Improving antibiotic utilization in West Africa: enhancing interventions through systematic review and evidence synthesis by Donkor, ES, Osman, A, Aglomasa, BC, Awere-Duodu, A, Odoom, A, Opoku-Asare, B, Lazarus, G

“…Data were extracted from eligible papers for all the five domains under consideration and random-effects model meta-analysis was carried out for antibiotic consumption. …”

A systematic analysis of the contribution of genetics to multimorbidity and comparisons with primary care data by Murrin, O, Mounier, N, Voller, B, Tata, L, Gallego-Moll, C, Roso-Llorach, A, Carrasco-Ribelles, LA, Fox, C, Allan, LM, Woodward, RM, Liang, X, Valderas, JM, Khalid, S, Dudbridge, F, Lamb, SE, Mancini, M, Farmer, L, Boddy, K, Bowden, J, Melzer, D, Frayling, TM, Masoli, JAH, Pilling, LC, Violán, C, Delgado, J

“…Linkage disequilibrium score regression was used to estimate genetic similarity between pairs of conditions. Meta-analyses were conducted across databases, and up to three sources of genetic data, for each pair of conditions. …”

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

“…Data were extracted and meta-analysed. Secondly, administrative data were explored to look at the incidence of SSI after hip fracture. …”

Non-contact actuated snap-through buckling of a pre-buckled bistable hard-magnetic elastica by Zhang, Yingchao, Ma, Yinji, Yu, Jing, Gao, Huajian

“…Snap-through buckling of bistable structures is a classic topic in mechanics which has been widely studied and applied in various fields such as mechanical meta-materials and soft robotics. Obstacles that hinder broader applications of conventional bistable structures include the requirement of contact actuation to trigger instability and difficulty to control post-buckling configurations. …”
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Analyzing the contribution of WhatsApp in enhancing English writing skills among undergraduate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners: A systematic review by Khurram, Shugufta, Palpanadan, Sarala Thulasi, Ali Chachar, Zulfiquar

“…This systematic review complies with the statement of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) standards. The review procedure included a thorough search of electronic databases like Web of Science, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Scopus. …”
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Differences in the effectiveness of individual-level smoking cessation interventions by socioeconomic status by Theodoulou, A, Fanshawe, TR, Leavens, E, Theodoulou, E, Wu, AD, Heath, L, Stewart, C, Nollen, N, Ahluwalia, JS, Butler, AR, Hajizadeh, A, Thomas, J, Lindson, N, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…We pooled RORs by intervention type in random‐effects meta‐analyses, using the generic inverse‐variance method. …”

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation by Lindson, N, Butler, AR, McRobbie, H, Bullen, C, Hajek, P, Wu, AD, Begh, R, Theodoulou, A, Notley, C, Rigotti, NA, Turner, T, Livingstone-Banks, J, Morris, T, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…Where appropriate, we pooled data in pairwise and network meta‐analyses (NMA). <p><strong> Main results</strong></p> We included 90 completed studies (two new to this update), representing 29,044 participants, of which 49 were randomized controlled trials (RCTs). …”

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation by Lindson, N, Butler, AR, McRobbie, H, Bullen, C, Hajek, P, Begh, R, Theodoulou, A, Notley, C, Rigotti, NA, Turner, T, Livingstone-Banks, J, Morris, T, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…Results from the NMA were consistent with those from pairwise meta-analyses for all critical outcomes, and there was no indication of inconsistency within the networks. …”

Progress in metafibers for sustainable radiative cooling and prospects of achieving thermally drawn metafibers by Qi, Miao, Wu, Tingting, Wang, Zhe, Wang, Zhixun, He, Bing, Zhang, Haozhe, Liu, Yanting, Xin, Jiwu, Zhou, Tianzhu, Zhou, Xuhui, Wei, Lei

“…Metamaterials with unique photonic structures are applicable to radiative cooling and have been extensively studied. Incorporating meta-elements to the fiber level of the fabric to construct metafibers is expected to achieve personal thermal management through radiative cooling. …”
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Message from ICME'12 technical program chairs by Cai, Jianfei, Hanjalic, Alan, Magli, Enrico, Pickering, Mark, Friedland, Gerald, Hua, Xian-Sheng

