Use of multiple metrics and clustering analysis to assess antimicrobial use in Shanxi hospitals, China: a cross-sectional study based on 25 general hospitals by Donghong Yin, Donghong Yin, Yang Tang, Song Wang, Shuyun Wang, Ruigang Hou, Ruigang Hou, Jinju Duan, Jinju Duan

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the current patterns of antimicrobial use among nonsurgical inpatients across 25 general hospitals in Shanxi Province and to evaluate the antimicrobial use rate, antimicrobial use density (AUD), days of therapy (DOT), length of therapy (LOT), and the application of cluster analysis in monitoring antimicrobial prescribing practices.MethodsThis study included 25 general hospitals covering 11 cities in Shanxi Province. …”
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Eradication of Helicobacter pylori for prevention of aspirin-associated peptic ulcer bleeding in adults over 65 years: the HEAT RCT by CJ Hawkey, Anthony J Avery, Carol AC Coupland, Colin J Crooks, Jennifer S Dumbleton, FD Richard Hobbs, Denise Kendrick, Michael Moore, Clive Morris, Gregory Rubin, Murray Smith, Diane Stevenson

“…Limitations and future work Studying subjects already established on aspirin probably contributed to the low event rate. A future study should investigate subjects starting on aspirin when the event rate is higher. …”
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Evaluating the predictive power of combined gene expression dynamics from single cells on antibiotic survival by Razan N. Alnahhas, Virgile Andreani, Mary J. Dunlop

“…We first identified relationships between growth rate and reporter levels based on auto- and cross-correlation analysis, revealing consistent patterns where changes in growth rate were anticorrelated with fluorescence following a delay. …”
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Effects of Heat Transfer Characteristics of R32 and R1234yf with Al2O3 Nanoparticle through U-Bend Tube Evaporator by Latifur Islam, Dipayan Mondal, Md. Ashraful Islam, Palash Das

“…After the bend, the frictional pressure drop increased at a higher rate than before the bend, and the vapor fraction increased at a higher rate.…”
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Unobtrusive stress detection using wearables: application and challenges in a university setting by Peter Neigel, Andrew Vargo, Benjamin Tag, Koichi Kise

“…We identify potential stress patterns by observing elevated waking heart rate (HR) and maximum waking HR, supported by related metrics such as sleep HR, sleep heart rate variability (HRV), activity patterns, and sleep phases.ResultsThe physiological changes align with significant academic and societal events, indicating a strong link to stress.DiscussionOur findings demonstrate the potential of consumer wearables to detect collective changes in stress biomarkers within a cohort using in-the-wild data, i.e., data that is noisy and has gaps. …”
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Geospatial technology based shoreline change analysis (1992–2022) and predictive forecast modeling for 2032 and 2042, utilizing DSAS, along the eastern coast of India by Harikrishna S., Gurugnanam B., Bairavi S.

“…The study found that the maximum erosion in the study area is 4.1 m/yr (end point rate (EPR)) and 4.21 m/yr (linear regression rate (LRR)) at the Maravakkadu coastal region, and the maximum accretion is 3.75 m/yr (EPR) and LRR of 4.12 m/yr at the Mettupalayam coast. …”
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Whisper Automatic Speech Recognition and GPT Large Language Models as Best Practice for Assessing Communication Progress in Autism Spectrum Disorder by Naela Fauzul Muna, Mukhammad Andri Setiawan

“…Whisper achieved a low Word Error Rate (WER) for mild autism (average 5%) and a higher rate for moderate autism (average 23%). …”
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An Antenna Array Sidelobe Level Reduction Approach through Invasive Weed Optimization by Geng Sun, Yanheng Liu, Han Li, Shuang Liang, Aimin Wang, Boyu Li

“…Various simulations are performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the IWO algorithm for the synthesis of the beam patterns of the LAA and the CAA. The results show that IWO has a better performance in terms of the accuracy, the convergence rate, and the stability compared with other algorithms for the SLL reductions. …”
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Performance and limitations of linkage-disequilibrium-based methods for inferring the genomic landscape of recombination and detecting hotspots: a simulation study by Raynaud, Marie, Gagnaire, Pierre-Alexandre, Galtier, Nicolas

