ANALYSIS OF THE RISK OF RECURRENT WHEEZING IN CHILDREN WITH BRONCHIOLITIS BASED ON THE WEIBULL MATHEMATICAL MODEL by Н. Токарчук, О. Очередько, А. Оверчук

“…The analysis of Weibull models was performed in the statistical packages of analytical system R for Mac OS X FAQ, Version 3.1.0 2014-04-10, R. app 1.64 based on the Mac OS X 10.9 platform, 64-bit Intel Core i7 architecture. The study was approved by the Commission on Biomedical Ethics for compliance with the moral and legal rules for conducting medical research at Vinnytsia National Medical University named after M.I. …”
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NaviSoC: High-Accuracy Low-Power GNSS SoC with an Integrated Application Processor by Tomasz Borejko, Krzysztof Marcinek, Krzysztof Siwiec, Paweł Narczyk, Adam Borkowski, Igor Butryn, Arkadiusz Łuczyk, Daniel Pietroń, Maciej Plasota, Szymon Reszewicz, Łukasz Wiechowski, Witold A. Pleskacz

“…A dual-frequency all-in-one Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver with a multi-core 32-bit RISC (reduced instruction set computing) application processor was integrated and manufactured as a System-on-Chip (SoC) in a 110 nm CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) process. …”
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A culturally tailored personaliseD nutrition intErvention in South ASIan women at risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (DESI-GDM): a randomised controlled trial protocol by Russell J de Souza, Scott A Lear, Harpreet S Bajaj, Gita Wahi, Sarah D McDonald, Sonia S Anand, Sujane Kandasamy, Diana Sherifali, Michael A Zulyniak, Dipika Desai, Kristi B Adamo, Shrikant I Bangdiwala, Hertzel C Gerstein, Natalie C Williams, Paul Ritvo, Rosain N Stennett, Farah Khan, Tayler Pocsai, Andrea Rogge, Karleen M Schulze, Jennifer C Stearns

“…Our study seeks to evaluate the effectiveness and participant acceptability of a culturally tailored, personalised nutrition intervention on the glucose area under the curve (AUC) after a 2-hour 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in pregnant women of South Asian ancestry with GDM risk factors.Methods and analysis A total of 190 South Asian pregnant women with at least 2 of the following GDM risk factors—prepregnancy body mass index>23, age>29, poor-quality diet, family history of type 2 diabetes in a first-degree relative or GDM in a previous pregnancy will be enrolled during gestational weeks 12–18, and randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to: (1) usual care, plus weekly text messages to encourage walking and paper handouts or (2) a personalised nutrition plan developed and delivered by a culturally congruent dietitian and health coach; and FitBit to track steps. The intervention lasts 6–16 weeks, depending on week of recruitment. …”
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DNA high-risk HPV, mRNA HPV and P16 tests for diagnosis of anal cancer and precursor lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context by Ana Cristina Macedo, Antônio José Grande, Tatiana Figueiredo, Tamy Colonetti, João Carlos Gonçalves, Eduardo Testoni, Maria Inês da Rosa

“…Subgroup analysis of MSM with HIV, with 13 studies and 5123 patients, showed similar accuracy, with a bit higher sensitivities and lower specificities. …”
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2023 roadmap for materials for quantum technologies by Christoph Becher, Weibo Gao, Swastik Kar, Christian D Marciniak, Thomas Monz, John G Bartholomew, Philippe Goldner, Huanqian Loh, Elizabeth Marcellina, Kuan Eng Johnson Goh, Teck Seng Koh, Bent Weber, Zhao Mu, Jeng-Yuan Tsai, Qimin Yan, Tobias Huber-Loyola, Sven Höfling, Samuel Gyger, Stephan Steinhauer, Val Zwiller

“…These include both the inherent quantum bit systems and materials playing supportive or enabling roles, and cover trapped ions, neutral atom arrays, rare earth ion systems, donors in silicon, color centers and defects in wide-band gap materials, two-dimensional materials and superconducting materials for single-photon detectors. …”
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Public services, environmental quality and subjective well-being in a European city: the case of Strasbourg metropolitan area by Jean-Alain Heraud, Phu Nguyen-Van, Thi Kim Cuong Pham

