AI usage among medical students in Palestine: a cross-sectional study and demonstration of AI-assisted research workflows by Mahmoud Yousef, Salahaldeen Deeb, Khaled Alhashlamon

“…Time management was highly rated (mean score: 4.6, SD = 0.5), highlighting AI's ability to automate repetitive tasks. …”
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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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Intravenous iron reactions: Insights from an allergy and immunology perspective by Jordon Jaggers, MD, Cosby Stone, Jr., MD, MPH, Matthew Krantz, MD, Elizabeth Phillips, MD

“…Objective: We aimed to identify clinical patterns and tolerability predictors in patients with reactions to intravenous iron. …”
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The spatial heterogeneity of malaria transmission: An entomological investigation in a highly endemic setting of Burkina Faso by Eleonora Perugini, Cristiana Poggi, Martina Micocci, Verena Pichler, Luca Nelli, Alessandra della Torre, Wamdaogo M. Guelbeogo, Marco Pombi

“…Anopheles mosquitoes were analysed for species identification, human blood index (HBI), sporozoite rate (SR), and infected human blood meal rate (IHBM). …”
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Nodal Status Assessment in Breast Cancer: Strategies of Clinical Grounds and Quality of Life Implications by Paolo Orsaria, Dimitrios Varvaras, Gianluca Vanni, Giampiero Pagnani, Jacopo Scaggiante, Federico Frusone, Alessandra Vittoria Granai, Giuseppe Petrella, Oreste Claudio Buonomo

“…The exclusion of node involvement using noninvasive methods could reduce the rate of axillary surgery, thereby preventing from suffering complications. …”
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Ultrasound Stimulations Induce Prolonged Depolarization and Fast Action Potentials in Leech Neurons by Francesca Dedola, Francesco Paolo Ulloa Severino, Nicolo Meneghetti, Theo Lemaire, Andrea Cafarelli, Leonardo Ricotti, Arianna Menciassi, Annarita Cutrone, Alberto Mazzoni, Silvestro Micera

“…Moreover, we found that APs induced by US differ in smaller amplitude and faster repolarization from those induced by electrical stimulation in the same cell but display the same repolarization rate. <italic>Conclusions:</italic> These results shed light on the mechanism by which spikes are induced by US and pave the way for designing more efficient US stimulation patterns.…”
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Burden and Outcomes of Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infections with Unknown Etiology: A Retrospective Observational Study on Epidemiological Trends Over an 8-Year Period (2016–20... by Giovanni Scaglione, Marta Canuti, Martina Offer, Valentina Breschi, Antonio Piralla, Fausto Baldanti, Gabriele Del Castillo, Francesco Scovenna, Sabrina Buoro, Federica Morani, Danilo Cereda, Alessandra Bandera, Andrea Gori, Marta Colaneri

“…Results Among 683,741 hospitalizations, 338,211 (49.5%) were of unknown etiology, showing a 12.3% intra-hospital mortality rate (41,627 deaths) and 4.0% intensive care unit admission rate (13,625 admissions). …”
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Conserved missense variant pathogenicity and correlated phenotypes across paralogous genes by Tobias Brünger, Alina Ivaniuk, Eduardo Pérez-Palma, Ludovica Montanucci, Stacey Cohen, Lacey Smith, Shridhar Parthasarathy, Ingo Helbig, Michael Nothnagel, Patrick May, Dennis Lal

“…For the gene family of voltage-gated sodium channels, where variants and expert-curated clinical phenotypes are available, we also assess whether phenotype patterns of multiple disorders for each gene are conserved across variant positions within the gene family. …”
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Guideline Utilization in Oncology: Addressing Barriers and Facilitators in Latin America and the Caribbean by Yanin Chavarri-Guerra, Luis Corrales, James D. Morgante, Henry Gomez, Alba Kihn-Alarcón, Rodrigo Munhoz, Els Dams

“…PURPOSEThis study aimed to explore the usage patterns, barriers, and facilitators of cancer treatment guidelines among oncologists in Latin America and the Caribbean.METHODSA cross-sectional survey was conducted in March 2023 among physicians in Latin America and the Caribbean who care for patients with cancer. …”
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Identification of Yellow Pigmentation Genes in Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis Using Br300 Microarray by Hee-Jeong Jung, Ranjith Kumar Manoharan, Jong-In Park, Mi-Young Chung, Jeongyeo Lee, Yong-Pyo Lim, Yoonkang Hur, Ill-Sup Nou

“…These results indicate that the yellow leaves accumulate high levels of both lutein and β-carotene due to stimulation of synthesis and that the degradation rate is inhibited. A large number of responsible genes as novel genes were specifically expressed in yellow inner leaves, suggesting the possible involvement in pigment synthesis. …”
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miR-276 and miR-182013-5p modulate insect metamorphosis and reproduction via dually regulating juvenile hormone acid methyltransferase by Jiasheng Song, Wanwan Li, Lulu Gao, Qiang Yan, Xinyan Zhang, Mingzhi Liu, Shutang Zhou

