Paediatric Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) – preparedness for implementation at primary care facilities in Malawi by Carina King, Albert Dube, Beatiwel Zadutsa, Lumbani Banda, Josephine Langton, Nicola Desmond, Norman Lufesi, Charles Makwenda, Helena Hildenwall

“…Triage was conducted in most facilities with various methods described, and 53% reporting all staff are responsible. …”
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Comparison of FIB-4, APRI and AST/ALT ratio with FibroScan in patients with NAFLD and type 2 diabetes: a single-center study from Bangladesh by Muhammad Shah Alam, Syeda Tanzina Kalam, Monirul Islam Khan, Jabed Ahmed, Rahul Saha, A. B. M. Kamrul-Hasan

“…Conclusion FIB-4 was the most reliable non-invasive tool for detecting advanced fibrosis in patients with NAFLD and T2DM.…”
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A Comparative Analysis of the Efficacy of Three Plant Growth Regulators and Dose Optimization for Improving Agronomic Traits and Seed Yield of Purple-Flowered Alfalfa (<i>Medicago... by Xianwei Peng, Qunce Sun, Shuzhen Zhang, Youping An, Fengjun Peng, Jie Xiong, Ayixiwake Molidaxing, Shuming Chen, Yuxiang Wang, Bo Zhang

“…Principal component analysis (extracting four principal components with a cumulative contribution rate of 80.8%) further confirmed that the 98% mepiquat chloride treatment MCT3 (300 mg/L) was the most effective treatment for improving seed yield of alfalfa in arid regions.…”
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Pollution and carbon reduction effects of the pilot policy on clean winter heating in Northern China: Evidence from the county level by Yan Chen, Jiaqi Li, Yue Zhang, Fan Yang

“…However, few studies have investigated this policy and its carbon reduction effects, and most focus on the provincial or city levels. Therefore, this paper considers the policy’s influence on air pollution and carbon emissions at the county level to provide a precise and comprehensive assessment of the policy effects. …”
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Factors influencing decision-making on opportunistic salpingo-oophorectomy for ovarian cancer prevention in women with gastrointestinal cancers undergoing intra-abdominal surgery by Jaekyung Bae, Uisuk Kim, Sokbom Kang

“…Results: Overall, 60.2 % of the respondents (59 out of 98) were willing to undergo OSO at the time of their surgery. The most common reason for declining OSO was a lack of concern about ovarian cancer (21/39, 53.8 %), followed by concerns about potential declines in quality of life (13/39, 33.3 %). …”
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Patterns of mental health help seeking among Latina immigrant women by Mercedes Ortiz Rodriguez, Juan Gudino, Jesus Valencia, Isaac Rhew, India J. Ornelas

“…Stigma, particularly concerns about others finding out, and cost were the most common barriers to seeking professional mental health care. …”
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Effects of Rope Therapy on Social Attention and Temperament Traits in Autistic Children by Mi Zhou, Kevin Hung, Marco Chun-Cheong Wong, Tony Keng-Tou Chau, Benny Wai-Lun Lam, Cecilia Yuen-Ching Chu, Jialiang Gu, Jiawen Dai, Daniel Hung-Kay Chow

“…Although the RT group demonstrated numerically greater improvements in social attention compared to the transitional SIT group, most of the between-group differences were not statistically significant. …”
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Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial D-loop sequence of Mongolian wild boars by Ali Khamit, Munkhjargal Bayarlkhagva, Davaa Bazarsad, Bolortuya Ulziibat, Bayarlkhagva Damdin, Bayarmaa Gun-Aajav

“…The results of the study showed that geographic location played an important role in sequence divergence between wild boars from various locations. Most of them were grouped together according to their respective geographic locations, except for several individuals. …”
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Response of Pollen and Productivity of Rice Plants to the Application of Salicylic Acid under Drought Stress by Ika Purnamasari, Balqis Widyastuti Suparino, Angger Aisyah Hadiahning Gusti, Rosalina Diva Aurela, Yagus Wijayanto, Agung Nugroho Puspito, Mohammad Ubaidillah

“… Rice plants (Oryza sativa) are among the most significant food crops in human life. Efforts to increase food production face a variety of challenges, including droughts. …”
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Modeling the Motorcycle Crash Severity on Nonintersection Urban Roadways in the Australian State of Victoria Using a Random Parameters Logit Model by Mohammad Ali Seyfi, Kayvan Aghabayk, Amir Mohammad Karimi Mamaghan, Nirajan Shiwakoti

