The effects of school holidays on transmission of varicella zoster virus, England and Wales, 1967-2008. by Charlotte Jackson, Punam Mangtani, Paul Fine, Emilia Vynnycky

“…<h4>Background</h4>Changes in children's contact patterns between termtime and school holidays affect the transmission of several respiratory-spread infections. …”
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Somatic pathology in residents of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra by L. N. Verizhnikova, O. L. Aryamkina, N. N. Terentyeva

“…The study identified patterns in different flows of the Russian population in and from the North, the incidence rate (defined by the leading group of diseases) and its dynamics, characteristic of the territories equated to the Far North. …”
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Role of Genetic and Epigenetic Factors and Mechanisms Involved in the Occurrence of Congenital Heart Diseases (CHD) by Fateme Tabrizi, Mehri Khatami, Mohammad Mehdi Heidari

“…Conclusion: Due to modern surgical techniques, the survival rate of affected infants is increasing. Deeper insight into the exact causes of this disease is crucial for diagnosing and identifying high-risk patients and improving preventive and therapeutic strategies for CHD. …”
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The direction of stretch-induced cell and stress fiber orientation depends on collagen matrix stress. by Abhishek Tondon, Roland Kaunas

“…We investigated the interactive roles of matrix properties and stretching patterns on cell structure by uniaxially stretching U2OS cells expressing GFP-actin on silicone rubber sheets supporting either a surface-adsorbed coating or thick hydrogel of type-I collagen. …”
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Indentation Relaxation Behavior of the Austenitic Heat-Resistant Steel Sanicro25 by Lin Tong, Cao Tieshan

“…The results show that: the hardness/stress and time patterns of indentation relaxation at different depths are in accordance with the relationship similar to that proposed by Choi; the stress index is about 7 according to the power rate relationship, and the relaxation coefficient μ is about 0.3, whose inverse matches well with the stress index obtained from the indentation creep test; there is a pile-up phenomenon at the edges of the residual indentation on the surface of the specimen, which is caused by plastic flow of the material along the direction of the indenter after the formation of a completely plastic region at the bottom of the indenter. …”
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Learning place cells and remapping by decoding the cognitive map by Markus Borud Pettersen, Vemund Schøyen, Anders Malthe-Sørenssen, Mikkel E Lepperød

“…These cells exhibit marked tuning curves and rate changes when an animal’s environment is sufficiently manipulated, in a process known as remapping. …”
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Attention-Enhanced CNN-LSTM Model for Exercise Oxygen Consumption Prediction with Multi-Source Temporal Features by Zhen Wang, Yingzhe Song, Lei Pang, Shanjun Li, Gang Sun

“…We tackled two key obstacles—the limited fusion of heterogeneous sensor data and inadequate modeling of long-range temporal patterns—by integrating wearable accelerometer and heart-rate streams with a convolutional neural network–LSTM (CNN-LSTM) architecture and optional attention modules. …”
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Premium intraocular lens adoption: Insights from a national health insurance analysis by Chi-Ying Huang, Christy Pu, Chiun-Ho Hou

“…Specifically, the adoption rate for premium IOLs was 35.2% in 2016, rising to 42.6% in 2020. …”
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TaER Expression Is Associated with Transpiration Efficiency Traits and Yield in Bread Wheat. by Jiacheng Zheng, Zhiyuan Yang, Pippa J Madgwick, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Martin A J Parry, Yin-Gang Hu

“…Significant differences were also observed between the three groups varying for TaER expression for several transpiration efficiency (TE)- related traits, including stomatal density (SD), transpiration rate, photosynthetic rate (A), instant water use efficiency (WUEi) and carbon isotope discrimination (CID), and yield traits of biomass production plant-1 (BYPP) and grain yield plant-1 (GYPP). …”
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A Hardware Architecture of a Dynamic Ranking Packet Scheduler for Programmable Network Devices by Mostafa Elbediwy, Bill Pontikakis, Jean-Pierre David, Yvon Savaria

