Molecular Evidence of High Proportion of Plasmodium vivax Malaria Infection in White Nile Area in Sudan by Makarim M. Adam Suliman, Bushra M. Hamad, Musab M. Ali Albasheer, Maytha Elhadi, Mutaz Amin Mustafa, Maha Elobied, Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid

“…We found that on average 20% and 36.5% of malaria infections in both study areas were caused by P. vivax using both microscopy and PCR, respectively. This change in pattern is likely due to the recent demographic changes and high rate of immigration from neighbouring countries in the recent years. …”
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Warming leads to both earlier and later snowmelt floods over the past 70 years by Yuhan Guo, Yuting Yang, Dawen Yang, Lu Zhang, Hongxing Zheng, Jinghua Xiong, Fangzheng Ruan, Juntai Han, Ziwei Liu

“…Using streamflow observations from 1950–2020 and an event-based analysis that distinguishes flood-generating mechanisms across 2339 Northern Hemisphere, snow-affected catchments, we show that the earlier snowmelt effect can be substantially offset or even reversed by a decelerated snowmelt rate under warming. This results in delayed snowmelt floods in approximately 30% of the catchments, contributing to an overall minor shift on a hemispheric scale (−0.87 ± 2.4 days per decade). …”
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Fungal Sepsis in a Tertiary Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Cross-sectional Study by Kheya Ghosh Uttam, Purbasha Gupta, Sumon Poddar

“…The general mortality rate was 32.9% (<italic>n</italic> = 26). The babies in group I had a higher mortality rate (37.7%) compared with the babies in group II (23%). …”
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Potential profile analysis of financial toxicity and its related factors among lung cancer patients by Xu Zhang, Liwei Zhang, Ziyi Geng, Meimei Shang, Aijun Wang, Xing Zheng, Chao Li, Tingting Zhang, Hailing Yang, Yuanyuan Chen

“…General data questionnaires, FT scale for reported outcomes of cancer patients, Chinese version of the Quality of Life Scale for lung cancer patients, Social Support Rating Scale and simplified version of the Mental Resilience Scale were used. …”
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Taking a look at your speech: identifying diagnostic status and negative symptoms of psychosis using convolutional neural networks by Gleb Melshin, Anthony DiMaggio, Nadia Zeramdini, Michael MacKinley, Lena Palaniyappan, Alban Voppel

“…Modified ResNet-18 convolutional neural networks (CNNs) performed three classification tasks; (1) schizophrenia-spectrum vs healthy controls, within 179 clinically-rated patients, (2) individuals with more severe vs less severe negative symptom burden, and (3) clinically obvious vs subtle blunted affect. …”
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Behavioural insights in the underuse of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in heart failure: a pilot survey on incentive perceptions among referring cardiologists by Joan Costa-i-Font, Georgiana Miler-Raicu, Elena Arbelo, Ruben Casado-Arroyo, Aya Sami, Eric Wei Seong Tee, Joseph Hazel, Laurent Roten, Tobias Reichlin, Haran Burri, Khaled Albouaini, Nikola Kozhuharov

“…A survey was conducted with 51 physicians from six European countries, including electrophysiologists, heart failure specialists, and general cardiologists, recruited through cardiology networks and personal contacts. Participants rated their perceptions of five incentive strategies using a Likert scale (1–5). …”
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Influence of exercise interventions on functional movement screen scores in athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ali Asghar Maleki, Seyed Hamed Mousavi, Mohamad Ali Biabangard, Hooman Minoonejad

“…Abstract The functional movement screen (FMS) is a widely recognized tool for evaluating movement patterns and identifying potential injury risks in athletes. …”
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Laboratory Analysis of Soil Physicochemical Properties Based on Agricultural Fertilizer Input Requirement Application: A Case of Haramaya University, Ethiopia by Turyasingura, Benson, Chavula, Petros, Mohammed, Yasin, Eliyas, Abdi Alic, Girmac , Tesfasilassie, Sadeso, Kumale, Shentema, Solomon, Abebed, Aschalew, Katel, Shambhu, Timsina, Sandipa

“…Exchangeable calcium ranged 4.99 cmol (+)/kg to 18.34 cmol (+)/kg with a mean of 12.02 cmol (+)/kg which is rated as high. The potassium value of (0.05, 0.82 meq/100gm), 0.06 meq/100gm and (0.13, 0.46 meq/100gm) of soil respectively. …”
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Investigation on Potential-Induced Degradation in a 50 MWp Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Power Plant by Jingsheng Huang, Hongtao Li, Yaojie Sun, He Wang, Hong Yang

