Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical site infections: a multi-center study evaluating incidence, pathogen distribution, and antimicrobial resistance patterns by Şiran Keske, Elif Sargın Altunok, Emel Azak, Ezgi Gülten, Tuğba Arslan Gülen, Çiğdem Ataman Hatipoğlu, Ali Asan, Derya Korkmaz, Bahar Kaçmaz, Yeşim Kızmaz, Ayşe Batırel, Fethiye Akgül, Derya Yapar, Zehra Çağla Karakoç, Ayşe Serra Özel, Tuğba Yanık Yalçın, Deniz Özer, Özge Eren Korkmaz, Ahmet Şahin, Muhammed Fatih Karaşın, Tuba Turunç, Mehtap Aydın, Neşe Demirtürk, Alpay Azap, Önder Ergönül

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Prevalence and epidemiological pattern of drug-resistant tuberculosis among migrant populations in Wenzhou City, China, 2014–2023: implications for public health strategies by Lianpeng Wu, Lianpeng Wu, Xiyue Cai, Shuya Xu, Xuefeng Lin, Shuangliao Wu, Xueqin Xu, Xueqin Xu

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Network-based machine learning reveals cardiometabolic multimorbidity patterns and modifiable lifestyle factors: a community-focused analysis of NHANES 2015–2018 by Danhui Mao, Junfang Mu, Yajing Li, Lu He, Qianhui Chai, Xin Zhao, Xiaojun Ren, Hui Cheng

“…Abstract Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity (CMM) has emerged as one of the primary threats to human health globally due to its high incidence, disability, and mortality rates. Accurate identification of CMM patterns is crucial for CMM classification and health management. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Eight Week Training Program Schedule With Two Different Stretching Patterns Strengthening on Changes in the Status of Lower Cross Syndrome by Chiman Alyarnezhad, Ali Shams Majalan

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Self-suppressing behavioral patterns and depressive traits exacerbate chronic pain: Psychological trait assessment using the structured association technique method. by Shin Hashizume, Masako Nakano, Chihiro Ikehata, Nobuaki Himuro, Kanna Nagaishi, Mineko Fujimiya

“…Chronic pain severity was assessed using a numerical rating scale (NRS), and psychological traits were evaluated by SAT. …”
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Rethinking Radiation Therapy for Perineural Invasion in Oral Cancer: Does More Coverage Improve Outcomes? by Sarbani Ghosh Laskar, Anuj Kumar, Ashwini Adhau, Shwetabh Sinha, Samarpita Mohanty, Munita Bal, Neha Mittal, Swapnil Rane, Asawari Patil, Ashwini Budrukkar, Monali Swain, Pallavi Rane, Gouri Pantvaidya, Sudhir Nair, Deepa Nair, Anuja Deshmukh, Shivakumar Thiagarajan, Richa Vaish, Vidisha Tuljapurkar, Chandrashekhar Dravid, Poonam Joshi, Rathan Shetty, Arjun Singh, Pankaj Chaturvedi

“…All patients underwent surgery followed by adjuvant RT, with or without concurrent chemotherapy. Recurrence patterns were categorised as in‐field, marginal or out‐of‐field. …”
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Global patterns and trends in ischemic stroke burden attributable to particulate matter pollution: changes from 1990 to 2021 and projections from 2022 to 2050 by Erman Wu, Erman Wu, Riqing Su, Tong Tang, Jiakun Li, Maimaitili Mijiti, Yandong Li, Gaocai Zhang, Minghao Lian, Yongtao Zhang, Guohua Zhu, Dangmurenjiafu Geng

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Recurrence patterns and long-term survival of locally advanced esophageal cancer patients with pathological complete response after different neoadjuvant therapies followed by surg... by Jiwei Wu, Yi Qin, Keting Li, Wentao Hao, Xianben Liu, Wenqun Xing, Yan Zheng

“…Results Under multimodal neoadjuvant therapy, there was no significant difference in recurrence rates among the three groups (NAC: 5.88% vs. NICT: 7.14% vs. …”
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Using Real World Evidence to Describe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Costs Associated with PDE-5 Inhibitor Monotherapy by George Ruiz, Jason Yeaw, Cassandra A. Lickert, Ajita P. De, Rolin L. Wade, Janis Pruett, William Drake

“… # Results PDE-5i monotherapy for PAH treatment was associated with high treatment modification rates, low adherence, increased healthcare resource utilization, and high costs. …”
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Clinical patterns and predictors of trauma-related mortality over 13 years: a retrospective analysis from a Level 1 National trauma center by Ayman El-Menyar, Sandro Rizoli, Ahammed Mekkodathil, Mohammad Asim, Sajid Atique, Abdel-Aziz Hammo, Hisham Jogol, Ahad Kanbar, Khalid Ahmed, Rafael Consunji, Husham Abdelrahman, Asmaa Al-Atey, Ahmad Kloub, Fernando Spencer Netto, Gustav Strandvik, Hassan Al-Thani

