Temporal trends of carbon monoxide poisoning mortality at the global, regional and national levels: a cross-sectional study from the Global Burden of Disease study, 1990 and 2017 by Jie Liu, Junxiu Zhao, Jianhai Long, Yawei Sun, Xiaobo Peng

“…The overall ASR decreased by an average of 1.83% (95% CI 2.10% to 1.56%) per year in this period. This decreasing pattern was heterogeneous across ages, regions and countries. …”
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A “drop” in the atrioventricular conduction curve and dual-pathway electrophysiology by Youhua Zhang, MD, PhD

“…Background: Atrioventricular (AV) conduction time is rate-dependent. As the atrial coupling interval (A1A2) shortens, AV conduction time (A2H2) prolongs. …”
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Data Analysis and Forecasting of COVID-19 Pandemic in Kuwait Based on Daily Observation and Basic Reproduction Number Dynamics by Kayode Oshinubi, Fahima Al-Awadhi, Mustapha Rachdi, Jacques Demongeot

“…When the coronavirus pandemic began early in 2020, experts wondered if there would be waves of cases, a pattern seen in other virus pandemics. The overall pattern so far has been one of increasing cases of COVID-19 followed by a decline, and we observed a second wave of increased cases and yet we are still exploring this pandemic. …”
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OPTIMIZATION OF THE VACUUM-ASSISTED TREATMENT FOR COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETIC FOOT SYNDROME by V.I. Liakhovskyi, O.O. Kyzymenko, O.H. Krasnov, O.I. Krasnov, T.V. Horodova-Andrieieva

“…In the main group, the rate of wound reduction was greatest on the 8th-10th days, and in the comparison group – on the 14th-15th days. …”
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Design of an efficient multi-objective recognition approach for 8-ball billiards vision system by Jiaying Gao, Qiuyang He, Hong Gao, Zhixin Zhan, Zhe Wu

“…In the verification test, the trained CNN model shows a recognition rate of over 98.5%, and outperforms the other three classic methods. …”
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Mathematical model of the dependence between cerebral ventricular size and capillary pressure in laboratory animals by A. A. Cherevko, G. S. Valova, D. V. Petrovsky, A. E. Akulov

“…The same qualitative pattern of relationship between capillary pressure and mean ventricular wall displacement was observed for all animals considered. …”
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Ангари як архітектурний елемент авіаційних музейних комплексів by Yuriy Doroshenko, Alexander Khlyupin, Bohdana Nikolchuk

“…Most common hangars have rectangular profiles, large arches or gates; they are often over 100 meters wide. Depending on their function, hangars are divided into warehouses, in which the main one is used for parking and zberigaan, maintenance and preventive inspection; hangars for the repair of aircraft, helicopters and other aviation equipment. …”
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Effect of maize-soybean intercropping on quality of vegetable soybean by FANG Ping, LIU Weiguo, LIU Xiaode, LIU Ting, CHI Xiaoyu, XU Yan, PANG Ting, PENG Xiao, CAI Ling, YANG Wenyu

“…Because the appearance quality of vegetable soybean is affected by cropping pattern and the nutrition are affected by pattern and variety, we should screen out well adaptability and good quality varieties. …”
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Influence of Host Species, Location, and Aphid Prey on Microbial Diversity and Community Dynamics of Aphidophagous Ladybird Beetles in Guangxi, China by Mei‐Lan Chen, Yu‐Hao Huang, Li‐Qun Cai, Xiang‐Miao Qin, Xin‐Yi Meng, Hao‐Sen Li, Hong Pang

“…The dominant genera in the ladybird samples, Bacteroides and Alistipes, were rarely reported as predominant in other ladybird populations, indicating a unique genus‐level microbial community pattern in Guangxi. Alpha diversity indices and Bray–Curtis distances varied significantly among ladybird species. …”
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Performance Assessment of Maximum Likelihood, Random Forest and Support Vector Machines Classifier for Urban Land Use Classification: A Case Study of Dhaka Metropolitan City, Bangl... by Ha-mim Ebne Alam, Md. Nizam Uddin, Kazi Tawkir Ahmed, Md. Jahidul Hasan, Md. Yeasir Arafat, Md. Enamul Hoque

“…It is also inherent in environment, ecosystem, and urban development in analytical perspectives and complex inputs for modeling urban planning and disaster management. Assessment of LULC pattern uses different segmentation methods for assigning specific given classes to pixels of bands containing an image of natural color composite to define land use land cover classes such as water body, vegetation, bare soil, and built-up areas. …”
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Theoretical Examination of the Volume Concentration and Nanoparticles Density Influence on the Convective Heat Transfer Enhancement of Nanofluid in 2D Cavity Including the Square H... by Oulahou Y., Elguennouni Y., Hssikou M., Baliti J., Alaoui M.

