A comparative study on tobacco prevalence and secondhand smoke exposure before and after the lockdown in Rizhao, China: analysis of 2022 and 2024 data by Zhao-Hui Liang, Gui-Zhi Han, Miao-Miao Liu

“…The results showed that the current smoking rate declined significantly from 32.53 to 25.84% (χ2 = 10.08, p = 0.002), with daily smoking rate also slightly decreased from 20.44 to 19.33% (χ2 = 0.36, p = 0.551). …”
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Thermal comfort and energy related occupancy behavior in Dutch residential dwellings by Anastasios Ioannou

“…Specifically in houses with a good energy rating, the neutral temperature was higher than in houses with a poor rating. …”
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Salter-Harris Type III and Type IV Combined Fracture of the Distal Femoral Epiphysis: A Case Report by Ali Aydin, Murat Topal, Kutsi Tuncer, Eyüp Şenocak

“…Distal femoral physeal fractures are not common but have a high rate of complications. They generally follow one of the patterns described in the Salter-Harris classification. …”
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Serrated Lesions of the Colon-Rectum: A Focus on New Diagnostic Tools and Current Management by Gianluca Cassese, Alfonso Amendola, Francesco Maione, Mariano Cesare Giglio, Gianluca Pagano, Marco Milone, Giovanni Aprea, Gaetano Luglio, Giovanni Domenico De Palma

“…The high risk of incomplete resection, together with the high rate of postcolonoscopy interval cancers, suggests the need of an extra care when facing this kind of lesions. …”
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Daily night-time lights reveal prolonging global electric power system recovery times following tropical cyclone damage by Yu Mo, Fred Thomas, Jianan Rui, Jim W Hall

“…These findings highlight the pressing need to strengthen the resilience of electric power systems to storms, particularly as global reliance on electricity grows and storm activity patterns shift in response to climate change.…”
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Preferences for life-sustaining treatments in advance decisions: a cross-sectional survey of Taiwanese general public by Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Yu-Chen Juang, Chun-Tung Kuo, Ping-Hsueh Lee, Duan-Rung Chen

“…However, given the low completion rate and prevalent preference patterns, policymakers should increase efforts to ensure that those in need have access to appropriate resources and consider implementing a tiered signing process.…”
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Subgroup analysis of treatment pathways and clinical outcomes in Hodgkin lymphoma in Latin America from the retrospective B-HOLISTIC study by Alvaro Hernandez-Caballero, Ruben Salazar, Marta Zerga, Silvia Rivas-Vera, Zhongwen Huang, Amado Karduss

“…The B-HOLISTIC study (2010–2013) retrospectively assessed treatment patterns and outcomes in patients with stage IIB–IV classical HL receiving frontline chemotherapy (frontline cHL) or relapsed/refractory HL (RRHL) in regions outside Europe and North America. …”
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Photovoltaic Panel Efficiency Estimation with Artificial Neural Networks: Samples of Adiyaman, Malatya, and Sanliurfa by Yasin Icel, Mehmet Salih Mamis, Abdulcelil Bugutekin, Mehmet Ismail Gursoy

“…The amount of electric energy produced by photovoltaic panels depends on air temperature, humidity rate, wind velocity, photovoltaic module temperature, and particularly solar radiation. …”
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XRGuard: A Model-Agnostic Approach to Ransomware Detection Using Dynamic Analysis and Explainable AI by M. Adnan Alvi, Zunera Jalil

“…Experimental results demonstrate that XRGuard achieves a 99.69% accuracy rate with an exceptionally low false positive rate of 0.5%. …”
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Structure and functional characteristics of zooplankton and food supply for nekton in the western Bering Sea by E. P. Dulepova, V. V. Napazakov, N. A. Kuznetsova, M. A. Shebanova

“…This level of consumption did not affect their food supply because of very high turnover rate of these taxonomic groups of plankton. In the deep-water areas, salmons did not use more than 3 % of their food resource. …”
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Acoustic emission during tensile deformation of copper single crystals and dislocation annihilation processes by A. PAWEŁEK, W. STRYJEWSKI, H. DYBIEC, W. BOCHNIAK

