Comparative virulence analysis of seven diverse strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi reveals a multifaceted and complex interplay of virulence factors responsible for disease. by Panjaporn Chaichana, Naphat Satapoomin, Chitrasak Kullapanich, Suthida Chuenklin, Aisha Mohammad, Manutsanun Inthawong, Erin E Ball, Thomas P Burke, Piyanate Sunyakumthorn, Jeanne Salje

“…We found that there was no single gene or gene group that correlated with virulence, and no clear pattern of in vitro growth rate that predicted disease. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles (Fe3O4) for Biological Applications by Ahmed Hisham Fathallah, Hussain S. Akbar, Fatin M. Nawwab Al-Deen

“…The results showed that the particle size is considerably dependent on the stirring rate and NaOH concentration. Fe3O4 nanoparticles exhibited superparamagnetic behavior and the saturation magnetization was around 50 emu/g. …”
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CHANGEPOINTS DETECTION OF PANDEMIC WAVE IN REAL-TIME: APPLICATIONS TO THE TRANSMISSION OF COVID-19 by Faihatuz Zuhairoh, Muhammad Rais Ridwan

“…This information helps prevent a resurgence of infections, which would negatively affect the COVID-19 mortality rate and the area's economic situation.…”
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Numerical Investigation of Non-Equilibrium Condensation in a Supersonic Nozzle Based on Spontaneous Nucleation by Saman Javadi Kouchaksaraei, Mohammad Akrami

“…Each saturation state was examined to assess its effect on various parameters, such as temperature, pressure, liquid mass fraction, droplet radius, nucleation rate, Mach number, and droplet count. A consistent pattern emerged across all samples. …”
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Ferrofluid droplet generation on a zero-thickness nozzle by a magnetic field using a wedge-shaped functional surface. by Amirhossein Favakeh, Mohamad Ali Bijarchi, Mahbod Mohammadrashidi, Mohammad Yaghoobi, Mohammad Behshad Shafii

“…This study introduces a novel method for droplet generation using a wedge-shaped surface with hydrophilic-hydrophobic patterning, which functions as a two-dimensional flat nozzle. …”
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Chemical Speciation and Potential Mobility of Heavy Metals in Organic Matter Amended Soil by Afsana Parvin, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Md Kamal Hossain, Badhan Saha, Afroza Parvin, Priyanka Dey Suchi, Sirajul Hoque

“…However, the three soils showed a more or less similar pattern in transforming Pb and Cd in soils since their characteristics were almost the same.…”
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Characteristics of Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Extreme Precipitation in Haihe River Basin and Analysis of Future Trends by LI Jia, HUANG Lingmei, SHEN Ao, SHI Rongqing, SHEN Manhua, YU Xiaobo

“…In terms of spatial changes, compared with historical periods, the area where the rate of change of the extreme precipitation index increases under the high-emission scenario has significantly expanded. ④On a seasonal scale, the growth trends of the maximum one-day precipitation and the maximum five-day precipitation have significantly strengthened in summer and autumn, a change that may lead to more severe heavy rainfall and flooding in summer and autumn.…”
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Efficacy, Safety, and Overall Quality of Life of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection for Early Colorectal Cancer in Elderly Patients by Liang Liu, Xingjie Shen, Jingyu Zhu

“…No significant differences were found in sex ratio, body mass index, location, endoscopic classification, pathological pattern, lesion size, mean procedure time, hospitalization days, complete excision, and en bloc resection rate between the two groups (P>0.05). …”
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Energy-Efficient Fall-Detection System Using LoRa and Hybrid Algorithms by Manny Villa, Eduardo Casilari

“…The experimental and systematic evaluation of the prototype achieved a 96.67% detection rate (sensitivity) for simulated falls and a 100% specificity in classifying conventional Activities of Daily Living as non-falls. …”
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Dynamics of seasonal rabies incidence in animals in Azerbaijan by Ch. V. Aliyeva, Sh. K. Zeynalova

“…The study results have shown that animal rabies exhibits a clearly pronounced seasonal pattern in the Republic of Azerbaijan.…”
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Task switching with probabilistic reward schemes by Markus Janczyk, Ludwig Danwitz, Kerstin Fröber, Bettina von Helversen

