Racial, Ethnic, and Language-Based Inequities in Inpatient Opioid Prescribing by Diagnosis from Internal Medicine Services, a Retrospective Cohort Study by Mihir Joshi, Priya A. Prasad, Colin C. Hubbard, Nicholas Iverson, Solmaz P. Manuel, Margaret C. Fang, Aksharananda Rambachan

“…This represents an institutional and societal opportunity for quality improvement initiatives to promote equitable pain management.…”
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Methylation characteristics and clinical significance of glutathione peroxidase 3 in malignant pleomorphic adenoma by LIU Xiao, SUN Jiangwei, ZHOU Jing

“…Human malignant pleomorphic adenoma cell line SM-AP1 was selected and transfected with GPX3 overexpression vector and empty vector, and they were divided into Vector group and OE-GPX3 group. …”
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Harnessing Moderate-Sized Language Models for Reliable Patient Data Deidentification in Emergency Department Records: Algorithm Development, Validation, and Implementation Study by Océane Dorémus, Dylan Russon, Benjamin Contrand, Ariel Guerra-Adames, Marta Avalos-Fernandez, Cédric Gil-Jardiné, Emmanuel Lagarde

“…Our dataset, derived from over 425,000 clinical notes from the adult emergency department of the Bordeaux University Hospital in France, underwent independent double annotation by 2 experts to create a reference for model validation with 3000 clinical notes randomly selected. Three open-source language models of manageable size were selected for their feasibility in hospital settings: Llama 2 (Meta) 7B, Mistral 7B, and Mixtral 8×7B (Mistral AI). …”
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The inhibitory effect of Osthole on A549 lung adenocarcinoma cells and its biomarker by Yinlan Xu, Lulu Chen, Dong Liu, Bo Xue, Chaoying Li, AJab Khan, Xuehua Li, Ruling Shi

“…The aim of this study was to select natural compounds and biomarkers having high inhibitory effects against A549 adenocarcinoma cells. …”
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Factors associated with hepatitis B virus infection among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in Western Area Urban District, Sierra Leone by Solomon Aiah Sogbeh, Alexander Ansah-Manu, Adel Elduma, Gebrekrstos Negash Gebru, Delia Akosua Bandoh, Yakubu Alhassan, James Sylvester Squire, Adolphina Addo-Lartey

“…Understanding the risk factors for hepatitis B virus among pregnant women can guide public health initiatives, prenatal care, and maternal–child health policies. …”
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Longitudinal structural MRI-based deep learning and radiomics features for predicting Alzheimer’s disease progression by Sepehr Aghajanian, Fateme Mohammadifard, Ida Mohammadi, Shahryar Rajai Firouzabadi, Ali Baradaran Bagheri, Elham Moases Ghaffary, Omid Mirmosayyeb

“…Methods We selected 228 MCI participants from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) who had at least three T1-weighted MRI scans within 18 months of baseline. …”
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Confirmatory mapping for lymphatic filariasis in districts previously considered nonendemic in Ghana by Joseph L. Opare, Dziedzom K. de Souza, Bright Alomatu, Ernest Mensah, Emmanuel Nyarko, Odame Asiedu, Judith Saare, Charles Brown-Davies, Irene D. Dzathor, Achille Kabore, Ernest O. Mensah

“…Schoolchildren aged 9-14 years were randomly selected using the TAS Survey Sample Builder tool. …”
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The Role of Serum Calcium Levels in the Progression of Arterial Stiffness: Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses in a Multicenter Cohort by Kyung An Kim, Hae‐Ok Jung, Mi‐Jeong Kim, So‐Young Lee, Dong‐Hyeon Lee, Donghee Han, Hyuk‐Jae Chang, Su‐Yeon Choi, Jidong Sung, Eun Ju Chun

“…Individuals undergoing baPWV measurements as part of a generalized health examination, with normal serum calcium (8.5–10.5 mg/dL) and phosphate levels and no significant renal dysfunction, were selected from the Korea Initiatives on Coronary Artery (KOICA) registry. …”
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Development and characterization of gold nanoparticle-based colorimetric sensing assay functionalized with L-cysteine for the detection of calcium carbide in ripened mango and bana... by Aishwarya Dixit, Sonam Sonwal, Ashutosh Upadhyay, Vivek K. Bajpai, Yun Suk Huh, Shruti Shukla

“…The sensing strategy relied on the fact that the wherein introduction of CaC2 initiates aggregation, resulting in detectable color change (red to purple) that helps in detection of CaC2. …”
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Characteristics and prediction methods of coal spontaneous combustion for deep coal mining in the Ximeng mining area by Li MA, Wenbo GAO, Longlong TUO, Pengyu ZHANG, Zhou ZHENG, Ruizhi GUO

