Rural-Urban Migration Challenges in South Africa: Case of Kwazulu-Natal (SA) by B. Nkabinde, L.M Lekhanya, N. Dorasamy

“…The challenge facing the democratic government in the developmental local sphere of government, is inefficient service provision, due to the continuous increase of local inhabitants, caused by an increased rate of rural-urban migration patterns. Urban planning focuses on city and town design and how the municipality delivers services to communities dwelling within these designed urban spaces. …”
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Antibiotic resistance patterns of multidrug resistant bacteria in acute myeloid leukemia patients during induction treatment by Lazar Trajković, Mirjana Cvetković, Mirjana Mitrović, Zlatko Pravdić, Nikola Pantić, Nikica Sabljić, Ljubomir Jaković, Ana Vidović, Nada Suvajdžić-Vuković, Marijana Virijević

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Weight status of children aged 2-5 years old, attending a paediatric outpatient clinic and its association with parental feeding style and parental perceptions of weight status by Aisling Lee, Helen Callaghan, Dara Gallagher, Annette Lalor, Louise Rattigan, Hilary Greaney, Laura Keaver

“…Statistical significance was set at p Discussion/Conclusion: The childhood overweight and obesity rates within this cohort are slightly above the national rates for childhood obesity. …”
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Burden of corticosteroid therapy in patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN): a systematic literature review by Sarah N. Ali, Nicole Fusco, Dilip Makhija, Vakaramoko Diaby, Tosin Oladapo, Darsh Devani, Cibele Pinto, Mohit Mathur, Ancilla W. Fernandes

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Reirradiation practices of Radiation Therapists (RePoRT) study by Neva Pang, Alvin Cuni, Amanda Caissie, Leigh Conroy, Aileen Duffton, Winnie Li, Brian Liszewski, Donna H. Murrell, Andrea Shessel, Fátima Silva, Yat Tsang, Michael Velec

“…The 48-item questionnaire asked RTTs the frequency of performing a range of reirradiation activities, to self-rate their competency levels, and to identify enablers and barriers to reirradiation practice. …”
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Clinical burden of major depressive disorder with versus without prominent anhedonia using a real-world electronic health records and claims linked database by Hrishikesh Kale, Stevan Geoffrey Severtson, Becca S. Feldman, Tiina Drissen, Nilanjana Dwibedi, Andrew J. Cutler, Carl D. Marci

“…The last PHQ-9 score in the year following the index date was used to assess remission rates (PHQ-9 score < 5) or persistence of moderate to severe depression. …”
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Prescription patterns of traditional Chinese medications and potential consequences in patients with new-onset cardiac or vascular-related diseases: a nationwide cohort study by Sheng-Shing Lin, Hsin-Hui Tsai, Daniel Hsiang-Te Tsai, Chiu-Lin Tsai, Nanae Itokazu, Jaung-Geng Lin, Edward Chia-Cheng Lai, Hsiang-Wen Lin, Yu-Chang Hou

“…Regardless of prior CM use, both groups had a relatively high rate of comorbidities; CM or specific WM use; and incidence of severe cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, or thromboembolic events (33.81% vs. 31.97%) and severe bleeding (18.32% vs. 16.57%). …”
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Artificial intelligence in automatic image segmentation system for exploring recurrence patterns in small cell carcinoma of the lung by Jing Shen, Shaobin Wang, Hui Guan, Mingyi Di, Zhikai Liu, Qi Chen, Mei Li, Jie Shen, Ke Hu, Fuquan Zhang

“…Recurrence Analysis: Tumor size (≥ 5cm) was also closely linked to patient local control rates, with a 3-year Local Control Rate Failure (LCRF) contrasting sharply between larger tumors (61.1%) and smaller tumors (86.7%, p=0.004). …”
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Acclimatization response to a short-term heat wave during summer in lactating Brown Swiss and Holstein Friesian cows by Aristide Maggiolino, Lucrezia Forte, Alessandra Aloia, Umberto Bernabucci, Erminio Trevisi, Cristina Lecchi, Fabrizio Ceciliani, Geoffrey E. Dahl, Pasquale De Palo

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Mobility in Europe: Recent Trends from a Cluster Analysis by Ioana Manafi, Daniela Marinescu, Monica Roman, Karen Hemming

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Rise and dine: unraveling breakfast habits among tenth graders - a cross-sectional study among 646 students in the City of Witten, Germany (GeWIT study) by Mohamed Salah Anwar Mohamed, Anwar Mohamed, Nessia Rachma Dianti, Anne-Lisa Heye, Klaus Völkel, Judith Tillmann, Oxana Klassen, Paul Wiesheu, Klaus Weckbecker, Eva Münster

