Recurrent urinary tract infections and prophylactic antibiotic use in women: cross-sectional study by Sanyaolu, L, Best, V, Cannings-John, R, Wood, F, Edwards, A, Akbari, A, Hayward, G, Ahmed, H

“…</p> <p><strong>Aim</strong> To describe the prevalence, characteristics, and urine profiles of women with rUTIs with and without prophylactic antibiotic use in Welsh primary care.</p> <p><strong>Design and setting</strong> This was a retrospective cross-sectional study in Welsh general practice using the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank.…”

Investigating surgical site infection after hip fracture surgery by Masters, JPM

“…Finally a randomised controlled feasibility trial was undertaken comparing standard care to incisional negative pressure wound therapy in 464 patients. …”

Food Expenditure of the B40 Households: Developing a Decision-Support System for Food Price Determination in Malaysia (S/O14168) by Jan, Soon Jan, Applanaidu, Shri Dewi, Abdul Adzis, Azira, Zainal Abidin, Norhaslinda

“…Food prices will have serious repercussions on the food expenditure of B40 households, and therefore need to be regulated carefully. Consequently, the food price determination decision-support system we are proposing, is a part of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 component which utilises data for improved decision-making. …”
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Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance by Martínez, Eric

“…First, although GPT-4’s UBE score nears the 90th percentile when examining approximate conversions from February administrations of the Illinois Bar Exam, these estimates are heavily skewed towards repeat test-takers who failed the July administration and score significantly lower than the general test-taking population. …”
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Spectroscopic study of emergent electronic phases in transition metal based compounds by Song, Qian

“…Antiferromagnets with non-relativistic spin splitting are outstanding candidates as the next generation of spintronic materials owing to their electron-volt (eV) scale spin splitting, ultrafast spin dynamics and nearly vanishing stray fields. Achieving voltage-based control of spin polarization in antiferromagnets is of great interest for realizing energy-efficient and compact devices for information storage and processing. …”
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Engineering memristor : control over the fourth fundamental element for memory application and beyond by Ge, Ning

“…However, it was only a theory for nearly thirty years until the first paper published by HP Labs by the Stanley Williams group in Nature on May 1st, 2008. …”
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The durability properties of high volume oil palm biomass waste mortar by Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah

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Exploring the freshwater cladocera (Pleuroxus spp.) as new potential live feed in aquaculture by Amirah Yuslan, Hidayu Suhaimi, Nizalmie Azani, Wong, Wey-Lim, Nadiah W. Rasdi

“…In freshwater lakes, cladocera play a crucial role in the food chain, as they are the primary source of nutrition for nearly all aquatic species. Pleuroxus spp. are very suitable for aquaculture due to their ease of handling, rapid growth, non-selective filter feeder, high nutritional value, and remarkable ability to adapt to many environmental conditions. …”
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Exploring the trait plasticity of ipa1-2d and qpl6 under different nitrogen treatments and heading periods by Zhuang, Wenshu, Jin, Guangyang, Zou, Yiting, Bian, Zhong, Xie, Dong, Zhang, Shuwei, Yeilaghi, Hadi, Yu, Liangliang, Wong, Muiyun, Fan, Xiaolei, Zhao, Dongsheng, Liu, Qiaoquan, Zhang, Lin

“…QTL analysis could elaborate on the environmental impact on trait plasticity using nearly isogenic lines (NILs) of different QTLs. Two QTLs, ipa1-2D and qPL6 are identified to have pleio-tropic contributions to panicle size and plant architecture, but their responses to different growth conditions are still unclear. …”
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Efficient and Homogenous Precipitation of Sulfur Within a 3D Electrospun Heterocatalytic Rutile/Anatase TiO2-x Framework in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries by Feng, Ping, Dong, Kang, Xu, Yaolin, Zhang, Xia, Jia, Haojun, Prell, Henrik, Tovar, Michael, Manke, Ingo, Liu, Fuyao, Xiang, Hengxue, Zhu, Meifang, Lu, Yan

