Use of multiple metrics and clustering analysis to assess antimicrobial use in Shanxi hospitals, China: a cross-sectional study based on 25 general hospitals by Donghong Yin, Donghong Yin, Yang Tang, Song Wang, Shuyun Wang, Ruigang Hou, Ruigang Hou, Jinju Duan, Jinju Duan

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the current patterns of antimicrobial use among nonsurgical inpatients across 25 general hospitals in Shanxi Province and to evaluate the antimicrobial use rate, antimicrobial use density (AUD), days of therapy (DOT), length of therapy (LOT), and the application of cluster analysis in monitoring antimicrobial prescribing practices.MethodsThis study included 25 general hospitals covering 11 cities in Shanxi Province. …”
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An Antenna Array Sidelobe Level Reduction Approach through Invasive Weed Optimization by Geng Sun, Yanheng Liu, Han Li, Shuang Liang, Aimin Wang, Boyu Li

“…Various simulations are performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the IWO algorithm for the synthesis of the beam patterns of the LAA and the CAA. The results show that IWO has a better performance in terms of the accuracy, the convergence rate, and the stability compared with other algorithms for the SLL reductions. …”
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Effects of Heat Transfer Characteristics of R32 and R1234yf with Al2O3 Nanoparticle through U-Bend Tube Evaporator by Latifur Islam, Dipayan Mondal, Md. Ashraful Islam, Palash Das

“…After the bend, the frictional pressure drop increased at a higher rate than before the bend, and the vapor fraction increased at a higher rate.…”
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Unobtrusive stress detection using wearables: application and challenges in a university setting by Peter Neigel, Andrew Vargo, Benjamin Tag, Koichi Kise

“…We identify potential stress patterns by observing elevated waking heart rate (HR) and maximum waking HR, supported by related metrics such as sleep HR, sleep heart rate variability (HRV), activity patterns, and sleep phases.ResultsThe physiological changes align with significant academic and societal events, indicating a strong link to stress.DiscussionOur findings demonstrate the potential of consumer wearables to detect collective changes in stress biomarkers within a cohort using in-the-wild data, i.e., data that is noisy and has gaps. …”
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Geospatial technology based shoreline change analysis (1992–2022) and predictive forecast modeling for 2032 and 2042, utilizing DSAS, along the eastern coast of India by Harikrishna S., Gurugnanam B., Bairavi S.

“…The study found that the maximum erosion in the study area is 4.1 m/yr (end point rate (EPR)) and 4.21 m/yr (linear regression rate (LRR)) at the Maravakkadu coastal region, and the maximum accretion is 3.75 m/yr (EPR) and LRR of 4.12 m/yr at the Mettupalayam coast. …”
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Whisper Automatic Speech Recognition and GPT Large Language Models as Best Practice for Assessing Communication Progress in Autism Spectrum Disorder by Naela Fauzul Muna, Mukhammad Andri Setiawan

“…Whisper achieved a low Word Error Rate (WER) for mild autism (average 5%) and a higher rate for moderate autism (average 23%). …”
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Language Variation and Perception: Subject Pronominal Expression in Native and Non-Native Mandarin Chinese by Xinye Zhang, Aini Li, Xiaoshi Li

“…Mixed-effects regression models reveal that native and non-native Mandarin listeners shared similar perception patterns of SPE. SPE rate serves as a significant structural constraint for both native and non-native perception. …”
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A spatiotemporal model for urban taxi Origin–Destination prediction based on Multi-hop GCN and Hierarchical LSTM by Jiang Rong, Wangtu Xu, Yanjie Wen

“…HLSTM unit incorporates a standard LSTM gate to manage cell state updates, enabling selective access to the internal memory. …”
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Inversion Study of Maize Leaf Physiological Information Under Light–Temperature Stress Using Visible–Near Infrared Spectroscopy by Siyao Gao, Jianlei Qiao, Lina Zhou, Shuang Liu, Limei Chen, Yue Yu, Lijuan Kong

