Enhancing pancreatic cancer detection in CT images through secretary wolf bird optimization and deep learning by Sandhya Mekala, Phani Kumar S

“…Moreover, the proposed SeWBO_Efficient DenseNet achieves better True Negative Rate (TNR), accuracy, and True Positive Rate (TPR), of 93.596%, 94.635%, and 92.579%.…”
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Directly Fabricated Flexible Photodetector Based on TiO₂-Doped Carbon Nanosheets Film by Yunlong Zhang, Xiaolin Li, Zhipeng Cao, Qiang Wu, Gong Chen, Bo Wen, Dongfeng Diao, Xi Zhang

“…The edge states suppress the recombination rate of photo-generated electron-hole pairs, thereby significantly enhancing the photo-responsive performance. …”
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Analysis of the Spatial Structure of Regional Enterprises and Its Impact on Regional Economic Development Based on the Data Envelopment Analysis Model (DEA) by Lei Wang, Yuan He, Tongwen Wang

“…The time evolution, spatial divergence, and spatial association characteristics of the economic growth rate of the central urban agglomerations are measured, then the DEA model and entropy value method are used to calculate the economic growth efficiency and economic growth quality of the urban agglomerations, respectively, the time evolution characteristics and spatial pattern evolution characteristics of the economic growth efficiency and economic growth quality are analyzed, and finally, the coupled model of regional economic growth rate, efficiency, and quality is constructed. …”
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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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Identification of novel diagnostic and prognostic microRNAs in sarcoma on TCGA dataset: bioinformatics and machine learning approach by Rahem Rahmati, Fatemeh Zarimeidani, Farnaz Ahmadi, Hannaneh Yousefi-Koma, Abdolreza Mohammadnia, Maryam Hajimoradi, Shadi Shafaghi, Elham Nazari

“…We identified a significant association between the overall survival rate of sarcoma patients and miRs levels. The combination of miR.3688 and miR.3936 achieved the greatest diagnostic standing. …”
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Thermal comfort and energy related occupancy behavior in Dutch residential dwellings by Anastasios Ioannou

“…Specifically in houses with a good energy rating, the neutral temperature was higher than in houses with a poor rating. …”
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Differential Cortical Responses of Functional and Sensory Electrical Stimulation in Closed-Loop Tremor Suppression for Parkinson’s Disease by Xiaoqi Zhao, Tinglan Huang, Mengyue Jin, Hongbo Zhao, Yu Shi, Yanlin Wang, Xiao Shen, Zhen Li, Qingqing Shi, Xiaodong Zhu, Lin Meng

“…Both FES and SES significantly reduced tremor amplitude, with FES showing overall greater suppression (hand suppression rate: 60.72% vs. 48.31%, p >0.05; forearm suppression rate: 62.25% vs. 54.41%, p >0.05) where substantial inter-individual variability was observed. …”
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Timing of Surgery and Preoperative Predictors of Surgical Site Infections for Patients with Depressed Skull Fractures in a Sub-Saharan Tertiary Hospital: A Prospective Cohort Study by Hervé Monka Lekuya, Jelle Vandersteene, Larrey Kasereka Kamabu, Rose Nantambi, Ronald Mbiine, Anthony Kirabira, Fredrick Makumbi, Stephen Cose, David Patrick Kateete, Mark Kaddumukasa, Edward Baert, Moses Galukande, Jean-Pierre Okito Kalala

“…The group of surgical intervention >48 h had an increased incidence of SSI (57.3% vs. 42.7%, p = 0.006), a longer median of postoperative hospital stay (8[IQR = 6–12] days versus 5 [IQR = 4–9], [p < 0.001]), and a higher rate of reoperation (71.4% vs. 28.6%, p = 0.05) in comparison with the group of ≤48 h. …”
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Annual dialysis data report 2022, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) Renal Data Registry by Norio Hanafusa, Masanori Abe, Nobuhiko Joki, Junichi Hoshino, Masatomo Taniguchi, Kan Kikuchi, Takeshi Hasegawa, Shunsuke Goto, Tetsuya Ogawa, Eiichiro Kanda, Shigeru Nakai, Toshihide Naganuma, Kenichiro Miura, Atsushi Wada, Yoshiaki Takemoto

“…The number of chronic dialysis patients was 347,474 at the end of 2022, marking the first decrease since the beginning of this survey. The prevalence rate of dialysis patients was 2781 per million population. …”
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The near-optimal adjustment of carbon and nitrogen allocations into different organs in early-season rice cultivars with drastically different yield components under nitrogen appli... by Wen Ning, Wen Ning, Lin Su, Lin Su, Dandan Shi, Dandan Shi, Meina Ji, Meina Ji, Xiang Ouyang, Qingfeng Song, Caihong Shao, Xin-Guang Zhu, Shuoqi Chang, Shuoqi Chang

“…However, at the booting stage, the translocation rate of photosynthate was slower under N150 compared with CK in both flag and the basipetal 2nd leaves labeled with 13C. …”
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Clinicopathological characterization of Switch/Sucrose-non-fermentable (Swi/Snf) complex (ARID1A, SMARCA2, SMARCA4)-deficient endocervical adenocarcinoma by Chao Cao, Zi-Yun Wu, Wei Liao, Li-Jun Wei, Hao-Yu Liang, Xia Yang, Rong-Zhen Luo, Li-Li Liu