“…The main objectives of this work are to study the performance and pattern of Cu-water nanofluid and to demonstrate that the nanofluids behave differently while improving their energy transfer compared to pure fluids. …”
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Nonlinearity Mitigation Based on Modulus Pruned Look-Up Table for Multi-Bit Delta-Sigma 32-CAP Modulation in Underwater Visible Light Communication System by Wenqing Niu, Hui Chen, Junwen Zhang, Yinaer Ha, Peng Zou, Nan Chi

“…At the data rate of about 1.69Gbp/s, utilizing MP-WLUT pre-distorted DSM-CAP an improvement of 1.44 dB Q-factor is realized compared with normal CAP without WLUT, and the size of MP-WLUT can be reduced to 62.5% of the full-size WLUT.…”
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Spatial attention-guided pre-trained networks for accurate identification of crop diseases by Satrughan Kumar, S. S. Aravinth, Sreedhar Kollem, Munish Kumar, Quadri Noorulhasan Naveed, Azath Mubarakali, Abhishek Bhattacherjee, Addisu Frinjo Emma

“…The proposed approach achieved an accuracy of 99.89% and a recall rate of 99.87%, demonstrating its suitability for crop classification with minimal computational overhead. …”
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Investigation of the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome in Hamedan province in 2021 by Fatemeh Asadi, Zahra Mahdavi Fakher, Motahareh Masoomi, Salman Khazaie

“…Menstrual irregularity, infertility rate, mean serum testosterone level, the prevalence of hyperlipidemia, mean LDL, and total serum cholesterol were significantly higher in the PCOS group (P<0.05). …”
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Urban Growth Dynamics in the New Capital of North Maluku: A Spatiotemporal Perspective on Land Cover Transformation in Sofifi by M. Fadel Aginda, Hayati Sari Hasibuan, Rudy Parluhutan Tambunan, Muhammad Attorik Falensky, Satrio Rifqi Wicaksono

“…To ensure the sustainability of urban growth dynamics in Sofifi, this study aims (1) identify and analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of land cover transformation from 1995 to 2020 in Sofifi and (2) analyze the growth pattern of urban expansion in Sofifi. This study employed multitemporal Landsat imageries within the 1995 to 2020 period with supervised classification using the CaRT classifier in Google Earth Engine and the NDBI maps to calculate the urban expansion rate and intensity index. …”
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Experimental investigation and modeling of heat and moisture transfer beneath asphalt pavements under rainfall conditions by Weihang Hua, Long Jin, Miaomiao Bai, Huimei Zhang

“…A nonlinear “decrease–increase” pattern was observed at 12 cm due to the capillary barrier effect. …”
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What can COVID‐19 teach us about patient satisfaction in the emergency department? A mixed‐methods approach by Maureen O. Grissom, Morgan Farra, Eric S. Cruzen, Erin Barlow, Sanjey Gupta

“…General negative comments were proportionately greater than general positive comments in 2019, whereas in 2020 the reverse pattern held. Other categories did not differ significantly across 2019 and 2020. …”
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Compound Action Potential of Isolated Spinal Cord: A Biophysical Analysis to Address Activity of Individual Fibers Following Contusion Injury by I. Rad, K. Khodayari, S. Kouhzaei, H. Mobasheri

“…In order to identify a representative pattern of CAP applicable in SCI, the recoded CAPs were evaluated, averaged and fitted using Matlab curve fitting toolbox. …”
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Population Analysis of Bali Sardinella (Sardinella lemuru, Bleeker 1853) Landed in PPI Kedonganan using Length-Weight Data and Digital Analysis (ImageJ) by Ni Putu Dian Pertiwi, Ida Ayu Purnama Bestari, M. Danie Al Malik, Mark Anthony Phuong

“…Population condition analysis showed that S. lemuru population is in isometric condition (b=3); with indication of declining in the length growth pattern compared with previous research (L∞= 20.75 cm with K= 1.1); the mortality estimation showed that fishing mortality (F=1.27) was lower than natural mortality (M=2.22), with the survival rate higher on smaller size fish. …”
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GBsim: A Robust GCN-BERT Approach for Cross-Architecture Binary Code Similarity Analysis by Jiang Du, Qiang Wei, Yisen Wang, Xingyu Bai

“…Recent advances in graph neural networks have transformed structural pattern learning in domains ranging from social network analysis to biomolecular modeling. …”
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