“…This study focuses on maize during the seedling stage and investigates the response patterns of maize leaf net photosynthetic rate, relative chlorophyll content (SPAD value), and visible–near-infrared spectral data under eight light–temperature stress conditions. …”
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Evaluating the predictive power of combined gene expression dynamics from single cells on antibiotic survival by Razan N. Alnahhas, Virgile Andreani, Mary J. Dunlop

“…We first identified relationships between growth rate and reporter levels based on auto- and cross-correlation analysis, revealing consistent patterns where changes in growth rate were anticorrelated with fluorescence following a delay. …”
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The association between material hardship and physical and mental health among older adults: Multi-channel sequence Approach. by Oejin Shin, Eunsun Kwon, Seoyeon Ahn, Sojung Park

“…Despite a general decrease in poverty, the rate among those aged 65 and older has increased. …”
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A unified framework to model synaptic dynamics during the sleep-wake cycle. by Fukuaki L Kinoshita, Rikuhiro G Yamada, Koji L Ode, Hiroki R Ueda

“…Moreover, synaptic changes depended on firing rate differences between NREM sleep and wakefulness. …”
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Experimental Study of the Rock Mechanism under Coupled High Temperatures and Dynamic Loads by Huaming An, Tongshuai Zeng, Zhihua Zhang, Lei Liu

“…This research focuses on the effects of the loading rate and high temperature on rock mass in terms of rock mechanism. …”
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Study on Bubble Absorption Characteristics of R134a-DMF in Vertical Tube by Kong Xiangqiang, Li Huazhao, Li Jianbo

“…The characteristics of flow patterns of churn flow, slug flow, bubble flow, and single-phase flow were simulated and analyzed at an absorption pressure of 0.35 MPa, a vapor inlet temperature of 5 °C, and a weak solution inlet mass flow rate of 12.0 kg/h, by which the variation in absorption height with inlet parameters was obtained. …”
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Performance and limitations of linkage-disequilibrium-based methods for inferring the genomic landscape of recombination and detecting hotspots: a simulation study by Raynaud, Marie, Gagnaire, Pierre-Alexandre, Galtier, Nicolas

“…False positive and false negative hotspots considerably confound fine-scale patterns of inferred recombination under a wide range of conditions, particularly when Ne is small and the mutation/recombination rate ratio is low, to the extent that maps inferred from populations sharing the same recombination landscape appear uncorrelated. …”
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global seasonality of norovirus. by Sharia M Ahmed, Benjamin A Lopman, Karen Levy

“…Our results point to possible associations of season strength with rain in the wettest month and crude birth rate.…”
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Regional Gas Supply System Considered from the Standpoint of System Analysis and Regularities of its Functioning by D. R. Mоroz, N. V. Hruntovich

“…The values of correlation coefficients between the outdoor air temperature and gas flow rate according to the elements of the balance structure are calculated. …”
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Time-Dependent Kinetic Complexities in Enzyme Assays: A Review by Juan Luis Rendón, Juan Pablo Pardo

“…The importance of analyzing the derivative of the reaction rate of such atypical transitions as a method to distinguish them from the conventional non-atypical time progress curve is stressed.…”
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Modeling of Photochemical and Photothermal Effects in Soft Tissue Subjected to Laser Irradiation by Marek Jasiński, Maria Zadoń

“…The connection between bioheat transfer and PDT models is taken into account through the respective relationships between perfusion rate, capillary blood velocity, and the maximum oxygen supply rate. …”
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Resolving contiguous vowels across word boundaries in Spanish: L2 learners, levels, and tasks by Erik W. Willis, D. Eric Holt, Carly Carver

“…The intermediate learners increased the frequency of linking contiguous vowels to 49% in the narrative-retell task, whereas the advanced L2 speakers slightly reduced their linking rate to 68%. The Mexican monolingual speaker comparison group produced linked speech in a narrative-retell task at a rate of 93%. …”
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