Applying mortality data to improve emergency care planning for haemodialysis patients: a quality improvement project by Lisa Tang, Usha Appalsawmy

“…Cases involving cardiac arrest underwent further analysis, examining factors including their Clinical Frailty Score4 and the presence of a ReSPECT form.2 This review identified the underutilisation of ReSPECT forms in frail haemodialysis patients.Phase 2: we expanded the review of ReSPECT form use beyond cardiac arrest cases to include all haemodialysis patients who underwent an SJR in the same time frame, thus providing a broader perspective on ReSPECT form usage within the whole cohort.Phase 3: an intervention in the form of a departmental educational campaign, emphasising the high mortality rate among frail haemodialysis patients and, thus, the importance of advance care planning, was carried out. …”
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Epigenetic dysregulation-induced metabolic reprogramming fuels tumor progression in bladder cancer by Jian Zhang, Xiaosong Fan, Xu Xu, Yichao Han, Weixing Yu, Bicheng Yang, Yanling Chen, Shaolin Zhang

“…BackgroundBladder cancer remains a significant global health challenge with a high mortality rate despite advancements in treatment modalities. …”
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Mechanisms behind grouting pressure jumping in low-permeability limestones and techniques for grouting pressure control by Zhenli FAN, Lutong CAO, Yong CUI, Zhiwei ZHANG, Fengda ZHANG

“…Therefore, such grout was prone to block fractures, and the pressure rise rate was approximately 10 times greater than that of the cement grout. …”
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Assessment of Water Resources Carrying Capacity and Analysis of Its Coupling Coordination in the Yangtze River Economic Belt by XIONG Ying, JIANG Yi-xin, CHEN Si-xuan

“…Analysis of influencing factors identified the proportion of tertiary industry, urbanization rate, and per capita daily domestic water consumption as the three factors most strongly correlated with water resources carrying capacity. …”
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Assessment of heavy metal pollution sources and environmental capacity of typical farmland soils in northwestern Zhejiang based on the geological background of black rock series by Mei-hua Wang

“…Principal component analysis extracted four principal components with a cumulative contribution rate of 78.92%, and the spatial distribution differences were obvious. …”
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Eco-friendly QbD-optimized chromatographic method for simultaneous analysis of metronidazole and nicotinamide with applications in permeation, stability, and sustainability evaluat... by Kanaka Parvathi Kannaiah, Mohamed A. M. Ali, Hemanth Kumar Chanduluru, Anis Ahmad Chaudhary, Mahmoud El-Maghrabey, Reem H. Obaydo, Galal Magdy, Mohamed A. El Hamd

“…Chromatographic separations were conducted with an RP-HPLC-photodiode array (PDA) system equipped with an ODS column using gradient elution of ethanol and phosphate buffer (10 mM, pH 3.5) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. pre-optimized conditions were determined using a two-level full factorial design (23 FFD). …”
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Longitudinal evaluation of common and unique brain-networks in variants of primary progressive aphasia by Rajan Kashyap, Rose Dawn Bharath, Changsong Zhou, Kyrana Tsapkini, John E. Desmond, SH Annabel Chen, Kaviraja Udupa, PT Sivakumar, Sagarika Bhattacharjee

“…To validate the rsfMRI networks and the longitudinal changes, we evaluated the grey matter (GM) volume, GM atrophy and the rate-of-atrophy of the brain areas. To corroborate the findings, we applied persistent homology on the structural networks derived from diffusion tensor images. …”
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Development-oriented foreign policy; a framework for analyzing Nordics relations by Reza Rahmati

“…Norway, on the other hand, has the highest level of GDP per capita, while only Denmark has shown a positive GDP growth rate since the 2008 financial crisis. Accordingly, a look at the statistics and data on foreign trade, the total value of exports and imports, and the economic performance of these countries helps to a great extent to formulate development-oriented approaches based on institutional patterns, the embedding of the economy in politics, elite perception, and a development-oriented foreign policy. …”
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Exploring oral hygiene practices, nutritional habits and caries risk among children, adolescents and young adults: a multiregional perspective in the post-COVID-19 era by Azhar Iqbal, Osama Khattak, Yasir Dilshad Siddiqui, Saud Hamdan Almaeen, Saeed Alqahtani, Saleh Ali Alqahtani, Saeed Awod Bin Hassan, Faisal Hasan Alshehri, Ali Y. Alsaeed, Mahmoud K. AL-Omiri