“…Herein, free-standing carbon nanofibers embedded with oxygen-deficient titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2-x/CNFs) has been fabricated by a facile electrospinning method, which can support active electrode materials without the need for conductive carbon and binders. By carefully controlling the calcination temperature, a mixed phase of rutile and anatase was achieved in the TiO2-x nanoparticles. …”
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Antibiotic therapy in the treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia: who and when? by Ng, Tat Ming, Ong, Sean W. X., Loo, Audrey Y. X., Tan, Sock Hoon, Tay, Hui Lin, Yap, Min Yi, Lye, David C., Lee, Tau Hong, Young, Barnaby Edward

“…Among 278 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, those treated with antibiotics had more diarrhoea (26, 34.7% vs. 24, 11.8%, p < 0.01), while subsequent admissions to the intensive care unit were not lower (6, 8.0% vs. 10, 4.9% p = 0.384). …”
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Proteomic network of antibiotic-induced outer membrane vesicles released by extensively drug-resistant Elizabethkingia anophelis by Chiang, Ming-Hsien, Chang, Fang-Ju, Kesavan, Dinesh Kumar, Vasudevan, Aparna, Xu, Huaxi, Lan, Kuo-Lun, Huang, Shu-Wei, Shang, Hung-Sheng, Chuang, Yi-Ping, Yang, Ya-Sung, Chen, Te-Li

“…Elizabethkingia anophelis, a nonfermenting Gram-negative bacterium, causes life-threatening health care-associated infections. E. anophelis harbors multidrug resistance (MDR) genes and is intrinsically resistant to various classes of antibiotics. …”
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Dynamic fracture mechanics of FRP-concrete interface by Li, Gen

“…The model was applied in finite element analysis (FEA) of various dynamic tests with FRP-concrete interface bond, e.g. single-lap shear tests, three-point bending tests, FRP strengthened RC beams subjected to dynamic loading and an FRP strengthened RC wall under blast load. …”
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Engineered terahertz emission from spintronic heterostructures: amplitude, phase and chirality by Agarwal, Piyush

“…To summarize, the thesis aims to contribute to the synergies of spintronics and photonics for advanced applications in developing scalable devices bearing low-cost fabrication with on-chip compatibility.…”
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Amino-functionalised β-diketiminate ligands (N-nacnacs): Synthesis and coordination chemistry with Main Group elements by Huan, D

“…The establishment of a library of germylenes and stannylenes bearing different N-bound aromatic substituents with varying degrees of steric bulk allows for a systematic study of the steric effects of the flanking aryl groups on the overall molecular metrics of these complexes. …”

Review and empirical analysis of machine learning-based software effort estimation by Rahman, Mizanur, Sarwar, Hasan, Abdul Kader, Md, Goncalves, Teresa C.F., Ting, Tin Tin

“…The evaluation was carried out on seven benchmark datasets: Albrecht, Desharnais, China, Kemerer, Mayazaki94, Maxwell, and COCOMO, which are publicly available and extensively used in SEE research. By carefully reviewing study quality, analyzing results across the literature, and rigorously evaluating experimental outcomes, clear conclusions were drawn about the most promising techniques for achieving state-of-the-art accuracy in estimating software effort. …”
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Uncertainty & robustness for single-cell studies by Shiffman, Miriam

“…To distill relevant signal from biological phenomena, then, analyses must combine information in a careful and coherent way across cells. In light of these complexities, it is prudent that single-cell analyses incorporate notions of uncertainty and robustness to guide their interpretation and inform future decision making. …”
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Influence of water content and anisotropy on the strength and deformability of low porosity meta-sedimentary rocks under triaxial compression by Li, Diyuan, Wong, Louis Ngai Yuen, Liu, Gang, Zhang, Xiao-Ping

“…Before conducting the triaxial tests, the physical properties of meta-siltstone and meta-sandstone specimens have been carefully examined. The water contents of both tested rocks are very low, for instance, 0.17% for meta-siltstone and 0.10% for meta-sandstone. …”
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Production of ammonia feedstock by novel solid oxide electrolysis cell by Haziq Mahmud

“…The wet air co-electrolysis behaviours of the cells were examined carefully under various operation conditions. More importantly, a novel SOEC operation mode was investigated in order to enhance the wet air co-electrolysis reaction at the fuel electrode. …”
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Speeding up deep neural network training with decoupled and analytic learning by Zhuang, Huiping

“…The BRMP not only reduces the memory consumption while keeping its high training efficiency, but also takes care of the potential rank-deficient matrix inversion issue during the analytic learning.…”
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