Impact of air pollutants on hospital admissions and economic losses of elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases in Southwestern China: A generalized additive model by Shuming Ji, Ni Wu, Luo Wang, Wei Wang, Pei Zhang, Peiyuan Qiu, Xiaoyuan Zhou

“…Background In terms of hospitalization risk for the elderly, the evidences for adverse effects and economic losses of air pollutants on different types of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are limited. …”
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Comparison of maternal and neonatal outcomes between general anesthesia and combined spinal-epidural anesthesia in cesarean delivery for pregnancy complicated with placenta previa by Tianjiao Liu, Yangyang Wang, Xinyu Xiao, Zhi Chen, Xin Li, Chunmei Liu

“…The optimal anesthetic method between general anesthesia (GA) and combined spinal-epidural anesthesia (CSEA) for cesarean delivery (CD) with PP remains controversial. …”
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The Effect of Maximum Reaction Temperature of Polyurethane Foam on the Effective Thermal Conductivity by Massara Ali Fadhel, Harith H. Al-Moameri, Tawfeeq W. Mohammed

“…This study aims to investigate the effect of maximum reaction temperature during forming the foam on the resultant thermal conductivity value. …”
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Effect of Melt Temperature on the Effectiveness of the Grain Refining in Al-Si Castings by A. M. Samuel, S. S. Mohamed, H. W. Doty, S. Valtierra, F. H. Samuel

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Comparison of Intranasal Dexmedetomidine with Intravenous Dexmedetomidine as Premedication in Patients undergoing Laparoscopic Surgeries under General Anaesthesia: A Randomised Con... by Priyanka Gupta, Vandana Koul, Mayank Gupta, Subah Bharaj

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Criteria for Assessing Exposure to Biomechanical Risk Factors: A Research-to-Practice Guide—Part 1: General Issues and Manual Material Handling by Francesca Graziosi, Roberta Bonfiglioli, Francesco Decataldo, Francesco Saverio Violante

“…An in-depth knowledge of each method to evaluate biomechanical risk factors is needed to effectively employ them in the field, together with a robust understanding of their effective predictive value and limitations. …”
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Enhancing Robustness of Variational Data Assimilation in Chaotic Systems: An α-4DVar Framework with Rényi Entropy and α-Generalized Gaussian Distributions by Yuchen Luo, Xiaoqun Cao, Kecheng Peng, Mengge Zhou, Yanan Guo

“…Experiments are conducted with Gaussian and non-Gaussian errors as well as different initial guesses to compare the assimilation effects of traditional 4DVar and α-4DVar. The results show that α-4DVar performs as well as traditional method without observational errors. …”
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Exploring the Discriminant Validity of the Modified Arm Care Screen (MACS), Designed for Overhead Athletes, in Detecting Musculoskeletal Risk Factors in the General Population by Eleftherios Paraskevopoulos, Styliani Pentheroudaki, Maria Papandreou

“…Results: The results indicated low sensitivity (0–47.62%) and variable specificity (55.56–100%), suggesting that the MACS may not effectively identify risk factors in the general population. …”
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Insights Into How mHealth Applications Could Be Introduced Into Standard Hypertension Care in Germany: Qualitative Study With German Cardiologists and General Practitioners by Susann May, Frances Seifert, Dunja Bruch, Martin Heinze, Sebastian Spethmann, Felix Muehlensiepen

“…ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to explore the relationship between physicians’ information needs and acceptance factors, and how these elements can support the effective integration of mHealth apps into daily medical routines. …”
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The Comparison of Inflammatory Cytokines between Spinal and General Anesthesia following Changes in Ischemic Reperfusion due to Tourniquet during Lower Limb Surgery by Mahmoud Ganjifard, Samaneh Kouzegaran, Reza Abdi, Mohsen Naseri, Elahe Allahyari, Amir Sabertanha, Batool Zeinali

“…The injuries caused by reperfusion of blood can lead to significant adverse effects after surgery. This study aimed to compare the effects of spinal and general anesthesia on inflammatory cytokines following changes in ischemic reperfusion due to tourniquet in lower limb surgeries. …”
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The Impact of Repeated and Dialogic Reading Strategies on the Development of Palestinian Arabic-Speaking Children's Vocabulary: An Analysis of Receptive, Productive, Mental, and Ge... by Найла Таллас-Махайна, Дуа Ельхія, Аредж Хашем Массарве

