Numerical Investigation and Performance Evaluation of Boiling Slug Flow Regime of Water Vapor in Vertical Tubes by F. Sharifi, M. Hassani, R. Kouhikamali

“…To do so, heat and mass transfer during the flow motion is considered by the rate of mass and energy exchange between the phases and is added to governing equations. …”
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MissPred: A Robust Two-Stage Radar Echo Extrapolation Algorithm for Incomplete Sequences by Ziqi Zhao, Chunxu Duan, Lin Song, Qilin Zhang, Wenda Zhu, Yi Liu

“…Our dataset covers missing rates ranging from 10% to 50%. The experimental results show that the model outperforms the baseline model with the prior interpolation of missing data in the missing mode with stable robustness.…”
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Improving Voice Spoofing Detection Through Extensive Analysis of Multicepstral Feature Reduction by Leonardo Mendes de Souza, Rodrigo Capobianco Guido, Rodrigo Colnago Contreras, Monique Simplicio Viana, Marcelo Adriano dos Santos Bongarti

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Risk Factors Promoting Early Cardiovascular Structure Disorders in Patients with Primary Hypothyroidism by A. V. Nikolaeva, L. T. Pimenov, V. G. Sufiyanov, M. V. Dudarev

“…Left ventricle remodeling, morphologic functional status of blood vessel wall and decrease of glomerular filtration rate are basically determined by such modified and non-modified factors as body mass index, age, duration of hypothyroidism and thyroid stimulating hormone level.…”
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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Multi-Drug Resistant Uropathogens in a Tertiary Hospital in Nepal: A One-Year Audit by Manish Man Pradhan, Sangita Sharma, Sujeet Poudyal, Diwas Gnyawali, Suman Adhikari, Suman Chapagain, Bhojraj Luitel, Hari Prasad Kattel, Pawan Raj Chalise

“…Data were collected from the Electronic health records of the Microbiology department and analyzed using Microsoft Excel 16.0.0 and SPSS 30.0.0 software to determine the urine culture positivity rate, the prevalence of multidrug-resistant uropathogens, and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns with a specific focus on resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics. …”
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Global burden trends of tension-type headache, 1990–2021: socio-demographic patterns, age-period-cohort effects, and frontier analysis from the GBD 2021 study by Can Wang, Can Wang, Chao Liao, Yuyin Liu, Yuyin Liu, Peng Chen, Yuanlun Xie, Li Tian

“…We used absolute numbers and age-standardized rates from 1990 to 2021. Spearman correlation assessed the relationship between rates and the Socio-Demographic Index (SDI). …”
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Alternate row mulching optimizes soil temperature and water conditions and improves wheat yield in dryland farming by Qiu-yan YAN, Fei DONG, Ge LOU, Feng YANG, Jin-xiu LU, Feng LI, Jian-cheng ZHANG, Jun-hui LI, Zeng-qiang DUAN

“…Warming effect of soil temperature under the HM pattern persisted longer than under the FM model with the same mulching rates. …”
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A Linear Differentiation Scheme for Camouflaged Target Detection using Convolution Neural Networks by Jagadesh Sambbantham, Gomathy Balasubramanian, Rajarathnam, Mohit Tiwari

“…The differentiated region is trained for its positive rate in identifying the region around the target. …”
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Real-World Clinical Characteristics, Treatment Patterns, and Clinical Outcomes in US Patients with Stage I–III Resected NSCLC Without Known EGFR Mutations: The RESECT Study by Jhanelle E. Gray, Rachel J. Salomonsen, Ignacio Diaz Perez, Alice Wang, Ling Cai, Graham Wetherill, Yang Xiao, Claire Fielden, Nefeli Georgoulia

“…Five-year overall survival rates were 73.4%, 61.9%, and 50.5% in stage I, II, and III patients; 5-year real-world relapse-free survival rates were 35.4%, 23.1%, and 14.0%. …”
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Genome-wide identification and function analysis of the sucrose phosphate synthase MdSPS gene family in apple by Li-hua ZHANG, Ling-cheng ZHU, Yu XU, Long LÜ, Xing-guo LI, Wen-hui LI, Wan-da LIU, Feng-wang MA, Ming-jun LI, De-guo HAN

