Effects on HbA1c of referral of type 2 diabetes patients to secondary care by Kjersti Nøkleby, Anne K. Jenum, Esben Selmer Buhl, Tor Claudi, John G. Cooper, Signe Flottorp, Karianne F. Løvaas, Sverre Sandberg, Tore Julsrud Berg

“…Some differences were found between clinics in rejection rate, processes of care, and duration of follow-up.Conclusions Norwegian GPs handle most T2D patients themselves. …”
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Tuberculin skin test repetition after TNF-α inhibitors in patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis: a long-term retrospective cohort in endemic area by Vanessa de Oliveira Magalhães, Karina Rossi Bonfiglioli, Carina More Frade Gomes, Eloisa Bonfá, Ana Cristina de Medeiros-Ribeiro, Carla Gonçalves S. Saad, Marcelo de Medeiros Pinheiro

“…Conclusion These results indicate that TST repetition is associated with a high conversion rate, suggesting the need for recommended treatment. …”
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Adipose-Derived Stem Cells for Cartilage Tissue Engineering: A Bibliometric Analysis of Trends and Themes by Zhang J, Wu K, Zhou L, Zheng S

“…Bibliometric and visualized analysis was performed using VOSviewers (V 1.6.20), CiteSpace (V 6.3.R1) and Bibliometrix (R 4.3.3).Results: A total of 436 English articles were analyzed, involving 2356 authors from 1532 institutions across 50 countries/regions, contributing to 189 journals. The annual growth rate of publications was 8.73%, peaking in 2021. …”
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Safer Baby Bundle intervention for reducing perinatal mortality in Ethiopia: a quasi-experimental study by Mesfin Tadese, Saba Desta Tessema, Solomon Hailemeskel, Alemayehu Moges, Michael Amera Tizazu, Getnet Mitike Kassie

“…Additionally, the intervention significantly reduced the incidence of non-reassuring fetal heart rate patterns during labour (adjusted risk ratio (aRR)=0.78, 95% CI 0.64 to 0.95), low birth weight (aRR=0.77, 95% CI 0.60 to 0.98) and the need for neonatal resuscitation (aRR=0.59, 95% CI 0.37 to 0.94). …”
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Dietary Supplementation with Algae Powders and Carotenoids Enhances Growth Performance and Tissue-Specific Carotenoid Accumulation in Penaeus Vannamei by Pujiang Liu, Chengwei Huang, Qian Shen, Qijun Luo, Rui Yang, Haimin Chen, Wei Wu, Juanjuan Chen

“…The results showed that both macroalgae and carotenoid supplementation significantly enhanced weight gain rate (WGR) and specific growth rate (SGR) compared to the control group, with the zeaxanthin and fucoxanthin groups exhibiting the greatest improvements (1.6-fold and 1.3-fold, respectively). …”
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Induction of reproduction of fish Anasa Nomorhampus sp. endemic Palu, Central Sulawesi orally through hormon bioencapsulation use Chironomus sp. by Dinda Wahyu Rezki, Agus Oman Sudrajat, Dinar Tri Soelistyowati, Odang Carman

“…This research focuses on assessing specific weight growth rate (LPBS), specific length growth rate (LPPS), survival rate (TKH), gonadosomatic index (IGS), gonadal histology, birth frequency, number of births, and growth performance. …”
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Failure Mode- and Time-Dependent Reliability Model of Tunnel Lining Structure Under Extremely High Ground Stress by Tao Peng, Dongxing Ren, Fanmin He, Binjia Li, Fei Wu, Shijie Xu

“…The plastic zone and the distribution of the surrounding rock stress field throughout the excavation process were simulated, elucidating the relationship between vault displacement and stress release rate. The time-varying reliability model is employed to assess lining behavior under extremely high ground stress and to establish the patterns governing its service life. …”
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MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images by Jianfeng Li, Yibing Yang, Liutong Yang, Yang Zhao, Qinghua Luo, Chenxu Wang

“…Due to the complex sea background and the different sizes and shapes of ships, the detection of ship targets has the problems of low detection rate, high false detection rate and high missed detection rate. …”
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A Study on the Hydrodynamic Excitation Characteristics of Pump and Pipeline Systems Considering the Weakly Compressible Fluid During the Pump Start-Up Condition by Yonggang Lu, Mengjiao Min, Wei Song, Yun Zhao, Zhengwei Wang

“…The results indicate that, during the initial start-up phase, the internal flow state of the pump is complex, with significant vortices and pressure fluctuations. As the flow rate and rotational speed increase, the flow gradually stabilizes. …”
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Growth and Mortality Models of Mozambique Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus; Peters, 1852) Wildly Enter Inside the Fish Farming Ponds in Tarakan City, North Kalimantan by Gazali Salim, Mujiyanto Mujiyanto, Yayuk Sugianti, Suryanti Suryanti, Zahidah Zahidah, Daud Nawir, Sitti Hartinah, Nurjanah Nurjanah, Rose Dewi, Rama Iranda, Mochamad Candra Wirawan Arief, Masayu Rahmia Anwar Putri, Abdur Rahman, Agus Indarjo, Julian Ransangan, Ariel E San Jose, Rozi Rozi

