Outcome of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt in Budd-Chiari Syndrome: Long-Term Outcomes of 118 Patients; A Single-center Experience by Mohamed Shaker, Mohammad Sakr, Hany Dabbous, Sara M. Abdelhakam, Ahmed Samir, Hend Ebada, Amir M. Farid, Mohamed El-Gharib, Ahmed Eldorry

“…Long-term outcome (1–5 years) was determined and included stent patency rate, time, and pattern of management of stent occlusion and survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years. …”
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Strong ground motion prediction model for EPA in Loess Plateau of Northwestern China by Shuheng Xi, Xiaobo Li, Wei Wan, Xin Wang, Huaiqiang Wang, Boran Hu

“…The magnitudes and directions influence the rates of change of the fitting curves. (3) A positive correlation between the EPA values and earthquake magnitudes. …”
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Global burden and trends of self-harm from 1990 to 2021, with predictions to 2050 by Li Xie, Liangchen Tang, Yixin Liu, Zhenchao Dong, Xiaojun Zhang

“…Globally, the burden of self-harm was higher for males than for females. DALYs rates were highest among adolescents and young adults (20-29 years), whereas mortality rates showed a predominantly age-progressive pattern with the highest burden observed in middle-aged and older populations, albeit with a modest decline in the oldest age groups. …”
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Gene expression in uterine leiomyoma from tumors likely to be growing (from black women over 35) and tumors likely to be non-growing (from white women over 35). by Barbara J Davis, John I Risinger, Gadisetti V R Chandramouli, Pierre R Bushel, Donna Day Baird, Shyamal D Peddada

“…Growth rates for leiomyoma were on average much higher from older black women than for older white women, and we now report gene expression pattern differences in tumors from these two groups of study participants. …”
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Economic Clues to Crime: Insights from Mongolia by Dagvasuren Ganbold, Enkhbayar Jamsranjav, Young-Rae Kim, Erdenechuluun Jargalsaikhan

“…The empirical findings reveal that detection rates exert a statistically significant deterrent effect on robbery in the short term, while incarceration rates are effective in reducing theft. …”
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Cross-correlation-based signal pruning method (CCSPM) for effective signal distortion reduction in massive MIMO communications by M. Kasiselvanathan, SatheeshKumar Palanisamy, N. Sathishkumar, K. B. Gurumoorthy, Tagrid Abdullah N. Alshalali, S. Lakshmi Narayanan

“…In the signal vector representation, the conventional signal is pruned for its maximum distortion rate post the correlation. The vector representation is recurrent until the least possible distortion rate is observed. …”
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Colorectal Cancer: A Total Provincial Experience with Survival Analysis by B.H. Weinerman, K.B. Orr

“…However, a continuing relapse rate was seen in all patients with any type of infiltrating disease (B1 and B2 There appeared to be continuing relapse patterns in all those groups to at least 96 months. …”
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Aggression in autism spectrum disorder: presentation and treatment options by Fitzpatrick S, Srivorakiat L, Wink L, Pedapati E, Erickson C

“…Sarah E Fitzpatrick, Laura Srivorakiat, Logan K Wink, Ernest V Pedapati, Craig A Erickson Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA Abstract: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent difficulties in social communication and social interaction, coupled with restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior or interest. Research indicates that aggression rates may be higher in individuals with ASD compared to those with other developmental disabilities. …”
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Early Childhood Caries Prevalence and Relationship with Risk Factors by Alia Nafisa, Dharli Syafriza, Ayudia Rifki

“…The prevalence rate of ECC in Indonesia is still relatively high, with varying prevalence rates and no recent data on ECC prevalence in Banda Aceh. …”
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Density Functional Theory (DFT) Study of O2, N2 Adsorptions on H-Capped (5, 0) Single–Walled Carbon Nanotube (CNT) by Ferydon Ashrafi, Ashraf Sadat Ghasemi

