Increasing the use of home medication lists in an outpatient neurorehabilitation clinic by Christine Soong, Meiqi Guo, Alan Tam, Ayan Dey, Beth Fraser, Margaret Podalak, Mark Bayley, Alexander Lo

“…This project aimed to increase the percentage of patients who bring their medications/medication lists to 80% and decrease the impact on clinic visits caused by missing medication information to 10%. This was a controlled before-after study, with the outpatient rehabilitation assessment (OPRA) clinic as the intervention and the spasticity clinic as the control. …”
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A Robust Hybrid CNN–LSTM Model for Predicting Student Academic Performance by Kuburat Oyeranti Adefemi, Murimo Bethel Mutanga

“…However, many existing models struggle with generalizability and fail to effectively manage data challenges such as class imbalance and missing data, leading to suboptimal predictive performance. …”
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Latent classes of substance use and delinquency in a Swedish national sample of adolescents and associated risk factors. by Clas Björklund, Fredrik Sivertsson, Jonas Landberg, Jonas Raninen, Peter Larm

“…<h4>Results</h4>Identified classes were: "Low/abstainers" (74.80%, n = 2858, Male = 1191 Female = 1656, Missing = 11) which acted as reference, "Alcohol only" (22.21%, n = 849, Male = 420, Female = 426, Missing = 3), "Polydrug use and crime" (2.15%, n = 82, Male = 52, Female = 30) and "High crime" (0.84%, n = 32, Male = 30, Females = 2). …”
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Hope, Mattering, and Pathways Towards Economic Agency among Financially Marginalized Adults by Amy Castro, Chenyi Ma, Claudette Grinnell Davis, Meagan Cusack

“…Yet, important constructs of hope (a sense of agency in the face of uncertainty) and mattering (awareness, importance, and reliance) may be missing from financial interventions. We employ a human capability approach for testing these assertions among 140 low-income adults participating in an economic mobility intervention. …”
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Oral health and nutrition: addressing disparities in socioeconomically disadvantaged older adults in rural China by Qiufeng Gao, Xintong Wang, Yuxin Jiang, Wenhua Chen, Kaixuan Gao, Yaojiang Shi

“…Results Among participants, an average of 14.08 teeth were missing, increasing to 17.30 when considering number of missing teeth not replaced with dentures. …”
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Olfactory Ensheathing Cell Transplantation in Experimental Spinal Cord Injury: Effect size and Reporting Bias of 62 Experimental Treatments: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Ralf Watzlawick, Julian Rind, Emily S Sena, Benedikt Brommer, Tian Zhang, Marcel A Kopp, Ulrich Dirnagl, Malcolm R Macleod, David W Howells, Jan M Schwab

“…Studies were included if they assessed neurobehavioral improvement after traumatic experimental SCI, administrated no combined interventions, and reported the number of animals in the treatment and control group. …”
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Effect of suicidality on clinical and behavioural outcomes in HIV positive adults in Uganda. by Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Jonathan Levin, Richard Stephen Mpango, Vikram Patel, Eugene Kinyanda

“…Of the investigated clinical and behavioural outcomes, baseline suicidality only had a negative impact on missing a dose of ART where the odds of missing a dose of ART were 8.25 (95% CI 2.45-27.71, p>0.01) times higher for participants with suicidality compared to those without suicidality. …”
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Patterns and predictors of tooth loss among partially dentate individuals in Jordan: A cross-sectional study by Anas Alibrahim, Hamza Al Salieti, Mohammad Alrawashdeh, Hisham Darweesh, Hussein Alsaleh

“…Multivariate regression models were used to determine the predictors for the number of missing teeth. Results: The sample consisted of 467 partially dentate participants. …”
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Challenges and strategies in dental care for patients with intellectual disabilities in Hungary by Ilona Szmirnova, György Szmirnov, Emese Gellérd, Zsolt Németh, Márton Kivovics, György Szabó

