The Prevalence of Anatomical Variations of the Median Nerve in the Carpal Tunnel: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Brandon Michael Henry, Helena Zwinczewska, Joyeeta Roy, Jens Vikse, Piravin Kumar Ramakrishnan, Jerzy A Walocha, Krzysztof A Tomaszewski

“…Our aim was to determine the prevalence rates of anatomical variations of the MN in the carpal tunnel and the most common course patterns and variations in its thenar motor branch (TMB).…”
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Prognostic Indicators and Comparative Treatment Outcomes in High-Risk Thyroid Cancer with Laryngotracheal Invasion by Eman A. Toraih, Jessan A. Jishu, Mohammad H. Hussein, Aly A. M. Shaalan, Manal S. Fawzy, Emad Kandil

“…Tracheal and laryngeal invasion rates declined from 3.7%–0.7% and 1.5%–0.6%, respectively, from 2000 to 2015. …”
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Carbon taxation in Europe by A. V. Korytin, N. S. Kostrykina, T. A. Malinina

“…In Sweden and Switzerland the excise rate is in direct proportion to the carbon content of the fuel, however in the UK, Norway and France excise rates are set more voluntary. …”
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Divergent confidence intervals among pre-specified analyses in the HiSTORIC stepped wedge trial: An exploratory post-hoc investigation. by Richard A Parker, Catriona Keerie, Christopher J Weir, Atul Anand, Nicholas L Mills

“…Divergence was particularly acute for the safety endpoint, which had an event rate of 0.36% overall. Examining the raw data was particularly helpful to assess the sensitivity of the results to small changes in event rates and identify patterns in the data.…”
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Paediatric Measles in Romania: A Comparative Clinical and Epidemiological Analysis of the 2017–2019 and 2023–2024 Epidemic Waves at a Tertiary Care Centre in Bucharest by Gheorghiță Jugulete, Mădălina Maria Merișescu, Bianca Borcos, Alexandra Nicoleta Totoianu, Anca Oana Dragomirescu

“…A retrospective analysis evaluated mortality rates, distribution by age and sex, as well as clinical disease patterns. …”
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Unpacking Violence: Examining Socioeconomic, Psychological, and Genetic Drivers of Gun-Related Homicide and Potential Solutions by John Menezes, Kavita Batra

“…African Americans experienced homicide rates of 23.1 per 100,000, ten times the rate among Whites. …”
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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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[Artículo traducido] Panorama actual del melanoma en Portugal, España, Italia y Grecia: tendencias y perspectivas by L. Cayuela, J.J. Pereyra-Rodríguez, J.C. Hernández-Rodríguez, R.C. Bueno-Molina, A. Cayuela

“…Abstract: Objective: To study melanoma incidence trends from 1990 to 2021 in Southern European countries—Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece—and explore regional and age-period-cohort (A-P-C) patterns. Methods: Data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 were used to calculate age-standardized incidence rates (ASIRs). …”
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ESTIMATION OF THE ASYMMETRIC VERTICAL VARIATION OF THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN HEMISPHERES OF THE EARTH by Wen-Bin Shen Wen-Bin Shen, Rong Sun Rong Sun, Yu. Barkin, Ziyu Shen Ziyu Shen

“…Transformation between the velocity fields under ITRF2008 and ITRF2000 can explain why different authors have different conclusions about the expan­sion/compression pattern of one hemisphere or the other. Anyway, the entire Earth is expanding at a rate about 0.2 mm/yr, and this estimation coincides with results of our previous studies. …”
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Effectiveness of the sterile insect technique in controlling Aedes albopictus as part of an integrated control measure: evidence from a first small-scale field trial in Switzerland by Diego Parrondo Monton, Damiana Ravasi, Valentina Campana, Francesco Pace, Arianna Puggioli, Matteo Tanadini, Eleonora Flacio

“…Similar spatial trends were observed for hatch rates and adult females (P < 0.01). These findings highlight both the overall effectiveness of SIT and the influence of mosquito immigration on spatial patterns. …”
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Rapid radiations underlie most of the known diversity of life by John J. Wiens, Daniel S. Moen

