Sickness absence rates in NHS England staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from multivariate regression and time series modelling. by Ewan McTaggart, Itamar Megiddo, John Bowers, Adam Kleczkowski

“…Understanding the impact of the pandemic on sickness absence rates among NHS England staff is crucial to developing effective workforce management strategies and ensuring the continued delivery of healthcare. …”
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Trends in Positive Urine Culture Rates and Antimicrobial Resistance in Non-Hospitalized Children from Western Romania: A Retrospective Observational Study by Constantin Catalin Marc, Maria Daniela Mot, Monica Licker, Delia Muntean, Daniela Teodora Marti, Ana Alexandra Ardelean, Alina Ciceu, Sergiu Adrian Sprintar, Daniela Adriana Oatis, Alin Gabriel Mihu, Tudor Rares Olariu

“…Near-complete susceptibility was observed for fosfomycin (99.71%) and nitrofurantoin (96.01%), while high susceptibility rates were also observed for ciprofloxacin (85.43%) and amoxicillin–clavulanic acid (75.05%). …”
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Steadying the Ship: Can Export Proceeds Repatriation Policy Stabilize Indonesian Exchange Rates Amid Short-Term Capital Flow Fluctuations? by Sondang Marsinta Uli Panggabean, Mahjus Ekananda, Beta Yulianita Gitaharie, Leslie Djuranovik

“…Furthermore, we identify a reversal pattern in the impacts of both repatriated export proceeds and short-term foreign capital flows after 3–5 days, suggesting a potential need to evaluate policies aimed at dampening short-term capital flow impacts on exchange rate volatility. …”
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Normal Expiratory Flow Rate and Lung Volumes in Patients with Combined Emphysema and Interstitial Lung Disease: A Case Series and Literature Review by Karen L Heathcote, Donald W Cockcroft, Derek A Fladeland, Mark E Fenton

“…Pulmonary function tests in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis characteristically show a restrictive pattern including small lung volumes and increased expiratory flow rates resulting from a reduction in pulmonary compliance due to diffuse fibrosis. …”
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Heart rate and EEG gamma band connectivity in the ventral attention network during emotional movie stimulation in women with high emotion dysregulation by Francesca Fusina, Marco Marino, Alessandro Angrilli

“…Both the High Dysregulation (HD) and Low Dysregulation (LD) groups watched 18 validated video-clips divided in 6 different emotional categories (Erotic, Scenery, Neutral, Sadness, Compassion and Fear) while EEG from 64 electrodes and heart rate (HR) were recorded. Focusing on alpha and gamma EEG rhythms, the connectivity within the VAN network and between VAN and other five relevant networks (DAN, DMN, LN, SMN, VN) was computed and then correlated with the heart rate.ResultsResults showed a different pattern of HR-Network-connectivity correlation in the two groups. …”
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Joint Optical Performance Monitoring and Modulation Format/Bit-Rate Identification by CNN-Based Multi-Task Learning by Xiaojie Fan, Yulai Xie, Fang Ren, Yiying Zhang, Xiaoshan Huang, Wei Chen, Tianwen Zhangsun, Jianping Wang

“…A novel technique is proposed for joint multi-impairment optical performance monitoring (OPM) with bit-rate and modulation format identification (BR-MFI) in next-generation heterogeneous optic communication networks by convolution neural network (CNN)-based deep multi-task learning (MTL) on asynchronous delay-tap sampling phase portraits. …”
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Analyzing Student Graduation and Dropout Patterns Using Artificial Intelligence and Survival Strategies by Behrouz Alefy, Vahid Babazadeh

“…The urgent need for efficient planning and strong support systems in educational settings is examined in this study, which pays particular attention to tracking students' paths and examining dropout survival rates. The project explores approaches targeted at improving dropout survival rates and utilizing predictive modeling techniques to assess critical student outcomes, including graduation and dropout. …”
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Determinants, barriers, and concepts of husband’s involvement in antenatal care among women in Pakistan by Javeria Khan, Sidra Abid, Sarwat Mumtaz

“…Although maternal mortality rates have shown a steady decrease over the last few years, they remain high, indicating low levels of ANC utilization and involvement (4). …”
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SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF TARGET-SPECIES IN TUNA AND TUNA-LIKE FISHING IN BRAZIL by Silvaneide Luzinete RODRIGUES, Vívian Graziela Oliveira CARNEIRO, Ana Júlia Rufino de FREITAS, Humber Agrelli de ANDRADE

