Standards of practice for peripheral nerve blocks at a tertiary care center in a low-middle income country– a prospective observational study by Heena Purshotamdas Bhupta, Priyanka Kini, Nisha Sara M. Jacob

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Recurrence patterns and long-term survival of locally advanced esophageal cancer patients with pathological complete response after different neoadjuvant therapies followed by surg... by Jiwei Wu, Yi Qin, Keting Li, Wentao Hao, Xianben Liu, Wenqun Xing, Yan Zheng

“…Results Under multimodal neoadjuvant therapy, there was no significant difference in recurrence rates among the three groups (NAC: 5.88% vs. NICT: 7.14% vs. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Eight Week Training Program Schedule With Two Different Stretching Patterns Strengthening on Changes in the Status of Lower Cross Syndrome by Chiman Alyarnezhad, Ali Shams Majalan

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Self-suppressing behavioral patterns and depressive traits exacerbate chronic pain: Psychological trait assessment using the structured association technique method. by Shin Hashizume, Masako Nakano, Chihiro Ikehata, Nobuaki Himuro, Kanna Nagaishi, Mineko Fujimiya

“…Chronic pain severity was assessed using a numerical rating scale (NRS), and psychological traits were evaluated by SAT. …”
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Using Real World Evidence to Describe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Costs Associated with PDE-5 Inhibitor Monotherapy by George Ruiz, Jason Yeaw, Cassandra A. Lickert, Ajita P. De, Rolin L. Wade, Janis Pruett, William Drake

“… # Results PDE-5i monotherapy for PAH treatment was associated with high treatment modification rates, low adherence, increased healthcare resource utilization, and high costs. …”
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Clinical patterns and predictors of trauma-related mortality over 13 years: a retrospective analysis from a Level 1 National trauma center by Ayman El-Menyar, Sandro Rizoli, Ahammed Mekkodathil, Mohammad Asim, Sajid Atique, Abdel-Aziz Hammo, Hisham Jogol, Ahad Kanbar, Khalid Ahmed, Rafael Consunji, Husham Abdelrahman, Asmaa Al-Atey, Ahmad Kloub, Fernando Spencer Netto, Gustav Strandvik, Hassan Al-Thani

“…Pre-hospital deaths followed a similar pattern to the overall mortality, while the in-hospital rates remained steady. …”
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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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Bacterial Isolates and Antibacterial Resistance Patterns in a Patient with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital, Southwest Et... by Abdulhakim Mussema, Getenet Beyene, Mulatu Gashaw

“…Having two or more exacerbation experiences in the previous year were found to be important determinants of the sputum culture positivity. Conclusions. High rates of MDR, ESBL, and carbapenemase producer bacteria were isolated from patients with AECOPD. …”
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Spatial patterns and temporal trends of tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer attributed to particulate matter pollution in Asia and its 34 countries and territories, 1990–2021 by Minxia Yang, Feng Xuan, Liejiong Wang, Ying Lou, Shengjian Yu

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War’s youngest victims: a descriptive cross-sectional study on injury distributions, severity patterns, and outcomes among paediatric trauma patients in Kharkiv, Ukraine by Filippa Sennersten, Safora Frogh, Gustav Falk, Mariia Matvieienko, Olha Karafulidi, Olha Konstantynovska, Yohan Robinson, Andreas Wladis, Denise Bäckström

“…Conclusions This study offers new insights into paediatric trauma from modern warfare in a high-income setting, highlighting the occurrence of blast and shelling injuries, injury patterns overall similar to previous conflicts, and high disability rates at discharge. …”
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FPGA Implementation for 24.576-Gbit/s Optical PAM4 Signal Transmission with MLP-Based Digital Pre-Distortion by Sheng Hu, Tianqi Zheng, Chengzhen Bian, Xiongwei Yang, Xinda Sun, Zonghui Zhu, Yumeng Gou, Yuanxiao Meng, Jie Zhang, Jingtao Ge, Yichen Li, Kaihui Wang

“…At the receiver, the parallel constant modulus algorithm (PCMA) was applied for signal processing. The bit error rate (BER) achieved met the 2.4 × 10⁻² threshold for soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC), enabling a net transmission bit rate of 24.576 Gbit/s. …”
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Analysing referral patterns from a primary dermatological clinic to other medical institutions for further care: A survey on patients with certain skin diseases in Japan by Daisuke Ueo, Takashi Sakai, Erika Ochiai, Jun Sese, Yutaka Hatano

