Retrospective Assessment of Antibiotics Prescribing at Public Primary Healthcare Facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Fikru Worku, Dagmawit Tewahido

“…Large-scale study should be conducted to fully understand the prescribing pattern and identify the associated factors thereby design and implement appropriate interventions.…”
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Investigating thermal effects on void formation in electromigration using thermoreflectance imaging by Kengo ARAKI, Kanji TAMAI, Reiko KURIYAMA, Kazuya TATSUMI

“…This study visualizes the time-variation of the generation, growth, and pattern of voids induced by the electromigration in Al micro-line type interconnections. …”
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Predictive Growth Modeling of Listeria monocytogenes in Rice Balls and Its Risk Assessment by Seoungsoon Yeo, Misook Kim

“…The effects of temperature on bacterial growth rate and lag time were evaluated using the square root model. …”
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Mouthwash Use in General Population: Results from Adult Dental Health Survey in Grampian, Scotland by Kirstin Rhodes, Rochelle Morgan, Iain Bovaird, Claudia Cunningham, Michal M. Kawecki, Tatiana V. Macfarlane, Ray Watkins

“…Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the pattern of mouthwash use and to investigate the associated factors in general population.Material and Methods: An Adult Dental Health Survey was conducted on 3,022 residents of Grampian region of Scotland (adjusted participation rate 58.2%). …”
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Experience with Early Enteral Feeding in a Patient with Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by V. V. Lomivorotov, S. M Yefremov, A. V. Bogachev, I. A. Kornilov

“…In addition, an inverse correlation was found between the serum concentration of lactate and the daily volume of diuresis. The rate of hourly diuresis had a direct correlation with respiratory index and an inverse correlation with oxygenation index. …”
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The 2015 guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of rheumatic diseases by the All-Russian Public Organization «Association of Rheumatology of Russia» by E. N. Aleksandrova, A. A. Novikov, E. L. Nasonov

“…The important laboratory markers of RDs are acutephase indicators (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, etc.) that can assess the inflammatory activity of the disease, its progression pattern, and prognosis during the chronic inflammatory process, as well as therapeutic efficiency. …”
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An analysis of spatial distribution characteristics and driving factors of traditional villages in the Loess Plateau. by Xiaobin Bao, Yingna Yang, Jianqing Qi, Yanbing He

“…Utilizing the ArcGIS 10.8 platform and the GeoDetector model, this study comprehensively applies methods including the nearest neighbor index, standard deviation ellipse, kernel density estimation, and spatial autocorrelation to systematically analyze the spatial pattern of traditional villages, and quantitatively reveals their key driving factors and interactions through the GeoDetector. …”
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Automatic Detection of Concrete Spalling Using Piecewise Linear Stochastic Gradient Descent Logistic Regression and Image Texture Analysis by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Quoc-Lam Nguyen, Xuan-Linh Tran

“…This improvement can enhance the capability of logistic regression in dealing with spall detection as a complex pattern classification problem. Experiments with 1240 collected image samples show that PL-SGDLR can help to deliver a good detection accuracy (classification accuracy rate = 90.24%). …”
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The Influence of Language Experience on Speech Perception: Heritage Spanish Speaker Perception of Contrastive and Allophonic Consonants by Amanda Boomershine, Keith Johnson

“…The participants completed a similarity rating task with stimuli containing VCV sequences with the intervocalic consonants [d], [ð], and [ɾ]. …”
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Optimization of ivacaftor-loaded solid lipid nanoparticles for solubility enhancement by Akshay Parihar, Akshay Parihar, Bhupendra G. Prajapati, Bhupendra G. Prajapati, Bhupendra G. Prajapati, Himanshu Paliwal

“…The in vitro dissolution study showed improved release pattern from the optimized formulation and release profile followed first-order model indicating a sustained release pattern from lipid matrix.ConclusionThis delivery system presented development of stable nanoparticle formulation exhibiting sustained release pattern, which may contribute to therapeutic outcomes in comparison with drug alone. …”
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Development adjustment technology of extending life cycle for nearly-abandoned reservoirs by ZHANG Lianfeng,ZHANG Yilin,GUO Huanhuan,LI Hongsheng,LI Junjie,LIANG Limei,LI Wenjing,HU Shukui

