Factors associated with retention in HIV care at Sediba Hope Medical Centre by Nishana Ramdas, Johanna C. Meyer, David Cameron

“…Factors contributing to high rates of retention in care were: location of the clinic in the inner city, thus in close proximity to patients’ homes or work; clinic operating on Saturdays, which was convenient for patients who could not attend during the week; an appointment/booking system that was in place and strictly adhered to; a reminder SMS being sent out the day before an appointment; individual counselling sessions at each visit and referrals where necessary; and a stable staff complement and support group at the clinic. …”
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Study Regarding The Evaluation Of Certain Factors Involved In The Production Of Dento-Periodontal Traumatisms At Children, Teenagers And Young People by Raluca Dragomir

“…Applying the t-student test and representing the distribution of patients according to the day of the week in which the trauma was produced, we see that there was a maximum of trauma on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, with a minimum Tuesdays and Fridays. In terms of the distribution of patients according to the time of the trauma was produced a high incidence was observed between 12.00 and 14.00. …”
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Physiotherapy-supervised mobilization and exercise following cardiac surgery: a national questionnaire survey in Sweden by Westerdahl Elisabeth, Möller Margareta

“…During weekends, physiotherapy was given to a lesser degree (59% on Saturdays and 31% on Sundays to patients on postoperative day 1). …”
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Effects of supplementation frequency on the ruminal fermentation and enteric methane production of beef cattle grazing in tropical pastures by Roberta Carrilho Canesin, Telma Teresinha Berchielli, Juliana Duarte Messana, Fernando Baldi, Alexandre Vaz Pires, Rosa Toyoko Shiraishi Frighetto, Giovani Fiorentini, Ricardo Andrade Reis

“…The treatments included supplementation once daily, supplementation once daily except Saturdays and Sundays, or supplementation on alternate days. …”
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Energy intake and sources of energy intake in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. by Ocké, M, Larrañaga, N, Grioni, S, van den Berg, S, Ferrari, P, Salvini, S, Benetou, V, Linseisen, J, Wirfält, E, Rinaldi, S, Jenab, M, Halkjaer, J, Jakobsen, M, Niravong, M, Clavel-Chapelon, F, Kaaks, R, Bergmann, M, Moutsiou, E, Trichopoulou, A, Lauria, C, Sacerdote, C, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H, Peeters, P, Hjartåker, A, Parr, C

“…In many centres, the highest mean energy intakes were observed on Saturdays. CONCLUSIONS: These data highlight and quantify the variations and similarities in energy intake and sources of energy intake among 10 European countries. …”

'Are you on the market?': a capture-recapture enumeration of men who sell sex to men in and around Mombasa, Kenya. by Geibel, S, van der Elst, E, King'ola, N, Luchters, S, Davies, A, Getambu, E, Peshu, N, Graham, S, McClelland, R, Sanders, E

“…We captured men on two consecutive Saturdays, 1 week apart. A record was kept of when, where and by whom the invitation was extended and received, and of refusals. …”

Technical Loss Calculation in Distribution Grids Using Equivalent Minimum Order Networks and an Iterative Power Factor Correction Procedure by Carlos Eduardo Moreira Rodrigues, Maria Emilia de Lima Tostes, Ubiratan Holanda Bezerra, Thiago Mota Soares, Edson Ortiz de Matos, Lázaro Serra Soares Filho, Elaine Cristina dos Santos Silva, Michel Ferreira Rendeiro, Carlos Jeferson da Silva Moura

“…The losses calculation also considers customer’s energy billing measurement data, measurements of injected energy and power factor at the feeder’s coupling bus at the substation, also considering measurement campaigns to characterize the load consumption profiles for working days, Saturdays and Sundays. The proposed methodology disaggregates energy injections in billed energy, technical and non-technical losses parcels, and presents, as the results have demonstrated, a good precision in the proposed calculation procedures.…”
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Factors Associated with Road Traffic Accidents in Kathmandu, Nepal: A Cross-Sectional Study by Rajesh Karki, Bhawana Pudashaini, Sanjaya Kumar Shah

“…Students (36.8%) experienced the highest accident rates, with most incidents (21.1%) occurring on Saturdays and 38.4% taking place between 12:00pm and 6:00pm. …”
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Epidemiology and management of 10,486 pediatric fractures in Shenzhen: experience and lessons to be learnt by Xin Qiu, Hansheng Deng, Qiru Su, Shuaidan Zeng, Shuai Han, Shicheng Li, Zhiwen Cui, Tianfeng Zhu, Gen Tang, Zhu Xiong, Shengping Tang

“…Fractures predominantly occurred between July and November (4664 cases, 48.87%) and on Saturdays and Sundays (3172 cases, 33.24%). The highest number of hospital visits occurred between 20:00 and 00:00 (4339 cases, 45.46%). …”
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An Artificial Neural Network for Movement Pattern Analysis to Estimate Blood Alcohol Content Level by Pedram Gharani, Brian Suffoletto, Tammy Chung, Hassan A. Karimi

