Global, regional and national burden of asthma from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Liwen Zhang, Jilei Lin, Jing Zhang, ShuHua Yuan, Mingyu Tang, Yong Yin, Hejun Jiang, Guijun Yang, Jiande Chen, Jiajun Yuan

“…The results of the joinpoint analysis indicated a global age-standardised incidence rate increase between 2005 and 2010 for both males and females. …”
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Impacts of Skill Centrality on Regional Economic Productivity and Occupational Income by Keith Waters, Shade T. Shutters

“…We find that occupations with higher skill centrality are associated with greater annual salaries, and metropolitan areas with higher skill centrality have higher productivity rates. Overall, these results suggest that the application of traditional network metrics to this view of cities as complex networks can offer new insights into the dynamics of regional economies.…”
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Muted Amazon Rainfall Response to Deforestation in a Global Storm‐Resolving Model by Arim Yoon, Cathy Hohenegger

“…Previous studies have found that complete deforestation reduces evapotranspiration, contributing to low precipitation rates that would limit the regrowth of the forest, but such studies have used climate models with convective parameterization and/or fixed large‐scale circulation. …”
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Lifestyle factors associated with being overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Zhejiang, China by Xiaoting Pan, Chaoyi Jiang, Wenqing Wang, Jianfeng Lin

“…Additionally, the rates among adolescents and children in urban areas were greater than those in rural areas (25.8% vs. 20.5%, p = 0.003). …”
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Synergistic effect of ammonium and potassium on carrot growth, physio-biochemical mechanisms, and water use efficiency under varying irrigation regimes by Ayman M. S. Elshamly, Ahmed D. S. Abaza, Abd El-Zaher M. A. Mustafa, Humaira Rizwana, Javed Iqbal, Shabir Ahmad, Rashid Iqbal, Nazim S. Gruda

“…Carrot plants were treated with two rates of soil ammonium nitrate (200 and 250 kg N ha− 1), foliar potassium humate (200 and 400 g 100 L− 1), and four combinations of these treatments. …”
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Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa T3SS virulence genes and correlation between virulence and drug resistance and molecular epidemiology studies by Jianhua Tang, Jianhua Tang, Jiekun Pu, Linbo Zhao, Xuli Zhan, Qianqian Pang, Xiangyan Meng, Rui Feng, Haojun Fan

“…The highest detection rate of T3SS virulence genes was for exoT (100%), followed by exoS, exoY (88.9%), and exoU (11.1%). …”
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Trends in Colistin Resistance and Multidrug-Resistant Phenotypes Among Gram-Negative Bacilli: A Retrospective Analysis by Madalina Alexandra Vlad, Maria Dan, Andreea Nicoleta Catana, Sebastian Dumitriu, Cristina Gabriela Tuchilus

“…Resistance in <i>Pseudomonas</i> spp. remained below 1%, while <i>Acinetobacter</i> spp. showed a resistance rate of 5.43%. Several distinct resistance phenotypes were identified among <i>Klebsiella</i> spp., <i>Pseudomonas</i> spp., and <i>Acinetobacter</i> spp. strains, reflecting both endemic and sporadic circulation patterns. …”
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Translation of the UK Pediatric Influenza Vaccination Programme in Primary Schools to 13 European Countries Using a Dynamic Transmission Model by Laetitia Gerlier, Judith Hackett, Richard Lawson, Sofia Dos Santos Mendes, Martin Eichner

“…# Objectives To simulate the impact of a pediatric influenza vaccination programme using quadrivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine (QLAIV) in Europe by applying coverage rates achieved in the United Kingdom during the 2014–2015 season and to compare the model outcomes to the UK results…”
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Leveraging U-Net and ASPP for effective fault detection in photovoltaic modules by Khalfalla Awedat, Masoud Alajmi, Mustafa Elfituri

“…Additionally, the U-Net-ASPP_Cent and U-Net-ASPP_Diag configurations provided IoU gains of 1.18% and 1.96%, respectively, while also reducing false positive rates. These results highlight the effectiveness of incorporating region-specific dilation strategies, enhancing the model’s ability to detect diverse and challenging fault patterns in complex thermal imagery. …”
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Residual NAPL Architectures in Fractures: Insights From Microfluidic Experiments by Kun Xing, Xiaoqing Shi, Amalia Kokkinaki, Zhibing Yang, Liangchao Zou, Jichun Wu

