Vacation and back-to-school effect on influenza transmission among school-age children in Guangzhou, China: an ecological study from 2010 to 2023 by Di Wu, Mengmeng Ma, Yanhui Liu, Zhitao Chen, Meiqi Zhang, Dedong Wang, Pengzhe Qin, Lei Luo

“…Objective To examine whether influenza transmission risk decreased during summer and winter vacations and increased after vacations and statutory holiday.Design An ecological study.Setting Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China.Participants A total of 458 343 influenza cases in school-aged children were included, including 160 067 (35.05%) in kindergarten, 223 817 (48.83%) in primary school, 50 053 (10.92%) in middle school and 23 801 (5.19%) in high school.Data and methods Data on influenza cases were obtained from the Notifiable Infectious Disease Surveillance System operated by Guangzhou Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Influenza incidence rate ratio (IRR) by negative binomial regression model was used to analyse the influenza risk of school-age children during/after vacation to before/during breaks.Results In all four groups, there was significantly lower incidence of influenza during winter and summer vacations compared with the 4 weeks preceding vacations. …”
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A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Most Endoparasites and Ectoparasites during Past Decade in Iraq by Karwan S. Najm Al-Marjan, Hawri H. Mohammed Jabbary, Liza J. Yousif, Fouad H. Kamil, Najat J. Ahmed

“…During the reviewed period, high prevalence of infection was recorded in several Iraqi provenances including, E. histolytica from Kirkuk (79.49%), T. gondii from in AL-Amaara (18.07%), G. lamblia and T. vaginalis from AL-Basrah (11.05%, 55.4%, respectively), and the head lice, P. humanus capiotis from Koya District at Erbil provenance (41.14%). Variation in the rate of infection/infestation tells us that there is some instability among study area including, instability of the security and military situation, economic instability, population density instability. …”
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Feasibility Demonstration of Using the Signal‐to‐Noise Ratio Observations From Geodetic GNSS Receivers to Retrieve Dry Snow Density by J. Zhang, W. Wan, H. Liang, W. Ma, B. Liu, C. Liang, Z. Guo, X. Wan

“…Abstract The geodetic Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver has been proven to retrieve snow depth using the phase change rate of the signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) observations. …”
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Multiresistant Bacterial Pathogens Causing Bacterial Pneumonia and Analyses of Potential Risk Factors from Northeast Ethiopia by Tewodros Dessie, Mohabaw Jemal, Minwuyelet Maru, Moges Tiruneh

“…This study found high prevalence of bacterial pneumonia in the study area, and high rate of bacterial resistance was observed in ampicillin, penicillin, and amoxicillin-clavulanate. …”
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Nanostructured titanium dioxide-based photocatalysts for self-cleaning concrete: аssessment of effects of phase composition on photocatalytic activity of TiO2 by Artemy S. Balykov, Denis B. Chugunov, Vladimir M. Kyashkin, Natalia S. Davydova

“…Heterostructures made it possible to improve the spatial separation of charge carriers and to reduce the recombination rate of photogenerated electron-hole pairs. Conclusion. …”
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Epidemiological intricacies of respiratory pathogens: a single-center study on infection dynamics in Beijing, 2023–2024 by Wang Jie, Huo Wenyan, Liu Chang, Feng Jinghong, Li Wenyi, Li Shanshan, Su Ming

“…Epidemiological data were systematically collected and analyzed.ResultsSARS-CoV-2 positivity rate maintained above 3% throughout the observation period. …”
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Photoplethysmography-based HRV analysis and machine learning for real-time stress quantification in mental health applications by Ying-Ying Tsai, Yu-Jie Chen, Yen-Feng Lin, Fan-Chi Hsiao, Ching-Han Hsu, Lun-De Liao

“…Here, a wearable device utilizing photoplethysmography (PPG) technology is developed to noninvasively measure physiological signals and analyze heart rate variability (HRV) parameters. Traditional normative HRV databases typically do not account for responses induced by specific stressors such as cognitive tasks. …”
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Changes in abortion access after implementation of Medicaid coverage in Illinois: a retrospective analysis by Terri-Ann Thompson, Carmela Zuniga, Danielle Young, Valeria Hernandez, Debra Stulberg, Lee Hasselbacher, Ashley McHugh, Hanz Dismer

“…Compared with non-Medicaid patients, Medicaid patients experienced a significant decrease in average gestational age at the time of abortion post-HB-40 (incidence rate ratio (IRR)=0.93, 95% CI 0.91 to 0.95, p<0.001). …”
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Study on the mechanical properties of stratified rock mass based on 3D printing technology and FDEM algorithm by Yongchao Tian, Kaifang Ren, Fan He, Yong Liu, Penghai Deng, Jiaqi Guo, Feiyue Sun, Xin Huang, Jun Zhang

“…It has overcome a set of challenges, such as difficulty in sampling stratified rock mass, low success rate of precast cracks within stratified rock mass, and difficulty in controlling the geometric parameters of stratified rock specimens (e.g., the dip angle of bedding plane, the dip angle of precast crack, the length of precast crack, etc.). …”
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Removal of As(V) and Cr(VI) using quinoxaline chitosan schiff base: synthesis, characterization and adsorption mechanism by Huda E. Abdelwahab, Mohammed Elhag, Mohamed M. El Sadek

