Systematic review of TST responses in people living with HIV in under-resourced settings: implications for isoniazid preventive therapy. by Andrew D Kerkhoff, Katharina Kranzer, Taraz Samandari, Jessica Nakiyingi-Miiro, Christopher C Whalen, Anthony D Harries, Stephen D Lawn

“…<h4>Background</h4>People living with HIV (PLWH) who have positive tuberculin skin tests (TST) benefit from isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) whereas those testing TST-negative do not. …”
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Assessing non-inferiority for binary matched-pairs data with missing values: a powerful and flexible GEE approach based on the risk difference by Johannes Hengelbrock, Frank Konietschke, Juliane Herm, Heinrich Audebert, Annette Aigner

“…Abstract Background Clinical studies often aim to test the non-inferiority of a treatment compared to an alternative intervention with binary matched-pairs data. …”
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Enhancing aspect-based financial sentiment analysis through contrastive learning by В’ячеслав Іваненко

“…Lastly, the research critically evaluates the proposed model's performance metrics across the test dataset and compares them with existing methodologies. …”
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UNTERRICHTSSPRACHE ALS FACHSPRACHE FÜR KÜNFTIGE KROATISCHE FREMDSPRACHENLEHRKRÄFTE by Ninočka Truck-Biljan

“…The quantitative analysis of the language test results between these four groups showed statistically significant differences between the first and second year German students. …”
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The impact of fitness social media use on exercise behavior: the chained mediating role of intrinsic motivation and exercise intention by Xi Xiao, Dalin Huang, Guanchong Li

“…Structural equation modeling and bootstrap analysis (5,000 resamples) were applied to test the hypothesized chained mediation model.ResultsFitness social media use was found to significantly predict intrinsic motivation (β = 0.396, p &lt; 0.001), exercise intention (β = 0.254, p &lt; 0.001), and exercise behavior (β = 0.295, p &lt; 0.001). …”
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What Is(n't) Environmental Stewardship? Eliciting Unspoken Assumptions Using Fisheries as a Model by Abigail S. Golden, William N. S. Arlidge, Chelsey Crandall, Elias Ehrlich, Lotte vanden Heuvel, Thomas Klefoth, Sophia Kochalski, Kai Lorenzen, Valerio Sbragaglia, Christian Skov, Paul Venturelli, Robert Arlinghaus, Samuel Shephard

“…ABSTRACT Environmental stewardship is often invoked as a net social good and an approach for achieving equitable and sustainable conservation outcomes, but it is rarely defined explicitly in management settings, and conflicting definitions have proliferated. …”
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Controlling Cable Driven Parallel Robots Operations&#x2014;Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach by Muhammad Kamran Joyo, Abdulmajeed M. Alenezi, Wenfu Xu, Mohamad A. Alawad, Muhmmad Tayyab Yaqoob, Noor Maricar, Sheroz Khan

“…An important feature of Deep RL is that it does not explicitly model the process, but instead it relies on optimization-driven techniques to devise effective control policies. …”
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Tourist attitudes towards SDGS and sustainable development: Evidence from Armenia by Svitlana Bilan, Gayane Tovmasyan, Svetlana Dallakyan, Anushavan Zhamkochyan, Aram Hovhannisyan

“…Statistical analysis, specifically the Pearson Chi-Square test, revealed a strong correlation between knowledge of sustainable development and awareness of sustainable tourism, and tourists’ willingness to modify their travel habits and invest in eco-friendly options. …”
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Effects of instream wood reintroduction on transport and storage processes in a lowland sandy stream by Ben Christopher Howard, Ian Baker, Wouter Buytaert, Jen Drummond, Nicholas Kettridge, Nicholas Kettridge, Sami Ullah, Sami Ullah, Stefan Krause, Stefan Krause, Stefan Krause

“…In the United Kingdom, this kind of restoration occurs predominantly in lowland sandy streams, yet to date no study has explicitly investigated its effects on transport and storage processes in such contexts. …”
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Improving How Caregivers of People Living With Dementia Are Identified in the Electronic Health Record: Qualitative Study and Exploratory Chart Review by Ariel R Green, Cynthia M Boyd, Rosalphie Quiles Rosado, Andrea E Daddato, Kathy S Gleason, Tobie E Taylor McPhail, Marcela D Blinka, Nancy L Schoenborn, Jennifer L Wolff, Elizabeth A Bayliss, Rebecca S Boxer

