APPLICATION OF DATA MINING TECHNIQUES AND LOGISTIC REGRESSION TO MODEL DRUG USE TRANSITION TO INJECTION: A CASE STUDY IN DRUG USE TREATMENT CENTERS IN KERMANSHAH PROVINCE, IRAN

Abstract Background Drug injection has been increasing over the past decades all over the world.Hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV and HCV) are two common infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) and more Book than 60% of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases are PWID.Thus, investigating risk factors associated with drug use transition to

Evidence demonstrated that bones, liver, and lungs are the most common metastasis sites in some human malignancies, especially in prostate and breast cancers.Bone is the third most frequent target for spreading tumor cells among these organs and tissues.Patients with bone-metastatic cancers face a grim prognosis characterized by short median surviv

The increasing penetration of renewable energy into power grids is reducing the regulation capacity of automatic generation control (AGC).Thus, there is an urgent demand to coordinate AGC units with active equipment such as energy storage.Current dispatch decision-making methods often ignore the intermittent effects of renewable energy.This paper p

While non-pharmacological interventions could positively impact mood and behaviors of nursing-home residents who are living with dementia, some facilities are more willing to adopt such interventions than others.This study investigated the characteristics of Medicaid-funded nursing facilities that were associated with their willingness to implement

After a century of eclipse, human excrement has been receiving new attention in Europe in recent decades.Indeed, their return to the soil is being considered again as a resource for agriculture.Today, a debate surrounds these practices of urine and feces valorization.This article proposes an analysis of the ongoing discussions based on an ethnograp