Effect of Spinal Versus General Anesthesia on Pulmonary Functions among Adults at Al-Sadder Medical City: Comparative Study by Mohammed A. Mustafa Al-Janabi

“…The study started in 21 December 2015 to 30 April 2016 The study conducted in Al-Sadder medical city. Quota sample of (100) patients were included in the present study, (50) patients received general anesthesia and (50) patients received spinal anesthesia. …”
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Explaining Soil Fertility Heterogeneity in Smallholder Farms of Southern Ethiopia by Fanuel Laekemariam, Kibebew Kibret

“…Besides, low levels of exchangeable Ca, Mg, and K (Mg-induced K deficiency) on 22, 34, and 54% soil samples, respectively, were recorded. The soil contained sufficient Fe, Zn, and Mn. …”
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Development of Self-Powered Energy-Harvesting Electronic Module and Signal-Processing Framework for Wearable Healthcare Applications by Jegan Rajendran, Nimi Wilson Sukumari, P. Subha Hency Jose, Manikandan Rajendran, Manob Jyoti Saikia

“…The dynamic multi-level wavelet packet decomposition framework has been used and applied to an ECG signal to extract the desired features by removing overlapped and repeated samples from an ECG signal. Further, a random forest with deep decision tree (RFDDT) architecture has been designed for offline ECG signal classification, and experimental results provide the highest accuracy of 99.72%. …”
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Scoping review of the characteristics assessed by vulnerability indices applied to people experiencing homelessness. by Jane Currie, Elizabeth Grech, Erin Longbottom, Jasmine Yee, Ruth Hastings, Amy Aitkenhead, Amy Cason, Karin Obrecht

“…Conducting appropriate psychometric testing is critical so that an index can be used to accurately inform decision making and accurately prioritise people experiencing homelessness who are most at risk of mortality and morbidity. …”
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A comprehensive transplanting of black-box adversarial attacks from multi-class to multi-label models by Zhijian Chen, Qi Zhou, Yujiang Liu, Wenjian Luo

“…The former can assign multiple labels to a single sample, with these labels often exhibiting correlations, while the latter classifies a sample as the class with the highest confidence. …”
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Appropriateness of Admission to General Medical-Surgical ICUs in a University Teaching Hospital by Rowan M. Abuyadek, Hoda Z. Helmy, Akram M. Fayed, Moataza M. Abdel Wahab, Dina H. Fouad

“…ICU mortality reached 39.8% of the sample. Discussion Guidelines recommended by SCCM are straightforward and easy to use and are used to make quick decisions regarding admission. …”
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Prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in resistome of adult residents of Arkhangelsk with regard to the severity of COVID-19 by E. A. Krieger, A. V. Pavlenko, Yu. P. Esin, A. L. Arkhipova, S. N. Kovalchuk, L. L. Shagrov, N. I. Belova, N. P. Tsyvareva, A. V. Kudryavtsev, E. N. Ilina

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted between October and November 2022 (2.5 years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic) on a random sample (N=455) of Arkhangelsk population aged 42-76 years. …”
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Machine Learning Predictive Models for Survival in Patients with Brain Stroke by Solmaz Norouzi, Samira Ahmadi, Shayeste Alinia, Farshid Farzipoor, Azadeh Shahsavari, Ebrahim Hajizadeh, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi

“…Mortality outcomes were modeled using various statistical techniques, including the Cox model, decision trees, random survival forests (RSF), support vector machines (SVM), gradient boosting, and mboost. …”
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Impact of influenza-like illnesses on health state utility value among Japanese children and adults by Taito Kitano, Shinya Tsuzuki

“…The mean differences in the utility value and VAS scores between the first and follow-up surveys were − 0.055 and − 10.6 in the adult samples and − 0.079 and − 17.9 in the pediatric samples, respectively. …”
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On estimation of the quadratic hazard rate model parameters: Simulation and application by M. Nagy, A. H. Mansi, Moustafa N. Mousa, M. E. Moshref, N. Youns, M. M. M. Mansour

“…A simulation study explores these criteria across varying sample sizes and censoring schemes. The proposed methods are further validated on real-world data concerning the remaining service time of aircraft windshields. …”
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Integrated evaluation of groundwater hydrochemistry using multivariate statistics and irrigation-based water quality indices by Raisul Islam, Vinod Kumar Kushwah, Nakul Gupta, Ashish Kumar, Rajesh Goyal, Parveen Berwal, Faisal M. Alfaisal, Ali Majdi, Osamah J. Al-sareji, Majed Alsubih

“…Furthermore, the US Salinity graphic confirms that the majority of groundwater samples demonstrate very high salinity risks and Sodium hazard, especially for elevated salt concentrations. …”
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Multiple bursts of speciation in Madagascar’s endangered lemurs by Kathryn M. Everson, Luca Pozzi, Meredith A. Barrett, Mary E. Blair, Mariah E. Donohue, Peter M. Kappeler, Andrew C. Kitchener, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Carlos J. Pavón-Vázquez, Ute Radespiel, Blanchard Randrianambinina, Rodin M. Rasoloarison, Solofonirina Rasoloharijaona, Christian Roos, Jordi Salmona, Anne D. Yoder, Rosana Zenil-Ferguson, Dietmar Zinner, David W. Weisrock

