Prevalence and spectrum of PIK3 mutations in breast cancer and their correlation with clinicopathological features: A cross-sectional observational study from South India by HS Darling, Rahul Sud, Deep Kumar Raman

“…Conclusion: PIK3CA mutations are prevalent in Indian patients with breast cancer, with rates slightly higher than global estimates. High nodal burden and advanced-stage tumors showed greater mutation rates, which may have therapeutic implications.…”
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Performance of Large Language Models in the Non-English Context: Qualitative Study of Models Trained on Different Languages in Chinese Medical Examinations by Zhong Yao, Liantan Duan, Shuo Xu, Lingyi Chi, Dongfang Sheng

“…All models except Llama generally had higher accuracy rates for simple questions than for complex ones. …”
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Antibiotic resistance of biofilm-forming bacteria causing urinary tract infections: A systematic review by Abigail Anne Ferrer, Samson Decasa, Juliana Carlidy Elauria, Jalen Rose Esguerra, Earl Adriane Cano, Angela Nole Shayenne Coderos, Denise Alexandra Cruz, Den Marc Exala

“…Furthermore, biofilm formation rates ranged from 36.5% to 100%, with a median prevalence of 75.5%. …”
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Study on temperature field characteristics of window glass unexposed surfaces under varying indoor fire source conditions by Zhihan Li, Guowei Zhang, Longfei Yu, Yinxin Qu, Xiangfei Liu

“…Increased HRR amplified spatial disparities in warming rate increments while these disparities escalated proportionally with fire intensity. …”
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Identification of Earthquake Precursors Origin and AI Framework for Automatic Classification for One of These Precursors by Ghada Ali, Lotfy Samy, Omar M. Saad, Ali G. Hafez, El-Sayed Hasaneen, Kamal AbdElrahman, Ibrahim Salah, Mohammed S. Fnais, Hamed Nofel, Ahmed M. Mohamed

“…From these two stations, 429 earthquakes were recorded at three sampling rates: 50, 100, and 200 samples per second. Then, a spectral analysis was performed, where it was found that there was a clear relationship between the first pattern and the acquisition sampling rate. …”
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Global assessment of current extinction risks and future challenges for turtles and tortoises by Chuanwu Chen, Jiang Wang, Marcel Holyoak, Liu Lin, Yanping Wang

“…Furthermore, the projected rates of climatic and environmental changes across species’ distributions are significantly higher than the rates of evolution for traits linked to resilience to climate change and altered environments. …”
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HIFDA - High-Frequency Electrical Voltage and Current Signals from Household Appliances by Víctor M. Navarro, Marta Barragán, Rubén Nieto, Jesús Ureña, Álvaro Hernández

“…While datasets like WHITED, BLOND, and UK-DALE provide insights into consumption patterns, they face limitations such as lack of steady-state data, complicated ground-truth or low sampling rates, which hinder detecting low-power appliances. …”
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The use of emergency medical services (EMS) data to map violence: A case study in Nairobi, Kenya by Polive Okode, Gregory Breetzke

“…Using social disorganisation theory as a theoretical framework, this study uses EMS data from fifteen hospitals across three Nairobi sub-counties to map violence and analyse its spatial patterns. A spatial regression model was employed to assess the influ-ence of five social disorganisation variables—unemployment, education, gender, residential mobility and youth demographics—on violence rates, disaggregated by gender. …”
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Evaluation of Socioeconomic Dynamics and Their Impact on Life Expectancy in Coal Mining Communities in Colombia by Nayive Nieves Pimiento, Edwin Rivas Trujillo, Juan M. Menéndez Aguado

“…The study evaluates the socioeconomic dynamics and their impact on life expectancy in coal mining communities in Colombia, aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), assessing the relationship between production, occupation, accident rates, mortality and royalties. Univariate, bivariate, path analysis and ARIMA models were used to identify patterns and projections. …”
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Multistage Training of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Predict Preeclampsia and Fetal Growth Restriction by William Hoyos, Rodrigo Garcia, Jose Aguilar