“…In summary, the optimized adsorption rates are calculated. The nitrogen molecules adsorb with a comparatively lower rate and almost never a chemical binding is formed with the CNT. …”
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Brain Tumor Classification of Medical Images based on Transfer Pre-trained Learning Models by Mohamed H Ghaleb Abdkhaleq Abdkhaleq, Ibraheem Al-Jadir, Loay George, Yuri Yuryevich Gromov, Eliseev Aleksey Igorevich

“…Medical professionals can rapidly and reliably diagnosing brain tumors from medical imaging via this technique. he results demonstrate that the AlexNet model showed a remarkable performance, with an accuracy rate of 95.60% and high sensitivity and specificity rates. …”
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Prevalence, co-infection and antibiotic resistance of Escherichia Coli from blood and urine samples at a hospital in Jamaica by Donna A Cheung, Alison Nicholson, Tiffany R Butterfield, Marsha DaCosta

“…The aim of this study was to examine this organism’s prevalence, determine co-infection rates and assess antibiotic resistance patterns. …”
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The global burden of lead exposure-related ischemic stroke: based on Bayesian age-period-cohort analysis by Xiaofang Chen, Lihua Zhao, Xiaxia Wu, Dan Chen, Mingya Yao

“…From 1990 to 2019, the age-standardized deaths rate (ASDR) of deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) exhibited a rise-and-fall pattern, with absolute cases increasing. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF BACKPROPAGATION AND HYBRID ARIMA-NN METHODS IN PREDICTING ACCURACY LEVELS OF RAINFALL IN MAKASSAR CITY by Hisyam Ihsan, Irwan Irwan, Andi Illa Erviani Nensi

“…The results showed that the Backpropagation method excelled with an RMSE value of 137.320 or 0.1149, indicating high accuracy in forecasting changes in seasonal trends and patterns. Hybrid ARIMA-NN gives good results with RMSE 145.834, as residues contain better nonlinearity compared to ARIMA models (4,0,1), although it shows a slightly higher error rate compared to Backpropagation.…”
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A new route to prepare nanocomposites based on polyvinyl chloride and MgAl layered double hydroxide intercalated with laurylether phosphate

“…However, the thermal degradation temperature (Tmax2) and thermal degradation rate (Rmax2) of the dehydrochlorinated PVC were slightly affected by the presence of LDH. …”
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Intelligent anti-jamming communication technology with electromagnetic spectrum feature cognition. by Hui Zhao, Guobin Zhao, Xichun Wang, Zhonghui Zhang, Xianchao Xun

“…Experiments show that the proposed model achieves an accuracy rate of 95.23% in identifying interference signals and an anti-interference accuracy rate of 85.47%, significantly outperforming random forest and deep Q-network models. …”
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Origin of the solar-cycle imprint on global sea level change by Shuhei Masuda, John Philip Matthews, Yosuke Alexandre Yamashiki

“…The latter can influence the strength and rate of evolution of the El Niño Southern Oscillation which, in turn, determines the level of net terrestrial water storage through its effect on rainfall patterns. …”
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Emergency department visits in Italy: 2017-2023 trends, decline and recovery by Camilla Mattiuzzi, Giuseppe Lippi, Ciro Paolillo

“…In 2023, the ED visit rate reached 58.5 per 1,000 population, marking a 25.6% reduction compared to 2019, but with a 4.7% increase from 2022. …”
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Weekly Image Guidance in Patients With Cervical Cancer Treated With Intensity‐Modulated Radiation Therapy: Results of a Large Cohort Study by Zheng Zeng, Weiping Wang, Junfang Yan, Dingchao Liu, Fuquan Zhang, Ke Hu

“…Results The median follow‐up periods were 63.4 months. The incidence rates of loco‐regional and distant failure were 9.9% and 13.6%. …”
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Global, regional, and National Burden of chronic kidney disease attributable to dietary risks from 1990 to 2021 by Kaixuan Wang, Shuaiqi Chen, Mengmeng Wang, Qingjiang Han, Yuchuan Hou, Xiaohui Wang

“…In terms of socioeconomic factors, from 1990 to 2021, as the SDI increased, the age-standardized death rates and DALY rates due to CKD caused by dietary risks generally decreased. …”
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