Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals various host responses to sacbrood virus infection in Apis cerana and Apis mellifera by Zih-Ting Chang, Yu-Feng Huang, Tzu-Han Chen, Li-Hung Chen, Chung-Yu Ko, Yu-Shin Nai, Yue-Wen Chen

“…Notably, following dsRNA treatment, the core genes Dpp, Yellow-f, RPA2, and Pyruva in A. cerana/AcSBV-AC group exhibited an inverse regulation trend, indicating that inhibiting AcSBV-AC can reverse the host core genes expression patterns and potentially enhance larval survival rates. …”
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A spatiotemporal model for urban taxi Origin–Destination prediction based on Multi-hop GCN and Hierarchical LSTM by Jiang Rong, Wangtu Xu, Yanjie Wen

“…HLSTM unit incorporates a standard LSTM gate to manage cell state updates, enabling selective access to the internal memory. …”
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Distributed Robust Low-Carbon Economic Dispatch of Power Systems Considering Extreme Scenarios by HU Heng, QIN Jianru, LI Haibo, LIU Jiefeng

“…Particularly， tail risks triggered by extreme weather and the dynamic mismatches between stochastic RE fluctuations and conventional unit regulation rates invalidate conventional deterministic scheduling models reliant on typical scenarios. …”
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How the pandemic shaped presenteeism trends between healthcare and non-healthcare workers using the Korean working conditions surveys (2010–2023) by Ari Min, Yoonjung Ji, Wonhee Baek

“…Healthcare workers exhibited high presenteeism rates prior to the pandemic; however, during and after the pandemic, these rates decreased rapidly and ultimately became lower than those of non-healthcare workers. …”
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Factors contributing to doctoral student attrition in higher education institutions in Namibia by Esther Nuuyoma, Sing Nevensha, Chika T Sehoole

“…Guided by Tinto’s student integration theory, this study explores factors driving high dropout rates among doctoral candidates at two Namibian universities. …”
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Mutual Investments Funds in Shares in Brazil : Incentives, Management and Convergence by Paulo Rogério Faustino Matos, Christiano Modesto Penna, Ana Balbina Gomes Silva

“…This article analy zes patterns of convergence in series of return of investment funds in shares in Brazil, from the use of the methodology of Phillips and Sul (2007). …”
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Multiple bursts of speciation in Madagascar’s endangered lemurs by Kathryn M. Everson, Luca Pozzi, Meredith A. Barrett, Mary E. Blair, Mariah E. Donohue, Peter M. Kappeler, Andrew C. Kitchener, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Carlos J. Pavón-Vázquez, Ute Radespiel, Blanchard Randrianambinina, Rodin M. Rasoloarison, Solofonirina Rasoloharijaona, Christian Roos, Jordi Salmona, Anne D. Yoder, Rosana Zenil-Ferguson, Dietmar Zinner, David W. Weisrock

“…Our analyses reveal multiple bursts of diversification (without subsequent declines) that explain much of today’s lemur diversity. We also find higher rates of speciation in Madagascar’s lemurs compared to lorisiforms, and we demonstrate that the lemur clades with high diversification rates also have high rates of genomic introgression. …”
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Rapid radiations underlie most of the known diversity of life by John J. Wiens, Daniel S. Moen

“…Specifically, we quantify how much of Earth’s species richness is contained within rapid radiations (clades with high net diversification rates). We find that among the major clades of living organisms and among land plant phyla and animal phyla, >80% of known species richness is contained within the few clades in the upper 90th percentile for diversification rates in each group. …”
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Regional Demographic History of Shaanxi Province from the Founding of the People’s Republic of China to the Beginning of the Cultural Revolution (1949–1966) by Svetlana B. Makeeva

“…The author considers positive demographic changes in the province, among which are increased birth rates and decreased mortality rates, growth of population in general, and an influx of internal migrants from other Chinese regions into the province. …”
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Function Delivery Network: A Spatial-Temporal Execution Orchestrator for Optimizing Serverless Computing by Joel R. Corporan, Arshdeep Bahga, Vijay K. Madisetti

