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Correction: Effects of the combination of biochar and organic fertilizer on soil properties and agronomic attributes of soybean (Glycine max L.)
Accuracy of information on the underlying cause of death: An analysis in Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021
Objective This study aimed to estimate the accuracy of the underlying Cause of Death (CoD) in the original death certificate, compared with a gold standard certificate based on information from clinic...
Effects of different types of Advance Care Planning workshops: A scoping review protocol
Introduction Advance Care Planning(ACP) plays a crucial role in ensuring that patients’ wishes are respected and fulfilled, helping to improve the quality of care and the efficient use of resources. A...
Determining resources and capabilities in complex context: A decision-making model for banks
The role of resources and capabilities in shaping and implementing a firm’s strategy is paramount. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the necessity for managers to possess a decision-making model that...
Spatial distribution of animal source food consumption and associated factors among children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia: A geographically weighted regression analysis
Introduction Optimal nutrition during early childhood is essential for growth, cognitive development, and overall health. Animal source foods(ASF) provide essential nutrients like high-quality protein...
Trophic ecology and nutritional status of northern shrimp in Canada’s sub-Arctic
In the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) play key ecological roles as mid-trophic level consumers and as prey to higher-trophic level predators, including commercial fish s...
Detection of pediatric developmental delay with machine learning technologies
Objective Accurate identification of children who will develop delay (DD) is challenging for therapists because recent studies have reported that children who underwent early intervention achieved mor...
Correction: Hydrodynamic performance assessment of emerged and sub-merged semicircular breakwaters under random waves: An experimental and empirical study
The assessment of language restrictions in abstracts of systematic reviews in dentistry: A meta-research study
Background The adequate interpretation of findings in systematic reviews can be affected by the lack of information on the language of the examined studies. The study sought to assess the reported inf...
Medication errors in community pharmacies: a systematic review of the international literature
Introduction Since the 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) ‘To Err is Human.’, medication safety has become a public health concern due to its impact on preventable harm and healthcare cost...
OBM-RFEcv: An adaptive ensemble model for monitoring key growth indicators of Gerbera using multi-spectral image fusion features
This study aims to address the challenge of monitoring Plant Height (PH), SPAD, Leaf Area Index (LAI), and Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) in Gerbera under greenhouse cultivation conditions. We initially g...
Correction: The moderation role of board independence change in the relationship between board characteristics, related party transactions, and financial performance
Comparative efficacy of closed reduction versus open reduction with pelvic osteotomy for developmental dysplasia of the hip in children aged 18–24 months: A retrospective cohort study
Background Optimal treatment for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in 18–24-month-old children is debated. This study compares closed reduction (CR) to open reduction with pelvic osteotomy (ORP...
Does pre-emptive dexamethasone provide prophylaxis against sugammadex-induced bradycardia? A retrospective study
Sugammadex is a cyclodextrin used to reverse neuromuscular block with amino-steroid nondepolarizing muscle relaxants, rocuronium and vecuronium. Sugammadex-induced bradycardia was recently demonstrate...
Chi2 weighted ensemble: A multi-layer ensemble approach for skin lesion classification using a novel framework - optimized RegNet synergy with Attention-Triplet
Skin lesions, including various abnormalities and potentially fatal skin cancers, require early detection for effective treatment. However, current methods often struggle to identify the precise areas...
Assessing the bread-leavening ability of wild yeasts isolated from selected fruits collected from local markets
Yeasts play a crucial role in converting sugars in flour into carbon dioxide (CO2) and ethanol, enabling dough leavening. This study focused on identifying efficient wild yeast strains isolated from v...
Retraction: Enhancing stroke disease classification through machine learning models via a novel voting system by feature selection techniques
Adverse events affecting recovery from seasonal influenza vaccination in the hypertensive population: A population-based pharmacovigilance analysis
Seasonal influenza vaccination is crucial for preventing influenza and its complications. Data from the United States Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) indicate a higher proportion of adv...
Impact of flipped classroom method in physical education on the intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, and learning satisfaction: A meta-analysis
Background Flipped classroom (FC) is a novel teaching method. To assess its effectiveness in teaching physical education in schools, a systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted with the aim o...
Re-evaluating the choice of gamma stimulation frequency for the potential treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: Novel invisible spectral flicker evokes gamma responses at various frequencies
With recent advances in the potential usage of visual gamma stimulation at 40 Hz for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, there is motivation to evaluate adjacent frequencies to ensure that specifica...
Comparative genomic analysis of Streptococcus suis sequence type 105 and development of a PCR diagnostic tool
Streptococcus suis serotype 14 is the second most prevalent serotype after serotype 2, and is highly prevalent in Southeast Asia. Among the serotype 14 strains, sequence type (ST) 105 is found in huma...
Applying disease risk analysis for conservation translocations in Argentina: A case study on marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
Disease risk management is essential for conservation translocations to prevent inadvertent pathogen introduction affecting human, animal and ecosystem health. Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis (DRA) is...
Modified Kumaraswamy seasonal autoregressive moving average models with exogenous regressors for double-bounded hydro-environmental data
This paper proposes the MKSARMAX model for modeling and forecasting time series that can only take on values within a specified range, such as in the interval (0,1). The model is especially good for m...
Expression of Concern: How the venom from the ectoparasitoid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis exhibits anti-inflammatory properties on mammalian cell lines
Karyotyping with amniotic fluid in 6,572 pregnant women and pregnancy outcomes——A single-center retrospective study
Aims To detect abnormal chromosome karyotypes in amniotic fluid cells and to explore the relationship among various prenatal diagnostic indications, karyotypes, and pregnancy outcomes. Methods The d...