“…Specifically, an increase in reward prospect appears to enhance flexibility, as indicated by a higher voluntary switch rate (VSR), compared to situations where the reward prospect remains high. …”
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Parathyroid Involvement by Thyroid Carcinoma: Results from a Single Institution and a Review of the Literature by Ran Hong

“…All patients exhibited PTG Pattern A (direct invasion). <i>Conclusions:</i> Based on our findings and literature data, PTG involvement by TC has an incidence rate of 0.05–3.9%, predominantly affects women in their sixth to seventh decade of life, and appears to have no impact on prognosis unless accompanied by extensive extrathyroidal invasion. …”
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The impact of COVID-19 mobility restrictions on dengue transmission in urban areas. by Jorge L B Araújo, Rafael Bomfim, Cesar I N Sampaio Filho, Luciano P G Cavalcanti, Antonio S Lima Neto, José S Andrade, Vasco Furtado

“…This comparison enables us to accurately assess how mobility restrictions have influenced the rate of dengue propagation and their potential for preventing an epidemic year. …”
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Miniaturized circularly polarized wearable array antenna for medical device applications by Muammer Omran, Changiz Ghobadi, Javad Nourinia, Majid Shokri

“…The link margin was calculated, and the specific absorption rate of the antenna was analyzed, the result revealing that it aligns with the safety limits of IEEE C95.1-1999 standards.…”
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Heating Experiments on Benthic Foraminifera Ammonia sp. to Assess the Suitability of Amino Acid-Based Dating by Rahmadi Hidayat, Didit Hadi Barianto, Sugeng Sapto Surjono, Che Aziz Ali

“…The results exhibit a predictable pattern, demonstrating a consistently increasing extent of racemization after oven heating for up to 168 h without any indication of reversal pattern. …”
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Development mode and practice of fault-block oriented shale oil well in the second member of Funing Formation, Qintong Sag, Subei Basin by YAO Hongsheng,YUN Lu,ZAN Ling,ZHANG Longsheng,QIU Weisheng

“…For the multi-layer development of thick shale oil, the rectangular directional well pattern is conducive to the CO2 huff and puff, while the diamond reverse nine-spot well pattern is reasonable for the CO2 flooding. …”
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Anesthetic-Induced Myocardial Preconditioning and Some Biochemical Markers for Cardiac and Coronary Failures after Aortocoronary Bypass Surgery by V. V. Moroz, K. Yu. Borisov, O. A. Grebenchikov, D. I., Levikov., V. L. Shaibakova, R. A. Cherpakov, V. V. Likhvantsev

“…Objective: to provide a rationale for the efficiency of sevoflurane-induced cardiac preconditioning (CPC), by assessing the pattern of recovery of heart rate and by estimating troponin I levels and changes in NT-proBNP concentrations in patients undergoing aortocoronary bypass surgery (ACBS) under extracorporeal circulation (EC). …”
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A hybrid parallel convolutional spiking neural network for enhanced skin cancer detection by K. Anup Kumar, C. Vanmathi

“…Then textural, statistical, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) based Local Direction Pattern (LDP) with entropy, and Local Normal Derivative Pattern (LNDP) features are mined. …”
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Análisis técnico-económico para selección de aspersores Technical and economical analysis for sprinkler selection by Eduardo A. Holzapfel, Ximena M. Pardo, Vital P. da S. Paz, Antonieta Rodrigues, Ximena C. Orrego, Marco A. Lopez

“…To accomplish this an analysis was performed of different factors such as rate of water application, available time for irrigation, wind velocity, distribution pattern and pressure. …”
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Varied Presentations and Clinical Outcomes of Proliferative Glomerulonephritis with Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposit: An Indian Series of Five Patients by Uttayan Chakrabarti, Manish Chaturvedy, Arghya Majumdar, Nitin Kumar Bajpai, Aasma Nalwa, Tapabrata Das, Arpit Agarwal, Rajesh Jhorawat

“…The patient with membranous pattern had an indolent course with just anti-proteinuric measures. …”
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