Gametocyte carriage in uncomplicated plasmodium falciparum malaria following treatment with artemisinin combination therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data by Abdulla, S, Achan, J, Yeka, A, D'Alessandro, U, Adam, I, Alemayehu, B, Allan, R, Temu, E, Allen, E, Barnes, K, Anvikar, A, Valecha, N, Arinaitwe, E, Ashley, E, Carrara, V, McGready, R, Nosten, F, Lee, S, White, N, Asih, P, Awab, G, Dondorp, A, Fanello, C, Woodrow, C, Dahal, P, Guerin, P, Humphreys, G, Moreira, C, Nsanzabana, C, Price, R, Sibley, C, Stepniewska, K, Bassat, Q, Gonzalez, R, Baudin, E, Checchi, F, Espie, E, Grandesso, F, Nabasumba, C, Schramm, B, Björkman, A, Bompart, F, Lameyre, V, Bonnet, M, Borrmann, S, Bousema, T, Cenci, F, Cot, M, Faucher, J, Kapulu, M, Marsh, K, Mayxay, M, Newton, P, Roper, C, Deloron, P, Djimde, A, Fofana, B, Doumbo, O, Sagara, I, Dorsey, G, Rosenthal, P, Drakeley, C

“…An individual patient clinical data meta-analysis was undertaken to identify the determinants of gametocyte carriage and the comparative effects of four ACTs: artemether-lumefantrine (AL), artesunate/amodiaquine (AS-AQ), artesunate/mefloquine (AS-MQ), and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP).…”

Do dual-mobility cups reduce revision risk in femoral neck fractures compared with conventional tha designs? An international meta-analysis of arthroplasty registries by Farey, JE, Masters, J, Cuthbert, AR, Iversen, P, van Steenbergen, LN, Prentice, HA, Adie, S, Sayers, A, Whitehouse, MR, Paxton, EW, Costa, ML, Overgaard, S, Rogmark, C, Rolfson, O, Harris, IA

“…To determine a global hazard ratio of all-cause revision for dual-mobility compared with conventional THA designs, we used a pseudoindividual patient data approach to pool Kaplan-Meier prosthesis revision data from each registry and perform a meta-analysis. The pseudoindividual patient data approach is a validated technique for meta-analysis of aggregate time-to-event survival data, such as revision surgery, from multiple sources. …”

Comparison of diagnostic performance and inter-reader agreement between PI-RADS v2.1 and PI-RADS v2: systematic review and meta-analysis by Lee, Chau Hung, Vellayappan, Balamurugan, Tan, Cher Heng

“…To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing diagnostic performance and inter reader agreement between PI-RADS v. 2.1 and PI-RADS v. 2 in the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa).…”
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Comparative effectiveness of manual therapy, pharmacological treatment, exercise therapy, and education for neck pain (COMPETE study): protocol of a systematic review with network meta-analysis by de Oliveira-Souza, AIS, Barbosa-Silva, J, Gross, DP, da Costa, BR, Ballenberger, N, Pereira, TV, Dennett, L, Armijo-Olivo, S

“…The overall purpose of the study: (1) To identify which type of conservative treatment (education, ET, MT, and/or medication) and their combinations have the greatest probability of being most effective for neck pain using a network meta-analysis (NMA) approach. (2) To rank these conservative treatments in terms of safety (when possible) and effectiveness for managing neck pain. …”

Changes in cardiorespiratory fitness following exercise training prescribed relative to traditional intensity anchors and physiological thresholds: a systematic review with meta-analysis of individual participant data by Meyler, Samuel J. R., Swinton, Paul A., Bottoms, Lindsay, Dalleck, Lance C., Hunter, Ben, Sarzynski, Mark A., Wellsted, David, Williams, Camilla J., Muniz-Pumares, Daniel

“…Objectives The present meta-analysis sought to compare: (a) mean change in O2max, (b) proportion of individuals increasing O2max beyond a minimum important difference (MID) and (c) response variability in O2max between TRAD and THR. …”
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Pregnant women admitted to hospital with covid-19 in 10 European countries: individual patient data meta-analysis of population based cohorts in International Obstetric Survey Systems by Engjom, HM, de Bruin, O, Ramakrishnan, R, Aabakke, AJM, Äyräs, O, Deneux-Tharaux, C, Donati, S, Knight, M, Jonasdottir, E, Svanvik, T, Vercoutere, A, Vousden, N, Bleomenkamp, KWM

“…</p> <p><strong>Design</strong> Individual patient data meta-analysis of population based cohorts in International Obstetric Survey Systems.…”

Time to HIV viral rebound and frequency of post-treatment control after analytical interruption of antiretroviral therapy: an individual data-based meta-analysis of 24 prospective studies by Gunst, JD, Gohil, J, Li, JZ, Bosch, RJ, White, Catherine Seamon, A, Chun, T, Mothe, B, Gittens, K, Praiss, L, De Scheerder, M, Vandekerckhove, L, Escandón, K, Thorkelson, A, Schacker, T, SenGupta, D, Brander, C, Papasavvas, E, Montaner, LJ, Martinez-Picado, J, Calin, R, Castagna, A, Muccini, C, de Jong, W, Leal, L, Tipoe, T, Frater, J

