Out-of- hospital mortality in the municipality of Cienfuegos, 2016 by Orlando Morera Álvarez, Daylin Madruga Jiménez, Liliana Caridad Romero Castro

“…Malignant tumors were the leading cause of death (rate of 79.1 x 10,000 inhabitants), followed by heart disease.…”
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Local players giving a run for the share to a global giant: A case study of Pampers brand of Proctor and Gamble Pakistan by Syed Waqas Hussain, Jawaid Qureshi, Muhammad Mubeen, Zaeema Asrar

“… Pakistan is a densely populated country with a population of around 200 million people with an annual birth rate of 29.8 births/1000 people that approximates to around 13 million babies per year with a majority of births in tier three and four socio-economic classes (Geoba, 2017). …”
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Diagnosis of depression based on facial multimodal data by Nani Jin, Renjia Ye, Peng Li

“…Traditional scale-based depression diagnosis methods often have problems of strong subjectivity and high misdiagnosis rate, so it is particularly important to develop automatic diagnostic tools based on objective indicators.MethodsThis study proposes a deep learning method that fuses multimodal data to automatically diagnose depression using facial video and audio data. …”
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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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An Efficient RTL Design for a Wearable Brain–Computer Interface by Tahereh Vasei, Mohammad Ali Saber, Alireza Nahvy, Zainalabedin Navabi

“…To further illustrate the outperformance of our design, the proposed architecture is implemented on Virtex-7 field program gate array as a prototyping platform consuming 6 μJ energy with 1.52% area utilization.…”
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The role of vascularity and the fibrovascular interface in interstitial lung diseases by Jana Dietrich, Alice Kang, Birger Tielemans, Stijn E. Verleden, Hassan Khalil, Florian Länger, Philipp Bruners, Steven J. Mentzer, Tobias Welte, Michael Dreher, Danny D. Jonigk, Maximilian Ackermann

“…Currently, therapeutic approaches based on specific structural targeting of pulmonary fibrosis are limited to nintedanib and pirfenidone, which can only slow down disease progression leading to a lower mortality rate. Lung transplantation is currently the only available curative treatment, but it is associated with high perioperative mortality. …”
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Identification and expression analysis of cinnamyl CoA reductase gene family and function of StCCR6 in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) by Chong Du, Yunzhu Che, Zengli Zhang, Fumeng He, Xinqi Zhang, Yujie Han, Zelin Yang, Jiaqi Wang, Tianshuai Qi, Ying Lan, Yingnan Wang, Fenglan Li

“…Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase (CCR), a key rate-limiting enzyme in plant lignin biosynthesis, critically regulates plant growth, development, and abiotic stress responses. …”
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A two-stage model for enhanced mango leaf disease detection using an innovative handcrafted spatial feature extraction method and knowledge distillation process by Mohammad Manzurul Islam, Mst. Nasrat Jahan Niva, Abdullahi Chowdhury, Saleh Masum, Rifat Ara Shams, Taskeed Jabid, Md. Sawkat Ali, Md. Mostofa Kamal Rasel, Muhammad Firoz Mridha

“…In the first stage, we implement an innovative, block-based feature extraction technique using Local Directional Patterns (LDP) and Local Directional Pattern variance (LDPv) on a comprehensive dataset, MangoLeafBD, consisting of 4000 images, achieving satisfactory results in terms of detection accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and false negative rate. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics and spatial clustering analysis of human brucellosis in Zibo City, Shandong Province, China, 2006–2024 by Rongtao Zhao, Ruixuan Sun, Feng Zhang

“…From 2006 to 2021, a total of 2,176 brucellosis cases were reported in Zibo City, with an average annual incidence rate of 2.50 per 100,000. Middle-aged and older adult populations (aged 35–74 years) were the primary affected groups, accounting for 86.76% (1,888/2,176) of all reported cases. …”
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Variabilidade espacial de classes de textura, salinidade e condutividade hidráulica de solos em planície aluvial Spatial variability of textural classes, salinity and hydraulic con... by Abelardo A. A. Montenegro, Suzana M. G. L. Montenegro

