Global trends in polycystic ovarian syndrome over 30 years: an age-period-cohort study of 204 countries and territories (1990–2021) by Lanxiang Lin, Wenhui Li, Baozhu Xu, Yuefeng Li, Jin Li, Xiangjun Kong, Xin Du

“…High SDI regions recorded the highest incidence rates, with a rate of 90.13 per 100,000 (95% CI: 66.94 to 122.36). …”
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Cause of death statistics in 2022 in the Republic of Korea by Jung-Hyun Oh, Juhee Seo, Hyun Jung Park

“…Purpose This study aimed to describe mortality trends in the Republic of Korea in 2022 by analyzing total deaths, crude and age-standardized mortality rates, as well as age- and sex-specific patterns and changes in cause-specific mortality. …”
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Assessment of the functional state of left heart in patients with chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by D. V. Vdovenko, R. A. Libis

“…Patients with CHF-PEF had reduced global longitudinal strain (GLS) -16,56±2,61% and GLS rate (GLSR) -0,75±0,11s-1 of the left ventricle and reduced segmental strain and strain rate in basal anteroseptal (-14,72±2,54% and -0,76±0,05s-1) and basal anterolateral (-14,27±3,29% and -0,79±0,12s-1) segments. …”
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Comparison and Evaluation of Rain Gauge, CMORPH, TRMM PR and GPM DPR KuPR Precipitation Products over South China by Rui Wang, Huiping Li, Hao Huang, Liangliang Li

“…This study conducts a comparative evaluation of precipitation products from rain gauge stations, Climate Prediction Center morphing technique (CMORPH), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission precipitation radar (TRMM PR) version 7 and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar Ku band (DPR KuPR) version 6 orbital observations during the common observational period (April–September 2014) across South China. The spatial patterns and probability density function of rain rates from four precipitation products show similar features. …”
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Epidemic Trends and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Hepatitis B in China: Surveillance Study by Xiaoxue Li, Jie Liang, Lanqing Ma, Shijie Shen, Xueying Han, Tao Sun, Heng Guo

“…The age effect showed that the incidence rate of hepatitis B reached its peak at the age of 22 years, with an average incidence rate of 176.173/100,000. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of maternal disorders, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the global burden of disease study 2021 by Jie Huang, Yuanyuan Man, Zan Shi, Xiaojie Fu, Wenhao Shi, Xiaoling Liang

“…The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD), recognized as the most comprehensive epidemiological surveillance system, provides critical evidence for optimizing maternal health policies through systematic quantification of disease burden patterns. This multinational study employs GBD 2021 data to conduct a spatiotemporal analysis of maternal disorder burden across 21 GBD regions and 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021, utilizing standardized metrics including DALYs, prevalence rates, and mortality incidence. …”
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Exploring Litter Decomposition, Nutrient Retention, and Sensitivity to Nitrogen Deposition Among Ancient and Recently Evolved Tree Species by Chaozhi Peng, Tong Chen, Wei He, Li Mei, Zeyao Zhao, Jie Fan

“…Our research aimed to examine the decomposition rates and nutrient loss rates of leaf litter and fine roots from ancient and recently evolved species and their response to N deposition. …”
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Key Vital Signs Monitor Based on MIMO Radar by Michael Gottinger, Nicola Notari, Samuel Dutler, Samuel Kranz, Robin Vetsch, Tindaro Pittorino, Christoph Würsch, Guido Piai

“…This technique allows precise measurements of respiration patterns, periods of movement, and heart rate. Major practical problems arise as CW systems suffer from signal cancellation due to destructive interference, limited overall functionality, and a possibility of low signal quality over longer periods. …”
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Characteristics of Microseismic Generated During Shear Failure of Granite With Structural Plane of Various Connectivities by Xianzhe Liang, Zhicheng Hu, Xiufen Qin, Yaoqun Deng, Jianqing Jiang, Guoshao Su

“…Also, it can be found that in the middle-to-late stages of the tests, the b value initially drops to a very low level and then rises back to the original level; before rock failure, the b value continuously decreases at a swift rate, but the average rate of decrease increases with the increase in structural plane connectivity. …”
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Augmenting Coral Growth on Breakwaters: A Shelter-Based Approach by Almog Ben Natan, Natalie Chernihovsky, Nadav Shashar

