Impacts of Land Use on Soil Erosion: RUSLE Analysis in a Sub-Basin of the Peruvian Amazon (2016–2022) by Moises Ascencio-Sanchez, Cesar Padilla-Castro, Christian Riveros-Lizana, Rosa María Hermoza-Espezúa, Dayan Atalluz-Ganoza, Richard Solórzano-Acosta

“…Also, social dynamic changes and differences in landscape patterns play a role.…”
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Artificial slope deformation monitoring and analyzing based on SBAS technology by Xiaochuan Huang, Xiaochuan Huang, Xiaochuan Huang, Jincang Liu, Jincang Liu, Jincang Liu, Ting Yang, Ting Yang, Ting Yang, Yun Li, Yun Li, Yun Li, Lipeng Zhou, Lipeng Zhou, Lipeng Zhou

“…To address this gap, we employed the SBAS-InSAR methodology to analyze 44 Sentinel-1 SAR images spanning a highway slope region in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, integrating the slope’s construction timeline to temporally dissect deformation patterns and assess geological risks. Our results revealed a maximum annual average settlement rate of −35.69 mm/yr and a peak cumulative settlement of −28.9 mm, with deformation trends strongly correlated to construction phases—primarily concentrated between April 2022 and March 2023. …”
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Real-world effectiveness of post-trastuzumab emtansine treatment for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer: a multicenter, matched cohort analy... by C. Courtinard, V. Barbet, R. Schiappa, F. Pilleul, S. Michiels, S. Dabakuyo, S. Gourgou, A. Jaffre, B. Asselain, L. Bosquet, K. Dunton, M. Rosenlund, Z. Liang, J. Cathcart, S. Delaloge

“…Patients and methods: Patients from the French Epidemiology Strategy and Medical Economics (ESME) mBC database who initiated treatment for HER2+ mBC between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2016, and received one or more treatment lines following T-DM1 were propensity score matched 1 : 1 to patients from DESTINY-Breast01 to create an ESME DB-01 matched cohort. Treatment patterns, real-world best overall response, real-world objective response rate (rwORR), real-world disease control rate (rwDCR), real-world progression-free survival (rwPFS), and overall survival (OS) were estimated, including by prior pertuzumab exposure and de novo/relapsed mBC status. …”
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Characteristics, health care utilization and cost of patients hospitalized with heart failure by Hanna Winkler, Dorothee Riedlinger, Andrea Figura, Liane Schenk, Martin Möckel, Thomas Reinhold

“…To provide optimal care to these high-risk patients, it is important to know their characteristics and health care utilization patterns.MethodsThis secondary data analysis of the EMANet data set used data from the hospital information system (HIS) of eight hospitals from the center of Berlin to identify patients with heart failure having had at least one hospital treatment during the year 2016. …”
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Intraspecific and Intracolonial Variation in the Profile of Venom Alkaloids and Cuticular Hydrocarbons of the Fire Ant Solenopsis saevissima Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Eduardo Gonçalves Paterson Fox, Adriana Pianaro, Daniel Russ Solis, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Bruno Cunha Vairo, Ednildo de Alcântara Machado, Odair Correa Bueno

“…Some fire ant species are top-rated pests spreading throughout the world by trade vessels. …”
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Efficacy and safety of Lutai Danshen Baishao granules for treating female melasma: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial by Meiyu Lyu, Yi Yang, Jinlian Liu, Wenting Fei, Min Fu, Yunting Hong, Hongguo Rong, Chun Wang, Linyuan Wang, Jianjun Zhang

“…Objective: To investigate the potential efficacy and safety of Lutai Danshen Baishao granules (LDBG) for treating female melasma associated with kidney deficiency and blood stasis patterns. Methods: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted at the Third Central Hospital of Tianjin, China from March to December 2023. …”
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Site of Service Changes Have Resulted in Increased Opioid Prescriptions for Primary Total Hip and Knee Patients in Michigan, a Michigan Arthroplasty Registry Collaborative Quality... by Harjot Uppal, MD, David Markel, MD, Giresse Melone, MD, Simarjeet Puri, MD, Lisheng Chen, PhD, Tae Kim, MHSA, Brian Hallstrom, MD, Richard Hughes, PhD, Elizabeth Dailey, MD

