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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Spatiotemporal dynamics and influencing factors of soil heterotrophic respiration in northeast China. by Dan Liu, Cheng Long Yu, Rui Feng, Shi Ping Yin

“…And it had a significant increasing trend at the rate of 5.75 × 108 kg/year. (2) From the spatial differentiation and spatial clustering pattern, Rh was dominated by a northeast-southwest direction, its spatial distribution center was close to the northeast geographical center, and it had no obvious contraction or expansion trend on the whole. (3) In the northern and northeastern regions of the study area, vegetation cover directly influences local soil respiration rates. …”
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Differences in geochemical characteristics of produced water from coalbed methane wells and their indications for drainage：A case study of the Santang Syncline in Western Guizhou by Xiaozhi ZHOU, Shuaiqi WANG, Shiliang ZHU, Shaolei WANG, Gang XIANG, Xuehua CHEN, Jihang DONG, Xin QIU

“…Combined with the monitoring of the water quality and hydrochemical characteristics of the produced water from CBM wells, the overflow release process after fracturing is divided into four stages: trial flowback, constant-rate flowback, slow increase of the flowback rate, and rapid decrease of the flowback rate. …”
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Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Children in Hangzhou (2022–2023) by Qin-Rui Lai, Xiao-Li Chu, Ying-Ying Chen, Wei Li, Ya-Jun Guo, Shi-Qiang Shang

“…From February 2022 to January 2023, the HRSV positivity rate was 7.06%. In 2023, it increased to 9.26%. The highest positivity rates were in infants aged 0–6 months and children aged 6 months to 1 year. …”
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Analysis of complications of laparoscopic management of abdominal diseases related to extended indications by Kazimierz Rembiasz, Andrzej Bobrzyński, Andrzej Budzyński, Marcin Strzałka, Anna Gwóźdź, Marcin Migaczewski, Anna Zub

“…Overall conversion rate was 2.91%; in the 1st period it was 3.97%, in the 2nd 1.81%, and in the 3rd 3.28%.Complication-driven conversion rates were 0.60%, 0.27%, and 0.26%, respectively. …”
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Premium intraocular lens adoption: Insights from a national health insurance analysis by Chi-Ying Huang, Christy Pu, Chiun-Ho Hou

“…However, the adoption rate of premium IOLs increased more rapidly than that of non-premium IOLs. …”
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TaER Expression Is Associated with Transpiration Efficiency Traits and Yield in Bread Wheat. by Jiacheng Zheng, Zhiyuan Yang, Pippa J Madgwick, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Martin A J Parry, Yin-Gang Hu

“…Significant differences were also observed between the three groups varying for TaER expression for several transpiration efficiency (TE)- related traits, including stomatal density (SD), transpiration rate, photosynthetic rate (A), instant water use efficiency (WUEi) and carbon isotope discrimination (CID), and yield traits of biomass production plant-1 (BYPP) and grain yield plant-1 (GYPP). …”
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Modeling of spatial spread of COVID-19 pandemic waves in Russia using a kinetic-advection model by V. V. Aristov, A. V. Stroganov, A. D. Yastrebov

“…In addition to the high infection rate, the high spread rate is due to the increased mobility of contemporary populations. …”
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Response of Water-Use Efficiency (WUE) in Alpine Grasslands to Hydrothermal and Radiative Factors Across Elevation Gradients by Ye Tian, Wan Zhang, Xiao Xu, Bingrong Zhou, Xiaoyun Cao, Bin Qiao

“…Moreover, contribution rate analysis showed an elevation-dependent shift in WUE control: evapotranspiration (ET) exerted a dominant influence at low elevations (contribution rate: −82.50%), while net primary productivity (NPP) became the primary driver at high elevations (contribution rate: 54.71%). …”
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Automated detection and identification of white-backed planthoppers in paddy fields using image processing by Qing YAO, Guo-te CHEN, Zheng WANG, Chao ZHANG, Bao-jun YANG, Jian TANG

