Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of liver cancer screening among high-risk populations in China by Ge-hui Feng, Min Liu, Yun-shan Chen, Yi-fei Wang, Ke-hao Zhao, Mao-ting Huang, Wen-ting Yi, Ling Zhao, Ying Zeng

“…Early detection through screening is crucial for improving survival rates in high-risk populations for liver cancer, however screening remains underutilized in clinical practice and inadequately addressed in China. …”
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Development and evaluation of customized software to automatically align macula and optic disc centered scanning laser ophthalmoscope fundus images by M. Elena Martinez-Perez, Franziska G. Rauscher, Pingping Zhao, Tobias Elze

“…When applying them together, the rate of at least one of the method succeeding was 99%. …”
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Time series analysis of urethral obstruction in male cats in a veterinary teaching hospital in São paulo, Brazil by Reiner Silveira de Moraes, Luíz Guilherme Dércore Benevenuto, Suellen Rodrigues Maia, Maria Gabriela Picelli de Azevedo, Fernanda Barthelson Carvalho de Moura, Diego Ribeiro, Alessandra Melchert, Henry David Mogollón García, Rogério Giuffrida, Adriano Sakai Okamoto, Priscylla Tatiana Chalfun Guimarães Okamoto

“…ARIMA closely followed historical data but was ineffective for future forecasting, showing a flat projection from 2021 to 2024 (rate: 0.64) despite past fluctuations. The Holt-Winters model projected a rise in UO cases, from 0.70 (95% CI: 0.43–0.97) in 2021 to 1.09 (95% CI: 0.38–1.79) in 2024, but its wide confidence intervals indicated potential overestimation. …”
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Leishmania donovani Induced Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: An Insight into Atypical Clinical Variants in Sri Lanka by Yamuna Siriwardana, Bhagya Deepachandi, Chalukya Gunasekara, Wipula Warnasooriya, Nadira D. Karunaweera

“…Clinical, geographical, and treatment response patterns of ACL were different from those of CCL. ACL was mainly found among males (68.0%), in 21-40 year age group (51.6%), and reported delayed treatment seeking (23.5% vs 16.3% in CCL), more nonclassical onset (lesions other than acne form <1cm sized papules), (12.1 vs 2.7%, P<0.05.), more head and neck lesions (41.5%. vs 27.2%), more large lesions (>4cm), (18.6 vs 9.9%), and poor laboratory positivity rates (65.6% vs 88.2%) when compared to CCL. …”
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A Multinational, Multicenter Study Mapping Models of Kidney Supportive Care Practice by Seren Marsh, Amanda Varghese, Charlotte M. Snead, Barnaby D. Hole, Daniel V. O’Hara, Neeru Agarwal, Elizabeth Stallworthy, Fergus J. Caskey, Brendan J. Smyth, Kathryn Ducharlet

“…There were no significant differences between countries in terms of location of care provision, frequency of review, referral patterns or discharge rates; however, there was variation described within countries. …”
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Epidemiological trends and burden of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in the Middle East and North Africa region: a 32-year analysis of health impact by Zahra Sarkoohi, Mohammad-Mahdi Bastan, Mohammad Amin Khajuei Gharaei, Mahsa Iranmanesh, Arya Adinepour, Reyhane Khajezade, Faegheh Bahri, Fatemeh Akhlaghi, Azin Kadkhodamanesh, Hossein Pourghadamyari, Hamid Sharifi, Omid Eslami, Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi

“…Women experienced a higher increase in incidence than men. The highest rates of DALYs were observed among older adults. …”
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The Use of 3D Convolutional Autoencoder in Fault and Fracture Network Characterization by Feng Xu, Zhiyong Li, Bo Wen, Youhui Huang, Yaojun Wang

“…Conventional pattern recognition methods directly use 1D poststack data or 2D prestack data for the statistical pattern recognition of fault and fracture network, thereby ignoring the spatial structure information in 3D seismic data. …”
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Regreening Practices and Effectiveness Evaluation for Rocky Slope Drawdown Zones in Pumped Storage Power Station Reservoirs by YANG Zhi-chao, MA Xiao-xiao, CHANG Shi-ju, TANG Yu-shuang, ZHAO Rui-yi, WAN Dan, ZHANG Qian-zhu

“…Plants exhibited strong resilience in terms of post-submersion recovery, expansion, and colonization, achieving an overall survival rate of 83.2%. Bamboo Willow (Salix sp), Bamboo Willow cuttings (Salix sp), Zhongshan Fir (Taxodium hybrid), Wallich Willow (Salix wallichiana), Chaste Tree (Vitex negundo), Lax-flowered Myricaria (Myricaria laxiflora), Variegated Willow cuttings (Salix variegata), Small Dogwood (Swida paucinervis), and Chinese Distylium (Distylium chinense) all achieved survival rates exceeding 85% and exhibited long-term tolerance to complete submersion. …”
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Prevalence of Moraxella Catarrhalis as a Nasal Flora among Healthy Kindergarten Children in Bhaktapur, Nepal by Neetu Amatya, Govinda Paudel, Bhuvan Saud, Sunita Wagle, Vikram Shrestha, Bibhav Adhikari

