A Comparative Study of the Most Commonly Used Metaphors in Covid-19 News Texts during the Outbreak and Peak of the Disease by Mansour Nikpanah, Mansoureh Delaramifar

“…But, during its peak in October 2020 coinciding the beginning of the cold season, the "Corona is war" metaphor has the highest rate of use among metaphors with 83% frequency. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the use of "corona is war" metaphor in the beginning of the disease outbreak and the peak time of the disease in October 2020.…”
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Comparative virulence analysis of seven diverse strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi reveals a multifaceted and complex interplay of virulence factors responsible for disease. by Panjaporn Chaichana, Naphat Satapoomin, Chitrasak Kullapanich, Suthida Chuenklin, Aisha Mohammad, Manutsanun Inthawong, Erin E Ball, Thomas P Burke, Piyanate Sunyakumthorn, Jeanne Salje

“…We found that there was no single gene or gene group that correlated with virulence, and no clear pattern of in vitro growth rate that predicted disease. …”
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Characteristics of Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Extreme Precipitation in Haihe River Basin and Analysis of Future Trends by LI Jia, HUANG Lingmei, SHEN Ao, SHI Rongqing, SHEN Manhua, YU Xiaobo

“…In terms of spatial changes, compared with historical periods, the area where the rate of change of the extreme precipitation index increases under the high-emission scenario has significantly expanded. ④On a seasonal scale, the growth trends of the maximum one-day precipitation and the maximum five-day precipitation have significantly strengthened in summer and autumn, a change that may lead to more severe heavy rainfall and flooding in summer and autumn.…”
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Energy-Efficient Fall-Detection System Using LoRa and Hybrid Algorithms by Manny Villa, Eduardo Casilari

“…The experimental and systematic evaluation of the prototype achieved a 96.67% detection rate (sensitivity) for simulated falls and a 100% specificity in classifying conventional Activities of Daily Living as non-falls. …”
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Dynamics of seasonal rabies incidence in animals in Azerbaijan by Ch. V. Aliyeva, Sh. K. Zeynalova

“…To assess the epizootological and epidemiological risks of rabies in the country, the disease frequency rate among various animal species was studied by year. …”
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Task switching with probabilistic reward schemes by Markus Janczyk, Ludwig Danwitz, Kerstin Fröber, Bettina von Helversen

“…Specifically, an increase in reward prospect appears to enhance flexibility, as indicated by a higher voluntary switch rate (VSR), compared to situations where the reward prospect remains high. …”
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Parathyroid Involvement by Thyroid Carcinoma: Results from a Single Institution and a Review of the Literature by Ran Hong

“…All patients exhibited PTG Pattern A (direct invasion). <i>Conclusions:</i> Based on our findings and literature data, PTG involvement by TC has an incidence rate of 0.05–3.9%, predominantly affects women in their sixth to seventh decade of life, and appears to have no impact on prognosis unless accompanied by extensive extrathyroidal invasion. …”
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Endoscopic assessment of the J pouch in ulcerative colitis: A narrative review by Shintaro Akiyama, Edward L Barnes, Tsubasa Onoda, Naoki Ishikawa, Mamiko Shiroyama, Yuka Ito, David T Rubin, Kiichiro Tsuchiya

“…Up to 50% of patients with ulcerative colitis postoperatively develop pouchitis and the rate of chronic inflammatory pouch conditions requiring pouch excision or diverting ileostomy is reported to be 10%. …”
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Development of a Mobile-Based Application for Classifying Caladium Plants Using the CNN Algorithm by Rudy Chandra, Tegar Arifin Prasetyo, Heni Ernita Lumbangaol, Veny Siahaan, Johan Immanuel Sianipar

“…The best model is found with the parameter epoch 100, learning rate 0.001, and batch size 64. The model is then implemented in a mobile application with two menus, "Take a photo" and "Choose an image," which will display the classification output and confidence values of the four types of Caladiums. …”
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Endovascular Management of Arterial Injuries Related to Venous Access: A Retrospective Review of 10‑Year Single-Center Experience by Mohammad Arabi, Abdullah Almutairi, Abdulaziz Abdullah Alangari, Mohammad Mari Alamri, Abdulaziz Alharbi, Abdulrahman Alvi, Qazi Shahbaz, Yousof Alzahrani, Omar Bashir, Azzam Khankan, Essam Dulaigan, Refaat Salman, Mohammad Almoaiqel

“…Purpose: Retrospective review of the pattern and management techniques of arterial injuries related to central venous access with long-term outcomes. …”
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Potential profile analysis of financial toxicity and its related factors among lung cancer patients by Xu Zhang, Liwei Zhang, Ziyi Geng, Meimei Shang, Aijun Wang, Xing Zheng, Chao Li, Tingting Zhang, Hailing Yang, Yuanyuan Chen