“…CO was identified as the dominant indicator gas, appearing initially at a temperature of about 30℃. The amount of gas produced increased with the sulfur mass fraction. …”
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Patient characteristics and predictors of mortality among children hospitalised with tuberculosis: A six-year case series study in Uganda. by Pauline Mary Amuge, Greta Lassance Becker, Rogers Nelson Ssebunya, Esther Nalumansi, Alex Adaku, Michael Juma, Jay Brooks Jackson, Adeodata Rukyarekere Kekitiinwa, Peter James Elyanu, Eric Wobudeya, Robert Blount

“…The high in-hospital mortality and long hospital stay may be reduced by timely TB diagnosis and treatment initiation among children.…”
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Machine-learning algorithm to predict home delivery after antenatal care visit among reproductive age women in East Africa by Agmasie Damtew Walle, Shimels Derso Kebede, Jibril Bashir Adem, Daniel Niguse Mamo

“…Living in rural areas and late ANC initiation (second trimester) increased the likelihood of home delivery. …”
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Use of heart failure medical therapy before and after a cancer diagnosis: A longitudinal study by Chengsheng Ju, Wallis C.Y. Lau, Charlotte Manisty, Pinkie Chambers, Ruth Brauer, Martin D. Forster, Isla S. Mackenzie, Li Wei

“…Cancer diagnosis was not associated with treatment initiation or dose up‐titration. Event rates for HF hospitalization and mortality were higher in patients with poor adherence or persistence to GDMTs. …”
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Attitudes towards Telemedicine Services and Associated Factors among health professionals in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Alex Ayenew Chereka, Gebrehiwot Berie Mekonnen, Amlaku Nigusie Yirsaw, Berihun Agegn Mengistie, Eyob Getachew, Gebeyehu Lakew, Adamu Ambachew Shibabaw, Gemeda Wakgari Kitil

“…Methods Following the PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a systematic review of studies on telemedicine attitudes, initially identifying 15,900 articles. After screening, 5 full-text articles were selected for inclusion. …”
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Capacity development for Trauma and Injury Research in Vietnam: the Johns Hopkins University-Hanoi School of Public Health Trauma and Injury Research Program (JHU-Hanoi TRIP) by Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Khushbu Balsara, Cuong Pham Viet, Lyllian Le, Ngan Tran Thi, Qingfeng Li

“…Design This was a longitudinal implementation science study of a capacity-building initiative using both long-term and short-term training strategies. …”
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Multi-regional energy sharing approach for shared energy storage and local renewable energy resources considering efficiency optimization by Wenyang Deng, Dongliang Xiao, Mingli Chen, Muhammad Faizan Tahir, Dongrui Zhu

“…Meanwhile, the bottom-layer model addressed user demand response, allowing users to modify their energy consumption and select more advantageous trading areas based on information provided by the MREO. …”
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Hydroxyapatite-Complexed Type I Collagen and Fibrinogen-Modified Porous Titanium Alloy Scaffold: Promoting Osteogenesis and Soft Tissue Integration by Wenhao Tao, Gang Tian, Xu Han, Jianyong Gao, Yingchun Zhu, Xiaogang Xu

“…Initially, we utilized the excellent adhesive properties of dopamine to co-deposit mHA and polydopamine (PDA) onto porous Ti-6Al-4V scaffolds, which was followed by immobilization of type I collagen and fibrinogen onto PDA. …”
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Neurological damages in COVID‐19 patients: Mechanisms and preventive interventions by Sibani Sarkar, Subhajit Karmakar, Malini Basu, Pratyasha Ghosh, Mrinal K Ghosh

“…Internalization of SARS‐CoV‐2 triggers ROS production and modulation of the immunological cascade which ultimately initiates the hypercoagulable state and vascular thrombosis. …”
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Unconventional low temperature decomposition of a saturated hydrocarbon over atomically-dispersed titanium-aluminum-boron catalyst by Souvick Biswas, Jack Cokas, Winston Gee, Dababrata Paul, Nureshan Dias, Harry W. T. Morgan, Matthew T. Finn, Bethany M. Hudak, Perrin M. Godbold, Christopher A. Klug, Albert Epshteyn, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Musahid Ahmed, Ralf I. Kaiser

“…Here, the model saturated hydrocarbon, exo-tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene (C10H16), undergoes catalytic decomposition on TiAlB NPs in a chemical microreactor to produce 1,3-cyclopentadiene (c-C5H6), cyclopentene (c-C5H8), and molecular hydrogen (H2) as detected in situ via isomer-selective, single-photon ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. …”
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Earliest evidence of Neanderthal multifunctional bone tool production from cave lion (Panthera spelaea) remains by Grégory Abrams, Patrick Auguste, Stéphane Pirson, Isabelle De Groote, Éva Halbrucker, Kévin Di Modica, Camille Pironneau, Tristan Dedrie, Carlo Meloro, Valentin Fischer, Hervé Bocherens, Yves Vanbrabant, Fabrice Bray

“…A tibia was deliberately processed into multifunctional tools, initially serving as an intermediate tool before being repurposed as retouchers. …”
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