Half of the mothers had poor delivery referral practices in public hospitals of Bahir Dar City Northwest, Ethiopia by Amare Fenta Abebe, Desta Debalkie Atnafu, Habtamu Alganeh Guadie

“…The poor maternal referral practices during labor should receive the most attention from mothers who have low monthly incomes and do not attend formal education.…”
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Effect of intra-articular corticosteroid injections for knee osteoarthritis on the rates of subsequent knee replacement and post-operative outcomes: a national cohort study of Engl... by Samuel Hawley, Albert Prats-Uribe, Gulraj S. Matharu, Antonella Delmestri, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Andrew Judge, Michael R. Whitehouse

“…There is a lack of longer-term follow-up in most studies of the effects of IACI, meaning there is scarcity of data on the impact of IACI on the subsequent need for joint replacement. …”
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Searching for Radio Transients with Inverted Spectra in Epoch 1 of VLASS and VCSS, and Identification of a Sample of Candidate Relativistic Nuclear Transients by Yuyang Chen, B. M. Gaensler, Tracy Clarke, Wendy Peters, Emil Polisensky, Kovi Rose

“…However, it is difficult to rule out variable or transient AGNs with highly inverted spectra. …”
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The effectiveness of popular opinion leader educational program on nurses’ knowledge, behavioral intentions and alarm fatigue in alarm management: a quasi-experimental study by Bingyu Li, Liqing Yue, Shuoting Hu, Jianhui Zhou, Guiyuan Deng, Juan Lai, Cheng Yan, Bin Peng

“…Results A total of 85 nurses serving as alarm management liaisons completed the study, most of whom had received prior alarm management training. …”
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Does geographical variation confound the relationship between host factors and the human gut microbiota: a population-based study in China by Bing Zhang, Annie Green Howard, Zhihong Wang, Huijun Wang, Chang Su, Shan Sun, Matthew CB Tsilimigras, Wei Sha, Jiguo Zhang, Shufa Du, Michael Sioda, Farnaz Fouladi, Anthony Fodor, Penny Gordon-Larsen

“…Objective The human gut microbiota plays important roles in human health but is also known to be highly diverse between populations from different regions. Yet most studies inadequately account for this regional diversity in their analyses. …”
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Cardiotoxicity of small-molecule kinase inhibitors in cancer therapy by Shuangli Zhu, Kai Fu, Sijia Li, Chuan Yang, Can Pan, Xueping Wang, Fang Wang, Xiyong Yu, Kenneth Kin Wah To, Liwu Fu

“…Nevertheless, with the development of more novel SMKIs and their wider clinical application to a larger population of cancer patients, variable degrees of cardiotoxic adverse events have emerged for some SMKIs during cancer therapy. …”
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Quantifying Evapotranspiration and Environmental Factors in the Abandoned Saline Farmland Using Landsat Archives by Liya Zhao, Jingwei Wu, Qi Yang, Hang Zhao, Jun Mao, Ziyang Yu, Yanqi Liu, Anne Gobin

“…In addition, we designed a control-variable experiment in the Yichang subdistrict to investigate the effects of groundwater depth, land aggregation index, soil salinity index, and the area of abandoned saline farmland patches on ET. …”
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Antimicrobial resistance of rapidly growing mycobacteria isolated from companion animals in Taiwan by Shu-Wen Chen, Ter-Hsin Chen, Wei-Hsiang Huang, Chia-Chun Hou, Chen-Jou Lin, Yi-Fu Chang, Hsin-Yi Wu, Ying-Chen Wu

“…To address this, we collected 44 RGM isolates from 25 dogs and 19 cats from 2018 to 2021 and investigated their antimicrobial susceptibility and macrolide-resistance genes. The most prevalent RGM were Mycobacterium fortuitum complex (MFC), accounting for 20 isolates (14 dogs and 6 cats), and M. abscessus complex (MABC), accounting for 20 isolates (9 dogs and 11 cats). …”
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Vertebral vascular canal dysplasia in cats: signalment, CT and MRI characteristics, and prevalence by Q. Van Koulil, K. M. Santifort, K. M. Santifort, D. S. Willems, G. Bolen, S. De Decker, M. Bernardini, M. Bernardini, N. Bergknut, I. Van Soens, I. Van Soens

“…Intra- and interobserver agreement was variable (range 0.543-1.000 and 0.225-0.894, respectively) depending on adjustments to the scoring system, reflecting the role of subjectivity in the interpretation of VVCD with this system. …”
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A High-Affinity Monoclonal Antibody Against the Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Target, Anterior Gradient-2 (AGR2/PDIA17) by Reeder M. Robinson, Leticia Reyes, Benjamin N. Christopher, Ravyn M. Duncan, Rachel A. Burge, Julie Siegel, Patrick Nasarre, Pingping Wang, John P. O’Bryan, G. Aaron Hobbs, Nancy Klauber-DeMore, Nathan G. Dolloff