“…Lead by 6 Program Chairs and 18 Track Chairs, we have conducted the paper review in a double-blind manner with several aspects aimed to achieve a very rigorous review process, including author rebuttal, review discussion, meta-review and within-track discussions and cross-track discussions. …”
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Childhood bullying and mental health: understanding risk, resilience, and the role of anti-bullying interventions by Guzman Holst, C

“…I will present evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis and data from a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of an antibullying intervention in the UK to examine these associations. …”

Exhibiting Southeast Asia in the cultural Cold War: geopolitics of regional art exhibitions (1940s-1980s) by Ditzig Kathleen Elizabeth Li-Ying

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Machine learning-based approaches for large-scale temporal data analytics by Seyed Ali Majid Zonoozi

“…The proposed model can effectively capture spatial and temporal dependencies in spatio-temporal sequences and detect abnormal crowd density patterns in geo-spatial domain, using temporal meta-data prediction error. The conducted experiments that used real world taxi datasets, shows the effectiveness of the proposed model in detecting abnormal crowd density patterns in geo-spatio-temporal environments, that cannot be detected by the existing reconstruction-based anomaly detection methods.…”
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The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes by Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Reich, Peter B., Bardgett, Richard D., Eldridge, David J., Lambers, Hans, Wardle, David A., Reed, Sasha C., Plaza, César, Png, Kenny Guochen, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Hart, Stephen C., Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Bastida, Felipe, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Cutler, Nick A., Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hayes, Patrick E., Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Pérez, Cecilia A., Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sullivan, Benjamin W., Weber-Grullon, Luis, Williams, Mark A., Fierer, Noah

“…By combining a cross-biome global field survey, including data for 32 soil, plant, and microbial properties in 16 soil chronosequences, with a global meta-analysis, we show that soil age is a significant ecosystem driver, but only accounts for a relatively small proportion of the cross-biome variation in multiple ecosystem properties. …”
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Attention-aware resource allocation and QoE analysis for metaverse xURLLC services by Du, Hongyang, Liu, Jiazhen, Niyato, Dusit, Kang, Jiawen, Xiong, Zehui, Zhang, Junshan, Kim, Dong In

“…To model the QoE mathematically, we propose a novel metric named Meta-Immersion that incorporates both the objective KPIs and subjective feelings of Metaverse users. …”
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Identification of genetic effects underlying type 2 diabetes in South Asian and European populations by Loh, Marie, Zhang, Weihua, Ng, Hong Kiat, Schmid, Katharina, Lamri, Amel, Tong, Lin, Meraj Ahmad, Lee, Jung-Jin, Ng, Maggie C. Y., Petty, Lauren E., Spracklen, Cassandra N., Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Md. Tariqul Islam, Jasmine, Farzana, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Muhammad Kibriya, Mohlke, Karen L., Paré, Guillaume, Prasad, Gauri, Mohammad Shahriar, Chee, Miao Ling, de Silva, H. Janaka, Engert, James C., Gerstein, Hertzel C., Mani, K. Radha, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Vujkovic, Marijana, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Wong, Tien Yin, Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Salim Yusuf, Habibul Ahsan, Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan, Anand, Sonia S., Below, Jennifer E., Boehnke, Michael, Bowden, Donald W., Chandak, Giriraj R., Cheng, Ching-Yu, Kato, Norihiro, Mahajan, Anubha, Sim, Xueling, McCarthy, Mark I., Morris, Andrew P., Kooner, Jaspal S., Saleheen, Danish, Chambers, John C.