“…Compared to the general population, patients with ID exhibited poorer Decayed and Missing scores but more favorable Filled scores based on the decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) index. …”
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High adult sex ratios and risky sexual behaviors: a systematic review. by Cedric H Bien, Yong Cai, Michael E Emch, William Parish, Joseph D Tucker

“…Further studies are needed to understand the effect of community sex ratios on sexual health and to inform comprehensive STD control interventions.…”
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Optimizing the light gradient-boosting machine algorithm for an efficient early detection of coronary heart disease by Temidayo Oluwatosin Omotehinwa, David Opeoluwa Oyewola, Ervin Gubin Moung

“…The baseline LightGBM model with dropped missing values had an accuracy of 0.8333, sensitivity of 0.1081, precision of 0.3429, F1 score of 0.1644, and AUC of 0.6875. …”
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Relationships Between First-Year Student Resilience and Academic Stress by David W. Nordstokke, Yvonne Hindes

“…After accounting for missing data, 68 participants were female (65%; <i>n</i> = 44) and 35% (<i>n</i> = 24) were male. …”
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After Effects of Radiation on the Caries Status of Head and Neck Cancer Patients − A Six-Month Clinical Trial by Upasana Reddy, Mithra N. Hegde, Aditya Shetty, Mallikarjuna Rao Koduru, Neevan Dsouza

“…The participants were randomized to use one of three interventions: VCO, TM, or MW. Caries progression was assessed using the decayed-missing-filled-teeth (DMFT) index at baseline and after 6 months of RT. …”
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Food loss and waste data gaps in fruit and vegetable value chains: a review of the literature by Jane Lukhachi Ambuko, Sharon Mayienga Masakhwe, Emmanuel Amwoka, Esther Mujuka, Carola Fabi

“…Otherwise, blind interventions that are not guided by reliable evidence will continue missing the target.…”
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Reducing under-five mortality in Tanzania: insights from a 60-years data analysis on economic and health indicators by Mohamed K. Mwanga, Silas Mirau, Jean M. Tchuenche, Isambi S. Mbalawata

“…Abstract Background Under-five mortality in Tanzania remains a persistent issue, significantly affecting both the health and economic sectors. Despite various interventions, the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) remains high, impeding progress toward global health targets. …”
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Building proactive law competence with systems intelligence by Toivonen Nina

“…This article argues that framing proactive law as a systemic approach opens up the possibility for developing a proactive legal theory and solutions using insights from various applications of systems thinking, which is an aspect currently missing from proactive law research. The article introduces the framework of systems intelligence (SI), a practically oriented philosophy for making positive systemic interventions, and discusses its promises and challenges in building proactive law competence. …”
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Nasopalatine duct cyst as a delayed consequence of dental implant placement in the anterior maxilla: A case report by Mohammadreza Talebi Ardakani, Behzad Houshmand, Aida Kheiri

“…Dental implants are now the best treatment method to replace missing teeth. However, complications may necessitate further therapeutic interventions because of anatomic limitations and mistakes during surgical procedures. …”
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights and climate change about menstrual discrimination: a policy review in the context of Nepal by Radha Paudel, Devaraj Acharya, Tejaswi Mili Adhikari

“…It is crucial to accelerate the impact of interventions related to SRHR and CC to achieve broader gender justice and human rights. …”
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Health Care Professionals’ Knowledge of Stalking Perpetrators, Victims, Behaviors, and Coping Strategies: A Preliminary Study among Italian Hospitals by Daniela Acquadro Maran, Barbara Loera, Alberto D’Argenio

“…According to the findings, interventions with male victims of stalking, especially when the stalker is a woman, require attention in particular. …”
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A framework for scalable ambient air pollution concentration estimation by Liam J. Berrisford, Lucy S. Neal, Helen J. Buttery, Benjamin R. Evans, Ronaldo Menezes

“…Validation was conducted to assess the model’s performance in forecasting, estimating missing locations, and capturing peak concentrations. …”
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