“…Given the dire need for new therapeutic options for PDAC patients, we investigated the expression and function of AGR2 in PDAC and developed a novel series of affinity-matured AGR2-specific single-chain variable fragments (scFvs) and monoclonal antibodies. …”
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Clinical prediction of intravenous immunoglobulin-resistant Kawasaki disease based on interpretable Transformer model. by Gahao Chen, Ziwei Yang

“…Global interpretability analysis through kernel SHAP methodology identified the ten most influential predictive features ranked by significance: Coronary artery lesions (CAL), Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), C-reactive protein (CRP), whether it was incomplete KD (KDtype), Neutrophil count (N), Platelet count (PLT), Albumin (ALB), age, White blood cell count (WBC) and Hemoglobin (Hb). …”
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Congenital muscular dystrophy. Part II: a review of pathogenesis and therapeutic perspectives Distrofia muscular congênita. Parte II: revisão da patogênese e perspectivas terapêuti... by Umbertina Conti Reed

“…The clinical course is broadly variable and can comprise the involvement of the brain and eyes. …”
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Thermal conditions on the coast of Labrador during the late 18th century by G. Singh, R. Przybylak, R. Przybylak, P. Wyszyński, P. Wyszyński, A. Araźny, A. Araźny, K. Chmist

“…This important climatic variable was studied on the basis of valuable instrumental meteorological observations made by Moravian missionaries. …”
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Risk Factors for Gout in Taiwan Biobank: A Machine Learning Approach by Liu YR, Nfor ON, Zhong JH, Lin CY, Liaw YP

“…The predictive performance was evaluated using a split dataset (80% training set and 20% test set).Results: Variable importance analysis was performed to identify key variables, with uric acid and gender emerging as the most influential risk factors. …”
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Comparing Biomechanical Properties of Bioabsorbable Suture Anchors: A Comprehensive Review by Dorien I. Schonebaum, Noelle Garbaccio, Maria J. Escobar-Domingo, Sasha Wood, Jade. E. Smith, Lacey Foster, Morvarid Mehdizadeh, Justin J. Cordero, Jose A. Foppiani, Umar Choudry, David L. Kaplan, Samuel J. Lin

“…This systematic review demonstrates that existing suture anchor materials exhibit comparable pull-out strengths, material-specific degradation rates, and variable biocompatibility. All-suture anchors had promising results in biocompatibility, but evidence fails to identify a single most favorable material. …”
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Ecological Momentary Assessment to Explore Fatigue, Mood, and Physical Activity Levels in People Receiving Peritoneal Dialysis by Brett Tarca, Shilpanjali Jesudason, Thomas P. Wycherley, Richard Le Leu, Michelle Ovenden, Anthony Meade, Paul N. Bennett, Terry Boyle, Katia E. Ferrar

“…Overall adherence to the app-based surveys was 73% with most participants reporting mobile phones and the mEMA app being easy to use. …”
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Geometric characteristics of bicuspid aortic valvesCentral MessagePerspective by Jan Nijs, MD, Babs Vangelder, MD, Kaoru Tanaka, MD PhD, Sandro Gelsomino, MD, PhD, FESC, Ines Van Loo, MD, Mark La Meir, MD, PhD, Jos Maessen, MD, PhD, Bas L.J.H. Kietselaer, MD, PhD

“…The position of the right/non commissure is variable, whereas the right/left commissure is more fixed.…”
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An integrated approach to predict genetic risk for Mosquito-Borne diseases in the local Population of Tehsil Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan by Rabea Basri, Muslim Bin Aqeel, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Sadiq Noor Khan, Ayesha Obaid, Rubina Parveen, Muhammad Mohsin, Wajeeha Akhtar, Abdal Hussain Shah, Tahira Sher Afghan, Amir Alam, Saira Khan, Anam Naz

“…Abstract Highly variable response shown by individuals against mosquito-borne infections suggests that host genetic factors play an important role in determining mosquito-borne disease onset. …”
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Rhythm training improves word-reading in children with dyslexia by Mélanie Descamps, Charline Grossard, Hugues Pellerin, Claire Lechevalier, Jean Xavier, Joana Matos, François Vonthron, Catherine Grosmaitre, Michel Habib, Bruno Falissard, David Cohen

“…Abstract Specific learning disorder with reading deficit (SLD-reading), or dyslexia, is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. Intensive training with reading specialists is recommended, but delayed access to care is common. …”
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Patterns, socioeconomic inequalities and determinants of healthy eating in Kenya: results from a national cross-sectional survey by Elvis Omondi Achach Wambiya, Shukri F Mohamed, Lyagamula Kisia, Jane Osindo, Isaac Kisiangani, Patrick G Ilboudo, Hermann P P Donfouet, Samuel Kipruto, James Odhiambo Oguta

“…The study’s outcome variable was a continuous healthy diet index (HDI) constructed using principal component analysis from nine WHO/Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) healthy diet recommendations. …”
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