Sexual behaviors and associated factors among first-year undergraduates at overseas Chinese-oriented universities in China by Zulin Chen, Zulin Chen, Yikun Zheng, Lihan Lin, Lihan Lin, Yongjun Chen, Yunting Zheng, Hongmiao Chen, Hongmiao Chen

“…The rate was significantly higher among students from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan compared to those from Mainland China and abroad (p < 0.05), which was corroborated by the logistic regression (OR = 3.737, 95% CI: 2.846–4.908). …”
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Investigation on the Use and Preauthorization of Carbapenems at A National Hospital in Vietnam: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Han Ngoc Bao Pham, Nhi Truc Y. Nguyen, Nhu Quynh Tran, An Thi Thanh Nguyen, Cam Thi Le Pham, Nhan Thi Thanh Dang, Hien Thi Thu Pham, Thong Duy Vo, Mai Thi Phuong Tran, Quynh Thi Huong Bui

“…Optimizing dosing was the most common intervention in preauthorization. The rate of patients whose preauthorization process of all restricted antimicrobials complied with the hospital's protocol was 73.28%. …”
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Analysis of COVID-19 prevalence in Belarus, Thailand, and Lithuania utilizing the SIR model during the COVID era by Zahra Shirmohammadi, Khosro Rezaee, Mehdi Gheisari, Mojtaba Farmani, Fatemeh Aali, Reza Soltani, Hossein Razghandi

“…Instead of relying on static or globally derived estimates, the model parameters—infection rate (β) and removal rate (γ)—were dynamically calculated for distinct time periods in each country, using country-specific data extracted from Worldometer. …”
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Comparative transcriptome analysis of the effect of different heat shock periods on the unfertilized ovule in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) by Ying-chun ZHU, De-xi SUN, Yun DENG, Guo-lin AN, Wei-hua LI, Wen-jing SI, Jun-pu LIU, Xiao-wu SUN

“…However, because of low repeatability, embryoid induction rate and quality, the molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. …”
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Characterization of Pore Water Flow in 3‐D Heterogeneous Permeability Fields by Xiaolong Geng, Michel C. Boufadel, Kenneth Lee, Chunjiang An

“…The structures exhibit scale‐invariant features in multifractal fields and in stationary fields below the correlation scale, indicating that such vortex flow might be widely present with no characteristic scale. Complex spatial patterns of kinetic energy dissipation rate are identified for pore water flowing through heterogeneous porous media and correlate strongly with preferential flows. …”
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Optimising heat transfer efficiency in unsteady Maxwell hybrid nanofluid flow for solar energy by Sweeti Yadav, S. Shashi Prabha Gogate, P.A. Dinesh, K.R. Roopa

“…In the case of suction, the unsteady parameter heat transfer rate for hybrid nanofluid is 18.78%, while 28.48% for injection. …”
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The Influence of Meltwater on Phytoplankton Blooms Near the Sea‐Ice Edge by C. W. Lester, T. J. W. Wagner, Dylan E. McNamara, M. R. Cape

“…We extend the classic Fisher reaction‐diffusion equation to consider a time‐ and space‐varying death rate that represents the role of meltwater in the system. …”
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New perspectives under heterogeneity: mechanism of nutrient heterogeneity on Cd-induced hormesis of soil respiration by Qian Gao, Jiangshan Yang, Junyang Wu, Yongli Zhu, Yongli Zhu, Diwu Fan, Jiangang Han, Jiangang Han

“…To examine the effects of nutrient spatial heterogeneity on the hormesis of soil ecosystem under cadmium (Cd) stress, we constructed three patches with different spatial nutrient distribution but the same total nutrient content through different spatial discharge patterns. Different levels of Cd stress were applied to the patches, and after incubation, soil respiration rate, content of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and metagenomic characteristics were measured. …”
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Independent and joint impacts of high body mass index and aging on global burden of chronic kidney disease: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Yao Ma, Shun Chen, Yuanli Shen, Xiang Wang, Xinning Xie, Weihong Zhao

