Use of multiple metrics and clustering analysis to assess antimicrobial use in Shanxi hospitals, China: a cross-sectional study based on 25 general hospitals by Donghong Yin, Donghong Yin, Yang Tang, Song Wang, Shuyun Wang, Ruigang Hou, Ruigang Hou, Jinju Duan, Jinju Duan

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the current patterns of antimicrobial use among nonsurgical inpatients across 25 general hospitals in Shanxi Province and to evaluate the antimicrobial use rate, antimicrobial use density (AUD), days of therapy (DOT), length of therapy (LOT), and the application of cluster analysis in monitoring antimicrobial prescribing practices.MethodsThis study included 25 general hospitals covering 11 cities in Shanxi Province. …”
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global seasonality of norovirus. by Sharia M Ahmed, Benjamin A Lopman, Karen Levy

“…Our results point to possible associations of season strength with rain in the wettest month and crude birth rate.…”
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Regional Gas Supply System Considered from the Standpoint of System Analysis and Regularities of its Functioning by D. R. Mоroz, N. V. Hruntovich

“…The values of correlation coefficients between the outdoor air temperature and gas flow rate according to the elements of the balance structure are calculated. …”
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Multiple-Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Multiscale Feature Extraction and MSVM_PPA by Min Zhang, Zhenyu Cai, Wenming Cheng

“…MSVM method with PPA parameters optimization will classify the fault patterns. The results of a case study of the rolling bearings faults data from Case Western Reserve University show that (1) the proposed intelligent method (MFE_PPA_MSVM) improves the classification recognition rate; (2) the accuracy will decline when the number of fault patterns increases; (3) prediction accuracy can be the best when the training set size is increased to 70% of the total sample set. …”
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Experimental Study of the Rock Mechanism under Coupled High Temperatures and Dynamic Loads by Huaming An, Tongshuai Zeng, Zhihua Zhang, Lei Liu

“…This research focuses on the effects of the loading rate and high temperature on rock mass in terms of rock mechanism. …”
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Evaluating the predictive power of combined gene expression dynamics from single cells on antibiotic survival by Razan N. Alnahhas, Virgile Andreani, Mary J. Dunlop

“…We first identified relationships between growth rate and reporter levels based on auto- and cross-correlation analysis, revealing consistent patterns where changes in growth rate were anticorrelated with fluorescence following a delay. …”
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Performance and limitations of linkage-disequilibrium-based methods for inferring the genomic landscape of recombination and detecting hotspots: a simulation study by Raynaud, Marie, Gagnaire, Pierre-Alexandre, Galtier, Nicolas

“…False positive and false negative hotspots considerably confound fine-scale patterns of inferred recombination under a wide range of conditions, particularly when Ne is small and the mutation/recombination rate ratio is low, to the extent that maps inferred from populations sharing the same recombination landscape appear uncorrelated. …”
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Electrochemical growth of polyaniline films controlled with light by Ashleigh K. Wilson, Chantel Johnson, Jaycie Jenkins, Asia Jones, Natalia Noginova

“…The analysis of light-induced patterns in films exposed to laser light at different intensities and wavelengths reveals that the growth rate increases the light intensity at small intensities and then saturates with the further increase in laser light intensity. …”
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Modeling of Photochemical and Photothermal Effects in Soft Tissue Subjected to Laser Irradiation by Marek Jasiński, Maria Zadoń

“…The connection between bioheat transfer and PDT models is taken into account through the respective relationships between perfusion rate, capillary blood velocity, and the maximum oxygen supply rate. …”
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Resolving contiguous vowels across word boundaries in Spanish: L2 learners, levels, and tasks by Erik W. Willis, D. Eric Holt, Carly Carver