“…The introduction of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) separated the control and data forwarding planes, but the data plane still requires a fully programmable packet scheduler that can adapt to different traffic patterns and offer high expressiveness at line rate. …”
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Modelling cold firn evolution at Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps by M. Gastaldello, E. Mattea, M. Hoelzle, H. Machguth

“…At the saddle point (SP), our results show surface melt increasing at a rate of 0.53 cm w.e. yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻²</span> – representing a doubling over the 21-year period. …”
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Modeling of spatial spread of COVID-19 pandemic waves in Russia using a kinetic-advection model by V. V. Aristov, A. V. Stroganov, A. D. Yastrebov

“…In addition to the high infection rate, the high spread rate is due to the increased mobility of contemporary populations. …”
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Response of Water-Use Efficiency (WUE) in Alpine Grasslands to Hydrothermal and Radiative Factors Across Elevation Gradients by Ye Tian, Wan Zhang, Xiao Xu, Bingrong Zhou, Xiaoyun Cao, Bin Qiao

“…Moreover, contribution rate analysis showed an elevation-dependent shift in WUE control: evapotranspiration (ET) exerted a dominant influence at low elevations (contribution rate: −82.50%), while net primary productivity (NPP) became the primary driver at high elevations (contribution rate: 54.71%). …”
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Intercropping with faba bean under appropriate row configuration increases root yield and active ingredient content of Codonopsis pilosula by Gaojian Huang, Gaojian Huang, Xingyu Qin, Ziyu Chen, Huifeng Miao, Zhiping Yang, Zhiping Yang, Qiang Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Yi Xing, Yi Xing

“…Scientific and reasonable intercropping patterns can improve yield and active ingredient accumulation. …”
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The impact of urbanization on regional carbon sequestration in arid areas: A case study of Altay Region, Xinjiang, China by Jiaquan Wan, Tao Bai, Yongbin Ye, Peipei Shen, Fangqin Wang, Peixing Chen

“…Scientifically exploring the spatiotemporal variation patterns of carbon storage and accurately identifying its major influencing factors hold practical significance for China to achieve the “dual carbon” goals of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. …”
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Preschoolers in severely food insecure Guatemalan Mayan households consume a monotonous grain-based diet by Michele Monroy-Valle, Maira Ruano Estrada, María del Carmen Caamaño, Karla Cordón-Arrivillaga, Ginny Lane, Hassan Vatanparast

“…Our objective was to explore the dietary patterns of Guatemalan Mayan children, comparing stunted children to those with typical growth. …”
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A 6-month sustained-release formulation of triptorelin for locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer: a real-world experience in Asia by Chi-Hang Yee, Yuen-Hei Chung, Ivan Ching-Ho Ko, Chris Ho-Ming Wong, Alex Mok, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, Peter Ka-Fung Chiu, Chi-Fai Ng

“…This study investigated the prescription pattern of LAT in a real-world setting and its efficacy. …”
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Global trends in dengue research in veterinary medicine (2019–2024): A bibliometric analysis of scientific output, collaborations, and thematic shifts by Fran Espinoza-Carhuancho, Cesar Mauricio-Vilchez, Lucia Quispe-Tasayco, Frank Mayta-Tovalino

“…The observed decline in publication rate underscores the need to reinvigorate research efforts. …”
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Rising Threats and Evolving Trends: Five Years of Urinary Tract Infection Prevalence in a Portuguese Hospital by Francisco José Barbas Rodrigues, Patrícia Coelho, Sónia Mateus, Miguel Castelo-Branco

“…<b>Results:</b> The positivity rate increased from 18.7% in 2018 to 22.7% in 2022, with a peak in 2019. …”
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Changes in neurologic status after traumatic brain injury in the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Hypertonic Saline trial by Henry E. Wang, Chengcheng Hu, Bruce J. Barnhart, Jan O. Jansen, Kim Moeller, Daniel W. Spaite

“…Among initial TBI survivors with complete GOS‐E, >96% followed one of three neurologic recovery patterns: (1) favorable to favorable (20.0%), (2) unfavorable to favorable (40.3%), and (3) unfavorable to unfavorable (36.0%). …”
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