Senior high school students’ competence in logical operation and logical reasoning by Kodirun, Kadir, Busnawir, Wa Ode Indrawati

“…Students performed best on geometric problems (70.05%), followed by algebra, statistics, and calculus problems, with the lowest success rate in calculus-related logical problems (28.04%). …”
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Parameter optimization and mechanism analysis of pepper spring-tooth drum picking device based on DEM by Jiaxuan Yang, Jin Lei, Xinyan Qin, Shiguo Wang, Yang Liu, Chengfu Wang

“…The optimization results showed that the loss rate (η1) and picking rate (η2) achieved optimal values of 5.66 % and 85.90 %, respectively, at a rotation speed of 170 r/min, a forward speed of 0.61 m/s and a spring-tooth angle of 17° Bench tests revealed a loss rate of 6.07 % and a picking rate of 90.23 %, with relative errors of 7.24 % and 5.04 % respectively compared to the simulation outcomes. …”
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The Response to Hydrological Regime Change of Nitrogen Transformation Processes at the Sediment‐Water Interface of Seasonal Floodplain Lakes: Insights From the Yangtze River‐Poyang... by Zhongtian Zhang, Guangqiu Jin, Hongwu Tang, Haiyu Yuan, Hexiang Chen, Qi Zhang

“…Furthermore, the nitrification rate at the sediment‐water interface escalates by 28.5%, and the denitrification rate increases by 21.3% owing to pronounced alterations in the hydrological regime. …”
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FDEM Modelling of Rock Fracture Process during Three-Point Bending Test under Quasistatic and Dynamic Loading Conditions by Huaming An, Yushan Song, Hongyuan Liu

“…After that, the effects of the loading rate on the rock strength and rock fracture toughness are discussed, and the mesh size and mesh orientation on the fracture patterns are also discussed. …”
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Hybrid deep learning for IoT-based health monitoring with physiological event extraction by Sivanagaraju Vallabhuni, Kumar Debasis

“…It further enhanced the True Positive Rate (TPR) by 25% through using an online learning algorithm with Incremental Gradient Descent with Momentums. …”
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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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Personal identification based on acoustic characteristics of outer ear using cepstral analysis, Bayesian classifier, and artificial neural networks by Alexey Sulavko, Alexander Samotuga, Irina Kuprik

“…The Bayesian classifier has been found to show a lower percentage of identification errors with an equal error rate (EER) = 0.0053. The best result for neural networks was EER = 0.0266. …”
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Differences in the inflammatory response and outcome among hospitalized patients during different waves of the COVID-19 pandemic by Violeta Briciu, Violeta Briciu, Daniel-Corneliu Leucuta, Monica Muntean, Monica Muntean, Amanda Radulescu, Amanda Radulescu, Cristina Cismaru, Cristina Cismaru, Adriana Topan, Adriana Topan, Lucia Herbel, Melinda Horvat, Melinda Horvat, Mirela Flonta, Mihai Calin, Roxana Dobrota, Mihaela Lupse, Mihaela Lupse

“…Systemic inflammatory indexes like neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), derived neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (dNLR), lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), neutrophil-to-platelet ratio (NPR), Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII), and systemic inflammation response index (SIRI) were calculated.ResultsThe Delta wave, characterized by the longest hospitalizations and the highest rates of severe cases and mortality, showed significant elevations in inflammatory biomarkers. …”
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Assessment of Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm) Based on Different Definitions in the Early COPD Cohort by Dai C, Tang G, Yang H, Wu F, Deng Z, Zheng Y, Zhao N, Lu L, Wan Q, Wang Z, Peng J, Wu X, Zhou K, Cai G, Xiao S, Wen X, Yang C, Chen S, Yu S, Sun R, Zhou Y, Ran P