“…During four consecutive Fridays and Saturdays, every hour from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m., they were prompted to use the app to report alcohol consumption and complete a 5-step straight-line walking task, during which 3-axis acceleration and angular velocity data was sampled at a frequency of 100 Hz. …”
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Epidemiological pattern of rape cases managed at a regional hospital in South Africa by Chika K. Egenasi, Mathew A. Benedict, Anthonio O. Adefuye, Lynda U. Madu

“…Most of the incidents occurred at the perpetrators’ homes (42.7%); on the days Fridays (14.6%), Saturdays (29.9%) and Sundays (23.2%); at night up to midnight 20:00–23:59 (32.9%) (p = 0.01) and involved threats of violence (55.5%). …”
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Protein and Calorie Intake Patterns by Hebron University Students by Sabri SAGHIR, Jamal Abo OMAR

“…The consumption of all nutrients concerned was higher in Fridays compared to the consumption in Saturdays and Mondays. However, this increase in consumption is not statistically significant. …”
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Analysis of the effects of COVID-19 restriction policies on drinking water consumption by smart water network data filtering by Stefania Evangelista, Mariantonia Nardi, Roberta Padulano, Cristiana Di Cristo, Giuseppe Del Giudice

“…The second step consisted of the comparison of the same meters in two consecutive years considering the daily and weekly average hourly patterns, the average daily patterns of midweek days, Saturdays, and Sundays, respectively, and the total daily volumes. …”
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Classification of Behavior Profiles for Non-Residential Customers Considering the Variable of Electrical Energy Consumption: Case Study—SAESA Group S.A. Company by Luis García-Santander, Jerson San Martín-Ayala, Fernando Ulloa-Vásquez, Dante Carrizo, Vladimir Esparza, Jaime Rohten, Carlos Mejias

“…To achieve the characterization and classification of the consumption profiles, three typical days are analyzed and determined, which correspond to working days (Monday to Friday), Saturdays, and Sundays or holidays. These three typical days are analyzed for each trimester of 2019. …”
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A Deep Learning Approach for Short-Term Electricity Demand Forecasting: Analysis of Thailand Data by Ranju Kumari Shiwakoti, Chalie Charoenlarpnopparut, Kamal Chapagain

“…Scenario 3 uses data from non-working days (Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays). The models underwent training and testing across a wide range of alternative hyperparameters to determine the optimal configuration. …”
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Air Pollution Observations in Selected Locations in Poland during the Lockdown Related to COVID-19 by Mariusz Rogulski, Artur Badyda

“…The analysis showed that the period of the first lockdown in Poland (April 2020), despite the reduced road traffic, resulted in a significant increase in PM₁₀ emissions (9–91% during working days and an average of 30% on Saturdays and Sundays), a slight increase in PM_2.5 emissions (on average from 2% to 11% for all analyzed locations), and a reduction in NO₂ emissions (on average from 6% to 11% for all analyzed locations) compared to the period before the lockdown. …”
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Epidemiological trend of suicide in north of Iran from 2011 to 2018 with a focus on joinpoint regression by Sharareh Zabihi afroozi, Soraya Khafri, Aliasghar Manouchehri, Mahasti Emami, Hajar Alizadeh, Sussan Moudi, Sara Khaleghi

“…Results: The highest percentage of suicides occurred in summer (27.8%), on Saturdays (13%) and at night (53%). A total of 1.9% of the cases were commit suicides (leading to death). …”
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Mortality risks associated with emergency admissions during weekends and public holidays: electronic health records study by Walker, A, Mason, A, Quan, T, Fawcett, N, Watkinson, P, Llewelyn, M, Stoesser, N, Finney, J, Davies, J, Wyllie, D, Crook, D, Peto, T

“…Adjusting for patient-level factors not available in our study could further reduce the residual excess mortality, which clustered around midday on Saturday/Sunday. Hospital workload was not associated with mortality. …”

UK endoscopy workload and workforce patterns: is there potential to increase capacity? A BSG analysis of the National Endoscopy Database by Beaton, D, Sharp, L, Trudgill, NJ, Thoufeeq, M, Nicholson, BD, Rogers, P, Docherty, J, Penman, ID, Rutter, M

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong>&nbsp;1&thinsp;639&thinsp;640 procedures were analysed (oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) 693 663, colonoscopy 586 464, flexible sigmoidoscopy 335 439 and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography 23 074) from 407 sites by 4990 endoscopists. 89% of procedures were performed in NHS sites. 17% took place each weekday, 10% on Saturdays and 6% on Sundays. Training procedures accounted for 6% of total activity, over 99% of which took place in NHS sites. …”

Analysis of municipal solid waste generation and composition at administrative building cafe in Universiti Putra Malaysia: a case study by Abdul Hamid, Khairul Bariyah, Ishak, Mohd Yusoff, Abu Samah, Mohd Armi

“…Solid waste samples were collected every day except for Saturdays and Sundays over a three-week period and were sorted and classified into several weighed compositions such as food waste, plastic, paper, aluminium cans, glass, metal, textiles, wood, and more. …”
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