The effects of school closures on influenza outbreaks and pandemics: systematic review of simulation studies. by Charlotte Jackson, Punam Mangtani, Jeremy Hawker, Babatunde Olowokure, Emilia Vynnycky

“…We summarised the predicted effects of school closure on the peak and cumulative attack rates and the duration of the epidemic. We investigated how these predictions depended on the basic reproduction number, the timing and duration of closure and the assumed effects of school closures on contact patterns.…”
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Global, regional, and national burden of maternal disorders, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the global burden of disease study 2021 by Jie Huang, Yuanyuan Man, Zan Shi, Xiaojie Fu, Wenhao Shi, Xiaoling Liang

“…The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD), recognized as the most comprehensive epidemiological surveillance system, provides critical evidence for optimizing maternal health policies through systematic quantification of disease burden patterns. This multinational study employs GBD 2021 data to conduct a spatiotemporal analysis of maternal disorder burden across 21 GBD regions and 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021, utilizing standardized metrics including DALYs, prevalence rates, and mortality incidence. …”
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Visual vs. Spatial Contributions to Microsaccades and Visual-Spatial Working Memory by Joshua T. Gaunt, Bruce Bridgeman

“…Microsaccade rates and directions were monitored while observers performed a visual working memory task at varying retinal eccentricities. …”
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A novel framework for modeling quarantinable disease transmission. by Wenchen Liu, Chang Liu, Dehui Wang, Yiyuan She

“…The framework surpasses conventional uniform mixing and static rate assumptions by incorporating adaptive power laws, dynamic transmission rates, and spline-based smoothing techniques. …”
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A Comprehensive Approach to Synthetic Distribution Grid Generation: Erdős–Rényi to Barabási-Albert by Mohammad Shahraeini

“…A comparison of the Erdős and Barabási-Albert models shows variations in maximum degree values, branching rates, and mixing patterns. The original Barabási-Albert model tends to have nodes with higher degrees and increased branching rates, which can be adjusted by the richness index. …”
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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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Burden analysis of diabetic nephropathy caused by excessive intake of sugar-sweetened beverages in high and low SDI regions by Xue Wang, Guangyan Cai, Qing Ouyang, Xiangmei Chen

“…The results revealed distinct patterns and trends in age-standardized rates of deaths, DALYs, YLDs, and YLLs between the two regions.…”
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Exploration of fever characteristics in parturients under continuous temperature monitoring during labor analgesia and analysis of the impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes: an... by Xia Li, Xia Li, Junli Ma

“…Additionally, the fever group had a higher rate of meconium-stained amniotic fluid (grade III), used more analgesics, and had a higher rate of antibiotic use. …”
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Methodological development study: Dynamic mask attention graph neural network for mechanical ventilation in elderly intensive care unit patients by Yi Xie, Ni Xie, Jiao Guo

“…Results The experiments showed that DymaGNN achieved an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.8363 and 0.8557 on the intubation prediction task on MIMIC-IV and eICU datasets, respectively, and maintained an AUC of 0.8115 under a 15% data missing rate. Visualization of the feature interaction graph revealed the relationship between important features such as respiratory rate and oxygen saturation. …”
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Generating Large Time–Bandwidth Product RF-Chirped Waveforms Using Vernier Dual-Optical Frequency Combs by Mohammed S. Alshaykh

“…In this work, we propose a photonics-based large-TBWP RF chirp generator utilizing dual optical frequency combs with a small difference in the repetition rate. By employing dispersion modules for frequency-to-time mapping, we convert the spectral interferometric patterns into a temporal RF sinusoidal carrier signal whose frequency is swept through the optical shot-to-shot delay. …”
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Solar FaultNet: Advanced Fault Detection and Classification in Solar PV Systems Using SwinProba‐GeNet and BaBa Optimizer Models by Praveen Kumar Balachandran, Muhammad Ammirrul Atiqi Mohd Zainuri, Faisal Alsaif

“…It also proposes the Solar FaultNet‐a novel deep learning‐based approach that significantly improves fault detection performance in solar PV systems and integrates the model with state‐of‐the‐art ML techniques like CNN and LSTM to capture inherent complex patterns and interdependencies of fault data. Besides, the proposed model outperforms conventional machine‐learning algorithms and state‐of‐the‐art deep‐ learning models for better performance by yielding higher accuracy, precision, recall, F1‐score, and low error rate on various fault types such as PV array faults, inverter faults, grid synchronization faults, and environmental faults. …”
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Effect of water-saving irrigation on the seasonal emission of CH₄ from paddy field by PENG Shi-zhang, LI Dao-xi, JIAO Xi-yun, HE Yan, YU Jin-yuan

“…There is no statistically significant difference on the mean emission rates of CH₄ between two kinds of irrigation patterns during the ponding to the peak tillering stage of rice (0.05<P=0.87); while CH₄ emission rate from PFCI is significantly lower than that from PFFI during the later tillering to ripening stage of rice (0.00=P<0.05). …”
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ANCA-related vasculitis incidence and features before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles, Biobio Province, Chile: an observational retrospective analysis by Daniel Enos, Daniel Enos, Daniel Enos, Mariel Hernández, Mariel Hernández, Gonzalo P. Méndez, Lysis Cáceres, Ignacia Bravo, Josefina Jobet, Simón Castro, Lorena Cornejo, Catalina Vega, Andrés Salazar

“…Mortality and renal replacement therapy needs were also compared.ResultsThe annual incidence rate was higher in the pandemic group compared to the pre-pandemic group, with 9.6 cases per year vs. 3.1 cases per year [incidence rate ratio (IRR)=3.11, 95% CI 1.86 to 5.20]. …”
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ARMC-RL: Adaptive Caching With Reinforcement Learning for Efficient 360° Video Streaming in Edge Networks by Minji Choi, Somin Park, Jin-Hyun Ahn, Dong Ho Kim, Cheolwoo You

“…Higher cache hit rates contribute to reducing transmission latency and lowering bandwidth consumption. …”
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An Epidemiological and Multidrug Resistance Study for E. coli Isolated from Urinary Tract Infection (Three Years of Study) by Mahde S. Assafi, Fawwaz F. Ali, Reem Fouad Polis, Nisreen Jawad Sabaly, Sozan Muhsin Qarani

“…The uropathogenic E. coli rate was higher, statistically not significant, in females (21.4%) than males (18.5%) (P=0.4946). …”
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MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images by Jianfeng Li, Yibing Yang, Liutong Yang, Yang Zhao, Qinghua Luo, Chenxu Wang

“…Due to the complex sea background and the different sizes and shapes of ships, the detection of ship targets has the problems of low detection rate, high false detection rate and high missed detection rate. …”
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Automated geospatial workflow for spatiotemporal assessment of urban expansion influence on deforestation in Northeast Florida by Md Zakaria Salim, Md Hashibur Rahman, Abdulla Al Kafy, Hamad Ahmed Altuwaijri, Md Abdul Fattah, Namit Choudhari

“…At the county level, Duval County experienced the highest urban growth rate at 32.50 %, while Madison County had the highest deforestation rate at 24.74 %. …”
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