Publications by authors named "G Thakkar"

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  • Acute care surgery (ACS) was implemented at a medical facility to improve the surgical treatment and management of acute appendicitis (AA) by creating a standardized perioperative clinical pathway.
  • A study compared patient outcomes before (2016-2018) and after (2018-2020) implementing this pathway, analyzing 492 patients and focusing on hospital length of stay (LOS) as the primary outcome.
  • Results showed a significant reduction in LOS (31.2 vs. 50.4 hours), quicker transition times from CT scans to surgery, reduced opioid use, and improved discharge processes in the post-implementation group, indicating overall enhanced surgical efficiency and care.
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Introduction: In human beings, there are 45 blood group systems and 360 antigens currently recognized by ISBT (July 2023). The Rh blood group system has 56 antigens, out of them 5 antigens D, C, c, E, and e are clinically significant antigens. The Kell blood group system has 25 highly immunogenic antigens.

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This study aims to present an approach for the challenges of working with Sentiment Analysis (SA) applied to news articles in a multilingual corpus. It looks at the use and combination of multiple algorithms to explore news articles published in English and Portuguese. It presents a methodology that starts by evaluating and combining four SA algorithms (SenticNet, SentiStrength, Vader and BERT, being BERT trained in two datasets) to improve the quality of outputs.

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Data science has been an invaluable part of the COVID-19 pandemic response with multiple applications, ranging from tracking viral evolution to understanding the vaccine effectiveness. Asymptomatic breakthrough infections have been a major problem in assessing vaccine effectiveness in populations globally. Serological discrimination of vaccine response from infection has so far been limited to Spike protein vaccines since whole virion vaccines generate antibodies against all the viral proteins.

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To understand the spread of SARS-CoV2, in August and September 2020, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India) conducted a serosurvey across its constituent laboratories and centers across India. Of 10,427 volunteers, 1058 (10.14%) tested positive for SARS-CoV2 anti-nucleocapsid (anti-NC) antibodies, 95% of which had surrogate neutralization activity.

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