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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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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Discontinuation and switching patterns of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFis) in TNFi-naive and TNFi-experienced patients with psoriatic arthritis: an observational study fro... by Philip J Mease, Jeffrey D Greenberg, Chitra Karki, Mei Liu, YouFu Li, Bernice Gershenson, Hua Feng, Peter Hur

“…Times to and rates of discontinuation/switch of the index TNFi were compared between TNFi-naive and TNFi-experienced cohorts. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bacterial Profile, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns, and Associated Factors in Wound Infection Patients at Wad Medani, Sudan: A Four-year, Laboratory-based, Retrospective, Cro... by Yousif B. Hamadalneel, Osama A. Idris, Hifa O. Ahmed, Marwa F. Alamin, Samira M. Fageer, Yassen M. Abualgasim, Alaaeldeen M. Attaallah, Mohammed A. Taha

“…Conclusion: This study reported a high rate of bacterial growth. The most frequently isolated bacteria were S. aureus and E. coli. …”
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Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of Aluminium 5356 Alloy: Process Parameter Optimization and Structure-Property Analysis by K. Saravanakumar, J. Nampoothiri, M.R. Prat heesh Kumar

“…Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is an emerging technology in the manufacturing sector, offering benefits such as increased production rates and cost efficiency. This study investigates the WAAM of aluminium alloy 5356, deposited on aluminium 6082 base plates. …”
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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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Predictors of post caesarean section surgical site infection and referral pattern for caesarean section in a tribal dominant and resource constraint tertiary level health care Cent... by Sona Singh, Neha Jain, Shruti Singh Parihar, Akash Ranjan Singh, Sanjeev Bakshi, Vikrant Kabirpanthi, Nagendra Singh

“…Abstract Background Surgical site infection (SSI) is the most common complication post-caesarean section, causing risks such as antibiotic resistance, prolonged hospital stay, increased costs, maternal sepsis and even death. While SSI rates in India have declined by the initiative under the National Health Mission, they remain high in resource-constrained, tribal-dominant areas like Shahdol. …”
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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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