Cohort study to characterise surgical site infections after open surgery in the UK’s National Health Service by Julian F Guest, Graham W Fuller, Ben Griffiths

“…SSI onset reduced the 6 months healing rate by a mean of 3 percentage points and increased time to wound healing by a mean of 15 days per wound. …”
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AnimalAI: An Open-Source Web Platform for Automated Animal Activity Index Calculation Using Interactive Deep Learning Segmentation by Mahtab Saeidifar, Guoming Li, Lakshmish Macheeri Ramaswamy, Chongxiao Chen, Ehsan Asali

“…The platform accurately tracked Cobb 500 male broilers from weeks 1 to 7 with a 100% success rate, IoU of 92.21% ± 0.012, precision of 93.87% ± 0.019, recall of 98.15% ± 0.011, and F1 score of 95.94% ± 0.006, based on 1157 chickens. …”
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Improved Distributed Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning by Density-Adaptive Data Poisoning and Projection-Based Gradient Updating by Jian Wang, Hong Shen, Wei Ke, Xue Hua Liu

“…On COCO dataset, our method achieves 92.44% main task accuracy with 91.68% attack success rate, outperforming DBA by +8.04% MTA and +10.29% ASR. …”
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Association between triglyceride-glucose index and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: a cohort-based study by Wenhui Xie, Minjie Li, Hong Huang, Yong Fan, Dai Gao, Jiaying Zhang, Zhuoli Zhang

“…Multivariable logistic regression models adjusted for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), comorbidities, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), statin, and SLE-specific covariates were employed to assess relationships between the TyG index and carotid atherosclerosis/plaque presence.ResultsThe overall rate of carotid atherosclerosis was 10.5% (35/333), with significantly elevated TyG in affected versus unaffected patients (8.77 ± 0.45 vs. 8.45 ± 0.49; p < 0.001). …”
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Dispersion Characteristics of Accidental LPG Release in Marine Engine Room by Phan Anh Duong, Hokeun Kang

“…To evaluate these risks, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed to simulate the dispersion behavior of LPG under various leak parameters (size, rate, and direction) and ventilation conditions in congested environments. …”
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Understanding More about Vaping among Asian Adolescents Aged 14-15 Years Old in New Zealand: The ASH Year 10 Snapshot Survey Analysis (2014-2022) by Ko Ko, Christopher Bullen, Joanna Ting Wai Chu, Sally Frances Wong

“…However, vaping prevalence among Asian adolescents was lower and had a slower rate of growth than Non-Asian adolescents. Among Asian major subgroupings, Indian adolescents showed the highest vaping prevalence (ever vaping = 21.1%, 95% CI 18.7 – 23.7 and current vaping = 6.2%, 95% CI 4.8 – 7.8) in 2022 and, in all ethnic groupings, vaping in girls overtook that of boys. …”
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Enhanced air quality prediction using adaptive residual Bi-LSTM with pyramid dilation and optimal weighted feature selection by R. Sudha, Ajith Damodaran, Gunaselvi Manohar

“…The accuracy and precision rate of the proposed model are 95.175% and 87.2%, which is better than traditional air quality prediction models. …”
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Clinical trial registration and publication in acupuncture studies: a systematic review by Yuto Matsuura, Naomi Takazawa Welch, Tomomi Sakai, Kiichiro Tsutani

“…However, the fully published papers rate is low at 10%. The publication of results of acupuncture clinical trials should also be rigorously mandated. …”
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Histological comparison between irradiated and non-irradiated breasts in breast reconstruction by Alberto Benedik, Ronan Caputi Silva Dias, Amanda Costa Campos, Carolina Oliveira Paranagua Castro, Marcela Caetano Cammarota, José Carlos Daher

“…Radiotherapy, an adjuvant strategy, provides favorable outcomes by reducing the rate of recurrence of the disease. This study aimed to compare histological differences between irradiated and non-irradiated breasts in the same patient. …”
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Combined method for acoustic cavitation research by A. V. Kotukhov, V. S. Gavrilyuk, V. S. Minchuk, N. V. Dezhkunov

