Evaluating anti-MRSA antibiotic stewardship with a focus on trends in consumption and resistance in a tertiary hospital in Alexandria, Egypt from 2019 to 2023 by Ehab Elmongui, Adel Zaki, Amel Elsheredy, Asmaa Abd Elhameed

“…The study compared these consumption patterns with resistance rates in Staphylococcus spp., including MRSS, from January 2020 to December 2023. …”
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Disease Spread Using a Soliton-Based SIR Framework for Nomadic Populations by Qura Tul Ain, Xiaoli Qiang, Noor Ul Ain, Zheng Kou

“…Numerical simulations demonstrate the effects of varying key parameters such as transmission rates, recovery rates, and advection–diffusion coefficients on the epidemic’s progression. …”
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Bacterial Profiles and Antibiotic Resistance in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients with Exacerbation and Type 2 Respiratory Failure at Adam Malik General Hospital by Lia Mutia Annisa, Fajrinur Syarani, Andika Pradana, Erna Mutiara

“…The antibiotic resistance patterns indicated that meropenem and amikacin had the highest resistance rates (100%). …”
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Leveraging Social Media Data to Understand the Impact of COVID-19 on Residents' Dietary Behaviors: Observational Study by Chuqin Li, Alexis Jordan, Yaorong Ge, Albert Park

“…We then used the state obesity rates from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to assess the correlation between state obesity rates and dietary images on Twitter. …”
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Artificial intelligence applied to the study of human milk and breastfeeding: a scoping review by Sergio Agudelo-Pérez, Daniel Botero-Rosas, Laura Rodríguez-Alvarado, Julián Espitia-Angel, Lina Raigoso-Díaz

“…Abstract Background Breastfeeding rates remain below the globally recommended levels, a situation associated with higher infant and neonatal mortality rates. …”
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Global disparities in drug-related adverse events of patients with multiple myeloma: a pharmacovigilance study by Majid Jaberi-Douraki, Xuan Xu, Danai Dima, Sikander Ailawadhi, Faiz Anwer, Sandra Mazzoni, Jason Valent, Muhammad Hamza Habib, Jim E. Riviere, Shahzad Raza

“…A notable improvement in survival, particularly in AS, EU, and NA, with a significant decline in death rates was observed. Hospitalization rates displayed less variation in AS and EU but exhibited more pronounced fluctuations in AF, LA, and OC. …”
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Mapping the mismatch between building and population growth: A global study of 1,700 cities by Siwei Lou, Yu Huang, Yukai Zou, Dawei Xia

“…Summary: The proportionality between urban building expansion and population growth is a key indicator of sustainable development, yet its global patterns and drivers remain underexplored. This study investigates the discrepancies between building volume and population growth rates (ΔR) across 1,744 cities in 12 major global economies from 2000 to 2020 using satellite-based building volume and population databases. …”
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Transitions Into Freezing Environments Linked With Shifts in Phylogenetic Integration Between Vitaceae Leaf Traits by Charles Tomo Parins‐Fukuchi, Gregory W. Stull, Jun Wen, Jeremy M. Beaulieu

“…We also explore these patterns in relation to lineage diversification rates to understand how and whether patterns in the evolvability of complex multivariate phenotypes are linked to higher‐level macroevolutionary dynamics. …”
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GPCR kinases phosphorylate GPCR C-terminal peptides in a hierarchical manner by Arnelle Löbbert, Nils Lorz, Edda S. F. Matthees, Philip Rößler, Carsten Hoffmann, Alvar D. Gossert

“…Our data reveal that the kinases are promiscuous with respect to the substrate peptide, but produce clearly defined phosphorylation patterns on each substrate. We found pronounced differences in the rates at which certain residues are phosphorylated, in particular in the PXPP motifs in rhodopsin and β1AR. …”
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Cohort fertility of immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union by Gustavo Shifris, Barbara S. Okun

“…CONTRIBUTION: Patterns of immigrant convergence in fertility patterns vis-à-vis native-born groups differ markedly by religion and religiosity. …”
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Free and Open: A Descriptive Study of Energy and Sustainability Programming Geared Toward Adult Learners by Corey Young