“…We carried out a genome-wide association meta-analysis with South Asian T2D cases (n = 16,677) and controls (n = 33,856), followed by combined analyses with Europeans (neff = 231,420). …”
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Conflict-free urban air mobility planning with an airspace-resource-centric approach by Dai, Wei

“…The formulation is a non-convex optimization problem with both continuous and 0-1 variables and implicit functions, which is difficult to resolve using mathematical programming or meta-heuristic optimization. To solve this problem, we proposed a method based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL). …”
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Assessing long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of statin therapy in the UK: a modelling study using individual participant datasets by Mihaylova, B, Wu, R, Zhou, J, Williams, C, Schlackow, I, Emberson, J, Reith, C, Keech, A, Robson, J, Parnell, R, Armitage, J, Gray, A, Simes, J, Baigent, C

“…UK primary and hospital care data informed healthcare costs (2020/2021 UK£); £1.22 standard or £1.68 higher intensity generic statin therapy per 28 tablets; and Health Survey for England data informed health-related quality of life. Meta-analyses of trials and cohort studies informed the effects of statin therapies on cardiovascular events, incident diabetes, myopathy and rhabdomyolysis.…”

Normative modeling of brain morphometry in clinical high risk for psychosis by Haas, Shalaila S., Ge, Ruiyang, Agartz, Ingrid, Amminger, G. Paul, Andreassen, Ole A., Bachman, Peter, Baeza, Inmaculada, Choi, Sunah, Colibazzi, Tiziano, Cropley, Vanessa L., de la Fuente-Sandoval, Camilo, Ebdrup, Bjørn H., Fortea, Adriana, Fusar-Poli, Paolo, Glenthøj, Birte Yding, Glenthøj, Louise Birkedal, Haut, Kristen M., Hayes, Rebecca A., Heekeren, Karsten, Hooker, Christine I., Hwang, Wu Jeong, Jahanshad, Neda, Kaess, Michael, Kasai, Kiyoto, Katagiri, Naoyuki, Kim, Minah, Kindler, Jochen, Koike, Shinsuke, Kristensen, Tina D., Kwon, Jun Soo, Lawrie, Stephen M., Lebedeva, Irina, Lee, Jimmy, Lemmers-Jansen, Imke L. J., Lin, Ashleigh, Ma, Xiaoqian, Mathalon, Daniel H., McGuire, Philip, Michel, Chantal, Mizrahi, Romina, Mizuno, Masafumi, Møller, Paul, Mora-Durán, Ricardo, Nelson, Barnaby, Nemoto, Takahiro, Nordentoft, Merete, Nordholm, Dorte, Omelchenko, Maria A., Pantelis, Christos, Pariente, Jose C., Raghava, Jayachandra M., Reyes-Madrigal, Francisco, Røssberg, Jan I., Rössler, Wulf, Salisbury, Dean F., Sasabayashi, Daiki, Schall, Ulrich, Smigielski, Lukasz, Sugranyes, Gisela, Suzuki, Michio, Takahashi, Tsutomu, Tamnes, Christian K., Theodoridou, Anastasia, Thomopoulos, Sophia I., Thompson, Paul M., Tomyshev, Alexander S., Uhlhaas, Peter J., Værnes, Tor G., van Amelsvoort, Therese A. M. J., van Erp, Theo G. M., Waltz, James A., Wenneberg, Christina, Westlye, Lars T., Wood, Stephen J., Zhou, Juan H., Hernaus, Dennis, Jalbrzikowski, Maria, Kahn, René S., Corcoran, Cheryl M., Frangou, Sophia

“…Design, Setting, and Participants: This case-control study used clinical-, IQ-, and neuroimaging software (FreeSurfer)-derived regional measures of cortical thickness (CT), cortical surface area (SA), and subcortical volume (SV) from 1340 individuals with CHR-P and 1237 healthy individuals pooled from 29 international sites participating in the Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics Through Meta-analysis (ENIGMA) Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Working Group. …”
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Cognitive Systems and Signal Processing : 5th International Conference, ICCSIP 2020, Zhuhai, China, December 25-27, 2020, Revised Selected Papers / by ICCSIP (Conference) (5th : 2020 : Zhuhai, China), organiser 642897, Sun, Fuchun, 1964-, editor 600994, Liu, Huaping, 1976-, editor 600996, Fang, Bin, editor 642896