Prevalence of Treponema pallidum among Patient samples tested in the Haematology Laboratory, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto by Musa, S.*, Adias, T.C., Ndakotsu, M.A., Ibrahim, K.K., Ikhuenbor D., Buhari A.H., Zama, I.I

“…Syphilis can cause long-term complications if not adequately treated. There was paucity of data on prevalence of syphilis infection in Sokoto, north western Nigeria. …”
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Molecular genetic characteristics of elderly patients with lung adenocarcinoma by LIU Jue, XU Rui, SUN Youwei

“…Conclusions By analyzing the molecular genetic characteristics and mutation gene correlation of elderly lung adenocarcinoma patients， the molecular genetic data of 9 recommended driving genes could reflect the distribution and correlation of driving genes in lung adenocarcinoma. …”
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Uropathogens and the Antibiogram Profile from a Tertiary Care Hospital: A 2-Month Study Post Conversion of a COVID Dedicated Center to a Non-COVID One by Bineeta Kashyap, NP Singh, Kirti Nirmal, Manoj Kumar Meena

“…The susceptibility data provided by regional microbiology laboratories helps to choose the empirical antimicrobials to treat UTI. …”
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Palynostratigraphy of the Shemshak and Dalichai formations boundary, north of Semnan and its paleogeographic significance by Fereshteh Sajjadi, Firoozeh Hashemi Yazdi, Mohaddeseh Maleki

“…Based on the stratigraphic distribution of miospores, the Klukisporites variegatus-Striatella spp.…”
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Prevalence, trend and risk factors for antiretroviral therapy discontinuation among HIV-infected adults in Ethiopia in 2003-2015. by Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Paul Ward, Kifle Woldemichael, Lillian Mwanri

“…ART discontinuation could be loss to follow-up, defaulting and/or stopping medication while remaining in care. Because data for 2003 and 2015 were incomplete, the 10 years data were used to describe trends for ART discontinuation using a line graph. …”
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Demographic Characteristics and Job Satisfaction: The Mediation Role of Organisational Justice Perceptions in Public and Private Sector Health Organisations in Nigeria by Timinepere Ogele Court

“…From the analysed data, the study found that gender and job tenure were significant predictors of distributive justice, procedural justice and extrinsic job satisfaction while organisational justice had a significant effect on job satisfaction. …”
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Analysis of travel-time to HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa reveals inequities in access to antiretrovirals by Justin T. Okano, Andrea Low, Luckson Dullie, Wongani Mzumara, Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Sally Blower

“…Self-reported travel-time data were fit using logistic cumulative distribution functions. …”
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Examining shared leadership dimensions through a social network approach: A case from tourism industry by Asbas Caner, Tuzlukaya Sule Erdem, Maaroof Aymen

“…Study design/methodology/approach: Social network analysis was used to test the hypotheses on the data collected from the employees of a tourism organization. …”
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The Effect of Eight Weeks of High-Intensity Interval Training on Follistatin Gene Expression in the Fast and Slow Twitch Muscles of Rats with Myocardial Infarction by Edris Ramezani, Mehran Ghahramani, Hadi Ghaedi

“…Then, the expression of follistatin in fast and slow twitch muscle contraction genes was investigated as triggers and inhibitors of muscle atrophy. Statistical data were analyzed with SPSS18 (α≥0.05). To determine the normality of the data, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used, and in the case of normality of the data distribution, the independent samples t test was used.Results: Independent t test results showed that FST gene expression in the slow twitch (ST) muscle contraction group was significantly decreased compared with the control group (P<0.001). …”
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Revisiting the diagnosis and treatment of Para Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis in the endemic foci of Bangladesh. by Shomik Maruf, Soumik Kha Sagar, Md Masud Ur Rashid, Proggananda Nath, Md Sahidul Islam, Prakash Ghosh, Md Utba Rashid, Dinesh Mondal, Ahmed Abd El Wahed, Ariful Basher

“…We collected data from hospital records and used STATA 16 to analyze and see the frequency distribution and variable means. …”
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Stabilizing brain-computer interfaces through alignment of latent dynamics by Brianna M. Karpowicz, Yahia H. Ali, Lahiru N. Wimalasena, Andrew R. Sedler, Mohammad Reza Keshtkaran, Kevin Bodkin, Xuan Ma, Daniel B. Rubin, Ziv M. Williams, Sydney S. Cash, Leigh R. Hochberg, Lee E. Miller, Chethan Pandarinath

