Global, regional, and national burden of endocarditis, 1990−2021: a systematic analysis of the GBD 2021 study by Ji Feng, Peng Liu, Hailong Li, Hong Chen, Qiwei Shen, Hualong Liu, Jinzhu Hu

“…Conversely, age-standardized rates declined (EAPCs: -0.58 for prevalence, -0.09 for incidence, -0.33 for DALYs, -0.29 for Deaths). …”
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Dynamic interactions of COVID-19 incidences, mobility, and social distancing policies in seoul: A VAR model approach by Zeyu Hu, Won Chang, Youngook Jang, Youngji Jo, Jaehun Jung

“…Social distancing policies had minimal direct effects on incidence rates but indirectly reduced them by decreasing mobility. …”
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Mapping the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Cropland-Related Soil Erosion in China over the Past Four Decades by Yitian Xie, Tianyuan Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Xudong Wu

“…In addition, grains showed the highest erosion rates, whereas fiber crops were revealed with the lowest erosion rates. …”
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“You feel like you come up short over and over again”: a qualitative study of provider perspectives of barriers to respectful maternity care in Boston by Katherine Fachon, Sahana Narayan, Samantha Truong, Christina Duzyj, Katherine Vergara Kruczynski, Amber Trujillo Lalla, Autumn Cohen, Patricia Barbosa, Amanda Flynn, Annekathryn Goodman

“…Disrespect in childbirth leads to increased rates of postpartum depression and lower healthcare utilization. …”
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Characterisation of the wildlife reservoir community for human and animal trypanosomiasis in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia. by Neil E Anderson, Joseph Mubanga, Eric M Fevre, Kim Picozzi, Mark C Eisler, Robert Thomas, Susan C Welburn

“…Variation in infection rates was demonstrated at species level rather than at family or sub-family level. …”
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Impact of plant-based diets and associations with health, lifestyle and healthcare utilisation: a population-based survey study by Natalia Echiburu, Maria Antonieta Also-Fontanet, Antoni Sisó-Almirall, Luis González-de Paz

“…Design: We estimated vegetarian and vegan individuals’ national and regional prevalence and analysed their socio-demographic characteristics and weekly dietary intake patterns. Individuals with a plant-based dietary pattern were matched to a control group (1:4) with similar socio-demographic characteristics. …”
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Radiologic Predictors of Disease Recurrence in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Retrospective Evaluation of MRI and ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT Parameters by Banu Karaalioğlu, Tansel Çakır, Ömer Yazıcı, Mustafa S. Tekin, Ebru Karcı

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> NPC is a radiosensitive malignancy with high recurrence rates despite therapeutic advances. This study aimed to identify radiologic and metabolic predictors of recurrence in newly diagnosed NPC by integrating MRI and ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT parameters. …”
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Analyzing longitudinal trait trajectories using GWAS identifies genetic variants for kidney function decline by Simon Wiegrebe, Mathias Gorski, Janina M. Herold, Klaus J. Stark, Barbara Thorand, Christian Gieger, Carsten A. Böger, Johannes Schödel, Florian Hartig, Han Chen, Thomas W. Winkler, Helmut Küchenhoff, Iris M. Heid

“…We use longitudinal UK Biobank data for creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate from 348,275 individuals to search for genetic variants associated with eGFR-decline. …”
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A Real-World Case Study Towards Net Zero: EV Charger and Heat Pump Integration in End-User Residential Distribution Networks by Thet Paing Tun, Oguzhan Ceylan, Ioana Pisica

“…Based on the outcome of power flow calculation, the transformer loadings and voltage levels were assessed for existing and projected heat pump and EV adoption rates, in line with national policy targets. Findings highlight that varied consumer density and diverse usage patterns significantly influence upgrade requirements.…”
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IL‐38 attenuates myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury by inhibiting macrophage inflammation by Yuzhen Wei, Junhui Xing, Xin Su, Xiangrao Li, Xiaofei Yan, Jiangtao Zhao, Hailong Tao

“…Cardiomyocytes cocultured with the supernatant of IL‐38‐ and troponin I‐treated macrophages showed a lower rate of apoptosis than controls. Conclusions IL‐38 attenuates MIRI by inhibiting macrophage inflammation. …”
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Association of Gait Characteristics and Depression in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Assessed in Goal-Directed Locomotion Task by Péter Kincses, Norbert Kovács, Kázmér Karádi, Ádám Feldmann, Krisztina Dorn, Zsuzsanna Aschermann, Sámuel Komoly, Tibor Szolcsányi, Árpád Csathó, János Kállai

