Premium intraocular lens adoption: Insights from a national health insurance analysis by Chi-Ying Huang, Christy Pu, Chiun-Ho Hou

“…Specifically, the adoption rate for premium IOLs was 35.2% in 2016, rising to 42.6% in 2020. …”
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TaER Expression Is Associated with Transpiration Efficiency Traits and Yield in Bread Wheat. by Jiacheng Zheng, Zhiyuan Yang, Pippa J Madgwick, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Martin A J Parry, Yin-Gang Hu

“…Significant differences were also observed between the three groups varying for TaER expression for several transpiration efficiency (TE)- related traits, including stomatal density (SD), transpiration rate, photosynthetic rate (A), instant water use efficiency (WUEi) and carbon isotope discrimination (CID), and yield traits of biomass production plant-1 (BYPP) and grain yield plant-1 (GYPP). …”
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A Hardware Architecture of a Dynamic Ranking Packet Scheduler for Programmable Network Devices by Mostafa Elbediwy, Bill Pontikakis, Jean-Pierre David, Yvon Savaria

“…The introduction of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) separated the control and data forwarding planes, but the data plane still requires a fully programmable packet scheduler that can adapt to different traffic patterns and offer high expressiveness at line rate. …”
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Modelling cold firn evolution at Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps by M. Gastaldello, E. Mattea, M. Hoelzle, H. Machguth

“…At the saddle point (SP), our results show surface melt increasing at a rate of 0.53 cm w.e. yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻²</span> – representing a doubling over the 21-year period. …”
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Modeling of spatial spread of COVID-19 pandemic waves in Russia using a kinetic-advection model by V. V. Aristov, A. V. Stroganov, A. D. Yastrebov

“…In addition to the high infection rate, the high spread rate is due to the increased mobility of contemporary populations. …”
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Response of Water-Use Efficiency (WUE) in Alpine Grasslands to Hydrothermal and Radiative Factors Across Elevation Gradients by Ye Tian, Wan Zhang, Xiao Xu, Bingrong Zhou, Xiaoyun Cao, Bin Qiao

“…Moreover, contribution rate analysis showed an elevation-dependent shift in WUE control: evapotranspiration (ET) exerted a dominant influence at low elevations (contribution rate: −82.50%), while net primary productivity (NPP) became the primary driver at high elevations (contribution rate: 54.71%). …”
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Radiocleavable rare-earth nanoactivators targeting over-expressed folate receptors induce mitochondrial dysfunction and remodel immune suppressive microenvironment in pancreatic ca... by Tanvi Gupta, Shang-Rung Wu, Li-Chan Chang, Forn-Chia Lin, Yan-Shen Shan, Chen-Sheng Yeh, Wen-Pin Su

“…Abstract Pancreatic cancer is a fatal cancer with poor prognosis and survival rate, often diagnosed usually in the advanced stage of disease. …”
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Analyzing RNA Localization Using the RNA Proximity Labeling Method OINC-seq by Megan Pockalny, Hei-Yong Lo, Raeann Goering, J. Taliaferro

“…Thousands of RNAs are localized to specific subcellular locations, and these localization patterns are often required for optimal cell function. …”
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Clutter Mitigation in Indoor Radar Sensors Using Sensor Fusion Technology by Srishti Singh, Ha-Neul Lee, Yuna Park, Sungho Kim, Si-Hyun Park, Jong-Ryul Yang

“…Notably, the inherent blur present in low-resolution images closely corresponds to the distortion patterns induced by clutter in radar signals, making such data particularly suitable for effective sensor fusion. …”
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Underwater acoustic classification across diverse sea environments using adaptive regularization and knowledge encoding by Muhammad Azeem Aslam, Muhammad Irfan, Xu Wei, Wang Jun, Hu Hongfei, Wang Shiyu, Xin Liu, Shahid Ali

“…Factors such as temperature, pressure, and salinity create complex sound propagation patterns, causing feature space variations. These variations cause degraded performance of classifications systems when deployed in unseen conditions. …”
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AlexNet Convolutional Neural Network Architecture with Cosine and Hamming Similarity/Distance Measures for Fingerprint Biometric Matching by Ahmed Sabah Ahmed AL-Jumaili, Huda Kadhim Tayyeh, Abeer Alsadoon

“…Using the FVC2002 database, the proposed method showed a False Acceptance Rate (FAR) of 2.09% and a False Rejection Rate (FRR) of 2.81%. …”
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Machine learning and microfluidic integration for oocyte quality prediction by Hassan Saffari, Davood Fathi, Peyman Palay, Hamid Gourabi, Rouhollah Fathi