“…A total of 65 children participated in the study, where both reading strategies were implemented, and vocabulary acquisition was measured before and after the learning sessions. Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMM) were employed to analyze receptive vocabulary, while Ordinal Logistic Mixed-effects models were used for productive vocabulary. …”
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Impacts of Wind Profile Shear and Curvature on the Parameterized Orographic Gravity Wave Stress in a Middle Atmosphere Resolving General Circulation Model by Rongrong Zhang, Yixiong Lu, Xin Xu, Yuan Wang

“…Abstract The cold pole and westerly wind biases associated with an overly strong polar vortex are typical systematic biases in climate models, indicating the insufficient stratospheric wave drag. To investigate the effects of orographic gravity wave drag (OGWD) on the stratospheric atmospheric circulation, two sets of experiments are performed by the middle‐atmosphere version of Beijing Climate Center Atmospheric General Circulation Model, employing different OGWD parameterization schemes with and without the second‐order Wentzel‐Kramers‐Brillouin (WKB) corrections to the surface wave momentum flux (SWMF) caused by wind profile shear and curvature. …”
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Solitary Wave Solutions for a Time-Fraction Generalized Hirota-Satsuma Coupled KdV Equation by a New Analytical Technique by Majid Shateri, D. D. Ganji

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Assessing knowledge and awareness regarding snakebite and management of snakebite envenoming in healthcare workers and the general population: A systematic review and meta-analysis... by Afsana Afroz, Bodrun Naher Siddiquea, Aishwarya Narendra Shetty, Timothy N W Jackson, Andrew D Watt

“…Our ability to prevent and manage snakebite requires effective antivenoms as well as knowledge regarding the prevention and management of snakebite among healthcare workers and affected communities across the globe. …”
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What do I need to say to get your signature? Adding draft resolution text to the UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset by Rafael Mesquita

“…We demonstrate the utility of the new data via applications that map the salience of topics, measure sentiment, and identify the effects of changes to the text between revisions on attracting new sponsors. …”
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Music interventions in 132 healthy older adults enhance cerebellar grey matter and auditory working memory, despite general brain atrophy by Damien Marie, Cécile A.H. Müller, Eckart Altenmüller, Dimitri Van De Ville, Kristin Jünemann, Daniel S. Scholz, Tillmann H.C. Krüger, Florian Worschech, Matthias Kliegel, Christopher Sinke, Clara E. James

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Acupuncture for acute non-specific low back pain: a randomised, controlled, multicentre intervention study in general practice—the Acuback study by Ibrahimu Mdala, Margreth Grotle, Mette Brekke, Trygve Skonnord, Holgeir Skjeie, Atle Klovning, Eline Aas, Arne Fetveit

“…Secondary outcomes were pain intensity, global improvement, back-specific functional status, sick leave, medication and adverse effects.Results 185 participants were randomised, 95 in the CG and 90 in the AG. 14 participants did not receive the allocated intervention and 4 were excluded from the analysis. …”
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Dynamic Analysis of a Tapered Composite Thin-Walled Rotating Shaft Embedded with SMA Wires Using the Generalized Differential Quadrature Method by Weiyan Zhong, Feng Gao, Yongsheng Ren, Xiaoxiao Wu, Hongcan Ma

“…The effects of the fraction of SMA wires, the initial strain of SMA wires, temperature, ply angle, taper ratio, boundary conditions, and rotating speed on the frequency characteristics are investigated.…”
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Soliton Dynamics of the Nonlinear Kodama Equation with M-Truncated Derivative via Two Innovative Schemes: The Generalized Arnous Method and the Kudryashov Method by Khizar Farooq, Ali. H. Tedjani, Zhao Li, Ejaz Hussain

“…We utilized two recently developed analytical techniques, the generalized Arnous method and the generalized Kudryashov method. …”
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The relationship between mixed exposure to blood metal and serum neurofilament light chain levels in the general U.S. population: an unsupervised clustering approach by Jiyu Nie, Jiyu Nie, Lin Wen, Zhentian Lai, Zhentian Lai, Chuhang Lin, Chuhang Lin, Haiyin Li, Haiyin Li, Jing Zhang, Jing Zhang, Shen Xie, Shen Xie, Xiaosong Ben, Chunxia Jing, Chunxia Jing

“…Concurrently, extensive evidence has linked metal exposure to neurotoxic effects. However, the potential association between metal exposure and circulating sNfL levels remains uninvestigated in population-based study.ObjectiveWe applied a novel unsupervised clustering method (k-medoids) incorporating blood metals concentrations to stratify the general U. …”
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