Diet of the North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) in North Carolina using 2 methods by Charles W. Sanders II, Stephen F. Spear, Kristina Black, Colleen Olfenbuttel, Christopher S. DePerno

“…While standard diet studies focus on identification of prey through manual examination of stomach contents and feces, metabarcoding DNA analysis has become more popular to determine the presence or frequency of species that are often missed, misidentified, or underestimated. We collected river otter carcasses from licensed trappers and fur dealers across North Carolina from the 2009–10 trapping season through the 2015–16 season. …”
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Missed Opportunities for Screening and Management of Dysglycemia among Patients Presenting with Acute Myocardial Infarction in North India: The Prospective NORIN STEMI Registry by John W. Ostrominski, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Meennahalli Palleda Girish, Puneet Gupta, Michael J. Hendrickson, Arman Qamar, Sameer Arora, Ambarish Pandey, Ankit Bansal, Vishal Batra, Bhawna Mahajan, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Jamal Yusuf, Sanjay Tyagi, Deepak L. Bhatt, Mohit D. Gupta, NORIN STEMI Investigators

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Robust analyzes for longitudinal clinical trials with missing and non-normal continuous outcomes by Siyi Liu, Yilong Zhang, Gregory T. Golm, Guanghan (Frank) Liu, Shu Yang

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Missing Burns in the High Northern Latitudes: The Case for Regionally Focused Burned Area Products by Dong Chen, Varada Shevade, Allison Baer, Tatiana V. Loboda

“…While the FireCCI51 product performs much better than MCD64A1 in terms of commission error, we found that it also missed about 40% of burned areas in North America north of 60° N between 2001 and 2015. …”
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Mendelian randomization with incomplete measurements on the exposure in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos by Yilun Li, Kin Yau Wong, Annie Green Howard, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Heather M. Highland, Mariaelisa Graff, Kari E. North, Carolina G. Downie, Christy L. Avery, Bing Yu, Kristin L. Young, Victoria L. Buchanan, Robert Kaplan, Lifang Hou, Brian Thomas Joyce, Qibin Qi, Tamar Sofer, Jee-Young Moon, Dan-Yu Lin

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A telemedicine network for remote paediatric cardiology services in north-east Brazil by Sandra da Silva Mattos, Sheila Maria Vieira Hazin, Cláudio Teixeira Regis, Juliana Sousa Soares de Araújo, Fernanda Cruz de Lira Albuquerque, Lúcia Roberta Didier Nunes Moser, Thamine de Paula Hatem, Carolina Paim Gomes de Freitas, Felipe Alves Mourato, Thiago Ribeiro Tavares, Renata Grigório Silva Gomes, Rossan Severia, Cícera Rocha Santosa, Jailson Ferreira da Silva, Juliana Landim Rezende, Paulo Coelho Vieira, José Luiz de Lima Filho

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Cost of inaction: a framework to estimate the economic cost of missing a patient with tuberculosis in the Indian context by Salmaan Keshavjee, Meredith B Brooks, Tom Nicholson, Viswanath Pingali

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Pete and the Missing Scissors: a primary literature-focused case study that highlights the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on splicing by Meagan Harrington, April Lane, Caroline Yencha, Kiran Kelly-Rajan, Laura E. Ott

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Reasons for delay in reaching healthcare with severe abortion-related morbidities: Qualitative results from women in the fragile context of Jigawa state, Nigeria (AMoCo) by Ann M. Moore, Tamara Fetters, Timothy Williams, Estelle Pasquier, Joy Kantiok, Claire Fotheringham, Onikepe Owolabi, Laitu Jatau, Bill Powell, Catrin Schulte-Hillen

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Testing for complementarity between the use of continuous no-till and cover crops: An application of entropy approach by Dat Q. Tran, Lyubov A. Kurkalova

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The Impact of Missing Postoperative Longitudinal Pain Data on Study Results Investigating Analgesia from Transversus Abdominis Plane Block on Postoperative Day One Following Abdomi... by Jones JH