“…Pre-hospital deaths followed a similar pattern to the overall mortality, while the in-hospital rates remained steady. …”
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Bacterial Isolates and Antibacterial Resistance Patterns in a Patient with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital, Southwest Et... by Abdulhakim Mussema, Getenet Beyene, Mulatu Gashaw

“…Having two or more exacerbation experiences in the previous year were found to be important determinants of the sputum culture positivity. Conclusions. High rates of MDR, ESBL, and carbapenemase producer bacteria were isolated from patients with AECOPD. …”
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EEG–fNIRS signal integration for motor imagery classification using deep learning and evidence theory by Mohammed E. Seno, Niladri Maiti, Maulik Patel, Mihirkumar M. Patel, Kalpesh B. Chaudhary, Ashish Pasaya, Babacar Toure

“…For EEG signals, spatiotemporal features are extracted using dual-scale temporal convolution and depthwise separable convolution, and a hybrid attention module is introduced to enhance the network's sensitivity to salient neural patterns. For fNIRS signals, spatial convolution across all channels is employed to explore activation differences among brain regions, and parallel temporal convolution combined with a gated recurrent unit (GRU) captures richer temporal dynamics of the hemodynamic response. …”
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Spatial patterns and temporal trends of tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer attributed to particulate matter pollution in Asia and its 34 countries and territories, 1990–2021 by Minxia Yang, Feng Xuan, Liejiong Wang, Ying Lou, Shengjian Yu

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Opioid-use disorder and reported pain after spine surgery: Risk-group patterns in cognitive-appraisal processes in a longitudinal cohort study by Carolyn E Schwartz, ScD, Katrina Borowiec, MA, Bruce D Rapkin, PhD, Joel A Finkelstein, MD, MSc, FRCS(C), Tai Sutherland, BA, Olivia B Caan, BA, MS, Richard L Skolasky, ScD

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War’s youngest victims: a descriptive cross-sectional study on injury distributions, severity patterns, and outcomes among paediatric trauma patients in Kharkiv, Ukraine by Filippa Sennersten, Safora Frogh, Gustav Falk, Mariia Matvieienko, Olha Karafulidi, Olha Konstantynovska, Yohan Robinson, Andreas Wladis, Denise Bäckström

“…Conclusions This study offers new insights into paediatric trauma from modern warfare in a high-income setting, highlighting the occurrence of blast and shelling injuries, injury patterns overall similar to previous conflicts, and high disability rates at discharge. …”
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Gas composition and pressure in the hypopharynx during high-flow oxygen therapy through a nasal cannula in healthy volunteers with different breathing patterns by Andrey I. Yaroshetskiy, Anna P. Krasnoshchekova, Fedor D. Tkachenko, Alina V. Rubashchenko, Daniil D. Zubarev, Vasiliy D. Konanykhin, Maxim I. Savelenok, Maxim M. Nosenko, Zamira M. Merzhoeva, Sergey N. Avdeev

“…Abstract Background High-flow nasal cannula is widespread in patients with hypoxemic and hypercapnic respiratory failure, but physiological data concerning influence of the combination of breathing pattern, preset flow rate (PFR), and inspiratory oxygen fraction (FDO2) on end-expiratory pressure (EEP), capnogram, oxygram, and exhaled tidal volume (VTe) remains insufficient. …”
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Surface Temperature Assisted State of Charge Estimation for Retired Power Batteries by Liangyu Xu, Wenxuan Han, Jiawei Dong, Ke Chen, Yuchen Li, Guangchao Geng

“…Specifically, our method achieves 64.3–68.1% lower RMSE than traditional electrical-parameter-only approaches (V-I inputs) across 0.5 C–2 C discharge rates. Results show that the proposed method reduces SOC estimation errors compared to traditional voltage-based models, achieving RMSE values below 1.04 across all tested rates. …”
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Global trends of depressive disorders among women of reproductive age from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis of burden, sociodemographic disparities, and health workforce correla... by Fangyi Dai, Yuzhou Cai, Min Chen, Yong Dai

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Short Text Classification Based on Enhanced Word Embedding and Hybrid Neural Networks by Cunhe Li, Zian Xie, Haotian Wang

“…Furthermore, we propose a dual-channel hybrid model based on a Gated Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM), which jointly captures local features and long-range global dependencies. …”
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Opioid prescription patterns and pain severity among patients with opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders: a mixed methods study by Erin F. Madden, Gintare Daulys, Benjamin Tingey, Felicia Frabis, Pooja Lagisetty, Philip J. Kroth, Fares Qeadan

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