Effects on HbA1c of referral of type 2 diabetes patients to secondary care by Kjersti Nøkleby, Anne K. Jenum, Esben Selmer Buhl, Tor Claudi, John G. Cooper, Signe Flottorp, Karianne F. Løvaas, Sverre Sandberg, Tore Julsrud Berg

“…Some differences were found between clinics in rejection rate, processes of care, and duration of follow-up.Conclusions Norwegian GPs handle most T2D patients themselves. …”
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Tuberculin skin test repetition after TNF-α inhibitors in patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis: a long-term retrospective cohort in endemic area by Vanessa de Oliveira Magalhães, Karina Rossi Bonfiglioli, Carina More Frade Gomes, Eloisa Bonfá, Ana Cristina de Medeiros-Ribeiro, Carla Gonçalves S. Saad, Marcelo de Medeiros Pinheiro

“…Conclusion These results indicate that TST repetition is associated with a high conversion rate, suggesting the need for recommended treatment. …”
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Adipose-Derived Stem Cells for Cartilage Tissue Engineering: A Bibliometric Analysis of Trends and Themes by Zhang J, Wu K, Zhou L, Zheng S

“…Bibliometric and visualized analysis was performed using VOSviewers (V 1.6.20), CiteSpace (V 6.3.R1) and Bibliometrix (R 4.3.3).Results: A total of 436 English articles were analyzed, involving 2356 authors from 1532 institutions across 50 countries/regions, contributing to 189 journals. The annual growth rate of publications was 8.73%, peaking in 2021. …”
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Safer Baby Bundle intervention for reducing perinatal mortality in Ethiopia: a quasi-experimental study by Mesfin Tadese, Saba Desta Tessema, Solomon Hailemeskel, Alemayehu Moges, Michael Amera Tizazu, Getnet Mitike Kassie

“…Additionally, the intervention significantly reduced the incidence of non-reassuring fetal heart rate patterns during labour (adjusted risk ratio (aRR)=0.78, 95% CI 0.64 to 0.95), low birth weight (aRR=0.77, 95% CI 0.60 to 0.98) and the need for neonatal resuscitation (aRR=0.59, 95% CI 0.37 to 0.94). …”
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Induction of reproduction of fish Anasa Nomorhampus sp. endemic Palu, Central Sulawesi orally through hormon bioencapsulation use Chironomus sp. by Dinda Wahyu Rezki, Agus Oman Sudrajat, Dinar Tri Soelistyowati, Odang Carman

“…This research focuses on assessing specific weight growth rate (LPBS), specific length growth rate (LPPS), survival rate (TKH), gonadosomatic index (IGS), gonadal histology, birth frequency, number of births, and growth performance. …”
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Failure Mode- and Time-Dependent Reliability Model of Tunnel Lining Structure Under Extremely High Ground Stress by Tao Peng, Dongxing Ren, Fanmin He, Binjia Li, Fei Wu, Shijie Xu

“…The plastic zone and the distribution of the surrounding rock stress field throughout the excavation process were simulated, elucidating the relationship between vault displacement and stress release rate. The time-varying reliability model is employed to assess lining behavior under extremely high ground stress and to establish the patterns governing its service life. …”
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Analyzing RNA Localization Using the RNA Proximity Labeling Method OINC-seq by Megan Pockalny, Hei-Yong Lo, Raeann Goering, J. Taliaferro

“…The observed mutation rate for a given RNA species is therefore related to its proximity to the localized bait protein. …”
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Clutter Mitigation in Indoor Radar Sensors Using Sensor Fusion Technology by Srishti Singh, Ha-Neul Lee, Yuna Park, Sungho Kim, Si-Hyun Park, Jong-Ryul Yang

“…The results show that our approach improves the signal-to-noise ratio by 2 dB and increases the target detection rate by 8.6% within the critical 4–6 m range, with additional gains observed under constrained velocity conditions.…”
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Underwater acoustic classification across diverse sea environments using adaptive regularization and knowledge encoding by Muhammad Azeem Aslam, Muhammad Irfan, Xu Wei, Wang Jun, Hu Hongfei, Wang Shiyu, Xin Liu, Shahid Ali

“…Our method introduces an adaptive regularization technique for stable weight and learning rate updates. In addition, a robust knowledge encoding scheme is introduced to preserve and reuse learned features effectively. …”
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Seasonal Trends and Sociodemographic Influences on Long-Distance Trips - A Full Year of GPS Tracking Data from Munich by Nico Nachtigall, Miriam Magdolen, Markus Lienkamp