“…Three distinct residual NAPL architectures were identified, Pools Pattern (PP), Ganglia Pattern (GP), and Mixed Pattern (MP), affected by aperture heterogeneities and flow rates. …”
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Emergence of antibiotic resistance in bloodstream infections associated with catheters in hemodialysis patients: a prospective observational study by Mohammad Bhat, Danish Muqbool, Rayees Yousuf, Manzoor Parry, Amir Farooq, Muzamil Wani, Imran Khan, Imtiyaz Wani, Muzafar Wani

“…Background: Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) are a significant cause of hospitalization and mortality among hemodialysis patients. Incidence rates and resistance patterns vary widely. Recent studies show a rise in CRBSIs caused by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of nonrheumatic calcific aortic valve disease based on GBD study 2021 by Baiqiang Wang, Zeyuan Mei, Hong Yang, Wei Gao, Lianyue Ma, Guipeng An

“…While both the ASPR and age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) steadily increased, the age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) and age-standardized DALYs rate (ASDR) declined. …”
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Antimicrobial resistance and beta-lactamase gene distribution among clinical isolates: a two-year cohort study by Yasser Alraey, Mohammed Mushabub Assiry, Irfan Ahmad, Abdulaziz Alqahtani, Nada Basheer, Mohammed A. M. AlAsiri, Saleh A. M. Alshehri, Saeed M. S. Alhamhhum, Sultan Mohammed Alhefdi, Mohd Shahid Khan, Mohd Saleem, Abdulah A. S. Bawazeer

“…The tests on antimicrobial resistance demonstrated that Imipenem (95%), along with Tigecycline (97%), were effective, but Norfloxacin (97.1%) and Cotrimoxazole (46%) had notable resistance patterns. The results showed an ESBL detection rate of 312 among Escherichia coli isolates, but MBL counts reached 83, and AmpC beta-lactamase production amounted to 142. blaCTX-M emerged as the leading ESBL gene type (38.1%) among a total of 142 collected E. coli strains, which also demonstrated blaOXA-48 (25.3%) and blaNDM (22.7%) as their prevalent MBL genes. …”
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Three‒Dimensional Numerical Simulation of the Breaching Process of Landslide Dams with Heterogeneous Structures by HU Xianrui, PENG Ming, FU Xiaoli, YANG Ge, ZHU Yan, SHI Zhenming, ZHANG Gongding

“…The middle layer (V2) governed vertical incision rates: fine-grained layers accelerated downward erosion, whereas coarse layers formed headcuts that restricted further deepening. …”
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Incidence, prevalence, and burden of type 2 diabetes in China: Trend and projection from 1990 to 2050 by Haojie Zhang, Qingyi Jia, Peige Song, Yongze Li, Lihua Jiang, Xianghui Fu, Sheyu Li, Jinjiao Li

“…Background:. The epidemiological pattern and disease burden of type 2 diabetes have been shifting in China over the past decades. …”
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Dynamics of Irregular Freshwater Lenses Evolution in Thin Aquifers of Reclaimed Circular Islands by Chenchen Gao, Tianyuan Zheng, Qinpeng Chang, Xilai Zheng, Xiaoran Song, Jian Luo

“…Furthermore, increased recharge rates notably accelerate freshwater formation and increase the proportion of freshwater volume. …”
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Clinical and Epidemiological Characterization of Patients Diagnosed with Cerebrovascular Disease at the Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima University General Hospital in Cienfuegos by Roberto Castellanos Hernández, Amanda Avello Rodríguez, Tomás Castillo Juiz

“…The most frequent type of stroke was atherothrombotic (292, 37.8 %). A case fatality rate of 19.7 % was reported. A significant association was found between hemorrhagic stroke and higher case fatality. …”
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Analysis of the intellectual structure of knowledge regarding drought vulnerability assessment by Zeinab Asadpourian, Yaser Mohammadi

“…Findings: Results indicated that the growth rate of publications in DVA is approximately 16.5%, with notable increases in both the quality and citation rates of articles over the years. …”
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