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Treatment outcome and associated factors of patients with atrial fibrillation in adult emergency rooms of selected hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A one-year cross-sectional study
Background Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac rhythm disorder with substantial mortality and morbidity from stroke, thromboembolism, heart failure, and impaired quality of life....
Priming the primary motor cortex with transcranial direct current stimulation: Effect on learning the golf putt
Background Priming the primary motor cortex (M1) with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) prior to motor practice modulates post-synaptic activity, thereby impacting learning of a motor ski...
Assessing ML classification algorithms and NLP techniques for depression detection: An experimental case study
Context and background. Depression has affected millions of people worldwide and has become one of the most common mental disorders. Early mental disorder detection can reduce costs for public health...
Diazinon residues levels in farm-gate Brassica oleracea var. acephala of Kimira-Oluch smallholder farm improvement project, Kenya
Diazinon insecticide, though associated with human health impacts, is popularly used in the production of Brassica oleracea var. acephala (kale) at the Kimira-Oluch Smallholder Farmers Improvement Pro...
Predicting prostate cancer metastasis in Ghana: Comparison of multiparametric and PSA models
Background Prostate cancer is the most prevalent male malignancy in Ghana, with a high-risk of metastatic progression. Early detection and adequate disease severity stratification are crucial for time...
Correlation cluster analysis of slope safety monitoring data in reservoir areas
Current predictive methods for dam failures in reservoirs remain limited, indicating that the underlying mechanisms of such failures are not yet fully understood. To further elucidate the interrelatio...
Estimating the influence of dietary composition and management on nutrient intake and excretion and methane emission in different pig categories
The study aimed to estimate the effect of diet composition, pig production stage, in-housing conditions, and manure management on methane (CH4) emissions from enteric fermentation, manure stored in th...
Identification of hub gene for the pathogenic mechanism and diagnosis of MASLD by enhanced bioinformatics analysis and machine learning
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a heterogeneous disease caused by multiple etiologies. It is characterized by excessive fat accumulation in the liver. Without inter...
Effect of tailored, intensive prehabilitation for risky lifestyles before ventral hernia repair on postoperative outcomes, health, and costs – study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (STRONG-Hernia)
Background A substantial untapped potential for risk reduction may be fulfilled by applying intensive lifestyle interventions targeting the co-existing risky lifestyle factors Smoking, Nutrition (both...
Effect of orally administered cannabidiol oil on daily tonometric curve in healthy Italian Saddle horses
Background Phytocannabinoids have the potential to lower intraocular pressure in both normal and glaucomatous eyes and they have been tested in different animal species, but not in the horse. The pres...
Carbon felt modified with bismuth and asphalt-derived carbon as a high-performance electrode for vanadium redox flow batteries
Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) are among the most promising large-scale energy storage systems, owing to high efficiency, scalability, and long cycle life. However, their widespread adoption is...
Integration of haptic virtual reality simulators in undergraduate dental curricula: A survey-based study in Gulf Cooperation Council countries
Background The integration of haptic simulators in contemporary dental education has been reported to improve students’ hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills during pre-clinical education to fac...
Decline in oral function contributes to decreased activities of daily living at discharge in elderly patients with heart failure
Low body weight is associated with decreased capacity for performing activities of daily living (ADLs) after discharge in patients with heart failure (HF). In particular, malnutrition and low body mas...
Utility-based optimization of Fujikawa’s basket trial design – Pre-specified protocol of a comparison study
Basket trial designs are a type of master protocol in which the same therapy is tested in several strata of the patient cohort. Many basket trial designs implement borrowing mechanisms. These allow sh...
Identification of biomarkers associated with inflammatory response in Parkinson’s disease by bioinformatics and machine learning
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common and debilitating neurodegenerative disorder. The inflammatory response is essential in the pathogenesis and progression of PD. The goal of this study is to combine...
Impact of vitamin D on glycemic control and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes: A cross-sectional study
Vitamin D has been increasingly recognized for its potential role in modulating various health conditions, including diabetes and its complications. Despite growing evidence suggesting that adequate v...
Evaluating the influence of phosphorus supply on photosynthetic and agronomic performance of two breeding lines of common bean grown under acidic soil and high temperature stress
High temperature stress has a significant effect on the physiological response of the bean crop (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and the supply of phosphorus (P) can influence photosynthetic performance, mobil...
Knowledge of the ovulatory cycle and its determinants among women of reproductive age in Papua New Guinea: Insights from a population-based study
Background Correct knowledge of the ovulatory cycle is crucial for preventing unintended pregnancies and improving women’s reproductive health. However, the factors affecting this knowledge among wome...
Proliferative arrest induces neuronal differentiation and innate immune responses in normal and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease agent (CJ) infected rat septal neurons
Rat post-mitotic septal neurons, engineered to reversibly proliferate and arrest under physiological conditions, can be maintained for weeks without cytotoxic effects. Nine representative independent...
Bovine tuberculosis in cattle slaughtered at Addis Ababa abattoir in Ethiopia and workforce awareness of zoonotic risk
Background Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is endemic and of zoonotic importance in Ethiopia. Despite this, there is limited recent information on the prevalence of bTB in cattle slaughtered at abattoirs. T...
Blockchain assisted signature and certificate based protocol for efficient data protection and transaction management in smart grids
Smart grids collect real-time power consumption reports that are then forwarded to the utility service providers over the public communication channels. Compared with the traditional power grids, smar...
Long-term glycemic variability and the risk of cardiovascular diseases in type 2 diabetic patients: Effect of hypothetical interventions using parametric g-formula in a population-based historical cohort study
Background Harmful effects of long-term HbA1c and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) variability on cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have not been causally examined. We employed a parametric g-formula to estim...
Perceptions of the impact of military life on relationships and Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse among UK military personnel
Research suggests that the prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse (IPVA) use (i.e., perpetration) and experience (i.e., victimisation) is higher among military compared to civilian populati...
A simple and efficient attack on the Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem
The Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem was one of the two earliest public key cryptosystems, which was invented by Merkle and Hellman in 1978. One can recover the equivalent keys by using Shamir’s m...
Analysis measurements of millet collision coefficient of restitution for mechanized seeding
The millet collision coefficient of restitution (COR) is one of the important elementary physical parameters for researching the precision hole seeding system. In this study, to explore the factors af...