Efficacy of Second Generation Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents for Treatment Naïve Hepatitis C Genotype 1: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis. by Thanthima Suwanthawornkul, Thunyarat Anothaisintawee, Abhasnee Sobhonslidsuk, Ammarin Thakkinstian, Yot Teerawattananon

“…However, due to high drug costs, an economic evaluation should be conducted in order to assess the value of the investment when making coverage decisions.…”
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Effects of community-based antiretroviral therapy initiation models on HIV treatment outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Ingrid Eshun-Wilson, Ajibola A Awotiwon, Ashley Germann, Sophia A Amankwaa, Nathan Ford, Sheree Schwartz, Stefan Baral, Elvin H Geng

“…Implementation on a wider scale necessitates broader exploration of costs, logistics, and acceptability by providers and PLWH to ensure that these effects are reproducible when delivered at scale, in different contexts, and over time.…”
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Variation of continued breastfeeding by age of the child among children aged 12–23 months: evidence from 21 sub-Saharan African countries by Enyew Getaneh Mekonen

“…Abstract Background Appropriate breastfeeding practices are recommended to decrease the burden of under-five mortality and its related costs in sub-Saharan Africa. Continued breastfeeding is associated with a reduced risk of child morbidity and mortality. …”
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Spatial variations and determinants of modern contraceptive utilization among sexually active rural women in Ethiopia using mini EDHS 2019 data: spatial and multilevel analysis by Chilot Kassa Mekonnen, Zerko Wako Beko, Gashaw Adane Nega, Hailemichael Kindie Abate

“…Abstract Background Modern contraceptive prevents unwanted pregnancy and play a paramount role in birth spacing and improving health care costs for the individual, family, community, and the country at large. …”
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Conocimientos teóricos y estrategias metodológicas que emplean docentes de primer ciclo en la estimulación de las inteligencias múltiples /Theoretical conceptualizations and method... by Aida María Mainieri Hidalgo

“…In other words, it provides lower costs in materials and human resources; it is innovative; it affects the integrity of both students and teachers positively; it provides a broader and stronger support for the development of human potential, learning, and construction of knowledge. …”
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A secure end-to-end communication framework for cooperative IoT networks using hybrid blockchain system by Suresh Babu Erukala, Dimitar Tokmakov, Anoosha Perumalla, Rajesh Kaluri, Anna Bekyarova-Tokmakova, Nevena Mileva, Slavi Lubomirov

“…While cloud computing has become a mainstream technology across multiple domains, it struggles to efficiently manage the massive volume of OT data generated by IoT devices due to high latency, data transfer costs, limited resilience, and insufficient context awareness. …”
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ANATOMICAL AND GENETIC PREDISPOSITION FOR CARIES IN PERMANENT DENTITION. REVIEW by K.A. Udaltsova, E.O. Pisarenko

“…Severe-early childhood caries, affecting multiple smooth tooth surfaces before age 5, can lead to pain, abscess formation, and loss of teeth; associated with more new carious lesions and emergency room visits, increased treatment costs, delayed development, and diminished ability to learn. …”
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Implementing large language model and retrieval augmented generation to extract geographic locations of illicit transnational kidney trade by Zifu Wang, Meng-Hao Li, Patrick Baxter, Olzhas Zhorayev, Jiaxin Wei, Valerie Kovacs, Qiuhan Zhao, Chaowei Yang, Naoru Koizumi

“…Further, extracting the geographic locations of buyers, sellers, brokers, transplant surgeons, and medical facilities in all relevant publications often involves extensive, time-consuming, manual labelling that is very costly. Although current techniques such as Named Entity Recognition (NER) tools can potentially automate the process, they are limited to identifying country names and often fail to associate the roles (i.e., offering buyer, seller, broker and/or surgery) that each country played. …”
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Antibiotic Resistance Trends in Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Pathogens and Eight-Year Surveillance of XDR Bloodstream Infections in a Western Greece Tertiary Hospital by Maria Lagadinou, Marina Amerali, Christos Michailides, Anna Chondroleou, Katerina Skintzi, Anastasia Spiliopoulou, Fevronia Kolonitsiou, Leonidia Leonidou, Stelios F. Assimakopoulos, Markos Marangos

“…<b>Background</b>: The increased prevalence of antibiotic resistance among Gram-negative bacteria presents a severe public health challenge, leading to increased mortality rates, prolonged hospital stays, and higher medical costs. In Greece, the issue of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria is particularly alarming, exacerbated by overuse of antibiotics and inadequate infection control measures. …”
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Research Progress and Prospect of Multi-robot Collaborative SLAM in Complex Agricultural Scenarios by MA Nan, CAO Shanshan, BAI Tao, KONG Fantao, SUN Wei

“…Collaborative operations among multiple agricultural robots enhance production efficiency and reduce labor costs, driving the development of smart agriculture. …”
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Suitability of different machine learning algorithms for the classification of the proportion of grassland-based forages at the herd level using mid-infrared spectral information f... by A. Birkinshaw, M. Sutter, M. Nussbaum, M. Kreuzer, B. Reidy

