Health status, respiratory symptom and dyspnea trajectories in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a seven-year observation in clinical practice by Koichi Nishimura, Masaaki Kusunose, Ayumi Shibayama, Kazuhito Nakayasu

“…The patients were categorized into quartiles based on the rate of decline in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and changes in PROs. …”
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Emerging trends in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and prediction using artificial intelligence: A bibliometric analysis of the top cited 100 articles by Guangheng Zhang, Weijie Zhao, Shimeng Lv, Ziyue Wang, Yunhao Yi, Haoteng Ma, Yitong Lu, Wei Yan, Jing Teng

“…The journal with both the highest number of published articles and the greatest citation frequency was NEUROIMAGE, while PROTEIN ENGINEERING DESIGN & SELECTION boasted the highest average citation rate. The country with the largest volume of published articles was the United States, followed by China and the United Kingdom. …”
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P53 marker expression in epithelial ovarian tumours in a centre in Nigeria – a descriptive study by Andrew Olushola Anjorin, Olaejirinde Olaniyi Olaofe, Atinuke Olu Anjorin, Ganiat Olutoyin Omoniyi-Esan, Akinwumi Oluwole Komolafe

“…This may contribute to the poor patient survival rate.…”
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Daily insider threat detection with hybrid TCN transformer architecture by Xiaoyun Ye, Huangrongbin Cui, Faqin Luo, Jinlong Wang, Xiaoyun Xiong, Wencui Zhang, Jiawei Yu, Wenhao Zhao

“…The model detects anomalies at each time step and achieves a recall rate of $$95\%$$ with a sequence length of 30 days. …”
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Protecting children’s vision is a systematic project—a cross-sectional survey on myopia among preschool children in Shantou, China by Yan-Shu Li, Jia-Qi Xie, Xiao-Mei Hong, Yu-Xin Zhu, Xi-Yu Lin, Bing-Yun Li

“…Results Of the 388 valid questionnaires collected, a myopia detection rate of 25.7% was observed, with a significant age-related increase (OR = 4.591, P = 0.018). …”
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PERAN SOSIAL EKONOMI KELUARGA DALAM MENANGGULANGI KESEHATAN ANAK DI INDONESIA by Syifa Pramudita Faddila, Laras Ratu Khalida, Uus Mohammad Darul Fadli, Aji Tuhagana

“…Globally, as many as 42 million children were overweight in 2015 and the obesity rate in Indonesia was around 10.8% in 2013. The purpose of this study was to determine the socioeconomic role of families in tackling children's health in Indonesia. …”
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The global burden of climate-sensitive diseases in Brazil: the national and subnational estimates and analysis, 1990–2017 by Tatiane C. Moraes de Sousa, Christovam Barcellos, Mauricio L. Barreto

“…The lowest DALYs rates for dengue were observed in the south region, which also experiences the lowest temperatures. …”
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Loss of <i>Myostatin</i> Shapes the Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Landscapes Across Multiple Muscle Types in Cattle by Chao Hai, Xuefei Liu, Chunling Bai, Guanghua Su, Lei Yang, Guangpeng Li

“…The results showed that the <i>MSTN</i> gene-edited (MT) cattle skeletal muscle exhibited significantly larger myofiber cross-sectional areas (<i>p</i> = 0.049), accompanied by reduced shear force (<i>p</i> = 0.044), cooking loss rate (<i>p</i> = 0.0029), and pH (<i>p</i> = 0.014). …”
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EXTRAOSSEOUS ABNORMALITIES AND ARTIFACTS IN SKELETAL SCINTIGRAPHY by S. P. Mironov, A. A. Ansheles, D. N. Shulgin, V. B. Sergienko

“…Objective: to specify frequency, patterns and diagnostic significance of extraosseous soft tissue findings in 99mTc-pyrophosphate skeletal scintigraphy. …”
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ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN 2017 10TH REPORT OF THE NATIONAL REGISTRY by S. V. Gautier, S. M. Khomyakov

“…In 2017, the level of kidney transplantation was 8.0 per million of the population, the liver transplantation index was 3.0 per million of the population; the rate of heart transplantation is 1.7 per million of the population. …”
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Applying a logistic regression-clustering joint model to analyze the causes of prolonged pre-analytic turnaround time for urine culture testing in hospital wards by Shuangshuang Lv, Huan Ye, Yuan Li, Jian Zhang