“…Defining Swi/Snf deficiency as loss of any subunit, the overall deficiency rate was 5.96% (36/604). Swi/Snf-deficient ECA tended to advanced FIGO stage (III-IV, P = 0.041), larger tumor size (P < 0.001), deeper stromal invasion (≥ 1/3, P = 0.046), and higher lymph node metastasis rate (P = 0.037). …”
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Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Patients with Diabetes Using a Handheld Fundus Camera: The Experience from the South-Eastern Region in Hungary by Dóra Júlia Eszes, Dóra Júlia Szabó, Greg Russell, Csaba Lengyel, Tamás Várkonyi, Edit Paulik, László Nagymajtényi, Andrea Facskó, Goran Petrovski, Beáta Éva Petrovski

“…Lower education was associated with a lower DR rate compared to non-DR (7.7% vs. 40.5%), while bad/very bad perceived financial status was associated with significantly higher DR proportion compared to non-DR (63.6% vs. 22.2%). …”
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Purinergic receptor antagonism reduces interictal discharges and rescues cognitive function in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy by Nelson Espinosa, Soraya Martín-Suárez, Ariel Lara-Vasquez, Trinidad Montero, Teresa Muro-García, German Fernandez, Juan Manuel Encinas-Pérez, Juan Manuel Encinas-Pérez, Juan Manuel Encinas-Pérez, Pablo Fuentealba

“…We used TNP-ATP, a potent purinergic receptor antagonist, and conducted experiments using a mouse model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy to examine behavioral performance and neural activity patterns. Our findings reveal that although TNP-ATP treatment did not significantly impact motor function or anxiety levels, it reduced both the amplitude and rate of hippocampal interictal discharges. …”
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Predicting customer subscription in bank telemarketing campaigns using ensemble learning models by Michael Peter, Hawa Mofi, Said Likoko, Julius Sabas, Ramadhani Mbura, Neema Mduma

“…Additionally, feature importance analysis reveals that contact duration, economic indicators like the Euro interbank offered (Euribor) rate, and customer age are the most influential factors in predicting subscription likelihood. …”
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Multi-omics analysis identifies UBA family as potential pan-cancer biomarkers for tumor prognosis and immune microenvironment infiltration by Haibin Wang, XinLi Liu, Hesen Huang, Meng Tang, Jiwei Li, Tingting Huang, Shengjie Wang

“…However, at present, comprehensive analysis has not been used to study the role of UBA family in cancers.MethodsWe extracted the relevant data of cancer patients from the TCGA database and studied the relationship between the expression patterns of UBA family and the survival rate, and stage of patients in pan-cancer, especially breast cancer (BRCA), colorectal cancer (COAD), renal cancer (KIRC) and lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). …”
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Multi-Modal Fused-Attention Network for Depression Level Recognition Based on Enhanced Audiovisual Cues by Yihan Zhou, Xiaokang Yu, Zixi Huang, Feierdun Palati, Zeyu Zhao, Zihan He, Yuan Feng, Yuxi Luo

“…The model demonstrates strong performance, accurately identifying depression severity in 3-second audiovisual sequences with an 81.4% accuracy rate on the AVEC2014 dataset, and achieves a Kappa score of 0.731 and an MF1 index of 0.798. …”
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Candidate circRNAs related to skeletal muscle development in Dazu black goats by Chengli Liu, Pu Yang, Xiao Wang, Baiju Xiang, Guangxin E, Yongfu Huang

“…Furthermore, the expression pattern of 10 DEcircRNAs with RT-qPCR was verified, which showed 80% concordance rate with that of RNA_seq datasets. …”
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Dual-omics analysis reveals B vitamin regulation and metabolism in Areca Catechu inflorescence by Wenxiu Jiang, Xiaoxia Liu, Weiying Li, Jing Yang, Panjing Li, Minggeng Xie, Guangzhen Zhou

“…Notably, we characterized a key rate-limiting enzyme in the thiamine biosynthesis pathway, the thiazole synthase (AcTHI1), that plays a crucial role in regulating thiamine biosynthesis. …”
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Microbial Metabolic Limitations and Their Relationships with Sediment Organic Carbon Across Lake Salinity Gradient in Tibetan Plateau by Weizhen Zhang, Jianjun Wang, Yun Li, Chao Song, Yongqiang Zhou, Xianqiang Meng, Ruirui Chen

“…This, in turn, triggers the secretion of extracellular enzymes by microorganisms to mine for deficient resources by decomposing complex organic carbon. This process is a rate-limiting step in the degradation of organic carbon and, as a result, has the potential to regulate organic carbon stocks. …”
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Flow and Mass Transfer Performance in Short Pin-Fin Channels with Different Fin Shapes by R. J. Goldstein, S. B. Chen

“…The performance of the pin-fin arrays is analyzed under two different constraints: the mass[heat transfer rate at fixed pumping power, and the mass/heat transfer area and pressure loss to fulfill fixed heat load at a fixed mass flow rate. …”
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