FDEM Modelling of Rock Fracture Process during Three-Point Bending Test under Quasistatic and Dynamic Loading Conditions by Huaming An, Yushan Song, Hongyuan Liu

“…After that, the effects of the loading rate on the rock strength and rock fracture toughness are discussed, and the mesh size and mesh orientation on the fracture patterns are also discussed. …”
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Hybrid deep learning for IoT-based health monitoring with physiological event extraction by Sivanagaraju Vallabhuni, Kumar Debasis

“…It further enhanced the True Positive Rate (TPR) by 25% through using an online learning algorithm with Incremental Gradient Descent with Momentums. …”
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A comparative study on tobacco prevalence and secondhand smoke exposure before and after the lockdown in Rizhao, China: analysis of 2022 and 2024 data by Zhao-Hui Liang, Gui-Zhi Han, Miao-Miao Liu

“…The results showed that the current smoking rate declined significantly from 32.53 to 25.84% (χ2 = 10.08, p = 0.002), with daily smoking rate also slightly decreased from 20.44 to 19.33% (χ2 = 0.36, p = 0.551). …”
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Regional variations in Mediterranean diet adherence: a sociodemographic and lifestyle analysis across Mediterranean and non-Mediterranean regions within the MEDIET4ALL project by Mohamed Ali Boujelbane, Mohamed Ali Boujelbane, Achraf Ammar, Achraf Ammar, Achraf Ammar, Atef Salem, Atef Salem, Mohamed Kerkeni, Mohamed Kerkeni, Khaled Trabelsi, Khaled Trabelsi, Bassem Bouaziz, Bassem Bouaziz, Liwa Masmoudi, Juliane Heydenreich, Christiana Schallhorn, Gabriel Müller, Ayse Merve Uyar, Hadeel Ali Ghazzawi, Adam Tawfiq Amawi, Bekir Erhan Orhan, Giuseppe Grosso, Osama Abdelkarim, Osama Abdelkarim, Tarak Driss, Kais El Abed, Kais El Abed, Piotr Zmijewski, Frédéric Debeaufort, Frédéric Debeaufort, Nasreddine Benbettaieb, Nasreddine Benbettaieb, Clément Poulain, Laura Reyes, Amparo Gamero, Marta Cuenca-Ortolá, Antonio Cilla, Nicola Francesca, Concetta Maria Messina, Enrico Viola, Björn Lorenzen, Stefania Filice, Aadil Bajoub, El-Mehdi Ajal, El-Mehdi Ajal, El Amine Ajal, Majdouline Obtel, Sadjia Lahiani, Taha Khaldi, Nafaa Souissi, Omar Boukhris, Omar Boukhris, Haitham Jahrami, Haitham Jahrami, Waqar Husain, Evelyn Frias-Toral, Evelyn Frias-Toral, Walid Mahdi, Walid Mahdi, Hamdi Chtourou, Wolfgang I. Schöllhorn

“…Sleep quality was poorer in MC (45% below recommended duration vs. 40% in NMC), while NMC reported higher insomnia rates. Mental health symptoms were comparable (33%–35% moderate depression/anxiety in both), reflecting post-pandemic global trends. …”
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Comparison of blue laser imaging and light‐emitting diode‐blue light imaging for the characterization of colorectal polyps using the Japan narrow‐band imaging expert team classific... by Masahiro Okada, Naohisa Yoshida, Hiroshi Kashida, Yoshikazu Hayashi, Satoshi Shinozaki, Shiori Yoshimoto, Toshihiro Fujinuma, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Keijiro Sunada, Yuri Tomita, Osamu Dohi, Ken Inoue, Ryohei Hirose, Yoshito Itoh, Yoriaki Komeda, Ikue Sekai, Natsuki Okai, Alan Kawarai Lefor, Hironori Yamamoto

“…The surface patterns, vessel patterns, and brightness are almost similar.…”
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Brainstem catecholaminergic neurons induce torpor during fasting by orchestrating cardiovascular and thermoregulation changes by Mingxiu Cheng, Meiqi Wang, Liang Wang, Fangfang Yin, Jiayi Shen, Xin Xing, Yuyan Shi, Zhiwei Liu, Ping Wu, Wenling Gao, Yanyan Fan, Peng Cao, Cheng Zhan

“…Importantly, the heart rate decline precedes body temperature reduction, resembling patterns observed in natural torpid animals. …”
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Characteristics of left ventricular dysfunction in repaired tetralogy of Fallot: A multi-institutional deep learning analysis of regional strain and dyssynchrony by Brendan T. Crabb, Rahul S. Chandrupatla, Evan M. Masutani, Sophie Y. Wong, Sachin Govil, Silvia Montserrat, Susana Prat-González, Julián Vega-Adauy, Melany Atkins, Daniel Lorenzatti, Chiara Zocchi, Elena Panaioli, Nathalie Boddaert, Laith Alshawabkeh, Lewis Hahn, Sanjeet Hegde, Andrew D. McCulloch, Francesca Raimondi, Albert Hsiao

“…In the multivariate analysis, this contraction pattern was the only LV metric associated with future progression to PVR (heart rate = 2.69, p < 0.005). …”
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Justifying the use of structure-forming agents to increase storability of confectionery products with the foamy structure by N. B. Kondratev, O. S. Rudenko, E. V. Kazantsev, I. A. Belova, N. A. Petrova

