ECOLOGICAL-FAUNISTIC AND ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF BEETLE-WEEVILS OF ISLAND CHECHEN OF THE CASPIAN SEA by Y. G. Arsanov, G. M. Mukhtarov, M. W. Ismailova

“…Faunistic investigations of islands and coastal areas , habitats and others chorologic aspects illuminate the ways of their probable settlement,explains the paradoxes of propagation of some species. …”
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Development of a predictive model for post-surgical chronic pain: a retrospective analysis of calcaneal fracture patients by Shibo Zhai, Shuo Zhang, Xinzhe Ma, Yongchao Gong, Zhiyong Hou, Wei Chen, Lijie Ma

“…Patients were randomly allocated into model development (n = 280) and validation (n = 118) cohorts. …”
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Quantifying Suicide Risk in Prostate Cancer: A SEER-Based Predictive Model by Jiaxing Du, Fen Zhang, Weinan Zheng, Xue Lu, Huiyi Yu, Jian Zeng, Sujun Chen

“…Patients were randomly allocated to training (n = 123,711) and validation (n = 53,019) cohorts in a 7:3 ratio. …”
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Effects of spinal manipulation and pain education on pain in patients with chronic low back pain: a protocol of randomized sham-controlled trial by Clécio Vier, Marcelo Anderson Bracht, Marcos Lisboa Neves, Maíra Junkes-Cunha, Adair Roberto Soares Santos

“…Background: Low back pain (LBP) has more than doubled in the last 20 years, probably influenced by biopsychosocial factors. Noninvasive treatments have been applied in individuals with chronic nonspecific LBP as spinal manipulation and pain education. …”
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Development and validation of a clinical prediction model for dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury following heart transplantation: a single-center study from China by Shirui Qian, Bingxin Cao, Ping Li, Nianguo Dong

“…All enrolled participants were randomly allocated into derivation (n = 350) and validation (n = 175) cohorts at a ratio of 2:1. …”
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450 Eight weeks of creatine monohydrate supplementation is feasible and associated with increased brain creatine in patients with AD by Aaron Smith, Matthew Taylor, Choi In-Young, Phil Lee, Emma Kelly, Tanu Aroa, Faith Waitsman

“…Thus, we investigated whether an eight-week CrM supplementation was feasible and associated with increased brain creatine in patients with AD. Methods/Study Population: Twenty participants with probable AD were allocated to an open-label, eight-week intervention of 20 g/day CrM. …”
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Development of a clinical prediction model for intra-abdominal infection in severe acute pancreatitis using logistic regression and nomogram by Rui Qi, He-Bin Wang, Ren-Ying Luo, Jing Li, Li Su

“…A total of 415 eligible patients were enrolled and randomly allocated into a training set (n = 291) and a validation set (n = 124) in a 7:3 ratio for model development and internal validation. …”
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Construction of a clinical prediction model for overall survival and cancer-specific survival in malignant phyllode tumor of the breast based on the SEER database by Chenggeng Pan, Ruokuo Han, Senzhe Xia, Dingwei Fan, Daqing Yang, Haiguang Ma

“…Strong concordance between the probabilities observed and those predicted was indicated by the calibration curve. …”
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Comparing the effects of two different vitamin regimens on bone metabolism for meat ducks at starting phase by Ling Zhou, Pinyao Zhao, Yan Liu, Wei Zhao, Anran Jiao

“…The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary vitamin levels on growth performance and tibia quality in 14-d-old meat ducks. Methods One-d-old Cherry Valley meat-type male ducks were allocated to two vitamin regimens for 14 d, which was formulated according to the recommendation of the National Research Council (NRC, 1994) or China Agricultural Industry Standards (NY/T 2122-2012). …”
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Effects of Binaural Beat Music and Esketamine for ECT in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol by Zhang Y, Ke Z, Luo J, Chen Q, Xu X, Jiang X, Xiong J

“…Purpose of this study is to investigate the modification of BBM on effects of (esketamine combined with) ECT for MDD, and the probable interaction between BBM and esketamine, aiming to provide insights for optimizing ECT and improving outcomes of patients with MDD.Patients and Methods: This study is a 2× 2 factorial, prospective, randomized, controlled, blinded clinical trial that recruiting 476 patients with MDD who require ECT treatments. …”
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Landiolol bolus application for tachycardic dysrhythmia in the prehospital EMS setting – An observational study of a novel concept by Felix Eibensteiner, Mario Krammel, Andrea Kornfehl, Roman Brock, Christoph Veigl, Daniel Grassmann, Thomas Hamp, Hans Domanovits, Patrick Sulzgruber, Sebastian Schnaubelt

“…Phenylephrine administration with a probable causal relation to Landiolol was needed in four cases (3.6%). …”
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Clinical and Laboratory Characteristic of Acute Stenosic Laryngotraceitis in Children Hospitalized into Diagnostic Department of Lviv Regional Hospital of Infectious Diseases durin... by Hladchenko O.

