Drug utilization pattern and cost analysis of antidiabetic drugs among type 2 diabetic patients at a teaching hospital in South India: A prospective observational study by Sekar Kavitha, Anandabaskar Nishanthi, Vivekraj Navabalan, Shanthi Manickam, Anuranjani Dhamodharan, Girija Subramanian

“…Conclusion: This study highlights areas for improvement, including the use of multiple medications, a relatively high rate of injectable prescriptions, and opportunities to enhance generic prescribing among diabetic patients in a teaching hospital in India. …”
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An enhanced fusion of transfer learning models with optimization based clinical diagnosis of lung and colon cancer using biomedical imaging by N. A. S. Vinoth, J. Kalaivani, R. Madonna Arieth, S. Sivasakthiselvan, Gi-Cheon Park, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi, Woong Cho

“…The FTLMO-BILCCD technique implements a hybrid of temporal pattern attention and bidirectional gated recurrent unit (TPA-BiGRU) for classification. …”
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Driving Pattern Analysis, Gear Shift Classification, and Fuel Efficiency in Light-Duty Vehicles: A Machine Learning Approach Using GPS and OBD II PID Signals by Juan José Molina-Campoverde, Juan Zurita-Jara, Paúl Molina-Campoverde

“…After a thorough evaluation, the KNN (Fine KNN) model proved to be the most effective, achieving an accuracy of 99.7%, an error rate of 0.3%, a precision of 99.8%, a recall of 99.7%, and an F1-score of 99.8%, outperforming other models in terms of accuracy, robustness, and balance between metrics. …”
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Feeding Preferences, Growth Patterns and Reproductive Characteristics of Fall Armyworm (<i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i>) Indicate the Potential of <i>Ficus</i> Tree as New Host Plant by Changqi Chen, Yan Wang, Yana Zhou, Zhu Liu, Zongbo Li, Yuan Zhang

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Genome-wide identification and function analysis of the sucrose phosphate synthase MdSPS gene family in apple by Li-hua ZHANG, Ling-cheng ZHU, Yu XU, Long LÜ, Xing-guo LI, Wen-hui LI, Wan-da LIU, Feng-wang MA, Ming-jun LI, De-guo HAN

“…Sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) is a rate-limiting enzyme that works in conjunction with sucrose-6-phosphate phosphatase (SPP) for sucrose synthesis, and it plays an essential role in energy provisioning during growth and development in plants as well as improving fruit quality. …”
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Alternate row mulching optimizes soil temperature and water conditions and improves wheat yield in dryland farming by Qiu-yan YAN, Fei DONG, Ge LOU, Feng YANG, Jin-xiu LU, Feng LI, Jian-cheng ZHANG, Jun-hui LI, Zeng-qiang DUAN

“…Warming effect of soil temperature under the HM pattern persisted longer than under the FM model with the same mulching rates. …”
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Post-caesarean section infection burden, antimicrobial resistance pattern, and associated factors at all Africa Leprosy Rehabilitation and Training Center Comprehensive Specialized... by Namuna Ali, Sebsib Neway, Kassu Desta

“…In sub-Saharan Africa, the incidence is 7.3%, while Ethiopia reports rates as high as 10.4%. Risk factors include older age, prolonged hospitalization, and emergency surgeries, with common pathogens being S. aureus and E. coli. …”
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Smartphone-Based Sensing System for Identifying Artificially Marbled Beef Using Texture and Color Analysis to Enhance Food Safety by Hong-Dar Lin, Yi-Ting Hsieh, Chou-Hsien Lin

“…Experimental results reveal that the system achieves a recall rate of 95.00% for fat-injected beef, a misjudgment rate of 1.67% for non-fat-injected beef, a correct classification rate (CR) of 93.89%, and an F1-score of 95.80%, demonstrating its potential as a human-centered healthcare tool for ensuring food safety and transparency.…”
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Trends of health behaviors among cancer patients in Korea: a cross-sectional time series analysis by Noor Afif Mahmudah, Young-Kwon Park, Minsu Ock

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Concomitant body-wide trauma patterns in patients with head and neck injuries: a comparison based on the trauma register DGU® by the German trauma society and the dortmund maxillof... by Ákos Bicsák, Fatma Topcuoglu, Stefan Hassfeld, Rolf Lefering, Lars Bonitz, Jens-Peter Stahl

“…Conclusions Patients with HNI tend to have slightly different injury pattern in the whole body than non-HNI patients. Head and neck injuries in different locations show different patterns of concomitant injuries. …”
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Survival benefit from adjuvant chemoradiotherapy in local advanced gastric cancer without accurate D2 confirmation: a real-world retrospective study (TJ-ARK01) by Xiao-Xiao Luo, Ben Zhao, Li Sun, Yu-Hong Dai, Hong Qiu, Xiang-Lin Yuan