“…Results In a sample of 646 students (response rate 98.3%), 50.6% (n = 327) reported skipping breakfast before school on the day of the survey. …”
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Study of Planting Pattern and Herbicide Effects on Weed Population and Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Grain Yield by Hossein Najafi, Soheyla Pourheydar Ghafarbi, Gholamreza Gahramanian, Ajang Jahedi

“…EC 27.4%), in two rates: 160 and 300 ml.ai.ha-1, protected application of imazethapyr (Pursuit® SL 10%), at a rate of 100 ml.ai.ha-1+ paraquat (Gramoxone® SL 20%), at a rate of 600 ml.ai.ha-1, protected application of paraquat (Gramoxone® SL 20%), at a rate of 600 ml.ai.ha-1, pyridate ((Lentagran®  EC 60%), at a rate of 1200 ml.ai.ha-1 and control were evaluated. …”
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Cluster Analysis of Clinical Remission and Relapse Patterns in Chronic Urticaria: Results from the PREDICT-CU Study by Maria-Magdalena Balp, Irina Pivneva, Andrii Danyliv, Kathleen Chen, Tom Cornwall, Jimmy Royer, James Signorovitch, Dhaval Patil, Ravneet K. Kohli, Thomas Severin, Weily Soong, Alexander M. Marsland

“…Cluster 1 (N = 36,690 [32.6%]) had the shortest median time to clinical remission (4.1 months) and lowest relapse rate (38.0%). Cluster 2 (N = 29,834 [26.5%]) reached clinical remission later (10.0 months), with a higher relapse rate (52.3%). …”
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Koraci u rekonstrukciji za poboljšanje perfrormansi rada zatvarača na temeljnom ispustu by Filip Stojkovski, Sašo Belšak, Robert Broz

“…Numerical simulations of the outflow conditions of the bottom outlet were carried out, and later were proved with drone footage to observe the outflow pattern. Besides, full dry and wet test measurements were made before and after reconstruction works, where significant performance improvement of the gate operation was achieved.…”
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Epidemiology and Molecular Drug-Resistance Patterns of Tuberculosis in Non-Elderly Patients in Luoyang, China, 2019-2023 by Wang Z, Xu L, Guo T, Liu J, Jin J, Zhang Q, Jiang T, Zhao Z, Xue Y

“…The predominant resistance patterns of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and poly-resistant tuberculosis (PDR-TB) were MDR4 (INH + RFP + EMB + SM) and PDR2 (INH + SM), with detection rates of 5.52% (142) and 2.33% (60), respectively. …”
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Real-world treatment patterns and clinical outcomes in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma in Germany: retrospective CONVINCE study by Katrin Schlack, Stefan Machtens, Thomas Kubin, Markus Ruhnke, Clemens Schulte, Anna Eisen, Ulrike Osowski, Silke Guenther, Mairead Kearney, Rainer Lipp, Stephan Schmitz

“…Abstract Purpose CONVINCE is a retrospective medical chart review study that examined demographics, treatment patterns, and outcomes in patients who received first-line (1L) treatment for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (la/mUC) in Germany. …”
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Comparing clinical practice habits among obesity medicine physicians by patient, physician and clinic factors by Selvi Rajagopal, Edmond P. Wickham, III, Tirissa J. Reid, Dana R. Brittan, Judith Korner, Kimberly A. Gudzune

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Geometric thermodynamics of reaction-diffusion systems: Thermodynamic trade-off relations and optimal transport for pattern formation by Ryuna Nagayama, Kohei Yoshimura, Artemy Kolchinsky, Sosuke Ito

“…This enables us to extract the excess entropy production rate that genuinely contributes to the time evolution of patterns. …”
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Predictors of participant compliance with ecological momentary assessment among individuals with chronic pain who are using cannabis and opioids by Jungin Joo, Janardan Devkota, Bryant M. Stone, Kelly E. Dunn, Vadim Zipunnikov, Ryan Vandrey, Patrick H. Finan, Johannes Thrul

“…However, there are limited data on patterns of opioid medication and medical cannabis use. …”
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Endometrial pattern predicts pregnancy outcome in single‐blastocyst frozen‐embryo transfer: An analysis of 1383 cycles by Kazutaka Kuramoto, Norio Hamada, Keiko Kawamura, Katsuko Egashira, Seiichi Morokuma, Misako Otsuka, Naomi Yoshioka, Takeshi Kuramoto, Kiyoko Kato

“…Abstract Purpose Several studies investigated endometrial patterns, with respect to pregnancy rates following the transfer of embryos but did not distinguish between single‐ and multiple‐blastocyst procedures. …”
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