Predictors of mortality among inpatients in COVID-19 treatment centers in the city of Butembo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. by Pierre Z Akilimali, Dynah M Kayembe, Norbert M Muhindo, Nguyen Toan Tran

“…Determining the risk factors for severe disease and death among hospitalized Covid-19 patients is critical to optimize health outcomes and health services efficiency, especially in resource-constrained and humanitarian settings. …”
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IoT-Driven Intelligent Energy Management: Leveraging Smart Monitoring Applications and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for Sustainable Practices by Azza Mohamed, Ibrahim Ismail, Mohammed AlDaraawi

“…The system’s key features include simulated consumption scenarios and adaptive user profiles, which account for differences in household behaviors and occupancy patterns, allowing for tailored recommendations and energy control techniques. …”
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OXITEST as a Screening Method to Evaluate Antioxidant Agents: A Study of Oxidative Stability of Fishmeal by Miguel Albrecht-Ruiz, Jordan Vito-Villa, Pedro Cueva Martínez, Alberto Salas-Maldonado

“…OXITEST measurements revealed differences in the rate of oxygen pressure loss among the studied agents, offering a comparative measure of antioxidant efficiency. …”
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DSNET: A Lightweight Segmentation Model for Segmentation of Skin Cancer Lesion Regions by Yucong Chen, Guang Yang, Xiaohua Dong, Junying Zeng, Chuanbo Qin

“…To reduce the model size and guarantee model segmentation performance, we proposed a detail-enhanced separable difference convolution as a base module in the model. …”
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‘Braun’: the first russian cotton cultivar with naturally colored fiber by R. K. Tuz, M. Sh. Asfandiiarova, L. P. Podolnaya

“…The estimated cost efficiency of its cultivation showed high profitability – up to 132%.…”
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Implications of Diminishing Lifespan Marginal Utility for Valuing Equity in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis by R. Scott Braithwaite

“…Not considering DMLU may reduce the accuracy of distributive cost-effectiveness analyses and other approaches to consider equity along with efficiency.…”
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Understanding Dermatologists’ Acceptance of Digital Health Interventions: Cross-Sectional Survey and Cluster Analysis by Patrick Reinders, Matthias Augustin, Marina Otten

“… Abstract BackgroundDigital health interventions (DHIs) have the potential to enhance dermatological care by improving quality, patient empowerment, and efficiency. However, adoption remains limited, particularly in Germany. …”
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Nomogram model for the risk of recurrent episodes of benign infantile convulsions associated with mild gastroenteritis by YAO Junqiang, ZHANG Ling

“…In the observation group， the positive rate of norovirus， IL-6 and IL-10 levels were higher than those in the control group， and the differences were statistically significant （all <i>P &lt; </i>0.05）. …”
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Cooling lactating sows exposed to early summer heat wave alters circadian patterns of behavior and rhythms of respiration, rectal temperature, and saliva melatonin. by Wonders Ogundare, Kelsey Teeple, Elizabeth Fisher, Corrin Davis, Leriana Garcia Reis, Amber Jannasch, Linda M Beckett, Allan Schinckel, Radiah Minor, Theresa Casey

“…In conclusion, cooling HS sows impacted circadian rhythms of physiology and behavior, supporting the need for further research to understand if circadian disruption underlies decreased production efficiency of HS animals.…”
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Growth and Depuration of Off‐Flavors in Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus Mykiss in a Partial Recirculating Aquaculture System (PRAS) by Petra Camilla Lindholm‐Lehto, Tapio Kiuru

“…Increased depuration efficiency can be an important tool when considering ways to improve the profitability of production.…”
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Corruption through the prism of the theory of national security by S. M. Inshakov

“…The selective strategy differs from the inert one only in that ineffective anti-corruption measures are combined with selective prosecution of some high-ranking officials. …”
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Autophagy crosstalk with the immune microenvironment in chronic myeloid leukemia and serves as a biomarker for diagnosis and progression by Fangmin Zhong, Fangyi Yao, Jing Liu, Qun Fang, Xiajing Yu, Bo Huang, Xiaozhong Wang

“…The immune landscape and chemotherapy sensitivity significantly differed between the two autophagy-related molecular subtypes. …”
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Effect of perioperative dexmedetomidine on sleep quality in adult patients after noncardiac surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials. by Lin Wang, Xin-Quan Liang, Yan-Xia Sun, Zhen Hua, Dong-Xin Wang

“…The subjective sleep score on the first postoperative night was lower (better) with dexmedetomidine than with placebo (SMD [standardized mean difference] = -0.8, 95% CI -1.1 to -0.6, p<0.00001; I2 = 93%; 22 trials; n = 4611). …”
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Determination and Comparative Study of Sugars and Synthetic Colorants in Commercial Branded Fruit Juice Products by S. D. C. Sewwandi, P. C. Arampath, A. B. G. Silva, R. Jayatissa

“…There is no significant difference (P>0.05) between the two testing methods. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL SETUP FOR MODELING AND STUDY OF COMPLEX STRESS STATE IN FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS by V. N. Busko, G. G. Vlasov

“…In this work, are the construction and operation of the device described in detail. This device differs from simple industrial test equipment by small weight, size and cost. …”
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Spatiotemporal variations of the United Arab Emirates coastline each decade from 1991 to 2021 by Justine Sarrau, Khameis Al Abdouli, Abdelgadir Abuelgasim

“…To address this gap, an algorithm was developed to automatically extract the coastline from satellite imagery using the Direct Difference Water Index (DDWI), an index that recently showed its efficiency in coastline extraction, the Otsu threshold, a fill operator and the Canny edge detector. …”
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The influence of the chemical composition of modified lecithins on their surface-active and emulsifying properties by E. V. Lisovaya, E. P. Viktorova, A. V. Sverdlichenko, M. R. Zhan

“…As a result of the study of the effectiveness of the manifestation of surface-active properties by modified lecithins LecPC and LecFEI, it was revealed that the efficiency of manifestation of these properties of LecPC was higher than that of LecFEI. …”
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Finger and foot tapping sensor system for objective motor assessment by Đurić-Jovičić Milica, Jovičić Nenad, Radovanović Saša, Ječmenica-Lukić Milica, Belić Minja, Popović Mirjana, Kostić Vladimir

“…The system allowed easy measurement of listed parameters, and additional graphical representation showed quantitative differences in these parameters between neurological patient and healthy subjects. …”
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Five-year retrospective analysis of Bakri balloon tamponade for obstetric haemorrhage and patient survey at a single tertiary centre by Tithi Kulkarni, Ruth McCuaig, Gargeswari Sunanda

“…The success group demonstrated significant reductions in median blood loss (1.8 L vs. 2.5 L, p = 0.016) and difference in median duration of BBT (18.3 vs. 3.92 hours, p = 0.001). …”
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Practical Aspects of Using Artificial Intelligence Programs in the Analytical Work of the Department by Chupryna Leonid

“…At the same time, the difference in data sources should be keptin mind. Google pulls information from indexed web resources, and the AI database it trains on, is current as of 2022. …”
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