Spatiotemporal Simulation of Tourist Town Growth Based on the Cellular Automata Model: The Case of Sanpo Town in Hebei Province by Jun Yang, Peng Xie, Jianchao Xi, Quansheng Ge, Xueming Li, Fanqiang Kong

“…Results showed that (1) average annual growth rate of the entire region was 1.5 Ha2 per year from 2005 to 2010, 4 Ha2 per year from 2010 to 2015, and 2.5 Ha2 per year from 2015 to 2020; (2) urban growth rate increased yearly, with regional differences, and had a high degree of correlation with the Euclidean distance of town center, traffic route, attractions, and other factors; (3) Gougezhuang, an important village center in the west of the town, demonstrated traffic advantages and increased growth rate since 2010; (4) Magezhuang village has the largest population in the region, so economic advantages have driven the development of rural urbanization. …”
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Comparison of peripheral nerve injury outcomes between COVID-19 survivors and non-COVID rehabilitation inpatients: A retrospective study by Antonio Mondríguez-González, Brian M. Rothemich, Manasi Sheth, Kevin N. Swong, Colin K. Franz

“…COVID-19 patients have elevated rates of medical comorbidities, including risk factors for acquired PNI, such as diabetes mellitus and obesity. …”
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Trends in type 1 diabetes incidence among children and adolescents in Bursa (2015-2022): impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and demographic insights by Yasemin Denkboy Öngen, Özlem Kara, Emine Demet Akbaş, Güven Özkaya, Erdal Eren

“…Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) rates showed a significant rise over time, particularly in severe DKA cases during the pandemic. …”
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The clinical spectrum and cost implications of hospitalised HIV-infected children at Karl Bremer Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa by C.S. Schoeman, Michael K. Pather

“…Worksheets were used to record any costs incurred, which were calculated at rates applicable to 2001. This was done daily during admission. …”
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Comparative efficacy of half-dose and one-third-dose photodynamic therapy in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy: a retrospective study by Mohsen Farvardin, Dorna Eghtedari, Maryam Shahmohammadi, Mohammadkarim Johari

“…The recurrence rate of SRF was significantly higher in the one-third-dose group (20%) compared to the half-dose group (7.5%) (P =.015). …”
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Epidemiology and temporal trends of childhood type 1 diabetes in China: an analysis of the GBD 2021 by Feng Jin, Limin Xie, Guocheng Wang, Yu Pan, Cuijia Wang, Wei Li, Wei Li, Wei Li, Wei Li

“…Joinpoint regression analysis was applied to evaluate changes in incidence and mortality rates from 1990 to 2021, complemented by autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and exponential smoothing state space (ETS) models to project disease trends through 2040.ResultsThe results indicate a rising trend in the incidence of childhood T1D among Chinese children aged 0-14 years, alongside an overall decline in mortality, reflecting an epidemiological pattern characterized by low incidence yet non-negligible mortality. …”
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Intermittent ne-waza exercise leads to greater effort in uke compared to tori in prepubescent judo athletes by Bayram Ceylan, Furkan Öztürk, Hasan Basri Taskin, Ugur Sarikaya, Sükrü Serdar Balci

“…Athletes also reported significantly higher RPE scores in the uke role than in the tori role, indicating greater perceptual demands in prepubescent judo athletes, despite similar heart rate patterns between roles. …”
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Identification and characteristics of antimicrobial-resistant Group B Streptococcus isolated from maternal birth canals at a university-affiliated hospital, China by Hong Zhang, Wen-Li Liu, Jia-Lin Liu, Ming-Cheng Li

“…Purpose of investigation: This study aimed to ascertain the colonization rate of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in the birth canals of late-pregnant women, and to demonstrate the characteristics of the origins of antibiotic-resistance. …”
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Deterioration mechanism and stochastic damage modeling of tunnel lining concrete in hydrothermal corrosive environments by Yu Ning, Zhiwei Yan, Yanhua Zeng, Chunwei Zhang, Yucang Dong

“…The study results indicate that the mass loss rate exhibits a trend of decreasing and then increasing as the degree of corrosion increases. …”
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Public perception of climate change in the cold regions of Russia: an example of Yakutia by O. A. Anisimov, Ye. L. Ziltcova, Yu. I. Zhegusov