“…Results There was a notable increase in the caries experience rate, which escalated from 26.1% before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to 45.0% during the pandemic (P < 0.001). …”
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Sustainability and energy self-sufficiency; overcoming the barriers by Rania Abdel Galil

“…Renewable energy technologies are viewed as radical innovations which necessitate substantial changes in production and consumption patterns, hence often met with resistance from both institutions and individuals. …”
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An Analysis of RF On-Chip Antennas in Si-Based Integrated Microwave Photonics by Ajaypal Singh Dhillon, Bahaa Radi, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

“…The unification of antenna with photonic integrated circuits (PICs) reduces system loss for high data rate communication by eliminating parasitic interconnects. …”
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Enhanced Heat Transfer in Micromixers with Magnetic Fields: CFD Modeling and Analysis of Ferrofluid Convection by p. Amjadian, N. Almasi, N. Azimi

“…Secondly, simultaneous effect of the SMF and magnetic nanoparticles on the flow pattern and heat transfer rate of ferrofluid is evaluated. …”
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Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Heart–Aorta Fluid–Structure Interaction Based on S-ALE Method by Xiong Li, Fengchong Lan, Jiqing Chen, Xinzhe Chen

“…However, the effect on blood velocity and flow rate did not present any significant difference. …”
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Radio frequency fingerprint identification method based on syntactic recognition by CHEN Yanjun, HU Aiqun

“…Both the intra-class error rate and inter-class error rate of open set identification are below 10.72%. …”
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Incidence of unnatural deaths in Transkei sub-region of South Africa (1996–2015) by B L Meel

“…The figure is 160 per 100 000 among males and 44 per 100 000 among females. The rate of unnatural death has increased from 153 per 100 000 in 1996 to 260 per 100 000 in 2015. …”
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Physical and Chemical Characterization of Drag Reducing Polymer Based on Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in Human Blood Flow by Akram Jassim Jawad, Auda J. Braihi

“…The results showed significant effecting of PVP on blood fluidity characteristics, where the viscosity decreased as the PVP content increased or as a shear rate increased. For a certain shear rate, the shear stress decreased as PVP content increased. …”
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Trends in the Management of Intracranial Vascular Malformations in the USA from 2000 to 2007 by Jae H. Choi, John Pile-Spellman, Jonathan Brisman

“…In 58,051 IVM-related admissions (detection rate 2.4/100,000 person-years; mean age 49±17 years; 52% women) major diagnoses were intracranial hemorrhage (ICrH) in 15%, seizure 32%, ischemia 5%, and headache 9%. …”
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Epidimiology of Aerobic Bacterial Infections Among IUD (Intrauterine Device) Users in the Northern West Bank by Samar Ghazal, Mohammed Musmar, Mariam AL-Tell

“…It is one of the very effective contraceptive methods with very small failure rate. Infection has been the main problem that faces women using IUD all over the world. …”
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Genetic parameter estimation and molecular foundation of Double-yolk eggs trait in white leghorn by Anqi Chen, Xiaoyu Zhao, Haiyan Wang, Xiurong Zhao, Gang Wang, Xinye Zhang, Xufang Ren, Yalan Zhang, Xue Cheng, Xiaofan Yu, Xiaohan Mei, Huie Wang, Menghan Guo, Xiaoyu Jiang, Fuping Zhang, Zhonghua Ning, Lujiang Qu

“…In order to understand the inheritant pattern of DY eggs and explore candidate genes associated with DY eggs, we selected over 10,000 white Leghorn (WL) chickens from 4 generations and recorded the data during the egg laying period, including total egg number and the rate of DY egg number during the first 2 months and the period of 18-58 weeks of age (EN2month, EN38, EN58, DY2month, DY38, and DY58), age at first egg (AFE), first egg weight (FEW), and body weight at first egg (BWA). …”
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Epidemiological Situation on Tick-Borne Viral Encephalitis in the Russian Federation in 2022 and Forecast of its Development for 2023 by E. I. Andaev, A. Ya. Nikitin, M. I. Tolmacheva, I. D. Zarva, E. V. Yatsmenko, V. A. Matveeva, E. A. Sidorova, V. Yu. Kolesnikova, S. V. Balakhonov

“…Despite the increase in the incidence of TBVE in 2022, a significant downward trend has been retained. The rate of infection of ticks removed from humans in 2022 was below the long-term average values. …”
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