“…Based on the characteristics of remaining oil distribution, a technical concept of heterogeneous composite driving and streamline well pattern densification adjustment was proposed. By adjusting the well pattern to alter streamlines, creating a staggered row and column well pattern with a change in streamline direction of over 30° and a streamline deflection rate of 80%, the effective mobilization of remaining oil is promoted. …”
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Evaluation of planting arrangment and methods on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) seeds by H. Khazaei

“…The highest and lowest fruit and seed yield were obtained in Rokh (two row per ridge and 120×30 cm planting pattern) and Toroq (one row per ridge and 140×50 cm planting pattern) regions, respectively with 2.7 and 3.1 times difference. …”
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Backdoor Attack to Giant Model in Fragment-Sharing Federated Learning by Senmao Qi, Hao Ma, Yifei Zou, Yuan Yuan, Zhenzhen Xie, Peng Li, Xiuzhen Cheng

“…Compared with the previous works where the models are fully exchanged, the fragment-sharing pattern poses some new challenges for the backdoor attacks. …”
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Investigation on Potential-Induced Degradation in a 50 MWp Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Power Plant by Jingsheng Huang, Hongtao Li, Yaojie Sun, He Wang, Hong Yang

“…The results obtained in this paper show that the maximum power degradation rate of solar modules was as high as 53.26% after only one year of operation because of PID in the field. …”
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The choice of therapeutic tactics in a patient with diagnosed breast cancer and lung neoplasm by N. Yu. Germanovich, M. Yu. Pikunov, T. A. Shchegolkova, I. M. Mishchenko

“…Breast cancer (BC) has long held a leading position in oncology disease pattern among global female population. Statistics data show that BC metastasis to lung tissue accounts for 21–32 % of all distant metastasis cases. …”
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East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to the recent acceleration in global warming by Bjørn H. Samset, Laura J. Wilcox, Robert J. Allen, Camilla W. Stjern, Marianne T. Lund, Sharar Ahmadi, Annica Ekman, Maxwell T. Elling, Luke Fraser-Leach, Paul Griffiths, James Keeble, Tsuyoshi Koshiro, Paul Kushner, Anna Lewinschal, Risto Makkonen, Joonas Merikanto, Pierre Nabat, Larissa Narazenko, Declan O’Donnell, Naga Oshima, Steven T. Rumbold, Toshihiko Takemura, Kostas Tsigaridis, Daniel M. Westervelt

“…Here we show, using a large set of simulations from eight Earth System Models, how a time-evolving 75% reduction in East Asian sulfate emissions partially unmasks greenhouse gas-driven warming and influences the spatial pattern of surface temperature change. We find a rapidly evolving global, annual mean warming of 0.07 ± 0.05 °C, sufficient to be a main driver of the uptick in global warming rate since 2010. …”
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A novel spatial heterogeneity decay model for depicting scale-effects in urban land by Weilin Wang, Rong Wang, Yangyang Lu, Yuanyuan Meng, Zhou Zhou

“…Based on the scale-effect model, we derived characteristic indicators (maximum, minimum, fluctuation, and rate of decay) of the SHUL scale-effect and compared their variation across Chinese cities. …”
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Endoscopic assessment of the J pouch in ulcerative colitis: A narrative review by Shintaro Akiyama, Edward L Barnes, Tsubasa Onoda, Naoki Ishikawa, Mamiko Shiroyama, Yuka Ito, David T Rubin, Kiichiro Tsuchiya

“…Up to 50% of patients with ulcerative colitis postoperatively develop pouchitis and the rate of chronic inflammatory pouch conditions requiring pouch excision or diverting ileostomy is reported to be 10%. …”
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Understanding the changes in multi-structure, physicochemical properties, and in vitro digestibility of quinoa starch by annealing with hydrogen-infused and plasma-activated water... by Hang Liu, Ge Tian, Shanshan Gao, Shuang Liu

“…The total hydrolysis rate and rapidly digestive starch content decreased in QS after ANN treatment, and resistant starch level markedly increased. …”
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A generalized picture of colour decoherence in dense QCD media by Samuel Abreu, Xoán Mayo López, Guilherme Milhano, Alba Soto-Ontoso

“…We find that accounting for medium interactions during the antenna formation enhances the total rate of emissions off the q q ¯ $$ q\overline{q} $$ antenna. …”
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