“…Nevertheless, the results were a bit upsetting for many people in the administrative and political circles, who generally prioritize economic and demographic development, while the citizens’ responses to the inquiry have revealed a strong focus on the quality of everyday life in their neighborhood. …”
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A combination of two ELISA tests for nasopharyngeal carcinoma screening in endemic areas based on a case-control study by Dongping Rao, Meiqin Fu, Yingjie Chen, Qing Liu, Lin Xiao, Xin Zhang, Zhongxiao Li, Haitao Li, Yongyi He, Yongxing Chen, Jieying Chen, Jin Hu, Yanming Huang

“…The AUC of the combination was a little bit larger than the PROB. There was a slight increase (3.13%) in the sensitivity of the combination compared to the sensitivity of the PROB, while the specificity was lower for the combination (92.50%) than for the PROB (95.94%). …”
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Proposal of Hybrid <italic>N</italic>OAM-MPPM Technique for Gamma-Gamma Turbulence Channel With Pointing Error and Different Deep Learning Techniques by Shimaa A. El-Meadawy, Hossam M. H. Shalaby, Nabil A. Ismail, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, Naglaa F. Soliman, Abeer D. Algarni, Walid El-Shafai, Ahmed E. A. Farghal

“…In addition, approximate-tight upper bounds on the bit-error rates (BERs) of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$N$ </tex-math></inline-formula>OAM and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$N$ </tex-math></inline-formula>OAM-MPPM techniques are developed over <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\Gamma \Gamma }$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-FSO-pointing error channels, considering the influences of beam divergence and pointing error (PE). …”
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COMPARISON OF EFFICACY AND TOLERABILITY OF ORIGINAL AND GENERIC DRUGS OF SIMVASTATIN IN PATIENTS WITH HYPERLIPIDAEMIA AND HIGH RISK OF ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE COMPLICATIONS by S. N. Tolpygina, S. Y. Martsevich

“…Slight increase (in the normal range) of creatine kinaze, alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase levels was observed during both therapies, but a little bit more prominent in Simvahexal one.Conclusion. …”
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Usne u lavi by Una Krizmanić Ožegović, Ondjaki

“…Pola moje sladostrasne propasti, nagovještaja, i na neki način, Gospodine, kunem ti se, spasa. Odjednom, bît ima više smisla u tjelesnosti: tvoja svjetlost čini mi se jednakom, ali jasnijom; tijelo mi se odmara, ali leluja; oblaci su na nebu, ali bliže; vjetar ništa ne govori, ali čujem njegove prijekore. …”
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More Constructions of Light MDS Transforms Based on Known MDS Circulant Matrices by Jin-Bo Wang, You Wu, Yu Zhou

“…By transforming the element multiplication operation in the finite field into the bit-level operation, we propose a multivariable operation definition based on simple operations, such as cyclic shift, shift, and XOR. …”
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A Comparative Experimental Study of MIMO A&F and D&F Relay Nodes Using a Software-Defined Radio Platform by Randy Verdecia-Peña, José I. Alonso

“…Our results show that relay nodes can substantially improve the Bit Error Rate (BER) and throughput in communications between the eNodeB (eNB) and User Equipment (UE). …”
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Biometric and Psychometric Remote Monitoring and Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Ischemic Heart Disease by Chrisandra L. Shufelt, Andy Kim, Sandy Joung, Lili Barsky, Corey Arnold, Susan Cheng, Shivani Dhawan, Garth Fuller, William Speier, Mayra Lopez, Mitra Mastali, Kelly Mouapi, Irene van den Broek, Janet Wei, Brennan Spiegel, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, C. Noel Bairey-Merz

“…Methods and Results In 198 patients with stable ischemic heart disease (mean age 65±11 years, 60% women), we evaluated baseline measures, including biometric (FitBit 2) and psychometric (acquired via smartphone‐administered patient‐reported outcomes) remote monitoring, in the PRE‐MACE (Prediction, Risk, and Evaluation of Major Adverse Cardiac Events) study. …”
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UpWB: An Uncoupled Architecture Design for White-box Cryptography Using Vectorized Montgomery Multiplication by Xiangren Chen, Bohan Yang, Jianfeng Zhu, Jun Liu, Shuying Yin, Guang Yang, Min Zhu, Shaojun Wei, Leibo Liu