“…To understand viral dynamics and rates of post-treatment control (PTC) after ATI among PWH receiving either placebo or no intervention, we undertook an individual-participant data meta-analysis. In total, 24 eligible prospective studies with 382 individuals with ≥5 plasma HIV RNA viral loads (pVLs) within the first 84 days post-ATI were included. …”

Wholesale central bank digital currencies: approaches, implementation strategies and use cases by Bear, K, Vertex, P, Zhang, B, Hussain, H, Coelho, H

Features of digital media which influence social interactions between adults and children aged 2–7 years during joint media engagement: a multi-level meta-analysis by Mathers, SJ, Kolancali, P, Jelley, F, Singh, D, Hodgkiss, A, Booton, SA, Malmberg, L, Murphy, VA

“…We used robust variance estimation to conduct multilevel meta-analyses of 15 experimental studies (n = 627 parent–child pairs; k = 190 effects). …”

The development of volcanic ash cloud layers over hours to days due to atmospheric turbulence layering by Bursik, Marcus, Yang, Qingyuan, Bear-Crozier, Adele, Pavolonis, Michael, Tupper, Andrew

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霸凌小说的翻译研究 —— 以 Thirteen Reasons Why 和《汉娜的遗言》为例来探讨译本如何再现原著的主题思想 = A translation study on novels about bullying – using Thirteen Reasons Why and its Taiwan version to explore how the theme of the novel had been translated by 陈珏琳 Tan, Jaddie Jue Lin

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Assessment of fluid responsiveness using pulse pressure variation, stroke volume variation, plethysmographic variability index, central venous pressure, and inferior vena cava variation in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chaves, Renato C. F., Barbas, Carmen S. V., Queiroz, Veronica N. F., Serpa Neto, Ary, Deliberato, Rodrigo O., Pereira, Adriano J., Timenetsky, Karina T., Silva Júnior, João M., Takaoka, Flávio, de Backer, Daniel, Celi, Leo A., Corrêa, Thiago D.

“…A traditional and a Bayesian meta-analysis approach were performed. Results A total of 69 studies, encompassing 3185 fluid challenges and 2711 patients were analyzed. …”
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Community responses to a novel house design: A qualitative study of “Star Homes” in Mtwara, southeastern Tanzania by Mshamu, S, Meta, J, Adhikari, B, Halifa, S, Mmbando, A, Wood, HS, Wood, OS, Bøjstrup, TC, Day, NPJ, Lindsay, SW, Knudsen, J, Deen, J, Seidlein, LV, Pell, C

Arabidopsis RCD1 coordinates chloroplast and mitochondrial functions through interaction with ANAC transcription factors by Shapiguzov, Alexey, Fernie, Alisdair R., Vainonen, Julia P., Hunter, Kerri, Tossavainen, Helena, Tiwari, Arjun, Järvi, Sari, Hellman, Maarit, Aarabi, Fayezeh, Alseekh, Saleh, Wybouw, Brecht, Van Der Kelen, Katrien, Nikkanen, Lauri, Krasensky-Wrzaczek, Julia, Sipari, Nina, Keinänen, Markku, Tyystjärvi, Esa, Rintamäki, Eevi, De Rybel, Bert, Salojärvi, Jarkko, Van Breusegem, Frank, Brosché, Mikael, Permi, Perttu, Aro, Eva-Mari, Wrzaczek, Michael, Kangasjärvi, Jaakko

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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The principle requires those responsible for environmental damage or imminent threats of damage to bear the necessary costs of remediation and prevention. …”
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AI based stock market trending analysis by Goon, Redmond Aldric Yonghao

“…The evaluation of the final model-comprising BERT and a multivariate LSTM- shows a small improvement in evaluation results for stock price forecasting when incorporating news sentiment acquired through BERT as compared to without sentiments.…”
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Generalized AutoNLP model for name entity recognition task by Wong, Yung Shen

“…After the remarkable achievement obtained by the introduction of BERT in various NLP related tasks, studies had been more focused on deep-learning based approach to represent the raw input sequence of string words. …”
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Lightweight transformers for clinical natural language processing by Rohanian, O, Nouriborji, M, Jauncey, H, Kouchaki, S, Nooralahzadeh, F, Clifton, L, Merson, L, Clifton, DA

“…Specialised pre-trained language models are becoming more frequent in Natural language Processing (NLP) since they can potentially outperform models trained on generic texts. BioBERT (Sanh et al., Distilbert, a distilled version of bert: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter. …”

Keyword and named entity recognition on emergency call texts by Hu, Wanyu

“…This report summarizes the work that has been done in the Final Year Project on the topic Keyword and Named Entity Recognition on Emergency Call Texts. …”
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Topological data analysis for fake news detection by Deng, Ran

“…For this task, three individual models have been used: least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) using 0th Dimensional Persistent Image (PI) vectors, Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM), and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). …”
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