Prevalence and predictors of substance use as a factor in suicide in the USA, 2015–2020: a repeated cross-sectional analysis by Julie A Phillips

“…Background US rates of substance abuse and suicide mortality increased dramatically in recent years, but little is known about how rising rates of drug and alcohol use are associated with suicide. …”
Get full text

End-to-end neural automatic speech recognition system for low resource languages by Sami Dhahbi, Nasir Saleem, Sami Bourouis, Mouhebeddine Berrima, Elena Verdú

“…Using synthetic speech and data augmentation techniques can enhance E2E-ASR performance for low-resource languages, reducing word error rates (WERs) and character error rates (CERs). This study leverages a non-autoregressive neural text-to-speech (TTS) engine to generate high-quality speech, converting a series of phonemes into speech waveforms (mel-spectrograms). …”
Get full text

Resonance-Driven Discrete Growth and Chemical Reactivity of Optically Levitated Droplets by Kaiqi Zhang, Grégory David, Yue Zhao, Hua-Yun Xiao, Ruth Signorell, Chenxi Li

“…By combining Mie theory-based analysis of the stimulated Raman scattering and droplet thermodynamics, we develop an approach to retrieve the key properties (e.g., temperature, pH, and molality) of thermally locked droplets and demonstrate that chemistry-driven thermal locking results in a signature particle growth pattern. Comparison of sulfate formation rates in locked versus unlocked droplets further reveals that thermal locking can accelerate chemical reactions or even change the dominant mechanism by promoting photoinduced reaction pathways. …”
Get full text

Regional Climate Drives Spatial Variation in Species Richness in the Most Diverse Family of Neotropical Snakes (Colubroidea: Dipsadidae) by Juan P. Ramírez, Julián A. Velasco, Tod W. Reeder

“…Under these hypotheses, climate can determine the richness of regions in two main ways: (1) directly, by determining their carrying capacity, or (2) indirectly, through its effects on either (a) lineage diversification (i.e., the rates of speciation and/or extinction), or (b) the duration over which regions have been accumulating species. …”
Get full text

Temporal trends and future projections of cysticercosis-induced epilepsy: insights from the global burden of disease study 2021- a cross-sectional study by Siyuan Yang, Xiaoyu Ji, Xuebo Sun

“…However, the global prevalence and YLDs rates of CIE declined from 1992 to 2021, with estimated annual percentage change (EAPC) of −1.281 (95% CI: −1.373 to −1.19) and −1.878 (95% CI: −1.961 to −1.794). …”
Get full text

A Systematic Review of Tobacco Smoking Prevalence and Description of Tobacco Control Strategies in Sub-Saharan African Countries; 2007 to 2014. by Rachel Brathwaite, Juliet Addo, Liam Smeeth, Karen Lock

“…Rwanda had the highest prevalence of women smokers (12.6%) and Ghana had the lowest (0.2%). Rural, urban patterns were inconsistent. Most countries have implemented demand-reduction measures including bans on advertising, and taxation rates but to different extents.…”
Get full text

Polymicrobial Prosthetic Joint Infections: Unraveling Risk Factors and Outcomes in a Single-Center Study by Álvaro Auñón, Ignacio Ortiz, Salvador Peñarrubia, Carmen Álvaro, Estíbaliz Torrecilla-Sádaba, Joaquin Garcia-Cañete, Jaime Esteban

“…Patients with polymicrobial infections had higher rates of obesity, insulin-dependent diabetes, and higher Charlson comorbidity scores. …”
Get full text

Empirical Evaluation of the Relative Range for Detecting Outliers by Dania Dallah, Hana Sulieman, Ayman Al Zaatreh, Firuz Kamalov

“…Through extensive experimental work, the accuracy of both statistics in detecting outliers under various contamination strategies, sample sizes, and error rates (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>α</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0.1</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>0.05</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>0.01</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>) is investigated. …”
Get full text

DeepSeek-AI-enhanced virtual reality training for mass casualty management: Leveraging machine learning for personalized instructional optimization. by Zhe Li, Lei Shi, Mingyu Pei, Wan Chen, Yutao Tang, Guozheng Qiu, Xibin Xu, Liwen Lyu