“…Additionally, oocyte diameter and the critical flow rate (Q)—defined as the minimum flow rate necessary for an oocyte to pass through the channel—were included as predictive variables. …”
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The association between reported artificial light and reported physical activity at night: the mediating roles of environmental restorativeness and perceived safety by Hansen Li, Qian Liu, Ying Yang, Liming Liu, Guodong Zhang, Xing Zhang, Mingyue Yin, Yang Cao, Matthew H. E. M. Browning

“…In contrast, subjective artificial light at night, when rated within a certain range (≥4), was positively associated with perceived safety, environmental restorativeness, and nighttime physical activity. …”
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Impact of Sodium Ion Stress on the Mechanism of Lead Ion Migration in Electrochemical Treatment of Lead-Contaminated Soil by Yinyin Zhang, Jiangtao Han, Libin Zang

“…This study specifically validates the migration patterns of lead ions under sodium ion stress in soil and concludes that a high concentration of sodium ions, when coexisting with lead ions, diminishes the migration rate of lead ions, consequently reducing the removal efficiency of lead ions. 1. …”
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Combining Autoregressive Models and Phonological Knowledge Bases for Improved Accuracy in Korean Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion by Sung-Ki Choi, Hyuk-Chul Kwon, Minho Kim

“…Experimental results show that a BiLSTM-LSTM AR model based on ELECTRA embeddings achieves a phoneme error rate (PER) of 0.2%, word error rate (WER) of 0.68%, and a sentence accuracy of 95.16%, outperforming both a traditional rule-based approach (24.51% sentence accuracy) and non-autoregressive variants implemented on the same dataset (achieving 81.32%&#x2013;85.72% sentence accuracy). …”
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¹³C metabolic flux analysis identifies an unusual route for pyruvate dissimilation in mycobacteria which requires isocitrate lyase and carbon dioxide fixation. by Dany J V Beste, Bhushan Bonde, Nathaniel Hawkins, Jane L Ward, Michael H Beale, Stephan Noack, Katharina Nöh, Nicholas J Kruger, R George Ratcliffe, Johnjoe McFadden

“…Here we show that deletion of one of the two icl genes impairs the replication of Mycobacterium bovis BCG at slow growth rate in a carbon limited chemostat. In order to further understand the role of isocitrate lyase in the central metabolism of mycobacteria the effect of growth rate on the in vivo fluxes was studied for the first time using ¹³C-metabolic flux analysis (MFA). …”
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Identification and Validation of the lncRNA BACE1-AS as Immune-Related Influencing Factor in Tumorigenesis following Pan-Carcinoma Analysis by Mengmeng Wang, Di Chen, Yushuang Xu, Mengjun Qiu, Xin Jiang, Zhifan Xiong

“…Methods. The expression patterns, genomic mutation, and prognostic significance of BACE1-AS in pan-cancers were compared by analyzing 32 types of tumors from The Cancer Genome Atlas and cBioPortal databases. …”
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Spatial proximity effects on cognitive processing of multimedia learning among college students: evidence from functional near-infrared spectroscopy by Yan Ma, Yan Ma, Qiuyue Peng, Qiuyue Peng, Bowen Long, Bowen Long

“…In addition, the study also explored how disciplinary differences affect the strength of spatial proximity effects and corresponding brain activation patterns.ResultsThe findings revealed that activation levels in the middle temporal gyrus, frontal pole, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were significantly higher in the spatial proximity condition compared to the spatial separation condition, accompanied by an improved rate of correct answers. …”
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The 'Antiretrovirals, Sexual Transmission Risk and Attitudes' (ASTRA) study. Design, methods and participant characteristics. by Andrew Speakman, Alison Rodger, Andrew N Phillips, Richard Gilson, Margaret Johnson, Martin Fisher, Ed Wilkins, Jane Anderson, Rebecca O'Connell, Monica Lascar, Kazeem Aderogba, Simon Edwards, Jeffrey McDonnell, Nicky Perry, Lorraine Sherr, Simon Collins, Graham Hart, Anne M Johnson, Alec Miners, Jonathan Elford, Anna-Maria Geretti, William J Burman, Fiona C Lampe

“…In this paper we describe the study rationale, design, methods, response rate and the demographic characteristics of the participants. …”
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Evaluating the Quality of Online Fertility Nutrition Claims by Kimberly R Lush, Amy T Hutchison, Jessica A Grieger

“…Survey participants rated 40 claims using a 5-point Likert scale from “Not at all likely” to “Highly likely”. …”
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