“…NoMAD uses unsupervised distribution alignment to update the mapping of nonstationary neural data to a consistent set of neural dynamics, thereby providing stable input to the decoder. …”
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Revision rate after surgery for elbow osteochondritis dissecans: a systemic review by Kuan-Ting Chen, Paul Pei-Hsi Chou, Po-Chun Chiu, Jung-Hsiu Chang

“…Logit transformation and random effects were calculated using the Der Simonian Laired estimator, and the Shapiro–Wilk test was first performed to determine whether revision interval data followed a normal distribution. The Wilcoxon rank sum test was used for nonparametric data comparison, while Spearman’s rank correlation assessed whether shorter follow-up periods underestimated the revision rate. …”
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Direct oral penicillin challenge in secondary care with low-risk patients: the SPACE mixed-methods study with cost-effectiveness analysis by Mamidipudi Thirumala Krishna, Yogini H Jani, Iestyn Williams, Ruben Mujica-Mota, Rebecca Bestwick, Michele Siciliano, Robert Michael West, Rashmeet Bhogal, Bee Yean Ng, Kornelija Kildonaviciute, Rachel Pollard, Nicola Jones, Louise Dunsmure, Mairead McErlean, Neil Powell, Chidanand C Hullur, Ariyur Balaji, Jonathan Sandoe, Amena Warner, Ron Daniels, Caroline Thomas, Siraj A Misbah, Louise Savic

“…One hundred and twenty-six DPCs were conducted [119 ‘opportunistic’ and 7 ‘therapeutic’ (to treat current bacterial infection)]. Data analysis Descriptive data were generated for all clinical settings across the three sites. …”
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Efficient and generalizable nested Fourier-DeepONet for three-dimensional geological carbon sequestration by Jonathan E. Lee, Min Zhu, Ziqiao Xi, Kun Wang, Yanhua O. Yuan, Lu Lu

“…Surrogate modelling with data-driven machine learning has become a promising alternative to accelerate physics-based simulations. …”
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Research on coupling risk assessment method of industrialized urban area based on information diffusion and extension grey clustering model. by Chen Lv, Xiaolu Wang, Sheng Xue, Shuang Wang

“…For inherent risk analysis, the fuzzy set theory treats probability distribution as a mapping from events to probabilities. …”
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CLINIC, DIAGNOSIS AND EFFICIENCY OF NONINVASIVE METHOD OF TREATMENT YOUNG CHILDREN WITH HAEMORRHOIDS by А. Хамраєв, Ф. Файзуллаєв

“…For all compared values the achieved level of significance (p) was considered statistically reliable - < 0.05. Student's t-distribution was used to compare data with normal distribution of means. …”
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Primary care COPD patients compared with large pharmaceutically-sponsored COPD studies: an UNLOCK validation study. by Annemarije L Kruis, Björn Ställberg, Rupert C M Jones, Ioanna G Tsiligianni, Karin Lisspers, Thys van der Molen, Jan Willem H Kocks, Niels H Chavannes

“…There is a paucity of data on disease characteristics at the primary care level, while the majority of COPD patients are treated in primary care.…”
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Spectrum and Prevalence of Thyroid Diseases at a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia: A Retrospective Study of 976 Cases by Mohamed A. Hassan-Kadle, Abdulkamil Abdullahi Adani, Hasan Huseyin Eker, Esra Keles, Marian Muse Osman, Hussein Mahdi Ahmed, Şeyma Görçin Karaketir

“…Patients who were tested for thyroid function tests and had complete data were included. Patients with incomplete data and currently treated for any thyroid disorder were excluded from the study. …”
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Prevalence of Persistent Post-Concussion Syndrome in Adults After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Putra Agina Widyaswara Suwaryo, Fairrul Kadir, Azizan Omar, Sukhbeer Kaur Darsin Singh

“…Patients with complete medical record data and active health checks for one month after being treated were taken as research subjects. …”
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PEDIATRIC URINARY STONE PROFILE IN SAIFUL ANWAR HOSPITAL by Muhammad Firas Balafif, Besut Daryanto, Pradana Nurhadi

“…Data were analyzed descriptively and using SPSS 17.0. …”
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