Real-world breast cancer treatment patterns and guideline-concordant treatment completion among Malawian women by Jennifer Morgan, Shekinah Elmore, Takondwa Zuze, Lusayo Simwinga, Richard Nyasosela, Precious Makondi, Agnes Manda BSc, Chifundo Kajombo, Anthony Charles, Lisa A. Carey, Maurice Mulenga, Katherine Reeder-Hayes, Tamiwe Tomoka

“…Here, we describe breast cancer treatment patterns by stage and curative-intent guideline-concordant treatment (GCT) receipt among Malawian women. …”
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Exploring endometriosis before surgical treatment: unraveling pain, sexual function and quality of life patterns by Juliana Olavo Pereira, Jaime Kulak Junior

“…Methods: A cross-sectional study of quantitative descriptive nature was conducted, including women with surgical recommendation due to endometriosis. The Numeric Pain Rating Scale, Endometriosis Health Profile, and Female Sexual Function Index tools were used for data collection. …”
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Growth Patterns of HIV-Exposed and -Unexposed Infants in African Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Perpetua Modjadji, Kabelo Mokgalaboni, Wendy N. Phoswa, Tebogo Maria Mothiba, Sogolo L. Lebelo

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> Stunting was the most prevalent growth deficit among HEU infants compared to their HUU counterparts, with no significant differences observed in the rates of underweight and wasting. To improve postnatal growth outcomes, especially in the evolving landscape of HIV treatment and prevention, efforts should focus on educating and supporting mothers living with HIV.…”
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Navigated Pattern Laser System Versus Single-Spot Laser System for Postoperative Laser Retinopexy by A. N. Kulikov, D. S. Maltsev, E. V. Boiko

“…The mean procedural time, procedural pain score (using 4-point Verbal Rating Scale), number of laser burns, and achievement of the surgical goals were compared between three groups (pattern LRP (NAVILAS laser system), 36 patients; SL-LRP, 28 patients; and IO-LRP, 22 patients). …”
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Treatment Patterns for Patients on Overactive Bladder Therapy: A Retrospective Statistical Analysis Using Canadian Claims Data by Adrian Wagg, Demitri Diles, Todd Berner

“…There are also few formal analyses on the impact of age, gender and choice of initial OAB drug on discontinuation rates. # Objectives To investigate discontinuation rates with antimuscarinics in patients newly starting OAB therapy, with regard to patterns of switching to alternative medication, and the potential impact of age, gender and choice of initial drug…”
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Incidence and risk factors of resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections: a multicenter study in Lebanese tertiary hospitals by Rania Itani, Hani M. J. Khojah, Patricia Shuhaiber, Hamza Raychouni, Carole Dib, Mariam Hassan, Tareq L. Mukattash, Abdalla El-Lakany

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Control of spatio-temporal patterning via cell growth in a multicellular synthetic gene circuit by Marco Santorelli, Pranav S. Bhamidipati, Josquin Courte, Benjamin Swedlund, Naisargee Jain, Kyle Poon, Dominik Schildknecht, Andriu Kavanagh, Victoria A. MacKrell, Trusha Sondkar, Mattias Malaguti, Giorgia Quadrato, Sally Lowell, Matt Thomson, Leonardo Morsut

“…Here, we first describe an occurrence of mechano-chemical coupling in synthetic Notch (synNotch) patterning circuits: high cell density decreases synNotch-gated gene expression in different cellular systems in vitro. …”
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Vision-based approach to knee osteoarthritis and Parkinson’s disease detection utilizing human gait patterns by Zeeshan Ali, Jihoon Moon, Saira Gillani, Sitara Afzal, Muazzam Maqsood, Seungmin Rho

“…Following that, advanced deep learning approaches, including sequential models like gated recurrent unit (GRU), are used for additional analysis. …”
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Schema-Informed Digital Mental Health Intervention for Maladaptive Cognitive-Emotional Patterns: Randomized Controlled Trial by Seohyun Jeong, Hyeonseong Kim, Silvia Kyungjin Lho, Inae Hwang, Seongjun Mun, Soohyun Kim, Hyejin Lim, Hyeonhee Kim, Min-Sup Shin, Woori Moon

“…ConclusionsThe schema-informed digital intervention led to significant (P<.05) short-term improvements in distress and associated psychological patterns, with high completion rates and increased help-seeking behavior among participants. …”
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STUDYING OF DUAL DEEP PERIOCULAR PARTS FOR PERSONS RECOGNITION by Safa N. H. Al-Moktar, Raid Al-Nima