“…In patients with PD and depression, the visually deprived multitask augments the rate of cadence and diminishes stride length, while velocity remains relatively unchanged. …”
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Chronic Hepatitis C Therapy in Liver Cirrhosis Complicated by Telaprevir-Induced DRESS by Omar Y. S. Mousa, Rossa Khalaf, Rhonda L. Shannon, Chukwuma I. Egwim, Scott A. Zela, Victor Ankoma-Sey

“…Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a rare yet severe adverse drug-induced reaction with up to 10% mortality rate. Recent clinical trials reported an association between DRESS and telaprevir (TVR), an NS3/4A protease inhibitor of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) virus genotype 1. …”
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Applications of multispectral autofluorescence imaging of malignant tumors by G. V. Papayan, N. N. Petrishchev, S. V. Kim, Hyung Ho Kim, V. B. Berezin, Uk Kang

“…Among observed effects the new one is an unusually active angiogenesis at early stage of tumor formation accompanied by atypical tortuous vessels with growth rate up to 3 mm/day. Two-wave excitation simultaneous laser with excitation on wavelength of 390 nm and 635 nm is shown to be promising for autofluorescence diagnosis along with single-wave excitation which is conventionally performed in the violet-blue region of the spectrum. …”
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Supraglacial Ice Cliffs Can Substantially Increase the Mass Loss of Debris‐Covered Glaciers by Pascal Buri, Evan S. Miles, Jakob F. Steiner, Silvan Ragettli, Francesca Pellicciotti

“…Abstract The thinning patterns of debris‐covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia are not well understood. …”
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Optimizing fertilizer application and straw return to fields to minimize nitrogen and phosphorus runoff losses in double-rice cropping systems by Ying Zhang, Jian Zhu, Changjun Li, Hua Peng, Ji Liu, Yue Luo, Min Song, Yanjiao Dai, Kai Deng, Xionghui Ji

“…Unknown of long-term patterns of losses and mechanisms driving runoff N and P in double-rice cropping systems limited the development of effective mitigation strategies. …”
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Nonlinearity Mitigation Based on Modulus Pruned Look-Up Table for Multi-Bit Delta-Sigma 32-CAP Modulation in Underwater Visible Light Communication System by Wenqing Niu, Hui Chen, Junwen Zhang, Yinaer Ha, Peng Zou, Nan Chi

“…At the data rate of about 1.69Gbp&#x002F;s, utilizing MP-WLUT pre-distorted DSM-CAP an improvement of 1.44 dB Q-factor is realized compared with normal CAP without WLUT, and the size of MP-WLUT can be reduced to 62.5&#x0025; of the full-size WLUT.…”
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Spatial attention-guided pre-trained networks for accurate identification of crop diseases by Satrughan Kumar, S. S. Aravinth, Sreedhar Kollem, Munish Kumar, Quadri Noorulhasan Naveed, Azath Mubarakali, Abhishek Bhattacherjee, Addisu Frinjo Emma

“…The proposed approach achieved an accuracy of 99.89% and a recall rate of 99.87%, demonstrating its suitability for crop classification with minimal computational overhead. …”
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Investigation of the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome in Hamedan province in 2021 by Fatemeh Asadi, Zahra Mahdavi Fakher, Motahareh Masoomi, Salman Khazaie

“…Menstrual irregularity, infertility rate, mean serum testosterone level, the prevalence of hyperlipidemia, mean LDL, and total serum cholesterol were significantly higher in the PCOS group (P<0.05). …”
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Experimental investigation and modeling of heat and moisture transfer beneath asphalt pavements under rainfall conditions by Weihang Hua, Long Jin, Miaomiao Bai, Huimei Zhang

“…Sensitivity analysis identified the surface wetting rate coefficient (β) and evaporation attenuation coefficient (γ) as dominant factors (F > 6.0). …”
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Compound Action Potential of Isolated Spinal Cord: A Biophysical Analysis to Address Activity of Individual Fibers Following Contusion Injury by I. Rad, K. Khodayari, S. Kouhzaei, H. Mobasheri

“…Compound action potential (CAP) of spinal cord represents valuable properties of neural fibers including excitability, rate of myelination and membrane integrity. These properties are measured using amplitude, latency and area under curve of CAPs recorded from spinal cord. …”
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