Elderly patients undergoing laparoscopic radical cystectomy benefit from dynamic D-dimer measurement in combination with vascular ultrasonography: reduction of VTE risk and improve... by Wenbo Gao, Haihong Ye, Yangkai Xu

“…The incidence of VTE event, major postoperative complications, major bleeding rate, and evaluation of activities of daily living within 30 days postoperatively were compared.ResultsThe preoperative and intraoperative parameters were similar between the two groups. …”
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Impact of Caspase3/GSDME-Mediated Pyroptosis on Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Clinical Prognosis Across Multiple Cancers by Huang Y, Liu J, Lin C, Zhu Q, Wu L

“…Its uncontrolled growth pattern and metastasis characteristics are the fundamental reasons for the high mortality rate of cancer and its current incurability. …”
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Etiology, antibiotic susceptibility and prognostic factors of pediatric community-acquired sepsis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Abel Abera Negash, Daniel Asrat, Workeabeba Abebe, Tewodros Hailemariam, Andualem Wubete, Abraham Aseffa, Mario Vaneechoutte

“…We sought to determine the etiology, role of Streptococcus pneumoniae, antibiotic susceptibility pattern, and prognostic factors in children with CAS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. …”
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Nonlinear association between AST/ALT ratio and 28-day all-cause mortality following ICU admission in critically ill cirrhotic patients: a retrospective cohort study by Zhigang Xu, Baohong Xu

“…Results The study involved 2,090 critically ill liver cirrhosis patients, averaging 59.1 years old, with 65% male and a 28-day post-ICU admission mortality rate of 29%. The AST/ALT ratio was linked to mortality risk (adjusted odds ratio (OR) 1.1, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.0–1.2; p = 0.015), showing a nonlinear pattern with a critical point at 3.6. …”
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Advances in application of ultrasound in diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy by GUO Juan, YANG Zhifang, JI Ri

“…As the global incidence rate of diabetes continues to rise, the clinical diagnosis and treatment of DN have become increasingly critical. …”
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Predicting hydrocarbon reservoir quality in deepwater sedimentary systems using sequential deep learning techniques by Xiao Hu, Jun Xie, Xiwei Li, Junzheng Han, Zhengquan Zhao, Hamzeh Ghorbani

“…Three sequential deep learning models—Recurrent Neural Network and Gated Recurrent Unit—were developed and optimized using the Adam algorithm. …”
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Trypanosoma dionisii in China: ecology and tentative epidemiology by Qin Liu, Mu-xin Chen, Yu-chun Cai, Yuan-yuan Li, Zi-yi Wang, Yun-hai Guo, Yu-wan Hao, Jing-bo Xue, Yi-dan Jing, Fan-na Wei, Yong-bin Wang, Yue-jin Li, Hai-fang Wang, Jun-ling Sun, Ya-li Wang, Gang Wang, Na Wang, Nai-li Guo, Jian-cun Fang, Wei-xiao Chen, Xun-ming Zhou, Yang Yu, Yi Zhang, Jun-hu Chen, Qiang Wang, Shi-zhu Li, Ge Yan, Qun Li

“…Although no evidence of a high risk for human epidemic was found, the widespread presence of this parasites in bat species and a relatively high infection rate observed in the surveyed cats and dogs emphasize the emerging threat it poses to human health. …”
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MSA-GCN: Exploiting Multi-Scale Temporal Dynamics With Adaptive Graph Convolution for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition by Kowovi Comivi Alowonou, Ji-Hyeong Han

“…On the other hand, the TMST module integrates a Gated Multi-stage Temporal Convolution (GMSTC) with a Temporal Multi-Head Self-Attention (TMHSA) to capture global temporal features and accommodate both long-term and short-term dependencies within action sequences. …”
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Improving the prediction of streamflow in large watersheds based on seasonal trend decomposition and vectorized deep learning models by Ningchang Kang, Zhaocai Wang, Anbin Zhang, Hang Chen

“…These components are then modeled independently: long short-term memory (LSTM) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) handle trend and seasonal patterns, while gated recurrent units (GRU) and Transformer process residual fluctuations. …”
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Multiscale Convolutional Fusion Network for Efficient Monaural Speech Separation by Rui Yang, Shanliang Pan

“…MSCF first employs dynamic convolution-based downsampling to enhance the multiscale feature representation. Adaptive gating and multiscale convolutions are then utilized to capture complex acoustic patterns. …”
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A Robust Framework for Bamboo Forest AGB Estimation by Integrating Geostatistical Prediction and Ensemble Learning by Lianjin Fu, Qingtai Shu, Cuifen Xia, Zeyu Li, Hailing He, Zhengying Li, Shaoyang Ma, Chaoguan Qin, Rong Wei, Qin Xiang, Xiao Zhang, Yiran Zhang, Huashi Cai

“…Furthermore, SHAP analysis provided mechanistic insights, identifying the canopy photon rate as the dominant predictor and quantifying the ecological thresholds governing AGB distribution. …”
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Anthropogenic Activities Dominate Vegetation Improvement in Arid Areas of China by Yu Guo, Xinwei Wang, Hongying Cao, Qin Peng, Yunshe Dong, Yunchun Qi, Jian Liu, Ning Lv, Feihu Yin, Xiujin Yuan, Mei Zeng