“…No differences were found in coral settlement between the niches. Flow rate patterns remained similar in Exposed and Sheltered niches due to vortex formation in the Sheltered zones. …”
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Risk Factors of Clonally Related, Multi, and Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Severely Ill COVID-19 Patients by Meqdad Saleh Ahmed, Zirak Faqe Ahmed Abdulrahman, Zanan Mohammed Ameen Taha

“…The secondary infection of multi and extensively drug-resistant “Acinetobacter baumannii” in severely ill COVID-19 individuals is usually associated with extended hospitalisation and a high mortality rate. The current study aimed to assess the exact incidence rate of A. baumannii coinfection in severely ill COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICUs), to identify the possible mechanism of A. baumannii transfer to COVID-19 patients and to find out their resistance rate against different antibiotics. …”
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Structural and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Al-Doped Zinc-Oxide Thin Films by Bong Ju Lee, Ho Jun Song, Jin Jeong

“…The charge-carrier concentrations in the films decreased from 1.69 × 1021 to 6.16 × 1017 cm−3 with increased gas flow rate from 7 to 21 sccm. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns show that the (002)/(103) peak-intensity ratio decreased as the gas flow rate increased, which was related to the increase of AZO thin film disorder. …”
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Senior high school students’ competence in logical operation and logical reasoning by Kodirun, Kadir, Busnawir, Wa Ode Indrawati

“…Students performed best on geometric problems (70.05%), followed by algebra, statistics, and calculus problems, with the lowest success rate in calculus-related logical problems (28.04%). …”
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SUSCEPTIBLE VACCINATED INFECTED RECOVERED MODEL WITH THE EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING AND ITS APPLICATION TO PNEUMONIA DATA IN INDONESIA by Purnami Widyaningsih, Ghufron Musta'in, Dewi Retno Sari Saputro

“…The free target can also be achieved by increasing the exclusive breastfeeding rate to 73.9% and the Hib vaccination rate to 0.22.…”
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Study on temperature field characteristics of window glass unexposed surfaces under varying indoor fire source conditions by Zhihan Li, Guowei Zhang, Longfei Yu, Yinxin Qu, Xiangfei Liu

“…Increased HRR amplified spatial disparities in warming rate increments while these disparities escalated proportionally with fire intensity. …”
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Anomaly detection of smart grid stealing network attacks based on deep autoencoder by Huang Yan, Li Jincan, Yang Xiaqin, Li Pei, Li Zi

“…Simulation results demonstrate that the detector with an attention mechanism (AEA) achieves a 4%~21% higher detection rate and a 4%~13% lower false alarm rate compared to the best-performing existing detectors.…”
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Acoustical Enrichment during Early Development Improves Response Reliability in the Adult Auditory Cortex of the Rat by Zbyněk Bureš, Kateryna Pysanenko, Jiří Lindovský, Josef Syka

“…Here, we show that rearing rat pups in a complex acoustically enriched environment leads to an increased reliability of responses of AC neurons, affecting both the rate and the temporal codes. For a repetitive stimulus, the neurons exhibit a lower spike count variance, indicating a more stable rate coding. …”
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Differences in geochemical characteristics of produced water from coalbed methane wells and their indications for drainage：A case study of the Santang Syncline in Western Guizhou by Xiaozhi ZHOU, Shuaiqi WANG, Shiliang ZHU, Shaolei WANG, Gang XIANG, Xuehua CHEN, Jihang DONG, Xin QIU

“…Combined with the monitoring of the water quality and hydrochemical characteristics of the produced water from CBM wells, the overflow release process after fracturing is divided into four stages: trial flowback, constant-rate flowback, slow increase of the flowback rate, and rapid decrease of the flowback rate. …”
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PREVALENCE OF CONGENITAL CLEFT LIP AND PALATE IN UKRAINE by V.V. Filonenko, O.А. Kaniura, B.I. Palamar, N.V. Bidenko

“…The triggers of this pattern are declining birth rate, high death rate, reduction in the possibility of using quality medical care, non-return of refugees, reduction of the participation of new recruits in the demographic process, negative economic performance of the temporarily occupied territories. …”
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Tear Lipid Layer Thickness in Children after Short-Term Overnight Orthokeratology Contact Lens Wear by Li Zeng, Zhi Chen, Dan Fu, Jiaqi Zhou, Xingtao Zhou

“…LLT was significantly correlated with rate of partial blinks at every follow-up (all p<0.05). …”
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