Determinants of late presentation of HIV positive individuals: a study in Kosovo by Ilir Tolaj, Murat Mehmeti, Hatixhe Gashi, Arabana Kasumi

“…Methodology This study includes 85 HIV positive individuals with available CD4 count and viral load (VL) data at the time of HIV diagnosis, out of 169 registered people living with HIV in Kosovo. …”
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Effect of Fe Doping on Photocatalytic Dye-Degradation and Antibacterial Activity of SnO2 Nanoparticles by T. Preethi, K. Senthil, M. P. Pachamuthu, R. Balakrishnaraja, B. Sundaravel, N. Geetha, Stefano Bellucci

“…The antibacterial behavior of Fe-SnO2 NPs against Escherichia coli is examined by using the colony count method, and the inhibition rate was found to be 49, 65, 70, and 78% for pure, 0.01, 0.03, and 0.05 M Fe-SnO2 NPs, respectively.…”
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Lenalidomide-Associated Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by William Forehand III, Germame Ajebo, Michael Toscano, Anand Jillella, Paul Dainer

“…Here, we review the literature on lenalidomide-associated ITP and report upon a 59-year-old man who was administered lenalidomide due to concern of progressive multiple myeloma more than a year following his having undergone an autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant. His platelet count precipitously declined and lead to his hospitalization. …”
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An Interpretable Machine Learning-Based Hurdle Model for Zero-Inflated Road Crash Frequency Data Analysis: Real-World Assessment and Validation by Moataz Bellah Ben Khedher, Dukgeun Yun

“…The second stage predicts crash frequency, also utilizing a customized loss function for count data. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) analysis interprets the model outcomes, providing insights into factors affecting crash likelihood and frequency. …”
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Rare atypical type a thymoma: a case report and literature review by Liling Qin, Fanrong Wang, Liqiao Chen, Tao Li, Gang Wang, Ning Zhou

“…Cells were arranged in nest-like and whirl-like patterns, accompanied by prominent comedo-like necrosis, increased cell density, mild atypia, and a mitotic count of 4–6 per 10 high-power fields. Immunohistochemistry revealed positive expression of cytokeratin 19 and P63 in the tumour cells. …”
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Goat Production in El Salvador: A Focus on Animal Health, Milking Hygiene, and Raw Milk Quality by Kristina Linderot de Cardona, Abelardo De Gracia Scanapieco, Peggy G. Braun

“…Milk samples were examined for total plate count, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli, and Listeria monocytogenes. …”
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R2GenGPT: Radiology Report Generation with frozen LLMs by Zhanyu Wang, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, Luping Zhou

“…By employing delta tuning, our model only trains 5 ​M parameters (which constitute just 0.07 ​% of the total parameter count) to achieve performance close to the SOTA levels. …”
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Agricultural Technology for Phytophage and Phytopathogen Resistant Planting Material by Evgenia A. Dyukova, Ekaterina G. Ulyanova, Maria A. Osintseva, Victoria A. Kryuk

“…The study revealed the developmental stages of pine seedlings and the effect of pesticides on pathogen count. After phytosanitary monitoring and preventive treatments, the seedlings were tested for the effectiveness of pesticides, fungicides, and insecticides as part of pre-planting seed treatment. …”
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Efficacy of antiviral therapy in patients with post-hepatitis C liver cirrhosis: is hyperuricaemia a potential adverse effect? by Abbas Abbas, Amr Elsayed, Ehab M Abdelraheem, Hatem Hassan, Alshymaa Hassnine

“…Methods This prospective observatinal study included 128 HCV naive child A cirrhotic patients divided into two groups (77 patients were treated with SOF 400 mg, DACLA 60 mg and ribavirin 600 mg and 51 patients were treated with SOF 400 mg, LDV 90 mg and ribavirin 600 mg) for 12 weeks, during the treatment complete blood count, creatinine, bilirubin, alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase and serum uric acid were monitored, HCV RNA quantitative PCR at 12 weeks after the end of treatment was done.Results Response to treatment in SOF/LDV (sof/led) group is about (98%), response to treatment in SOF/DACLA (sof/dacla) group is about (96%). …”
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Frequency and prescription patterns of laboratory investigations in evaluating physical morbidity among psychiatric inpatients – A cross-sectional study by Gargi Pushpalal, Sivaprakash Balasundaram, Karthick Subramanian, Mohamed Hanifah

