Cost-effectiveness of selective digestive decontamination (SDD) versus selective oropharyngeal decontamination (SOD) in intensive care units with low levels of antimicrobial resist... by Marc J M Bonten, Denise van Hout, Nienke L Plantinga, Patricia C Bruijning-Verhagen, Evelien A N Oostdijk, Anne Marie G A de Smet, G Ardine de Wit, Cornelis H van Werkhoven

“…At a willingness-to-pay value of €33 633 per one prevented in-hospital death, SDD had a probability of 90.0% to be cost-effective as compared with SOD.Conclusion In Dutch ICUs, SDD has a very high probability of cost-effectiveness as compared to SOD. …”
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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth In Turkey: An Empirical Analysis by Nurgün Topallı, Mehmet Alagöz

“…The aim of this study is to examine relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Turkey during the period 1970-2009. Real GDP per capita and electricity per capita variables are used. …”
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Evaluation of pathology resources for cervical cancer detection between 2018 and 2022: a retrospective study at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Western Kenya by Nelson Anangwe, Jon Steimgrimson, Susan Cu-Uvin

“…However, the histopathology personnel-to-population ratio decreased from 1.5 pathologists and 2.7 histo-technicians per 100,000 in 2018 to 1.4 pathologists and 1.8 histo-technicians per 100,000 in 2022. …”
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Adaptive Hosting Capacity Forecasting in Distribution Networks with Distributed Energy Resources by Md Tariqul Islam, M. Jahangir Hossain, Md. Ahasan Habib, Muhammad Ahsan Zamee

“…Study shows that the SERNN achieves a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.2030, a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.3884 and an R-squared value of 0.9854, outperforming the best baseline model by 48 per cent in MAE and 71 per cent in RMSE. Additionally, Feature engineering enhances the model’s performance, improving the R-squared value from 0.9145 to 0.9854. …”
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Epidemiology of Hip Fractures in Two Regions of Ukraine by V. V. Povoroznyuk, N. V. Grygorieva, J. A. Kanis, E. V. McCloskey, H. Johansson, S. S. Strafun, M. O. Korzh, V. M. Vaida, F. V. Klymovytsky, V. S. Forosenko, R. O. Vlasenko

“…The incidence of hip fractures in Ukraine is 255.5 per 100,000 for women aged 50 years and older and 197.8 per 100,000 for men of the corresponding age. …”
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Assessing equity in preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections in pediatric patients by Xiaoyan Song, Deena Levey, Jenhao Jacob Cheng, Monica Monteon, Annette Lee, Nada Harik, Denice Cora-Bramble, Rahul K. Shah

“…The CLABSI cohort included inpatients with a central line between 1/1/2016 and 12/31/2022, and the SSI cohort included patients undergoing colon, ventricular shunt, or spinal fusion surgeries between 1/1/2016 and 10/31/2022. The CLABSI rate per 1000 central line days and SSI rate per 100 surgeries were compared across different racial, ethnic, and gender groups. …”
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Global magnitude and temporal trends of stroke attributable to lead exposure from 1990 to 2021 by Ying Wang, Ran Liu, Wenxia Li, PengNan Bao, JinWei Zhang, Wei Yue

“…However, ASMRs declined from 9.33 to 6.65 per 100,000 population (EAPC = −1.23), and ASDRs fell from 213.99 to 139.82 per 100,000 population (EAPC = −1.51). …”
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Dietary Fiber-Rich <i>Spartina anglica</i> Improves Intestinal Health and Antioxidant Capacity of Zhedong White Geese by Xiao Zhou, Li Wang, Jiuli Dai, Huiyan Jia, Kai Shi, Jian Zhao, Shufang Chen

“…A total of 360 1-day-old Zhedong white geese with an average weight of 114.94 ± 0.81 g were randomly allocated to 4 dietary treatments, with 6 replicates per treatment and 15 geese per pen. The 4 dietary treatments included different SA supplement levels: a control group receiving a basal diet (CON), and three experimental groups supplemented with 3% SA (SA3), 6% SA (SA6), and 12% SA (SA12). …”
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Epidemiological Features, Clinical Symptoms, and Environmental Risk Factors for Notifiable Japanese Encephalitis in Taiwan From 2008 to 2020: Retrospective Study by Fu-Huang Lin, Yu-Ching Chou, Chi-Jeng Hsieh, Chia-Peng Yu

“…There was an increasing trend in the incidence of JE, 0.69‐1.57 cases per 1,000,000 people, peaking in 2018. Case fatality rate was 7.7% (24/313). …”
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Post-Traumatic Segmental Tibial Defects Management: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Giovanni Marrara, Biagio Zampogna, Viktor Dietrich Schick, Leone Larizza, Paolo Rizzo, Ilaria Sanzarello, Matteo Nanni, Danilo Leonetti

“…., on average, there was one complication per patient, and with the Masquelet technique, there were 0.5 complications per patient. …”
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Healthcare Utilization and Costs Among US Adolescents With Alopecia Areata by Markqayne Ray, Elyse Swallow, Kavita Gandhi, Christopher Carley, Vanja Sikirica, Travis Wang, Nicolae Done, James Signorovitch, Arash Mostaghimi

