Towards developing new private sector maternity care models in South Africa: results from a deliberative stakeholder dialogue by Tanya Doherty, Sue Fawcus, Vishal Brijlal, Geetesh Solanki

“…Caesarean rates are rising globally, four of the five countries with the highest caesarean rates are middle-income countries and private hospital care is a strong predictor of caesarean birth. …”
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Commercial probiotics enhance growth and immunity of white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) and resistence to infection by Vibrio parahaemolyticus by Germain Maurus, Joan Tang Xiao Joe, Quốc Hùng Phạm, Shih‐Chao Lin, Ming‐Wei Lu

“…Juvenile shrimp were fed varying doses of AFPB (0.5%, 1%, 2%, and 5%) during their maturation period, and their growth indices, including weight, growth rate, feed conversion ratio, and survival rate, were measured biweekly. …”
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Experimental Study of Oil-Water Displacement Dynamics in Berea Sandstone by Zhanhe Jia, Wenbin Jiang, Mian Lin

“…Experiments conducted at 20 °C and 50 °C across flow rates (0.10–0.35 mL/min) revealed distinct temperature-dependent saturation patterns: non-monotonic N-type behavior (initial increase, decrease, and then increase with flow rate) at 20 °C and V-type behavior (initial decrease followed by increase) at 50 °C, accounting for 76.0–94.3% of observed variations. …”
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Exploring the appropriateness of prescribing practice of inhaled pharmacotherapy among Aboriginal Australians in the Top End Northern Territory of Australia: a retrospective cohort... by Subash Heraganahally, Bhavini Patel, Timothy P Howarth, Siji Issac, Angus Lloyd, Shiidheshwar J Ravichandran, Asanga Abeyaratne

“…However, prescribing patterns and related outcomes of airway directed inhaled pharmacotherapy, (short-acting beta agonists (SABA), short-acting muscarinic antagonists (SAMA), long-acting β-agonists (LABA), long-acting muscarinic antagonists (LAMA) and inhaled corticosteroids (ICS)) among Aboriginal Australian patients with chronic airway disease have been sparsely reported in the past.Methods A retrospective cohort study was conducted, using clinical, spirometry data, chest radiology, primary healthcare (PHC) presentations and hospital admission rates among Aboriginal patients identified to have been prescribed inhaled pharmacotherapy in remote and rural communities referred to the respiratory specialist service in the Top End, Northern Territory of Australia.Results Of the 372 identified active patients, 346 (93%) had inhaled pharmacotherapy prescribed (64% female, median age 57.7 years). …”
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Clinical evaluation of negative mNGS reports in sterile body fluids and tissues by Wang Lisha, Qian Jiao, Chen Mengyuan, Qin Jiajia, Tang Tianbin, Wang Yilan, Hu Linjie, Yu Sufei

“…The positive impact rates of clinical application in the plasma, CSF, and others groups were 68.0%, 40.4%, and 25.6%, respectively. …”
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Insights into the epidemiological analysis of subarachnoid hemorrhage burden and trends in middle-aged and elderly populations: a global perspective from the Global Burden of Disea... by Guiming Chen, Yuzhou Cai, Meng Ju, Xiye Zheng, Peng Bai

“…We calculated age-standardized incidence rates (ASIR), age-standardized prevalence rates (ASPR), age-standardized mortality rates (ASMR), and age-standardized disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) rates (ASDR). …”
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Cross-language orthographic neighborhood density effects in Dutch–English and Spanish–English bilinguals by Britta Biedermann, Britta Biedermann, Elisabeth Beyersmann, Mara Blosfelds, Christella Macapagal, Ashleigh Rosevear, Welber Marinovic

“…Overall, no interaction was detected between L1 and L2 NDs for reaction times or error rates. Additionally, a factorial permutation test confirmed the L2 facilitatory effect on both reaction times and error rates, while it supported an L1 inhibitory effect for error rates only. …”
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Effect of Interaction Energies on the Adsorption of Glycine onto a Cu(110) Surface: A Monte Carlo Simulation by R.O. Uñac, A.M. Vidales, G. Zgrablich

“…The dependence of the surface pattern structures upon the temperature and diffusion rate was studied. …”
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Microsaccades and Visual-Spatial Working Memory by Joshua T. Gaunt, Bruce Bridgeman