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Admission Outcome and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Bacterial Isolates among Neonates with Suspected Sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Dessie Comprehensive Specialize... by Genet Molla Fenta, Hiwot Ketema Woldemariam, Yeshi Metaferia, Abdurahaman Seid, Daniel Gebretsadik

“…Conclusion. The rate of bacterial growth was found to be high; E. coli and S. aureus were the predominant organisms. …”
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Numerical Investigation and Performance Evaluation of Boiling Slug Flow Regime of Water Vapor in Vertical Tubes by F. Sharifi, M. Hassani, R. Kouhikamali

“…To do so, heat and mass transfer during the flow motion is considered by the rate of mass and energy exchange between the phases and is added to governing equations. …”
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Improving Voice Spoofing Detection Through Extensive Analysis of Multicepstral Feature Reduction by Leonardo Mendes de Souza, Rodrigo Capobianco Guido, Rodrigo Colnago Contreras, Monique Simplicio Viana, Marcelo Adriano dos Santos Bongarti

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Risk Factors Promoting Early Cardiovascular Structure Disorders in Patients with Primary Hypothyroidism by A. V. Nikolaeva, L. T. Pimenov, V. G. Sufiyanov, M. V. Dudarev

“…Left ventricle remodeling, morphologic functional status of blood vessel wall and decrease of glomerular filtration rate are basically determined by such modified and non-modified factors as body mass index, age, duration of hypothyroidism and thyroid stimulating hormone level.…”
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A hybrid ultra-short-term photovoltaic power prediction framework integrating ant colony optimization for clustering with Bi-GRU by Xinyi Liu, Zitao Wang, Yang Wang, Shanke Liu, Lijun Yu

“…Kendall’s Rank Correlation Coefficient is utilized as the core metric for feature selection to identify the optimal predictive feature subset, resulting in a 9-feature set that achieves the best predictive performance (R2 = 0.8153). Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (Bi-GRU) models are independently constructed based on these scenario labels to enable scenario-adaptive predictions. …”
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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Multi-Drug Resistant Uropathogens in a Tertiary Hospital in Nepal: A One-Year Audit by Manish Man Pradhan, Sangita Sharma, Sujeet Poudyal, Diwas Gnyawali, Suman Adhikari, Suman Chapagain, Bhojraj Luitel, Hari Prasad Kattel, Pawan Raj Chalise

“…Data were collected from the Electronic health records of the Microbiology department and analyzed using Microsoft Excel 16.0.0 and SPSS 30.0.0 software to determine the urine culture positivity rate, the prevalence of multidrug-resistant uropathogens, and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns with a specific focus on resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics. …”
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Dorsal hyperintensity and iron deposition patterns in the substantia nigra of Parkinson’s disease, idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder, and Parkinson-plus syndromes at 7T MRI: a... by Dongning Su, Zhijin Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Rui Yan, Wanlin Zhu, Ning Wei, Yue Suo, Xinyao Liu, Ying Jiang, Lingyan Ma, Huiqing Zhao, Zhan Wang, Xuemei Wang, Huizi Ma, Xin Liu, Chaodong Wang, Zhirong Wan, Fangfei Li, Yuan Li, Joyce S. T. Lam, Junhong Zhou, Ning Zhang, Tao Wu, Jing Jing, Tao Feng

“…R2* mapping and principal component analysis were performed to assess nigral iron deposition patterns. Results Bilateral DNH detection rates in the development cohort were 22.6% for early-stage PD, 3.7% for advanced PD, 93.5% for iRBD, 5.7% for MSA-parkinsonian type, 78.8% for MSA-cerebellar type, 11.8% for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and 100% for HC, with similar rates in the validation cohort. …”
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Study of the association of distribution pattern of genotypes of C/A polymorphism of COL1A1_1 collagen gene (RS1107946) with indicators of external breathing in children with bronc... by Т. Ye. Shumna, S. M. Nedelska, O. S. Fedosieieva

“…The study of the distribution patterns of allelic genes and genotypes of the C/A polymorphism of the collagen COL1A1_1 gene (rs1107946) in children with bronchial asthma, taking into account the indicators of external respiration function. …”
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Movement and Dispersion Parameters Characterizing the Group Behavior of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> in Micro-Areas of an Observation Arena by Nam Jung, Chunlei Xia, Yong-Hyeok Jang, Hye-Won Kim, Yun Doo Chung, Tae-Soo Chon

“…For Canton-S, temporal cooccurring patterns among different parameters were observed as time progressed, with two primary patterns identified in the resource supply areas: single peak and double peaks. …”
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