Molecular Evidence of High Proportion of Plasmodium vivax Malaria Infection in White Nile Area in Sudan by Makarim M. Adam Suliman, Bushra M. Hamad, Musab M. Ali Albasheer, Maytha Elhadi, Mutaz Amin Mustafa, Maha Elobied, Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid

“…We found that on average 20% and 36.5% of malaria infections in both study areas were caused by P. vivax using both microscopy and PCR, respectively. This change in pattern is likely due to the recent demographic changes and high rate of immigration from neighbouring countries in the recent years. …”
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Warming leads to both earlier and later snowmelt floods over the past 70 years by Yuhan Guo, Yuting Yang, Dawen Yang, Lu Zhang, Hongxing Zheng, Jinghua Xiong, Fangzheng Ruan, Juntai Han, Ziwei Liu

“…Using streamflow observations from 1950–2020 and an event-based analysis that distinguishes flood-generating mechanisms across 2339 Northern Hemisphere, snow-affected catchments, we show that the earlier snowmelt effect can be substantially offset or even reversed by a decelerated snowmelt rate under warming. This results in delayed snowmelt floods in approximately 30% of the catchments, contributing to an overall minor shift on a hemispheric scale (−0.87 ± 2.4 days per decade). …”
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Reliability Evaluation and Preventive Maintenance Strategy Selection of Traction Substation Equipment Considering Its Wear Degree by E. E. Bakeev, A. I. Sharapova

“…Existing testing and preventive maintenance pattern is meant for the equipment which actual term of service does not exceed the maximum allowable one. …”
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Effect of acupuncture on endometrial receptivity in women with thin endometrium: study protocol for a single-centre, randomised, sham-controlled trial by Xin Liu, Li Yang, Xiaoyan Wang, Huanfang Xu, Yigong Fang, Pengfei Du, Chenchen Su, Jiashan Li, Weixin Li, Tian Hang, Yaoyao Zhu

“…Secondary outcomes are endometrial pattern, uterine arterial blood flow parameters (Pulsatility Index, Resistance Index and the ratio of peak systolic to end-diastolic blood flow velocities), endometrium blood flow, serum oestradiol concentration, clinical pregnancy rate and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale Scores.Ethics and dissemination This study has been approved by the ethics committee of the Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (approval no.: S2024-04-23-1). …”
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Fungal Sepsis in a Tertiary Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Cross-sectional Study by Kheya Ghosh Uttam, Purbasha Gupta, Sumon Poddar

“…The general mortality rate was 32.9% (<italic>n</italic> = 26). The babies in group I had a higher mortality rate (37.7%) compared with the babies in group II (23%). …”
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Investigation on Potential-Induced Degradation in a 50 MWp Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Power Plant by Jingsheng Huang, Hongtao Li, Yaojie Sun, He Wang, Hong Yang

“…The results obtained in this paper show that the maximum power degradation rate of solar modules was as high as 53.26% after only one year of operation because of PID in the field. …”
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Understanding the changes in multi-structure, physicochemical properties, and in vitro digestibility of quinoa starch by annealing with hydrogen-infused and plasma-activated water... by Hang Liu, Ge Tian, Shanshan Gao, Shuang Liu

“…The total hydrolysis rate and rapidly digestive starch content decreased in QS after ANN treatment, and resistant starch level markedly increased. …”
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Evaluation of the Effects of Anesthetics and Surgery on Sleep Quality in Patients Undergoing Posterior Spinal Instrumentation Surgery: A Prospective Randomised Clinical Trial by Selcan Akesen, Gökay Eken, Yücel Bilgin, Saltuk Buğra Güler, Elifgül Ulutaş

“…Introduction: The aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of the anesthesia methods and surgical procedure on the sleep patterns and sleep quality of patients undergoing posterior spinal instrumentation, using the Pittsburgh Insomnia Rating Scale-20 (PIRS-20). …”
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AI-DBS study: protocol for a longitudinal prospective observational cohort study of patients with Parkinson’s disease for the development of neuronal fingerprints using artificial... by Martijn Beudel, Rick Schuurman, Rob M A de Bie, Deborah Hubers, Mariëlle J Stam, Martijn G J de Neeling, Bart J Keulen, Arthur W G Buijink, Bernadette C M van Wijk

“…Correlations will be tested between spectral features of LFP data and symptom severity, which will be assessed using (1) inertial sensor data from a wearable smartwatch, (2) clinical rating scales and (3) patient diaries and analysed using conventional descriptive statistics and artificial intelligence algorithms. …”
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Adipokines and Sexual Hormones Associated with the Components of the Metabolic Syndrome in Pharmacologically Untreated Subjects: Data from the Brisighella Heart Study by Arrigo F. G. Cicero, Paolo Magni, Massimo Moré, Massimiliano Ruscica, Elena Dozio, Liliana Steffani, Claudio Borghi, Felice Strollo

