Anaesthetic practices in non-operating room settings for paediatric patients: A prospective observational study by Nayana Amin, Pallavi Patil, Virinchi Sanapala

“…There were 221 adverse events in 117 patients. The incidence rate of patients experiencing at least one adverse event leading to morbidity was 3.22%. …”
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A Data-Driven Approach for Urban Heat Island Predictions: Rethinking the Evaluation Metrics and Data Preprocessing by Berk Kıvılcım, Patrick Erik Bradley

“…Since the task is to explore patterns, i.e., urban heat islands, Gaussian blurring is implemented on these generated 2D raster data before the training process. …”
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A mixture transmuted generalized extreme value distribution: Definition and properties by Yang Yu, Sun HongGuang, Xu Zheng

“…To gain a deeper understanding of the statistical characteristics and patterns of extreme events, mixture distributions have been applied, such as the mixture normal distribution and the mixture of Gumbel distribution, among others. …”
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Community Clustering and Recommendation Toward Elderly Health Records: Probabilistic Representation Learning and Large Graph Search by Huijiong Ding

“…Validated on >1M health records, the method achieves a 0.5049 Balanced Error Rate, outperforming six baselines across 42 health categories. …”
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Using the superiorly based pharyngeal flap to surgically manage cleft velopharyngeal insufficiency: a cohort study by Marvee Turk, Pragaash Shanmuganathan, Carli Maddocks, David Chong

“…Prior to surgery, patients underwent speech evaluation as well as nasopharyngoscopy for assessment of velopharyngeal closure pattern. Irrespective of the closure pattern observed, patients were treated using a superiorly based pharyngeal flap. …”
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Perceptions of canned wine drinkers in outdoor leisure settings: a vignette study with swiss residents by Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Antoine Pinède, Heber Rodrigues

“…Our findings reveal that, overall, canned wine drinkers are judged negatively, particularly in the beach resort scenario, where traits like “health consciousness” and “environmental friendliness” are rated lower. Demographic factors, including age, gender, and education, as well as cultural background, significantly influence these judgements. …”
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Rheology of rock–ice avalanche in a periodic chute flow by Zhiping Sun, Zhibo Dong

“…Depth-resolved profiles of six key parameters—velocity, solid volume fraction, shear stress, normal stress, shear rate, and inertia number—were recorded during steady flow conditions. …”
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Emergent behaviors in multiagent pursuit evasion games within a bounded 2D grid world by Sihan Xu, Zhaohui Dang

“…After training with MARL algorithms, pursuers achieved a 99.9% success rate in 1,000 randomized pursuit-evasion trials, demonstrating the effectiveness of the learned strategies. …”
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Clinical and pathomorphological parameters of brain death: from the origins of the concept to its use in organ transplantation by V. O. Tumanskyi, L. M. Tumanska

“…It has been established that the main criterion for the development of human biological death, which determines irreversible cardiac arrest and the impossibility of restoring spontaneous respiration, are irreversible destructive changes in the nuclei of the pons and medulla oblongata, which make up the cardio-respiratory center that regulates heart rate, vascular tone and blood pressure, and generating rhythm and breathing patterns. …”
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Failure of affine‐based reconstruction attack in regenerating vascular feature points by Mahshid Sadeghpour, Arathi Arakala, Stephen A. Davis, Kathy J. Horadam

“…The reconstruction attack on feature point patterns extracted from retina and hand vascular images is tested. …”
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Performance benchmarking and analysis of lithium-sulfur batteries for next-generation cell design by Saeed Yari, Albin Conde Reis, Quanquan Pang, Mohammadhosein Safari

“…Additionally, irrespective of materials chemistry, a comprehensive analysis of this database helps us to disclose general patterns that apply universally across all cells, highlight the most constructive and detrimental regions of the design-parameter space, and perceive potential synergies. …”
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Some aspects of biology and fishery of walleye pollock <i>Theragra chalcogramma</i> in the southwestern Chukchi Sea relative to the size and age structure by A. V. Buslov, E. E. Ovsyannikov

“…Aggregations of the fast-growing (just migrated from the Bering Sea) and slow-growing (local residents) pollock had different distribution patterns in the surveyed area in the southwestern Chukchi Sea. …”
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COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF CYTOKINE PROFILE IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS UNDER THE EFFECT OF PHYSICAL FACTORS (PRELIMINARY STUDY) by S. I. Kurchevenko, G. M. Bodienkova

“…It was concluded that changes in the contents of cytokines in experimental animals under the effect of general vibration and noise production rate shows different mechanisms basic for the regulation of immune response.…”
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Utilization of shrimp head powder to enhance color performance and growth of multicolor betta fish (Betta splendens) by Andri Iskandar, Fauzan Arya Maulana, Hendriana Andri, Kusumanti Ima, Permatasari Sheny, Wahyudi Imam Tri

“…The research procedure included the preparation of shrimp head meal, mixing feed with TKU, fish rearing, and observation of changes in color brightness, weight and length growth, survival rate, and water quality. The results showed that the utilization of shrimp head meal supplemented into the feed improved the performance of brightness and color patterns in multi-colored cupang fish, including length gain during the treatment, with optimum results shown in the 10% TKU treatment.…”
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Time-varying spectral power of resting-state fMRI networks reveal cross-frequency dependence in dynamic connectivity. by Maziar Yaesoubi, Robyn L Miller, Vince D Calhoun

“…In the present work we uncover recurring patterns of spectral power in network timecourses which provides new insight on the actual nature of frequency variation in fMRI network activations. …”
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Potential for rabies control through dog vaccination in wildlife-abundant communities of Tanzania. by Meagan C Fitzpatrick, Katie Hampson, Sarah Cleaveland, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Jeffrey P Townsend, Alison P Galvani

“…We found that transition rate estimates and corresponding probabilities of vaccination-based control indicate that rabies transmission in this region is driven by transmission within domestic dogs. …”
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Local players giving a run for the share to a global giant: A case study of Pampers brand of Proctor and Gamble Pakistan by Syed Waqas Hussain, Jawaid Qureshi, Muhammad Mubeen, Zaeema Asrar

“…Based on marvelous demand and consumption patterns, the market for diapers seemed ever-increasing. …”
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Driving Forces and Future Scenario Simulation of Urban Agglomeration Expansion in China: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration by Zeduo Zou, Xiuyan Zhao, Shuyuan Liu, Chunshan Zhou

“…The results indicate the following: (1) During 1990–2020, urban expansion in the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration exhibited a “stepwise growth” pattern, with an annual expansion rate of 3.7%. Regional land use remained dominated by forest (accounting for over 50%), while construction land surged from 6.5% to 21.8% of total land cover. …”
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Effect of attentional bias modification on pre-competition anxiety in athletes by Jing Zhao, Yuhan Yang, Heng Zhang, Yu Nie, Qiulin Wang

“…Attentional bias correction training (ABMT) aims to modify these attention patterns with the aim of alleviating anxiety symptoms. …”
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Dietary intake and five types of mental disorders: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study by Yichun Zhang, Mingzhu Zhang, Qihua Guan, Pengcheng Liu, Wangxin Zhang, Song Yang, Hualei Dong, Haifeng Hou

“…Studies have linked mental disorders to poor dietary patterns. The study aimed to estimate the causal relationship between dietary macronutrient intake and mental disorders using a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. …”
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