“…Descriptive statistics, error rates, and correlation analyses were performed using R software (version 4.1.2). …”
Get full text

Common Glomerular Diseases in Adult Jordanians: A Single-Center Experience by Ahmed Sheyyab, Mohammad Al-thnaibat, Aseel A. Zghayer, Jafar Alsheyyab, Radi Hamed

“…The pattern of glomerular diseases has been reported previously with contradictory results. …”
Get full text

The joint impact of road density and width on road network performances —a simulation approach based on macroscopic fundamental diagram by Yingying Ma, Wenyi Xie, Xiaoran Qin, Zebang Liang, Ziyan Guan

“…Using the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) model, we analyzed metrics including MFD scatter dispersion, changes in experimental results with different vehicle arrival patterns, distortion of the MFD image with varying traffic volume, MFD slope variations, and maximum outflow rates. …”
Get full text

Evolutionary trajectory and spread of respiratory syncytial virus group A in neonatal cohorts in Pakistan amidst the COVID-19 pandemic by Sana Tamim, Nidia S. Trovao, Julia Paoli, Abdul Ahad, Nazish Badar, Uzma Bashir Aamir, Muhammad Salman, Aamer Ikram

“…These rates later dropped to 10.0% (2021–22), suggesting a possible re-implementation of such measures. …”
Get full text

Inflectional Changes of Double Marked Form: Evidence from a Corpus Study of English Verbal System by Basima Othman Mahmood

“…It has been claimed that there is a correlation between this type of irregularization process and high word frequencies. The real rate and nature of these double-marked forms have rarely been documented. …”
Get full text

Pentacene-Based Thin Film Transistor with Inkjet-Printed Nanocomposite High-K Dielectrics by Chao-Te Liu, Wen-Hsi Lee, Jui-Feng Su

“…The nanocomposite gate insulating film of a pentacene-based thin film transistor was deposited by inkjet printing. …”
Get full text

Native Valve Infective Endocarditis with Osteomyelitis and Brain Abscess Caused by Granulicatella adiacens with Literature Review by Sachin M. Patil, Niraj Arora, Peter Nilsson, S. J. Yasar, Dima Dandachi, W. L. Salzer

“…Endocarditis caused by NVS due to their virulence is associated with higher treatment failures and mortality rates. New antimicrobial susceptibility patterns are indicative of a significant rise in penicillin resistance and susceptibility differences between NVS subspecies. …”
Get full text

FILAMIN A IN BREAST CANCER: FROM LITERATURE TO FUNCTIONAL INSIGHTS

“…While early-stage tumors often respond to treatment, progression to metastasis significantly lowers survival rates, highlighting the need for novel therapeutic approaches2. …”
Get full text

An Optimization Strategy for Truncating Ultralong Bus Lines Integrated with Metro Networks by Cuiying Song, Yujun Chen, Jihui Ma

“…For most ultralong bus lines, low punctuality rates and vehicle bunching are two main challenges. …”
Get full text

The development and current challenges of irrigated agriculture in the western U.S by Aaron Hrozencik, Gabriela Perez-Quesada, Hannah Donahue

“…At the same time, the groundwater management policy landscape is shifting in response to unprecedented rates of depletion among the region’s aquifers. The related issues posit significant challenges for irrigated agriculture in the western U.S. and the rural economies it supports. …”
Get full text

Radiotherapy combined with anlotinib for refractory leiomyosarcoma: a case report and literature review by Ziming Li, Xiuchun Yu, Ming Xu

“…Refractory leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is characterized by notoriously high recurrence rates and poses significant surgical challenges due to its anatomical complexity and invasive growth patterns. …”
Get full text

Increased Daytime Sleepiness in Patients with Childhood Craniopharyngioma and Hypothalamic Tumor Involvement: Review of the Literature and Perspectives by Hermann L. Müller

“…Childhood craniopharyngiomas are rare embryogenic malformations of the sellar region, presumably derived from Rathke cleft epithelium. The overall survival rates after neurosurgical intervention and/or irradiation are high (92%). …”
Get full text