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Same day sputum smear microscopy for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: Ziehl-Neelsen versus fluorescent staining

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2015
Background: Sputum smear microscopy is the main tool for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
T Jaya Chandra, R Selvaraj, Y V Sharma
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Multivariate Bayesian Arm-Based Network Meta-Analysis of Pharmacological Interventions for the Treatment of Acute Bipolar Mania in Adults

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2023
Background: In a network meta-analysis (NMA), multiple treatments can be compared simultaneously by aggregating pieces of evidence from direct as well as indirect treatment comparisons in different randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
Palash Kumar Malo, Binukumar Bhaskarapillai, Muralidharan Kesavan   +2 more
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Reengaging High School Dropouts: Early Results of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program Evaluation [PDF]

, 2009
Very early results from a random assignment evaluation of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, an intensive, "quasi-military" residential program for high school dropouts, show that the program has large impacts on high school diploma and GED ...
Alissa Gardenhire-Crooks, Conrad Mandsager, Dan Bloom   +2 more
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Sarilumab in Polyarticular‐Course Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Dose‐Finding and 1‐Year Analysis of a Phase 2b, Open‐Label, Multicenter Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study assessed sarilumab in treating patients with polyarticular‐course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pcJIA). Methods This phase 2b, open‐label study (NCT02776735) consisted of three sequential parts (each with a core‐treatment and extension phase).
Fabrizio De Benedetti, Inmaculada C. Penadés, Irina Nikishina, Ivan Foeldvari, Alberto J. Spindler, Anna Kozlova, Nadina Rubio‐Pérez, Pierre Quartier, Zbigniew Żuber, Raul Barria, Daniel Clemente, Gabriel V. Cornejo, Katherine Marzan, Nancy Liu, Christine Xu, Stephen DiMartino, Angeliki Giannelou, Fei Cao‐Ghoul, Bolanle Akinlade, Lydie Baret‐Cormel   +19 more
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The Development and Validation of Student Engagement Questionnaire

Proceedings, 2023
Introduction: Medical students drop out rate in Pakistan is very high. In our country, only 84% of students graduate, which is significantly lower than the average for developing nations.
Iram Imran, Rehan Ahmed Khan, Kinza Aslam   +2 more
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With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College [PDF]

, 2009
Based on a survey, explores the barriers to graduation college students face, examines common assumptions about college dropouts and realities, and compares the views of those who graduate and those who do not on solutions to help raise graduation ...
Jean Johnson, Jonathan Rochkind
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth With Childhood‐Onset Lupus: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Our objective was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the Treatment and Education Approach for Childhood‐Onset Lupus (TEACH), a six‐session cognitive behavioral intervention addressing depressive, fatigue, and pain symptoms, delivered remotely to individual youth with lupus by a trained interventionist.
Natoshia R. Cunningham, Thea Senger‐Carpenter, Jocelyn Zuckerman, Michelle Adler, Mallet R. Reid, Ashley Danguecan, Luana Flores Pereira, Sarah I. Mossad, Samantha L. Ely, Khalid Abulaban, Elizabeth A. Kessler, Natalie Rosenwasser, Tamar B. Rubinstein, Ekemini A. Ogbu, Emily A. Smitherman, Alaina Miller, Taylor Abounader, Elizabeth Ross, Livie Timmerman, Dhriti Sharma, Jennifer N. Stinson, Stacy Allen, Kabita Nanda, Tala El Tal, Deborah M. Levy, Linda T. Hiraki, Hermine I. Brunner, Mathew Reeves, Steven J. Pierce, Andrea Knight   +29 more
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Why Do College Students in South Korea Drop Out and Stop Out? Impact of Personal Characteristics, College Environment, and College Life

SAGE Open
This study examines the determinants influencing students’ decisions to drop out or stop out (i.e., withdraw temporarily) from colleges in South Korea. Using Korean Education and Employment Panel II survey data (2016–2019), the determinants of students ...
Jisung Yoo
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ENHANCED PREDICTION OF STUDENT DROPOUTS USING FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM AND LOGISTIC REGRESSION [PDF]

ICTACT Journal on Soft Computing, 2016
Predicting college and school dropouts is a major problem in educational system and has complicated challenge due to data imbalance and multi dimensionality, which can affect the low performance of students.
A. Saranya, J. Rajeswari
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Multivariate network meta-analysis of pharmacological interventions for the treatment of acute bipolar mania: a bayesian approach using lognormal prior distribution

European Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction Conventional Bayesian network meta-analysis (NMA) of multiple outcomes are performed using non-informative prior distribution, independently for each outcome.
P. K. Malo, B. Bhaskarapillai, M. Kesavan   +2 more
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