A cost-effectiveness analysis of a program to control rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. by David A Watkins, Mercy Mvundura, Porfirio Nordet, Bongani M Mayosi

“…The results of our analysis were robust to higher program costs and more conservative assumptions about the program's effectiveness. …”
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Effects of Physical Exercise Programs on Sarcopenia Management, Dynapenia, and Physical Performance in the Elderly: A Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials by Renato Gorga Bandeira de Mello, Roberta Rigo Dalla Corte, Joana Gioscia, Emilio Hideyuki Moriguchi

“…To access the effects of physical exercise programs compared to no exercise interventions to improve sarcopenia components and its determinants in sarcopenic elder individuals. …”
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Identification of Prospective Collaboration Networks in International R&D Programmes by Ville Brummer, Juuso Liesio, Juuso Nissinen, Ahti Salo

“…The proposed approach is based on portfolio analysis – robust portfolio modeling (RPM) - which allows taking into account resource-related and other constraints when identifying thematic priorities for R&D and shaping related networks. …”
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Trends in cannabis adverse reaction reports: A descriptive analysis of spontaneous reporting data submitted to the Canada Vigilance Program since legalization and regulation of can... by Sieara Plebon-Huff, Nadia Aziz, Marko Cavar, Safia Hassan, Maria Aoun, Shahid Perwaiz, Hanan Abramovici

“…Abstract Background The cannabis control framework implemented by Canada in October 2018 established a robust post-market surveillance system for cannabis products, adopting tools and practices from the existing pharmacovigilance system for pharmaceuticals and health products. …”
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A Two-Phase Pattern Generation and Production Planning Procedure for the Stochastic Skiving Process by Tolga Kudret Karaca, Funda Samanlioglu, Ayca Altay

“…Benchmarks indicate that the DA produces more robust minimal pattern sets as the tightness of the problem increases.…”
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Partial Disassembly and Consideration of Part Relationships in Multiproduct, Multiperiod Capacitated Disassembly Scheduling With Parts Commonality by Sajed Zare, Mohammad Bagher Fakhrzad, Hassan Khademi Zare, Hasan Hosseini-Nasab

“…This paper proposes a new mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model to consider a multiproduct, multiperiod capacitated disassembly scheduling model with parts commonality and partial disassembly. …”
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Aquality32: A low-cost, open-source air quality monitoring device leveraging the ESP32 and google platform by Daniel M. Pineda-Tobón, Albeiro Espinosa-Bedoya, John W. Branch-Bedoya

“…The paper emphasizes the importance of robust solutions, openness, and easy documentation for widespread adoption and impact in air quality research and monitoring.…”
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Decision Overload: Cybersecurity In The Age Of Big Data by Dustin S. Sachs, DCS

“…As cyber threats intensify, the inability to maintain decision-making precision becomes a possibility and a dangerous likelihood. This paper introduces robust technological and organizational strategies to combat this fatigue. …”
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Personalized Instructional Strategy Adaptation Using TOPSIS: A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Adaptive Learning Systems by Christos Troussas, Akrivi Krouska, Phivos Mylonas, Cleo Sgouropoulou

“…The growing number of educational technologies presents possibilities and challenges for personalized instruction. …”
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Floating NPP for co-generation of electricity and water desalination in Brazil by Maritza Rodríguez Gual, Hugo Romberg, Nathalia Nunes Araújo, Marcos Coelho Maturana

“…Desalination in Brazil is typically done through conventional methods, such as reverse osmosis, but not through nuclear source. While Brazil has a robust nuclear energy program, primarily for electricity generation, the country does not use nuclear reactors for desalination purposes. …”
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Mind the gap: DNA barcoding on Pachygrapsus crabs by Cátia Alves, Lara Baptista, Patrícia Madeira, Nuno Vaz Álvaro, António Santos, Harald Meimberg, Sérgio P. Ávila, Manuel Curto

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T lymphocyte-targeted immune checkpoint modulation in glioma by Mark Gilbert, William James Kelly, Amber Jin Giles