“…Due to a lack of physical protection and balance, motorcycle riders are one of the most vulnerable road users and are more likely to suffer severe injuries than motorists. …”
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The effect of hydropriming and hormone priming on the sprouting and establishment of deteriorated seeds of three yarrow species (Achillea millefolium, A. nobilis and A. tenufolia)... by Mohammad Reza Pahlevani, Mohammadali Alizadeh, Mohammad Nabi Ilkaee, Ali Ashraf Jafari, Seyed Esmaiel Seyedian

“…Yarrow (Achillea) is one of the most important species of medicinal plants that has many applications in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and health industries. …”
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Musculoskeletal adverse events reported post-hepatitis B vaccination in the vaccine adverse event reporting system by Yiqing Sun, Bukun Zhu, Xiang Li, Zhanyang Luo, Weiguo Bian

“…Tendon fibrosis demonstrated the strongest association, potentially linked to chronic inflammatory responses and abnormal tissue repair induced by aluminum adjuvants. Most AEs occurred within 30 days post-vaccination, though some, such as myofascitis, had a longer mean onset time (1,671 days), reflecting the slow-release properties of aluminum adjuvants. …”
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Smart biodegradable hydrogels incorporating a photoactive Ir(III) complex for NIR-triggered oral cancer treatment by Fang Yang, Ning Luo, Lizhen Ren, Wei Ding, Xuesong Wu

“…Abstract Background Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common cancer in the head and neck region, accounting for nearly 90% of oral cavity tumors. …”
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Estabilización Consistente de la Solución Mediante Elementos Finitos de la Ecuación de Advección-difusión-reacción by Alex Xavier Jerves Cobo

“…The main part in this paper consist in studying, analyzing, and developing; using linear triangular elements, two of the most important subscales techniques, particularly, the algebraic subscales technique (ASGS), and the orthogonal subscales one. …”
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TREATMENT OPTIMIZATION OF KIDNEY RECIPIENTS WITH PRE-TRANSPLANT PROLONGED ANURIA by A. V. Kolsanov, B. I. Kharitonov, I. A. Bardovsky

“…The emergence of severe urological complications in patients with prolonged anuria increases the risk of adverse outcome of 17. The most pre- ferred anastomosis urinary tract in recipients were on long-term renal replacement therapy is an immersion- type anastomosis «drop in». …”
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Global Aerosol Climatology from ICESat-2 Lidar Observations by Shi Kuang, Matthew McGill, Joseph Gomes, Patrick Selmer, Grant Finneman, Jackson Begolka

“…Marine aerosol belts are most prominent in the tropics, contrasting with earlier reports of the Southern Ocean maxima. …”
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Novel L-asparaginase from Paucilactobacillus vaccinostercus: Insights into anti-cancer potential using metagenomic, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation by Rohit Das, Buddhiman Tamang, Anil Bhattarai, Ishfaq Nabi Najar

“…In-depth MD simulations over 100 ns confirmed that the L-asparaginase–L-asparagine complex from Paucilactobacillus vaccinostercus DBMD was the most stable, exhibiting a lower RMSD (0.26 ± 0.034 nm), reduced flexibility (RMSF: 0.131 nm), and tighter structural compactness (Rg: 2.047–2.059 nm) than both Enterococcus italicus DBMD and Elspar. …”
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Digital bridges to social connection: A systematic review and meta-analysis of digital interventions for loneliness and social isolation by Thomas Hansen, Rune Johansen, Benedicte Kirkøen, Kim Stene-Larsen, Melanie Straiton, Ragnhild A. Tornes, Anne Reneflot

“…We provide specific recommendations for future interventions and research, including leveraging digital technologies for enhanced personalization, using digital tools for signposting non-digital interventions, systematically comparing digital and non-digital versions of the same intervention, and, most critically, examining the impact of increasingly popular AI-driven and humanlike social chatbots.…”
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Phenological piecewise modelling is more conducive than whole-season modelling to winter wheat yield estimation based on remote sensing data by Xin Huang, Wenquan Zhu, Cenliang Zhao, Zhiying Xie, Hui Zhang

“…Most of the existing remote sensing-based yield estimation methods adopt the mean or cumulative value of meteorological factors within the whole growing season, which may ignore the impact of adverse meteorological conditions on the growth of winter wheat in a certain phenological period. …”
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Investigating the Expression Level of CCAT2 and BIM Genes in Colorectal Cancer Patients by Alireza Rangin, Fatemeh Jenagh

“…Colon cancer ranks as the second most common cancer among women and the third among men globally. …”
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