“…Using bivariate and multivariate analysis, the associated risk factors with significantly high carriage rates were age group of 3–4 years, classroom occupancy with 15–30 children, and antibiotic consumption within 6 months, with a p value of ≤0.05 in each of the cases. …”
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Video-assisted surgery in the treatment of early corpus uteri cancer by T. M. Kochoyan, D. V. Komov, R. A. Kerimov, S. Yu. Sletina, A. V. Logachev

“…Overall and relapse-free survival rates were comparable in the two groups and did not depend on the technique of surgical intervention.…”
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A multi-voter multi-commission nearest neighbor classifier by Suyanto Suyanto, Prasti Eko Yunanto, Tenia Wahyuningrum, Siti Khomsah

“…Compared with two single-voter models: KNN and Bonferroni Mean Fuzzy k-Nearest Neighbors (BM-FKNN), the proposed MVMCNN also gives lower mean error rates as well as higher Precision, Recall, and F1 Score, indicating that the multi-voter model provides a better decision than the single-voter ones.…”
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Evaluation of knowledge, attitude, and response regarding transfusion-transmitted infections in blood donors sero-reactive for viral markers during postdonation counselling as an a... by Anju Dubey, Atul Sonker

“…Furthermore, the rates of donors’ response to notification and compliance to clinical referral were assessed to find the areas which require improvement. …”
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Modifying model life tables to derive mortality curves for countries with excess mortality by Lina María Sanchez-Cespedes

“…The method identifies the most appropriate model life table that reflects the mortality pattern without excess deaths and adjusts it to the actual one by considering external-cause mortality rates. …”
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Spatio-Temporal neighbors adaptive learning with two-point differences for ocean subsurface temperature reconstruction from 1960 to 2022 by An Wang, Hua Su

“…This study demonstrates the ASTEN method is well suited for subsurface temperature reconstruction, and holds great potential in the gaps-filling of sparse ocean observations with high missing rates over a large scale. The new reconstruction of subsurface temperature can effectively reduce the uncertainty of subsurface ocean warming analysis.…”
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Assessing the potential for carbon storage enhancement in forests of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China by Zhizhong Chen, Mei Zan, Jingjing Kong

“…This study integrates multi-source remote sensing and forest inventory data to model Xinjiang’s forest age and carbon density (2019 baseline: 186.76 Mg/hm2 biomass, 93.38 Mg/hm2 carbon density, 46-year average age), revealing a south-to-north “low-high-low” spatial pattern. Using predictive models excluding anthropogenic and natural disturbances, we project forest carbon stock to reach 203.71 ± 2.31 Tg C by 2030 and 283.08 ± 4.23 Tg C by 2060, with declining carbon sink rates (3.67 ± 0.57 Tg C/a in 2019–2030 vs. 2.65 ± 0.56 Tg C/a in 2031–2060). …”
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Variable Aircraft Spacing Quadratic Bézier Curve Trajectory Planning for Cascading Delay Mitigation by Michael R. Variny, Travis W. Moleski, Jay P. Wilhelm

“…Specifically, uncrewed aerial systems utilizing near-maximum arrival rates would be greatly impacted when requested to move off their approach path and may interfere with others. …”
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Ultrasound elastography: advances and challenges in early detection of breast cancer by Jianmin Zhou, Yanchun Zhang, Shaohua Shi

“…The review specifically addresses how these techniques improve the detection of small, early-stage tumors and reduce false-positive rates in dense breast tissue. Artificial intelligence integration has transformed breast elastography workflow, introducing sophisticated pattern recognition and automated lesion characterization. …”
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Dysthyroxinaemia Among Sub-fertile Female Clients Attending Nizamiye Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria. by Biliaminu, S.A.* , AbdulAzeez, I.M. , Khan, N. , Bakr, M.R. , Oladosu, W.O. , Yusuff, J.O. and Okesina, A.B.

“…Thyroid function test should be encouraged in infertile female subjects for proper and prompt management to improve both natural fertility, spontaneous conception as well as conception rates with assisted reproductive therapy.…”
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Design of Radiation Shielding for Optical Enclosure at HEPS Beamline Station by GUO Qingyang, SHI Hong, LIU Qiongyao, ZHANG Huijie, SHI Haoyu, MA Zhongjian, WANG Qingbin

“…Results from the calculations indicate a pattern where the dose rate from gas bremsstrahlung initially rises and subsequently falls within the back wall. …”

Trends in Antihypertensive Drug Use and Irrational Prescriptions Among Elderly Patients in China (2016&amp;ndash;2023): A Nationwide Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Hong D, Chen W, Du S, Ren J, Lv D, Shan W, Lu X, Zhao Q

“…The overall proportion of first-line antihypertensive prescriptions was 97.47% but showed a slight declining trend (APC=− 0.66%, P=0.004). The rates of inappropriate combination medication and overall irrational prescriptions decreased, while the rate of contraindicated medication prescriptions increased (P&lt; 0.001). …”
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