“…Background: The Michigan Arthroplasty Registry Collaborative Quality Initiative (MARCQI) successfully changed opioid prescribing patterns by instituting guidelines for total hip (THAs) and knee arthroplasties (TKAs). …”
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Tracking the infection dynamics of Fusarium oxysporum in Codonopsis pilosula based on GFP labelling by Mingming Shi, Huixia Li, Wei Guo, Ning Luo, Jinghuan Chen, Yonggang Liu, Rui Liu, Zhenchuan Mao

“…PEG-mediated transformation produced 11 GFP-tagged strains, with FO-GFP-7 retaining wild-type morphology, growth rate, and pathogenicity. Microscopic observation revealed infection dynamics: conidia aggregated at the rhizome by 2 days post-inoculation (dpi), followed by phloem colonization at 4 dpi and vascular invasion at 6 dpi. …”
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ZmHsp18 screened from the ZmHsp20 gene family confers thermotolerance in maize by Ming Xue, Yiwen You, Luyao Zhang, Jinming Cao, Mingliang Xu, Saihua Chen

“…Additionally, these genes exhibited co-expression patterns with key ZmHsfs, which are crucial in the heat tolerance pathway. …”
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From west to east: dissecting the global shift in inflammatory bowel disease burden and projecting future scenarios by Kaiqi Yang, Changhao Zhang, Rui Gong, Wei Jiang, Yuchen Ding, Yang Yu, Jinlong Chen, Min Zhu, Jiaxuan Zuo, Xueping Huang, Lumei Wang, Peng Li, Xiujing Sun

“…This survey analyzed patterns and trends in the burden of IBD to aid future decision making. …”
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Modified drought propagation under a changing environment: A case study in the Dongting Lake basin, China by Lina Jin, Tao Peng, Tianyi Fan, Vijay P. Singh, Qingxia Lin, Xiaohua Dong, Ji Liu, Jiali Guo, Dan Yu, Gaoxu Wang

“…New hydrological insights for the region: (i) Compared with the baseline period, the severity of HD in the Li River (LR) and Yuan River (YR) increased by 0.5 % and 1.3 % during the impacted period, respectively, while that in the Zi River (ZR) and Xiang River (XR) decreased by −25.9 % and −31.6 %, respectively; (ii) Human activities have weakened the correlation between HD and MD, resulting in various patterns of propagation time in different sub-basins and seasons; (iii) As a whole, propagation threshold from MD to HD became larger during the impacted period, with an average change rate from 0.9 % to 195.5 %.…”
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Post-Surgical Central Nervous System Infections in the Era of Multidrug Antibiotic Resistance in Greece—A Single-Center Experience of a Decade by Konstantinos Markakis, Konstantina Kapiki, Angela Ava Arbelle Edric, Asimina Aphrodite Pappas, Georgios Feretos, Sideris Nanoudis, Dimitrios Pilalas, Theodoros Michailidis, Efthymia Protonotariou, Lemonia Skoura, Nikolaos Foroglou, Symeon Metallidis, Olga Tsachouridou

“…Gram-negative bacteria, with multiple resistance patterns, are often isolated and these infections are difficult to treat, due to suboptimal antibiotic therapeutic levels in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). …”
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Cloud-based configurable data stream processing architecture in rural economic development by Haohao Chen, Fadi Al-Turjman

“…Methodology The RL-CNN-GRU framework combines reinforcement learning (RL), convolutional neural network (CNN), and gated recurrent unit (GRU) to improve agricultural price predictions using multidimensional time series data, including historical prices, weather, soil conditions, and other influencing factors. …”
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Robust Synthetic Data Generation for Sequential Financial Models Using Hybrid Variational Autoencoder–Markov Chain Monte Carlo Architectures by Francesco Bruni Prenestino, Enrico Barbierato, Alice Gatti