“…We explore lemur evolution using a phylogenomic dataset with broad taxonomic sampling that includes the lorisiforms of Asia and continental Africa. …”
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Twelve-month prevalence of DSM-5 mental disorders and the psychosocial correlates- a child and adolescent psychiatric epidemiologic survey in Hong Kong SARResearch in context by Sandra S.M. Chan, Oscar W.H. Wong, Samara Hussain, Kelvin K.F. Tsoi, Karen K.Y. Ma, Steven W.H. Chau, Suk Ling Ma, Kelly Y.C. Lai, Winnie C.W. Chu, Holly H.L. Lo, Stephy W.S. Ho, Ching Chi Leung, Karen K.L. Yiu, Suzanne H.W. So, Pak C. Sham, Se Fong Hung, Patrick W.L. Leung

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The MIEM guidelines: Minimum information for reporting of environmental metabarcoding data by Katy E. Klymus, Jacoby D. Baker, Cathryn L. Abbott, Rachel J. Brown, Joseph M. Craine, Zachary Gold, Margaret E. Hunter, Mark D. Johnson, Devin N. Jones, Michelle J. Jungbluth, Sean P. Jungbluth, Yer Lor, Aaron P. Maloy, Christopher M. Merkes, Rachel Noble, Nastassia V. Patin, Adam J. Sepulveda, Stephen F. Spear, Joshua A. Steele, Miwa Takahashi, Alison W. Watts, Susanna Theroux

“…Environmental DNA (eDNA) and RNA (eRNA) metabarcoding has become a popular tool for assessing biodiversity from environmental samples, but inconsistent documentation of methods, data and metadata makes results difficult to reproduce and synthesise. …”
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Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews of Biomedical Research: A Cross-Sectional Study. by Matthew J Page, Larissa Shamseer, Douglas G Altman, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Margaret Sampson, Andrea C Tricco, Ferrán Catalá-López, Lun Li, Emma K Reid, Rafael Sarkis-Onofre, David Moher

“…<h4>Background</h4>Systematic reviews (SRs) can help decision makers interpret the deluge of published biomedical literature. …”
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Prevalence of protozoa in HIV/AIDS patients with Gastrointestinal symptoms in Zinder National Hospital, Niger Republic by Mahaman Moustapha Lamine, Doutchi Mahamadou, Moussa Amadou Mahamadou, Boureima Hassane, Abdoulaye Ousmane, Souleymane Adoum Fils, Chaibou Salaou, Yacouba Abdourahamane, Adehossi Eric

“…A first prospective phase involved 93 patients and a second retrospective phase 131 patients. Stool samples were examined for parasites using standard microscopic techniques. …”
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Dynamic monocyte changes as prognostic indicators in operable gastric cancer: a retrospective cohort analysis by Yiwei Jiang, Xianwei Sun, Chen Yang, Dandan Song, Chongjun Zhou, Xinxin Chen, Chongquan Huang, Zhonglin Wang, Jiante Li

“…The predictive utility of MMR was assessed via time-dependent ROC curves and decision-curve analysis.ResultsThe sample distributions in both cohorts were similar. …”
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Machine learning combined with GC-FID for discrimination of different categories of maotai-flavor baijiu by Liang Yang, Chun Xian, Shuai Li, Ye Wang, Xinying Wu, Qingcai Chen, Wenwu Zhao, Cheng Zhao, Xiaobo Li, Junjun He, Renyuan Chen, Chunlin Zhang

“…This study employed GC-FID and machine learning to analyze 410 base Baijiu samples. Decision Tree (74.36 %), XGBoost (92.9 %), and Random Forest (62.3 %) emerged as optimal classifiers for fermentation rounds, typical styles, and Chuntian grades, respectively. …”
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Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Combined with Machine Learning for Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG by Thais de Andrade Silva, Gabriel Fernandes Souza dos Santos, Adilson Ribeiro Prado, Daniel Cruz Cavalieri, Arnaldo Gomes Leal Junior, Flávio Garcia Pereira, Camilo A. R. Díaz, Marco Cesar Cunegundes Guimarães, Servio Túlio Alves Cassini, Jairo Pinto de Oliveira

“…This work reports an efficient method to detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in blood samples based on SERS combined with a machine learning tool. …”
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Are localized prostate cancer biomarkers useful in the clinical practice? by Arie Carneiro, Paulo Priante Kayano, Álan Roger Gomes Barbosa, Marcelo Langer Wroclawski, Carolina Ko Chen, Giulio Costa Cavlini, Guilherme Jose Reche, Rafael Sanchez-Salas, Marcos Tobias-Machado, Adam G Sowalsky, Bianca Bianco

“…One of the biggest challenges in clinical practice is to select the right patients for biopsy and, among diagnosed patients, to differentiate tumors with an indolent course from those with an unfavorable prognosis, in order to determine the best therapeutic decision for each case, avoiding unnecessary interventions. …”
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