Modelling of circumferential surface topography of grinding wheel with random distribution of circular truncated cone abrasive grains by Xiaodong CHEN, Dexiang WANG, Feng GUO, Xinming LI, Jingliang JIANG

“…Finally, the real grinding wheel surface topography and the constructed grinding wheel surface topography model are compared and analyzed to determine the accuracy of the modeling method in this paper.ResultsA corundum grinding wheel model is constructed with a diameter and width of 20 mm and 4.5 mm, particle size code of F80, grinding wheel structure number of 7, abrasive rate of 48% and grinding particle size of 152 to 178 μm. …”
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Ultrafast complex-valued 4D fMRI reveals sleep-induced brain respiratory pulsation changes in both magnitude and phase signals by Saara Sofia Syväoja, Lauri Raitamaa, Heta Helakari, Jussi Kantola, Matti Järvelä, Janne Kananen, Ville Isokoski, Vesa Korhonen, Tommi Väyrynen, Timo Tuovinen, Jürgen Hennig, Vesa Kiviniemi

“…To study these pulsations more deeply, we employed ultrafast magnetic resonance encephalography (MREG) to capture complex-valued 4D fMRI brain data at a critical 10 Hz sampling rate in healthy volunteers during wakefulness and sleep. …”
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Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals the potential mechanism of seed germination promoted by trametenolic acid in Gastrodia elata Blume by Jie Liu, Wangyang Ye, Danyang Wang, Hongqi Zhang, Junzhi Wang, Dongwei Li

“…However, in natural conditions, GEB seed has a very low germination rate and depends on two specific fungi, germinal and nutritive fungi, to complete the germination process and growth. …”
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Evaluating the potential of phenotypic age to enhance cardiovascular risk prediction over chronological age in the UK Biobank by Kristine J. S. Kwan, Shi-Shuai Xie, Hai-Lei Li, Xue-Guang Lin, Yi-Jie Lu, Bo Chen, Kai-Xin Ge, Shu-Ya Tang, Hui Zhang, Shuai Jiang, Jing-Dong Tang

“…Incident CVD occurred at a higher rate in the positive PhenoAgeAccel group (44.8% vs. 33.1%) at a comparatively shorter period (11.2 years vs. 12.4 years). …”
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Insights on the effect of mega-carcass abundance on the population dynamics of a facultative scavenger predator and its prey by Sidous, Mellina, Cubaynes, Sarah, Gimenez, Olivier, Drouet-Hoguet, Nolwenn, Dray, Stéphane, Bollache, Loïc, Madhlamoto, Daphine, Ngwenya, Nobesuthu Adelaide, Fritz, Hervé, Valeix, Marion

“…Models that allow hyaena and their prey populations’ growth rate to vary depending on these four periods contributed significantly to explain variations in their density, which is consistent with an effect of management measures on the population dynamics of hyaena and its prey.  …”
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Anthropogenic Activities Dominate Vegetation Improvement in Arid Areas of China by Yu Guo, Xinwei Wang, Hongying Cao, Qin Peng, Yunshe Dong, Yunchun Qi, Jian Liu, Ning Lv, Feihu Yin, Xiujin Yuan, Mei Zeng

“…The results indicated that (1) overall vegetation cover was low (averaged peak FVC = 0.191), showing a spatial pattern of higher values in the northwest and lower values in the southeast; high FVC values were primarily observed in mountainous areas and river corridors; (2) the annual peak FVC increased significantly at a rate of 0.0508 yr⁻¹, with 33.72% of the region showing significant improvements and 5.49% degradation; (3) the spatial pattern of FVC was shaped by the distribution of land use types (59.46%), while the temporal dynamics of FVC were driven by land use changes (16.37%) and the land use intensity (37.56%); (4) both the spatial pattern and the temporal dynamics were limited by the environmental conditions. …”
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Prognostic significance of acute exacerbations and usual interstitial pneumonia in fibrotic interstitial lung disease by Yun Zhang, Zekai Cen, Qunli Ding, Yanan Ying, Chengna Lv, Tingting Wu