“…James Harvey Jones Department of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USACorrespondence: James Harvey Jones, Department of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N2198 UNC Hospitals, CB #7010, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7010, USA, Tel +1 (919) 966-5136, Fax +1 (984) 974-4873, Email james.h.jones@med.unc.eduBackground: The aims of this study are to analyze the association between the number of recorded pain scores and baseline pain following surgery, analgesia technique, and patient demographics, as well as the substitution of missing data with the results from mean substitution, last observation carried forward, regression imputation, multiple imputation, and mixed models.Methods: This retrospective chart review was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB). …”
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data to estimate clinical remission in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease by Nanhua Zhang, Chunyan Liu, Steven J Steiner, Richard B Colletti, Robert Baldassano, Shiran Chen, Stanley Cohen, Michael D Kappelman, Shehzad Saeed, Laurie S Conklin, Richard Strauss, Sheri Volger, Eileen King, Kim Hung Lo

Investigating critical thinking in higher education in Latin America: Acknowledging an epistemic disjuncture by Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, Roxana Chiappa, Andrés Rojas-Murphy Tagle, Nagwa Ismail, Liliana Pedraja Rejas

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Transcriptome-Wide Association Study of Blood Cell Traits in African Ancestry and Hispanic/Latino Populations by Jia Wen, Munan Xie, Bryce Rowland, Jonathan D. Rosen, Quan Sun, Jiawen Chen, Amanda L. Tapia, Huijun Qian, Madeline H. Kowalski, Yue Shan, Kristin L. Young, Marielisa Graff, Maria Argos, Christy L. Avery, Stephanie A. Bien, Steve Buyske, Jie Yin, Hélène Choquet, Myriam Fornage, Chani J. Hodonsky, Eric Jorgenson, Charles Kooperberg, Ruth J. F. Loos, Yongmei Liu, Jee-Young Moon, Kari E. North, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Jennifer A. Smith, Wei Zhao, Lulu Shang, Tao Wang, Xiang Zhou, Alexander P. Reiner, Laura M. Raffield, Yun Li

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Long-term monitoring projects of Brazilian marine and coastal ecosystems by Cesar A.M.M. Cordeiro, Anaide W. Aued, Francisco Barros, Alex C. Bastos, Mariana Bender, Thiago C. Mendes, Joel C. Creed, Igor C.S. Cruz, Murilo S. Dias, Lohengrin D.A. Fernandes, Ricardo Coutinho, José E.A. Gonçalves, Sergio R. Floeter, Juliana Mello-Fonseca, Andrea S. Freire, Douglas F.M. Gherardi, Luiz E.O. Gomes, Fabíola Lacerda, Rodrigo L. Martins, Guilherme O. Longo, Ana Carolina Mazzuco, Rafael Menezes, José H. Muelbert, Rodolfo Paranhos, Juan P. Quimbayo, Jean L. Valentin, Carlos E.L. Ferreira

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Mapping integration of midwives across the United States: Impact on access, equity, and outcomes. by Saraswathi Vedam, Kathrin Stoll, Marian MacDorman, Eugene Declercq, Renee Cramer, Melissa Cheyney, Timothy Fisher, Emma Butt, Y Tony Yang, Holly Powell Kennedy

“…We conducted hierarchical linear regression analysis to control for confounding effects of race. RESULTS:MISS scores ranged from lowest at 17 (North Carolina) to highest at 61 (Washington), out of 100 points. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Acute Pulmonary Embolism and Adjusted D-dimer for Emergency Department Patients by Iltifat Husain, James C. O’Neill, Jacob H. Schoeneck, K. Alexander Soltany, Hollins Clark, Erika Weidman Rice, Alex Gross, Jonathan Redding, David M. Cline

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Community perspectives on family planning service quality among users and non-users: a qualitative study from two cities in Burkina Faso by Fiacre Bazie, Ilene S. Speizer, Sarah Castle, Kindo Boukary, Amelia Maytan-Joneydi, Lisa M. Calhoun, Yentema Onadja, Georges Guiella

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Integrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine Education Within the American Board of Emergency Medicine Model by Rebecca Goett, Jason Lyou, Lauren R. Willoughby, Daniel W. Markwalter, Diane L. Gorgas, Lauren T. Southerland

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Assessing the sensitivity and specificity of phosphatidylethanol (PEth) cutoffs to identify alcohol exposed pregnancies by Julie M. Hasken, Anna-Susan Marais, Marlene M. de Vries, Wendy O. Kalberg, David Buckley, Charles D.H. Parry, Soraya Seedat, Philip A. May

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