“…The results obtained in this paper show that the maximum power degradation rate of solar modules was as high as 53.26% after only one year of operation because of PID in the field. …”
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Understanding the changes in multi-structure, physicochemical properties, and in vitro digestibility of quinoa starch by annealing with hydrogen-infused and plasma-activated water... by Hang Liu, Ge Tian, Shanshan Gao, Shuang Liu

“…The total hydrolysis rate and rapidly digestive starch content decreased in QS after ANN treatment, and resistant starch level markedly increased. …”
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Investigating thermal effects on void formation in electromigration using thermoreflectance imaging by Kengo ARAKI, Kanji TAMAI, Reiko KURIYAMA, Kazuya TATSUMI

“…Furthermore, the void growth rate and the line temperature near the voids followed an exponential relation in the void growth period. …”
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Predictive Growth Modeling of Listeria monocytogenes in Rice Balls and Its Risk Assessment by Seoungsoon Yeo, Misook Kim

“…The effects of temperature on bacterial growth rate and lag time were evaluated using the square root model. …”
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Mouthwash Use in General Population: Results from Adult Dental Health Survey in Grampian, Scotland by Kirstin Rhodes, Rochelle Morgan, Iain Bovaird, Claudia Cunningham, Michal M. Kawecki, Tatiana V. Macfarlane, Ray Watkins

“…Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the pattern of mouthwash use and to investigate the associated factors in general population.Material and Methods: An Adult Dental Health Survey was conducted on 3,022 residents of Grampian region of Scotland (adjusted participation rate 58.2%). …”
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Experience with Early Enteral Feeding in a Patient with Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by V. V. Lomivorotov, S. M Yefremov, A. V. Bogachev, I. A. Kornilov

“…In addition, an inverse correlation was found between the serum concentration of lactate and the daily volume of diuresis. The rate of hourly diuresis had a direct correlation with respiratory index and an inverse correlation with oxygenation index. …”
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The 2015 guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of rheumatic diseases by the All-Russian Public Organization «Association of Rheumatology of Russia» by E. N. Aleksandrova, A. A. Novikov, E. L. Nasonov

“…The important laboratory markers of RDs are acutephase indicators (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, etc.) that can assess the inflammatory activity of the disease, its progression pattern, and prognosis during the chronic inflammatory process, as well as therapeutic efficiency. …”
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An analysis of spatial distribution characteristics and driving factors of traditional villages in the Loess Plateau. by Xiaobin Bao, Yingna Yang, Jianqing Qi, Yanbing He

“…Among them, the density of cultural heritage sites (q = 0.546) is the primary driving factor, followed by annual precipitation (q = 0.458), population size (q = 0.457), and urbanization rate (q = 0.354). The interaction between factors is significant and mostly shows non-linear enhancement, for instance, the interactive explanatory power of population size and the density of cultural heritage sites is as high as 0.852.…”
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Automatic Detection of Concrete Spalling Using Piecewise Linear Stochastic Gradient Descent Logistic Regression and Image Texture Analysis by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Quoc-Lam Nguyen, Xuan-Linh Tran

“…This improvement can enhance the capability of logistic regression in dealing with spall detection as a complex pattern classification problem. Experiments with 1240 collected image samples show that PL-SGDLR can help to deliver a good detection accuracy (classification accuracy rate = 90.24%). …”
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Response surface optimization reveals monthly total flavonoid peaks in Ginkgo biloba leaves with corresponding DPPH scavenging activity by Xiaoyu Shen, Yangjie Lu, Qi Zhu, Yangbo Zhang, Li Zeng

“…Following RS optimization, the optimal extraction conditions for GB flavonoids were identified as follows: extraction rate of 1.175% at 61 °C for 30 min using 77% ethanol. …”
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Wernicke encephalopathy in combination with acute polyneuropathy under the guise of a demyelinating disease in a teenager with an eating disorder by E. O. Ovchinnikova, A. S. Kotov, M. V. Panteleeva, E. V. Mukhina

“…The condition is associated with a high mortality and morbidity rate. Wernicke encephalopathy is most commonly seen in adolescent children presenting with a vitamin B1 deficiency. …”
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Possibilities for the early detection of hypertensive disease in pregnant women by Ye. B. Savinova, L. A. Sokolova, S. V. Serdyukov, Ye. L. Nezhentseva

“…There was a considerable spread of risk factors for AH in this patient group. 26 % of them were found to have lesions of target organs (heart and/or arterial vessels); the rate of microalbuminuria registration was 41 %.Conclusion. …”
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