Pediatric health care use during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons learned from the initial 2020 wave by Anju Wagh, Sharon Pan, Stephen Gordon, Lenka Hellerova, Yeqing Ji, Henry Park, Shiu‐Lin Tsai

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Co-creating community initiatives on physical activity and healthy eating in a low-income neighbourhood in Quito, Ecuador by Sergio Morales-Garzón, Elisa Chilet-Rosell, María Hernández-Enríquez, Francisco Barrera-Guarderas, Ikram Benazizi-Dahbi, Marta Puig-García, Andrés Peralta, Ana Lucía Torres-Castillo, Lucy Anne Parker

“…This initiative fostered social confidence, empowerment, and cohesion, though challenges emerged, including limited participation in the evaluation phase and difficulties in sustaining actions post-implementation. …”
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Harnessing the Power of Citizen Science for Agroecological Transitions: The Case of the One Million Voices of Agroecology Initiative and Digital Platform by Lisa Elena Fuchs, Lily Cannell van Dien, Maria Rosa ‘Rosy’ Mondardini, Ma Estrella ‘Esther’ Penunia, Irish Baguilat, Sergio Iván Larrea Macías, Marcelo Soares Souza, Eduardo Fernandes Formighieri, Murilo Gelain Gonçalves, Rodrigo B. Westphalen, Vitória Pimentel, Fabio Ricci, Daria Levina, Matthias Geck

“…The One Million Voices (OMV) citizen science initiative aimed to harness the power of citizen science to support agroecological transitions globally. …”
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Optimization of Screening Media to Improve Antimicrobial Biodiscovery from Soils in Undergraduate/Citizen Science Research-Engaged Initiatives by Leah McPhillips, John O’Callaghan, Carmel Shortiss, Stephen A. Jackson, Niall D. O’Leary

“…These programs target soil habitats due to their high microbial diversity and promote initial screening with non-selective, nutrient media such as tryptic soy agar (TSA). …”
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Development of an Intelligent Method for Target Tracking in Radar Systems at the Initial Stage of Operation Under Intentional Jamming Conditions by Serhii Semenov, Olga Wasiuta, Alla Jammine, Justyna Golec, Magdalena Krupska-Klimczak, Yevhen Tarasenko, Vitalii Voronets, Vitalii Breslavets, Serhii Lvov, Artem Moskalenko

“…In conditions of signal loss, noise, and unstable measurement reliability, traditional methods do not provide stable and accurate tracking, especially at the initial stages of radar operation. To address this issue, an intelligent method is proposed that integrates a probabilistic graphical evaluation and review technique (GERT) model, a recursive Kalman filter, and a measurement reliability prediction module based on a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network. …”
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Initial treatment efficacy and safety of durvalumab plus tremelimumab combination therapy in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma in clinical practice by Tetsu Tomonari, Joji Tani, Yasushi Sato, Hironori Tanaka, Akihiro Morishita, Koichi Okamoto, Yutaka Kawano, Masahiro Sogabe, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Tetsuji Takayama

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Implementation of hospital-initiated complex interventions for adult people with multiple long-term conditions: a scoping review by Sivesh K. Kamarajah, Smaragda Lampridou, Naveen Deshika Soysa, James C. Glasbey, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Sue Blackwell, Joyce Yeung, Thomas Pinkney, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Jugdeep Dhesi, Shalini Ahuja, Dion G. Morton, Aneel Bhangu

“…This scoping review aims to comprehensively evaluate hospital-initiated complex interventions for people with MLTC. …”
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Program Report—Transplant Manitoba Adult Kidney Program Cutting Costs, Not Corners: Value of Quality Improvement Initiatives by Christie Rampersad, Aaron Trachtenberg, James Shaw, Nancy Dodd, Krista Maxwell, Martin Karpinski, Chris Wiebe, Peter Nickerson, Julie Ho

“…In addition, some valuable QI efforts, while improving patient outcomes, may increase costs, highlighting the need for balanced perspectives in assessing stewardship initiatives. Finally, this analysis is limited to projected cost savings and does not evaluate clinical outcomes, process adherence, or implementation effectiveness. …”
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Implementing large-system, value-based healthcare initiatives: a realist study protocol for seven natural experiments by Frances Rapport, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Peter D Hibbert, Chiara Pomare, Yvonne Tran, Robyn Clay-Williams, Janet C Long, Virginia Mumford, Johanna Westbrook, Gaston Arnolda, Rebecca Mitchell, Jean-Frédéric Levesque, Richard O Day, Kim Sutherland, Mitchell N Sarkies, Emilie Francis-Auton, Andrew Partington, Hoa Mi Nguyen, Wendy Wu, Henry Cutler, Diane E Watson, Reidar Lystad, George Leipnik, Rebecca Hardwick

“…Stage 1 will formulate initial programme theories from review of existing literature, analysis of programme documents and qualitative interviews with programme designers, implementation support staff and evaluators. …”
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Refining and Measuring the Construct of Evaluative Thinking: An Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Evaluative Thinking Inventory by Jason S. McIntosh, Jane Buckley, Thomas Archibald

