HCAP: Hybrid cyber attack prediction model for securing healthcare applications. by Mohanad Faeq Ali, Mohammed Shakir Mohmood, Ban Salman Shukur, Rex Bacarra, Jamil Abedalrahim Jamil Alsayaydeh, Masrullizam Mat Ibrahim, Safarudin Gazali Herawan

“…The extracted features are fed into the lion-optimization technique to fine-tune the hyperparameters of the recurrent neural networks, enhancing the model's ability to efficiently predict cybersecurity threats with a maximum recognition rate in IoMT environments. The recurrent networks, specifically Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), process data from healthcare devices, identifying abnormal patterns that indicate potential cyberattacks over time. …”
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Experimental investigation on the mechanism of the effect of flow velocity on Cyclotella meneghiniana by Jianwei Zhang, Hongdong Ma, Gangfu Song, Yitong Ding, Sitong Guo

“…The findings revealed that under different flow rates, C. meneghiniana exhibited a critical flow rate threshold at 0.4 m s−1, demonstrating an overall trend characterized by ‘when the flow velocity is relatively low, an increase in flow velocity will promote the growth of C. meneghiniana. …”
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Enhanced risk of multiple sentinel lymph node basins in truncal and head and neck melanoma by Harmeet K Bhullar, Lipi Shukla, Ramin Shayan, Frank Bruschino-Raiola

“…Patients with drainage to MLNB also demonstrate a higher rate of positive SeNBx than those with SLNB drainage. …”
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Sex disparities in premature adult mortality in Estonia 1995–2016: a national register-based study by Hajo Zeeb, Kaja Rahu, Mati Rahu

“…Extremely high mortality rate ratios were observed for cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract and for lung cancer. …”
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Genetic Evidence for Geographic Structure within the  Neanderthal Population by Rogers, Alan R.

“…New theoretical results show that modest rates of extinction cause substantial reductions in heterozygosity, Wright's FST, and Ne. …”
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Comparison of Microbiological Profiles of Primary Hip and Knee Peri-Prosthetic Joint Infections Treated at Specialist Centers Around the World by Emin Suha Dedeogullari, Pablo Slullitel, Isabel Horton, Bulent Atilla, Saif Salih, Paul Monk, Ahmet Mazhar Tokgozoglu, Michael Goplen, Bonita Tsang, Martin Buljubasich, Hesham Abdelbary, Simon Garceau, George Grammatopoulos

“…However, most studies are limited to single-center or intra-country multicenter analyses, often including mixed cohorts of primary and revision PJI cases, with limited data regarding global antibiotic resistance patterns. This study compared the microbiological characteristics, polymicrobial culture rates, prevalence of culture-negative infections, and antibiotic resistance patterns in PJI cases across five referral centers from five continents. …”
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Estimating medium-term (40 years) carbon uptake in living biomass from Life Terra’s afforestation and reforestation actions: challenges and recommendations by Jorge Palmero-Barrachina, Petr Blazek, Santiago Sabaté, Santiago Sabaté, Teresa Sauras-Yera, Samuel Allasia-Grau, Daniel Nadal-Sala, Daniel Nadal-Sala, Sven Kallen, Tiago de Santana, Emil Cienciala, Emil Cienciala

“…By year 40, individual tree biomass estimates ranged from 0.08 to 0.20 t/tree across regions and species types (conifers and broadleaves), with survival rates varying between 22.0 and 49.7%. This translated to stand-level biomass estimates of 54.7–232.6 t/ha at age 40 years. …”
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South Africa’s male homicide epidemic: Who is killing men and why do we ignore the victims? by Richard Matzopoulos, Morna Cornell, Brett Bowman, Lorna J. Martin, Rachel Jewkes, Naeema Abrahams

“…Based on routine data collected through forensic and police investigations, we found that male homicide rates were higher than female homicide rates across all ages, and were up to 8.4 times higher among youths and young adults. …”
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Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of human rhinovirus in hospitalized children and adolescents with acute respiratory infections: a longitudinal study in Shenzhen, China (2... by Jiao Liu, Wei Wang, Ke Cao, Zhenmin Ren, Xiaoying Fu, Yunsheng Chen, WenJian Wang, Yuejie Zheng, Yanmin Bao, Xiaojuan Luo, Jiehua Chen

“…Co-infections occurred in 32.00% of HRV cases and were associated with higher rates of pneumonia and severe pneumonia (P < 0.001). …”
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Epidemiology of Malaria Cases, Sunyani Municipality, Ghana, 2020 by Abdul Gafaru Mohammed, Christopher Sunkwa Tamal, Magdalene Akos Odikro, Charles Lwanga Noora, Prince Romeo Quarshie, Edwin Andrew Afari, Ernest Kenu