“…Specifically, we quantify how much of Earth’s species richness is contained within rapid radiations (clades with high net diversification rates). We find that among the major clades of living organisms and among land plant phyla and animal phyla, &gt;80% of known species richness is contained within the few clades in the upper 90th percentile for diversification rates in each group. …”
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Regional Demographic History of Shaanxi Province from the Founding of the People’s Republic of China to the Beginning of the Cultural Revolution (1949–1966) by Svetlana B. Makeeva

“…The author considers positive demographic changes in the province, among which are increased birth rates and decreased mortality rates, growth of population in general, and an influx of internal migrants from other Chinese regions into the province. …”
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Function Delivery Network: A Spatial-Temporal Execution Orchestrator for Optimizing Serverless Computing by Joel R. Corporan, Arshdeep Bahga, Vijay K. Madisetti

“…Our results demonstrate significant improvements in resource utilization, execution time, and request completion rates. The FDN reduces function instance allocation by up to 97.82%, improves median response times by 45.45%, and maintains higher request completion rates at high concurrency levels compared to native FaaS execution. …”
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Microsaccades and Visual-Spatial Working Memory by Joshua T. Gaunt, Bruce Bridgeman

“…Intervening tasks during the memory interval affected memory as well as microsaccade patterns. Average microsaccade rate peaks after appearance of a fixation cross at the start of a trial, and dips at cue onset and offset. …”
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Global burden and trends of self-harm from 1990 to 2021, with predictions to 2050 by Li Xie, Liangchen Tang, Yixin Liu, Zhenchao Dong, Xiaojun Zhang

“…Globally, the burden of self-harm was higher for males than for females. DALYs rates were highest among adolescents and young adults (20-29 years), whereas mortality rates showed a predominantly age-progressive pattern with the highest burden observed in middle-aged and older populations, albeit with a modest decline in the oldest age groups. …”
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Gene expression in uterine leiomyoma from tumors likely to be growing (from black women over 35) and tumors likely to be non-growing (from white women over 35). by Barbara J Davis, John I Risinger, Gadisetti V R Chandramouli, Pierre R Bushel, Donna Day Baird, Shyamal D Peddada

“…Growth rates for leiomyoma were on average much higher from older black women than for older white women, and we now report gene expression pattern differences in tumors from these two groups of study participants. …”
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Economic Clues to Crime: Insights from Mongolia by Dagvasuren Ganbold, Enkhbayar Jamsranjav, Young-Rae Kim, Erdenechuluun Jargalsaikhan

“…The empirical findings reveal that detection rates exert a statistically significant deterrent effect on robbery in the short term, while incarceration rates are effective in reducing theft. …”
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An Integrated Framework for Infectious Disease Control Using Mathematical Modeling and Deep Learning by Mohammed Salman, Pradeep Kumar Das, Sanjay Kumar Mohanty

“…Unlike the existing model, emphasis is given to suggesting a model that is capable of investigating stability while considering the effect of vaccination and migration rate. Next, the influence of vaccination on the rate of infection is effectively predicted using an efficient deep learning model by employing the long-term dependencies in sequential data. …”
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Endoscopic endonasal approaches for resection of suprasellar pituitary neuroendocrine tumors: a novel classification based on the optic chiasm and operative nuances by Xuechao Wu, Cuiping Sun, Wei Tian, Zhongyuan Bao, Hongwei Gao, Jing Wang, Xiaojie Lu, Qing Wang

“…Conclusion The classification of suprasellar PitNETs into four types based on their relationship with the optic chiasm enhances our understanding of tumor growth patterns and aids in preoperative assessment. Consequently, determining individualized surgical strategies using EEAs for suprasellar PitNETs can lead to higher resection rates and better visual outcomes.…”
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Epidemiological trends and age-period-cohort effects on periodontal diseases incidence across the BRICS from 1992 to 2021 by Xiaochan Wang, Yuting Xu, Xiangming Ma, Ruixing Nan, Yuhang Wu, Peiyu Cheng

“…Data on the total population and periodontal diseases cases, all-age incidence rate, age-standardized incidence rate, and relative change in periodontal diseases incidence from 1992 to 2021 within BRICS were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) 2021. …”
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