Evaluation of Treatment Patterns and Maintenance Dose Titration Among Patients With Crohn’s Disease Initiating Biologics With 3 Years of Follow-Up by Ruizhi Zhao, Zhijie Ding, Parul Gupta, Laurence Gozalo, Robert Bruette, Victor M. Johnson, Keshia Maughn, Yihang Liu, Sumesh Kachroo

“…Commercially insured patients with continuous capture for at least 12 months before and at least 36 months after biologics initiation were selected. Confirmed CD patients were included in the final cohort. …”
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Addressing the “Black Hole” of Low Back Pain Care With Clinical Decision Support: User-Centered Design and Initial Usability Study by Robert S Rudin, Patricia M Herman, Robert Vining

“…ObjectivesWe designed, developed, and initially tested the usability of a LBP diagnosis and treatment decision support tool based on the available evidence for use by clinicians who treat LBP, with an initial focus on chiropractic care. …”
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Telehealth for the Initial Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Disorders: Qualitative Study of Patients, Health Care Providers, and Key Stakeholders in the Province of Quebec in Canada by Raphaël Vincent, Pauline Lemersre, Geneviève Ferland, Annie Bélanger, Audrey-Anne Cormier, Kadija Perreault, Jean Sébastien Roy, Nicolas Pinsault, Dahlia Kairy, François Desmeules

“…ObjectiveWe aim to explore the use of telehealth for the initial evaluation of MSKDs in the province of Quebec, Canada. …”
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Highly efficient, free-breathing whole-chest equilibrium phase bT1RESS MR angiography: Initial clinical experience by Robert R. Edelman, Amit Pursnani, Kevin Lee, Hang Chen, Reza Nezafat, Tess Wallace, Nondas Leloudas, Derek Clarke, Ioannis Koktzoglou

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Strategic scaling initiatives and client networking dynamics for small and medium-sized enterprises growth: a comprehensive case study analysis by Ioannis Christodoulou, Satrio Utomo Putranto, Moustafa Haj Youssef, Aspasia Simillidou, Jana Chovancová

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Powerful Knowledge in Norwegian Teacher Education: A Framework for Curriculum Analysis by Christian Huseby, Tobias Werler

“… This article investigates whether the Norwegian initial teacher education (ITE) curriculum embodies the principles of powerful knowledge (PK), a concept based on the importance of specialised, abstract, and theoretical knowledge in education. …”
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Adapting and Validating DigCompEdu for Early Childhood Education Students Through Expert Competence Coefficient by Juan Silva-Quiroz, José González-Campos, José Garrido-Miranda, José Lázaro-Cantabrana, Roberto Canales-Reyes

“…Expert competence coefficient K was applied to select 22 experts for the validation process to establish its pertinence, importance, and clarity, who positively evaluated the 22 descriptors of the proposal. …”
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Introducing Exploratory Teaching in Preservice Teacher Education Through Lesson Study by Nicole Duarte, João Pedro da Ponte, Filipa Faria

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TEMPO-Oxidized Spruce Galactoglucomannan–Biopolymer with Enhanced Antioxidant Activity and Selective Heavy-Metal Sorption by Vladislav A. Ionin, Yuriy N. Malyar, Valentina S. Borovkova, Dmitriy V. Zimonin, Aleksandr S. Kazachenko

“…According to antioxidant activity tests, the oxidized galactoglucomannan exceeds the initial sample in terms of hydroxyl radical scavenging ability. …”
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Bovine tuberculosis model validation against a field study of badger vaccination with selective culling. by Graham C Smith, Richard Budgey

“…Here we re-run the model with the initial conditions of the TVR study and with no social perturbation and predict a similar outcome in terms of number of badgers caught, number testing positive, and the substantial decline in prevalence. …”
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A Cluster Head Selection Algorithm for Extending Last Node Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks by Marcin Lewandowski, Bartłomiej Płaczek

