Nervous system cancer : analysis of historical mortality rates in the United States and Japan indicate sudden increases in environmental risk by Alhassani, Ali K

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Celebrating successful earthquake risk reduction through counterfactual probabilistic analysis by Rabonza, Maricar, Lin, Yolanda, Lallemant, David

“…Ultimately, this study demonstrates the use of counterfactual probabilistic risk analysis as a method for assessing probabilistic benefits of disaster risk reduction actions, so that they may be celebrated. …”
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Occurrence and removal of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in domestic wastewater / Zummy Dahria Mohamed Basri by Mohamed Basri, Zummy Dahria

“…In this study, the risk analysis of human health shown by DALY indicates that human exposure to the threat of diseases caused by ARB for antibiotic resistant levels of E. coli, Salmonella spp. and Shigella spp. were 7.92 x 10-3, 4.6 x 10- 3 and 1.6 x 10-4, respectively, the values are higher than the permissible limit set by the World Health Organization. …”
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Outcomes of minimally invasive isolated tricuspid valve repair and replacement through right mini-thoracotomyCentral MessagePerspective by Ahmed Alnajar, MD, MSPH, Subhasis Chatterjee, MD, Jacqueline K. Olive, MD, Mahmut S. Kaymakci, MD, Lauren Gray, MD, Zachary Gray, PA, Joao R. Breda, MD, Joseph Lamelas, MD

“…We examined in-hospital outcomes, survival analysis over a 4-year period, and competing risk analysis for reoperative surgery. Results: Among a total of 51 patients, the average age was 60 ± 16 years, and 67% (n = 34) were female. …”
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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Compact Polarimetry for Soil Moisture Retrieval by Amine Merzouki, Heather McNairn, Jarrett Powers, Matthew Friesen

“…Soil moisture is a factor for risk analysis in the agricultural sector, yet access to temporally and spatially detailed data is challenging for much of the world’s agricultural extend. …”
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Cohort profile for development of machine learning models to predict healthcare-related adverse events (Demeter): clinical objectives, data requirements for modelling and overview... by Caroline Landelle, Ursula von Schenck, Jean-Luc Bosson, Christophe Cancé, Svetlana Artemova, Rui Fa, Daniel Stoessel, Hadiseh Nowparast Rostami, Pierre-Ephrem Madiot, Jean-Marie Januel, Daniel Pagonis, Meghann Gallouche, Frederic Olive, Alexandre Moreau-Gaudry, Sigurd Prieur

“…Electronic health data facilitates the application of machine-learning methods for risk analysis. We aim, first to reveal correlations between HAE occurrence and patients’ characteristics and/or the procedures they undergo during their hospitalisation, and second, to build models that allow the early identification of patients at an elevated risk of HAE.Participants 143 865 adult patients hospitalised at Grenoble Alpes University Hospital (France) between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2018.Findings to date In this set-up phase of the project, we describe the preconditions for big data analysis using machine-learning methods. …”
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Stochastic Bayesian Runge-Kutta method for dengue dynamic mapping by Mukhsar, Gusti Ngurah Adhi Wibawa, Andi Tenriawaru, Ida Usman, Muhammad Zamrun Firihu, Viska Inda Variani, Andi Besse Firdausiah Mansur, Ahmad Hoirul Basori

“…Therefore, this approach is the best one. The relative risk analysis shows that the dynamics of DHF cases fluctuate from January to July every year. …”
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Principles and key technologies for the large-scale ecological utilization of coal gangue by Zhenqi HU, Yanling ZHAO, Zhen MAO

“…The key of ecological utilization is the contamination risk analysis of gangue material screening, the necessity and feasibility analysis of ground filling site selection, and environmental protection measures during the whole filling process, including safety and environmental protection measures such as anti-seepage barrier at the bottom of the site before filling, layered filling technology and soil profile reconstruction technology for fire prevention and acid control in filling, erosion control and vegetation restoration after filling. …”
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Copper deficiency is an independent risk factor for mortality in patients with advanced liver disease by Lei Yu, Sarim Yousuf, Shahrukh Yousuf, Jeffrey Yeh, Scott W. Biggins, Chihiro Morishima, Irene Shyu, Galen O’Shea-Stone, Brian Eilers, Annie Waldum, Valérie Copié, Jason Burkhead

“…Cause-specific competing risk analysis showed that copper deficiency was associated with a significantly higher risk of death before transplantation after adjusting for age, sex, MELD-Na, and Karnofsky score (HR: 3.40, 95% CI, 1.18–9.82, p=0.023). …”
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Evaluation of the Safety of Neauvia Stimulate Injectable Product in Patients with Autoimmune Thyroid Diseases Based on Histopathological Examinations and Retrospective Analysis of... by Paweł Kubik, Daniela Gallo, Maria Laura Tanda, Jerzy Jankau, Raffaele Rauso, Wojciech Gruszczyński, Aleksandra Pawłowska, Paweł Chrapczyński, Maciej Malinowski, Dariusz Grzanka, Marta Smolińska, Paulina Antosik, Maria-Luiza Piesiaków, Bartłomiej Łukasik, Agnieszka Pawłowska-Kubik, Giorgio Stabile, Stefania Guida, Łukasz Kodłubański, Tom Decates, Nicola Zerbinati