“…The Kaplan‒Meier survival analysis showed that the IPF group (HR 1.97, 95% CI 1.05–3.70, P = 0.011) had a worse survival rate than the FILD group, and landmark analyses showed that the survival of FILD patients with the UIP pattern (HR 3.07 95% CI 1.37–6.86 P = 0.006) was significantly shorter than that of FILD patients with the NSIP pattern 48 months after ILD diagnosis. …”
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Individualized Estimation of Baseline Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness Using Conditional Variational Autoencoder by Ou Tan, PhD, Keke Liu, MD, Aiyin Chen, MD, Dongseok Choi, PhD, Jonathan C.H. Chan, MD, Bonnie N.K. Choy, MD, Kendrick C. Shih, MD, Jasper K.W. Wong, MD, Alex L.K. Ng, MD, Janice J.C. Cheung, MD, Michael Y. Ni, MD, Jimmy S.M. Lai, MD, Gabriel M. Leung, MD, Ian Y.H. Wong, MD, David Huang, MD, PhD

“…Circumpapillary NFLT profiles and vascular patterns were measured by a spectral-domain OCT. Generative DL models were trained using the FAMILY data to reconstruct the individualized baseline NFLT, a customized normal reference based on each eye’s own vascular pattern, axial length (AL), spherical equivalent (SE) refractive error, disc size, and demographic information. …”
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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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Paradigm shift of respiratory viruses causing lower respiratory tract infection in children during COVID-19 pandemic in India by Mannat Kang, Subhabrata Sarkar, Suresh Kumar Angurana, Pankaj Singh, Meenakshi Rana, Ishani Bora, Rishi Chetanya, Bharatendu Singh, Jayashree Muralidharan, Radha Kanta Ratho

“…No significant difference in positivity rate of Inf A pdmH1N1, Inf A H3N2 and Inf B was seen. …”
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Course of Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi Infection after Treatment Based on Parasitological and Serological Tests: A Systematic Review of Follow-Up Studies. by Yanina Sguassero, Cristina B Cuesta, Karen N Roberts, Elizabeth Hicks, Daniel Comandé, Agustín Ciapponi, Sergio Sosa-Estani

“…In the long-term, the rate of negativization was between 20% and 45%. The main sources of bias identified across cohort studies were the lack of control for confounding and attrition bias. …”
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Heritability and Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Evans Adu Asamoah, Christian Obirikorang, Emmanuel Acheampong, Max Efui Annani-Akollor, Edwin Ferguson Laing, Eddie-Williams Owiredu, Enoch Odame Anto

“…Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is observing an accelerating prevalence rate of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) influenced by gene-environment interaction of modifiable and nonmodifiable factors. …”
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A novel twin time series network for building energy consumption predicting. by Zhixin Sun, Han Cui, Xiangxiang Mei, Hailei Yuan

“…To overcome these issues, the study proposes Twin Time-Series Networks (T2SNET), which incorporates a time-embedding layer and a Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) to extract patterns from Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise (CEEMDAN), along with an adaptive fusion gate to combine energy consumption and meteorological data. …”
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Collective and individual adaptation of rice farmers to climatic variability in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta by Hieu Hong Hua, Minh Anh Nguyen, Thuy Thanh Thi Ngo

“…It systematically explores the patterns of climate variability and their profound impacts on rice production across diverse areas within the delta. …”
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Immunodiagnostic plasma amino acid residue biomarkers detect cancer early and predict treatment response by Cong Tang, Patrícia Corredeira, Sandra Casimiro, Qi Shi, Qiwei Han, Wesley Sukdao, Ana Cavaco, Cecília Melo-Alvim, Carolina Ochôa Matos, Catarina Abreu, Steven Walsh, Gonçalo Nogueira-Costa, Leonor Ribeiro, Rita Sousa, Ana Lorena Barradas, João Eurico Fonseca, Luís Costa, Emma V. Yates, Gonçalo J. L. Bernardes