“…Our results demonstrate significant improvements in resource utilization, execution time, and request completion rates. The FDN reduces function instance allocation by up to 97.82%, improves median response times by 45.45%, and maintains higher request completion rates at high concurrency levels compared to native FaaS execution. …”
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Distribution and Antimicrobial Resistance Analysis of Blood Culture Isolates at a Chinese National Cardiovascular Regional Medical Center: A 7-Year Retrospective Study by Wang Q, Wu F, Li T

“…Among Staphylococcus isolates, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococci (MRCNS) were identified at rates of 51.6% and 88.7%, respectively. The carbapenem resistance rates of K. pneumoniae and E. coli were 28.8% and 4.0%, respectively. …”
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Diffusion and Risks of House Prices in the Netherlands by Alfred Larm Teye

“… The rate of home-ownership has increased significantly in many countries over the past decades. …”
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Pitch biases sensorimotor synchronization to auditory rhythms by Jesse K. Pazdera, Laurel J. Trainor

“…In Experiment 1, we observed U-shaped patterns in both mean asynchrony and continuation tapping rates, with participants tapping latest and slowest when synchronizing to low and extremely high (above 2000 Hz) pitches, and tapping earliest and fastest to moderately high pitches. …”
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Clinical and survival differences between second primary and first primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a retrospective study by Xin Huang, Ying Kong, Tianyu Wu, Zhen Meng, Min Kang

“…Therapeutically, 2nd NPC patients showed significantly lower rates of curative-intent treatment (75.6% vs. 91.3%, p = 0.010), lower rates of good treatment tolerance (86.7% vs. 96.1%, p = 0.068), reduced chemotherapy utilization (73.3% vs. 89.3%, p = 0.014), and less frequent cisplatin use during concurrent chemotherapy (66.7% vs. 84.4%, p = 0.034). …”
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Examining perinatal regionalization in practice: a network analysis of maternal transport in Georgia by Jingyu Li, Stephanie M. Radke, Lauren N. Steimle

“…Elevated transport rates suggest a lack of access to risk-appropriate care in rural regions. …”
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Assessing vaccine coverage and delivery strategies for influenza and COVID-19 among Italian healthcare workers: A 2015–2023 case study by Domenico Pascucci, Alberto Lontano, Eleonora Marziali, Giuseppe Vetrugno, Umberto Moscato, Patrizia Laurenti

“…A retrospective cohort study analyzed vaccination data from 6,341 hCWs between 2015 and 2023, examining acceptance rates across different vaccination delivery models. …”
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A longitudinal investigation of school absenteeism and mental health challenges among Canadian children and youth in the COVID-19 context by Amanda Krause, Maria Rogers, Yuanyuan Jiang, Emma A. Climie, Penny Corkum, Janet W. T. Mah, Natasha McBrearty, J. David Smith, Jess Whitley

“…As well, research demonstrates that children and youth who experience mental health challenges are at greater risk of increased school absenteeism rates. The present study investigated the school attendance patterns of Canadian children and youth and the longitudinal and bidirectional links with mental health challenges within the COVID-19 pandemic context. …”
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Censoring Sensitivity Analysis for Benchmarking Survival Machine Learning Methods by János Báskay, Tamás Mezei, Péter Banczerowski, Anna Horváth, Tamás Joó, Péter Pollner

“…The framework systematically reduced observation periods and increased censoring rates while measuring performance through multiple metrics following Bayesian hyperparameter optimization. (3) Results: Model performance showed greater sensitivity to increased censoring rates than to reduced observation periods. …”
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Socioeconomic and locational disparities in primary education completion in Burkina Faso by Lazarus Obed Livingstone Banda

“…Design/methodology/approach – Using a quantitative, non-experimental approach, the study analyzes nationally representative secondary data using hierarchical linear modeling, binary logistic regression and propensity score matching (PSM) to assess correlational patterns in completion rates. Findings – The results indicate significant regional and urban-rural disparities in completion rates, with urban students showing markedly higher odds of completing primary education than their rural peers. …”
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Patient Adherence for Oral Combination Therapies in Diabetes Management: A Scoping Review by Maryam Zarrinkamar, Mojgan Geran, Mohammad Geran

“…Dual therapy regimens demonstrated adherence rates ranging from 49% to 80.8%, while FDC therapies showed adherence rates ranging from 60.3% to 98.9%. …”
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