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Group housing increases alertness and social interaction compared to traditional single stabling in two-year-old sport horse stallions during pretraining by L. Kroschel, F. Pilger, J. Aurich, C. Nagel, C. Aurich

“…Stallions were 24 months old and housed either in a group stable (Group 24, n = 9) or in individual boxes (Box 24, n = 10), or they were 30 months of age and housed in individual boxes (Box 30, n = 10). Cortisol, heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), body development, injuries and selected behaviour patterns were analysed (1) at transfer from pasture to stable and (2) thereafter, repeatedly during pretraining. …”
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Intelligent Stress Detection Using ECG Signals: Power Spectrum Imaging with Continuous Wavelet Transform and CNN by Rodrigo Mateo-Reyes, Irving A. Cruz-Albarran, Luis A. Morales-Hernandez

“…This study proposes a model based on depth-separable convolutional neural networks (DSCNN) to analyze heart rate variability (HRV) and detect stress. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are pre-processed to remove noise and ensure data quality. …”
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Evaluation of growth performances of crossbreds and backcrossbreds with purebreds Nishikigoi and Hungarian carp (Cyprinus carpio) by Vander Bruno Santos, Lucas Rosan Furquim

“…Fish were fed four times a day at the rate of 5%–7% of biomass with the same specific diet for each growth stage. …”
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REGULATING OF CAST CONSTRUCTIONS PROPERTIES BY INTENSIFYING HEAT EXCHANGE IN MOLD WITH GASIFIED PATTERN by O. I. Shinsky, E. I. Marukovich, V. S. Doroshenko, P. B. Kaluzny

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Experimental study of inductively coupled plasma etching of patterned single crystal diamonds by Lei Zhao, Xiangbing Wang, Nan Jiang, Kazhihito Nishimura, Jian Yi, Shuangquan Fang

“…Additionally, the etching rate exhibits a gradual increase with a higher oxygen content in the O₂/Ar ratio, while the influence of chamber pressure on the etching rate follows an increasing-then-decreasing trend. …”
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Features of daily dynamics of blood pressure in patients with high and very high cardiovascular risk by SCORE scale and concomitant phenomenon of heart rate turbulence by А. І. Vytryhovsky

“…The presence of the phenomenon of heart rate turbulence in patients with existing cardiovascular disease does not lead to the emergence of some features or changing patterns in daily blood pressure…”
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Robot assisted sentinel lymph node biopsy using indocyanine green combined with carbon nanoparticles staining improved detection rates in breast cancer by Qinbo Wang, Qingyu Yang, Zuxiao Chen, Zongyan Li, Xiaoyan Fu, Yunxiang Luo, Yonghai Guo, Haiyan Li

“…Notably, CNSI staining was negative in two cases within the ICG + CNSI group, while one patient exhibited a false-negative staining pattern. Five instances of effusion and one case involving bleeding were reported; no significant differences emerged concerning postoperative complications, including breast drainage or hospital stay length, significant differences arose within numerical pain rating scale scores when comparing robot-assisted SLN biopsy positive versus negative groups (p = 0.021 < 0.05). …”
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Mathematical analysis of scrub typhus seasonal infection with re-scaled transmission rate considering Northeast India reported data from 2010 to 2022 by Biplab Dhar, Mohammad Sajid

“…We propose a Host-Vector model, a first of its kind, with a significant modification in the disease infection transmission rate. Our work aims to investigate a mathematical model by Atangana-Baleanu fractal-fractional operator that has seasonal pattern incorporating 2010–2022 data. …”
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Audience Preferences and Popular Program Patterns on News Channels in Karachi by Erum Hafeez

“…One-on-one interviews reflect the mindset and viewing patterns of news channels’ audience. It is also instrumental to highlight the factors that hinder Express-News ratings against its competing channels. …”
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Productive aging patterns and associations with health outcomes among Chinese urban older adults by Zexi Su

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Growth analysis of sideoats grama [Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.] in different plant strata by Sait JUANES-MARQUEZ, Perpetuo ÁLVAREZ-VÁZQUEZ, José E. GARCÍA-MARTÍNEZ, Filogonio J. HERNÁNDEZ-GUZMÁN, Juan A. ENCINA-DOMÍNGUEZ, Josué I. GARCÍA-LÓPEZ

“…Leaf area index (LAI), specific leaf area (SLA), leaf area duration (LAD), biomass duration (BDM), absolute growth rate (AGR), relative growth rate (RGR), net assimilation rate (NAR), and crop growth rate (CGR), were measured at 14-day intervals over 120 days after sowing (DAS). …”
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