“…Technical characteristics of the installation allow you to adjust the rate of development of the cavitation region by varying the duration and period of the ultrasound pulses. …”
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Importance and Techniques of Water Harvesting Systems by Ali Kaan Yetik, Burak Şen

“…With the continuous increase in population and with climate change problems occur in terms of both consumption rate and usage patterns of water resources. It is becoming increasingly important to apply and research methods that can solve these problems all over the world. …”
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Classifying and Characterizing the Evolution of the Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance for Near-Earth Asteroids by Shoucun Hu, Yuanyuan Chen, Xinran Li, Xiuhai Wang, Xuefeng Wang

“…A database incorporating these parameters and the MEI values is therefore established for the cataloged NEAs, enabling the derivation of statistically constrained upper bounds for the secular MOID drift rate as a function of the semimajor axes. Finally, some special orbital configurations and dynamical mechanisms that may lead to a large deviation from the linear fit or multiple orbit crossings are also investigated, indicating the intricate nature in the patterns of MOID evolution for some NEAs.…”
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Agglomerations of The Stavropol Region: Comparison of Spatial and Demographic Dynamics by V. M. Eshrokov, A. A. Cherkasov, N. V. Sopnev

“…In the course of the study, the authors analyze the birth rate, mortality, natural population growth, migration processes, population dynamics, and the ethnic composition of the population of each agglomeration of the Stavropol Territory. …”
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Advances in Biomedical Missing Data Imputation: A Survey by Miriam Barrabes, Maria Perera, Victor Novelle Moriano, Xavier Giro-I-Nieto, Daniel Mas Montserrat, Alexander G. Ioannidis

“…We outline the fundamental principles underlying each imputation technique and present a detailed analysis of their advantages and disadvantages, categorized by missing data patterns. To aid practitioners in method selection, we offer practical recommendations based on critical factors such as dataset size, data type, and missingness rate. …”
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Dual-Dimensional Management for Human–Environment Coordination in Lake-Ring Urban Agglomerations: A Spatiotemporal Interaction Perspective of Human Footprint and Ecological Quality... by Suwen Xiong, Fan Yang

“…Finally, the four-quadrant static model and CCD change rate index formed a dual-dimensional management framework. …”
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New commercial behaviour as a reason of social and economic changes of divided towns on the Polish-German and Polish-Czech borders by Katarzyna Kulczyńska, Roman Matykowski, Elżbieta Bilska-Wodecka

“…This process involves, among other things, a heavy outflow of inhabitants, primarily young and better educated, to western lands and a steep slump in the total fertility rate. Still, the most important changes observed in the split towns over the last two decades have been consumer behaviour patterns determined, among other things, by differences in prices in the neighbouring states. …”
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Ultrafast Time-Stretch Optical Coherence Tomography Using Reservoir Computing for Fourier-Free Signal Processing by Weiqing Liao, Tianxiang Luan, Yuanli Yue, Chao Wang

“…A proof-of-the-concept experiment demonstrated that this method allows for precise depth resolution, independent of system chirp. With an A-scan rate of 50 MHz, the classification model yielded 100% accuracy with a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.2416. …”
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Key features of observational research data preparation for evidence synthesis by A. A. Lazarev, K. V. Sapozhnikov, D. G. Tolkacheva, N. A. Sableva

“…Changes in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) across quartiles were pooled in accordance with the sequential Cochrane community approach or recalculated using community delta unloading equations in instances where GFR values fell within the observation time boundaries.Findings. …”
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Alpha-synuclein null mutation exacerbates the phenotype of a model of Menkes disease in female mice by MegAnne Casey, Dan Zou, Renee A. Reijo Pera, Tiffany Hensley-McBain, Deborah E. Cabin

“…In contrast, female mice that carry the Atp7a mutation, on an Snca null background, die earlier (prior to 35 days) at a significantly higher rate than those that carry the Atp7a mutation on a wildtype Snca background. …”
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Analysis of the circadian rhythm of biological processes in mouse liver and kidney by I. N. Podkolodnyy, N. N. Tverdokhleb, O. A. Podkolodnaya

“…It was assumed that the gene is in a phase with an increased level of translation if at a given time point its ribosome profiling rate for both replicas exceeded the daily average value for this gene. …”
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