“…By measuring the total concentrations of cysteine, free cysteine, lysine, tryptophan, and tyrosine protein-incorporated biomarkers and analyzing the results with supervised machine learning, we identify 78% of cancers with 0% false positive rate (N = 97) with an AUROC of 0.95. The cancer, healthy, and autoimmune/infectious biomarker pattern are statistically significantly different (p < 0.0001). …”
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Extranodal diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma: Clinical and molecular insights with survival outcomes from the multicenter EXPECT study by Si‐Yuan Chen, Peng‐Peng Xu, Ru Feng, Guo‐Hui Cui, Li Wang, Shu Cheng, Rong‐Ji Mu, Hui‐Lai Zhang, Xiao‐Lei Wei, Yong‐Ping Song, Kai‐Yang Ding, Li‐Hua Dong, Zun‐Min Zhu, Shen‐Miao Yang, Xin Wang, Ting‐Bo Liu, Jian‐Da Hu, Xiao‐Yun Zheng, Ou Bai, Jing‐Yan Xu, Liang Huang, Wei Sang, Ke‐Qian Shi, Fan Zhou, Fei Li, Ai‐Bin Liang, Hui Zhou, Si‐Guo Hao, Hong‐Hui Huang, Bin Xu, Wen‐Bin Qian, Cai‐Xia Li, Zhi‐Ming Li, Chong‐Yang Wu, Xiao‐Bo Wang, Wen‐Yu Shi, Shu‐Ye Wang, Yu‐Yang Tian, Xi Zhang, Ke‐Shu Zhou, Li‐Juan Cui, Hui Liu, Huo Tan, Qing Leng, Dong‐Lu Zhao, Ting Niu, Wei‐Li Zhao

“…Gene panel sequencing was performed on 1,050 patients to discern molecular patterns according to ENI. Results The 2‐year overall survival (OS) rate was 76.2% [95% confidence interval (CI), 74.0%‐78.2%], and the 5‐year OS rate was 67.9% (95% CI, 65.2%‐70.4%). …”
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Exciton-phonon coupling and phonon-assisted exciton relaxation dynamics in In1-xGaxP quantum dots by Beiye C. Li, Kailai Lin, Ping-Jui E. Wu, Aritrajit Gupta, Kaiyue Peng, Siddhartha Sohoni, Justin C. Ondry, Zirui Zhou, Caitlin C. Bellora, Young Jay Ryu, Stella Chariton, David J. Gosztola, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Richard D. Schaller, Dmitri V. Talapin, Eran Rabani, Gregory S. Engel

“…We identify a slower hot exciton cooling rate in In0.62Ga0.38P/ZnS, attributed to the presence of ‘energy-retaining’ valley exciton states with strong exciton-phonon coupling. …”
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Monitoring and Assessment of Slope Hazards Susceptibility Around Sarez Lake in the Pamir by Integrating Small Baseline Subset InSAR with an Improved SVM Algorithm by Yang Yu, Changming Zhu, Majid Gulayozov, Junli Li, Bingqian Chen, Qian Shen, Hao Zhou, Wen Xiao, Jafar Niyazov, Aminjon Gulakhmadov

“…The maximum deformation rate along the shoreline increased from 280 mm/yr to 480 mm/yr, with a marked acceleration observed between 2022 and 2023. …”
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Assessing patient-level risk factors for evidence-based early diagnosis of maternal sepsis by Philip Emeka Anyanwu, Paul Expert, Kate Honeyford, Oluwasomidoyin Bello, Mobolaji Modinat Salawu, Ikeola Adeoye, Ayo Stephen Adebowale, Amen-Patrick Nwosu, Summia Zaher, Peter Ghazal, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Magbagbeola David Dairo, Ceire Costelloe

“…Patients with sepsis had the lowest rate of live birth (29.7%) compared to those with (41.8%) and without (82.1%) an infection. …”
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Exploring the relationship between vitamin B12, methylmalonic acid levels and all-cause mortality in heart failure populations: insights from the NHANES database by Wei Yu, Yao Wang, Yao Wang, Yao Wang, Yulu Zhou, Danyu Wu, Danyu Wu, Danyu Wu

“…Elevated serum MMA levels were significantly associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality (Tertile 3 compared with Tertile 1: adjusted HR: 1.52; 95% CI: 1.09, 2.13; p = 0.01), demonstrating a dose–response pattern (26% increased mortality risk per unit increase in lnMMA). …”
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