“…As these multifarious policy and label requirements are laborious and costly to monitor on-farm, fast economical proxies would be advantageous to verify the proportion of GBF consumed by the cows in the final product. …”
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Conversion of 3D seismic attributes to reservoir hydraulic flow units using a neural network approach: An example from the Kangan and Dalan carbonate reservoirs, the world's larges... by Mohammad Amin Dezfoolian, Mohammad Ali Riahi, Ali Kadkhodaie-Ilkhchi

“…This may increase exploration success rates and reduce costs through the application of more reliable output results in hydrocarbon exploration programs. 4 seismic attributes, including acoustic impedance, dominant fre- quency, amplitude weighted phase and instantaneous phase, are considered as the optimal inputs for pre- dicting HFUs from seismic data. …”
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Evaluation of the efficiency of Russian universities: Do we need to change the paradigm? by E. V. Romanov

“…Based on the analysis of the income structure of federal and part of national research universities, the author proves that it is not correct to compare universities in terms of the volume and rate of income from income-generating activities.It is required to change the methodology for the evaluation of universities, i.e. to highlight performance indicators and their corresponding performance indicators (as the ratio of results achieved and costs). A correct assessment assumes the comparability of universities in terms of expected performance and the implemented “target function”: federal, national research, anchor universities, “ordinary” universities. …”
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Determining optimal timing of birth for women with chronic or gestational hypertension at term: The WILL (When to Induce Labour to Limit risk in pregnancy hypertension) randomised... by Laura A Magee, Katie Kirkham, Sue Tohill, Eleni Gkini, Catherine A Moakes, Jon Dorling, Marcus Green, Jennifer A Hutcheon, Mishal Javed, Jesse Kigozi, Ben W M Mol, Joel Singer, Pollyanna Hardy, Clive Stubbs, James G Thornton, Peter von Dadelszen, WILL Trial Study Group

“…Early term birth (at 37 to 38 weeks) may reduce maternal complications, cesareans, stillbirths, and costs but may increase neonatal morbidity. In the WILL Trial (When to Induce Labour to Limit risk in pregnancy hypertension), we aimed to establish optimal timing of birth for women with chronic or gestational hypertension who reach term and remain well.…”
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Prevalence and determinants of HIV testing-seeking behaviors among women of reproductive age in Tanzania: analysis of the 2022 Demographic and health survey by Jackson Micheal Asingwire, Isaac isiko, Kuli Faith Rombe, Aaron Mwesigwa, Emmanuel Asher Ikwara, Haron Olot, Lenz Nwachinemere Okoro, Manankong Jane Precious Izunwanne, Blessing Onyinyechi Agunwa, Abdul Aziiz Bwana, William Yiga Kalemba, Ebuka Louis Anyamene

“…Conclusion The government and other concerned agencies should introduce mobile or community-based testing units and subsidize testing costs to reach economically disadvantaged or rural populations. …”
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Incidence, predictors, bacterial isolate, antibiotic susceptibility pattern and treatment outcomes among patients who underwent major surgery in public hospitals in Eastern Ethiopi... by Jemal Abdela, Mohammed Yusuf, Fuad Adem, Abdi Amin, Burka Mohammedsani, Mohammed Abdurke, Ame Mehadi, Ahmedmenewer Abdu, Hussein Mohammed

“…Therefore determining their antimicrobial susceptibility and providing defined antimicrobial therapy could lower morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs, and could improve in-hospital outcomes is recommended to use vancomycin, meropenam, gentamycin, and piperacillin with tazobactam because of the observed susceptibility of common isolates for these drugs in the study area.…”
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A Field data- based method to determine the pressure-burst relationships in urban water distribution networks by Yasaman Taj Abadi, Mohamadreza Jalili Ghazizade, Iman Moslehi

“…Introduction: One of the challenges facing water and wastewater companies around the world is water loss from water distribution networks following after burst and leakage, which imposes high economic, social and environmental costs on these companies. So every year, a large part of the budget of water and wastewater companies is allocated for repair and rehabilitation of the pipe network. …”
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Prevalence of interprofessional collaboration towards patient care and associated factors among nurses and physician in Ethiopia, 2024: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Abdulkerim Hassen Moloro, Kebede Gemeda Sabo, Begetayinoral Kussia Lahole, Beriso Furo Wengoro, Kusse Urmale Mare

“…Studies indicate that failures in interprofessional collaboration between nurses and physicians lead to adverse medical events, including hospital-acquired infections, medication administration errors, and unnecessary health-related costs. Objective This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate the pooled proportions of the interprofessional collaborations towards patient care and associated factors among nurses and physicians in Ethiopia, 2024. …”
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Diseño óptimo multiobjetivo y planificación del proceso de fabricación (CAD/CAPP) de redes de conductos de climatización // Optimal design and planning of the manufacturing process... by A. Cordovés García, C. J. Arzola Ruíz, J. R. Hechavarría Hernández, M. R. Fernández Peña

“…Among<br />these are the production costs and power consumption.<br />Since the early designing stages, we can already get to know, not only the values of the fluid parameters at any point of the net,<br />but also the classified list of the components used, as well as the materials still needed.…”
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Considerations for using Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education by Ali Hamidi Madani

“…These developments have improved the teaching-learning process, reduced the risk for the learner and the patient during the learning process, and decreased the costs of medical education. However, alongside the exponential increase in the use of this technology, it is essential to ensure that AI can meet real educational needs. …”
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