“…The intermediate learners increased the frequency of linking contiguous vowels to 49% in the narrative-retell task, whereas the advanced L2 speakers slightly reduced their linking rate to 68%. The Mexican monolingual speaker comparison group produced linked speech in a narrative-retell task at a rate of 93%. …”
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Air Entrainment and Gas Transfer in Wave Breaking Events by S. Di Giorgio, S. Pirozzoli, A. Iafrati

“…We show that the volume of gas transferred across the air‐water interface increases significantly with the amount of air entrained due to wave breaking, peak values in the transfer velocity being concurrent with peaks in energy dissipation rate and air entrainment. The gas transfer velocity is observed to scale approximately as the one‐fourth power of the energy dissipation rate, consistent with previous theoretical predictions. …”
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Size and impact of the Brussels knowledge economy by Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Johan Eyckmans, Peter Teirlinck, André Spithoven, Gilles Van Hamme

“…Over the period 2008-2020, the compound annual growth rate of knowledge-intensive employment was highest in the surrounding Brussels functional metropolitan area. …”
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Numerical Simulation Study on the Dynamic Processes and Evolution Laws of Multiple Granular Flows in a Gully by LEI Ming, ZHANG Liang, YE Chen, WANG Xiekang

“…Compared with the first granular flow, subsequent ones feature shorter durations and higher energy dissipation rates. The velocity and displacement of base granules increase significantly as the friction coefficient decreases and the secondary slope increases. …”
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Spatial Inequality and Accessibility of Senior High School Education in Bonebolango Regency by Aljunaid Bakari, Firman Sidik

“…The results of this study show that the availability of high school facilities in Bonebolango Regency has not met the needs of the upper school-age community, because it has not been able to accommodate 80% of the high school age population in each sub-district. The occupancy rate is also uneven, with four high schools having an occupancy rate above 80% of the temporary capacity and 11 high schools having an occupancy rate of less than 50% of their capacity Based on the analysis of the nearest neighbors, the distribution pattern of high schools in Bonebolango Regency is relatively random, with a value of 0.975337 and a z-score of -0.030915. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification of Diabetes Utilizing Confusion Matrix Analysis by Maad M. Mijwil, Mohammad Aljanabi

“…Mainly, logistic regression and Adaboost had a classification rate above 92%, and the naive bayes algorithm achieved a classification rate above 90%. …”
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Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in Novosibirsk region during 1992–2015 by I. Ya. Izvekova, E. I. Krasnova

“…Aim: To study the epidemiological patterns of invasive meningococcal disease in Novosibirsk region within a time period from 1992 to 2015.Methods: retrospective comparative epidemiological analysis.Results: During the analyzed period the annual incidence rate of invasive meningococcal disease was higher than average annual incidence rate in Russian Federation. …”
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Personal recognition using finger knuckle shape oriented features and texture analysis by K. Usha, M. Ezhilarasan

“…The experimental results confirm that, our proposed method shows a high recognition rate of 98.72% with lower false acceptance rate of 0.06%.…”
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Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Boiling Heat Transfer in a 65 mm Horizontal Tube for Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery by Genying Gao, Zicheng Wang, Gaoqiao Li, Chizhong Wang, Lei Deng

“…A reduction in mass flow rate increases the gas phase fraction within the tube and causes the occurrence of identical flow patterns at earlier axial positions. …”
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Unveiling the drivers contributing to global wheat yield shocks through quantile regression by Srishti Vishwakarma, Xin Zhang, Vyacheslav Lyubchich

“…Here, we study the spatiotemporal patterns of wheat yield shocks, quantified by the lower quantiles of yield fluctuations, in 86 countries over 30 years. …”
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Fishery, Growth, and Mortality of Threatened Asian Sunfish, Horabagrus brachysoma (Gu¨nther 1864) in Five Rivers of Western Ghats Hotspot, India by Chelapurath Radhakrishnan Renjithkumar, Kuttanelloor Roshni

“…The calculated exploitation rate (E) ranging from 0.49 to 0.72 yr -¹ exceeds the anticipated optimum exploitation levels (0.5). …”
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