“…We calculated morbidity and mortality rates of cases by person and estimated the proportion of cases by sub-districts. …”
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Trends and projections of gallbladder and biliary tract cancer in China: a comprehensive analysis from 1990 to 2030 based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Zhouwei Zhan, Bijuan Chen, Wenhao Teng, Rui Huang, Hanchen Zheng, Sijing Zhou, Jingjie Xu, Jiami Yu, Hui Lin, Xiaojie Wang, Zengqing Guo, Xiaoyan Lin

“…From 1990 to 2021, China experienced increasing trends in incidence and prevalence, while age-standardized mortality rates (ASMR) declined. Compared to global trends, China's ASIR rose while global rates declined. …”
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From access to reserve: antimicrobial resistance among etiological agents of central line-associated bloodstream infections in the view of WHO’s AWaRe antimicrobial spectrum by Anand, Gargee, Lahariya, Rijhul, Priyadarshi, Ketan, Sarfraz, Asim

“…Furthermore, a fluctuation in CLABSI rates was also observed, with a significant reduction in infection rates in 2024 after the implementation of enhanced infection control practices. …”
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Parsimonious and explainable machine learning for predicting mortality in patients post hip fracture surgery by Fouad Trad, Bassel Isber, Ryan Yammine, Khaled Hatoum, Dana Obeid, Mohammad Chahine, Rachid Haidar, Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, Ali Chehab

“…Abstract Hip fractures among the elderly population continue to present significant risks and high mortality rates despite advancements in surgical procedures. …”
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Dimensions of violence against healthcare workers in emergency departments: a cross-sectional comparative study by Motasem Hamdan, Ramazan Erdem, Aynur Toraman, Havva Ceylan, Anan Rashed, Bilal Jawabreh

“…Results A total of 68.7% of the participants reported exposure to workplace violence during the past year, which was significantly greater among Palestinian participants (84.6%) than among Türkiye participants. The prevalence rates of physical violence were 28.1%, 35.7% and 16.7% in Palestine and Türkiye, respectively; the prevalence rates of nonphysical violence were 65.3%, 81.1% and 41.1%, respectively (p < 0.05). …”
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LEE-CARTER MODELING FOR MORTALITY IN INDONESIA WITH A BAYESIAN APPROACH by Muhammad Fajar, Eko Fajariyanto

“…The data used in this study is data on mortality rates by age group from the period 1950–2015. The sourced of data was from the UN website. …”
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Research on kd-tree Cache Optimization Based on Particle Index Sorting Algorithm by 张挺, 林震寰, 杨丁颖, 王宗锴, 陈轶凡

“…When applied to randomized particle distributions with high spatial divergence, MAD-index-sort significantly decreases the cache miss rate. Compared to unsorted <italic>kd-tree</italic>, the cache miss rate is reduced by 24.2%, while compared to Z-index-sort, the reduction is 18.6%. …”
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Epidemiological Analysis of Pathogens in Acute Respiratory Infections During the 2023—2024 Autumn-Winter Season in Beijing: A Case Series of 5556 Patients at Peking Union Medical C... by CAO Yan, CHEN Yu, YI Jie, KONG Lingjun, WANG Ziyi, ZHANG Rui, YU Qi, LIU Yiwei, MULATIJIANG Maimaiti, YANG Chenglin, SUN Yujie, XU Yingchun, YANG Qiwen, DU Juan

“…The positivity rates of the six common respiratory pathogens significantly declined during the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic period, exhibiting an asynchronous seasonal pattern.ConclusionsThe prevalence of respiratory pathogens in Beijing is associated with age and season. …”
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Reurbanization and Spatially Polarized Land Markets – An Analysis of Urban Land-Value Changes in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 2012–2024 by Stefan Siedentop, Maximilian Schartmann

“…Our empirical findings point to a significant trend of market polarization, with excessive growth rates in prospering metropolitan areas and real value losses in some rural areas. …”
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Pitch biases sensorimotor synchronization to auditory rhythms by Jesse K. Pazdera, Laurel J. Trainor

“…In Experiment 1, we observed U-shaped patterns in both mean asynchrony and continuation tapping rates, with participants tapping latest and slowest when synchronizing to low and extremely high (above 2000 Hz) pitches, and tapping earliest and fastest to moderately high pitches. …”
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Identifying Key Idiolect Markers in Sociolinguistic Profiling: A Scoping Review and Analytical Framework for Real-world Applications by Vitalii Shymko

“…Our findings reveal that idiolect markers exhibit varying accuracy rates depending on the context, with digital communication settings achieving up to 91% accuracy using linguistic features, and spoken interactions excelling with non-linguistic markers at 85%. …”
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