Incidence of unnatural deaths in Transkei sub-region of South Africa (1996–2015) by B L Meel

“…The figure is 160 per 100 000 among males and 44 per 100 000 among females. The rate of unnatural death has increased from 153 per 100 000 in 1996 to 260 per 100 000 in 2015. …”
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Physical and Chemical Characterization of Drag Reducing Polymer Based on Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in Human Blood Flow by Akram Jassim Jawad, Auda J. Braihi

“…The results showed significant effecting of PVP on blood fluidity characteristics, where the viscosity decreased as the PVP content increased or as a shear rate increased. For a certain shear rate, the shear stress decreased as PVP content increased. …”
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Trends in the Management of Intracranial Vascular Malformations in the USA from 2000 to 2007 by Jae H. Choi, John Pile-Spellman, Jonathan Brisman

“…In 58,051 IVM-related admissions (detection rate 2.4/100,000 person-years; mean age 49±17 years; 52% women) major diagnoses were intracranial hemorrhage (ICrH) in 15%, seizure 32%, ischemia 5%, and headache 9%. …”
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Loss of Reduction in Pediatric Distal Radius Fractures: Risk Factors From a Prospective Multicenter Registry by Apurva S. Shah, MD, MBA, Zoe E. Belardo, BA, Mark L. Miller, MD, Michael C. Willey, MD, Susan T. Mahan, MD, MPH, Divya Talwar, PhD, MPH, Donald S. Bae, MD

“…The majority of subjects sustained bicortical metaphyseal distal radius fractures (68%), followed by Salter-Harris II physeal fractures (26%). The rate of radiographic LOR was 44% (271/616), and 11% (70/616) of fractures shifted ≥20°. …”
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Analysis of influencing factors for primary membranous nephropathy complicated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and establishment of a nomogram prediction model by Mirixiatijiang· Maimaiti, Zhu Guo-qiang, Su Ming-jie, Halinuer· Shadekejiang, Zhang Xue-qin, Lu Chen

“…They also had significantly higher systolic blood pressure ［130（120， 142） mmHg（1 mmHg=0.133 kPa） <italic>vs</italic> 122.0（113.5， 135.5） mmHg］， higher diastolic blood pressure ［80 （75， 90） mmHg <italic>vs</italic> 80（70， 85.5） mmHg］， higher prevalence of hypertension［142（64.8%） <italic>vs</italic> 67 （32.7%）］， and higher proportion of manual workers［60（27.4%） <italic>vs</italic> 28（13.7%）］ Additionally， lymphocyte count （LYM）， platelet count （PLT）， blood sodium concentration （Na）， blood urea nitrogen （BUN）， blood creatinine （Cr）， estimated glomerular filtration rate （eGFR）， 24-hour quantitative urine protein， glutamic transaminase， urinary occult blood， number of urinary hyaline and pathological tubular patterns， C-reactive protein （CRP）， complement C4， plasma fibrinogen， D-dimer， and centrocyte-lymphocyte ratio were all significantly different between the two groups （<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05）. …”
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A data-driven approach to forest health assessment through multivariate analysis and machine learning techniques by Raja Waqar Ahmed Khan, Hamayun Shaheen, Muhammad Ejaz Ul Islam Dar, Tariq Habib, Muhammad Manzoor, Syed Waseem Gillani, Abeer Al-Andal, John Oluwafemi Ayoola, Muhammad Waheed

“…RF-based feature importance analysis showed tree DBH, height, regeneration rate, soil erosion, and tree density as key ecological drivers of forest health. …”
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Citronella oil-loaded electro-spun single and core-shell nano fibers as sustained repellent systems against Aedes aegypti by Samali Udara Liyanaarachchi, Sanjeewa K. Rodrigo, Nilwala Kottegoda, Veranja Karunaratne, Menaka Hapugoda, Tharaka Ranathunge, Lahiru Udayanga, Dushmantha Adikari

“…It was found that maintaining the outer:inner flow rate ratio at 5:2 in coaxial process is imperative to produce good fibers. …”
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Effects of Hole Irrigation Device Parameters on Soil Water Characteristics Under Different Biogas Slurry Ratios by Peng Xiang, Jian Zheng, Yan Wang, You Wu

“…The lateral and vertical wetting front migration distances exhibited a well-defined power function relationship with the soil’s stable infiltration rate and infiltration time (<i>R</i>² ≥ 0.977). …”
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Assessment of predictors and mitigation strategy for therapeutic inertia in the management of hypertension: a quality improvement project by Ananyan Sampath, Shreya Deshpande, Rashmi Verma, Rajnish Joshi