“…Sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) is a rate-limiting enzyme that works in conjunction with sucrose-6-phosphate phosphatase (SPP) for sucrose synthesis, and it plays an essential role in energy provisioning during growth and development in plants as well as improving fruit quality. …”
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Distinct patterns of osteoradionecrosis after photon-based radiotherapy and carbon ion radiotherapy for unresectable adenoid cystic carcinoma of the head and neck: case series from... by Eivind Storaas, Marta D. Switlyk, Sigrun Dahl, Cecilie D. Amdal, Åse Bratland, Thuy-Tien M. Huynh, Hanne A. Eide, Barbara Vischioni, Ester Orlandi, Einar Dale

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Speciation of Clinically Significant Coagulase Negative Staphylococci Isolates from Clinical Samples and their Susceptibility Pattern: A Cross-sectional Study from Western Uttar Pr... by Priya, Ismat Rehana, Anita Pandey, Rajesh Kumar Shah, Jitendra Kumar Chaudhary

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Do gender differences matter in Acute Heart Failure? Insights from Indian College of Cardiology – National Heart Failure Registry, India by P.B. Jayagopal, C.N. Manjunath, A. Jabir, Sridhar L. Sastry, Veena Nanjappa, P.R. Vaidyanathan, Johny Joseph, Soma Sekhar Ghanta, P. Manokar, Nitin Kabra, Dharmendra Jain, Vinod Sharma, Trinath Kumar Mishra, R. Badri Narayanan, Narendra Jathappa, Gautam Rege, Sunil Modi, S.N. Routray, T.R. Raghu, Rabin Chakraborty, Dayasagar Rao, Shantanu Sengupta, K.S. Ravindranath, B.C. Srinivas, V.K. Chopra

“…Mortality rate Gender-based comparisons were tested at a 5 % level of significance. …”
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Unsupervised post-training learning in spiking neural networks by Reyhaneh Naderi, Arash Rezaei, Mahmood Amiri, Herbert Peremans

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Alternative Support Threshold Computation for Market Basket Analysis by Damiano Verda, Marco Muselli

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Impaired degree centrality and effective connectivity contributed to deficits in cognition and depression in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy by Bailing Qin, Shujun Su, Xuemei Chen, Yuting Sun, Qin Zhou, Huoyou Hu, Lu Qin, Jinou Zheng

“…The MVPA classifier yielded an area under the curve of 0.91, an accuracy classification rate of 82.47%, a sensitivity of 85.11%, and a specificity of 80.00% according to the granger causality analysis(GCA) maps and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. …”
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Growth dynamics, reproductive biology, and nutritional profiling of the freshwater mussel Lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck, 1819): implications for wild stock conservation and susta... by Md. Mostafizur Rahman Mondol, Dil Afroz Nahar, Md. Ayenuddin Haque, Sumaya Akter Tisha, Md. Raihan Ali, Saleha Jasmine, Noorashikin Md Noor, Simon Kumar Das, Takaomi Arai, Bilal Ahamad Paray, Mohammad Belal Hossain, Mohammad Belal Hossain

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Post-caesarean section infection burden, antimicrobial resistance pattern, and associated factors at all Africa Leprosy Rehabilitation and Training Center Comprehensive Specialized... by Namuna Ali, Sebsib Neway, Kassu Desta

“…In sub-Saharan Africa, the incidence is 7.3%, while Ethiopia reports rates as high as 10.4%. Risk factors include older age, prolonged hospitalization, and emergency surgeries, with common pathogens being S. aureus and E. coli. …”
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Concomitant body-wide trauma patterns in patients with head and neck injuries: a comparison based on the trauma register DGU® by the German trauma society and the dortmund maxillof... by Ákos Bicsák, Fatma Topcuoglu, Stefan Hassfeld, Rolf Lefering, Lars Bonitz, Jens-Peter Stahl

“…Conclusions Patients with HNI tend to have slightly different injury pattern in the whole body than non-HNI patients. Head and neck injuries in different locations show different patterns of concomitant injuries. …”
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Water supply conditions determine typical plantation water use strategies in Northern China by Yujia Chen, Tonggang Zha, Hongli Zhang, Lili Zhao, Ao Wang, Qingzhou Cui, Junling Song, Hengshuo Zhang, Yang Yu, Dongmei Wang

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