Analysis of COVID-19 prevalence in Belarus, Thailand, and Lithuania utilizing the SIR model during the COVID era by Zahra Shirmohammadi, Khosro Rezaee, Mehdi Gheisari, Mojtaba Farmani, Fatemeh Aali, Reza Soltani, Hossein Razghandi

“…Instead of relying on static or globally derived estimates, the model parameters—infection rate (β) and removal rate (γ)—were dynamically calculated for distinct time periods in each country, using country-specific data extracted from Worldometer. …”
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Comparative transcriptome analysis of the effect of different heat shock periods on the unfertilized ovule in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) by Ying-chun ZHU, De-xi SUN, Yun DENG, Guo-lin AN, Wei-hua LI, Wen-jing SI, Jun-pu LIU, Xiao-wu SUN

“…However, because of low repeatability, embryoid induction rate and quality, the molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. …”
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Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy versus neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with borderline resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Jun-Peng Lin, Feng-Nian Zhuang, Wei-Jie Chen, Zhou Lin, Yu-Jie Chen, Xiao-Feng Chen, Hui Lin, Hao He, Peiyuan Wang, Hang Zhou, Wen-Wei Wei, Peng-Qiang Gao, Shuo-Yan Liu, Feng Wang

“…After PSM, the R0 resection rate (85.7% vs. 90.5%, P = 0.341) and pCR rate (19.0% vs. 26.2%, P = 0.269) were comparable between two groups, while the MPR rate in the NACI group was significantly lower than in the NCRT group (32.1% vs. 56.0%, P = 0.002). …”
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New perspectives under heterogeneity: mechanism of nutrient heterogeneity on Cd-induced hormesis of soil respiration by Qian Gao, Jiangshan Yang, Junyang Wu, Yongli Zhu, Yongli Zhu, Diwu Fan, Jiangang Han, Jiangang Han

“…To examine the effects of nutrient spatial heterogeneity on the hormesis of soil ecosystem under cadmium (Cd) stress, we constructed three patches with different spatial nutrient distribution but the same total nutrient content through different spatial discharge patterns. Different levels of Cd stress were applied to the patches, and after incubation, soil respiration rate, content of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and metagenomic characteristics were measured. …”
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Independent and joint impacts of high body mass index and aging on global burden of chronic kidney disease: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Yao Ma, Shun Chen, Yuanli Shen, Xiang Wang, Xinning Xie, Weihong Zhao

“…IntroductionWe aimed to evaluate the levels and trends of CKD burden associated with high body mass index (BMI) from 1990 to 2021 and to investigate the role of aging.MethodsFrom the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, we retrieved data and estimated CKD-related deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR), and age-standardized DALYs rate (ASDR) attributable to high BMI by age, sex, socio-demographic index (SDI), and geographical regions. …”
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Dynamical modeling of syncytial mitotic cycles in Drosophila embryos by Laurence Calzone, Denis Thieffry, John J Tyson, Bela Novak

“…The model can be used to predict the phenotypes of novel mutations and effective ranges of the unmeasured rate constants and transport coefficients in the proposed mechanism.…”
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Anaesthetic practices in non-operating room settings for paediatric patients: A prospective observational study by Nayana Amin, Pallavi Patil, Virinchi Sanapala

“…There were 221 adverse events in 117 patients. The incidence rate of patients experiencing at least one adverse event leading to morbidity was 3.22%. …”
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A Data-Driven Approach for Urban Heat Island Predictions: Rethinking the Evaluation Metrics and Data Preprocessing by Berk Kıvılcım, Patrick Erik Bradley

“…This strengthens the visual capturing of spatial relationships, and as a result the correlation rate between air temperature and building volume data is also increased. …”
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A mixture transmuted generalized extreme value distribution: Definition and properties by Yang Yu, Sun HongGuang, Xu Zheng

“…In this paper, the properties of the survival function, hazard rate function, mean and variance, and maximum likelihood estimations of the mixture transmuted generalized extreme value distribution are provided, also the corresponding equations are given.…”
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Community Clustering and Recommendation Toward Elderly Health Records: Probabilistic Representation Learning and Large Graph Search by Huijiong Ding