“…The behaviour of acoustic emission (AE) during the two first stages of the tensile deformation of copper single crystals is investigated using the broad-band piezoelectric transducer for the measurement of AE energy rate ΔE/Δt, AE event rate ΔN/Δt (event density) and energy per one AE event ΔE/ΔN. …”
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THE ACCUMULATION OF HEAVY METALS IN SEDIMENTS OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE NORTH CASPIAN by E. V. Chujko, O. V. Popova

“…For groups of metals identified common patterns. Zinc and copper varied in a narrow range. …”
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Carcass and Meat Quality Characteristics and Changes of Lean and Fat Pigs After the Growth Turning Point by Tianci Liao, Mailin Gan, Yan Zhu, Yuhang Lei, Yiting Yang, Qianli Zheng, Lili Niu, Ye Zhao, Lei Chen, Yuanyuan Wu, Lixin Zhou, Jia Xue, Xiaofeng Zhou, Yan Wang, Linyuan Shen, Li Zhu

“…In addition, based on the growth curves, we calculated the peak age at which the growth rate declined in lean-type and fat-type pigs, which was approximately 200 days for YPs and around 270 days for QYPs. …”
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An FPGA-Based Training System for a 1T1R Memristor Array With 500 nS Conductance Resolution Limit by Liujie Li, Chuantong Cheng, Beiju Huang, Ke Ding, Yuxin Li, Ganggang Guo

“…In this research, we propose a training system based on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) to precisely modulate the conductance states of the 1T1R memristor arrays. …”
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The role of vascularity and the fibrovascular interface in interstitial lung diseases by Jana Dietrich, Alice Kang, Birger Tielemans, Stijn E. Verleden, Hassan Khalil, Florian Länger, Philipp Bruners, Steven J. Mentzer, Tobias Welte, Michael Dreher, Danny D. Jonigk, Maximilian Ackermann

“…The pulmonary vasculature plays a central role in physiological lung function, and vascular remodelling is considered a hallmark of the initiation and progression of pulmonary fibrosis. Different patterns of pulmonary fibrosis commonly exhibit detectable pathological features such as morphomolecular changes, including intussusceptive and sprouting angiogenesis, vascular morphometry, broncho-systemic anastomoses, and aberrant angiogenesis-related gene expression patterns. …”
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Identification and expression analysis of cinnamyl CoA reductase gene family and function of StCCR6 in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) by Chong Du, Yunzhu Che, Zengli Zhang, Fumeng He, Xinqi Zhang, Yujie Han, Zelin Yang, Jiaqi Wang, Tianshuai Qi, Ying Lan, Yingnan Wang, Fenglan Li

“…Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase (CCR), a key rate-limiting enzyme in plant lignin biosynthesis, critically regulates plant growth, development, and abiotic stress responses. …”
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A two-stage model for enhanced mango leaf disease detection using an innovative handcrafted spatial feature extraction method and knowledge distillation process by Mohammad Manzurul Islam, Mst. Nasrat Jahan Niva, Abdullahi Chowdhury, Saleh Masum, Rifat Ara Shams, Taskeed Jabid, Md. Sawkat Ali, Md. Mostofa Kamal Rasel, Muhammad Firoz Mridha

“…In the first stage, we implement an innovative, block-based feature extraction technique using Local Directional Patterns (LDP) and Local Directional Pattern variance (LDPv) on a comprehensive dataset, MangoLeafBD, consisting of 4000 images, achieving satisfactory results in terms of detection accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and false negative rate. …”
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Exploration of fever characteristics in parturients under continuous temperature monitoring during labor analgesia and analysis of the impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes: an... by Xia Li, Xia Li, Junli Ma

“…Additionally, the fever group had a higher rate of meconium-stained amniotic fluid (grade III), used more analgesics, and had a higher rate of antibiotic use. …”
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Methodological development study: Dynamic mask attention graph neural network for mechanical ventilation in elderly intensive care unit patients by Yi Xie, Ni Xie, Jiao Guo

“…These interaction patterns matched much clinical knowledge, significantly improving doctors’ trust in the model prediction. …”
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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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