“…. • The exploitation rate of males and females is in the Under-exploitation category because the E value is <0.5. …”
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Analyzing RNA Localization Using the RNA Proximity Labeling Method OINC-seq by Megan Pockalny, Hei-Yong Lo, Raeann Goering, J. Taliaferro

“…The observed mutation rate for a given RNA species is therefore related to its proximity to the localized bait protein. …”
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Clutter Mitigation in Indoor Radar Sensors Using Sensor Fusion Technology by Srishti Singh, Ha-Neul Lee, Yuna Park, Sungho Kim, Si-Hyun Park, Jong-Ryul Yang

“…The results show that our approach improves the signal-to-noise ratio by 2 dB and increases the target detection rate by 8.6% within the critical 4–6 m range, with additional gains observed under constrained velocity conditions.…”
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Underwater acoustic classification across diverse sea environments using adaptive regularization and knowledge encoding by Muhammad Azeem Aslam, Muhammad Irfan, Xu Wei, Wang Jun, Hu Hongfei, Wang Shiyu, Xin Liu, Shahid Ali

“…Our method introduces an adaptive regularization technique for stable weight and learning rate updates. In addition, a robust knowledge encoding scheme is introduced to preserve and reuse learned features effectively. …”
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Near-field terahertz time-domain spectroscopy for in-line electrical metrology of semiconductor integration processes for memory by Sunhong Jun, Inkeun Baek, Suhwan Park, Eun Hyuk Choi, Jongmin Yoon, Iksun Jeon, Yoonkyung Jang, Martin Priwisch, Wontae Kim, Suncheul Kim, Taejoong Kim, Taeyong Jo, Myungjun Lee, Sungyoon Ryu, Namil Koo, Yusin Yang

“…We also non-destructively detected differences in THz transmission at the gate-oxide/Si-substrate interface due to the infiltration of nitrogen species after the thermal nitridation process at nitridation temperatures ranging from 670 to 730 °C, which were consistent with the results of secondary ion mass spectrometry. …”
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Distinct Neural Activities in Hippocampal Subregions Revealed Using a High-Performance Wireless Microsystem with PtNPs/PEDOT:PSS-Enhanced Microelectrode Arrays by Peiyao Jiao, Qianli Jia, Shuqi Li, Jin Shan, Wei Xu, Yu Wang, Yu Liu, Mingchuan Wang, Yilin Song, Yulian Zhang, Yanbing Yu, Mixia Wang, Xinxia Cai

“…This study presents a high-performance wireless microsystem capable of 32-channel, 30 kHz real-time recording, featuring Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based signal processing to reduce transmission load. …”
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Seasonal Trends and Sociodemographic Influences on Long-Distance Trips - A Full Year of GPS Tracking Data from Munich by Nico Nachtigall, Miriam Magdolen, Markus Lienkamp

“…Long-distance trips are further analyzed in terms of their occurrence rate and modal share throughout the year. Furthermore, the influence of various sociodemographic characteristics and car ownership on long-distance travel is explored. …”
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Heat transfer test method development: Consideration for design and safety of household oven mitts by Adriana Petrova, Semra Peksoz, Aditya Jayadas

“… The purpose of this study was to develop a test method – an apparatus and a protocol for evaluating the rate of heat transfer across a sample of layered materials commonly used in oven mitts. …”
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Rational strategies for improving the efficiency of design and discovery of nanomedicines by Xiaoting Shan, Ying Cai, Binyu Zhu, Lingli Zhou, Xujie Sun, Xiaoxuan Xu, Qi Yin, Dangge Wang, Yaping Li

“…This transition facilitates the enhancement of efficiency in the preclinical discovery pipeline of nanomaterials, particularly in improving the hit rate of nanomaterials and the optimization efficiency of promising candidates. …”
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Exploring the diverse factors influencing healthcare utilization during the COVID-19 crisis by Bhumi Chaturvedi, Preeti Raj, Pratima Singh, Hemant Bareth, Anupama Sharma, Mahaveer Singh, Deepak Nathiya, Deepak Nathiya, Deepak Nathiya, Balvir Singh Tomar, Balvir Singh Tomar, Balvir Singh Tomar

“…The study analyzed healthcare utilization patterns during the first, second, and third waves of COVID-19, focusing on patient hospitalization duration across the three waves.ResultsThe hospitalization rate increased during the second wave compared to the first wave and subsequently declined in the third wave. …”
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Analysing LULC transformations using remote sensing data: insights from a multilayer perceptron neural network approach by Khadim Hussain, Kaleem Mehmood, Sun Yujun, Tariq Badshah, Shoaib Ahmad Anees, Fahad Shahzad, Nooruddin, Jamshid Ali, Muhammad Bilal

“…The MLP-NN model demonstrated impressive performance, with a skill measure of 0.8724 and an accuracy rate of 89.08%. The accuracy of the LULC estimates for 2022 was verified by comparing them with observed data, ensuring the model’s reliability. …”
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