“…Validated on >1M health records, the method achieves a 0.5049 Balanced Error Rate, outperforming six baselines across 42 health categories. …”
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An improved modeling approach to investigate biases in human random number generation. by Tim Angelike, Jochen Musch

“…The generalized distance parameter, and particularly the new cycling parameter, improved the fit of the model to human-generated sequences and the rate of successful predictions of the next choice from 14.09% to 26.48%, significantly exceeding the expected chance value of 1/9 = 11.1%. …”
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Using the superiorly based pharyngeal flap to surgically manage cleft velopharyngeal insufficiency: a cohort study by Marvee Turk, Pragaash Shanmuganathan, Carli Maddocks, David Chong

“…Repeat speech evaluation one year after surgery demonstrated correction of velopharyngeal insufficiency in 17 patients, representing a 94.4 per cent success rate. Furthermore, only two patients experienced postoperative snoring (11.1%). …”
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Rheology of rock–ice avalanche in a periodic chute flow by Zhiping Sun, Zhibo Dong

“…Depth-resolved profiles of six key parameters—velocity, solid volume fraction, shear stress, normal stress, shear rate, and inertia number—were recorded during steady flow conditions. …”
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Emergent behaviors in multiagent pursuit evasion games within a bounded 2D grid world by Sihan Xu, Zhaohui Dang

“…After training with MARL algorithms, pursuers achieved a 99.9% success rate in 1,000 randomized pursuit-evasion trials, demonstrating the effectiveness of the learned strategies. …”
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Clinical and pathomorphological parameters of brain death: from the origins of the concept to its use in organ transplantation by V. O. Tumanskyi, L. M. Tumanska

“…It has been established that the main criterion for the development of human biological death, which determines irreversible cardiac arrest and the impossibility of restoring spontaneous respiration, are irreversible destructive changes in the nuclei of the pons and medulla oblongata, which make up the cardio-respiratory center that regulates heart rate, vascular tone and blood pressure, and generating rhythm and breathing patterns. …”
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Failure of affine‐based reconstruction attack in regenerating vascular feature points by Mahshid Sadeghpour, Arathi Arakala, Stephen A. Davis, Kathy J. Horadam

“…The inverse attack match rate for reconstructed reference templates was 0.3% in one experiment using retinal vasculature and 0% for all others. …”
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Performance benchmarking and analysis of lithium-sulfur batteries for next-generation cell design by Saeed Yari, Albin Conde Reis, Quanquan Pang, Mohammadhosein Safari

“…Through a meticulous literature review, we digitize 866 galvanostatic cycling and rate capability plots, along with the collection of key host material properties—such as specific surface area and polysulfide binding/adsorption energy—as well as essential cell design parameters including sulfur loading, electrode formulation, and electrolyte-to-sulfur ratios, to standardize performance using specific energy and power metrics. …”
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Some aspects of biology and fishery of walleye pollock <i>Theragra chalcogramma</i> in the southwestern Chukchi Sea relative to the size and age structure by A. V. Buslov, E. E. Ovsyannikov

“…However, the backward migration is doubtful; the pollock, once migrated to the Chukchi Sea, remain in this new habitat, as could be seen from the age-length dependence for a part of the stock distinguished by lower growth rate because of dwelling in severe conditions of this area. …”
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COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF CYTOKINE PROFILE IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS UNDER THE EFFECT OF PHYSICAL FACTORS (PRELIMINARY STUDY) by S. I. Kurchevenko, G. M. Bodienkova

“…It was concluded that changes in the contents of cytokines in experimental animals under the effect of general vibration and noise production rate shows different mechanisms basic for the regulation of immune response.…”
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Utilization of shrimp head powder to enhance color performance and growth of multicolor betta fish (Betta splendens) by Andri Iskandar, Fauzan Arya Maulana, Hendriana Andri, Kusumanti Ima, Permatasari Sheny, Wahyudi Imam Tri

“…The research procedure included the preparation of shrimp head meal, mixing feed with TKU, fish rearing, and observation of changes in color brightness, weight and length growth, survival rate, and water quality. The results showed that the utilization of shrimp head meal supplemented into the feed improved the performance of brightness and color patterns in multi-colored cupang fish, including length gain during the treatment, with optimum results shown in the 10% TKU treatment.…”
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