“…IntroductionWe aimed to evaluate the levels and trends of CKD burden associated with high body mass index (BMI) from 1990 to 2021 and to investigate the role of aging.MethodsFrom the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, we retrieved data and estimated CKD-related deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR), and age-standardized DALYs rate (ASDR) attributable to high BMI by age, sex, socio-demographic index (SDI), and geographical regions. …”
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Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy versus neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with borderline resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Jun-Peng Lin, Feng-Nian Zhuang, Wei-Jie Chen, Zhou Lin, Yu-Jie Chen, Xiao-Feng Chen, Hui Lin, Hao He, Peiyuan Wang, Hang Zhou, Wen-Wei Wei, Peng-Qiang Gao, Shuo-Yan Liu, Feng Wang

“…After PSM, the R0 resection rate (85.7% vs. 90.5%, P = 0.341) and pCR rate (19.0% vs. 26.2%, P = 0.269) were comparable between two groups, while the MPR rate in the NACI group was significantly lower than in the NCRT group (32.1% vs. 56.0%, P = 0.002). …”
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Dynamical modeling of syncytial mitotic cycles in Drosophila embryos by Laurence Calzone, Denis Thieffry, John J Tyson, Bela Novak

“…The model can be used to predict the phenotypes of novel mutations and effective ranges of the unmeasured rate constants and transport coefficients in the proposed mechanism.…”
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Anaesthetic practices in non-operating room settings for paediatric patients: A prospective observational study by Nayana Amin, Pallavi Patil, Virinchi Sanapala

“…There were 221 adverse events in 117 patients. The incidence rate of patients experiencing at least one adverse event leading to morbidity was 3.22%. …”
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Modeling Exon-Specific Bias Distribution Improves the Analysis of RNA-Seq Data. by Xuejun Liu, Li Zhang, Songcan Chen

“…These variables are embedded to the rate parameter of a Poisson model to account for the overdispersion of read distribution. …”
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A Data-Driven Approach for Urban Heat Island Predictions: Rethinking the Evaluation Metrics and Data Preprocessing by Berk Kıvılcım, Patrick Erik Bradley

“…This strengthens the visual capturing of spatial relationships, and as a result the correlation rate between air temperature and building volume data is also increased. …”
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A mixture transmuted generalized extreme value distribution: Definition and properties by Yang Yu, Sun HongGuang, Xu Zheng

“…In this paper, the properties of the survival function, hazard rate function, mean and variance, and maximum likelihood estimations of the mixture transmuted generalized extreme value distribution are provided, also the corresponding equations are given.…”
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Community Clustering and Recommendation Toward Elderly Health Records: Probabilistic Representation Learning and Large Graph Search by Huijiong Ding

“…Validated on >1M health records, the method achieves a 0.5049 Balanced Error Rate, outperforming six baselines across 42 health categories. …”
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An improved modeling approach to investigate biases in human random number generation. by Tim Angelike, Jochen Musch

“…The generalized distance parameter, and particularly the new cycling parameter, improved the fit of the model to human-generated sequences and the rate of successful predictions of the next choice from 14.09% to 26.48%, significantly exceeding the expected chance value of 1/9 = 11.1%. …”
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Using the superiorly based pharyngeal flap to surgically manage cleft velopharyngeal insufficiency: a cohort study by Marvee Turk, Pragaash Shanmuganathan, Carli Maddocks, David Chong

“…Repeat speech evaluation one year after surgery demonstrated correction of velopharyngeal insufficiency in 17 patients, representing a 94.4 per cent success rate. Furthermore, only two patients experienced postoperative snoring (11.1%). …”
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Rheology of rock–ice avalanche in a periodic chute flow by Zhiping Sun, Zhibo Dong

“…Depth-resolved profiles of six key parameters—velocity, solid volume fraction, shear stress, normal stress, shear rate, and inertia number—were recorded during steady flow conditions. …”
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What Really Ails the Eurozone?: Faulty Supranational Architecture by Assaf Razin, Steven Rosefielde

“…Member states have surrendered control over their monetary and foreign exchange rate policies to the German dominated European Central Bank (ECB), without supplementary central fiscal, private banking and political union institutions. …”
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