Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Children in Hangzhou (2022–2023) by Qin-Rui Lai, Xiao-Li Chu, Ying-Ying Chen, Wei Li, Ya-Jun Guo, Shi-Qiang Shang

“…From February 2022 to January 2023, the HRSV positivity rate was 7.06%. In 2023, it increased to 9.26%. The highest positivity rates were in infants aged 0–6 months and children aged 6 months to 1 year. …”
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Effect of breast milk olfactory experience on physiological indicators in very low birth weight infants: a randomized clinical trial by Ling Yu, Yibo Tao, Pin Jia, Liling Li, Tianchan Lv, Li Wang, Qinqin Song, Xia Huan, Chan Liu, Yalan Dou, Yan Xuan, Xiao-jing Hu

“…A narrower range of fluctuation was observed across all physiological indicators in the intervention group, indicating a more stable pattern compared to the control group. Although no significant difference was found in heart rate variability (50.35 ± 9.61 vs. 48.03 ± 10.2, t=-1.320, P = 0.187), a significant difference was noted in the average heart rate between the two groups (155.65 ± 6.80 vs. 153.58 ± 4.22, t=-2.141, P = 0.032). …”
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Flow Heterogeneity Controls Dissolution Dynamics in Topologically Complex Rocks by Z. Kanavas, J. Jimenez‐Martinez, F. Miele, J. Nimmo, V. L. Morales

“…Flow unevenness determines the location and rate of dissolution. We propose two models describing expected dissolution patterns and effective reaction rates based on dimensionless metrics for flow, transport, and reaction. …”
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A Detailed Analysis of the Milky Way Warp Based on Classical Cepheids by Xiaoyue Zhou, Xiaodian Chen, Licai Deng, Shu Wang, Jiyu Wang, Jianxing Zhang

“…We analyze the impact of the adopted solar vertical velocity on the inferred warp precession rate and confirm the reliability of the measured precession rate. …”
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Intermittent ne-waza exercise leads to greater effort in uke compared to tori in prepubescent judo athletes by Bayram Ceylan, Furkan Öztürk, Hasan Basri Taskin, Ugur Sarikaya, Sükrü Serdar Balci

“…Athletes also reported significantly higher RPE scores in the uke role than in the tori role, indicating greater perceptual demands in prepubescent judo athletes, despite similar heart rate patterns between roles. …”
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Identification and characteristics of antimicrobial-resistant Group B Streptococcus isolated from maternal birth canals at a university-affiliated hospital, China by Hong Zhang, Wen-Li Liu, Jia-Lin Liu, Ming-Cheng Li

“…Purpose of investigation: This study aimed to ascertain the colonization rate of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in the birth canals of late-pregnant women, and to demonstrate the characteristics of the origins of antibiotic-resistance. …”
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Deterioration mechanism and stochastic damage modeling of tunnel lining concrete in hydrothermal corrosive environments by Yu Ning, Zhiwei Yan, Yanhua Zeng, Chunwei Zhang, Yucang Dong

“…The study results indicate that the mass loss rate exhibits a trend of decreasing and then increasing as the degree of corrosion increases. …”
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Public perception of climate change in the cold regions of Russia: an example of Yakutia by O. A. Anisimov, Ye. L. Ziltcova, Yu. I. Zhegusov

“…The rate of climate change in the Russian cold regions is nearly twice larger than the global‑mean rate. …”
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Rib and Sternum Fractures From Falls: Global Burden of Disease and Predictions by Zhanghao Huang, Jun Zhu

“…Results: From 1990 to 2021, the age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) and age-standardized prevalence rate (ASPR) generally showed an upward trend, although male ASIR, and ASPR displayed a slight decline. …”
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Thermodynamically consistent modeling of granular soils using physics-informed neural networks by Nazanin Irani, Mohammad Salimi, Torsten Wichtmann

“…The material dissipation rate is calculated using the total work input and a free energy potential expressed in terms of stress invariants. …”
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MLCRP: ML-Based GPU Cache Performance Modeling Featured With Reuse Profiles by Minjung Cho, Eui-Young Chung

