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School absenteeism has become a prevalent problem that affects student development and future societies across the world. We examined whether and how the framework for transformative school-community collaboration (TSCC) can be utilized to effectively reduce school absenteeism. To achieve this goal, we analyzed clustered data involving 3428 students within 14 schools that collaborated with communities in providing out-of-school time programs. A generalized ordered logit analysis with clustered standard errors showed that overall TSCC significantly decreased the likelihood of students' school absenteeism. Democratic and empowering structures in the collaboration were particularly significant for reducing the higher level of school absenteeism. We conclude our article with practice implications to translate the core dimensions of TSCC into effective practice.Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, liaper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data.Online mentoring can be useful for supporting girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Yet, little is known about the differential effects of various online mentoring formats. We examine the general and relative effectiveness of three online mentoring formats, one-on-one mentoring, many-to-many group mentoring, and a hybrid form of the two. All three formats were implemented in different years in the Germany-wide online-only mentoring program, CyberMentor, whose platform enables communication and networking between up to 800 girls (in grades 5-13) and 800 women (STEM professionals) each year. We combined longitudinal mentee data for all first-year participants (N = 4017 girls, Mage = 14.15 years) from 9 consecutive mentoring years to evaluate and compare the three mentoring formats. Overall, all formats effected comparable increases in mentees' STEM activities and certainty about career plans. However, mentees' communication behavior and networking behavior on the mentoring platform differed between the three formats. Mentees in the hybrid mentoring format showed the most extensive STEM-related communication and networking on the platform. We also analyzed the explanatory contributions of STEM-related communication and networking on interindividual differences in the developmental trajectories of mentees' STEM activities, elective intentions in STEM, and certainty about career plans, for each format separately.
Inflammation plays an important role in the progression and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our aim is to explore the prognostic value of preoperative and postoperative peripheral lymphocyte differences and to develop a dynamic prognosis nomogram in hepatitis B virus-related HCC patients.
Important indicators related to overall survival (OS) are screened out by Cox proportional hazard models. The receiver operating characteristic curves, decision curve analysis curves, net reclassification improvement, and integrated discrimination improvement were used to evaluate the performance of the model.
Lymphocyte (L) difference was an independent risk factor. It was further verified that the performance of the nomogram was significantly improved after the L difference was incorporated into the nomogram. The nomogram generated had the area under curves of 0.779, 0.775, and 0.793 at 3, 5, and 7 years after surgery, respectively. Our nomogram models showed significantly better performance in predicting the HCC prognosis compared to other models. And online webserver and scoring system table was built based on the proposed nomogram for convenient clinical use.
It is newly found that L difference is an effective predictor of OS, and the nomogram based on this indicator can accurately predict the prognosis of HCC patients.
It is newly found that L difference is an effective predictor of OS, and the nomogram based on this indicator can accurately predict the prognosis of HCC patients.
Umbilical cord prolapse is a major obstetric emergency associated with significant perinatal complications. However, there is no consensus on the optimal decision-to-delivery interval, as many previous studies have shown poor correlation between the interval and umbilical cord arterial blood gas or perinatal outcomes. We aim to investigate whether bradycardia-to-delivery or decision-to-delivery interval was related to poor cord arterial pH or adverse perinatal outcome in umbilical cord prolapse.
This was a retrospective study conducted at a university tertiary obstetric unit in Hong Kong. Sirtinol in vivo All women with singleton pregnancy complicated by cord prolapse during labor between 1995 and 2018 were included. Women were categorized into three groups. Group 1 persistent bradycardia; Group 2 any type of decelerations without bradycardia; and Group 3 normal fetal heart rate. The main outcome was cord arterial blood gas results of the newborns in different groups. Maternal demographic data and perinatal outcomes were ations or normal heart rate. The drop of cord arterial pH is rapid and urgent delivery is essential in such situations.
There is significant correlation between bradycardia-to-delivery interval and cord arterial pH in umbilical cord prolapse with fetal bradycardia but not in cases with decelerations or normal heart rate. The drop of cord arterial pH is rapid and urgent delivery is essential in such situations.