Characteristics of Microseismic Generated During Shear Failure of Granite With Structural Plane of Various Connectivities by Xianzhe Liang, Zhicheng Hu, Xiufen Qin, Yaoqun Deng, Jianqing Jiang, Guoshao Su

“…Also, it can be found that in the middle-to-late stages of the tests, the b value initially drops to a very low level and then rises back to the original level; before rock failure, the b value continuously decreases at a swift rate, but the average rate of decrease increases with the increase in structural plane connectivity. …”
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Augmenting Coral Growth on Breakwaters: A Shelter-Based Approach by Almog Ben Natan, Natalie Chernihovsky, Nadav Shashar

“…No differences were found in coral settlement between the niches. Flow rate patterns remained similar in Exposed and Sheltered niches due to vortex formation in the Sheltered zones. …”
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Risk Factors of Clonally Related, Multi, and Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Severely Ill COVID-19 Patients by Meqdad Saleh Ahmed, Zirak Faqe Ahmed Abdulrahman, Zanan Mohammed Ameen Taha

“…The secondary infection of multi and extensively drug-resistant “Acinetobacter baumannii” in severely ill COVID-19 individuals is usually associated with extended hospitalisation and a high mortality rate. The current study aimed to assess the exact incidence rate of A. baumannii coinfection in severely ill COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICUs), to identify the possible mechanism of A. baumannii transfer to COVID-19 patients and to find out their resistance rate against different antibiotics. …”
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Korean Translation of the GRADE Series Published in the BMJ, ‘Use of GRADE Grid to Reach Decisions on Clinical Practice Guidelines When Consensus Is Elusive’ (A Secondary Publicati... by Hyun Jin Jung, Eu Chang Hwang, Do Kyung Kim, Ho Won Kang, Ja Yoon Ku, Hong Wook Kim, Jae Hung Jung

“…This article is the last of a series providing guidance for the use of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system for rating the quality of evidence and grading the strength of recommendations in systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines. …”
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Factors Affecting Aggressive Behavior Among Teenage Students: A Statistical Study by Kauser Shaheen, Majid Kaleem, Muhammad Abbas, Asim Iftikhar, Muhammad Ramzan

“…Aggressive behavior in the classroom was linked to low academic engagement ratings, good attitudes toward learning, friends in the classroom, and the perception of teacher support. …”
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Three Dimensional Image Reconstruction of Electrical Capacitance Tomography Based on Improved ALEXNET Convolutional Neural Network by LI Yan, WANG Lu, LI Jiaqi

“…A method is proposed that the corresponding AlexNet neural network is trained according to the data of different flow patterns for the problem of slow sample training and low imaging accuracy for the threedimensional image reconstruction algorithm of convolutional neural networks. …”
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The impact of urbanization on regional carbon sequestration in arid areas: A case study of Altay Region, Xinjiang, China by Jiaquan Wan, Tao Bai, Yongbin Ye, Peipei Shen, Fangqin Wang, Peixing Chen

“…Scientifically exploring the spatiotemporal variation patterns of carbon storage and accurately identifying its major influencing factors hold practical significance for China to achieve the “dual carbon” goals of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. …”
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Preschoolers in severely food insecure Guatemalan Mayan households consume a monotonous grain-based diet by Michele Monroy-Valle, Maira Ruano Estrada, María del Carmen Caamaño, Karla Cordón-Arrivillaga, Ginny Lane, Hassan Vatanparast

“…Our objective was to explore the dietary patterns of Guatemalan Mayan children, comparing stunted children to those with typical growth. …”
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Global trends in dengue research in veterinary medicine (2019–2024): A bibliometric analysis of scientific output, collaborations, and thematic shifts by Fran Espinoza-Carhuancho, Cesar Mauricio-Vilchez, Lucia Quispe-Tasayco, Frank Mayta-Tovalino

“…The observed decline in publication rate underscores the need to reinvigorate research efforts. …”
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Rising Threats and Evolving Trends: Five Years of Urinary Tract Infection Prevalence in a Portuguese Hospital by Francisco José Barbas Rodrigues, Patrícia Coelho, Sónia Mateus, Miguel Castelo-Branco

“…<b>Results:</b> The positivity rate increased from 18.7% in 2018 to 22.7% in 2022, with a peak in 2019. …”
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Identification and characteristics of antimicrobial-resistant Group B Streptococcus isolated from maternal birth canals at a university-affiliated hospital, China by Hong Zhang, Wen-Li Liu, Jia-Lin Liu, Ming-Cheng Li

“…Purpose of investigation: This study aimed to ascertain the colonization rate of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in the birth canals of late-pregnant women, and to demonstrate the characteristics of the origins of antibiotic-resistance. …”
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Deterioration mechanism and stochastic damage modeling of tunnel lining concrete in hydrothermal corrosive environments by Yu Ning, Zhiwei Yan, Yanhua Zeng, Chunwei Zhang, Yucang Dong

“…The study results indicate that the mass loss rate exhibits a trend of decreasing and then increasing as the degree of corrosion increases. …”
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Public perception of climate change in the cold regions of Russia: an example of Yakutia by O. A. Anisimov, Ye. L. Ziltcova, Yu. I. Zhegusov

“…The rate of climate change in the Russian cold regions is nearly twice larger than the global‑mean rate. …”
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Effect of External Sensory Integration on Motor Functional Disorder In Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (Adhd) - A Pilot Study by Chhavi Kumar Sharma, Shahiduz Zafar

“…A common neurodevelopmental disease in children, attention deficit hyperactivity disease (ADHD) is typified by recurrent patterns of hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention. …”
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Rib and Sternum Fractures From Falls: Global Burden of Disease and Predictions by Zhanghao Huang, Jun Zhu

“…Results: From 1990 to 2021, the age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) and age-standardized prevalence rate (ASPR) generally showed an upward trend, although male ASIR, and ASPR displayed a slight decline. …”
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Thermodynamically consistent modeling of granular soils using physics-informed neural networks by Nazanin Irani, Mohammad Salimi, Torsten Wichtmann

“…The material dissipation rate is calculated using the total work input and a free energy potential expressed in terms of stress invariants. …”
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MLCRP: ML-Based GPU Cache Performance Modeling Featured With Reuse Profiles by Minjung Cho, Eui-Young Chung

“…In the data preparation stage, synthetic RP-based traces are generated from parameterized distributions to simulate diverse and non-stationary memory patterns. In the training stage, a regression-based ML model is trained to capture the relationship between RP features, cache configurations, and performance metrics such as miss rate and miss status holding register (MSHR) merge rate. …”
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Optimization of Bus Rerouting to Alleviate the Impact of Rail Transit Construction by Yiran Wang, Jingxu Chen, Xinlian Yu, Qinhe An, Xu Wu

“…For each rerouting line, we design two adjustment patterns and associated candidate alternative rerouting sets. …”
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Personalized trajectory inference framework integrating driving behavior recognition and temporal dependency learning. by Jinhao Yang, Junwen Cao, Mingyu Fang

“…These results confirm DS-TCTM's effectiveness in capturing driving style impacts on trajectory patterns, providing reliable prediction enhancements for vehicle safety systems. …”
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Dynamic Machine Learning-Based Simulation for Preemptive Supply-Demand Balancing Amid EV Charging Growth in the Jamali Grid 2025–2060 by Joshua Veli Tampubolon, Rinaldy Dalimi, Budi Sudiarto

“…To forestall instability, we developed a predictive simulation based on long short-term memory (LSTM) networks that combines historical generation and consumption patterns with models of EV population growth and initial charging-time (ICT). …”
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