Use of multiple metrics and clustering analysis to assess antimicrobial use in Shanxi hospitals, China: a cross-sectional study based on 25 general hospitals by Donghong Yin, Donghong Yin, Yang Tang, Song Wang, Shuyun Wang, Ruigang Hou, Ruigang Hou, Jinju Duan, Jinju Duan

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the current patterns of antimicrobial use among nonsurgical inpatients across 25 general hospitals in Shanxi Province and to evaluate the antimicrobial use rate, antimicrobial use density (AUD), days of therapy (DOT), length of therapy (LOT), and the application of cluster analysis in monitoring antimicrobial prescribing practices.MethodsThis study included 25 general hospitals covering 11 cities in Shanxi Province. …”
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Analysis of fibrous material deformation in the roll contact zone by Khurramov Shavkat, Abrorov Akbar, Abdullaev Akhror, Norov Nusiratjon, Baymatov Shakhriddin

“…The analytical description of the shape of contact curves and the thickness of processed material in the technological zone of a two-roll module in a dynamic mode is given, considering the deformation pattern of the processed material. It is determined that one of the factors that most influence the shape of the contact curve is the ratio of the compression rate of the coating deformation to the corresponding material feed rate. …”
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Spatial Inequality and Accessibility of Senior High School Education in Bonebolango Regency by Aljunaid Bakari, Firman Sidik

“…The results of this study show that the availability of high school facilities in Bonebolango Regency has not met the needs of the upper school-age community, because it has not been able to accommodate 80% of the high school age population in each sub-district. The occupancy rate is also uneven, with four high schools having an occupancy rate above 80% of the temporary capacity and 11 high schools having an occupancy rate of less than 50% of their capacity Based on the analysis of the nearest neighbors, the distribution pattern of high schools in Bonebolango Regency is relatively random, with a value of 0.975337 and a z-score of -0.030915. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification of Diabetes Utilizing Confusion Matrix Analysis by Maad M. Mijwil, Mohammad Aljanabi

“…Mainly, logistic regression and Adaboost had a classification rate above 92%, and the naive bayes algorithm achieved a classification rate above 90%. …”
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Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in Novosibirsk region during 1992–2015 by I. Ya. Izvekova, E. I. Krasnova

“…Aim: To study the epidemiological patterns of invasive meningococcal disease in Novosibirsk region within a time period from 1992 to 2015.Methods: retrospective comparative epidemiological analysis.Results: During the analyzed period the annual incidence rate of invasive meningococcal disease was higher than average annual incidence rate in Russian Federation. …”
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Personal recognition using finger knuckle shape oriented features and texture analysis by K. Usha, M. Ezhilarasan

“…The experimental results confirm that, our proposed method shows a high recognition rate of 98.72% with lower false acceptance rate of 0.06%.…”
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Spatiotemporal Variations in Human Activity Intensity Along the Qinghai–Tibet Railway and Analysis of Its Decoupling Process from Ecological Environment Quality Changes by Fengli Zou, Qingwu Hu, Lei Liao, Yuqi Liu, Haidong Li, Xujie Zhang

“…From 2013 to 2020, the growth rate began to slow. Within a 0–30 km buffer zone centered on railway station locations (with a 15 km radius), the growth rate of human activity intensity generally decreased with increasing distance from the railway. …”
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Characteristics of malaria vector populations and transmission before a randomised controlled trial assessing the efficacy of next-generation insecticide-treated nets in Côte d’Ivo... by Ludovic Phamien Ahoua Alou, Alphonsine Amanan Koffi, Edouard Dangbenon, Soromane Camara, Joseph Biggs, Marius Gonse Zoh, Serge Brice Assi, Colette Sih, Benoit Talbot, Manisha Ann Kulkarni, Louisa Alexandra Messenger, Natacha Protopopoff, Jackie Cook, Raphael N’Guessan

“…Plasmodium sporozoite infections were detected by qPCR to estimate infection rates. The entomological inoculation rate was calculated as the product of the mosquito biting rate and the sporozoite infection rate. …”
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Loss aversion and evidence accumulation in short-video addiction: A behavioral and neuroimaging investigation by Chang Liu, Jinlian Wang, Hanbing Li, Qianyi Shangguan, Weipeng Jin, Wenwei Zhu, Pinchun Wang, Xuyi Chen, Qiang Wang

“…Mediation analyses further demonstrated that functional activation patterns in the motor network mediated the relationships between inter-subject variations in SVA symptoms and both loss-aversion and psychological processing patterns (e.g., decision threshold, drift rate, and non-decision time). …”
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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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Cross-correlation-based signal pruning method (CCSPM) for effective signal distortion reduction in massive MIMO communications by M. Kasiselvanathan, SatheeshKumar Palanisamy, N. Sathishkumar, K. B. Gurumoorthy, Tagrid Abdullah N. Alshalali, S. Lakshmi Narayanan

“…In the signal vector representation, the conventional signal is pruned for its maximum distortion rate post the correlation. The vector representation is recurrent until the least possible distortion rate is observed. …”
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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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Influence of a cloudy fuzzy environment for deteriorating products with ramp-type demand under a supply chain management by Surendra Vikram Singh Padiyar, Ummeferva Zaidi, Amit Kumar, Mitali Sarkar, Biswajit Sarkar, Rekha Guchhait

“…To ensure the minimum cost of the supply chain, two different types of deteriorating rates are tested in this study: crisp deterioration rate and uncertain deterioration rate. …”
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Intercropping-driven effects on soil organic carbon mineralization and its temperature sensitivity are associated with soil C-N-P stoichiometry and carbon-acquiring microorganisms... by Ziyu Yang, Jinmeng Hu, Xiaowei Chen, Yuping Zhang, Yizhe Wang, Jianwei Peng, Jiangchi Fei, Gongwen Luo, Chaolin Liao

“…Herein, an eight-year field-based experiment with maize monoculture and four intercropping patterns was employed to investigate the intercropping-induced change in the SOC mineralization rate and its temperature sensitivity (Q10). …”
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Comparison and analysis of antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus isolated from animals in Jinhua City and Taizhou City of Zhejiang Province by TANG Biao, HAO Yun, LIN Jiahui, WANG Jingge, JI Xiaofeng, QIAN Mingrong, YANG Hua

“…In terms of the overall antimicrobial resistance rate, MIC distribution and antimicrobial resistance pattern, the level of antimicrobial resistance in Taizhou was higher than that in Jinhua. …”
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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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An Epidemiological and Multidrug Resistance Study for E. coli Isolated from Urinary Tract Infection (Three Years of Study) by Mahde S. Assafi, Fawwaz F. Ali, Reem Fouad Polis, Nisreen Jawad Sabaly, Sozan Muhsin Qarani

“…The uropathogenic E. coli rate was higher, statistically not significant, in females (21.4%) than males (18.5%) (P=0.4946). …”
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