Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Boiling Heat Transfer in a 65 mm Horizontal Tube for Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery by Genying Gao, Zicheng Wang, Gaoqiao Li, Chizhong Wang, Lei Deng

“…A reduction in mass flow rate increases the gas phase fraction within the tube and causes the occurrence of identical flow patterns at earlier axial positions. …”
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FDEM Modelling of Rock Fracture Process during Three-Point Bending Test under Quasistatic and Dynamic Loading Conditions by Huaming An, Yushan Song, Hongyuan Liu

“…After that, the effects of the loading rate on the rock strength and rock fracture toughness are discussed, and the mesh size and mesh orientation on the fracture patterns are also discussed. …”
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Hybrid deep learning for IoT-based health monitoring with physiological event extraction by Sivanagaraju Vallabhuni, Kumar Debasis

“…It further enhanced the True Positive Rate (TPR) by 25% through using an online learning algorithm with Incremental Gradient Descent with Momentums. …”
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A comparative study on tobacco prevalence and secondhand smoke exposure before and after the lockdown in Rizhao, China: analysis of 2022 and 2024 data by Zhao-Hui Liang, Gui-Zhi Han, Miao-Miao Liu

“…The results showed that the current smoking rate declined significantly from 32.53 to 25.84% (χ2 = 10.08, p = 0.002), with daily smoking rate also slightly decreased from 20.44 to 19.33% (χ2 = 0.36, p = 0.551). …”
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Unveiling the drivers contributing to global wheat yield shocks through quantile regression by Srishti Vishwakarma, Xin Zhang, Vyacheslav Lyubchich

“…Here, we study the spatiotemporal patterns of wheat yield shocks, quantified by the lower quantiles of yield fluctuations, in 86 countries over 30 years. …”
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Fishery, Growth, and Mortality of Threatened Asian Sunfish, Horabagrus brachysoma (Gu¨nther 1864) in Five Rivers of Western Ghats Hotspot, India by Chelapurath Radhakrishnan Renjithkumar, Kuttanelloor Roshni

“…The calculated exploitation rate (E) ranging from 0.49 to 0.72 yr -¹ exceeds the anticipated optimum exploitation levels (0.5). …”
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Heterogeneity Analysis of Resident Demands and Public Service Facilities in Megacities of China from the Perspective of Urban Health Examination by Ning Zhang, Shaohua Wang, Haojian Liang, Zhuonan Huang, Xiao Li, Zhenbo Wang

“…By integrating spatial and temporal social sensing big data, including road networks, population, and points of interest (POI) data, and employing spatial analysis methods including coverage rate calculation, supply–demand matching efficiency, spatial heterogeneity, and sp{atial stability analysis, this study reveals the spatial distribution patterns of various facilities within cities, as well as the heterogeneity, balance, and equity of supply–demand matching efficiency between different cities. …”
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A Novel Carbon Fiber Composite Material for the Simulation of Damage Evolution in Thick Aquifers by Bozhi Zhao, Xing Gao, Weibing Zhu, Jiaxing Ding, Pengjun Gao

“…This study found that as the carbon fiber content increased, the evolution patterns of the electrical resistance change rate and the damage coefficient of the similar material tended to coincide. …”
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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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Justifying the use of structure-forming agents to increase storability of confectionery products with the foamy structure by N. B. Kondratev, O. S. Rudenko, E. V. Kazantsev, I. A. Belova, N. A. Petrova

“…Thus, the addition of gelatin makes it possible to reduce the rate of moisture transfer by approximately 2–3 times. …”
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Comparison of blue laser imaging and light‐emitting diode‐blue light imaging for the characterization of colorectal polyps using the Japan narrow‐band imaging expert team classific... by Masahiro Okada, Naohisa Yoshida, Hiroshi Kashida, Yoshikazu Hayashi, Satoshi Shinozaki, Shiori Yoshimoto, Toshihiro Fujinuma, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Keijiro Sunada, Yuri Tomita, Osamu Dohi, Ken Inoue, Ryohei Hirose, Yoshito Itoh, Yoriaki Komeda, Ikue Sekai, Natsuki Okai, Alan Kawarai Lefor, Hironori Yamamoto

