Prevalence of Moraxella Catarrhalis as a Nasal Flora among Healthy Kindergarten Children in Bhaktapur, Nepal by Neetu Amatya, Govinda Paudel, Bhuvan Saud, Sunita Wagle, Vikram Shrestha, Bibhav Adhikari

“…Using bivariate and multivariate analysis, the associated risk factors with significantly high carriage rates were age group of 3–4 years, classroom occupancy with 15–30 children, and antibiotic consumption within 6 months, with a p value of ≤0.05 in each of the cases. …”
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Enhanced melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer classification using a hybrid LSTM-CNN model by Sara M. M. Abohashish, Hanan H. Amin, E. I. Elsedimy

“…Early detection and accurate diagnosis are crucial for improving the prognosis and survival rates of patients with melanoma. This paper presents a novel approach for the automatic identification of cutaneous lesions by integrating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. …”
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Numerical Modelling of 1d Isothermal Lithium-Ion Battery with Varied Electrolyte and Electrode Materials by Elif Kaya, Alessandro d’Adamo

“…During discharge at five different C-rates, Li-ion batteries with liquid electrolytes displayed higher voltage than those with polymer electrolytes. …”
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Younger Age Is an Independent Predictor for Poor Survival in Patients with Signet Ring Prostate Carcinoma by Jue Wang, Fen Wei Wang, George P. Hemstreet

“…The 1-, 3-, and 5-year cancer-specific survival rates were 94.6%, 89.6%, and 83.8%, respectively. …”
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The Relationship between Corporate Political Strategy of Public Partnership and Corporate Investment by Lin Woon Leong, Kelvin Lee Yong Ming, Pek Chuen Khee, Irfah Najihah Binti Basir Malan, Ho Ree Chan

“…The empirical results illuminate the intricate relationship between CPA and corporate investment, indicating that firms engaging in politically strategic maneuvers typically demonstrate elevated investment rates in comparison to their counterparts devoid of such political strategization. …”
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Assessment of the Symmetry of the Ground Reaction Forces in Patient with ACL Rupture during Vertical Jump by Keyvan Sharifmoradi, Arash Raji

“…There were no significant differences between loading and unloading rates between both side in take-off and landing phases (p<0.05). …”
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Multi-scale spatio-temporal graph neural network for urban traffic flow prediction by Hui Chen, Jian Huang, Yong Lu, Jijie Huang

“…On the four datasets, the average improvement rates of the three prediction accuracy metrics, namely the Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), reach 17.69%, 15.65%, and 10.30% respectively.…”
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Deep RNA sequencing of pectoralis muscle transcriptomes during late-term embryonic to neonatal development in indigenous Chinese duck breeds. by Chunhong Zhu, Weitao Song, Zhiyun Tao, Hongxiang Liu, Wenjuan Xu, Shuangjie Zhang, Huifang Li

“…A total of 393 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified, which showed higher or lower expression levels at E27 compared with E21 and 5 dph, reflecting the pattern of PM growth rates. Among these, 43 DEGs were common to all three time points in both duck breeds. …”
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Feedback-Driven Dynamical Model for Axonal Extension on Parallel Micropatterns by Kyle Cheng, Udathari Kumarasinghe, Cristian Staii

“…In these environments, axons preferentially align with the pattern direction, form bundles, and advance at constant speed. …”
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Evaluation of effectiveness of transcranial mesodiencephalic modulation within comprehensive treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis patients with various comorbidities by O. A. Serov, O. A. Smolentseva

“…Two months after the start of the study, in Group 1, positive radiological changes were recorded more often – in 91,7% (22/24), in Group 2, positive changes were observed in 62,5% (15/24) of patients (p=0,047; χ2); the same pattern was observed with positive changes of laboratory rates – 91,7% (22/24) versus 66,7% (16/24), (p=0,033; χ2), respectively. …”
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Exploring cognitive and emotional symptoms associated with hippocampal subfield atrophy in drug-induced Parkinsonism by Wei Zhou, MengYue Tang, Bo Cheng, Ling Sun, HongYu Lin, Yang Fan, Nian Liu, Shushan Zhang