“…When patient adherence was disregarded, TI increased to 49.7%. The total error rate in BP management ranged from 53.29% to 61.5%. …”
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Epigenetic dysregulation-induced metabolic reprogramming fuels tumor progression in bladder cancer by Jian Zhang, Xiaosong Fan, Xu Xu, Yichao Han, Weixing Yu, Bicheng Yang, Yanling Chen, Shaolin Zhang

“…BackgroundBladder cancer remains a significant global health challenge with a high mortality rate despite advancements in treatment modalities. …”
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Assessment of Water Resources Carrying Capacity and Analysis of Its Coupling Coordination in the Yangtze River Economic Belt by XIONG Ying, JIANG Yi-xin, CHEN Si-xuan

“…Analysis of influencing factors identified the proportion of tertiary industry, urbanization rate, and per capita daily domestic water consumption as the three factors most strongly correlated with water resources carrying capacity. …”
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Assessment of heavy metal pollution sources and environmental capacity of typical farmland soils in northwestern Zhejiang based on the geological background of black rock series by Mei-hua Wang

“…Principal component analysis extracted four principal components with a cumulative contribution rate of 78.92%, and the spatial distribution differences were obvious. …”
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Eco-friendly QbD-optimized chromatographic method for simultaneous analysis of metronidazole and nicotinamide with applications in permeation, stability, and sustainability evaluat... by Kanaka Parvathi Kannaiah, Mohamed A. M. Ali, Hemanth Kumar Chanduluru, Anis Ahmad Chaudhary, Mahmoud El-Maghrabey, Reem H. Obaydo, Galal Magdy, Mohamed A. El Hamd

“…Chromatographic separations were conducted with an RP-HPLC-photodiode array (PDA) system equipped with an ODS column using gradient elution of ethanol and phosphate buffer (10 mM, pH 3.5) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. pre-optimized conditions were determined using a two-level full factorial design (23 FFD). …”
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Longitudinal evaluation of common and unique brain-networks in variants of primary progressive aphasia by Rajan Kashyap, Rose Dawn Bharath, Changsong Zhou, Kyrana Tsapkini, John E. Desmond, SH Annabel Chen, Kaviraja Udupa, PT Sivakumar, Sagarika Bhattacharjee

“…To validate the rsfMRI networks and the longitudinal changes, we evaluated the grey matter (GM) volume, GM atrophy and the rate-of-atrophy of the brain areas. To corroborate the findings, we applied persistent homology on the structural networks derived from diffusion tensor images. …”
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Sustainability and energy self-sufficiency; overcoming the barriers by Rania Abdel Galil

“…Renewable energy technologies are viewed as radical innovations which necessitate substantial changes in production and consumption patterns, hence often met with resistance from both institutions and individuals. …”
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Epidemiological Situation on Tick-Borne Viral Encephalitis in the Russian Federation in 2022 and Forecast of its Development for 2023 by E. I. Andaev, A. Ya. Nikitin, M. I. Tolmacheva, I. D. Zarva, E. V. Yatsmenko, V. A. Matveeva, E. A. Sidorova, V. Yu. Kolesnikova, S. V. Balakhonov

“…Despite the increase in the incidence of TBVE in 2022, a significant downward trend has been retained. The rate of infection of ticks removed from humans in 2022 was below the long-term average values. …”
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MultiRepPI: a cross-modal feature fusion-based multiple characterization framework for plant peptide-protein interaction prediction by Yu Zhiguo, Li Zixuan, Li Peng

“…Secondly, bi-directional attention and PepPI gating mechanisms were used to design the cross-modal attention module (CMA), which deeply mines the key interaction patterns between peptides and proteins, and enhances the ability of the model to focus on important binding sites. …”
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Optimizing fertilizer application and straw return to fields to minimize nitrogen and phosphorus runoff losses in double-rice cropping systems by Ying Zhang, Jian Zhu, Changjun Li, Hua Peng, Ji Liu, Yue Luo, Min Song, Yanjiao Dai, Kai Deng, Xionghui Ji

“…Unknown of long-term patterns of losses and mechanisms driving runoff N and P in double-rice cropping systems limited the development of effective mitigation strategies. …”
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The Emergence of Non-communicable Disease in Indonesia by Dyah Purnamasari

“…Meanwhile, the proportion of population aged 50 years and above is significantly reduced, which is thought to be due to high mortality rate in the middle-aged population. The mortality rate in  Indonesia is dominated by non-communicable diseases (NCD). …”
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The specific features of the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease in rheumatoid arthritis (Results of the authors’ studies) by Natalya Anatolyevna Khramtsova, E V Trukhina

“…Objective: to study the incidence, pattern, and specific features of CHD in patients with RA. …”
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