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EEG–fNIRS signal integration for motor imagery classification using deep learning and evidence theory by Mohammed E. Seno, Niladri Maiti, Maulik Patel, Mihirkumar M. Patel, Kalpesh B. Chaudhary, Ashish Pasaya, Babacar Toure

“…For EEG signals, spatiotemporal features are extracted using dual-scale temporal convolution and depthwise separable convolution, and a hybrid attention module is introduced to enhance the network's sensitivity to salient neural patterns. For fNIRS signals, spatial convolution across all channels is employed to explore activation differences among brain regions, and parallel temporal convolution combined with a gated recurrent unit (GRU) captures richer temporal dynamics of the hemodynamic response. …”
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Global trends of depressive disorders among women of reproductive age from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis of burden, sociodemographic disparities, and health workforce correla... by Fangyi Dai, Yuzhou Cai, Min Chen, Yong Dai

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Opioid-use disorder and reported pain after spine surgery: Risk-group patterns in cognitive-appraisal processes in a longitudinal cohort study by Carolyn E Schwartz, ScD, Katrina Borowiec, MA, Bruce D Rapkin, PhD, Joel A Finkelstein, MD, MSc, FRCS(C), Tai Sutherland, BA, Olivia B Caan, BA, MS, Richard L Skolasky, ScD

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Global burden trends of tension-type headache, 1990–2021: socio-demographic patterns, age-period-cohort effects, and frontier analysis from the GBD 2021 study by Can Wang, Can Wang, Chao Liao, Yuyin Liu, Yuyin Liu, Peng Chen, Yuanlun Xie, Li Tian

“…We used absolute numbers and age-standardized rates from 1990 to 2021. Spearman correlation assessed the relationship between rates and the Socio-Demographic Index (SDI). …”
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Sublinear association between cortical thickness at the onset of the adult lifespan and age-related annual atrophy parallels spatial patterns of laminar organization in the adult c... by Bruno Hebling Vieira, Carlos Ernesto Garrido Salmon

“…Our results show that, whilst there is no obvious shared pattern between the initial surface area of cortical regions at eighteen years and their yearly rate of decay, for cortical thickness there is enough evidence to suggest thicker regions at eighteen years of age also present higher yearly rates of thinning, although yearly percentages are proportionately smaller. …”
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Gas composition and pressure in the hypopharynx during high-flow oxygen therapy through a nasal cannula in healthy volunteers with different breathing patterns by Andrey I. Yaroshetskiy, Anna P. Krasnoshchekova, Fedor D. Tkachenko, Alina V. Rubashchenko, Daniil D. Zubarev, Vasiliy D. Konanykhin, Maxim I. Savelenok, Maxim M. Nosenko, Zamira M. Merzhoeva, Sergey N. Avdeev

“…Abstract Background High-flow nasal cannula is widespread in patients with hypoxemic and hypercapnic respiratory failure, but physiological data concerning influence of the combination of breathing pattern, preset flow rate (PFR), and inspiratory oxygen fraction (FDO2) on end-expiratory pressure (EEP), capnogram, oxygram, and exhaled tidal volume (VTe) remains insufficient. …”
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Isolation, Identification of Bacterial Species Causing Chronic suppurative Otitis Media and Detection Some of Their Virulence Factors by Yumna Shaker Mahmood, Suha Maher Abed, Amar Mohammed Alwan

“…Cloacae), S. aureus had scored the highest rate (41%) of the total infections while the lowest rate was scored by E.Cloacae(1%). …”
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Prevalence and patterns of pre-existing multimorbidity in pregnancy in Northern Ireland: a population-based, retrospective study using linked routinely collected healthcare data by Lisa Kent, Siang Ing Lee, Megha Singh, Steven Wambua, Katherine Phillips, Utkarsh Agrawal, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Colin McCowan, Jonathon Kennedy, Holly Hope, Ngawai Moss, Rachel Plachcinski, Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Mairead Black, Sinead Brophy, Aideen Maguire, Dermot O’Reilly, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Kelly-Ann Eastwood, The MuM-PreDiCT Group

“…The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and patterns of maternal multimorbidity in a UK population. …”
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