Assessment of the functional state of left heart in patients with chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by D. V. Vdovenko, R. A. Libis

“…All patients had the diastolic dysfunction: 60 patients had abnormal relaxation pattern, and 20 patients had pseudonormal pattern. …”
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Modeling of Photochemical and Photothermal Effects in Soft Tissue Subjected to Laser Irradiation by Marek Jasiński, Maria Zadoń

“…The connection between bioheat transfer and PDT models is taken into account through the respective relationships between perfusion rate, capillary blood velocity, and the maximum oxygen supply rate. …”
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Resolving contiguous vowels across word boundaries in Spanish: L2 learners, levels, and tasks by Erik W. Willis, D. Eric Holt, Carly Carver

“…The intermediate learners increased the frequency of linking contiguous vowels to 49% in the narrative-retell task, whereas the advanced L2 speakers slightly reduced their linking rate to 68%. The Mexican monolingual speaker comparison group produced linked speech in a narrative-retell task at a rate of 93%. …”
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Air Entrainment and Gas Transfer in Wave Breaking Events by S. Di Giorgio, S. Pirozzoli, A. Iafrati

“…Waves with varying initial steepness, including regular wave patterns, mild spilling, and intense plunging breakers are examined. …”
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Size and impact of the Brussels knowledge economy by Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Johan Eyckmans, Peter Teirlinck, André Spithoven, Gilles Van Hamme

“…A negative total employment growth rate differential between Brussels and the rest of Belgium is due to an industry-mix effect. …”
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Feasibility of Long-Term Physical Activity Measurement With a Wearable Activity Tracker in Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis: 1-Year Longitudinal Observational Study by Emil Eirik Kvernberg Thomassen, Anne Therese Tveter, Inger Jorid Berg, Eirik Klami Kristianslund, Andrew Reiner, Sarah Hakim, Laure Gossec, Gary J Macfarlane, Annette de Thurah, Nina Østerås

“…The activity tracker measured steps and heart rate. Trial feasibility (eligibility, inclusion rate, and patient characteristics), technical feasibility (data recorded, tracker adherence, ie, days worn, and missing data), and operational feasibility (synchronization reminders and tracker replacements) were analyzed. …”
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Wearable System for Cardiac Diagnosis and Monitoring: Clustering Analysis and Usability Assessment Using Fractal Geometry by Jose Sulla Torres, Cusirramos Montesinos Roderick Nestor, Sandra Catalina Correa Herrera, Jairo Jattin Balcazar, Herwin Huillcen Baca, Agueda Munoz del Carpio Toia

“…Unlike conventional smartwatch-based monitoring systems, this approach employs advanced mathematical modeling to identify nonlinear patterns in heart rate dynamics, enabling more precise differentiation between normal and pathological conditions. …”
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Epidemic Trends and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Hepatitis B in China: Surveillance Study by Xiaoxue Li, Jie Liang, Lanqing Ma, Shijie Shen, Xueying Han, Tao Sun, Heng Guo

“…The age effect showed that the incidence rate of hepatitis B reached its peak at the age of 22 years, with an average incidence rate of 176.173/100,000. …”
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SUSCEPTIBLE VACCINATED INFECTED RECOVERED MODEL WITH THE EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING AND ITS APPLICATION TO PNEUMONIA DATA IN INDONESIA by Purnami Widyaningsih, Ghufron Musta'in, Dewi Retno Sari Saputro

“…The free target can also be achieved by increasing the exclusive breastfeeding rate to 73.9% and the Hib vaccination rate to 0.22.…”
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ESTIMATION OF THE ASYMMETRIC VERTICAL VARIATION OF THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN HEMISPHERES OF THE EARTH by Wen-Bin Shen Wen-Bin Shen, Rong Sun Rong Sun, Yu. Barkin, Ziyu Shen Ziyu Shen

“…Transformation between the velocity fields under ITRF2008 and ITRF2000 can explain why different authors have different conclusions about the expan­sion/compression pattern of one hemisphere or the other. Anyway, the entire Earth is expanding at a rate about 0.2 mm/yr, and this estimation coincides with results of our previous studies. …”
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PREVALENCE OF CONGENITAL CLEFT LIP AND PALATE IN UKRAINE by V.V. Filonenko, O.А. Kaniura, B.I. Palamar, N.V. Bidenko

“…The triggers of this pattern are declining birth rate, high death rate, reduction in the possibility of using quality medical care, non-return of refugees, reduction of the participation of new recruits in the demographic process, negative economic performance of the temporarily occupied territories. …”
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Tear Lipid Layer Thickness in Children after Short-Term Overnight Orthokeratology Contact Lens Wear by Li Zeng, Zhi Chen, Dan Fu, Jiaqi Zhou, Xingtao Zhou