“…Contamination rate decreased by 59.8% (5.67% → 2.28%, P &lt; 0.01). …”
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Altered brain dynamics in chronic neck and shoulder pain revealed by hidden Markov model by Zhiqiang Qiu, Tianci Liu, Chengxi Zeng, Maojiang Yang, Libing He, Hongjian Li, Jia Ming, Xiaoxue Xu

“…In this study, we applied HMM to rs-fMRI data from CNSP patients and healthy controls to explore brain activity dynamics and state transition patterns. We identified five distinct brain states, revealing significant differences in functional occupancy, lifetime, switching rate, and state transition probabilities between CNSP patients and controls. …”
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Dual-omics analysis reveals B vitamin regulation and metabolism in Areca Catechu inflorescence by Wenxiu Jiang, Xiaoxia Liu, Weiying Li, Jing Yang, Panjing Li, Minggeng Xie, Guangzhen Zhou

“…Notably, we characterized a key rate-limiting enzyme in the thiamine biosynthesis pathway, the thiazole synthase (AcTHI1), that plays a crucial role in regulating thiamine biosynthesis. …”
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Study on Heat Transfer of Fluid in a Porous Media by VOF Method with Fractal Reconstruction by Shuai Liu, Qingyong Zhu, Wenjun Xu

“…Through numerical simulation, the influence of the evaporation coefficient on the flow and heat transfer rate can be determined. Key findings from numerical simulations reveal the following: (1) Heat transfer rates decrease with increasing fractal dimension (surface complexity) and evaporation coefficient; (2) As the thermal Rayleigh number increases, the influence of the Marangoni number on heat transfer diminishes; (3) The coupling of buoyancy and Marangoni effects in porous media with complex evaporation surfaces significantly alters flow and heat transfer patterns compared to smooth-surfaced porous media. …”
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Macroevolutionary processes in turtles (Testudines): a view from biomic specialization and historical climatic changes by Juan S. Thomas, Sara Gamboa, Manuel Hernández Fernández, Manuel Hernández Fernández, Oscar Murillo, Jonathan S. Pelegrin

“…Vrba suggests that lineages display varying tendencies toward generalism or specialization in biome occupancy, with a tendency towards the accumulation of specialists due to their higher rate of speciation through vicariance. It also posits differences in biome occupancy patterns driven by the environmental characteristics of biomes, with a higher presence of biome specialist species in biomes that are placed in the extremes of the global climatic gradients. …”
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A Lower Energy Balance is Associated With Higher Severity and Odd of Depression Based on the Beck Depression Inventory‐13 (BDI‐13) in a Retiring Age Population: A Population‐Based... by Mohammad Reza Shadmand Foumani Moghadam, Mostafa Shahraki Jazinaki, Zohre Hosseini, Fatemeh Rajabi, Sharif Etemdi, Melika Hadizadeh, Parnian Pezeshki, Mohammad Amushahi, Reza Rezvani

“…Energy balance was calculated by subtracting energy intake from Total Energy Expenditure (TEE) and Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) which was calculated using Bio‐Electrical Impedance Analysis and Mifflin and St‐Jeor formula. …”
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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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Biomimetic Computing for Efficient Spoken Language Identification by Gaurav Kumar, Saurabh Bhardwaj

“…The proposed technique integrates speech preprocessing, which encompasses pre-emphasis, windowing, and frame blocking, followed by feature extraction utilizing pitch, energy, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), and Zero crossing rate (ZCR). Further, the selection of features is performed by DBO algorithm, which removes redundant features and helps to improve efficiency and accuracy. …”
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Multivariate Evaluation of Flash Drought Across the United States by Jason A. Otkin, Yafang Zhong, Trent W. Ford, Martha C. Anderson, Christopher Hain, Andrew Hoell, Mark Svoboda, Hailan Wang

“…The FDII method uses the rate of intensification (FD‐INT) and subsequent drought severity (DRO‐SEV) to determine when a flash drought occurred and the strength of the event. …”
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A Study on the Spatial Perception and Inclusive Characteristics of Outdoor Activity Spaces in Residential Areas for Diverse Populations from the Perspective of All-Age Friendly Des... by Biao Yin, Lijun Wang, Yuan Xu, Kiang Chye Heng

“…With the transformation of urban development patterns and profound changes in population structure in China, outdoor activity spaces in residential areas are facing common issues such as obsolete infrastructure, insufficient barrier-free facilities, and intergenerational conflicts, which severely impact residents’ quality of life and hinder high-quality urban development. …”
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