“…The lack of probable interconnections between the changes in the complete blood count and the results of the bacteriological examinations provides the grounds for treating leukocytosis and increasing of the level of bands as a reaction of macroorganisms to stress, hypoxia, possibly with the administration of the high doses of glucocorticoids, rather than bacterial factors. …”
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GEOGRAPHICAL RELATIONS OF DARKLING BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE) OF THE PALAEARCTIC TETHYS DESERT-STEPPE REGION WITH THE HISTORICAL REVIEW by G. M. Abdurakhmanov, M. V. Nabozhenko, A. G. Abdurakhmanov, Yu. Yu. Ivanushenko, M. G. Daudova

“…Two super-regions (with western Tethys and eastern Tethys complexis of taxa) are allocated. These two regions are divided on several subregions which differ by high level of taxonomic diversity. …”
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Prediction of metastatic risk of renal clear cell carcinoma based on CT radiomics analysis by Xueyi Wang, Youchang Yang, Jiaojiao Wu, Xiaoqiang Tang, Yao Wang

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the value of using imaging histological models to non-invasively assess the risk of metastasis in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).MethodsThis study retrospectively enrolled 273 clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) patients from three hospitals, with 57 cases allocated as an independent test cohort. …”
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Survival prognostic nomogram for young metastatic non-small cell lung cancer: a study of the US SEER database and a Chinese cohort by Yu Li, Lei Cao, Yawen Ding, Lei Liu, Yonggang Zhu, Feng Cao

“…The patients were allocated into a training cohort (n = 673) and an internal validation cohort (n = 288). …”
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Clinical benefits of modifying the evening light environment in an acute psychiatric unit: A single-centre, two-arm, parallel-group, pragmatic effectiveness randomised controlled t... by Håvard Kallestad, Knut Langsrud, Melanie Rae Simpson, Cecilie Lund Vestergaard, Daniel Vethe, Kaia Kjørstad, Patrick Faaland, Stian Lydersen, Gunnar Morken, Ingvild Ulsaker-Janke, Simen Berg Saksvik, Jan Scott

“…We report a large-scale pragmatic effectiveness RCT exploring whether individuals with acute psychiatric illnesses experience additional benefits from admission to an inpatient ward where changes in the evening light exposure are integrated into the therapeutic environment.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>From 10/25/2018 to 03/29/2019, and 10/01/2019 to 11/15/2019, all adults (≥18 years of age) admitted for acute inpatient psychiatric care in Trondheim, Norway, were randomly allocated to a ward with a blue-depleted evening light environment or a ward with a standard light environment. …”
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Diagnostic test accuracy of cellular analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in distinguishing pulmonary infectious and non-infectious diseases in patients with pulmonary shadow by Jiyang Li, Ting Wang, Faming Liu, Juan Wang, Xiaojian Qiu, Jie Zhang

“…The cohort was randomly allocated into a training set comprising 155 patients and a validation set of 67 patients, (ratio of 7:3), the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression model was applied to optimize feature selection for the model. …”
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Identifying small thymomas from other asymptomatic anterior mediastinal nodules based on CT images using logistic regression by Wenfeng Feng, Runlong Lin, Wenzhe Zhao, Haifeng Cai, Jingwu Li, Yongliang Liu, Lixiu Cao, Lixiu Cao

“…PurposeTo develop and validate a logistic regression (LR) model to improve the diagnostic performance of chest CT in distinguishing small (≤3 cm in long diameter on CT) thymomas from other asymptomatic small anterior mediastinal nodules (SAMNs).Materials and methodsA total of 231 patients (94 thymomas and 137 other SAMNs) with surgically resected asymptomatic SAMNs underwenting plain CT and biphasic enhanced CT from January 2013 to December 2023 were included and randomly allocated into training and internal testing sets at a 7:3 ratio. …”
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Early detection to improve outcome in people with undiagnosed psoriatic arthritis: the PROMPT research programme including RCT by Neil McHugh, Laura Bojke, Mel Brooke Turfrey, Rachel Charlton, Myka Ransom, Laura C Coates, Howard Collier, Claire Davies, Emma Dures, Philip Helliwell, Jana James, Anya Lissina, Vishnu B Madhok, Alison L Nightingale, Jonathan Packham, Catherine Smith, Eldon Spackman, Cerys Tassinari, William Tillett, Sarah T Brown

“…BN models may be a useful method to identify clusters of symptoms that predict PsA with reasonable accuracy. …”
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IMMUNOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL PREDICTORS OF CLINICAL HETEROGENEITY OF PATIENTS WITH GRAVES' DISEASE (BASED ON RESEARCH OF THE THYROID GLAND OPERATIONAL MATERIAL) by T. V. Saprina, T. S. Prokhorenko, N. V. Ryazantseva, I. N. Vorozhtsova, S. Yu. Martynova, A. N. Dzyuman, A. P. Zima, O. S. Popov, I. A. Khlusov, K. T. Kasoyan, I. P. Shabalova

“…On the basis of the received results it is possible to allocate 2 clinical-immunologic and morphologic cluster of autoimmune hyperthyroidism syndrome in patients with clinical diagnosis of GD. …”
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