“…Although initial clinical results in patients with glioblastoma (GBM) were disappointing, recently published results have demonstrated a potential survival benefit in patients with recurrent GBM treated with neoadjuvant programmed cell death protein 1 blockade. While these findings necessitate verification in subsequent studies, they support the possibility of achieving clinical meaningful immune responses in malignant primary brain tumors including GBM, a disease in dire need of additional therapeutic options. …”
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Evaluating Inter-Rater Reliability: Transitioning to a Single Rater for Marking Modified Essay Questions in Undergraduate Medical Education by Shahid Hassan, Malanashita Ganeson, Ismail Abdul Sattar Burud

“…Current study explores the possibility of assigning a single assessor to mark the students' performances in MEQ based on statistically drawn evidence in the clinical phase of the MBBS program at a private medical school in Malaysia. …”
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Immune composition of the mononuclear cell fraction of human umbilical cord blood by Karen Kikuta, Esmond Lee, Esmond Lee, Esmond Lee, Talia Menezes, Hannah Fung, Alvaro Amorin, Aditi Agrawal, Theodore L. Roth, Matthew Porteus, Matthew Porteus, Matthew Porteus

“…This study provides a robust characterization of the immune subset compositions of the CD34-negative MNC fraction of UCB (n=50). …”
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Insight into interplay between PANoptosis and autophagy: novel therapeutics in ischemic stroke by He-Yan Tian, Yun-Xing Lei, Jing-Tao Zhou, Long-Jun Liu, Tong Yang, Yue Zhou, Jin-Wen Ge, Jin-Wen Ge, Chen Xu, Zhi-Gang Mei

“…PANoptosis is a novelly defined mode of programmed cell death that involves the activation of multiple cellular death pathways, including pyroptosis, apoptosis, and necroptosis, triggering robust inflammatory reactions. …”
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Virtual stressors with real impact: what virtual reality-based biobehavioral research can teach us about typical and atypical stress responsivity by Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Tor T. Finseth, Eliot H. Winer, David C. Glahn, Roselynn A. Conrady, Stacy S. Drury

“…VR tasks have been validated as stressors with robust effect sizes for VR-based stressors to evoke stress across the most common autonomic and adrenocortical stress biomarkers. …”
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Factors associated with recurrent malaria episodes among children under five at Kayunga Regional Referral Hospital in Kayunga District, Central Uganda. by Derick Modi, Marvin Musinguzi, Patricia Pita, Eustes Kigongo, Amir Kabunga, Julius Kayizzi, Deo Kasaija, Voni Alice Khanakwa, Oscar Simon Alyao, Julius Lubangakene, Tom Murungi, Christopher Okullo Oneka, Marc Sam Opollo

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>The recurrence of malaria episodes among children under five is significantly high, suggesting the possibility of malaria resistance. Importantly, quinine remains a robust alternative treatment for complicated malaria, owing to its significant efficacy against malaria parasites in regions of moderate to high transmission rates. …”
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Adjuvants to the S1-subunit of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein vaccine improve antibody and T cell responses and surrogate neutralization in mice by William Becker, Khadija Rebbani, Zhijian Duan, Eugene Valkov, Shawn Bryant, Mitchell Ho, Jay A. Berzofsky, Purevdorj B. Olkhanud

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kMoL: an open-source machine and federated learning library for drug discovery by Romeo Cozac, Haris Hasic, Jun Jin Choong, Vincent Richard, Loic Beheshti, Cyrille Froehlich, Takuto Koyama, Shigeyuki Matsumoto, Ryosuke Kojima, Hiroaki Iwata, Aki Hasegawa, Takao Otsuka, Yasushi Okuno

“…It demonstrates extensive customization possibilities, advanced security features, straightforward implementation of user-specific models, and high adaptability to custom datasets without additional programming requirements. kMoL is evaluated through locally trained benchmark settings and distributed federated learning experiments using various datasets to assess the features and flexibility of the library, as well as the ability to facilitate fast and practical experimentation. …”
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HIV among people who inject drugs in the Middle East and North Africa: systematic review and data synthesis. by Ghina R Mumtaz, Helen A Weiss, Sara L Thomas, Suzanne Riome, Hamidreza Setayesh, Gabriele Riedner, Iris Semini, Oussama Tawil, Francisca Ayodeji Akala, David Wilson, Laith J Abu-Raddad

“…The lack of sufficient evidence in some MENA countries does not preclude the possibility of hidden epidemics among PWID in these settings. …”
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