Open Deep Venous Arterialization for No-Option Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia: A Variable and Adaptable Technique by Yaman Alsabbagh, Young Erben, Houssam Farres

“…Background: Patients with no-option chronic limb-threatening ischemia (NoCLTI), lacking suitable distal arteries for conventional revascularization, face major limb amputation. The 1-year mortality rate after major amputation is 48.3%, increasing to 70.9% in 3 years. …”
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Inhibition and kinetic studies on purified peroxidase from rhizome of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) by Omowumi Funke Adedugbe, Olutosin Samuel Ilesanmi, Victory Ayo Olagunju, Ayodele O. Kolawole

“…These led to first-order rate constant, kcat/Km of 0.49 × 106 M−1 s−1. All the inhibitors had inhibitory effect on the activity of ClP at varying concentrations. …”
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Detecting Black-Box Model Probing Attacks Through Probability Scores by Yongzhi Wang, Ahsan Habib, Likhitha Reddy Kesara, Brahmarshi Jasti, Renjie Hu, Tejasv Singh

“…Compared with existing defense methods, our classifiers can reduce the Attack Success Rate (ASR) of the OARS-enhanced attacks from 93% to 1.78%. …”
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Monitoring Fast-Growing Megacities in Emerging Countries Through the PS-InSAR Technique: The Case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Eyasu Alemu, Mario Floris

“…The results demonstrate the presence of areas affected by a vertical rate of displacement of up to 21 mm/year and a maximum displacement of about 13.50 cm. …”
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A Case of Severe Septicemia With Chromobacterium violaceum in Bangladesh by Tuhin Sadique, Asif Reza Khan, Dilruba Ahmed, Fazlul Kabir, Anup Chowdhury, Nazrul Islam, Farhana Halim, Nasrin Akter, Shoeb Bin Islam

“…Infections with C. violaceum have rarely been reported in humans, with an exceptionally high mortality rate, particularly when linked to septicemia. We report the case of a 45‐year‐old female farmer from Bangladesh who developed severe septicemia following an insect bite and subsequent self‐drainage of an abscess. …”
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Progress and trends on machine learning in proteomics during 1997-2024: a bibliometric analysis by Chao Tan, Hao Liu, Zhen Zhang, Xinyu Liu, Yinquan Ai, Xiumin Wu, Enlin Jian, Yongyan Song, Jin Yang

“…After data cleaning and de-duplication, analyses were conducted on keyword co-occurrence, citation networks, leading journals, influential authors, and institutional collaboration patterns to construct a comprehensive landscape of ML applications in proteomics.ResultsThe number of publications has grown exponentially since 2010, with an average annual growth rate of 12.53% and a notable surge of 65.14% occurring between 2019 and 2020. …”
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Genome-wide identification of the phosphofructokinase gene family in maize (Zea mays L.) and their expression levels under abiotic stress and phytohormones by Weichao Fu, Delong Fan, Shenkui Liu, Yuanyuan Bu

“…Abstract Background Phosphofructokinase (PFK) is the primary rate-limiting enzyme and regulatory site of the glycolysis process, which is crucial for plant growth and the regulation of stress response. …”
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Modeling Sports Engagement: A Game Refinement Theory Perspective on Game Length and Scoring Frequency by Muhammad Numan, Hiroyuki Iida, Mohd Nor Akma Khalid

“…Soccer, in contrast, exhibits a low scoring rate and a GR value above the ideal range, reflecting higher unpredictability and reduced fairness. …”
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Ensemble Learning-Based Metamodel for Enhanced Surface Roughness Prediction in Polymeric Machining by Elango Natarajan, Manickam Ramasamy, Sangeetha Elango, Karthikeyan Mohanraj, Chun Kit Ang, Ali Khalfallah