“…Men and women included in the age-class subgroups were matched for body mass index, waist circumference, blood pressure, heart rate, fasting plasma glucose, and plasma lipids. …”
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The relative efficiency of time‐to‐progression and continuous measures of cognition in presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease by Dan Li, Samuel Iddi, Paul S. Aisen, Wesley K. Thompson, Michael C. Donohue, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

“…Abstract Introduction Clinical trials on preclinical Alzheimer's disease are challenging because of the slow rate of disease progression. We use a simulation study to demonstrate that models of repeated cognitive assessments detect treatment effects more efficiently than models of time to progression. …”
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Wernicke encephalopathy in combination with acute polyneuropathy under the guise of a demyelinating disease in a teenager with an eating disorder by E. O. Ovchinnikova, A. S. Kotov, M. V. Panteleeva, E. V. Mukhina

“…The condition is associated with a high mortality and morbidity rate. Wernicke encephalopathy is most commonly seen in adolescent children presenting with a vitamin B1 deficiency. …”
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Assessment of the experimental infection by Echinostoma paraensei (Lie & Basch, 1967) (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) in two Biomphalaria tenagophila (D’Orbigny, 1835) (Gastropoda: P... by Michele Maria Santos, Juberlan Silva Garcia, Raquel de Oliveira Simões, Samaly dos Santos Souza, Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho, Zilton de Araújo Andrade, Arnaldo Maldonado Júnior

“…A correlation between the number of miracidia and the infectivity rate of B. tenagophila (TAIM) was observed. There was no correlation between the number of miracidia used and the number of cercariae released for both B. tenagophila isolates. …”
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Investigating thermal effects on void formation in electromigration using thermoreflectance imaging by Kengo ARAKI, Kanji TAMAI, Reiko KURIYAMA, Kazuya TATSUMI

“…Furthermore, the void growth rate and the line temperature near the voids followed an exponential relation in the void growth period. …”
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Predictive Growth Modeling of Listeria monocytogenes in Rice Balls and Its Risk Assessment by Seoungsoon Yeo, Misook Kim

“…The effects of temperature on bacterial growth rate and lag time were evaluated using the square root model. …”
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Mouthwash Use in General Population: Results from Adult Dental Health Survey in Grampian, Scotland by Kirstin Rhodes, Rochelle Morgan, Iain Bovaird, Claudia Cunningham, Michal M. Kawecki, Tatiana V. Macfarlane, Ray Watkins

“…Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the pattern of mouthwash use and to investigate the associated factors in general population.Material and Methods: An Adult Dental Health Survey was conducted on 3,022 residents of Grampian region of Scotland (adjusted participation rate 58.2%). …”
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Experience with Early Enteral Feeding in a Patient with Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by V. V. Lomivorotov, S. M Yefremov, A. V. Bogachev, I. A. Kornilov

“…In addition, an inverse correlation was found between the serum concentration of lactate and the daily volume of diuresis. The rate of hourly diuresis had a direct correlation with respiratory index and an inverse correlation with oxygenation index. …”
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The 2015 guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of rheumatic diseases by the All-Russian Public Organization «Association of Rheumatology of Russia» by E. N. Aleksandrova, A. A. Novikov, E. L. Nasonov

“…The important laboratory markers of RDs are acutephase indicators (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, etc.) that can assess the inflammatory activity of the disease, its progression pattern, and prognosis during the chronic inflammatory process, as well as therapeutic efficiency. …”
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An analysis of spatial distribution characteristics and driving factors of traditional villages in the Loess Plateau. by Xiaobin Bao, Yingna Yang, Jianqing Qi, Yanbing He

“…Among them, the density of cultural heritage sites (q = 0.546) is the primary driving factor, followed by annual precipitation (q = 0.458), population size (q = 0.457), and urbanization rate (q = 0.354). The interaction between factors is significant and mostly shows non-linear enhancement, for instance, the interactive explanatory power of population size and the density of cultural heritage sites is as high as 0.852.…”
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Automatic Detection of Concrete Spalling Using Piecewise Linear Stochastic Gradient Descent Logistic Regression and Image Texture Analysis by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Quoc-Lam Nguyen, Xuan-Linh Tran

“…This improvement can enhance the capability of logistic regression in dealing with spall detection as a complex pattern classification problem. Experiments with 1240 collected image samples show that PL-SGDLR can help to deliver a good detection accuracy (classification accuracy rate = 90.24%). …”
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