Repeated evolution on oceanic islands: comparative genomics reveals species-specific processes in birds by María Recuerda, Julio César Hernández Montoya, Guillermo Blanco, Borja Milá

“…We estimated the relative (F st ) and absolute (d xy ) differentiation, nucleotide diversity (π), Tajima’s D, gene density and recombination rate. We also searched for selective sweeps and chromosomal inversions along the genome. …”
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Burden and Outcomes of Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infections with Unknown Etiology: A Retrospective Observational Study on Epidemiological Trends Over an 8-Year Period (2016–20... by Giovanni Scaglione, Marta Canuti, Martina Offer, Valentina Breschi, Antonio Piralla, Fausto Baldanti, Gabriele Del Castillo, Francesco Scovenna, Sabrina Buoro, Federica Morani, Danilo Cereda, Alessandra Bandera, Andrea Gori, Marta Colaneri

“…Results Among 683,741 hospitalizations, 338,211 (49.5%) were of unknown etiology, showing a 12.3% intra-hospital mortality rate (41,627 deaths) and 4.0% intensive care unit admission rate (13,625 admissions). …”
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Salter-Harris Type III and Type IV Combined Fracture of the Distal Femoral Epiphysis: A Case Report by Ali Aydin, Murat Topal, Kutsi Tuncer, Eyüp Şenocak

“…Distal femoral physeal fractures are not common but have a high rate of complications. They generally follow one of the patterns described in the Salter-Harris classification. …”
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Modeling Cut Rose Yield Over an 18‐Month Period After Compost Amendment Using Repeated Sigmoidal Gompertz Curve Fitting by E. A. deNijs, A. Tietema, R. Bol, E. E. vanLoon

“…As the crop matured, asymptote parameter estimates increased, while growth rate parameter estimates decreased, reflecting a stabilization of growth patterns. …”
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Bayesian spatio-temporal conditional autoregressive localized modeling techniques for socioeconomic factors and stunting in Indonesia by Aswi Aswi, Septian Rahardiantoro, Anang Kurnia, Bagus Sartono, Dian Handayani, Nurwan Nurwan

“…Assuming a Poisson likelihood for stunting counts, the optimal model was estimated using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods and included two covariates, namely the poverty rate and the incidence of low birth weight, with up to five spatial clusters. …”
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Adaptive malware identification via integrated SimCLR and GRU networks by Faisal S. Alsubaei, Abdulwahab Ali Almazroi, Walid Said Atwa, Abdulaleem Ali Almazroi, Nasir Ayub, N. Z. Jhanjhi

“…An AUC of 98.2%, an F1-score of 96.8%, and a false positive rate of only 0.02% underline the model’s generalizability, accuracy, and resilience. …”
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Saccadic intrusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by Wolfgang Becker, Martin Gorges, Dorothée Lulé, Elmar Pinkhardt, Albert Christian Ludolph, Jan Kassubek

“…Yet, there were clear correlations with parameters such as eye blink rate or errors in a delayed saccade task that suggest an impairment of inhibitory mechanisms, in keeping with the notion of a frontal dysfunction in ALS. …”
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Measuring and Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity on the Tibetan Plateau (2002–2021) by Mengmeng Zhang, Jianyu Xiao, Chengqun Yu

“…The main findings are as follows: (1) AGTFP in Tibet rose overall from 0.949 in 2002 to 1.068 in 2021, with a compound annual growth rate of 0.78%, yet remained below the national average; (2) significant regional heterogeneity emerged, with three typical evolution patterns identified: continual improvement (Nagqu, Qamdo), stable fluctuation (Lhasa, Xigazê), and risk of decline (Lhoka, Nyingchi, Ngari); (3) gains in pure technical efficiency were the primary driver of AGTFP growth, while insufficient scale efficiency was a key constraint; (4) AGTFP exhibited a “convergence–divergence–reconvergence” dynamic, with interregional disparities widening but structural patterns stabilizing; and (5) interregional inequality was the main source of overall disparity—its importance grew over the study period, with the largest gap observed between agrarian and pastoral zones. …”
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The emerging threat of multidrug-resistant mecA gene-positive coagulase-negative Staphylococci by Samira Fattah Hamid, Aza Bahadeen Taha, Shler Qasim Hussien

“…The clinical isolation rate of these bacteria has increased in parallel with a rising prevalence of antibiotic resistance. …”
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Histopathological Image Analysis Using Deep Learning Framework by Sudha Rani Vupulluri, Jogendra Kumar Munagala