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Research and optimization of a multilevel fire detection framework based on deep learning and classical pattern recognition techniques by Qi Liu, Hong Chen, Da Lin

“…Despite advancements in both traditional methodologies and modern deep learning models, challenges such as suboptimal accuracy and elevated false alarm rates persist, particularly in complex environmental scenarios. …”
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Pattern of the First Recurrence Has No Impact on Long-Term Survival after Curative Intent Surgery for Perihilar Cholangiocarcinomas by Madalina Maria Blaga, Vladislav Brasoveanu, Cezar Stroescu, Mihnea Ionescu, Irinel Popescu, Traian Dumitrascu

“…Aim. To explore the pattern of the first recurrence and impact on long-term survival after curative intent surgery for perihilar cholangiocarcinomas (PHC). …”
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Treatment patterns and survival outcomes of peripheral T-Cell lymphoma in Saudi Arabia: a 12-Year retrospective analysis by Mubarak Al-Mansour, Hosam A. Alghanmi, Duaa E. Shareef, Esraa S. Alshamat, Abdulaziz M. Asseri, Mohammed O. Bayamin, Syed Sameer Aga, Manal A. Alsaggaf

“…The five-year progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) rates were 23.6% and 44%, respectively. A significant difference was observed in the 5-year PFS (p = 0.048) and OS rates (p = 0.017) between treatment regimens. …”
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Behavioral Patterns, Rather Than Environmental Factors, Shape the Energy Balance of Wintering Chinese Mergansers (Mergus squamatus) in Huangshan by Chao Yu, Hao Zheng, Yu Luo, Mengxue Guo, Shiqi Wang, Xuanshuo Qi, Qun Li, Zhonghai Lv

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Geometric thermodynamics of reaction-diffusion systems: Thermodynamic trade-off relations and optimal transport for pattern formation by Ryuna Nagayama, Kohei Yoshimura, Artemy Kolchinsky, Sosuke Ito

“…This enables us to extract the excess entropy production rate that genuinely contributes to the time evolution of patterns. …”
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Real‐World Response and Survival Outcomes and Treatment Patterns in Patients With Extensive Stage Small‐Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Third‐Line Treatment by Jair Bar, Qingqing Xu, Sudeep Karve, Pooja Hingorani, Amin A. Virani, Neal E. Ready

“…Platinum‐based chemotherapy rates decreased from 94% and 93% in 1L to 17% and 16% in 3L in platinum‐sensitive and resistant patients, respectively. …”
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First passage time analysis of spatial mutation patterns reveals sub-clonal evolutionary dynamics in colorectal cancer. by Magnus J Haughey, Aleix Bassolas, Sandro Sousa, Ann-Marie Baker, Trevor A Graham, Vincenzo Nicosia, Weini Huang

“…We infer a wide range of sub-clonal dynamics, with mutant cell division rates varying between 1 and 4 times the rate of non-mutated cells across our sample set. …”
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Oncological outcomes, survival analysis, and failure patterns in patients with resectable squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue treated with glossectomy by Hadi A. Al-Hakami, Atheer Ali Al-Talhi, Bassam AlRajhi, Mohammad A. Alshareef, Baraa I. Awad, Tanvir Hussain, Mohammed Al-Garni

“…Objective This study systematically evaluates oncological outcomes, survival rates, and failure patterns in patients with resectable OTSCC treated with glossectomy. …”
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Cross-User Electromyography Pattern Recognition Based on a Novel Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network by Mengjuan Xu, Xiang Chen, Yuwen Ruan, Xu Zhang

“…The ablation experiments show that each functional module of the proposed CNN-MSTGCN network has played a more or less positive role in improving the performance of EMG pattern recognition. The user-independent recognition experiments and the transfer learning-based cross-user recognition experiments verify the advantages of the proposed CNN-MSTGCN network in improving recognition rate and reducing user training burden. …”
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Prevalence and pattern of hearing loss among meningitis survivors in the Pacific Islands: a prospective, observational study protocol by Annette Kaspar, Sione Pifeleti, Carlie Driscoll

“…The most recent Global Burden of Disease Project reported that mortality and morbidity rates associated with meningitis are in decline in the Pacific Islands. …”
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