“…The surface patterns, vessel patterns, and brightness are almost similar.…”
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Exploration of fever characteristics in parturients under continuous temperature monitoring during labor analgesia and analysis of the impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes: an... by Xia Li, Xia Li, Junli Ma

“…Additionally, the fever group had a higher rate of meconium-stained amniotic fluid (grade III), used more analgesics, and had a higher rate of antibiotic use. …”
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Methodological development study: Dynamic mask attention graph neural network for mechanical ventilation in elderly intensive care unit patients by Yi Xie, Ni Xie, Jiao Guo

“…Results The experiments showed that DymaGNN achieved an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.8363 and 0.8557 on the intubation prediction task on MIMIC-IV and eICU datasets, respectively, and maintained an AUC of 0.8115 under a 15% data missing rate. Visualization of the feature interaction graph revealed the relationship between important features such as respiratory rate and oxygen saturation. …”
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Generating Large Time–Bandwidth Product RF-Chirped Waveforms Using Vernier Dual-Optical Frequency Combs by Mohammed S. Alshaykh

“…In this work, we propose a photonics-based large-TBWP RF chirp generator utilizing dual optical frequency combs with a small difference in the repetition rate. By employing dispersion modules for frequency-to-time mapping, we convert the spectral interferometric patterns into a temporal RF sinusoidal carrier signal whose frequency is swept through the optical shot-to-shot delay. …”
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Characteristics of left ventricular dysfunction in repaired tetralogy of Fallot: A multi-institutional deep learning analysis of regional strain and dyssynchrony by Brendan T. Crabb, Rahul S. Chandrupatla, Evan M. Masutani, Sophie Y. Wong, Sachin Govil, Silvia Montserrat, Susana Prat-González, Julián Vega-Adauy, Melany Atkins, Daniel Lorenzatti, Chiara Zocchi, Elena Panaioli, Nathalie Boddaert, Laith Alshawabkeh, Lewis Hahn, Sanjeet Hegde, Andrew D. McCulloch, Francesca Raimondi, Albert Hsiao

“…In the multivariate analysis, this contraction pattern was the only LV metric associated with future progression to PVR (heart rate = 2.69, p < 0.005). …”
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Epidemiological Characteristics of Human Rabies in Urban and Suburban Districts in Shanghai, 2006–2021 by Zhi Li, Jiayu Hu, Zhuoying Huang, Xiang Guo, Jia Ren, Jing Qiu, Xiaoying Ma, Han Yan, Fang Huang, Xiaodong Sun

“…The body parts most frequently injured by dogs were the hands (48.84%). The fatality rate was 100%. Most cases (86.05%) were not treated after exposure. …”
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Intelligent Prediction of Lost Circulation and Gas Invasion in Cementing Operations Based on ACO-SWXGBoost by Wei Ji, Mengyuan Xiong, Shuangjin Zheng

“…The model extracts both raw features and slope-based variations of key parameters—flow rate, pressure, and density—to enhance representation, incorporates a sliding window and time decay mechanism to capture dynamic patterns, and leverages ACO to optimize hyperparameters for improved predictive performance. …”
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Statistical Analysis of a Generalized Variant of the Weibull Model Under Unified Hybrid Censoring with Applications to Cancer Data by Mazen Nassar, Refah Alotaibi, Ahmed Elshahhat

“…Characterized by one scale parameter and two shape parameters, the proposed model offers enhanced flexibility for modeling diverse lifetime data patterns and hazard rate behaviors. Notably, its hazard rate function can exhibit five distinct shapes, including upside-down bathtub and bathtub shapes. …”
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A Frequency-Aware Transformer for Multiscale Fault Diagnosis in Electrical Machines by Yurim Choi, Inwhee Joe

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves 99.9% diagnostic accuracy by maintaining an exceptionally low false alarm rate and missed detection rate, thereby ensuring high reliability. …”
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