“…Breast cancer has the highest mortality rate. Therefore, histologic imaging evaluations must detect breast cancer early. …”
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Use of information-fusion deep-learning techniques to detect possible electricity theft: A proposed method by Maria Chuwa, Daniel Ngondya, Rukia Mwifunyi

“…With the SGCC dataset, the method achieved an AUC (area under the curve) of 96.7%, a mAP@100 (mean average precision at 100) of 95.7%, and an FPR (false positive rate) of 8.1%. With the CER dataset, the method achieved an AUC of 96.7%, a mAP@100 of 97.3%, and an FPR of 5.2%. …”
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Two-step skeletization of binary images based on the Zhang-Suen model and the producing mask by J., Ma, V. Yu. Tsviatkou, V. K. Kanapelka

“…The aim of the work is to limit excessive thinning and increase the resistance to contour noise of skeletons resulted from arbitrary binary image shape while maintaining a high skeletonization rate. The skeleton is a set of thin lines, the relative position, the size and shape, which conveys information of size, shape and orientation in space of the corresponding homogeneous region of the image. …”
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Revisiting biomarker discovery by plasma proteomics by Philipp E Geyer, Lesca M Holdt, Daniel Teupser, Matthias Mann

“…However, existing biomarkers are far from comprehensive and often lack specificity and new ones are being developed at a very slow rate. As described in this review, mass spectrometry (MS)‐based proteomics has become a powerful technology in biological research and it is now poised to allow the characterization of the plasma proteome in great depth. …”
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Estimating the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade in WTO Regime: The Case of Pakistan by Amir Mustafa, Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda, Sadia Safdar

“…The findings depict that GDP of Pakistan and partners, exchange rate, tariff, distance, and contiguity are vital factors; along with TBT cases initiated by Pakistan have also impacted import from WTO members. …”
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NEW POSSIBILITIES OF RADIOLOGIC DIAGNOSTICS OF BREAST CANCER by A. B. Abduraimov, S. K. Ternovoy

“…Early breast cancer diagnosis is contemporary and actual problem due to the increase of breast cancer incidence and low detection rate of the disease.Multispiral computed tomography of mammary gland with intravenous contrast agent injection allows resolving diagnostic tasks aris- ing in patients with high density mammary gland tissue, considerable edema, fibrosis, postoperative conditions. …”
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LEFT VENTRICULAR WALL THICKNESS AND AUTONOMIC REGULATION IN PATIENTS WITH HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY by O. Allaberganov, T. A. Abdullaev, G. A. Nagaeva

“…In addition, Group II patients demonstrated autonomic disbalance, sympathetic hyperactivity, and disturbed circadian patterns of heart rate.…”
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The Convallis rule for unsupervised learning in cortical networks. by Pierre Yger, Kenneth D Harris

“…Implementation of the rule caused a recurrent cortex-like network of simulated spiking neurons to develop rate representations of real-world speech stimuli, enabling classification by a downstream linear decoder. …”
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Geomorphic index alterations and socioeconomic implications: A case study of a Coastal River system in Bangladesh by Sukhen Goswami, Md. Masum Billah, Md Sabbir Hossen, Mehedi Hasan Ovi, Shacin Chandra Saha, Mir Md. Tasnim Alam, Probir Kumar Bhowmik, Atikul Haque Farazi, Md. Ashraful Islam, Dhiman Kumer Roy

“…Mid-channel bar formation, absent before 2000, reached 4.0 km2 by 2023, affecting flow patterns. The widening rate shifted from a maximum of 19 m/year (1980–2000, pre-sand mining) to 27 m/year (2000–2023, post-sand mining), with a peak near Doarika Bridge, which increased the vulnerability of the Barishal Airport area, averaging 3.65 m/year. …”
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Radiocleavable rare-earth nanoactivators targeting over-expressed folate receptors induce mitochondrial dysfunction and remodel immune suppressive microenvironment in pancreatic ca... by Tanvi Gupta, Shang-Rung Wu, Li-Chan Chang, Forn-Chia Lin, Yan-Shen Shan, Chen-Sheng Yeh, Wen-Pin Su

“…Abstract Pancreatic cancer is a fatal cancer with poor prognosis and survival rate, often diagnosed usually in the advanced stage of disease. …”
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COMBINED TREATMENT OF LOCALLY-ADVANCED BLADDER CANCER by I. V. Chernyshev, Y. V. Samsonov, D. V. Perepechin, A. M. Ulbashev

“…In the group of CE + ACT the indicator achieved only 3‑year survival rate, which amounted to 43%. In the group of CE — none of the patients did not live up to 3 years, with 2‑year survival rate was 30%. …”
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