“…Specifically, recent studies adopt nested substitution permutation network (NSPN) to construct dedicated white-box block cipher [BIT16], whose performance is limited by a massive number of rounds, nested loop dependency and high-dimension dynamic maximal distance separable (MDS) matrices. …”
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Optimizing Resources and Increasing the Coverage of Internet-of-Things (IoT) Networks: An Approach Based on LoRaWAN by Matheus Araujo Gava, Helder Roberto Oliveira Rocha, Menno Jan Faber, Marcelo Eduardo Vieira Segatto, Heinrich Wörtche, Jair Adriano Lima Silva

“…Parameters such as spread factor (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mi>F</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>), bandwidth and transmission power were adjusted to minimize the network’s total energy per useful bit (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>E</mi><mrow><mi>b</mi><mi>i</mi><mi>t</mi></mrow></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>) and the total data collection time. …”
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A Pilot of Digital Whiteboards for Improving Patient Satisfaction in the Emergency Department: Nonrandomized Controlled Trial by Andrew D A Marshall, Mohammad Adrian Hasdianda, Steven Miyawaki, Guruprasad D Jambaulikar, Chenze Cao, Paul Chen, Christopher W Baugh, Haipeng Zhang, Jonathan McCabe, Lee Steinbach, Scott King, Jason Friedman, Jennifer Su, Adam B Landman, Peter Ray Chai

“…Additionally, 96% (48/50) stated that they preferred a room with a digital whiteboard, and 70% (35/50) found the intervention “quite a bit” or “extremely” helpful in understanding their ED stay. …”
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A Cube Attack on a Reduced-Round Sycon by Minjeong Cho, Hyejin Eom, Erzhena Tcydenova, Changhoon Lee

“…In this paper, we present a cube attack on a 5-round Sycon permutation and a 6-round Sycon permutation with a 320-bit state, whose rate occupies 96 bits, and whose capacity is 224 bits. …”
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CMV and HIV Coinfection in Women from a Region in Eastern Europe by Stela Halichidis, Mariana Aschie, Georgeta Camelia Cozaru, Mihaela Manea, Nicolae Dobrin, Sabina E. Vlad, Elena Matei, Gabriela Izabela Baltatescu, Anca Florentina Mitroi, Mihai Catalin Rosu, Bogdan Florentin Nitu, Ghiulendan Resul, Anca Antonela Nicolau, Ana Maria Cretu, Anca Chisoi

“…ART duration in the CD4 under 200 cells/µL group was a bit longer than that in the CD4 over 200 cells/µL group. …”
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Analysis of the relationship among land surface temperature (LST), land use land cover (LULC), and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) with topographic elements in the lo... by Waheed Ullah, Khalid Ahmad, Siddique Ullah, Adnan Ahmad Tahir, Muhammad Faisal Javed, Abdul Nazir, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Mubashir Aziz, Abdullah Mohamed

“…TIRS collects data for two narrow spectral bands (B10 and B11) with spectral wavelength of 10.6 μm–12.51 μm in the thermal region formerly covered by one wide spectral band (B6) on Landsat 4–7. With 12-bit data products, TIRS data is available in radiometric, geometric, and terrain-corrected file format. …”
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Peatland Development, Vegetation History, Climate Change and Human Activity in the Valdai Uplands (Central European Russia) during the Holocene: A Multi-Proxy Palaeoecological Stud... by Yuri A. Mazei, Andrey N. Tsyganov, Maxim V. Bobrovsky, Natalia G. Mazei, Dmitry A. Kupriyanov, Mariusz Gałka, Dmitry V. Rostanets, Kseniya P. Khazanova, Tamara G. Stoiko, Yulia A. Pastukhova, Yulia A. Fatynina, Alexander A. Komarov, Kirill V. Babeshko, Anastasiya D. Makarova, Damir A. Saldaev, Elya P. Zazovskaya, Maria V. Dobrovolskaya, Alexei V. Tiunov

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