“…This study investigates participation patterns in publicly accessible educational events organized by a college policy and research center. …”
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Codeswitching among Trilingual Maghreb International Students: Maghreb-Arabic, French, English by Ahmad Awawdeh

“…While CS occurred at varying rates among participants, the study identified diverse and complex CS patterns, including both intrasentential and intersentential switches. …”
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Acoustic and Natural Language Markers for Bipolar Disorder: A Pilot, mHealth Cross-Sectional Study by Cristina Crocamo, Riccardo Matteo Cioni, Aurelia Canestro, Christian Nasti, Dario Palpella, Susanna Piacenti, Alessandra Bartoccetti, Martina Re, Valentina Simonetti, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Maria Bulgheroni, Francesco Bartoli, Giuseppe Carrà

“… Abstract BackgroundMonitoring symptoms of bipolar disorder (BD) is a challenge faced by mental health services. Speech patterns are crucial in assessing the current experiences, emotions, and thought patterns of people with BD. …”
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Partial fertility recuperation in Spain two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic by Peter Fallesen, Marco Cozzani

“…49), and parity-specific (first vs. second+ births) fertility rates for the months when fertility could have been affected by the pandemic. …”
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Enhanced Multi-Level Recommender System Using Turnover-Based Weighting for Predicting Regional Preferences by Venkatesan Thillainayagam, Ramkumar Thirunavukarasu, J. Arun Pandian

“…In such scenarios, filtering collaborative patterns based on regional and local characteristics, while emphasizing the significance of branches and user ratings, could enhance the accuracy of recommendations. …”
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High nutrient loads amplify carbon cycling across California and New York coastal wetlands but with ambiguous effects on marsh integrity and sustainability. by Elizabeth Burke Watson, Farzana I Rahman, Andrea Woolfolk, Robert Meyer, Nicole Maher, Cathleen Wigand, Andrew B Gray

“…While high nutrient exposure marshes had high rates of decomposition and soil respiration rates, high nutrient exposure was also associated with increased belowground production, and reduced levels of sulfides, which should lead to greater marsh sustainability. …”
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Annotated Bioinformatic Pipelines for Genome Assembly and Annotation of Mitochondrial Genomes by Jessica Winn, Aletta Bester-van der Merwe, Simo Maduna

“…Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) display relatively rapid mutation rates, low sequence recombination, high copy numbers, and maternal inheritance patterns, rendering them valuable blueprints for mapping lineages, uncovering historical migration patterns, understanding intraspecific population dynamics, and investigating how environmental pressures shape traits underpinned by genetic variation. …”
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Physical, psychological, sexual, and systemic abuse of children with disabilities in East Africa: Mapping the evidence. by Niall Winters, Laurenz Langer, Anne Geniets

“…This problem is compounded by the fact that key indicators of disability, such as reliable prevalence rates, are not available currently. This paper addresses this serious problem by mapping the existing evidence-base to document the coverage, patterns, and gaps in existing research on the abuse of children with disabilities in East Africa. …”
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Functional Connectivity Biomarker Extraction for Schizophrenia Based on Energy Landscape Machine Learning Techniques by Janerra D. Allen, Sravani Varanasi, Fei Han, L. Elliot Hong, Fow-Sen Choa

“…Schizophrenia is associated with impaired functional connectivity but characterizing the complex abnormality patterns has been challenging. In this work, we used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to measure functional connectivity between 55 schizophrenia patients and 63 healthy controls across 246 regions of interest (ROIs) and extracted the disease-related connectivity patterns using energy landscape (EL) analysis. …”
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An Efficient RTL Design for a Wearable Brain–Computer Interface by Tahereh Vasei, Mohammad Ali Saber, Alireza Nahvy, Zainalabedin Navabi

“…To further illustrate the outperformance of our design, the proposed architecture is implemented on Virtex-7 field program gate array as a prototyping platform consuming 6 μJ energy with 1.52% area utilization.…”
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