“…The results indicated that (1) overall vegetation cover was low (averaged peak FVC = 0.191), showing a spatial pattern of higher values in the northwest and lower values in the southeast; high FVC values were primarily observed in mountainous areas and river corridors; (2) the annual peak FVC increased significantly at a rate of 0.0508 yr⁻¹, with 33.72% of the region showing significant improvements and 5.49% degradation; (3) the spatial pattern of FVC was shaped by the distribution of land use types (59.46%), while the temporal dynamics of FVC were driven by land use changes (16.37%) and the land use intensity (37.56%); (4) both the spatial pattern and the temporal dynamics were limited by the environmental conditions. …”
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<i>Helicobacter pylori</i> Persistence in Patients with Peptic Ulcer Disease and Chronic Gastritis in the Treatment with Antibiotics and Acid-Suppressive Agents by E. V. Golubkina

“…Acid production was significantly higher in the patients with peptic ulcer disease than in those with chronic pancreatits and concomitant gastritis; the former patients show a statistically significant predominance of virulent strains; the latter patients had nonvirulent strains (at the same rate of Helicobacter pylori detection).Conclusion. …”
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Dynamics of cerebral blood flow following sertraline treatment in adolescent depression by Wenyu Ren, Wenyu Ren, Xiao Liu, Zhiwei Zhang, Xiaoqin Zhang, Wei Wu, Xingyu Wang, Zhihui Yu, Chuan Liu, Renqiang Yu

“…Furthermore, Pearson correlation analysis was employed to examine associations between changes in regional CBF and clinical improvement, as measured by changes in the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17) scores.ResultsAt baseline, adolescents with depression exhibited increased CBF in the posterior cuneus and decreased CBF in the middle temporal gyrus (MTG), right middle orbitofrontal gyrus, and the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG), compared to healthy controls. …”
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Real-Time, Risk-Based Clinical Trial Quality Management in China: Development of a Digital Monitoring Platform by Min Jiang, Shuhua Zhao, Yun Mei, Zhiying Fu, Yannan Yuan, Jie Ai, Yuan Sheng, Ying Gong, Jingjing Chen

“…Quality findings from the early-stage, interim-stage, and conclusion-stage QC rounds of clinical trials were rated by using 3 severity grades (minor, major, or critical) and classified into 5 categories (with 4 taxonomy levels under each category). …”
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Criminal legal penalties, substance use, and overdose: a concept mapping study examining Colorado’s criminal legal penalties by Katherine LeMasters, Samantha K. Nall, Cole Jurecka, Betsy Craft, Paul J. Christine, Ryan Goodman, Jessie Henderson, Robert Haywood-James, Angela Williams, Grace Wittner, Joshua A. Barocas

“…Participants — recruited from community-based organizations — identified, rated, sorted, and categorized factors affecting criminal legal involvement, substance use, and/or overdose in their community. …”
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Functioning in patients with major depression treated with duloxetine or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor in East Asia by Novick D, Montgomery W, Haro JM, Moneta MV, Zhu G, Yue L, Hong J, Duenas H, Brugnoli R

“…Depression severity was assessed using the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self Report. PPS were rated using the modified Somatic Symptom Inventory. …”
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Effect of maize-soybean intercropping on quality of vegetable soybean by FANG Ping, LIU Weiguo, LIU Xiaode, LIU Ting, CHI Xiaoyu, XU Yan, PANG Ting, PENG Xiao, CAI Ling, YANG Wenyu

“…Because the appearance quality of vegetable soybean is affected by cropping pattern and the nutrition are affected by pattern and variety, we should screen out well adaptability and good quality varieties. …”
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Estimating Future Surface Water Availability Through an Integrated Climate‐Hydrology‐Management Modeling Framework at a Basin Scale Under CMIP6 Scenarios by Manqing Shao, Nelun Fernando, John Zhu, Gang Zhao, Shih‐Chieh Kao, Bingjie Zhao, Elizabeth Roberts, Huilin Gao

“…Finally, the DHSVM simulated naturalized streamflow and reservoir evaporation rate are input to WAM to simulate reservoir FY. A new term—“Ratio of Firm Yield” (RFY)—is created to compare how much FY changes under different climate scenarios. …”
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Annual variation of temperature and mass balance of first-year and second-year land-fast sea ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica by Dinglong Zhao, Bin Cheng, Matti Leppäranta, Jingkai Ma, Xuejing Chen, Jiechen Zhao

“…The evolution of the temperature and mass balance of first-year (FYI: Site S1) and second-year (SYI: Site S2) land-fast sea ice (LFSI) in May–November were investigated using high-resolution thermistor-string-based ice mass balance buoys, borehole measurements and a numerical sea ice model. In May, the growth rate of a 0.55 m FYI ice floe (9.2 mm day−1) was twice that of 1.08 m SYI (4.7 mm day−1) in snow-free conditions. …”
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