pain to taper their opioids: a process evaluation by Martin Underwood, Kate Seers, Charles Abraham, Harbinder Kaur Sandhu, Vivien P Nichols, Sam Eldabe, Alleyne Sharisse, Balasubramanian Shyam, Betteley Lauren, Booth Katie, Carnes Dawn, D Furlan Andrea, Haywood Kirstie, Iglesias Urrutia C Paola, Lall Ranjit, Manca Andrea, Mistry Dipesh, Noyes Jennifer, Rahman Anisur, Shaw Jane, KY Tang Nicole, Taylor Stephanie, Tysall Colin, Underwood Martin, J Withers Emma

“…Quantitative and qualitative data were integrated using ‘follow a thread’ and a mixed-methods matrix.Findings Four overarching themes emerged: (1) the right time to taper, (2) the backdrop of a life with chronic pain, (3) needing support and (4) the benefits of being in a group. …”
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Prospects of integrative and hybrid approaches to assessing undeclared work by Cymbal О. І., Ostafiichuk Ya. V.

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Deep Mining on the Formation Cycle Features for Concurrent SOH Estimation and RUL Prognostication in Lithium-Ion Batteries by Dongchen Yang, Weilin He, Xin He

“…In this study, relevant thermal and mechanical features collected during the formation process are extracted and incorporated as additional data sources for battery state estimation. …”
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An agent-based model of COVID- 19 in the food industry for assessing public health and economic impacts of infection control strategies by Christopher Henry, Ece Bulut, Sarah I. Murphy, Claire Zoellner, Aaron Adalja, Diane Wetherington, Martin Wiedmann, Samuel Alcaine, Renata Ivanek

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Water Consumption, Quantity and Quality of Wastewater and Sewage Sludge from Polish Dairies by Joanna Rodziewicz, Artur Mielcarek, Karolina Kłobukowska, Krzysztof Jóźwiakowski, Tadeusz Siwiec, Piotr Bugajski, Wojciech Janczukowicz

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Large language models in breast cancer reconstruction: A framework for patient-specific recovery and predictive insights by Chunrao Zheng, Qunfang Li, Geling Lu, Yuchang Mai, Yuan Hu

“…Lemmatization/Stemming is used for pre-processing large volumes of data from medical records, clinical notes, and treatment histories and BioBERT, a model pretrained on biomedical texts to capture complex medical terminology used for feature extraction and aids in the transformation of text data into numerical vectors. …”
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Nutritional experiences of Turkish university students with type 1 diabetes: a qualitative study by Şebnem Özgen Özkaya, Volkan Özkaya, Erman Gedıklı, Muazzez Garıpağaoğlu

“…The interviews were recorded and transcribed. The data collected in accordance with the phenomenological approach were processed using guided content analysis. …”
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Examination of sports science faculty students’ attitudes towards online learning by different variables by Hulusi Böke, Şakir Tüfekçi

“…In distance education, students’ attitudes towards this method gain importance in the process. The aim of this research is to examine the impact of coronavirus anxiety, academic self-sufficiency and life satisfaction levels of students in the faculty of sports sciences over their attitudes towards online learning. …”
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Innovative Strategies Based on LCA for Wind Turbine Eco‐Design: Overcoming Barriers to Enhance Sustainability by Beñat Landeta‐Manzano, Iñaki Lejarreta‐Aurrekoetxea, Naiara Uriarte‐Gallastegi, German Arana‐Landín

“…Poor data quality and transparency across the value chain also complicate life cycle assessments. …”
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Ensemble of deep learning and IoT technologies for improved safety in smart indoor activity monitoring for visually impaired individuals by Mesfer Al Duhayyim

“…Initially, the proposed EDLES-SIAM technique performs image pre-processing using adaptive bilateral filtering (ABF) to reduce noise and enhance sensor data quality. …”
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Between host country and homeland: a grounded theory study on place of dying and death in migrant cancer patients by Simona Sacchi, Loredana Buonaccorso, Silvia Tanzi, Giulietta Luul Balestra, Luca Ghirotto

“…Abstract Background Migrant cancer patients face unique challenges in end-of-life decision-making. One key yet underexplored aspect is the decision-making process surrounding the place of dying and death. …”
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A hybrid LSTM-transformer model for accurate by Tianren Zhao, Yanhui Zhang, Minghao Wang, Wei Feng, Shengxian Cao, Gong Wang

“…Data preprocessing is performed using standardization and Yeo-Johnson transformation. …”
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Determination of the possibility of increasing the between-repair standards of hopper cars (cement carriers) by S. V. Petrov, G. V. Raykov, A. V. Vasil’Ev, S. E. Goncharov, A. N. Kemezh

“…These analytical works include: - analysis of the structure of the fleet of cement carriers of JSC “Freight One”; - analysis of the operating time of cement carriers in the inter-repair period; - analysis of the types and consequences of failures of cement carriers; - evaluation and comparison of operating conditions of cement carriers and covered wagons operated for three years during the between-repairs period within the framework of the combined criterion; - evaluation of the trend of the change in the average parameter of the flow of failures as they are used in the inter-repair period; - analysis of data from field survey of a group of cement carriers; - an estimation of a technical condition of bolster beams of group of cement carriers on the parameters subject to influence of processes of deterioration; - an estimate of the expected technical and economic effect of changing the calendar periodicity of repair of cement carriers. …”
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Long-term species balance in sympatric populations: implications for Atlantic salmon and brown trout by Jose Luis Horreo, Pablo Turrero, Juliana Perez, Eva García-Vázquez

“…In this preliminary study we integrate habitat data, molecular analyses (from both nuclear microsatellite and mitochondrial loci) and life-history traits (measured on archaeological vertebrae and modern scales) of two sympatric salmonid species: Atlantic salmon and brown trout. …”
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From ‘safe haven’ to ‘zone of precarity’: locating Istanbul through the perceptions and everyday urban practices of skilled migrants by Ezgi Tuncer

“…Abstract This article seeks to position Istanbul through the practices of everyday life of middle-class, skilled migrants from both the Global North and South and their perceptions of urban safety and precarity. …”
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Numerical method for carbon footprint assessment of recycled concrete aggregates by Emilin Regina Gomes Dobrovolski, Patricia Kruger

“…This meets the need to simplify the LCA of the RCA determination process, given the complexity of material characteristics data, offering a practical alternative for academic and industrial applications. …”
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Navigating toward acceptance of death: Home-dwelling patients in the palliative phase by Katrine Staats, Sandra Jahr Svendsen, Veronica Lockertsen

“…Further research is needed to explore how end-of-life care can best support this intricate process.…”
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An Augmented AutoEncoder With Multi-Head Attention for Tool Wear Prediction in Smart Manufacturing by Chunping Dong, Jiaqiang Zhao

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