Kidney Function and Incident Stroke and Dementia Using an Updated Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Equation Without Race: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis by Samuel R. Moen, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Timothy M. Hughes, Craig W. Johnson, Mark J. Sarnak, Sarah N. Forrester, W.T. Longstreth, Jr., Mercedes R. Carnethon, James S. Pankow, Sanaz Sedaghat

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Effects of Near-Fault Pulse-Like Ground Motion on Seismic Response of Dry Sand Site by LIU Hongshuai, SONG Dongsong, DONG Xinyi, WANG Tiqiang

“…This study elucidates the influence of NFPLGMs on dry sand sites, providing critical insights for performance-based seismic design and code improvement.…”
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on non-communicable diseases care and service deliveries in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review by Yordanos Tadesse Kidanemariam, Finina Abebe, Eshetu Girma, Adamu Addisse, Zewdie Birhanu, Kalkidan Hassen, Abonesh Taye, Demuma Amdisa, Eyasu Alem Lake, Mistire Teshome Guta, Sudhakar Morankar, Kiya Kedir, Firaol Mesfin, Fiseha Wadilo, Elifaged Hailemeskel, Melat Dereje, Eskedar Hailegebrel, Rawleigh Howe, Minyahil Tadesse Boltena, Hailemicheal Getachew, Endalkachew Worku Mengesha, Tadesse Dagget Tesfaye, Netsanet Fentahun, Bereket Damtew, Adisalem Debebe, Zerihun Tariku, Addisu worku, Yoseph Gebreyohannes Abraha, Sabit Ababor Ababulgu

“…Ultimately, 18 studies (13 quantitative and 5 qualitative) were included. The review identified significant disruptions in delivery of care for NCD care across SSA during the pandemic. …”
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Implementation of the patient safety incident guideline in district health services, Western Cape by Robert J. Mash, Kaashiefah Adamson, Abdul Isaacs, Gavin Hendricks, Jani Fouche, Jennie Morgan, Klaus von Pressentin, Lawson Eksteen, Leigh Wagner, Liezel Rossouw, Luke Profitt, Marshall Lockett, Milton Groenewald, Mumtaz Abbas, Paddy Gloster, Paul Kapp, Stefanie Perold, Tracey-Leigh Abrahams, Werner Viljoen

“…Overall, 577 patient safety incidents (PSI) were reported (range 0–148 per facility) with 91% from district hospitals, 18% severity assessment code 1 (SAC1), 33% caused harm and 72% in hospital wards. …”
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Integrating wellbeing and social accountability into medical professionalism self-assessment: A mixed methods approach by Klaus Puschel, Isabel Barriga, Silvia Olivares, Natalia Mejía, Karen García, Cynthia Rojas-Muñoz, Rayen Cornejo, Sarah Paz, Priscila Rodrígues Armijo, Chandrakhanth Are, Augusto León

“…The qualitative phase generated 188 open codes and 468 quotes, which were analyzed using the Atlas-ti 8.0 software®. …”
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Study on the influence mechanism and correlation model of rockfall parameters on indentation morphology by LI Hao, WANG Dong-po, YAN Shuai-xing, LI Wei, CHEN Hui, HE Si-ming

“…Current design methods mainly rely on a combination of code - specified values, detailed field investigations, and complex numerical simulations. …”
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Interventions for Improving Informal Social Support for Victim‐Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse: An Evidence and Gap Map by Karen L. Schucan Bird, Nicola Stokes, Carol Rivas

“…Data Collection and Analysis All studies included in the evidence and gap map were coded by two independent reviewers, using specialist systematic review software EPPI Reviewer. …”
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The impact of technological mega trends on the development of universities in Iran; A case study of the effects of technological developments on the financing of public universitie... by Reza Naghizadeh

“…Interviews with experts were coded and in the article some of the experts' points of view related to each mega trend are presented.  …”
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Low collisionality, peeling limited pedestals in JET-ILW: effect of density and isotope mass on pedestal structure, pedestal stability and pedestal prediction in deuterium and mixe... by L. Frassinetti, D. King, S. Saarelma, D. Keeling, C. Perez von Thun, C. Giroud, S. Wiesen, A. Kappatou, N. Vianello, E. Alessi, M. Brix, I.S. Carvalho, P. Carvalho, A. Chomiczewska, J.M. Fontdecaba, E. Giovannozzi, D. Kos, E. Kowalska, B. Labit, M. Lennholm, M. Maslov, A. Meigs, S. Menmuir, R.B. Morales, H. Nyström, E. Pawelec, G. Pucella, D. Silvagni, A. Stagni, H.J. Sun, JET Contributors, the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team