“…False positive and false negative hotspots considerably confound fine-scale patterns of inferred recombination under a wide range of conditions, particularly when Ne is small and the mutation/recombination rate ratio is low, to the extent that maps inferred from populations sharing the same recombination landscape appear uncorrelated. …”
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High-speed threat detection in 5G SDN with particle swarm optimizer integrated GRU-driven generative adversarial network by R. Shameli, Sujatha Rajkumar

“…Moreover, the performance of this model is evaluated using the InSDN dataset and compared with existing DL model-based intrusion detection approaches and the results demonstrate a significantly higher accuracy rate of 98.4%, precision rate of 98%, recall rate of 98.5%, less detection time of 2.464 s, lesser Log loss rate of 1.0 and more metrics instilling confidence in the effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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Experimental Study of the Rock Mechanism under Coupled High Temperatures and Dynamic Loads by Huaming An, Tongshuai Zeng, Zhihua Zhang, Lei Liu

“…This research focuses on the effects of the loading rate and high temperature on rock mass in terms of rock mechanism. …”
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global seasonality of norovirus. by Sharia M Ahmed, Benjamin A Lopman, Karen Levy

“…Our results point to possible associations of season strength with rain in the wettest month and crude birth rate.…”
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Regional Gas Supply System Considered from the Standpoint of System Analysis and Regularities of its Functioning by D. R. Mоroz, N. V. Hruntovich

“…The values of correlation coefficients between the outdoor air temperature and gas flow rate according to the elements of the balance structure are calculated. …”
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Modeling of Photochemical and Photothermal Effects in Soft Tissue Subjected to Laser Irradiation by Marek Jasiński, Maria Zadoń

“…The connection between bioheat transfer and PDT models is taken into account through the respective relationships between perfusion rate, capillary blood velocity, and the maximum oxygen supply rate. …”
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Resolving contiguous vowels across word boundaries in Spanish: L2 learners, levels, and tasks by Erik W. Willis, D. Eric Holt, Carly Carver

“…The intermediate learners increased the frequency of linking contiguous vowels to 49% in the narrative-retell task, whereas the advanced L2 speakers slightly reduced their linking rate to 68%. The Mexican monolingual speaker comparison group produced linked speech in a narrative-retell task at a rate of 93%. …”
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Air Entrainment and Gas Transfer in Wave Breaking Events by S. Di Giorgio, S. Pirozzoli, A. Iafrati

“…We show that the volume of gas transferred across the air‐water interface increases significantly with the amount of air entrained due to wave breaking, peak values in the transfer velocity being concurrent with peaks in energy dissipation rate and air entrainment. The gas transfer velocity is observed to scale approximately as the one‐fourth power of the energy dissipation rate, consistent with previous theoretical predictions. …”
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Size and impact of the Brussels knowledge economy by Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Johan Eyckmans, Peter Teirlinck, André Spithoven, Gilles Van Hamme

“…Over the period 2008-2020, the compound annual growth rate of knowledge-intensive employment was highest in the surrounding Brussels functional metropolitan area. …”
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Spatial Inequality and Accessibility of Senior High School Education in Bonebolango Regency by Aljunaid Bakari, Firman Sidik

“…The results of this study show that the availability of high school facilities in Bonebolango Regency has not met the needs of the upper school-age community, because it has not been able to accommodate 80% of the high school age population in each sub-district. The occupancy rate is also uneven, with four high schools having an occupancy rate above 80% of the temporary capacity and 11 high schools having an occupancy rate of less than 50% of their capacity Based on the analysis of the nearest neighbors, the distribution pattern of high schools in Bonebolango Regency is relatively random, with a value of 0.975337 and a z-score of -0.030915. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification of Diabetes Utilizing Confusion Matrix Analysis by Maad M. Mijwil, Mohammad Aljanabi

“…Mainly, logistic regression and Adaboost had a classification rate above 92%, and the naive bayes algorithm achieved a classification rate above 90%. …”
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Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in Novosibirsk region during 1992–2015 by I. Ya. Izvekova, E. I. Krasnova

“…Aim: To study the epidemiological patterns of invasive meningococcal disease in Novosibirsk region within a time period from 1992 to 2015.Methods: retrospective comparative epidemiological analysis.Results: During the analyzed period the annual incidence rate of invasive meningococcal disease was higher than average annual incidence rate in Russian Federation. …”
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