“…To address this concern, caregivers and clinical staff suggested that health systems should develop and test workflows to identify caregivers, assess their needs at multiple touchpoints, and record their information in extractable EHR fields.…”
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MCM6 rs4988235 Allele G, AGT rs699 Allele C, ACE rs4343 Allele A, FADS1 rs174547 Allele C, DCHR7 rs12785878 Allele G, and GC rs7041 Allele T: Candidate Genes for Preeclampsia Preve... by Deviana Soraya Riu, Isharyah Sunarno, Efendi Lukas

“…METHODS: This descriptive study focused on 15 primiparous pregnant women diagnosed with preeclampsia. The nutrigenomic test was performed using DNA microarray method to examine variant genes associated with food response and nutrient metabolites. …”
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Studying the $$B^{0} \rightarrow J/\psi h_{1}$$ B 0 → J / ψ h 1 decays with $$h_{1}(1170){-}h_{1}(1415)$$ h 1 ( 1170 ) - h 1 ( 1415 ) mixing in the perturbative QCD approach by Qin Chang, De-Hua Yao, Xin Liu

“…The future precise measurements on $$B^{0} \rightarrow J/\psi h_{1}$$ B 0 → J / ψ h 1 decays are expected for testing these theoretical findings and exploring the interesting nature of $$h_{1}(1170)$$ h 1 ( 1170 ) and $$h_{1}(1415).$$ h 1 ( 1415 ) .…”
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Incorporating face-to-face and online learning features to propose blended learning framework for Post-COVID classrooms in India by Md. Tauseef Qamar, Abdullah Malik, Juhi Yasmeen, Mohd. Sadiqe, Mohd Ajmal

“…The data were analyzed using factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, followed by multiple regression to test the hypotheses. Findings – The findings reveal a significant positive correlation between learners’ satisfaction and online learning and blended learning, with β values of 28.3 and 27.2, bearing a p-value of 0.000. …”
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Trophic disruption by an invasive species linked to altered energy fluxes by Peter J. Flood, Bradley A. Strickland, William F. Loftus, Joel C. Trexler

“…As a result, we suggest extending the TDH to explicitly include the potential for invasive species to alter basal energy use, spatiotemporal trophic dynamics, and energy fluxes.…”
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Research on Newton-Krylov Method for Multi-component Flow Heat Transfer Coupled System of High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor by TANG Huanran, ZHANG Han, LIU Lixun, PENG Xinru, WU Yingjie, GUO Jiong, LI Fu

“…Among the two variants of the NK method, finite-Difference Jacobian Newton-Krylov method (DJNK) which explicitly constructs the Jacobian was chosen as the solution method. …”

The impact of changes in medical school admission procedures on study success: A comparative analysis at Hannover Medical School by Tsikas, Stefanos A., Fischer, Volkhard

“…We have demonstrated that a shift away from the Abitur toward aptitude tests and even explicitly non-cognitive criteria does not jeopardize success in medical studies. …”
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Home Occupant Archetypes by Marco Antonio ORTIZ SANCHEZ

“…The newly developed questionnaire was pilot tested with a population consisting of master students of the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft. …”
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Developing evidence-based guidelines for describing potential benefits and harms within patient information leaflets/sheets (PILs) that inform and do not cause harm (PrinciPILs) by Jeremy Howick, Martina Svobodova, Shaun Treweek, Katie Gillies, Adrian Edwards, Peter Bower, Jennifer Bostock, Nina Jacob, Kerenza Hood

“…Objectives To develop stakeholder-informed principles to guide how to describe information about potential trial intervention benefits and harms within patient information leaflets. To test whether using these principles are feasible for testing in trials that measure whether they improve recruitment and adverse event rates. …”
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METODOLOGINIAI INFORMACIJOS VISUOMENĖS STUDIJŲ PROFILIAI: VYNAS JAUNAS, VYNMAIŠIAI SENI? by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

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Climate variability and warming in Coastal Odisha: assessing interannual temperature trends and impacts by Bishnupada Sethi, Sarat Chandra Sahu, Krushna Chandra Gouda, Roshan Beuria, Manas Kumar Mallick, Satish Kumar Samal, Amrutanshu Panigrahi, Abhilash Pati

“…To assess inter-annual variability in association with mean seasonal temperature and precipitation, a difference of standard deviations (SD) of two periods (e.g. 1969–1996 and 1995–2022) along with the relation between running 28-year values of SD and means of seasonal temperature for the period from 1969 to 2022, F-ratio test along with slope and correlation values have been conducted. …”
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