“…The most frequent blood biochemistry test, hematological test, and imaging were the estimation of glycemic indices, complete blood count, and ultrasound abdomen, respectively. One in two additional laboratory tests had abnormal or out-of-reference range (ORR) values in the results. …”
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Addressing Semantic Variability in Clinical Outcome Reporting Using Large Language Models by Fatemeh Shah-Mohammadi, Joseph Finkelstein

“…Analysis of outcomes by word count highlighted the absence of ontological linkage for three-word outcomes, which indicates potential gaps in semantic representation. …”
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EFFECT OF ANCHOR BORROWER PROGRAMME ON FARM PRODUCE OF BENEFICIARIES IN LAPAI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA 2016-2021 by USMAN A. U., S. M. NIWORU, UMAR M

“…The study used descriptive statistics, including simple percentage, frequency count, mean, and standard deviation, to address the research questions. …”
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Enhancing peppermint growth: Investigating the interplay of Biochar and Nitrogen levels by Hasan Haghighatnia, Ebrahim Talebi, Maryam Khosravi Nezhad

“…Biochar levels up to 2% by weight increased plant height by 25%, chlorophyll index by 20%, leaf count by 18%, and dry weights of shoots and roots by 15%, but declined beyond this threshold. …”
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Schottky‐barrier graphene nanoribbon field‐effect transistors‐based field‐programmable gate array's configurable logic block and routing switch by Sayed Ali Seif Kashani, Hossein Karimiyan Alidash, Sandeep Miryala

“…In addition, the proposed GNRFET‐based routing switch requires minimum count of 6 transistors to provide desirable functionality. …”
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Influence of pharmacotherapy complexity on compliance with the therapeutic objectives for HIV+ patients on antiretroviral treatment concomitant with therapy for dyslipidemia. INC... by Rocío Jiménez Galán, Ines María Montes Escalante, Ramón Morillo Verdugo

“…Other variables analyzed were: age, gender, risk factor of HIV, smoking, alcoholism and drugs, psychiatric disorders, adherence to antiretroviral treatment and lipid lowering drugs, and clinical parameters (HIV viral load, CD4 count, plasma levels of total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and triglycerides). …”
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Acquired Elliptocytosis as a Manifestation of Myelodysplastic Syndrome Associated with Deletion of Chromosome 20q by Sukesh Manthri, Naresh K. Vasireddy, Sindhura Bandaru, Swati Pathak

“…Initial evaluation showed Hgb of 9.3 gm/dl, hematocrit of 28%, platelet count of 36,000 K/cmm, and WBC of 1.8 K/cmm with an ANC of 0.8 K/cmm. …”
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Hyponatremia Is a Specific Marker of Perforation in Sigmoid Diverticulitis or Appendicitis in Patients Older Than 50 Years by S. A. Käser, R. Furler, D. C. Evequoz, C. A. Maurer

“…Before starting infusion therapy, blood was taken to do a blood count and to analyze CRP, the electrolytes, and creatinine levels. …”
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Lightweight detection model for safe wear at worksites using GPD-YOLOv8 algorithm by Jian Xing, Chenglong Zhan, Jiaqiang Ma, Zibo Chao, Ying Liu

“…Additionally, a lightweight Ghost module is integrated to replace the original backbone of YOLOv8, thereby reducing the parameter count and computational burden. Moreover, we incorporate a Dynamic Head (Dyhead) that employs an attention mechanism to effectively extract features and spatial location information critical for site safety wear detection. …”
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Etiological study of polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia in a French cohort of hospitalized patients and proposal of a diagnostic aid algorithm by Mallory ANDRE, Anne CONTIS, Annie M. BERARD

“…The initial assessment must investigate the most common pathologies including analysis of liver function, viral status, the search for signs of intravascular haemolysis, inflammatory markers, and blood cell count. At the second time point (unless there were suggestive clinical signs at presentation), more specific biological and imaging analyses were required. …”
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Efficacy of Contezolid in the Treatment of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections Caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Patient with Hepatorenal Syndrome and... by Zhang X, Huang H, Wang J, Wei B

“…His blood tests indicated elevated C-reactive protein and neutrophils, low platelet count, and bilateral lung infiltrates. Subsequently, his blood culture and catheter culture confirmed a catheter-related MRSA bloodstream infection. …”
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