An Investigation of the Characteristics of the Mei–Yu Raindrop Size Distribution and the Limitations of Numerical Microphysical Parameterization by Zhaoping Kang, Zhimin Zhou, Yinglian Guo, Yuting Sun, Lin Liu

“…At low <i>RR</i>, decreased small-drop and increased large-drop concentrations cause corresponding leftward and rightward RSD shifts with decreasing altitude—a pattern well captured by simulations. However, at elevated rainfall rates, the simulated concentration of large raindrops shows no significant increase, resulting in negligible rightward shifting of RSD in the model outputs. …”
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Trends in prescription opioid use in Europe: A DARWIN EU® multinational cohort study including seven European countries by Junqing Xie, Mike Du, Yuchen Guo, Cesar Barboza, James T. Brash, Antonella Delmestri, Talita Duarte-Salles, Talita Duarte-Salles, Jasmine Gratton, Romain Griffier, Raivo Kolde, Wai Yi Man, Núria Mercadé-Besora, Marek Oja, Sarah Seager, Katia Verhamme, Dina Vojinovic, Edward Burn, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Martí Català, Annika M. Jödicke

“…Annual period prevalence and incidence rates of opioid prescriptions were estimated, and long-term trends were quantified as the percent change from 2012 to 2019. …”
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Molecular Evolutionary Analyses of the RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase (<i>RdRp</i>) Region and <i>VP1</i> Gene in Sapovirus GI.1 and GI.2 by Fuminori Mizukoshi, Ryusuke Kimura, Tatsuya Shirai, Asumi Hirata-Saito, Eri Hiraishi, Kosuke Murakami, Yen Hai Doan, Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi, Nobuhiro Saruki, Takeshi Tsugawa, Kana Kidera, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Naomi Sakon, Kazuhiko Katayama, Tsutomu Kageyama, Akihide Ryo, Hirokazu Kimura

“…Further, the MRCAs of the <i>RdRp</i> region and <i>VP1</i> gene in HuSaV GI.2 diverged in 1960 and 1943, respectively. The evolutionary rates were higher for <i>VP1</i> gene in HuSaV GI.1 than that in HuSaV GI.2, furthermore, were higher in GI.1 Cluster B than GI.1 Cluster A. …”
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Peer perceptions of clinicians using generative AI in medical decision-making by Haiyang Yang, Tinglong Dai, Nestoras Mathioudakis, Amy M. Knight, Yuna Nakayasu, Risa M. Wolf

“…Participants also acknowledged GenAI’s value in improving accuracy (4.30, p < 0.002) and rated institutionally customized GenAI more favorably (4.96, p < 0.001). …”
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Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance in <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> from Complicated Urinary Tract Infections in Oman: Phenotypic and Genotypic Insights by Nawal AL Shizawi, Zaaima AL Jabri, Fatima Khan, Hiba Sami, Turkiya AL Siyabi, Zakariya AL Muharrmi, Srinivasa Rao Sirasanagandla, Meher Rizvi

“…In comparison, susceptibility rates of <i>K. pneumoniae</i> were far lower: nitrofurantoin (38%), fosfomycin (89%), aminoglycosides (82%), piperacillin-tazobactam (72%), and carbapenems (83%). …”
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Impacts of Skill Centrality on Regional Economic Productivity and Occupational Income by Keith Waters, Shade T. Shutters

“…We find that occupations with higher skill centrality are associated with greater annual salaries, and metropolitan areas with higher skill centrality have higher productivity rates. Overall, these results suggest that the application of traditional network metrics to this view of cities as complex networks can offer new insights into the dynamics of regional economies.…”
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Muted Amazon Rainfall Response to Deforestation in a Global Storm‐Resolving Model by Arim Yoon, Cathy Hohenegger

“…Previous studies have found that complete deforestation reduces evapotranspiration, contributing to low precipitation rates that would limit the regrowth of the forest, but such studies have used climate models with convective parameterization and/or fixed large‐scale circulation. …”
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Data-Driven Insights into LEED Certification Trends: Saudi Arabia's Path to Sustainability by Hala Sirror, Zeinab Alhassan, Malathe Hamid

“…It analyzes trends over the past decade, focusing on certification growth, building types, rating levels (Certified, Silver, Gold, Platinum), and regional distribution. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing a task-sharing mental health intervention for Sickle Cell Disease populations in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative analysis... by John Patena, Leah Elster, Tania Hameed, Sumedha Kulkarni, Alden Yuanhong Lai, Annika C. Sweetland, Joyce Gyamfi, Temitope Ojo, Angela Odoms-Young, Charmaine Royal, Emmanuel Peprah

“…BackgroundPeople living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) experience higher rates of common mental disorders (CMD). There is an alarming treatment gap in the provision of adequate mental health services for CMDs in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). …”
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Triatoma dimidiata, domestic animals and acute Chagas disease: a 10-year follow-up after an eco-bio-social intervention by Jose G. Juarez, Andrea M. Moller-Vasquez, María Granados-Presa, Pamela Pennington, Norma Padilla, Sujata Balasubramanian, Lisa D. Auckland, Elsa Berganza, Estuardo Alvarado Liberato, Henry Esquivel, Ranferi Trampe, Louisa A. Messenger, Celia Cordón-Rosales, Gabriel L. Hamer, Sarah A. Hamer

