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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Testis in Postvasectomy Case – A Clinico-Pathological Study of 50 Cases by Prabha Bastian, Sara Varghese, P. A. Thomas, Ramakrishnan K. Nair

“…The different histological findings noted are normal histology, sloughing and disorganisation with active spermatogenesis, hypospermatogenesis, Leydig cell hyperplasia, focal atrophy of tubules, peritubuler thickening. extravasation of spermatozoa spermatogenic maturation arrest and sertoli cell only pattern (Table II). Surgical success was 94.8%, and pregnancy rate, 63.2%. …”
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The Study of Three-Dimensional Granular Stream Flowing through the Test Hopper-Shaped Target by Chengwen Qiang, Weifeng Yang, Long Li, Fei Wang, Weiping Deng, Qiang Zhao, Cong Liu, Xueying Zhang

“…Variation of the flow rate with elevated frequency of the screw conveyor is further studied. …”
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Culture Positivity of CVCs Used for TPN: Investigation of an Association with Catheter-Related Infection and Comparison of Causative Organisms between ICU and Non-ICU CVCs by Criona Walshe, J. Bourke, M. Lynch, M. McGovern, L. Delaney, D. Phelan

“…There was a nonsignificant trend of higher Gram negative Bacilli isolation in ICU CVCs (𝑃=0.1), ward CVCs were associated with higher rates of staphylococcal isolation (𝑃=0.01). A similar pattern of organisms were cultured from CRBSI and culture positive CVCs. …”
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A Review on Biomechanics of Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Materials for Reconstruction by M. Marieswaran, Ishita Jain, Bhavuk Garg, Vijay Sharma, Dinesh Kalyanasundaram

“…The key conclusions of this review are as follows: (a) the highest shear forces on the anterior cruciate ligament occur during hyperextension/low flexion angles of the knee joint; (b) the characterization of the anterior cruciate ligament at variable strain rates is critical to model a viscoelastic behavior; however, studies on human anterior cruciate ligament on variable strain rates are yet to be reported; (c) a significant disparity on maximum stress/strain pattern of the anterior cruciate ligament was observed in the earlier works; (d) nearly all synthetic grafts have been recalled from the market; and (e) bridge-enhanced repair developed by Murray is a promising technique for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, currently in clinical trials. …”
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Pautas de la movilidad en el área metropolitana de Madrid by Juan Carlos García Palomares, Javier Gutiérrez Puebla

“…On the other hand, Madrid presents some positive peculiarities that allow it to have higher rates of public transport than in the rest of European metropolitan areas. …”
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Spatiotemporal Simulation of Tourist Town Growth Based on the Cellular Automata Model: The Case of Sanpo Town in Hebei Province by Jun Yang, Peng Xie, Jianchao Xi, Quansheng Ge, Xueming Li, Fanqiang Kong

“…Results showed that (1) average annual growth rate of the entire region was 1.5 Ha2 per year from 2005 to 2010, 4 Ha2 per year from 2010 to 2015, and 2.5 Ha2 per year from 2015 to 2020; (2) urban growth rate increased yearly, with regional differences, and had a high degree of correlation with the Euclidean distance of town center, traffic route, attractions, and other factors; (3) Gougezhuang, an important village center in the west of the town, demonstrated traffic advantages and increased growth rate since 2010; (4) Magezhuang village has the largest population in the region, so economic advantages have driven the development of rural urbanization. …”
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Spatial-temporal variations of stroke mortality worldwide from 2000 to 2021 by Siyi Xing, Xiaoliang Chen, Hong Zhu, Xinmei Li, Ge Zhang, Jie Li

“…Results The result showed that ① From 2000 to 2021, the number of stroke deaths increased worldwide, but the AMSR due to stroke showed a downward trend; ② The spatial distribution of the global AMSR due to stroke varies across geographic regions. with the highest in Asia and southern Africa, and the lowest in Europe and North America; ③ The spatial pattern of hot and cold spots of AMSR due to stroke remained relatively stable from 2000 to 2021, with the greatest changes in Africa and Asia; ④ Generally, countries belong to higher economic groups have lower stroke mortality rate, and this pattern persisted throughout the study period. …”
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Exploring heterogeneity of perimenopause with application of multivariable analysis approaches by Zhongyu Huang, Huazhi You, Lijuan Li, Shuang Wang, Zipan Lyu, Xiaoqin Zeng, Changyan Zhu, Minqing Li, Han Yan, Yaojuan He

“…The assessing framework was developed over the initial item pool as integration of 4 scales including Insomnia severity index, Modified Kupperman index, Self-rating anxiety scale, and Self-rating depression scale. …”
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An interpretable machine learning approach for predicting and grading hip osteoarthritis using gait analysis by Qing Yang, Xinyu Ji, Yuyan Zhang, Shaoyi Du, Bing Ji, Wei Zeng

“…Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of lower extremity kinematic gait data for detecting and rating the severity of unilateral hip OA using machine learning algorithms. …”
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Epidemiology and Genetic Evolutionary Analysis of Influenza Virus Among Children in Hainan Island, China, 2021–2023 by Meng Chang, Shengjie Shi, Yan Jin, Gaoyu Wang, Ruoyan Peng, Jing An, Yi Huang, Xiaoyuan Hu, Chuanning Tang, Yi Niu, Xiuying Tian, Wanxin Deng, Cheng Tang, Xiuji Cui, Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Yibo Jia, Feifei Yin

“…Results: The findings revealed a significant decrease in the infection rate of IBV over the specified period, while the infection rate of IAV exhibited a rising trend. …”
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From Margin to Mainstream: Informal Street Vendors and Local Politics in Kolkata, India by Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy

“…A new, fragmented spatial structure has started emerging, with the middle classes and the globalizing segments of the economy, moving away to gated enclaves at the urban fringe. These changes are not isolated phenomenon, but rather symptomatic with the larger process of urban transformation and entwined with the political-economic change in the state level.…”
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