Exploration of the pattern, clinical presentation and outcome of children with renal diseases: A 14-year retrospective study at a teaching hospital in Ghana. by George Nkrumah Osei, Emmanuel Worae, Betty Effie Adoko Ghartey, Perditer Okyere, Felix Abekah Botchway, Sampson K Djonor, Richard K D Ephraim

“…This study assessed the pattern, spectrum, outcome, and predictors of dialysis and death among children with renal disease at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Ghana.…”
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Hospitalizations trends and co-infection patterns for respiratory virus infections in children in central China 2015 to 2023: a longitudinal surveillance study by Bowen Dai, Chong Chen, Yuanfang Shen, Shouhang Chen, Ruyu Zhang, Chenyu Wang, Jiaying Zheng, Qiujing Liang, Qingmei Wang, Yaodong Zhang, Yuefei Jin, Fang Wang, Zhi Li

“…A significantly higher detection rate was observed in males compared to females (57.22% vs. 42.78%; χ2 < 0.001). …”
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Study on Soil Freeze–Thaw and Surface Deformation Patterns in the Qilian Mountains Alpine Permafrost Region Using SBAS-InSAR Technique by Zelong Xue, Shangmin Zhao, Bin Zhang

“…The average vertical deformation rate is 1.56 mm/a, with seasonal amplitudes reaching 35 mm. …”
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Patterns and Predictors of <i>Candida auris</i> Candidemia with Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Co-Infections: Results from the CANDI-MDR Study by Karolina Akinosoglou, Katerina Skintzi, Ioannis Chandroulis, Eleni Polyzou, Argiro Siapika, Foteini Fligkou, Fotini Paliogianni, Charalambos Gogos, George Dimopoulos

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Identifying patterns of high intraoperative blood pressure variability in noncardiac surgery using explainable machine learning: a retrospective cohort study by Zheng Zhang, Jian Wu, Yi Duan, Linwei Liu, Yaru Liu, Jinghan Wang, Li Xiao, Zhifeng Gao

“…Intraoperative average heart rate (HR) and bispectral index (BIS) were the most influential variables. …”
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Standards of practice for peripheral nerve blocks at a tertiary care center in a low-middle income country– a prospective observational study by Heena Purshotamdas Bhupta, Priyanka Kini, Nisha Sara M. Jacob

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Bacterial Isolates and Antibacterial Resistance Patterns in a Patient with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital, Southwest Et... by Abdulhakim Mussema, Getenet Beyene, Mulatu Gashaw

“…This study aimed to determine the bacteriology and antibiotic resistance patterns among patients with acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) at Jimma Medical Center. …”
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Using Real World Evidence to Describe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Costs Associated with PDE-5 Inhibitor Monotherapy by George Ruiz, Jason Yeaw, Cassandra A. Lickert, Ajita P. De, Rolin L. Wade, Janis Pruett, William Drake

“… # Results PDE-5i monotherapy for PAH treatment was associated with high treatment modification rates, low adherence, increased healthcare resource utilization, and high costs. …”
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Analysing referral patterns from a primary dermatological clinic to other medical institutions for further care: A survey on patients with certain skin diseases in Japan by Daisuke Ueo, Takashi Sakai, Erika Ochiai, Jun Sese, Yutaka Hatano

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Surface Temperature Assisted State of Charge Estimation for Retired Power Batteries by Liangyu Xu, Wenxuan Han, Jiawei Dong, Ke Chen, Yuchen Li, Guangchao Geng

“…Specifically, our method achieves 64.3–68.1% lower RMSE than traditional electrical-parameter-only approaches (V-I inputs) across 0.5 C–2 C discharge rates. Results show that the proposed method reduces SOC estimation errors compared to traditional voltage-based models, achieving RMSE values below 1.04 across all tested rates. …”
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Spatial patterns and temporal trends of tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer attributed to particulate matter pollution in Asia and its 34 countries and territories, 1990–2021 by Minxia Yang, Feng Xuan, Liejiong Wang, Ying Lou, Shengjian Yu

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War’s youngest victims: a descriptive cross-sectional study on injury distributions, severity patterns, and outcomes among paediatric trauma patients in Kharkiv, Ukraine by Filippa Sennersten, Safora Frogh, Gustav Falk, Mariia Matvieienko, Olha Karafulidi, Olha Konstantynovska, Yohan Robinson, Andreas Wladis, Denise Bäckström