“…Furthermore, the prevalence of PRISm varied from 2.0% to 12.5% depending on the definitions and predicted equations, with the Chinese equation, LLN definition in Chinese equation and fixed definition in GLI equation yielding higher prevalence rates.Conclusion: Our findings highlight concerns about the comparability of studies and the interchangeability of various definitions and reference equations for PRISm.Keywords: PRISm, definitions, clinical features, prevalence, reference equations…”
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Tratamento de sequelas de queimadura de face com laser de CO2 fracionado em pacientes com fototipos III a VI Treatment of facial burn sequelae using fractional CO2 lasers in patien... by Alessandra Grassi Salles, Adelina Fátima do Nascimento Remigio, Valéria Berton Liguori Zacchi, Marcus Castro Ferreira

“…CONCLUSIONS: The treatment with CO2F laser with mild parameters was well tolerated and resulted in high satisfaction rates for patients with facial burn sequelae as well as improved skin texture, distensibility, and surface irregularities. …”
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Investigation of Population Changes and Determination of the Bean Pod Borer Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) Peak in Bean Phaseolus vulgaris Linnaeus Fields by Pheromon... by Sedighe Ashtari

“…The investigation of the distribution and damage level of bean pod borer in important bean-growing areas of Markazi province over two years in five bean-growing regions (Arak, Khomain, Shazand, Milajerd, and Khondab) showed that Khomain and Khondab had the highest and lowest infestation rates, respectively. Red pods showed more sensitivity to this pest compared to green and white pods. …”
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Brainstem catecholaminergic neurons induce torpor during fasting by orchestrating cardiovascular and thermoregulation changes by Mingxiu Cheng, Meiqi Wang, Liang Wang, Fangfang Yin, Jiayi Shen, Xin Xing, Yuyan Shi, Zhiwei Liu, Ping Wu, Wenling Gao, Yanyan Fan, Peng Cao, Cheng Zhan

“…Importantly, the heart rate decline precedes body temperature reduction, resembling patterns observed in natural torpid animals. …”
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Justifying the use of structure-forming agents to increase storability of confectionery products with the foamy structure by N. B. Kondratev, O. S. Rudenko, E. V. Kazantsev, I. A. Belova, N. A. Petrova

“…Thus, the addition of gelatin makes it possible to reduce the rate of moisture transfer by approximately 2–3 times. …”
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Modelling the Rainfall Erosivity of the Rhone Region (Southeastern France) Associated with Climate Variability and Storminess by Nazzareno Diodato, Gianni Bellocchi, Nunzio Romano, Francesco M. Guadagno

“…Changes in the spatial and temporal patterns of extreme rainfall may have important effects on the magnitude and timing of rainfall erosivity, which in turn lead to even severe soil degradation phenomena. …”
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The distortion of fertility due to migration: A comparative analysis of migrants in the Netherlands and stayers in Poland by Nasim Ahamed Mondal, Agnieszka Fihel, Weronika Kloc-Nowak

“…The literature on migrants’ childbearing patterns offers several explanations for this phenomenon. …”
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CTSS and CD53: Emerging m6A methylation markers in diabetic kidney disease pathogenesis and their clinical implications by Meng Leilei, Huang Bin, Li Rui, Wenjie Wen

“…CTSS and CD53 were identified as potential biomarkers and validated in diabetic mouse models, showing negative correlations with glomerular filtration rate. Conclusions This study reveals two m6A methylation patterns in DKD, with one associated with increased immune infiltration. …”
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Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity and Random Inputs Shape Interspike Interval Regularity of Model STN Neurons by Thoa Thieu, Roderick Melnik

“…Furthermore, at fixed input noise levels, the model’s output closely matches experimental firing rate and ISI variability data from PD patients and animals, with statistical tests confirming significant effects of STDP on firing regularity. …”
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A Frequency-Aware Transformer for Multiscale Fault Diagnosis in Electrical Machines by Yurim Choi, Inwhee Joe

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves 99.9% diagnostic accuracy by maintaining an exceptionally low false alarm rate and missed detection rate, thereby ensuring high reliability. …”
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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

“…Results The experiments showed that DymaGNN achieved an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.8363 and 0.8557 on the intubation prediction task on MIMIC-IV and eICU datasets, respectively, and maintained an AUC of 0.8115 under a 15% data missing rate. Visualization of the feature interaction graph revealed the relationship between important features such as respiratory rate and oxygen saturation. …”
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