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Managing inventories for perishable e-groceries: The value of probabilistic information
E-grocery retailing allows customers to order products online for delivery within a chosen future time slot. To remain competitive, retailers aim to meet high customer expectations regarding product a...
Future impacts of colectomy healthcare pathways on quality of care in bundled payment experiments, a national retrospective cohort in France
Objectives To perform an ex-ante evaluation of French bundled payment experiments to evaluate the potential effects on hospital readmission and length of stay (LOS), and whether it...
Behaviour change support education in chronic disease: An international focus group study with undergraduate students and academic educators in nursing, pharmacy and sport science disciplines
Introduction Supporting behaviour change for the self-management of chronic diseases is a key competency for health professionals. Little is known about how undergraduate students...
Spatiotemporal modeling of urban green space connectivity and landscape structure for climate adaptation in Tehran, Iran
Urban heat island (UHI) effects, exacerbated by climate change, highlight the urgent need for effective management of urban green spaces (UGSs) to regulate city temperatures. However, previous studies...
The correction of the urban-rural wealth Gini coefficient of China
Due to the lack of top wealth records in household surveys, many scholars believe that China’s wealth Gini coefficient is seriously underestimated. Based on data from CFPS (China Household Panel Surve...
Differences in postoperative complications and elbow function between K-wire fixation of Gartland Wilkins type 2 and 3 supracondylar humeral fractures in children
Background Although the pathophysiology of Gartland Wilkins type 2 (GW 2) and 3 (GW 3) fractures is comparable, there are distinctive nuances regarding anatomical compromise and fr...
Characterizing the linguistic profiles, training needs, and caseloads of speech language pathologists providing clinical services to multilingual people with aphasia: The international Multilingual Aphasia Practices (MAP) consensus group survey
Globally, there is still limited understanding of how Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) assess and treat multilingual people with aphasia (MPWA). This article presents results from the Multilingual...
JMJD3 regulates the M2-like macrophage polarization and promotes the growth of breast cancer cells via STAT6/IRF4 axis
M2-like macrophages play a critical role in breast cancer progression. Although JMJD3 is reported to play a significant role in M2-like macrophage polarization, its precise mechanism remains unclear....
An integrated SMC–NADRC robust control approach for electric power steering systems considering nonlinear friction and parametric uncertainties
Electric Power Steering (EPS) facilitates easier steering and has become widely equipped in modern vehicles. Many prior studies on EPS control have tended to overlook the effects of nonlinear friction...
The association of preoperative psychological assessments with long-term sleeve gastrectomy surgery outcomes
Background Nearly all third-party healthcare plans adhere to the 1991 National Institutes of Health guidelines, which require preoperative psychological assessments before bariatri...
Protocol for a prospective observational cohort study to assess clinical applications of expanded noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in pregnancies with placental dysfunction
Introduction Expanded non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) utilizing cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in maternal blood enables the detection of common trisomies as well as rare autosomal tri...
The first non-mammalian synapsid embryo from the Triassic of South Africa
Oviparity was likely the plesiomorphic reproductive condition for non-mammalian Synapsida, the stem-mammal group. Yet, despite nearly two centuries of research, no definitive fossil eggs of late Palae...
Adolescents’ time-use and academic attainment: A longitudinal, compositional analysis in the Millennium Cohort Study
There is a lack of longitudinal evidence regarding the associations between 24-hour movement behaviours and academic attainment. Using the Millennium Cohort Study, we examined the association of time-...
Day–night variation and age-related differences in gadolinium-based contrast media enhancement in the brain: A T1 mapping study
The glymphatic system clears metabolic waste from the brain and can be probed using contrast-enhanced MRI. We investigated whether early-phase gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) uptake varies with...
Retraction: Low-dose chest CT for diagnosing and assessing the extent of lung involvement of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia using a semi quantitative score
Mechanical work derived using markerless motion capture provides a valid indication of acute neuromuscular fatigue in tennis
Whilst workload monitoring is key to managing performance and injury risk, effective strategies in tennis are not well-established. Mechanical work (external and internal components), measurable throu...
Functional status and health-related quality of life following Young and Burgess classified pelvic ring injuries
Purpose To determine recovery rates of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in terms of functional status and health-related quality of life (HR-Qol) compared to the general p...
Maternal serum progesterone and BMI are associated with neonatal sex ratios following single frozen embryo transfer
Background The biological mechanisms behind sex ratio variation in assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are not well understood. This study investigated whether maternal serum...
Chlorotoxin does not target matrix metalloproteinase-2 in glioblastoma
Glioblastoma aggressively invades surrounding tissue by expressing matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2). Therefore, effective inhibition of MMP-2 is a desirable target for treatment. In some reports, th...
A Core Outcome Set to evaluate the impact of prognostication in people living with advanced cancer: An international consensus study
Background Implementing a prognostic model in clinical practice requires assessing not just its accuracy but also how it may impact patient and healthcare outcomes. Evaluating thes...
Clinical usefulness of serum autotaxin levels for predicting decompensation development and prognosis in patients with compensated cirrhosis
Aim The progression from compensated to decompensated cirrhosis markedly worsens prognosis. This study investigated the clinical utility of serum autotaxin (ATX) levels as a predic...
Evaluating the technical efficiency and influencing factors of citrus fruits planting in China
By adopting the stochastic frontier analysis model of a beyond logarithmic production function and utilizing panel data for citrus planting operations in seven major citrus-producing provinces and cit...
Antibacterial potential of epiphytic fungi obtained from brown algae of Kenyan coastal waters
The rapid rise of antimicrobial resistance, coupled with the limited development of new therapeutic agents, is a critical public health concern that needs urgent and innovative interventions. Marine f...
Revisiting price linkages between London and Shanghai base metal futures markets: A time-frequency connectedness analysis
Against the backdrop of recent global events (including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and escalating trade tensions), this paper revisits price linkages between the London Metal Excha...