Analyzing pregnancy course and outcomes in women with varying degrees of severity of novel coronavirus infection COVID-19 in Saint Petersburg: the lessons from pandemic by V. F. Bezhenar, M. L. Romanova, I. M. Nesterov, I. A. Dobrovolskaya

“…Group 3 showed significantly fewer natural births – 33 (57.8 %) and 42 (80.8 %) (χ2 = 6.63) respectively, but a greater rate of caesarean section – 24 (42.0 %) and 10 (19.2 %) (χ2 = 6.63). …”
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Factors Affecting Aggressive Behavior Among Teenage Students: A Statistical Study by Kauser Shaheen, Majid Kaleem, Muhammad Abbas, Asim Iftikhar, Muhammad Ramzan

“…Aggressive behavior in the classroom was linked to low academic engagement ratings, good attitudes toward learning, friends in the classroom, and the perception of teacher support. …”
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Optimizing fertilizer application and straw return to fields to minimize nitrogen and phosphorus runoff losses in double-rice cropping systems by Ying Zhang, Jian Zhu, Changjun Li, Hua Peng, Ji Liu, Yue Luo, Min Song, Yanjiao Dai, Kai Deng, Xionghui Ji

“…Unknown of long-term patterns of losses and mechanisms driving runoff N and P in double-rice cropping systems limited the development of effective mitigation strategies. …”
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Diosgenin and solasodine-based saponins and sapogenines—Effects of structural modifications on Panagrellus redivivus, Spodoptera littoralis and Trichoderma reesei by Christina Rodler, Johann Schinnerl, Miriam Schalamun, Wolfgang Hinterdobler, Lothar Brecker

“…We show that the bioactivity is highly variable, depending not only on the tested organisms, but also on the glycosylation pattern. Especially 26-amino-(22R,25R)-furost-5-en-3β-ol exhibited high nematocidal (75 % mortality rate), anti-herbivorous (feeding rate reduced to 0.4 % leaf area/min) as well as anti-fungal properties (47 % increased anti-fungal activity compared to solasodine) whilst the other tested compounds exhibited only moderate activities.…”
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A novel wound dressing material with prolonged action by S. M. Dronov, V. Yo. Mamchur, I. P. Koshova, D. O. Stepanskyi, H. M. Kremenchutskyi, V. M. Toropin, B. V. Murashevych, K. S. Burmistrov

“…Acute toxicity pharmacological studies of material test-samples containing 6 % and 9 % active chlorine in a single application on the skin of rats and rabbits found that these applications did not lead to deaths, as well as changes in their behavioral pattern, consumption of feed and water. The epithelization rate of uninfected wound surface in application of dressings containing both sodium N-chlorosulfonamide and N, N-dichlorosulfonamide was significantly, on average 1.5 times, faster at the end of the observational period (day 14) in comparison with the control group animals. …”
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Drug Utilization Evaluation of Erythropoietin at a Referral Teaching Hospital in Iran by Iman Karimzadeh, Hanieh Rasekh, Ava Karimian, Mojtaba Shabani-Borujeni, Afsaneh Vazin

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the pattern of erythropoietin use, according to standard guidelines, in patients admitted to Namazi Hospital in Shiraz, Iran. …”
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Genetic selection modulates feeding behavior of group-housed pigs exposed to daily cyclic high ambient temperatures. by Alícia Zem Fraga, Luciano Hauschild, Paulo Henrique Reis Furtado Campos, Marcio Valk, Débora Zava Bello, Marcos Kipper, Ines Andretta

“…After defining the meal criteria, the number of meals (n), feed intake rate (g/min), feed intake (g/meal), feeder occupancy (min/meal), and interval between meals (min) of each animal were calculated. …”
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Fetal status and perinatal outcomes in placenta previa by Yu. N. Fatkullina, A. G. Yashchuk, A. Yu. Lazareva, N. A. Stetsenko, N. A. Tadzhiboeva, L. A. Fayzullina

“…Obstetric hemorrhage associated with placental abnormalities holds a leading place in the pattern of massive hemorrhage and maternal mortality, have been increasingly relevant due to the elevating rate of abdominal delivery.Aim: to assess fetal condition, parameters of uteroplacental and fetal hemodynamics as well as perinatal outcomes in pregnancy complicated with placenta previa.Materials and Methods. …”
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Efficiency of Electrical Cardioversion of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in the Use of Bipolar QuasiSinusoidal Impulse in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease by V. A. Vostrikov, K. V. Razumov

“…The ECV success rate was 88.6% in patients with clinically relevant and severe (acute chronic) heart failure (HF), 98% in those with mild HF and without its clinical signs (p<0.05), and 83% in those with acute myocardial infarction. …”
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Assessment of Exploited Stock and Management Implications of Tiger Tooth Croaker (<i>Otolithes ruber)</i> in Coastal Waters of Makran, Pakistan by Samroz Majeed, S M Nurul Amin, Asad Ullah Ali Muhammad, Sudheer Ahmed

“…The exploitation rate (E) was 0.70, indicating severe overexploitation. …”
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A method for predicting postpartum depression via an ensemble neural network model by Yangyang Lin, Dongqin Zhou

“…At the same time, the Dropout mechanism of the DNN reduces the overfitting risk of the proposed model and enhances its generalization ability, enabling the proposed model to better adapt to different clinical data.ResultsThe proposed model achieved the following performance metrics on the PPD dataset: accuracy of 0.933, precision of 0.958, recall of 0.939, F1-score of 0.948, Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) of 0.855, specificity of 0.923, Negative Predictive Value (NPV) of 0.889, False Positive Rate (FPR) of 0.077, and False Negative Rate (FNR) of 0.061. …”
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The Influence of Running Technique Modifications on Vertical Tibial Load Estimates: A Combined Experimental and Machine Learning Approach in the Context of Medial Tibial Stress Syn... by Taylor Miners, Jeremy Witchalls, Jaquelin A. Bousie, Ceridwen R. Radcliffe, Phillip Newman