“…All this corresponds with the risk analysis that showed no alarming symptoms during the time of observation. …”
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Multiple Klebsiella pneumoniae KPC Clones Contribute to an Extended Hospital Outbreak by Carolina Ferrari, Marta Corbella, Marta Corbella, Stefano Gaiarsa, Francesco Comandatore, Francesco Comandatore, Erika Scaltriti, Claudio Bandi, Claudio Bandi, Patrizia Cambieri, Piero Marone, Davide Sassera

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Seroepidemiology of Herpes Simplex Viruses Type 1 and 2 in Pregnant Women in Croatia by Tatjana Vilibic-Cavlek, Marko Belamaric, Thomas Ferenc, Dan Navolan, Branko Kolaric, Ljiljana Milasincic, Ljiljana Antolasic, Mateja Vujica Ferenc, Maja Vilibic, Adriana Lukunic, Maja Bogdanic

“…Older age was found to be a significant risk factor for HSV-2 seropositivity in both univariate and multivariate risk analysis. <i>Conclusions</i>: HSV-1 infection is widely prevalent among pregnant women with a stable trend over time. …”
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Risk of seizures in a population of women with BRCA-positive metastatic breast cancer from an electronic health record database in the United States by Alexander Liede, Wendy Sebby, Ashok Kumar Reddy Miriyala, Ravi Potluri, Debasish Mazumder, Anirban Ghosh, Eros Papademetriou, Ryan Kilpatrick, Jerzy E. Tyczynski

“…With HER2−/HR+ as the reference group in a competing risk analysis, TNBC (hazard ratio, HR = 1.35; 95%CI: 1.21, 1.52; p < 0.001) and HER2+/HR- (HR = 1.29; 95%CI: 1.07, 1.56; p < 0.01) patients had a greater risk of seizures. …”
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Single-preparation rGO/Cu–Cu2O nanocomposite-modified electrode integrating NaOH immobilized polymer blend film for one-step nonenzymatic glucose detection by Pattarachaya Preechakasedkit, Nithiwach Nawaukkaratharnant, Kanyapat Teekayupak, Atchara Lomae, Nipapan Ruecha

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Cause and Effect Analysis between Influencing Factors Related to Environmental Conditions, Hunting and Handling Practices and the Initial Microbial Load of Game Carcasses by Birsen Korkmaz, Denny Maaz, Felix Reich, Carl Gremse, Annina Haase, Rafael H. Mateus-Vargas, Anneluise Mader, Ingo Rottenberger, Helmut A. Schafft, Niels Bandick, Karsten Nöckler, Thomas Alter, Monika Lahrssen-Wiederholt, Julia Steinhoff-Wagner

“…Eviscerated roe deer body cavities (<i>n</i> = 24) were investigated in terms of total viable count and the levels of <i>Pseudomonas</i> spp., <i>Lactobacillus</i> spp., <i>Enterobacteriaceae</i> and <i>Escherichia coli</i> (<i>E. coli</i>). Furthermore, a risk analysis based on the obtained original IML data, literature search and a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) was performed. …”
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Dosimetric Predictors of Toxicity after Prostate Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy: A Single-Institutional Experience of 145 Patients by Kyohei Fujii, Masahiro Nakano, Shogo Kawakami, Yuichi Tanaka, Takuro Kainuma, Hideyasu Tsumura, Ken-ichi Tabata, Takefumi Satoh, Masatsugu Iwamura, Hiromichi Ishiyama

“…Radiotherapy-related risk factors such as dose-volume histogram parameters and patient-related risk factors such as T stage and Gleason score were evaluated in a competing risk analysis. Median follow-up duration was 42.9 months. …”
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Patterns of Treatment and Outcomes in Older Men With Penile Cancer: A SEER Dataset Analysis by Maria T. Bourlon, Haydee Verduzco-Aguirre, Elizabeth Molina, Elisabeth Meyer, Elizabeth Kessler, Simon P. Kim, Philippe E. Spiess, Thomas Flaig

“…To study survival, we calculated Kaplan-Meier survival curves, but due to the high number of competing events, we also performed a univariate competing risk analysis using the cumulative incidence function, and a multivariate analysis using the Fine-Gray method. …”
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Bayesian Estimation of the Prevalence and Test Characteristics (Sensitivity and Specificity) of Two Serological Tests (RB and SAT-EDTA) for the Diagnosis of Bovine Brucellosis in S... by Valeria Paucar, Jorge Ron-Román, Washington Benítez-Ortiz, Maritza Celi, Dirk Berkvens, Claude Saegerman, Lenin Ron-Garrido

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Outcome of surgical repair of anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery in a single-center experience by Juemin Yu, Qiushi Ren, Tianyu Chen, Hailong Qiu, Shusheng Wen, Jian Zhuang, Xiaobing Liu

“…The median postoperative recovery time of left ventricular function (LVF) was 10 days (1 to 692 days). Competing risk analysis revealed that a low preoperative LVEF (hazard ratio = 1.067, p < 0.001) and age younger than 1 year (hazard ratio = 0.522, p = 0.007) were risk factors for a longer postoperative recovery time of LVF. …”
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Detection of Two Species of the Genus Parapoxvirus (Bovine Papular Stomatitis Virus and Pseudocowpox Virus) in Ticks Infesting Cattle in Burkina Faso by Achille Ouedraogo, Léa Luciani, Olivier Zannou, Abel Biguezoton, Laura Pezzi, Laurence Thirion, Adrien Belem, Claude Saegerman, Rémi Charrel, Laetitia Lempereur

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