“…Results Persistent household infestation by T. dimidiata was observed across all four communities, with infestation rates ranging from 17% to 38% and colonization levels ranging from 9% to 29%. …”
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Potential role of a cognitive rehabilitation program following left temporal lobe epilepsy surgery by Camila de Vasconcelos Geraldi, Sara Escorsi-Rosset, Pamela Thompson, Ana C. Gargaro Silva, Américo Ceiki Sakamoto

“…Verbal learning efficiency, naming abilities, memory subjective ratings, ecological activity measures and a language fMRI paradigm were used as outcome measures. …”
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Information Transparency:  Approaches to Evaluation, Key Features, Trends by R. P. Bulyga, I. V. Safonova

“…The article provides a detailed review of the current methods and practices of reputable international and Russian rating agencies and professional communities for assessing information transparency of economic entities, it also defines and systemizes the basic characteristics disclosed by companies. …”
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China’s social fake news database release with brain structural, functional, and behavioural measures by Wanting Chen, Jia Shi, Qinghua He

“…Additionally, participants’ trait and rating data were collected to explore individual differences in brain structure, intrinsic functional states, and responses to fake and true news. …”
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Gradience and optionality in the syntactic realization of focus by Silvio Cruschina, Laia Mayol

“…In addition, while Catalan is insensitive to the grammatical function of the focus, in both Spanish and Italian preverbal subjects are rated higher than preverbal objects. These asymmetries are reminiscent of Leonetti’s dichotomy between restrictive and permissive languages, the former imposing a straightforward mapping between syntax and information structure and the later not doing so.  …”
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Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Driving Forces of Landscape Ecological Risks in Highly Urbanized Areas: A Case Study of Suzhou City by Lingyue LU, Dawei SHAO, Dianming WU

“…However, relatively little attention has been given to urbanized areas characterized by high rates of population growth and land development. …”
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A longitudinal qualitative study of clinical nurses caring for hospitalized adults during the first fifteen months of COVID-19: lessons in professional survival and leadership by Elizabeth M. Norman, Mildred Ortu Kowalski, Roxanne Sabatini, Carol S. Jones, Wendy Silverstein

“…At the time of this April surge, nurses were exposed to a virus with no standard treatments and high mortality rates. Using a longitudinal qualitative design, the team hoped to answer questions about what compelled these nurses to continue to come to work? …”
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BASSET: Bandpass-adaptive Single-pulse Search Toolkit—Optimized Subband Pulse Search Strategies for Faint Narrowband Fast Radio Bursts by J. H Cao, P. Wang, D. Li, Q. H. Pan, K. Mao, C. H. Niu, Y. K. Zhang, Q. Y. Qu, W. J. Lu, J. S. Zhang, Y. H. Zhu, Y. D. Wang, H. X. Chen, X. L. Chen, J. H. Fang, Y. Feng, H. Gao, Y. F. Huang, J. Li, C. C. Miao, C. W. Tsai, J. M. Yao, S. P. You, R. S. Zhao, Q. Z. Liu, S. M. Weng, S. H. Yew, J. Zhang, L. Zhang, E. Gügercinoğlu, D. K. Zhou, W. W. Zhu

“…In conjunction with the pulse calibration and the Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulated injection experiments, this work updates the quantified parameter space of the detection rate. Moreover, a parallel-accelerated version of the BASSET code was provided and evaluated through simulation. …”
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Respiratory Support with Limited Tidal Volume and Peak Pressure in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by A. V. Vlasenko, D. A. Ostapchenko, G. N. Meshcheryakov, P. Yu. Osipov

“…The paper presents the results of a study, which prove the advantages of artificial ventilation with a descending air flow on inspiration, tidal volume 6 ml/kg body weight; P peak &lt; 30 cm H2O in showing its efficiency, by optimizing the parameters of the respiratory pattern, by improving gas exchange in the lung, by reducing the time of respiratory support, the length of stay in an intensive care unit, and mortality rates as compared with artificial square-wave air flow on inspiration, TV 12—15 ml/kg body weight; Ppeak tracheal &gt;35 cm H2°.…”
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SPONTANEOUS SPAWNING OF BRAZILIAN SARDINE IN CAPTIVITY by Caio Cesar Franca MAGNOTTI, Fabio Carneiro STERZELECKI, Filipe Santos CIPRIANO, Fabiola Santiago PEDROTTI, Vanessa Martins ROCHA, Vinicius Ronzani CERQUEIRA

“…This is the first report for the genus Sardinella. Following the pattern found in the natural environment, the number of spawns, as well as fertilization and hatching rates were higher in spring, summer and fall than in winter. …”
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Language-Based Engineering Considering the Trade-off among Words in Design Reflecting User’s Emotion by Nobuhisa KATSUMATA, Sonosuke HARADA, So FUKUHARA, Masao ARAKAWA, Shogo NAKAO, Masahiko FUJIWARA

“…We analyzed the relationship between user ratings and design elements using Quantification Theory Type I and created a database of these relationships. …”
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