“…<b>Results</b>: A 10% speed reduction decreased peak tibial acceleration (PTA), vertical average loading rate (VALR), vertical instantaneous loading rate (VILR), and vertical impulse by 13%, 10.9%, 9.3%, and 3.2%, respectively. …”
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Recent trends in dental research in Saudi Arabia: Mapping review (2010–2020) by Waad Khayat, Mona Rajeh

“…The most productive years were 2018 and 2019, and the average annual growth rate of research productivity was 21%. Implant dentistry showed the fastest growth rate. …”
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Marine Soundscape Monitoring Enabled by Artificial Intelligence-Aided Integrated Distributed Sensing and Communications by Juan M. Marin, Wahyu Hendra Gunawan, Alaaeddine Rjeb, Islam Ashry, Baoshi Sun, Talha Ariff, Chun Hong Kang, Tien Khee Ng, Shinkyu Park, Carlos M. Duarte, Boon S. Ooi

“…OFDM achieved a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 10.71 dB for DAS, compared to 8.76 dB for on-off keying (OOK), and enabled a data rate of 7.59 Gbps with a bit error rate (BER) of 2.93 × 10−3 over 1 km of SMF. …”
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Evaluation of the implementation of the EWARS Mobile epidemiological surveillance tool in Sudanese refugee camps in Eastern Chad: a retrospective and population-based surveillance... by Stephane Tewo, Balde Thierno, Freddy M. Banza, Idriss M. Mahamat, N'dri K. Eric-Didier, Djinguebey N. Raoul, John Otokoye Otshudiema, Castilla Echenique Jorge, Moussa Brahimi, Djoumbarina Maina, Evers Egmond, Marcel Woung, Kazuki Shimizu, Boris I. Pavlin, Jacques L. Tamuzi, Jacques L. Tamuzi, Patrick D. M. C. Katoto, Patrick D. M. C. Katoto, Patrick D. M. C. Katoto, Charles S. Wiysonge, Charles S. Wiysonge, Blanche-Philomene Melanga Anya

“…Case reporting, alert recording, and weekly reporting were completed successfully at all levels (camps, district, zone, and province) (≥80% completion rate). In contrast, the timeliness of alert reporting, weekly reporting, and probable outbreaks did not perform well across levels (≥80% timeliness rate). …”
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Integrating AI-generated content tools in higher education: a comparative analysis of interdisciplinary learning outcomes by Zhang Yan, Tang Qianjun

“…Findings revealed a 37% increase in interdisciplinary project outcomes (measured by collaborative problem-solving scores, cross-domain knowledge integration ratings, and peer evaluation metrics) when AIGC tools were strategically implemented, with significant variations in effectiveness based on implementation approach. …”
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The diagnostic utility of lung ultrasound in the assessment of interstitial lung disease associated with rheumatoid arthritis by Shaoyu Zheng, Zexuan Zhou, Guangzhou Du, Qingzi Chen, Shaoqi Chen, Jianqun Lin, Shijian Hu, Weijin Zhang, Kedi Zheng, Jinghua Zhuang, Meigan Huang, Barbara Ruaro, Cosimo Bruni, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Daniel E. Furst, Yukai Wang

“…Sonographic ILD was detected in 76 patients who underwent LUS examination. The concordance rate between two modalities was 83.33% (Kappa value = 0.64, 95% CI 0.50–0.78). …”
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The prevalence and genetic characteristics of human bocavirus in patients with acute respiratory infection in China during 2012–2021 by Haoran Jiang, Baicheng Xia, Xujing Chi, Liwei Sun, Hongmei Xu, Wenhui Wang, Min Mu, Pengbo Yu, Xingyu Xiang, Feng Zhang, Hui Zhang, Caixiao Jiang, Linqing Zhao, Zhenguo Gao, Kongxin Hu, Yan Zhang, Aili Cui

“…The age group with the highest detection rate shifted from infants under 2 years in 2012–2019 to children aged 2–4 years in 2020–2021. …”
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FPGA Implementation for 24.576-Gbit/s Optical PAM4 Signal Transmission with MLP-Based Digital Pre-Distortion by Sheng Hu, Tianqi Zheng, Chengzhen Bian, Xiongwei Yang, Xinda Sun, Zonghui Zhu, Yumeng Gou, Yuanxiao Meng, Jie Zhang, Jingtao Ge, Yichen Li, Kaihui Wang

“…At the receiver, the parallel constant modulus algorithm (PCMA) was applied for signal processing. The bit error rate (BER) achieved met the 2.4 × 10⁻² threshold for soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC), enabling a net transmission bit rate of 24.576 Gbit/s. …”
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Analysis of HBV infection characteristics and OBI prevalence in pregnant women: a focus on HBcAb + alone or in combination with HBeAb + subgroups in Northwest China by Yun Xie, Ru Kang, Xiaoyue Cheng, Dan Li, Qi Wang, Jiao Li, Xuan Guo, Wenhui Gao, Xin He, Liutong Jiang, Gaili Meng

“…Despite a decline in HBsAg positivity, HBV remains moderately prevalent, the persistently high HBV susceptibility rate (31.07%) underscores an urgent need for targeted vaccination efforts among women of childbearing age in Northwest China.…”
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