“…Quantitative disagreements can be in part ascribed to the fact that a consistent modeling should integrate the effect of core and scrape-off layer.…”
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Technology-Enhanced Differentiated Instruction: A Narrative Review by Ata Barzegari, Esmaeil Azimi Yancheshmeh, Javad Hatami

“…Narrative reviews are ideal for synthesizing diverse research findings from both quantitative and qualitative studies, allowing for a comprehensive examination of the topic across multiple disciplines. …”
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Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…On detailed assessment of feasibility, we concluded that identifying index cases (men presenting with LUTS) may be susceptible to poor coding of presentations in primary care (e.g. when presenting with sometimes vague symptoms). …”
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Representation of the perception of effective factors on the implementation of Eric Cheng's knowledge management model in secondary schools of West Azarbaijan province by parivash mohammadi gheshlagh

“…Therefore, after the implementation and review of the texts, the primary codes were extracted. The meanings of each of the codes were organized and reviewed, finally, according to the semantic affinity, the main themes were formed and based on the conceptual connection, sub-themes and sub-themes were identified. …”
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Better public housing management in Ghana by Samson Aziabah

“…The main principles abstracted from this model include: laws, regulations, and codes in place to guide HM; secure finance for housing management; rents that are able to cover housing services; a defined structure and responsibilities of stakeholders; defined mechanisms for supervision and monitoring; professionals carrying out HM; defined protocols to address repairs and maintenance; defined maintenance responsibilities of tenants and managers; and mechanisms to involve tenants. …”
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Design Method for Concrete Mix Proportion Based on Indices of Strength and Durability of Concrete Exposed to Chloride Attack by Jiaqi Zhao, Wanting Sun, Tuo Shi, Chenghui Qin

“…In the current design code, concrete mix proportions are not based on durability parameters that can quantitatively design the requirement of service life for chloride-exposed structures. …”
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Toroidal modeling of Alfvén eigenmodes excited by runaway electrons in DIII-D and ITER by Yueqiang Liu, Chang Liu, Andrey Lvovskiy

“…The non-perturbative MHD-kinetic hybrid code MARS-K (Liu et al 2014 Phys. Plasmas 21 056105) is updated to include relativistic effects for kinetic fast particles, enabling the code to model excitation of Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) by runaway electrons (REs) in post-disruption tokamak plasmas. …”
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What happens between first symptoms and first acute exacerbation of COPD – observational study of routine data and patient survey by Alex Bottle, Alex Adamson, Xiubin Zhang, Benedict Hayhoe, Jennifer K Quint

“…Methods The project involved the quantitative analysis of an existing database and a new survey. …”
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Diffusion models for super-resolution microscopy: a tutorial by Harshith Bachimanchi, Giovanni Volpe

“…We provide the necessary theoretical background, the essential mathematical derivations, and a detailed Python code implementation using PyTorch. We discuss the metrics to quantitatively evaluate the model, illustrate the model performance at different noise levels of the input low-resolution images, and briefly discuss how to adapt the tutorial for other applications. …”
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Development of a method for analysing victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF): part I proposal... by Shin-ichi Susato

“…Of these, 55 high-frequency codes were quantitatively selected. They characteristically represented suffering caused by different elements of the calamity: the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear power plant accident. …”
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Probability Distribution of Elastic Response Spectrum with Actual Earthquake Data by Qianqian Liang, Jie Wu, Guijuan Lu, Jun Hu

“…This study innovatively established dynamic coefficient spectra curves for various probability guarantee levels (50–80%), quantitatively revealing the insufficient probability assurance of code spectra in the long-period range. …”
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Foreign Language Use in German and Turkish Magazine Advertisements: A Comparative Analysis by İrem Atasoy

“…The data are first classified quantitatively and qualitatively then analyzed in three steps applying linguistic and semiotic criteria. …”
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