“…LLT was significantly correlated with rate of partial blinks at every follow-up (all p<0.05). …”
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Study on Flow Model and Flow Equation of Shale Gas Based on Microflow Mechanism by Huaxun Liu, Shusheng Gao, Feifei Fang, Chunyan Jiao, Liyou Ye, Jie Zhang, Weiguo An

“…The result shows that the flow rate of shale gas is composed of seepage flow rate and diffusion flow rate. …”
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Shifts in growth strategies reflect tradeoffs in cellular economics by Douwe Molenaar, Rogier van Berlo, Dick de Ridder, Bas Teusink

“…Abstract The growth rate‐dependent regulation of cell size, ribosomal content, and metabolic efficiency follows a common pattern in unicellular organisms: with increasing growth rates, cell size and ribosomal content increase and a shift to energetically inefficient metabolism takes place. …”
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Key Vital Signs Monitor Based on MIMO Radar by Michael Gottinger, Nicola Notari, Samuel Dutler, Samuel Kranz, Robin Vetsch, Tindaro Pittorino, Christoph Würsch, Guido Piai

“…This technique allows precise measurements of respiration patterns, periods of movement, and heart rate. Major practical problems arise as CW systems suffer from signal cancellation due to destructive interference, limited overall functionality, and a possibility of low signal quality over longer periods. …”
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Characteristics of Microseismic Generated During Shear Failure of Granite With Structural Plane of Various Connectivities by Xianzhe Liang, Zhicheng Hu, Xiufen Qin, Yaoqun Deng, Jianqing Jiang, Guoshao Su

“…Also, it can be found that in the middle-to-late stages of the tests, the b value initially drops to a very low level and then rises back to the original level; before rock failure, the b value continuously decreases at a swift rate, but the average rate of decrease increases with the increase in structural plane connectivity. …”
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Augmenting Coral Growth on Breakwaters: A Shelter-Based Approach by Almog Ben Natan, Natalie Chernihovsky, Nadav Shashar

“…No differences were found in coral settlement between the niches. Flow rate patterns remained similar in Exposed and Sheltered niches due to vortex formation in the Sheltered zones. …”
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Risk Factors of Clonally Related, Multi, and Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Severely Ill COVID-19 Patients by Meqdad Saleh Ahmed, Zirak Faqe Ahmed Abdulrahman, Zanan Mohammed Ameen Taha

“…The secondary infection of multi and extensively drug-resistant “Acinetobacter baumannii” in severely ill COVID-19 individuals is usually associated with extended hospitalisation and a high mortality rate. The current study aimed to assess the exact incidence rate of A. baumannii coinfection in severely ill COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICUs), to identify the possible mechanism of A. baumannii transfer to COVID-19 patients and to find out their resistance rate against different antibiotics. …”
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Grain Dehydration and Grain-Filling Characteristics of Different Maize Varieties in Heilongjiang by Deguang Yang, Yaxin Lin, Jingdu Li, Hao Zheng, Yumeng Zhang, Yanci Zhou, Xiaonan Guo, Yufei Wang, Jiahao Zhang, Jingwen Zhang, Shuang Yang

“…The results demonstrated the following: (1) The filling rate of all varieties followed a single-peak curve, peaking at 20–25 days after pollination (DAP); BN308 and CH6 exhibited the highest peak filling rates (1.77 g/(100 kernels·d) and 1.67 g/(100 kernels·d), respectively). (2) Dehydration displayed a clear biphasic pattern. …”
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Study on the propagation law of hydraulic fractures in heterogeneous permeability reservoirs. by Linhao Zou, Yinao Su, Xingsheng Xu, Wei Li, Huan Zhao, Mingxiu Zhang, Shengjie Jiao

“…The impacts of permeability heterogeneous, injection rate, and fracturing fluid viscosity on fracture morphology are systematically investigated, and the elasticity coefficient method was used to evaluate the influence weights of each parameter.The main conclusions are as follows: (1) Permeability distribution is the core factor controlling the fracture propagation direction, with HPL dominating the extension path while MPL and LPL show limited efficiency. (2) An increase in the number of permeability layers inhibits the overall expansion of cracks, and the shape of the cracks gradually changes to rectangular. (3) Higher injection rates significantly expand fracture area, whereas fracturing fluid viscosity ≥50 mPa·s stabilizes fracture morphology. (4) The elastic coefficient method identifies injection rate, permeability heterogeneous, and fracturing fluid viscosity as the key control parameters in order. …”
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