“…We found that Jhamt, a rate-limiting enzyme in JH biosynthesis, mirrors JH titer patterns in the migratory locust. …”
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Detecting Black-Box Model Probing Attacks Through Probability Scores by Yongzhi Wang, Ahsan Habib, Likhitha Reddy Kesara, Brahmarshi Jasti, Renjie Hu, Tejasv Singh

“…Compared with existing defense methods, our classifiers can reduce the Attack Success Rate (ASR) of the OARS-enhanced attacks from 93% to 1.78%. …”
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Coupling Coordination Development Between Cultivated Land and Agricultural Water Use Efficiency in Arid Regions: A Case Study of the Turpan–Hami Basin by Yue Kong, Abdugheni Abliz, Dongping Guo, Xianhe Liu, Jialin Li, Buasi Nurahmat

“…A coupling coordination degree model was constructed to evaluate their coordinated development level, with spatial autocorrelation and other methods used to examine spatiotemporal patterns. Key findings include: (1) The overall utilization efficiency of both resources was relatively low, with mean values of 0.516 and 0.596, showing a fluctuating upward trend and significant spatial heterogeneity; (2) The mean coupling coordination degree (CCD) ranked as follows: Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County (0.587) > Yiwu County (0.563) > Gaochang District (0.494) > Shanshan County (0.437) > Tuokexun County (0.417) > Yizhou District (0.342), with an annual growth rate of 4.6%; (3) Regional disparities were dominated by intra-regional differences (42.0%), followed by transvariation density (30.64%). …”
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Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal Network by Caterina Lamanna, Andrés Ondó Oná-Ayécaba, Lina Montuori, Manuel Alcázar-Ortega, Javier Rodríguez-García

“…Climate change and global warming are causing growing environmental concerns, prompting many countries to increase investments in renewable energies. The high growth rate of renewables in the energy systems brings significant intermittency challenges. …”
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An interpretable XAI deep EEG model for schizophrenia diagnosis using feature selection and attention mechanisms by Ahmad Almadhor, Stephen Ojo, Thomas I. Nathaniel, Shtwai Alsubai, Abdullah Alharthi, Abdullah Al Hejaili, Gabriel Avelino Sampedro

“…The study proposes a novel automated technique for diagnosing Schizophrenia based on electroencephalogram (EEG) sensor data, aiming to enhance interpretability and prediction performance.MethodsThis research utilizes Deep Learning (DL) models, including the Deep Neural Network (DNN), Bi-Directional Long Short-Term Memory-Gated Recurrent Unit (BiLSTM- GRU), and BiLSTM with Attention, for the detection of Schizophrenia based on EEG data. …”
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Effectiveness and Safety of Korean Medicine in Treating Female Infertility: A Prospective Multicenter Observational Study by Jung HJ, Kim DI, Choi SJ, Park JK, Lee JM

“…Among the analyzed participants, the clinical pregnancy rate, ongoing pregnancy rate, and live birth rate were 20.8% (95% CI, 13.9– 30.0%), 70.0% (95% CI, 48.1– 85.5%), and 13.5% (95% CI, 8.1– 21.8%), respectively. …”
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DYNAMICS OF INCIDENCE WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN THE POPULATION OF KUZBASS AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR THE PERIOD 2011-2019 by Андрей Георгиевич Петров, Николай Владимирович Абрамов, Сергей Анатольевич Макаров, Сергей Николаевич Филимонов, Виктор Андреевич Семенихин, Наталья Степановна Черных

“…In 2014, the incidence rate decreased to 129.3 cases per 100 thousand population. …”
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Physical model test on the sealing mechanism and reinforcement effect of flowing water grouting for water-sand mixture inrush in the Cuihongshan iron-polymetallic mine by Baofu WU, Wanghua SUI, Guilei HAN, Longfei LIANG, Xinhai YAO, Jiaxin FENG, Xingshuo XU

“…The Z1 and Z2 stages presente a slow-fast-slow grouting rate pattern, whereas Z3 exhibited slow, uniform diffusion and filling, confirming the necessity of secondary borehole grouting. …”
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Influence of Previous Emergency Department Visit Information on Care of Current Patients by Ricardo X. Noriega, Juan Nañez, Emily Hartmann, Scott B. Crawford, Chantel D. Sloan-Aagard

“…The primary outcome was the influence of knowledge from prior records on interactions during the most recent visit, measured with 11 Likert-scale ratings. Reviewer agreement was used as an indicator of confidence. …”
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Scene Semantic Recognition Based on Modified Fuzzy C-Mean and Maximum Entropy Using Object-to-Object Relations by Ahmad Jalal, Abrar Ahmed, Adnan Ahmed Rafique, Kibum Kim

“…An Artificial Neural Network recognizes the multiple objects using the different patterns of objects. Finally, labels are estimated via Maximum Entropy model. …”
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