Comorbidity health pathways in heart failure patients: A sequences-of-regressions analysis using cross-sectional data from 10,575 patients in the Swedish Heart Failure Registry. by Claire A Lawson, Ivonne Solis-Trapala, Ulf Dahlstrom, Mamas Mamas, Tiny Jaarsma, Umesh T Kadam, Anna Stromberg

“…The following hypotheses were tested: (i) comorbidities are associated with more severe symptoms and functional limitations and subsequently worse patient-rated health in HF, and (ii) these patterns of association differ among selected comorbidities.…”
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Influence of Previous Emergency Department Visit Information on Care of Current Patients by Ricardo X. Noriega, Juan Nañez, Emily Hartmann, Scott B. Crawford, Chantel D. Sloan-Aagard

“…The primary outcome was the influence of knowledge from prior records on interactions during the most recent visit, measured with 11 Likert-scale ratings. Reviewer agreement was used as an indicator of confidence. …”
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The influence of exercise self-efficacy and gender on the relationship between exercise motivation and physical activity in college students by Jiazhi Sheng, Indang Ariati Binti Ariffin, Jacquline Tham

“…Abstract This study examined the relationships among exercise motivation, exercise self-efficacy, and physical activity rating, as well as the role of exercise self-efficacy in the above relationship. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors of the most common multimorbidity among Canadian adults. by Obed Mortey, Gerald Mugford, Kris Aubrey-Bassler, Hensley H Mariathas, Ugochukwu Odimba, Zhiwei Gao

“…The results from multivariate analysis showed that seven factors were significantly associated with increased odds of the MCM, which included increasing age, being retired from work (retired vs not retired), poorer rating of perceived health, (very good, good, poor vs excellent), increasing problems with sleep quality (satisfied, dissatisfied vs neutral), and abnormal body-mass index (underweight, overweight, obese vs normal). …”
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New Programming Modes of Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review of Outcomes with Burst and High-Frequency Technology by Jeffrey J. Bergman, Derrick A. Dupré, Nestor D. Tomycz

“…Burst SCS and HF10 SCS have been subjected to randomized controlled studies and have used similar patient pain score reporting on a visual analog scale (VAS) and numeric rating scale (NRS). Results from these studies have reported significant reductions in axial back pain and limb pain in patients sustained for up 20 months with burst SCS treatment and up to 36 months with HF10 SCS. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution and multi-scenario simulation of the land-use cover change and habitat quality in arid and semi-arid areas: a case study of the urban agglomeration along t... by Tianle Ma, Wenhao Cheng, Wenxuan Yao

“…These findings demonstrate (Hall, Wiley on behalf of the Wildlife Society, 1997, 25(1), 173–82) a reduction in ecological land coverage during the previous period, which correlates with a decrease in the mean HQ. The value ratings in 2010, 2015, and 2020 were 0.4919, 0.4730, and 0.4654, respectively. …”
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Cholera-Related Hypochondriasis and Sleep Effort Among Lebanese General Population by Atifa Nazih Kamaleddine, Sondos Mohamad Naous, Sana Ahmad Tantawi, Lama Ali Alhajj, Nafez Nazih Kamaleddine, Sung Woo Joo, Seockhoon Chung

“…All 472 participants completed the e-survey, including rating scales adapted to assess psychological response to cholera: Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemic-6 items (SAVE-6), Obsession with COVID-19 scale (OCS), Coronavirus Reassurance-Seeking Behaviors Scale (CRBS), Insomnia Severity Index, Glasgow Sleep Effort Scale, and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 items. …”
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Assessment of Tourism Development in Belarus: A Comprehensive Analysis of Infrastructure, Cultural Heritage and Natural Resources by Viktoryia Kauchun, Anna Michalska, Walery Zukow

“…Results: The findings indicate moderate tourism development in Belarus (39% rated it as average, 42% as high). Infrastructure quality shows significant regional variation (χ2(4)=31.50, p<0.001, V=0.56). …”
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Is guideline-driven prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism common practice in the South African private hospital setting? by Melissa van der Merwe, Marlene Julyan, Jesslee M. du Plessis

“…This study evaluated prescribing patterns of VTE prophylaxis in one of the largest South African (SA) private hospital groups. …”
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Muscle Activity Onset Prior to Landing in Patients after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Daniel Theisen, Isabel Rada, Amélie Brau, Paul Gette, Romain Seil