“…Considering sampling points and test locations along the main longitudinal transect in the valley, as well as randomly distributed locations, the spatial variability of the main soil classes, the infiltration rate, and the electrical conductivity of the saturated extract have been analyzed, for the subsurface soil layer. …”
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The impact of expressive writing of deep feelings about labor experiences on postpartum depression: a randomized clinical controlled trial by Sara Mohammadi, Fatemeh Hadizadeh Talasaz, Fatemeh Mohammadzadeh, Jahanshir Tavakolizadeh, Narjes Bahri

“…Abstract Objective This study aimed to evaluate the expression of deep feelings about labor experiences in a virtual group of peers on the rate of postpartum depression. Methods This randomized clinical trial was conducted on 154 women who had given birth at a public hospital in Birjand city, in the North East of Iran, between May and October 2019. …”
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The Heavy‐Tailed Inverse Power Lindley Type‐I Model: Reliability Inference and Actuarial Applications by Amal S. Hassan, Diaa S. Metwally, Mohammed Elgarhy, Rokaya Elmorsy Mohamed

“…Bayesian estimators for the parameters and reliability functions (survival and hazard rate) are derived using gamma priors and both symmetric and asymmetric loss functions. …”
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Selecting a Suitable Flat in a High-Rise Apartment by Evaluation of Heat, Light, and Ventilation by Aniket Bansal, Rohan Dinesh Horabyle, B. R. K. Holla, Arya Rajiv Lotliker

“…An in-depth discussion of the air change rate of the building, daylighting performance in relation to different floors, and the difference between the indoor and outdoor temperatures of the building has been performed in this study. …”
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Thrombotic Microangiopathy: A Devastating Complication After Lung Transplantation by Wouter Rosseels, MD, Laurent Godinas, PhD, Papay Jallah, MD, Robin Vos, PhD, Lieven Dupont, PhD, Dirk Kuypers, PhD, Thomas Vanhoutte, MD, Kathleen J. Claes, PhD

“…In the TMA group a higher rate of HLA donor-specific antibodies (11% versus 1%; P = 0.05), a lower median time to onset of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (37 versus 91 mo; P = 0.0017), a higher rate of cytomegalovirus infection (45% versus 19%; P = 0.02), and a higher prevalence of end-stage renal disease (24% versus 6%; P = 0.03) and overall death (97% versus 44%; P < 0.0001) was found. …”
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Radiology nurses’ awareness of MRI-induced vertigo in patients and their perspectives on post-examination care in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study by Nasser Shubayr, Hamad Dailah

“…Nurses’ perspectives on post-examination care were highly favorable, with an agreement rate of 74.2%, and strong support for patient-centered practices such as symptom inquiry (86.6%) and patient assistance (75.4%). …”
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The global burden of aortic aneurysm attributable to hypertension from 1990 to 2021: Current trends and projections for 2050. by Guanghui Yu, Pei Chen, Changhao Sun, Peng Liu

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This study extracted data on mortality, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR), and age-standardized DALY rate (ASDR) associated with AA attributable to hypertension from the 2021 GBD study. …”
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Household transmission investigation for Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a rural and urban population of north India. by Kapil Yadav, Subhashini K J, Suneeta Meena, Rakesh Kumar, Ravneet Kaur, Mohan Bairwa, Shashi Kant, Puneet Misra, Sanjay K Rai, Mohammad Ahmad, Anisur Rahman

“…We estimated household secondary infection rate (SIR) and other epidemiological indicators-median incubation period and serial interval. …”
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The Prevalence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Mainland China: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Qionghong Duan, Zi Chen, Cong Chen, Zhengbin Zhang, Zhouqin Lu, Yalong Yang, Lin Zhang

“…The result of this meta-analysis demonstrated that among new cases, the rate of resistance to any drug was 20.1% (18.0%-22.3%; n/N = 7203/34314) and among retreatment cases, the rate was 49.8% (46.0%-53.6%; n/N = 4155/8291). …”
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An ecological network approach for detecting and validating influential organisms for rice growth by Masayuki Ushio, Hiroki Saito, Motoaki Tojo, Atsushi J Nagano

“…The responses of rice, namely, the growth rate and gene expression patterns, were measured before and after the manipulation. …”
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