“…General data questionnaires, FT scale for reported outcomes of cancer patients, Chinese version of the Quality of Life Scale for lung cancer patients, Social Support Rating Scale and simplified version of the Mental Resilience Scale were used. …”
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Taking a look at your speech: identifying diagnostic status and negative symptoms of psychosis using convolutional neural networks by Gleb Melshin, Anthony DiMaggio, Nadia Zeramdini, Michael MacKinley, Lena Palaniyappan, Alban Voppel

“…Modified ResNet-18 convolutional neural networks (CNNs) performed three classification tasks; (1) schizophrenia-spectrum vs healthy controls, within 179 clinically-rated patients, (2) individuals with more severe vs less severe negative symptom burden, and (3) clinically obvious vs subtle blunted affect. …”
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Behavioural insights in the underuse of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in heart failure: a pilot survey on incentive perceptions among referring cardiologists by Joan Costa-i-Font, Georgiana Miler-Raicu, Elena Arbelo, Ruben Casado-Arroyo, Aya Sami, Eric Wei Seong Tee, Joseph Hazel, Laurent Roten, Tobias Reichlin, Haran Burri, Khaled Albouaini, Nikola Kozhuharov

“…A survey was conducted with 51 physicians from six European countries, including electrophysiologists, heart failure specialists, and general cardiologists, recruited through cardiology networks and personal contacts. Participants rated their perceptions of five incentive strategies using a Likert scale (1–5). …”
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Influence of exercise interventions on functional movement screen scores in athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ali Asghar Maleki, Seyed Hamed Mousavi, Mohamad Ali Biabangard, Hooman Minoonejad

“…Abstract The functional movement screen (FMS) is a widely recognized tool for evaluating movement patterns and identifying potential injury risks in athletes. …”
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Laboratory Analysis of Soil Physicochemical Properties Based on Agricultural Fertilizer Input Requirement Application: A Case of Haramaya University, Ethiopia by Turyasingura, Benson, Chavula, Petros, Mohammed, Yasin, Eliyas, Abdi Alic, Girmac , Tesfasilassie, Sadeso, Kumale, Shentema, Solomon, Abebed, Aschalew, Katel, Shambhu, Timsina, Sandipa

“…Exchangeable calcium ranged 4.99 cmol (+)/kg to 18.34 cmol (+)/kg with a mean of 12.02 cmol (+)/kg which is rated as high. The potassium value of (0.05, 0.82 meq/100gm), 0.06 meq/100gm and (0.13, 0.46 meq/100gm) of soil respectively. …”
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Numerical simulation of crack propagation and AE precursor characteristics in coal failure under confining pressures by Gang Jing, Shuai Wang, Leilei Zhao, Fa Dong, Yi Fan

“…The results demonstrate that peak strength increases with loading rate, particularly under low confining pressures, while higher pressures dampen this sensitivity. …”
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Performance Optimization and Field Validation of Post-Grouting Geopolymer Materials for Pile Foundations: Microstructural Insights and Environmental Durability by Chongchong He, Zhen Xu, Jing Wang, Pan Li, Yangyang Xia, Chao Zhang, Zhenpeng Chen, Wei He

“…The fluidity, setting time, bleeding rate, and mechanical properties of these materials were evaluated to determine the optimal mix proportions for pile foundation grouting. …”
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A Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Model for Lane-Level Traffic Prediction by Bao Li, Quan Yang, Jianjiang Chen, Dongjin Yu, Dongjing Wang, Feng Wan

“…The temporal features are extracted with the gated recurrent unit (GRU). Then, we adaptively fuse spatial and temporal features with the gating mechanism to get the final spatio-temporal features for lane-level traffic prediction. …”
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Integrated Feature-Temporal GAN for Imbalanced Transaction Fraud Detection by Yicen Zheng, Yu Xie, Jiamin Yao

“…IFT-GAN introduces two key innovations: 1) A Feature-Aware Sample Selection (FASS) module that employs Fisher score-based feature ranking and weighted k-means clustering to create a balanced subset enriched with discriminative fraud signatures; and 2) A Temporal Dependency GAN (TD-GAN) architecture employing a novel Time-aware Gated Recurrent Unit (TaGRU) in both the generator and discriminator, explicitly modeling the temporal intervals between transactions through adaptive temporal gating. …”
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Revealing the effect of layer-varying deposition strategy on laser-directed energy deposition bionic gradient NiTi alloy by Zhongxiong Kang, Chaorui Jiang, Mengqi Liu, Zhihui Zhang, Jie Zhao

“…The strategy includes different process parameters (the laser power and scanning speed), the scanning paths (alternative optimised spiral pattern, x-axis rotation pattern, and arc alternative pattern) and interlayer interval time. …”
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