“…In contrast to existing energy-balancing strategies, this analytical foundation leads to a distinctive selection rule that prioritizes the node with the highest transmission probability and the lowest initial energy as the initial cluster head. …”
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Spark-Based Label Diffusion and Label Selection Community Detection Algorithm for Metagenome Sequence Clustering by Zhengjiang Wu, Xuyang Wu, Junwei Luo

“…Those sequences that do not receive an initial label will select the sequence label with the highest importance in the neighbor sequences. …”
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An improved dung beetle optimizer based on Padé approximation strategy for global optimization and feature selection by Tianbao Liu, Lingling Yang, Yue Li, Xiwen Qin

“…In this paper, we proposed a multi-strategy enhanced dung beetle optimization algorithm (mDBO) that integrates multiple strategies to effectively address the feature selection problem. First, a novel population initialization strategy based on a hybrid tent-sine map and random opposition-based learning was proposed to generate initial population. …”
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The Influence of Early Grade Reading On Pupils Academic Performance in Selected Primary Schools in Rukiga District by Muhumuza, Boaz

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In Vitro Selection of Cancer Cell-Specific Molecular Recognition Elements from Amino Acid Libraries by Ryan M. Williams, Letha J. Sooter

“…MREs are selected from initial large libraries of different nucleic or amino acids. …”
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Access selection algorithm for heterogeneous wireless network based on DA optimized fuzzy neural network by Zhihong QIAN, Yinuo FENG, Jiani SUN, Xue WANG

“…To solve the access selection problem of heterogeneous wireless network, an access selection algorithm based on dragonfly algorithm (DA) optimized fuzzy neural network (FNN) was proposed, considering the user’s business type and network state.In view of the low convergence speed of the fuzzy neural network, the dragonfly algorithm was used to optimize the membership function parameters of the second and fifth layers of the fuzzy neural network, so as to obtain the initial value of membership function parameters of the fuzzy neural network.The most suitable network was selected for the users according to their preference to the network and the output score of the network under different business types.The experimental results show that dragonfly algorithm optimization can improve the convergence speed of fuzzy neural network, improve system throughput, reduce blocking rate, and reduce switching times to some extent.…”
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Access selection algorithm for heterogeneous wireless network based on DA optimized fuzzy neural network by Zhihong QIAN, Yinuo FENG, Jiani SUN, Xue WANG

“…To solve the access selection problem of heterogeneous wireless network, an access selection algorithm based on dragonfly algorithm (DA) optimized fuzzy neural network (FNN) was proposed, considering the user’s business type and network state.In view of the low convergence speed of the fuzzy neural network, the dragonfly algorithm was used to optimize the membership function parameters of the second and fifth layers of the fuzzy neural network, so as to obtain the initial value of membership function parameters of the fuzzy neural network.The most suitable network was selected for the users according to their preference to the network and the output score of the network under different business types.The experimental results show that dragonfly algorithm optimization can improve the convergence speed of fuzzy neural network, improve system throughput, reduce blocking rate, and reduce switching times to some extent.…”
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The interplay of contrast markers (‘but’), selectives (“topic markers”) and word order in the fuzzy oppositive contrast domain by Wälchli Bernhard

“…Oppositive contrast is established as a fuzzy region of the similarity space of contrast (‘but’), a domain also characterized by the occurrence of selectives (“topic markers”) and of initial non-predicative phrases in VSO/VOS-languages. …”
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Selected Topics on Socio-technical Perspective in Information Systems: Editorial Introduction to Issue 18 of CSIMQ by Peter Bednar, Ilia Bider

“…The articles presented in this thematic issue contain at least 30% new material compared to the initial papers. After the extension, all articles went through two rounds of reviews to ensure the quality of the papers published in this issue. …”
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A selected core microbiome drives the early stages of three popular italian cheese manufactures. by Francesca De Filippis, Antonietta La Storia, Giuseppina Stellato, Monica Gatti, Danilo Ercolini

“…In the three cheese manufactures the initial fermentation is carried out by adding natural whey cultures (NWCs) according to a back-slopping procedure. …”
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