“…This study proposes a novel hybrid architecture that combines variational autoencoders (VAEs) with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling to enhance the generation of robust synthetic sequential data. The model leverages Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) layers for capturing long-term temporal dependencies and MCMC sampling for effective latent space exploration, ensuring high variability and accuracy. …”
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From Funding Equity Initiatives to Research Productivity: Quantifying the Impact of NSF ADVANCE Awards on Recipients’ Publication Trajectories by Alexander J. Gates, Laura K. Nelson, Rachael Grudt, Kathrin Zippel

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An Exploratory Assessment of LLMs’ Potential for Flight Trajectory Reconstruction Analysis by Qilei Zhang, John H. Mott

“…Comparative analyses against traditional approaches, such as the Kalman filter and the sequence to sequence (Seq2Seq) model with a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) architecture, revealed that the fine-tuned LLaMA model significantly outperforms these conventional methods in accurately estimating various trajectory patterns. …”
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From Margin to Mainstream: Informal Street Vendors and Local Politics in Kolkata, India by Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy

“…Power relations and engagement patterns between the street vendors and the state authorities had changed over years, impacting quality of life within the core city and its long term sustainability. …”
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Emoji-Driven Sentiment Analysis for Social Bot Detection with Relational Graph Convolutional Networks by Kaqian Zeng, Zhao Li, Xiujuan Wang

“…Subsequently, seven sentiment-based features are extracted to quantify statistical disparities in emotional expression patterns between bot and human accounts. An attention gating mechanism is further designed to dynamically fuse these sentiment features with user description, tweet content, numerical attributes, and categorical features. …”
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Multi-dimensional water quality indicators forecasting from IoT sensors: A tensor decomposition and multi-head self-attention mechanism. by Li Bo, Lv Junrui, Luo Xuegang

“…To overcome these limitations, we propose TGMHA (Tensor Decomposition and Gated Neural Network with Multi-Head Self-Attention), a novel hybrid model that integrates three key innovations: 1) Tensor-based Feature Extraction: We combine Standard Delay Embedding Transformation (SDET) with Tucker tensor decomposition to reconstruct raw time series into low-rank tensor representations, capturing latent spatio-temporal patterns while suppressing sensor noise. 2) Multi-Head Self-Attention for Inter-Indicator Dependencies: A multi-head self-attention mechanism explicitly models complex inter-dependencies among diverse water quality indicators (e.g., pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity) via parallel feature subspace learning. 3) Efficient Long-Term Dependency Modeling: An encoder-decoder architecture with gated recurrent units (GRUs), optimized by adaptive rank selection, ensures efficient modeling of long-term dependencies without compromising computational performance. …”
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Treatment Trends in Metastatic Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma in Argentina by Federico Cayol, Gabriela Gatica, Pablo Companys, Carolina Passarella, Rodrigo Sanchez, Ernesto Korbenfeld, Jose Zarba, Omar Carranza, Ruben Kowalyszyn, Gonzalo Taetti, Martín Richardet, Ezequiel Espamer, Mauricio Fernandez Lazaro, Laura Pelagatti, Nicolas Mainardi, Matías Cortes, José Peñaloza, Hernan Cutuli, María Pía Dominguez, Harold Somerville, Florencia Sarru, Juan Pablo Sade, Augusto Ferreyra Camacho, Emiliano Menna, Ivan Macharashvili, Rosalía Hinojosa Altamirano, Andrea Marchioni, Federico Losco, Pamela López, Tomas Soule, Mariano Aymar, Ignacio Jerez, Juan Ignacio Hernández Morán, María Natalia Gandur Quiroga, Martín Angel

“…The study analyzed treatment patterns and outcomes over time.RESULTSAccess to combination treatments for mRCC in Argentina has increased significantly, with 87% of patients receiving such therapies during the 2021-2022 period. …”
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