“…In the data preparation stage, synthetic RP-based traces are generated from parameterized distributions to simulate diverse and non-stationary memory patterns. In the training stage, a regression-based ML model is trained to capture the relationship between RP features, cache configurations, and performance metrics such as miss rate and miss status holding register (MSHR) merge rate. …”
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A Comparative Study on Fracture Characteristics of the Red Sandstone under Water and Nitrogen Gas Fracturing by Yanan Gao, Feng Gao, Zekai Wang, Peng Hou

“…However, for the nitrogen gas fracturing, the breakdown pressure almost does not change with the loading rate as the nitrogen gas can easily penetrate the specimen from the radial direction.…”
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Colorectal Cancer: A Total Provincial Experience with Survival Analysis by B.H. Weinerman, K.B. Orr

“…However, a continuing relapse rate was seen in all patients with any type of infiltrating disease (B1 and B2 There appeared to be continuing relapse patterns in all those groups to at least 96 months. …”
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Aggression in autism spectrum disorder: presentation and treatment options by Fitzpatrick S, Srivorakiat L, Wink L, Pedapati E, Erickson C

“…Sarah E Fitzpatrick, Laura Srivorakiat, Logan K Wink, Ernest V Pedapati, Craig A Erickson Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA Abstract: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent difficulties in social communication and social interaction, coupled with restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior or interest. Research indicates that aggression rates may be higher in individuals with ASD compared to those with other developmental disabilities. …”
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Brain Tumor Classification of Medical Images based on Transfer Pre-trained Learning Models by Mohamed H Ghaleb Abdkhaleq Abdkhaleq, Ibraheem Al-Jadir, Loay George, Yuri Yuryevich Gromov, Eliseev Aleksey Igorevich

“…Medical professionals can rapidly and reliably diagnosing brain tumors from medical imaging via this technique. he results demonstrate that the AlexNet model showed a remarkable performance, with an accuracy rate of 95.60% and high sensitivity and specificity rates. …”
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Benefits of aldosterone receptor antagonism in chronic kidney disease: the BARACK-D RCT by F D Richard Hobbs, Richard McManus, Clare Taylor, Nicholas Jones, Joy Rahman, Jane Wolstenholme, Louise Jones, Jennifer Hirst, Sam Mort, Ly-Mee Yu

“…These higher rates of negative renal change reduced in scale over the study but did not equalise between arms. …”
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Experience with Tetanus in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Sudan: A Retrospective Review by Mumen Abdalazim Dafallah, Esraa Ahmed Ragab, Omer Ali Mohamed Ahmed Elawad

“…Tetanus is still a major health issue, especially in rural areas, and is associated with high morbidity and mortality rate. This study was conducted to describe the pattern of presentation and treatment outcome among adult patients infected with tetanus in our environment. …”
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Effectiveness of using a slider-crank mechanism for waffle background milling by I. N. Drozdov, A. Yu. Popov

“…The drive design presented in the work provides feed rate up to 43 m/min with cutting speed up to 942 m/min. …”
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Adaptive Quantum-Inspired Evolution for Denoising PCG Signals in Unseen Noise Conditions by Lubna Siddiqui, Ashish Mani, Jaspal Singh

“…The performance metrics utilised were Scale-Invariant Signal-to-Distortion Ratio (SI-SDR), Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), Correlation Coefficient (CC) and Zero Crossing Rate (ZCR). The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieved a 25% improvement in the SI-SDR metric in highly noisy environments for pathological PCG signals. …”
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9‐Year Trend in the Management of Acute Heart Failure in Japan: A Report From the National Consortium of Acute Heart Failure Registries by Yasuyuki Shiraishi, Shun Kohsaka, Naoki Sato, Teruo Takano, Takeshi Kitai, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Yuya Matsue

“…These changes were not associated with in‐hospital mortality (4.7–7.5%) or 30‐day heart failure readmission rate (4.8–5.4%), as well as 1‐year mortality and heart failure readmission rate (20.1–23.3% and 23.6–26.2%, respectively). …”
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