Forecasting the Thermal Degradation Depending on the Kinetics of Dracaena Draco Lignocellulosic Fibers Using an Artificial Neural Network by Abdelwaheb Hadou, Ahmed Belaadi, Djamel Ghernaout, Herbert Mukalazi

“…In order to forecast the thermal degradation of Dracaena draco plant fibers (DDFs) using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) at heating rates ranging from 5 to 30°C/min, this study employed artificial neural networks (ANNs). …”
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Simulation and prediction of rural population changes using agent-based modeling. by Shanshan Huang, Yao Huang, Shitai Bao, Jianfang Wang, Siying Chen

“…To mitigate future rural population aging, enhancing birth rates and fostering rural industrial development is essential to curb migration. …”
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Mitochondrial methylation is linked to sexually dimorphic growth in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) by Partha Sarathi Tripathy, Partha Sarathi Tripathy, Prabhugouda Siriyappagouder, Artem Valeryevich Nedoluzhko, Artem Valeryevich Nedoluzhko, Ioannis Konstantinidis, Soumya Shephalika Dash, Bijay Kumar Behera, Janmejay Parhi, Kaja Skjærven, Francesc Piferrer, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira Fernandes, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira Fernandes

“…We found significant differences in mtDNA methylation, with males exhibiting higher growth rates and distinct methylation patterns in genes related to the electron transport chain, such as ND5, ATP6 and CYTB. …”
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The effect of hyperbaric oxygen and platelet-rich plasma treatments on the adipogenic C2C12 myoblast cell line by Joe Chih-Hao Chiu, Poyu Chen, Kin Fong Lei, Gwo-Jyh Chang, Su-Ching Chen, Rei Higashikawa, Yi-Sheng Chan

“…Cells exposed to both HBO and PRPs had significantly lower proliferation rates than those treated with PRPs alone, suggesting that HBO negatively affects adipogenic C2C12 myoblast proliferation. …”
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Global burden, temporal trends, and health workforce correlations of gallbladder and biliary tract cancer: a comprehensive analysis from 1990 to 2021 with projections to 2046 by Fangyi Dai, Huayou Luo, Yuzhou Cai, Yong Dai

“…Results Globally, incident cases increased from 107,798 to 216,768, while age-standardized incidence rates declined (EAPC: -0.45%, 95% CI: -0.48 to -0.41). …”
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Outcomes Following Peripheral Vascular Interventions in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease by Amar Premdatt Gopal, Ankoor Patel, Murad Elias, Shreeya Agrawal, Priya Goyal, David Samson, Igor Laskowski, Romeo Mateo, Arun Goyal, Sateesh Babu

“…The data were analyzed to identify patterns and correlations. Results: This study found that patients with PAD and ESRD have long hospital stays, high amputation rates, high readmission rates, and treatment failure. …”
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An Experimental Investigation on the Energy Signature Associated With Multiphase Flow in Porous Media Displacement Regimes by Shuangmei Zou, Dong Chen, Nong Kang, Congjiao Xie, Ryan T. Armstrong, Jianchao Cai

“…The findings highlight the importance of wettability and flow rates in determining the efficiency of fluid‐fluid displacement in porous media. …”
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Missing The Forest For The Trees: A Lack Of Upper Extremity Physical Performance Testing In Sports Physical Therapy by Matthew L Gauthier, Casey A Unverzagt, Luciana De Michelis Mendonça, Amee L Seitz

“…# Background Despite shoulder and elbow injuries being common in athletics, return to sport and reinjury rates are less than ideal. These outcomes may be driven by the absence of evidence-informed testing to determine an athlete's readiness for sport…”
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Occurrence and Genetic Variation of <i>Monolepta hieroglyphica</i> (Motschulsky, 1858) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a Newly Emerging Pest, Among Hosts in Northeast China by Wei Sun, Xiuhua Zhang, Jiachun Zhou, Yuebo Gao

“…High gene flow rates were observed, likely contributing to decreased genetic variation. …”
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Smart deep learning model for enhanced IoT intrusion detection by Faisal S. Alsubaei

“…This superb performance of the OSNN model can be explained by the careful optimization of hyperparameters like strong activation functions (ReLU, GeLU, LeakyReLU), learning rates, dropout rates, and regularization techniques that enable it to learn intricate intrusion patterns efficiently using various datasets. …”
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The Sociology of Suicide After COVID-19: Assessment of the Spanish Case by Enrique Fernández-Vilas, Juan R. Coca, Juan José Labora González, Marcos Iglesias Carrera