“…Setting: The ETI was developed as part of an ECB initiative focused on non-formal science, engineering, technology, and math (STEM) education in the United States, and was tested as part of a study focused on evaluating gifted education programs, also in the United States. …”
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Evaluative Thinking in Practice: Implications for Evaluation from Paulo Freire's Work in Guinea-Bissau by Thomaz K. Chianca, Cladius Ceccon, Michael Q. Patton

“…Purpose: This article describes little-known but historically significant educational reform initiative in Guinea Bissau (West-Africa) in the 1970s supported by a group led by Paulo Freire, examining what occurred through the lens of evaluative thinking. …”
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Learning Lessons for Evaluating Complexity Across the Nexus: A Meta-Evaluation of Environmental Projects by William Robert Sheate, Clare Twigger-Ross, Liza Papadopoulou, Rolands Sadauskis, Owen White, Paula Orr, Richard Eales

“…Furthermore, an explicit theory of change was only often first elaborated as part of the evaluation process, long after the policy intervention had already been initiated. …”
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Curitiba acute ischemic stroke protocol: a university hospital and EMS initiative in a large Brazilian city by Marcos Christiano Lange, Viviane Flumignan Zétola, Monica F. Parolin, Laura N. Zamproni, Artur F. Fernandes, Élcio Juliato Piovesan, Edison Matos Nóvak, Lineu César Werneck

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2D-3D deformable image registration of histology slide and micro-CT with DISA-based initialization by Junan Chen, Matteo Ronchetti, Verena Stehl, Van Nguyen, Muhannad Al Kallaa, Mahesh Thalwaththe Gedara, Claudia Lölkes, Stefan Moser, Maximilian Seidl, Matthias Wieczorek

“…The method utilizes an initial global 2D-3D registration using an ML-based differentiable similarity measure. …”
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Effect of Random Distribution of Initial Imperfection Curvature on The Bearing Capacity of Double -Layer Flat Grids With Different Configurations by Arash Bayat, Hamidreza Ashrafi

“…Finally, the statistical parameters and reliability of each structure were evaluated using the Monte Carlo method. The results show that the flat two-layer grid structure with an orthogonal pattern and without openings has better performance, with not only a higher average vertical load-bearing capacity and reliability but also lower sensitivity to initial member curvature.…”
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The influencing factors and prognosis analysis of positive initial margin in intraoperative frozen section during breast-conserving surgery by Shanshan Yan, Yongnan Wang, Yingye Feng, Yujuan Guo, Huang Tang, Hongyi Gao

“…Abstract Objectives A critical measure to reduce the risk of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) for patients with early invasive breast cancer (BC) is ensuring negative margins through frozen section intraoperative margin assessment (FSIMA).This study aims to evaluate the influencing factors and prognosis associated with positive initial margins in FSIMA. …”
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A Fracture Criterion for Prediction of Fracture Initiation of Metal Materials at Various Stress States for Nuclear Waste Storage by Zhihui Li, Xue Yang, Anmin Tang

“…A fracture criterion is newly proposed to evaluate fracture behavior and predict fracture initiation of metal materials in different complicated stress states for four different fracture mechanisms including quasicleavage fracture, normal fracture with void, shear fracture with void, and shear fracture without void. …”
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Navigating Vancomycin and Acute Kidney Injury: AUC- vs. Trough-Guided Monitoring in Initial and Steady-State Therapy by Astrid Marovič, Tomaž Vovk, Maja Petre

“…Risk factors for AKI were identified, and pharmacokinetic parameters were evaluated at vancomycin therapy initiation and steady state. …”
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Admixture mapping of pelvic organ prolapse in African Americans from the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy trial. by Ayush Giri, Katherine E Hartmann, Melinda C Aldrich, Renee M Ward, Jennifer M Wu, Jennifer M Wu, Amy J Park, Mariaelisa Graff, Lihong Qi, Rami Nassir, Robert B Wallace, Mary J O'Sullivan, Kari E North, Digna R Velez Edwards, Todd L Edwards

“…However, the role of genetic ancestry in relation to POP risk is not clear. Here we evaluate the association between genetic ancestry and POP in AA women from the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy trial. …”
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Road Traffic Injury Prevention Initiatives: A Systematic Review and Metasummary of Effectiveness in Low and Middle Income Countries. by Catherine Staton, Joao Vissoci, Enying Gong, Nicole Toomey, Rebeccah Wafula, Jihad Abdelgadir, Yi Zhao, Chen Liu, Fengdi Pei, Brittany Zick, Camille D Ratliff, Claire Rotich, Nicole Jadue, Luciano de Andrade, Megan von Isenburg, Michael Hocker

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Legislation was the most common intervention evaluated with the best outcomes when combined with strong enforcement initiatives or as part of a multifaceted approach. …”
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