“…This study explores hippocampal subfield volumes in DIP compared to Parkinson’s disease (PD) and healthy controls (HCs), investigating correlations with cognitive (Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA), emotional (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, HAMD; Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, HAMA), and motor (Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, UPDRS) symptoms.MethodsA total of 19 DIP patients, 20 PD patients, and 20 HCs were enrolled. …”
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Evaluating the Clinico-biochemical Association between Stress and Chronic Periodontitis by Estimation of Serum Cortisol and Serum Chromogranin A Levels by Shilpa Duseja, Hiral Akshat Parikh, Sareen Duseja

“…The analysis of stress levels using the Social Readjustment Rating Scale and lifestyle evaluation using the Health Practice Index was done. …”
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Principles for Achieving Legibility in Residential Spaces: A Synthesis of Cognitive and Perceptual Approaches by Slobodan Marković, Đorđe Alfirević, Sanja Simonović Alfirević, Sanja Nikolić

“…The experimental component examines cognitive navigation and subjective perception, assessed via the recognition of a 3D interior from a 2D plan and bipolar rating scales. Participants explored regular and irregular layouts through animated simulations. …”
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Evolution of public broadcasting: TeleJurnal’s viewership trends and strategic implications for business sustainability by Săseanu Ramona, Stanomir Ruxandra, Bădulescu Andreea-Alexandra

“…By employing a time-series autoregressive moving-average model, this article assesses the stationarity and autocorrelation of audience data to evaluate the consistency of ratings amidst external factors such as changes in programming strategy, political events, and market competition. …”
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A GPT-Based Approach for Cyber Threat Assessment by Fahim Sufi

“…Notably, anomaly detection identified six significant deviations during the monitored timeframe, starting from 25 September 2023 to 25 November 2024, with a sensitivity of 75%, revealing critical insights into unusual activity patterns. The fully deployed automated model also identified 11 correlated factors and five unique clusters associated with high-rated cyber incidents. …”
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What Motivates Companies to Take the Decision to Decarbonise? by Stefan M. Buettner, Werner König, Frederick Vierhub-Lorenz, Marina Gilles

“…For instance, long-term cost risks were rated more relevant than reputational gains or regulatory compliance. …”
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Two-choice discrimination learning in African elephants (Loxodonta africana) by Charles Hyatt

“… A study of two-choice discrimination learning across 22 pattern pairs was conducted with three African elephants (Loxodonta africana) at the Atlanta/Fulton County Zoo with rates of acquisition and retention observed to be similar to those earlier reported for the Asian species (Elephas maximus). …”
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Enhancing Sensitivity across Scales with Highly Sensitive Hall Effect‐Based Auxetic Tactile Sensors by Youngheon Yun, Dongchan Lee, Soyeon Lee, Salvador Pané, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis, Sungwoo Chun, Bumjin Jang

“…HEATS exhibits a remarkable 20‐fold and 10‐fold improvement at tensile rates of 0.9% and 30%, respectively, compared to non‐auxetic sensors. …”
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Monitoring and Evaluation of Fish Passage Effectiveness in Nature-like Fishway of Sanghe River Secondary Hydropower Station by SHEN Chun-ying, WANG Jing-chao, QIN Xin, CHEN Yu-bin, XUE Ru-zhan

“…[Objective] With the continuous expansion of China’s water conservancy infrastructure, hydraulic structures such as dams and sluice gates have obstructed fish migration routes and altered hydrological regimes both upstream and downstream. …”
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Geographical variation of overweight, obesity and related risk factors: Findings from the European Health Examination Survey in Luxembourg, 2013-2015. by Hanen Samouda, Maria Ruiz-Castell, Valery Bocquet, Andrea Kuemmerle, Anna Chioti, Frédéric Dadoun, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Saverio Stranges

“…Large disparities in the prevalence of overweight and obesity were found between municipalities, with the highest rates of obesity found in 3 municipalities located in the South-West of the country. …”
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