“…Patients were matched 1:3 to non-AA controls on index year, demographics, plan type, and Charlson Comorbidity Index. Per patient per year HCRU and costs were compared post-index. …”
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Development and characterization of a line with substitution of chromosome 4B of wheat <i>Triticum aestivum</i> L. on chromosome 4H^<i>mar</i> of wild barley <i>Hordeum... by L. A. Pershina, N. V. Trubacheeva, V. K. Shumny, E. D. Badaeva

“…Line 4Hmar(4B) showed increased performance for several traits, including plant height, number of spikes and tillers per plant, spikelet and grain number in the main spike, grain number per plant, but it had decreased values of 1000­grain weight compared to wheat. …”
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The Thermosphere Is a Drag: The 2022 Starlink Incident and the Threat of Geomagnetic Storms to Low Earth Orbit Space Operations by T. E. Berger, M. Dominique, G. Lucas, M. Pilinski, V. Ray, R. Sewell, E. K. Sutton, J. P. Thayer, E. Thiemann

“…Comparison of the JB08 and NRL MSIS models relative to the HASDM model during modeled historical minor and extreme geomagnetic storms shows that in‐track errors on the order of 100 km per day at 250 km, decreasing to cumulative errors on the order of 1 km per day at 550 km during geomagnetic storms. …”
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Association between polypharmacy and falls in older adults: a longitudinal study from England by Nafeesa N Dhalwani, Melanie J Davies, Kamlesh Khunti, Harini Sathanapally, Radia Fahami, Sam Seidu

“…Of the 1611 participants with polypharmacy, 569 reported at least one fall within the past 2 years (rate: 175 per 1000 person-years, 95% CI 161 to 190), and of the 3602 participants without polypharmacy 875 reported at least one fall (rate: 121 per 1000 person-years, 95% CI 113 to 129). …”
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Status of continuous glucose monitoring use and management in tertiary hospitals of China: a cross-sectional study by Xiaoqin Liu, Hongmei Dai, Liping Wu, Yong Zhao, Zumin Shi, Qin Lin, Liping Chen

“…Different from head nurses, CGM operation nurses considered the age of CGM operators, the type of hospital nurses worked in, the number of patients using CGM per month and the number of CGM training sessions as potential factors (p&lt;0.05).Conclusions The study provides a broad view of the development status of CGM in China. …”
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Ambulatory Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy in Quebec: The Hôpital Charles LeMoyne Experience in 1996 by Laurent Delorme, Charles Frenette, Isabelle Le Corre, Julie Duchesne, Carole Delorme, Pauline Plourde

“…The Drug acquisition antibiotic cost was $73,117 but constituted only 20% of the total outpatient intravenous antibiotic therapy cost. The per diem ambulatory cost was $140/patient/day.…”
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Tumour DNA methylation markers associated with breast cancer survival: a replication study by Elaheh Zarean, Shuai Li, Ee Ming Wong, Enes Makalic, Roger L. Milne, Graham G. Giles, Catriona McLean, Melissa C. Southey, Pierre-Antoine Dugué

“…In fully-adjusted models, strong associations were observed for a CpG in PRAC2 (per standard deviation [SD], HR = 1.67, 95%CI: 1.24–2.25) and a signature based on 28 CpGs developed using elastic net (per SD, HR = 1.48, 95%CI: 1.09–2.00). …”
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Azospirillum brasilense and organomineral fertilizer co-inoculated with Bradyrhizobium japonicumon oxidative stress in soybean by Fernanda Barros, Reginaldo de Camargo, Regina Maria Lana, Miguel Henrique Franco, Mayara Cristiana Stanger, Vanderley José Pereira, Ernane Lemes

“…The soybean cultivar (AS 3680 IPRO) was evaluated in a 4×2(+1) factorial scheme, corresponding to four doses of A. brasilense [0, 100, 200, 300 mL ha-1 (2x108 viable cells mL-1) per 50 kg-1 of soybean seeds], with or without B. japonicum [100 mL ha-1 (5x109 viable cells mL-1) per 50 kg-1 of soybean seeds], and a control treatment (without inoculants or fertilizers). …”
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Artificial intelligence-driven fuzzy logic approach for optimal well selection in gas lift design: A brown field case study by Nnaemeka Princewill Ohia, Chadi Paul, Emmanuel Asolo, Taiwo Adetomiwa Adewa, Chidimma Favour Chukwu, Paschal Ateb Ubi, Daniel Hogan Itam, Daniel Ugochukwu Nnaji

“…Given the need for a more flexible and accurate well selection process, the Mamdani type-2 fuzzy logic model was employed in this study to address the high levels of imprecision associated with key production parameters, including Gas-Oil Ratio (GOR), Barrel of Oil Produced per Day (BOPD), Basic Sediment and Water (BS&W), Barrel of Fluid Produced per Day (BFPD), Gas Produced (MCFPD), Total Gas-Liquid Ratio (TGLR), Tubing Pressure (TBG PR), and Manifold Pressure (MNFLD PR). …”
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Utilization of MS 222 in Transport of Catfish (Pangasius sutchi) Seed by Harton Arfah, Eddy Supriyono

“…Dosages of MS–222 were 0, 25 and 50 ppm and the fish densities were 100, 300, 400, 500 and 600 per liter.  As container was plastic bag (volume 10 l).  …”
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