“…This paper aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide rates in Spain, using a theoretical ex post facto analysis. …”
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Global, Regional, and National Burden of Smoking-Related Diseases and Associations With Health Workforce Distribution, 1990–2021: Analysis From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2... by Yuzhou Cai, Guiming Chen, Peng Bai

“…Correlation analyses examined relationships between 22 health workforce categories and disease burden.ResultsGlobally, age-standardized death rates from smoking-related diseases increased by 12.3% from 1990–2021, with males showing higher rates than females across all regions. …”
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Excess and reduced work absence during COVID-19 in Poland: insights from cause-specific time-series models by Błażej Łyszczarz, Jakub Wojtasik

“…Results We observed notable deviations in work absence rates during the pandemic period (until the end of Q1-2022). …”
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A Comprehensive Review of the Implementation and Impact of Nikshay Poshan Yojana in India’s National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme by Sethuraman Sivaraman, Saurabh Kumar Banerjee

“…Key aspects analysed include coverage and enrolment rates, disbursement processes, awareness and utilisation patterns, implementation challenges, and the scheme’s impact on treatment outcomes and nutritional status. …”
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Indirect exposure to insect growth disruptors affects honey bee (Apis mellifera) reproductive behaviors and ovarian protein expression. by Julia D Fine, Leonard J Foster, Alison McAfee

“…Curiously, eggs laid by queens exposed to pyriproxyfen exhibited increased hatching rates, and those larvae developed into worker progeny with increased responsiveness to their queens. …”
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A computational DNA methylation method to remove contaminated DNA from spent embryo culture medium for noninvasive preimplantation genetic testingResearch in context by Yidong Chen, Jin Huang, Fuchou Tang, Lu Wen, Jie Qiao

“…By testing simulated SECM samples, the method demonstrated a substantial reduction in the false-negative rate even with up to 75% cumulus cell contamination. …”
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Regional lymph node invasion in pediatric non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma: an international cohort study from the International Soft Tissue Sarcoma ConsortiumResearch in c... by Daniel Orbach, Matthieu Carton, Amadeus T. Heinz, Lise Borgwardt, J Herve Brisse, Carlo Morosi, Erin R. Rudzinski, Akmal Safwat, Monika Sparber-Sauer, Stephanie Terezakis, Andrea Ferrari, Aaron R. Weiss, William H. Meyer, David O. Walterhouse, Timothy B. Lautz

“…We therefore to analyze the rate of N1 at diagnosis, the pattern of nodal relapse, and the prognostic impact of N1 in pediatric patients with NRSTS. …”
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Effectiveness of the sterile insect technique in controlling Aedes albopictus as part of an integrated control measure: evidence from a first small-scale field trial in Switzerland by Diego Parrondo Monton, Damiana Ravasi, Valentina Campana, Francesco Pace, Arianna Puggioli, Matteo Tanadini, Eleonora Flacio

“…Similar spatial trends were observed for hatch rates and adult females (P < 0.01). These findings highlight both the overall effectiveness of SIT and the influence of mosquito immigration on spatial patterns. …”
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Breeding of a new mid-to-late ripening apple cultivar Wangyuebingcui by XU Haihong, YANG Kai, LI Guangjin, ZHANG Guoqiang, TIAN Ge, AI Bohao, LI Xuqiang, WANG Junya

“…The cultivar combines high budbreak rate with moderate branching capacity, exhibiting spur-type growth pattern, sustained cluster-base productivity, and axillary flowering propensity. …”
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Low-level atmospheric turbulence dataset in China generated by combining radar wind profiler and radiosonde observations by D. Meng, D. Meng, J. Guo, J. Guo, J. Chen, X. Guo, N. Li, Y. Sun, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, N. Tang, H. Xu, T. Chen, R. Yang, J. Hua

“…This dataset includes squared Brunt–Väisälä frequency (<span class="inline-formula"><i>N</i>²</span>), turbulent dissipation rate (<span class="inline-formula"><i>ε</i></span>), vertical eddy diffusivity (<span class="inline-formula"><i>K</i></span>), inner scale (<span class="inline-formula"><i>l</i>₀</span>), and buoyancy length scale (<span class="inline-formula"><i>L</i>_B</span>), which are provided twice daily at 00:00 and 12:00 UTC with a vertical resolution of 120 m, covering altitudes from 0.12 to 3.0 km above ground level (a.g.l.). …”
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