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The impact of fiscal pressure on education expenditure: Evidence from China
Adjusting the tax distribution relationship among governments at all levels in the reform of the fiscal and taxation system will inevitably trigger changes in local government fiscal revenue. Will the...
Level of satisfaction to clinical learning environment and its associated factors among nursing students of public universities in Central Ethiopia
Background Students’ satisfaction with clinical learning environment is a vital to evaluate teaching-learning process. However, there is a scarcity of information regarding the nursing students’ satis...
Innovation and valuation of Chinese born-global firms
With the advancement of corporate globalization, an increasing number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have leveraged globalized resources to achieve accelerated growth mode that significa...
Real-time human-robot interaction and service provision using hybrid intelligent computing framework
Human-robot interaction has gained significant attention in various domains, including healthcare, customer service, and industrial automation. High computational cost, inefficient service matching, a...
One-year survival after critical care as a decision basis for advance care directives in general medicine: Real word data analysis of 149,144 patients
Providing counsel on advance care directives is challenging for general practitioners. Counselling is done on unknown future circumstances of possible critical illness and critical care in intensive c...
Climate is stronger than you think: Exploring functional planting and TRIAD zoning for increased forest resilience to extreme disturbances
In the face of global changes, forest management must now consider adapting forests to novel and uncertain conditions alongside objectives of conservation and production. In this perspective, we modif...
ChunkUIE: Chunked instruction-based unified information extraction
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various linguistic tasks. However, existing LLMs perform inadequately in information extraction tasks for both Chinese and...
In vitro assessment of berberine-loaded carboxymethyl chitosan hydrogel: A promising antimicrobial candidate for S. aureus-induced bovine mastitis treatment
Bovine mastitis poses significant challenges to the global dairy industry, leading to substantial economic losses and public health concerns. Staphylococcus aureus, a prevalent causative agent of bovi...
3Mont: A multi-omics integrative tool for breast cancer subtype stratification
Breast Cancer (BRCA) is a heterogeneous disease, and it is one of the most prevalent cancer types among women. Developing effective treatment strategies that address diverse types of BRCA is crucial....
Potential risk factors associated with diabetic mellitus in patients with Febrile upper urinary tract calculi with infection
Purpose Patients with febrile upper urinary tract calculi with infection (FUUTCI) are prone to develop or have developed severe infection. This research aimed to evaluate the potential risk factors as...
Characterization of anti-canine CD20 antibody 4E1-7-B_f and comparison with commercially available anti-human CD20 antibodies
This study characterizes the previously reported anti-canine CD20 antibody 4E1-7-B_f and compares this with commercially available anti-human CD20 antibodies, rituximab and an obinutuzumab biosimilar....
Proteomic and phosphoproteomic analysis of rabies pathogenesis in the clinical canine brain and identification of a kinase inhibitor as a potential repurposed antiviral agent
Rabies is a fatal zoonosis caused by the rabies virus (RABV) that has afflicted humans for thousands of years. RABV infection leads to neurological symptoms and death; however, its pathogenesis in the...
Machine learning application to predict binding affinity between peptide containing non-canonical amino acids and HLA-A0201
Class Ι major histocompatibility complexes (MHC-Ι), encoded by the highly polymorphic HLA-A, HLA-B, and HLA-C genes in humans, are expressed on all nucleated cells. Both self and foreign proteins are...
Needs assessment and preparedness of the primary health care network for scaling-up preventive tuberculosis treatment in 5 Brazilian capitals
This study aims to conduct a needs and preparedness assessment of public primary care units to scale up tuberculosis infection diagnosis and tuberculosis preventive treatment in 5 Brazilian capitals....
Harnessing hybrid perception on multi-scale features for hand-foot-mouth disease multi-region prediction based on Seq2Seq
Accurate prediction of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) is crucial for effective epidemic prevention and control. Existing prediction models often overlook the cross-regional transmission dynamics...
Depression, anxiety and change in eating habits during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazilian university students
This cross-sectional study aims to evaluate the association between anxiety and depression with changes in the consumption of hyperpalatable foods and meal patterns in a sample of 771 Brazilian univer...
Effects of chemotherapy on skeletal muscle mitochondrial oxidative capacity using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS): Protocol paper for an observational mixed model repeated measures design in patients with breast and gynecological cancer
Mitochondrial dysfunction, a hallmark of metabolic disturbances in the skeletal muscle, has previously been studied in health participants using invasive muscle biopsy and/or time consuming, high-cost...
RETRACTED: Wind energy resource assessment based on joint wolf pack intelligent optimization algorithm
Wind energy is a clean and renewable energy source with great potential for development, but the intermittent and stochastic characteristics of wind speed have brought great challenges to the effectiv...
Stories that bridge us: A mixed methods study to understand the impact of a hospital-wide storytelling event
Oral storytelling events for healthcare professionals are gaining in popularity, yet evaluation of these initiatives is scarce. We designed and assessed the impact of a hospital-wide storytelling even...
MAT-PointPillars: Enhanced PointPillars algorithm based on multi-scale attention mechanisms and transformer
Aiming at the problem that small and irregular detection targets such as cyclists have low detection accuracy and inaccurate recognition by existing 3D target detection algorithms, MAT-PointPillars (M...
Functional analysis within latent states: A novel framework for analysing functional time series data
Functional data analysis (FDA) enables modelling and interpretation of data represented as functions over a continuum like time, space, or frequency. This paper introduces the flawless analysis framew...
Survival benefit of radical prostatectomy in bone metastatic prostate cancer stratified by disease characteristics: A SEER-based retrospective analysis
Background The role of radical prostatectomy (RP) in patients with newly diagnosed bone-metastatic prostate cancer (PCa) remains insufficiently explored. Patients and methods Patients with newly dia...
Coping strategies of Ghanaian couples after unsuccessful infertility treatment: An exploratory qualitative study
Background Psychological distress and social burdens associated with infertility among couples have been well-documented. However, little is known about the specific coping strategies employed by coup...
High-accuracy spinal alignment monitoring using the head angle and visual distance in computer users
Study Design A Prospective Validation Study. Objectives To validate a novel, noninvasive method for estimating the spinal sagittal alignment during seated computer work, using the head angle (HA) an...
Prevalence, pathogenic bacteria, and risk factors associated with pediatric sepsis among under five children in a rural district hospital in Rwanda
Background Pediatric sepsis poses a significant health challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa, with limited data on prevalence and pathogen profiles. This study determined the prevalence of pediatric sepsis,...