“…We achieved a detection rate of 85.6% and a false detection rate of 10.2%. …”
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XRGuard: A Model-Agnostic Approach to Ransomware Detection Using Dynamic Analysis and Explainable AI by M. Adnan Alvi, Zunera Jalil

“…Experimental results demonstrate that XRGuard achieves a 99.69% accuracy rate with an exceptionally low false positive rate of 0.5%. …”
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Structure and functional characteristics of zooplankton and food supply for nekton in the western Bering Sea by E. P. Dulepova, V. V. Napazakov, N. A. Kuznetsova, M. A. Shebanova

“…High values and turnover rate of production are noted for the non-predatory zooplankton (mainly copepods and euphausiids) in the eastern Anadyr Bay, the area at Cape Navarin, the shelf of Koryak coast, and the continental slope of Olyutorsky Bay. …”
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Acoustic emission during tensile deformation of copper single crystals and dislocation annihilation processes by A. PAWEŁEK, W. STRYJEWSKI, H. DYBIEC, W. BOCHNIAK

“…The behaviour of acoustic emission (AE) during the two first stages of the tensile deformation of copper single crystals is investigated using the broad-band piezoelectric transducer for the measurement of AE energy rate ΔE/Δt, AE event rate ΔN/Δt (event density) and energy per one AE event ΔE/ΔN. …”
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THE ACCUMULATION OF HEAVY METALS IN SEDIMENTS OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE NORTH CASPIAN by E. V. Chujko, O. V. Popova

“…Found a close correlation between the average nickel and manganese in the sediments. Calculate the rate of accumulation of the bottom of the western part of the North Caspian Sea. …”
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Adaptive Quantum-Inspired Evolution for Denoising PCG Signals in Unseen Noise Conditions by Lubna Siddiqui, Ashish Mani, Jaspal Singh

“…The performance metrics utilised were Scale-Invariant Signal-to-Distortion Ratio (SI-SDR), Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), Correlation Coefficient (CC) and Zero Crossing Rate (ZCR). The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieved a 25% improvement in the SI-SDR metric in highly noisy environments for pathological PCG signals. …”
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Flow Heterogeneity Controls Dissolution Dynamics in Topologically Complex Rocks by Z. Kanavas, J. Jimenez‐Martinez, F. Miele, J. Nimmo, V. L. Morales

“…Flow unevenness determines the location and rate of dissolution. We propose two models describing expected dissolution patterns and effective reaction rates based on dimensionless metrics for flow, transport, and reaction. …”
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Effect of Different Media and Plant Hormone Concentrations on Callus Induction and Regeneration of Red Squill (<i>Squilla maura</i>) and Peruvian Squill (<i>Oncostema peruviana</i>... by Ibtisam Chakrane, Omar Chlyah, Said Boughribil, Fatima Gaboun, Meriem Mdarhri Alaoui

“…All treatments resulted in callogenesis rates between 65–100% for both species. These treatments led to direct bulbil regeneration. …”
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Assessment of the functional state of left heart in patients with chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by D. V. Vdovenko, R. A. Libis

“…Patients with CHF-PEF had reduced global longitudinal strain (GLS) -16,56±2,61% and GLS rate (GLSR) -0,75±0,11s-1 of the left ventricle and reduced segmental strain and strain rate in basal anteroseptal (-14,72±2,54% and -0,76±0,05s-1) and basal anterolateral (-14,27±3,29% and -0,79±0,12s-1) segments. …”
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Machine learning-optimized dual-band wearable antenna for real-time remote patient monitoring in biomedical IoT systems by Umar Musa, Amor Smida, Muhammad S. Yahya, Mohamed I. Waly, Jun Jiat Tiang, Nazih Khaddaj Mallat, Surajo Muhammad, Abubakar Salisu

“…The heart rate ranged from 65 to 99 BPM, and the body temperature ranged from 30 to 37 °C. …”
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