“…Six studies meeting inclusion criteria underwent quality assessment, data extraction and re-computing procedures for the meta-analysis. The quality was rated "moderate" for 2 studies and "poor" for 4. …”
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Reading English-Language Haiku: Processes of Meaning Construction Revealed by Eye Movements by Hermann J Mueller, Thomas Geyer, Franziska Günther, Jim Kacian, Stella Pierides

“…To examine this process, we recorded readers’ eye movements, and we obtained measures of memory for the read poems as well as subjective ratings of comprehension difficulty and understanding achieved. …”
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Image Quality Assessment of Augmented Reality Glasses as Medical Display Devices (HoloLens 2) by Simon König, Simon Siebers, Claus Backhaus

“…HoloLens 2 was assessed for overall image quality, luminance, grayscale consistency, and color uniformity. Five participants rated the TG18-OIQ pattern under ambient lighting conditions of 2.4 and 138.7 lx. …”
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I-AIR: intention-aware travel itinerary recommendation via multi-signal fusion and spatiotemporal constraints by Xiao Cui, Zhihua Wang, Ping Li, Qiang Xu

“…Additionally, many approaches decouple POI selection from itinerary construction and depend heavily on limited behavioral signals, failing to capture richer feedback such as ratings, dwell times, or click histories. To address these limitations, we propose an intention-aware deep learning framework that integrates diverse user signals into a unified itinerary planning model. …”
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Prediction of Key Quality Parameters in Hot Air-Dried Jujubes Based on Hyperspectral Imaging by Quancheng Liu, Chunzhan Yu, Yuxuan Ma, Hongwei Zhang, Lei Yan, Shuxiang Fan

“…To further enhance modeling accuracy, deep learning models such as bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM), bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU), and convolutional neural network–bidirectional gated recurrent unit (CNN-BiGRU) were introduced and compared comprehensively under the optimal spectral preprocessing conditions. …”
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Attention-based multi-scale convolution and conformer for EEG-based depression detection by Ze Yan, Ze Yan, Ze Yan, Yumei Wan, Xin Pu, Xiaolin Han, Mingming Zhao, Haiyan Wu, Wentao Li, Xueying He, Yunshao Zheng

“…This study proposes an end-to-end EEG-based depression recognition model, AMCCBDep, which combines Attention-based Multi-scale Parallel Convolution (AMPC), Conformer, and Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU). The AMPC module captures temporal features through multiscale convolutions and extracts spatial features using depthwise separable convolutions, while applying the ECA attention mechanism to weigh key channels, enhancing the model’s focus on crucial electrode channels. …”
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Computer Aided Diagnostic System for Blood Cells in Smear Images Using Texture Features and Supervised Machine Learning by Shakhawan Hares Wady

“…Identification and diagnosis of leukemia earlier is a contentious issue in therapeutic diagnostics for reducing the rate of death among people with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). …”
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Numerical study on ion migration in concrete under the influence of salt solution by Xianyuan Chen, Zhaocai Meng, Xinjiang Zheng, Zirui Gao

“…The findings reveal that the sulfate ion concentration within concrete increases with time but at a decreasing rate, with the compaction process significantly affecting this growth. …”
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Alfvén Wave Propagation in the Io Plasma Torus by P. C. Hinton, F. Bagenal, B. Bonfond

“…Abstract Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, fuels a plasma torus around Jupiter with dissociation products of SO2 at a rate of ~1,000 kg/s. We use a combination of in situ Voyager 1 data and Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph observations to constrain a diffusive equilibrium model of the Io plasma torus. …”
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Transient Analysis of a k-out-of-n:G System with N-Policy, Repairmen’s Multiple Vacations, and Redundant Dependency by Wenqing Wu, Yinghui Tang

“…Under such assumptions, the availability, the rate of occurrence of failures, and the reliability of the system are derived in transient regime by applying the quasi-birth-and-death process. …”
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Development of Mobile Social Network Systems Using Real-Time Facial Authentication and Collaborative Recommendations by Hyeong-Joon Kwon, Dong-Ju Kim, Kwang-Seok Hong

“…To verify the proposed system, we performed experiments to determine the recognition rate for a user's facial image on a real-world smartphone and the preference prediction accuracy of a collaborative filtering-based recommendation system. …”
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