“…First, a classifier (Logistic Regression or XGBoost, selected based on performance) categorizes machining data into distinct regimes based on cutting Speed (Vc), feed rate (f), and depth of cut (ap) as inputs. This classification leverages output discretization to mitigate data imbalance and capture regime-specific patterns. …”
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Biogas Production Using Flexible Biodigester to Foster Sustainable Livelihood Improvement in Rural Households by Charles David, Venkata Krishna Kishore Kolli, Karpagaraj Anbalagan

“…The study focuses on optimizing critical parameters, including the input feed rate, gas production patterns, holding time, biodigester health, gas quality, and liquid manure yield. …”
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Predicted impact of mass drug administration on the development of protective immunity against Schistosoma haematobium. by Kate M Mitchell, Francisca Mutapi, Takafira Mduluza, Nicholas Midzi, Nicholas J Savill, Mark E J Woolhouse

“…This implies that disease burden may temporarily increase following discontinuation of treatment, even in the absence of any reduction in the overall transmission rate. If MDA was additionally assumed to reduce transmission, a larger overshoot was seen across a wide range of parameter combinations, including those with longer-lived protective immunity. …”
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Nodal Status Assessment in Breast Cancer: Strategies of Clinical Grounds and Quality of Life Implications by Paolo Orsaria, Dimitrios Varvaras, Gianluca Vanni, Giampiero Pagnani, Jacopo Scaggiante, Federico Frusone, Alessandra Vittoria Granai, Giuseppe Petrella, Oreste Claudio Buonomo

“…The exclusion of node involvement using noninvasive methods could reduce the rate of axillary surgery, thereby preventing from suffering complications. …”
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AnimalAI: An Open-Source Web Platform for Automated Animal Activity Index Calculation Using Interactive Deep Learning Segmentation by Mahtab Saeidifar, Guoming Li, Lakshmish Macheeri Ramaswamy, Chongxiao Chen, Ehsan Asali

“…The platform accurately tracked Cobb 500 male broilers from weeks 1 to 7 with a 100% success rate, IoU of 92.21% ± 0.012, precision of 93.87% ± 0.019, recall of 98.15% ± 0.011, and F1 score of 95.94% ± 0.006, based on 1157 chickens. …”
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Improved Distributed Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning by Density-Adaptive Data Poisoning and Projection-Based Gradient Updating by Jian Wang, Hong Shen, Wei Ke, Xue Hua Liu

“…On COCO dataset, our method achieves 92.44% main task accuracy with 91.68% attack success rate, outperforming DBA by +8.04% MTA and +10.29% ASR. …”
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Association between triglyceride-glucose index and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: a cohort-based study by Wenhui Xie, Minjie Li, Hong Huang, Yong Fan, Dai Gao, Jiaying Zhang, Zhuoli Zhang

“…Multivariable logistic regression models adjusted for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), comorbidities, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), statin, and SLE-specific covariates were employed to assess relationships between the TyG index and carotid atherosclerosis/plaque presence.ResultsThe overall rate of carotid atherosclerosis was 10.5% (35/333), with significantly elevated TyG in affected versus unaffected patients (8.77 ± 0.45 vs. 8.45 ± 0.49; p < 0.001). …”
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Dispersion Characteristics of Accidental LPG Release in Marine Engine Room by Phan Anh Duong, Hokeun Kang

“…To evaluate these risks, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed to simulate the dispersion behavior of LPG under various leak parameters (size, rate, and direction) and ventilation conditions in congested environments. …”
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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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Assessing adherence to physical activity guidelines and correlates among older Korean adults with a focus on 10-minute bout duration using subjective and objective measures. by Junhui Park, Su Hyun Kim, Young Hoon Kim, Chang-Hyung Lee

“…<h4>Background</h4>Understanding physical activity (PA) patterns in older adults is crucial for effectively promoting adherence to PA guidelines. …”
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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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Performance tracking in female youth soccer through wearables and subjective assessments by Stefan Kranzinger, Christina Kranzinger, Wolfgang Kremser, Burkhard Duemler

“…A robustness check confirmed these patterns also hold when analyzing the 99th percentile of performance outputs. …”
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