“…The experimental data revealed that the adsorption kinetics follow the mechanism of the pseudo-second-order equation with R2 values (0.9969, 0.9061) in case of using CsQ and R2 values (0.9989, 0.9999) in case of using CsQG, demonstrating chemical sorption is the rate-limiting step of the adsorption mechanism. Comparing the adsorption efficiency of the synthesized Schiff base and the cross-linked one, it was found that CsQ is a better adsorbent than CsQG in both cases of As(V) and Cr(VI) removal. …”
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ENHANCEMENT OF SENSOR PANEL TACTILE TOUCH INTERFACE by Oleksandr Karpin, Zinovii Liubun, Vasyl Mandziy, Oleh Tereshchuk, Nestor Hotsiy

“…The results show that the proposed algorithm achieves high accuracy in identifying two types of gestures, with a minimal error rate. Conclusions. The proposed classification algorithm exhibits satisfactory accuracy in identifying the two signals within a minimal timeframe and requires minimal computational resources. …”
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Viral infections and related fatal adverse events associated with complement inhibitors for PNH: a real-world pharmacovigilance analysis in FAERS by Jinman Zhong, Chang Chen, Yunman Xu, Yueping He, Jiewen Tan, Dan Xiong

“…While viral infections were common concomitant AEs, the fatality rate specifically for viral infections was lower compared to other complement inhibitor-associated AEs. …”
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Transcriptome Profiling Reveals Genetic Basis of Muscle Development and Meat Quality Traits in Chinese Congjiang Xiang and Landrace Pigs by Jiada Yang, Qiaowen Tang, Chunying Sun, Qiuyue Li, Xiaoyu Li, Lu Hou, Yi Yang, Kang Yang

“…RNA sequencing was performed on muscle tissues from ten individuals of each breed, generating 874.5 million raw reads with an average mapping rate of 89.3% to the pig reference genome. (3) Results: Transcriptional profiling revealed distinct expression patterns with 785 genes exclusively expressed in CX pigs and 457 genes unique to LAN pigs, while 7099 co-expressed genes were shared by both breeds. …”
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Emotional Interactive Simulation System of English Speech Recognition in Virtual Context by Dan Li

“…The experiments of feature extraction and pattern recognition of speech samples prove that Hidden Markovian has higher recognition rate and better recognition effect in speech emotion recognition. …”
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Assessing the implementation of ESG criteria in the frontrunners insurance companies in the Spanish market by Albert Marti, Ramon Bastida-Vialcanet, Frederic Marimon

“…Originality/value: This study contributes to the academic literature and managerial practice by offering a robust framework, model, and methodology for ESG assessment, as well as identifying patterns in ESG adoption. Additionally, the article explores how the combination of outstanding PSI principles achievements influences the ESG rating performance of insurance companies. …”
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Excessive or reduced rest-day sleep compensation linked to depression in Chinese adults by Yanliqing Song, Long Wang, Yue Liu

“…These findings highlight the importance of maintaining stable sleep patterns during special periods and provide scientific evidence for the development of targeted public health interventions.…”
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Intelligent prediction of thyroid cancer in China based on GBD data and hospital electronic medical records: disease burden analysis combined with multiple machine learning models by Lina Yang, Shixia Zhang, Xinguo Wang, Jianjun Yang, Mengya Chen

“…It comprehensively reveals the disease burden trend of thyroid cancer in China, predicts the mortality rate of thyroid cancer in China, and emphasizes the causal role of high BMI as an important controllable risk factor. …”
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Unmasking insider threats using a robust hybrid optimized generative pretrained neural network approach by P. Lavanya, H. Anila Glory, Manuj Aggarwal, V. S. Shankar Sriram

“…The structure of the proposed approach involves three phases: (1) Chebyshev Graph Laplacian Eigenmaps solver (CGLE) for selecting the user-designated samples by reducing the dimensionality of the data and Insider State clustering via Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (IS-DBSCAN) (2) The EHI of multi-objective Bayesian optimization for optimizing the sensitive learning rate hyperparameter to ensure the stability of the Adabelief optimized WGAN and improve the quality of the generated adversarial samples. (3) The L2-SP regularization technique effectively fine-tunes the pretrained AGCN, which identifies the user behavioural pattern to detect the insiders. …”
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A STUDY TO ASSESS THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUSPECTED ADVERSE EVENTS FOLLOWING IMMUNISATION REPORTED IN A METROPOLITAN CITY IN INDIA by Sophie Simon, Shalini Rawat, Rohan Sangam, G D Velhal

“…Results: The AEFI reporting rate was calculated as 5.8 per 100000 doses administered per year. …”
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MODERN MOVEMENTS OF THE CRUST SURFACE IN GORNY ALTAI FROM GPS DATA by V. Yu. Timofeev, D. G. Ardyukov, A. V. Timofeev, E. V. Boiko

“…Analyzed are modern movements in the Gorny Altai region outside the Chuya earthquake area.The results of our study show that modern horizontal displacements occur in the NNW direction at the rate of 1.1 mm/yr, which is twice lower than the displacement rate before the earthquake.…”
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