Mortality trends in Kazakhstan: insights from a million of deaths from 2014 to 2022 by Temirgali Aimyshev, Gulnur Zhakhina, Sauran Yerdessov, Ruslan Akhmedullin, Dinara Galiyeva, Kuanysh Yergaliyev, Antonio Sarria-Santamera, Yuliya Semenova, Abduzhappar Gaipov

“…COVID-19 significantly disrupted mortality patterns in 2020–2021. Mortality rates were consistently higher in males across most age groups, with a sharp increase after age 55, while “other disorders of the brain” emerged as a leading cause of premature mortality. …”
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Examining changes in social care referrals during the 2021 Winter Storm Uri in the Unite Texas network by Zackery White, Amanda Terry, Gillian Feldmeth, Alyssa Altstaedter, Halima Ahmadi-Montecalvo

“…Following the storm, case rates returned to pre-storm levels, with increased case resolution and reduced time to case closure. …”
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Fertility differences across immigrant generations in the United Kingdom by Jiseon Baek, Hill Kulu, Sarah Christison, Francesca Fiori

“…OBJECTIVE: This study examines the first-, second-, and third-birth rates of three migrant generation groups in the United Kingdom – 1.5G, 2G, and 2.5G. …”
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Comparing Machine Learning-Based Crime Hotspots Versus Police Districts: What’s the Best Approach for Crime Forecasting? by Eugenio Cesario, Paolo Lindia, Andrea Vinci

“…Then, crime forecasting models are extracted for each area, to monitor and predict how crime rates evolve over time within each partition. However, traditional spatial partitioning approaches, which divide cities into predefined police districts based on geographic and operational considerations, often fail to account for variations in crime patterns. …”
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"What happens when you get corona?": Children's questions and parental responses about the COVID-19 pandemic. by Graciela Trujillo Hernández, David Menendez, Seung Heon Yoo, Rebecca E Klapper, Maria H Schapfel, Kailee A Sowers, Victoria E Welch, Karl S Rosengren

“…Meanwhile, parents during the second peak of infection and death rates were more focused on responding to their children's questions with information about the virus. …”
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Epidemiological, etiological, and serological characteristics of hand, foot, and mouth disease in Guizhou Province, Southwest China, from 2008 to 2023. by Fajin Li, Dan Wang, Fei Su, Suye Zhao, Jun Guo, Fumin Zhang, Xueqin Ran, Jiafu Wang, Shijun Li

“…Guizhou Province has reported higher rates of severe and fatal cases of HFMD. However, comprehensive studies on its epidemiology, etiology, and serological characteristics have remained limited in recent years.…”
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Efficacy of insecticides against wheat thrips Haplothrips tritici Kurd. in winter wheat crops by Iu. Klechkovskyi, V. Klychko, G. Khorohorina

“…To control the number of thrips, the effectiveness of the insecticide Engio 247 SC, CS at four application rates (0.05, 0.1, 0.15 and 0.2 l/ha) and Karate Zeon 050 CS, SC; Inazuma, VG; Match 050 ES, CE; Mospilan, VP; Talstar, 10% CE was studied. …”
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Memory deformation and safety characteristics of hydrated coal rock assemblages under cyclic loading by Tingting Cai, Jin Xia, Yulong Jiang, Zengchao Feng, Jia Liu

“…With the increase in water saturation rate, the peak strength of the coal-rock assemblage gradually decreased, showing a noticeable deterioration effect. …”
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Global burden of chronic kidney disease and its attributable risk factors (1990-2021): an analysis based on the global burden of disease study by Min-Jia Li, Hong-Yong Liu, Yun-Qiang Zhang, Sheng-Rong Li, Jian-Hong Zhang, Rong Li

“…Prevalence peaked at ages 65–69 in males and 70–74 in females, with female rates surpassing male rates from the early thirties onward. …”
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The global burden of climate-sensitive diseases in Brazil: the national and subnational estimates and analysis, 1990–2017 by Tatiane C. Moraes de Sousa, Christovam Barcellos, Mauricio L. Barreto