“…Long-distance trips are further analyzed in terms of their occurrence rate and modal share throughout the year. Furthermore, the influence of various sociodemographic characteristics and car ownership on long-distance travel is explored. …”
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Heat transfer test method development: Consideration for design and safety of household oven mitts by Adriana Petrova, Semra Peksoz, Aditya Jayadas

“… The purpose of this study was to develop a test method – an apparatus and a protocol for evaluating the rate of heat transfer across a sample of layered materials commonly used in oven mitts. …”
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Rational strategies for improving the efficiency of design and discovery of nanomedicines by Xiaoting Shan, Ying Cai, Binyu Zhu, Lingli Zhou, Xujie Sun, Xiaoxuan Xu, Qi Yin, Dangge Wang, Yaping Li

“…This transition facilitates the enhancement of efficiency in the preclinical discovery pipeline of nanomaterials, particularly in improving the hit rate of nanomaterials and the optimization efficiency of promising candidates. …”
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Analysing LULC transformations using remote sensing data: insights from a multilayer perceptron neural network approach by Khadim Hussain, Kaleem Mehmood, Sun Yujun, Tariq Badshah, Shoaib Ahmad Anees, Fahad Shahzad, Nooruddin, Jamshid Ali, Muhammad Bilal

“…The MLP-NN model demonstrated impressive performance, with a skill measure of 0.8724 and an accuracy rate of 89.08%. The accuracy of the LULC estimates for 2022 was verified by comparing them with observed data, ensuring the model’s reliability. …”
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Effect of the Sampling of a Dataset in the Hyperparameter Optimization Phase over the Efficiency of a Machine Learning Algorithm by Noemí DeCastro-García, Ángel Luis Muñoz Castañeda, David Escudero García, Miguel V. Carriegos

“…Nonparametric inference has been used to measure the rate of different behaviors of the accuracy, time, and spatial complexity that are obtained among the partitions and the whole dataset. …”
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Performance tracking in female youth soccer through wearables and subjective assessments by Stefan Kranzinger, Christina Kranzinger, Wolfgang Kremser, Burkhard Duemler

“…The aim of this study was to assess how subjective post-training ratings (intensity and happiness) relate to high-percentile performance outputs, and to identify longitudinal trends in female youth soccer players using IMU-based wearable data. …”
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Actual Temperature Evolution of Thick Raft Concrete Foundations and Cracking Risk Analysis by Yuwen Ju, Honggang Lei

“…The accuracy of the FEA was ensured by adopting the concrete heat generation rate obtained from the adiabatic temperature rise test. …”
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MAFONN-EP: A Minimal Angular Feature Oriented Neural Network based Emotion Prediction system in image processing by L.B. Krithika, G.G. Lakshmi Priya

“…In recent days, facial emotion recognition techniques are considered important and critical due wide array of application domains use facial emotion as part of their workflow and analytics gathering. Reduced recognition rate, inefficient computation and increased time consumption are the major drawbacks of these techniques. …”
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Land use land cover change as a casual factor for climate variability and trends in the Bilate River Basin, Ethiopia. by Samuel Shibeshi Bikeko, Dr E Venkatesham

“…Concurrently, agricultural land expanded at an annual rate of approximately 1,141 hectares, while urban areas grew by 24.3 hectares annually in recent years. …”
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Spatiotemporal vegetation dynamics in response to precipitation and land surface temperature in the Welmel watershed, southeastern Ethiopia by Tesfaye Bogale, Sileshi Degefa, Gemedo Dalle, Gebeyehu Abebe

“…The results showed a statistically significant increase in the NDVI at an annual scale, with a rate of 0.0028 (p = 0.003) across the entire watershed. …”
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Flexi-YOLO: A lightweight method for road crack detection in complex environments. by Jiexiang Yang, Renjie Tian, Zexing Zhou, Xingyue Tan, Pingyang He

“…Experimental results show that Flexi-YOLO achieves an accuracy increase of 2.7% over YOLOv8n, a recall rate rise of 4.7%, a mAP improvement of 5.3%, a mAP@0.5-0.95 increase of 3.9%, a decrease of 0.5 in GFLOPS, and an F1 score improvement from 0.80 to 0.84. …”
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