“…Intervening tasks during the memory interval affected memory as well as microsaccade patterns. Average microsaccade rate peaks after appearance of a fixation cross at the start of a trial, and dips at cue onset and offset. …”
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Complementing community science with xenomonitoring: Understanding the eco-epidemiology of Dirofilaria immitis infection in dogs and mosquitoes by Tamara Szentivanyi, Laura V. González, Ágnes Klein, Zoltán Soltész, László Z. Garamszegi

“…Similar to community science results, the highest infection rates were observed in the southeastern and eastern regions (MIR: 14.9 and 11.6, respectively), but the two approaches generally provided overall similar geographical patterns. …”
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A practice for all seasons: male circumcision and the prevention of HIV transmission by Krishna C. Addanki, D. Gene Pace, Omar Bagasra

“…Despite a growth in HIV awareness and interventions, there are perplexingly different prevelence rates in different countries with seemingly similar behavioral patterns. …”
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The Trends of Staphylococcus aureus Antibiotics Resistance in Iraq: A Narrative Review by Nawfal R. Hussein, Masood Ahmed Hameed, Qusay Nawaf Resho

“…Reports from Iraq revealed a high MRSA carriage rate among healthcare workers and the general community. …”
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WORLD MERCHANDISE TRADE by Serghei MĂRGULESCU, Elena MĂRGULESCU

“…It presents also the contribution of the volume change and of the change in unit values (which account for fluctuations in prices and exchange rates) to the value trade growth (in current dollar terms). …”
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Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods. by Roger B J Benson, Richard J Butler, John Alroy, Philip D Mannion, Matthew T Carrano, Graeme T Lloyd

“…Our results show a highly stable pattern of Mesozoic tetrapod diversity at regional and local levels, underpinned by a weakly positive, but near-zero, long-term net diversification rate over 190 million years. …”
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Characterization and dissolution test of recrystallized mefenamic acid by fast cooling methods by La Ode Akbar Rasydy, Hilda Damayanti, Erza Satrio, Jaka Supriyanta

“…Mefenamic acid, classified as a Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS) Class II drug, exhibits high permeability but low dissolution rates, limiting its bioavailability. This study aims to enhance the dissolution rate of mefenamic acid through crystal structure modification using fast cooling recrystallization with three distinct solvents: acetone (AMA), ether (AMEt), and ethyl acetate (AME). …”
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Short-term physiological responses of Pinus koraiensis Siebold & Zucc. and Chamaecyparis obtusa (Siebold & Zucc.) Endl. seedlings to elevated CO2 by Iereh Kim, Myeongja Kwak, Juyeong Kim, Suyoung Woo

“…C. obtusa initiated early biochemical adjustments, indicated by increased biochemical parameters of photosynthesis (maximum carboxylation rate, Vcmax; electron transport capacity, Jmax; and triose phosphate utilization, TPU), yet required more time for these changes to result in higher photosynthetic rates. …”
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Dataset of lithium-ion cell degradation under randomized current profiles for NMC, NCA, and LFP chemistriesFairdata by Mohsen Heydarzadeh, Teemu Toivola, Victor Vega-Garita, Eero Immonen

“…Furthermore, the Constant Current–Constant Voltage (CC–CV) charging protocol was implemented at 1C charging rates. The experiment entailed the collection of data on voltage, current, cell temperature, ambient temperature, and time, with a 1 Hz sampling rate, utilizing specialized equipment, Chroma 1107 system and temperature sensors. …”
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Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019-2023. by David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Tom Williams, Peter Fleming, Karen Luyt

“…Overall, death rate reduced across Period 1 (Incidence rate ratio (IRR) 0.96 (95% CI 0.92-0.99)) and then increased across Period 2 (IRR 1.12 (95% CI 1.08-1.16)), and this pattern was also seen for death by Infection and Underlying Disease. …”
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Performance of Large Language Models in the Non-English Context: Qualitative Study of Models Trained on Different Languages in Chinese Medical Examinations by Zhong Yao, Liantan Duan, Shuo Xu, Lingyi Chi, Dongfang Sheng

“…All models except Llama generally had higher accuracy rates for simple questions than for complex ones. …”
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Organ-system-based subclassification of preeclampsia using machine learning predicts pregnancy outcomes by Yanhong Xu, Yizheng Zu, Xiaosi Lu, Yiping Wang, Jiaying Zheng, Xia Xu, Jianying Yan

“…K-Cluster 1 and K-Cluster 5 showed distinct biomarker patterns but similar complication rates (P > 0.05). …”
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