“…The lowest DALYs rates for dengue were observed in the south region, which also experiences the lowest temperatures. …”
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Surface Temperature Assisted State of Charge Estimation for Retired Power Batteries by Liangyu Xu, Wenxuan Han, Jiawei Dong, Ke Chen, Yuchen Li, Guangchao Geng

“…Specifically, our method achieves 64.3–68.1% lower RMSE than traditional electrical-parameter-only approaches (V-I inputs) across 0.5 C–2 C discharge rates. Results show that the proposed method reduces SOC estimation errors compared to traditional voltage-based models, achieving RMSE values below 1.04 across all tested rates. …”
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EFFECT OF THE EXTENT OF MEDIASTINAL LYMPHODISSECTION ON THE RESULTS OF COMBINED MODALITY TREATMENT FOR STAGE IIIA (N2 ) NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER by E. O. Mantsyrev, A. V. Vazhenin, O. A. Gladkov, A. A. Lukin, M. N. Mironchenko, Ya. A. Gnatyuk, S. N. Timofeev

“…The median disease progression-free survival was 31 months and 14.5 months and the overall 5-year survival rates were 43,4 % and 16 %, respectively (p<0,05). …”
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Automated geospatial workflow for spatiotemporal assessment of urban expansion influence on deforestation in Northeast Florida by Md Zakaria Salim, Md Hashibur Rahman, Abdulla Al Kafy, Hamad Ahmed Altuwaijri, Md Abdul Fattah, Namit Choudhari

“…At the county level, Duval County experienced the highest urban growth rate at 32.50 %, while Madison County had the highest deforestation rate at 24.74 %. …”
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Study on Pressure Oscillation Characteristic of Steam Low-velocity Jet under Seawater Condition by Study on Pressure Oscillation Characteristic of Steam Low-velocity Jet under Seawater Condition

“…The experiments focus on comparing pressure oscillations in seawater and freshwater under varying steam mass flow rates (20, 40, 60 kg/(m²·s)) and water temperatures (30-90 ℃), with the goal of assessing system safety and performance. …”
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A speech emotion recognition algorithm based on DN-ResNet11 by YING Na, ZOU Yujian, YANG Xueying, SUN Wensheng, YE Xueyi, JIANG Yinhe

“…Experiments on the CASIA, EMO-DB, and IEMOCAP speech emotion datasets show emotion recognition rates of 94.58%, 85.59%, and 65.72%, respectively. …”
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Sex differences in the course of schizophrenia across diverse regions of the world by Novick D, Montgomery W, Treuer T, Moneta MV, Haro JM

“…Overall, females had slightly higher rates of clinical remission (58.0% vs 51.8%), functional remission (22.8% vs 16.0%), and recovery (16.5% vs 16.0%) at 36 months (P<0.001 for all). …”
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Trends in visits to a 24-hour walk-in crisis mental health centre during the COVID-19 pandemic by Jocelyne Lemoine, Depeng Jiang, Tanvi Vakil, James M. Bolton, Jennifer M. Hensel

“…Mean weekly visits had the pandemic not occurred were predicted with an autoregressive integrated moving average model and compared with observed rates.ResultsTotal pre-pandemic CRC visits (14,280) decreased 22.1%–11,122 total post-pandemic CRC visits. …”
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Visual vs. Spatial Contributions to Microsaccades and Visual-Spatial Working Memory by Joshua T. Gaunt, Bruce Bridgeman

“…Microsaccade rates and directions were monitored while observers performed a visual working memory task at varying retinal eccentricities. …”
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A novel framework for modeling quarantinable disease transmission. by Wenchen Liu, Chang Liu, Dehui Wang, Yiyuan She

“…The framework surpasses conventional uniform mixing and static rate assumptions by incorporating adaptive power laws, dynamic transmission rates, and spline-based smoothing techniques. …”
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Outcome of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt in Budd-Chiari Syndrome: Long-Term Outcomes of 118 Patients; A Single-center Experience by Mohamed Shaker, Mohammad Sakr, Hany Dabbous, Sara M. Abdelhakam, Ahmed Samir, Hend Ebada, Amir M. Farid, Mohamed El-Gharib, Ahmed Eldorry

“…Long-term outcome (1–5 years) was determined and included stent patency rate, time, and pattern of management of stent occlusion and survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years. …”
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