“…Conclusions This study offers new insights into paediatric trauma from modern warfare in a high-income setting, highlighting the occurrence of blast and shelling injuries, injury patterns overall similar to previous conflicts, and high disability rates at discharge. …”
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Global burden trends of tension-type headache, 1990–2021: socio-demographic patterns, age-period-cohort effects, and frontier analysis from the GBD 2021 study by Can Wang, Can Wang, Chao Liao, Yuyin Liu, Yuyin Liu, Peng Chen, Yuanlun Xie, Li Tian

“…We used absolute numbers and age-standardized rates from 1990 to 2021. Spearman correlation assessed the relationship between rates and the Socio-Demographic Index (SDI). …”
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Global trends of depressive disorders among women of reproductive age from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis of burden, sociodemographic disparities, and health workforce correla... by Fangyi Dai, Yuzhou Cai, Min Chen, Yong Dai

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EEG–fNIRS signal integration for motor imagery classification using deep learning and evidence theory by Mohammed E. Seno, Niladri Maiti, Maulik Patel, Mihirkumar M. Patel, Kalpesh B. Chaudhary, Ashish Pasaya, Babacar Toure

“…For EEG signals, spatiotemporal features are extracted using dual-scale temporal convolution and depthwise separable convolution, and a hybrid attention module is introduced to enhance the network's sensitivity to salient neural patterns. For fNIRS signals, spatial convolution across all channels is employed to explore activation differences among brain regions, and parallel temporal convolution combined with a gated recurrent unit (GRU) captures richer temporal dynamics of the hemodynamic response. …”
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Prevalence and patterns of pre-existing multimorbidity in pregnancy in Northern Ireland: a population-based, retrospective study using linked routinely collected healthcare data by Lisa Kent, Siang Ing Lee, Megha Singh, Steven Wambua, Katherine Phillips, Utkarsh Agrawal, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Colin McCowan, Jonathon Kennedy, Holly Hope, Ngawai Moss, Rachel Plachcinski, Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Mairead Black, Sinead Brophy, Aideen Maguire, Dermot O’Reilly, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Kelly-Ann Eastwood, The MuM-PreDiCT Group

“…The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and patterns of maternal multimorbidity in a UK population. …”
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Real-World Clinical Characteristics, Treatment Patterns, and Clinical Outcomes in US Patients with Stage I–III Resected NSCLC Without Known EGFR Mutations: The RESECT Study by Jhanelle E. Gray, Rachel J. Salomonsen, Ignacio Diaz Perez, Alice Wang, Ling Cai, Graham Wetherill, Yang Xiao, Claire Fielden, Nefeli Georgoulia

“…Five-year overall survival rates were 73.4%, 61.9%, and 50.5% in stage I, II, and III patients; 5-year real-world relapse-free survival rates were 35.4%, 23.1%, and 14.0%. …”
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Sublinear association between cortical thickness at the onset of the adult lifespan and age-related annual atrophy parallels spatial patterns of laminar organization in the adult c... by Bruno Hebling Vieira, Carlos Ernesto Garrido Salmon

“…Our results show that, whilst there is no obvious shared pattern between the initial surface area of cortical regions at eighteen years and their yearly rate of decay, for cortical thickness there is enough evidence to suggest thicker regions at eighteen years of age also present higher yearly rates of thinning, although yearly percentages are proportionately smaller. …”
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FPGA Implementation for 24.576-Gbit/s Optical PAM4 Signal Transmission with MLP-Based Digital Pre-Distortion by Sheng Hu, Tianqi Zheng, Chengzhen Bian, Xiongwei Yang, Xinda Sun, Zonghui Zhu, Yumeng Gou, Yuanxiao Meng, Jie Zhang, Jingtao Ge, Yichen Li, Kaihui Wang

“…However, storage limitations typically restrict the LUT pattern length to 9, limiting its effectiveness in compensating for nonlinear effects. …”
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Isolation, Identification of Bacterial Species Causing Chronic suppurative Otitis Media and Detection Some of Their Virulence Factors by Yumna Shaker Mahmood, Suha Maher Abed, Amar Mohammed Alwan

“…Cloacae), S. aureus had scored the highest rate (41%) of the total infections while the lowest rate was scored by E.Cloacae(1%). …”
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