“…Thus, the addition of gelatin makes it possible to reduce the rate of moisture transfer by approximately 2–3 times. …”
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STRAIN LOCALIZATION PECULIARITIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION SOURCES IN ROCK SAMPLES TESTED BY UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION AND EXPOSED TO ELECTRIC PULSES by V. A. Mubassarova, L. M. Bogomolov, A. S. Zakupin, I. A. Panteleev, O. B. Naimark

“…It can provide new information on properties of acoustic emission and deformation responses of loaded rock specimens to external electric pulses.The research task also included verification of reproducibility of the effect (AE activity) when fracturing rates responded to electrical pulses, which was revealed earlier in studies conducted at RS RAS. …”
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Personal identification based on acoustic characteristics of outer ear using cepstral analysis, Bayesian classifier, and artificial neural networks by Alexey Sulavko, Alexander Samotuga, Irina Kuprik

“…The Bayesian classifier has been found to show a lower percentage of identification errors with an equal error rate (EER) = 0.0053. The best result for neural networks was EER = 0.0266. …”
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Exploration of fever characteristics in parturients under continuous temperature monitoring during labor analgesia and analysis of the impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes: an... by Xia Li, Xia Li, Junli Ma

“…Additionally, the fever group had a higher rate of meconium-stained amniotic fluid (grade III), used more analgesics, and had a higher rate of antibiotic use. …”
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Methodological development study: Dynamic mask attention graph neural network for mechanical ventilation in elderly intensive care unit patients by Yi Xie, Ni Xie, Jiao Guo

“…Results The experiments showed that DymaGNN achieved an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.8363 and 0.8557 on the intubation prediction task on MIMIC-IV and eICU datasets, respectively, and maintained an AUC of 0.8115 under a 15% data missing rate. Visualization of the feature interaction graph revealed the relationship between important features such as respiratory rate and oxygen saturation. …”
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Generating Large Time–Bandwidth Product RF-Chirped Waveforms Using Vernier Dual-Optical Frequency Combs by Mohammed S. Alshaykh

“…In this work, we propose a photonics-based large-TBWP RF chirp generator utilizing dual optical frequency combs with a small difference in the repetition rate. By employing dispersion modules for frequency-to-time mapping, we convert the spectral interferometric patterns into a temporal RF sinusoidal carrier signal whose frequency is swept through the optical shot-to-shot delay. …”
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Epidemiological Characteristics of Human Rabies in Urban and Suburban Districts in Shanghai, 2006–2021 by Zhi Li, Jiayu Hu, Zhuoying Huang, Xiang Guo, Jia Ren, Jing Qiu, Xiaoying Ma, Han Yan, Fang Huang, Xiaodong Sun

“…The body parts most frequently injured by dogs were the hands (48.84%). The fatality rate was 100%. Most cases (86.05%) were not treated after exposure. …”
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Intelligent Prediction of Lost Circulation and Gas Invasion in Cementing Operations Based on ACO-SWXGBoost by Wei Ji, Mengyuan Xiong, Shuangjin Zheng

“…The model extracts both raw features and slope-based variations of key parameters—flow rate, pressure, and density—to enhance representation, incorporates a sliding window and time decay mechanism to capture dynamic patterns, and leverages ACO to optimize hyperparameters for improved predictive performance. …”
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Statistical Analysis of a Generalized Variant of the Weibull Model Under Unified Hybrid Censoring with Applications to Cancer Data by Mazen Nassar, Refah Alotaibi, Ahmed Elshahhat

“…Characterized by one scale parameter and two shape parameters, the proposed model offers enhanced flexibility for modeling diverse lifetime data patterns and hazard rate behaviors. Notably, its hazard rate function can exhibit five distinct shapes, including upside-down bathtub and bathtub shapes. …”
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A Frequency-Aware Transformer for Multiscale Fault Diagnosis in Electrical Machines by Yurim Choi, Inwhee Joe

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves 99.9% diagnostic accuracy by maintaining an exceptionally low false alarm rate and missed detection rate, thereby ensuring high reliability. …”
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Machine learning-optimized dual-band wearable antenna for real-time remote patient monitoring in biomedical IoT systems by Umar Musa, Amor Smida, Muhammad S. Yahya, Mohamed I. Waly, Jun Jiat Tiang, Nazih Khaddaj Mallat, Surajo Muhammad, Abubakar Salisu

“…The heart rate ranged from 65 to 99 BPM, and the body temperature ranged from 30 to 37 °C. …”
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Modelling the Rainfall Erosivity of the Rhone Region (Southeastern France) Associated with Climate Variability and Storminess by Nazzareno Diodato, Gianni Bellocchi, Nunzio Romano, Francesco M. Guadagno

“…Changes in the spatial and temporal patterns of extreme rainfall may have important effects on the magnitude and timing of rainfall erosivity, which in turn lead to even severe soil degradation phenomena. …”
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The distortion of fertility due to migration: A comparative analysis of migrants in the Netherlands and stayers in Poland by Nasim Ahamed Mondal, Agnieszka Fihel, Weronika Kloc-Nowak

“…The literature on migrants’ childbearing patterns offers several explanations for this phenomenon. …”
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