“…The application of these models in healthcare settings holds promise as a valuable tool for the early detection of PE and FGR, contributing to the reduction of morbidity and mortality rates.…”
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How the pandemic shaped presenteeism trends between healthcare and non-healthcare workers using the Korean working conditions surveys (2010–2023) by Ari Min, Yoonjung Ji, Wonhee Baek

“…Healthcare workers exhibited high presenteeism rates prior to the pandemic; however, during and after the pandemic, these rates decreased rapidly and ultimately became lower than those of non-healthcare workers. …”
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Factors contributing to doctoral student attrition in higher education institutions in Namibia by Esther Nuuyoma, Sing Nevensha, Chika T Sehoole

“…Guided by Tinto’s student integration theory, this study explores factors driving high dropout rates among doctoral candidates at two Namibian universities. …”
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COVID-19 employment disruption and area-level deprivation by Anne Devlin, Adele Whelan, Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond

“…The findings suggest that not only did deprived areas have higher rates of employment disruption but the disruption they faced was more volatile in that it was more responsive to changes in government restrictions. …”
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Effect of Interaction Energies on the Adsorption of Glycine onto a Cu(110) Surface: A Monte Carlo Simulation by R.O. Uñac, A.M. Vidales, G. Zgrablich

“…The dependence of the surface pattern structures upon the temperature and diffusion rate was studied. …”
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Microsaccades and Visual-Spatial Working Memory by Joshua T. Gaunt, Bruce Bridgeman

“…Intervening tasks during the memory interval affected memory as well as microsaccade patterns. Average microsaccade rate peaks after appearance of a fixation cross at the start of a trial, and dips at cue onset and offset. …”
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Ensemble genetic and CNN model-based image classification by enhancing hyperparameter tuning by Wajahat Hussain, Muhammad Faheem Mushtaq, Mobeen Shahroz, Urooj Akram, Ehab Seif Ghith, Mehdi Tlija, Tai-hoon Kim, Imran Ashraf

“…The convolutional neural network (CNN) model is combined with a genetic algorithm GA) using stacking based on the Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) dataset to enhance efficiency and prediction rate on image classification. The GA optimizes the number of layers, kernel size, learning rates, dropout rates, and batch sizes of the CNN model to improve the accuracy and performance of the model. …”
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Carbon taxation in Europe by A. V. Korytin, N. S. Kostrykina, T. A. Malinina

“…In Sweden and Switzerland the excise rate is in direct proportion to the carbon content of the fuel, however in the UK, Norway and France excise rates are set more voluntary. …”
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Impact of monthly air pollution and weather conditions on cardiorespiratory mortality in Portuguese Metropolitan Areas by Ediclê de Souza Fernandes Duarte, Paulo Sérgio Lucio, Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues, Maria João Costa

“…Monthly analyses reveal regional patterns and seasonal variations. The results show that PMA had a higher average CARDIO rate (202.94 [Deaths per 100 000]) compared to LMA (169.70 [Deaths per 100 000]). …”
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Divergent confidence intervals among pre-specified analyses in the HiSTORIC stepped wedge trial: An exploratory post-hoc investigation. by Richard A Parker, Catriona Keerie, Christopher J Weir, Atul Anand, Nicholas L Mills

“…Divergence was particularly acute for the safety endpoint, which had an event rate of 0.36% overall. Examining the raw data was particularly helpful to assess the sensitivity of the results to small changes in event rates and identify patterns in the data.…”
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Paediatric Measles in Romania: A Comparative Clinical and Epidemiological Analysis of the 2017–2019 and 2023–2024 Epidemic Waves at a Tertiary Care Centre in Bucharest by Gheorghiță Jugulete, Mădălina Maria Merișescu, Bianca Borcos, Alexandra Nicoleta Totoianu, Anca Oana Dragomirescu

“…A retrospective analysis evaluated mortality rates, distribution by age and sex, as well as clinical disease patterns. …”
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