“…The rate of climate change in the Russian cold regions is nearly twice larger than the global‑mean rate. …”
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Rib and Sternum Fractures From Falls: Global Burden of Disease and Predictions by Zhanghao Huang, Jun Zhu

“…Results: From 1990 to 2021, the age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) and age-standardized prevalence rate (ASPR) generally showed an upward trend, although male ASIR, and ASPR displayed a slight decline. …”
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Thermodynamically consistent modeling of granular soils using physics-informed neural networks by Nazanin Irani, Mohammad Salimi, Torsten Wichtmann

“…The material dissipation rate is calculated using the total work input and a free energy potential expressed in terms of stress invariants. …”
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MLCRP: ML-Based GPU Cache Performance Modeling Featured With Reuse Profiles by Minjung Cho, Eui-Young Chung

“…In the data preparation stage, synthetic RP-based traces are generated from parameterized distributions to simulate diverse and non-stationary memory patterns. In the training stage, a regression-based ML model is trained to capture the relationship between RP features, cache configurations, and performance metrics such as miss rate and miss status holding register (MSHR) merge rate. …”
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A Comparative Study on Fracture Characteristics of the Red Sandstone under Water and Nitrogen Gas Fracturing by Yanan Gao, Feng Gao, Zekai Wang, Peng Hou

“…However, for the nitrogen gas fracturing, the breakdown pressure almost does not change with the loading rate as the nitrogen gas can easily penetrate the specimen from the radial direction.…”
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Burden analysis of diabetic nephropathy caused by excessive intake of sugar-sweetened beverages in high and low SDI regions by Xue Wang, Guangyan Cai, Qing Ouyang, Xiangmei Chen

“…The results revealed distinct patterns and trends in age-standardized rates of deaths, DALYs, YLDs, and YLLs between the two regions.…”
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Benefits of aldosterone receptor antagonism in chronic kidney disease: the BARACK-D RCT by F D Richard Hobbs, Richard McManus, Clare Taylor, Nicholas Jones, Joy Rahman, Jane Wolstenholme, Louise Jones, Jennifer Hirst, Sam Mort, Ly-Mee Yu

“…These higher rates of negative renal change reduced in scale over the study but did not equalise between arms. …”
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PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARDS OF YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA ISOLATED FROM SHEEP AND GOAT MILK by Dhary Alewy Almashhadany, Bakhtawar Omer, Sarah Hameed, Hero Ismael Mohammed

“…The present study examines the prevalence of raw goat and sheep milk contamination with Y. enterocolitica collected from Erbil Governorate, Iraq while analyzing the antibacterial resistance profiles of the isolated strains and monitoring seasonal variations in contamination and resistance patterns. Methods: Raw milk samples were collected from a total of 300 animals (150 each from sheep and goat), the samples were tested using culture-based detection methods, yielding a contamination rate of 9.7%. …”
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Quantifying transmission and immunity dynamics of multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants using models and epidemic data from a highly populated area. by Monica S Shah, Jiyoung Lee, Laura W Pomeroy

“…On average, transmission rates were lowest for the ancestral strain and highest for the Omicron variant. …”
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Effectiveness and Safety of Korean Medicine in Treating Female Infertility: A Prospective Multicenter Observational Study by Jung HJ, Kim DI, Choi SJ, Park JK, Lee JM

“…Among the analyzed participants, the clinical pregnancy rate, ongoing pregnancy rate, and live birth rate were 20.8% (95% CI, 13.9– 30.0%), 70.0% (95% CI, 48.1– 85.5%), and 13.5% (95% CI, 8.1– 21.8%), respectively. …”
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DYNAMICS OF INCIDENCE WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN THE POPULATION OF KUZBASS AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR THE PERIOD 2011-2019 by Андрей Георгиевич Петров, Николай Владимирович Абрамов, Сергей Анатольевич Макаров, Сергей Николаевич Филимонов, Виктор Андреевич Семенихин, Наталья Степановна Черных

“…In 2014, the incidence rate decreased to 129.3 cases per 100 thousand population. …”
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