Investigating antibiotic use in Gaza Strip hospitals: A retrospective cross-sectional analysis by Hala ZI Alagha, Maha Jebreel Al Telbani

“… Introduction: Rates of antimicrobial resistance in the Gaza Strip are rising while regulations on antibiotics use are weakly implemented. …”
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Integrated Platform for Bio-Image Processing and Identification of Cervical Cancer by Larisa-Dalina LAZĂR, Diogen BABUC, Todor IVAŞCU

“…The integration of artificial intelligence in medical imaging can contribute to early detection and contribute to reduction of mortality rates associated with this disease. A future direction is to explore the applications of Vision Transformers, which have demonstrated excellent performance in capturing complex patterns in image data, to further improve data preprocessing and classification accuracy. …”
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Mortality trends in Kazakhstan: insights from a million of deaths from 2014 to 2022 by Temirgali Aimyshev, Gulnur Zhakhina, Sauran Yerdessov, Ruslan Akhmedullin, Dinara Galiyeva, Kuanysh Yergaliyev, Antonio Sarria-Santamera, Yuliya Semenova, Abduzhappar Gaipov

“…COVID-19 significantly disrupted mortality patterns in 2020–2021. Mortality rates were consistently higher in males across most age groups, with a sharp increase after age 55, while “other disorders of the brain” emerged as a leading cause of premature mortality. …”
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Examining changes in social care referrals during the 2021 Winter Storm Uri in the Unite Texas network by Zackery White, Amanda Terry, Gillian Feldmeth, Alyssa Altstaedter, Halima Ahmadi-Montecalvo

“…Following the storm, case rates returned to pre-storm levels, with increased case resolution and reduced time to case closure. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with Babesia bigemina infection in Crioula Lageana cattle breed by Mariana da Silva Casa, Julio de Mattos Vettori, Ketriane Mota de Souza, Paulo Ricardo Benetti Todeschini, Luiz Cláudio Miletti, Carla Ivane Ganz Vogel, André Luís Ferreira Lima, Joandes Henrique Fonteque

“…Males showed significantly higher infection rates (79%; 49/62) compared to females (55%; 137/249; OR=3.36, p<0.001). …”
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Fertility differences across immigrant generations in the United Kingdom by Jiseon Baek, Hill Kulu, Sarah Christison, Francesca Fiori

“…OBJECTIVE: This study examines the first-, second-, and third-birth rates of three migrant generation groups in the United Kingdom – 1.5G, 2G, and 2.5G. …”
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Comparing Machine Learning-Based Crime Hotspots Versus Police Districts: What&#x2019;s the Best Approach for Crime Forecasting? by Eugenio Cesario, Paolo Lindia, Andrea Vinci

“…Then, crime forecasting models are extracted for each area, to monitor and predict how crime rates evolve over time within each partition. However, traditional spatial partitioning approaches, which divide cities into predefined police districts based on geographic and operational considerations, often fail to account for variations in crime patterns. …”
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"What happens when you get corona?": Children's questions and parental responses about the COVID-19 pandemic. by Graciela Trujillo Hernández, David Menendez, Seung Heon Yoo, Rebecca E Klapper, Maria H Schapfel, Kailee A Sowers, Victoria E Welch, Karl S Rosengren

“…Meanwhile, parents during the second peak of infection and death rates were more focused on responding to their children's questions with information about the virus. …”
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Adaptive Quantum-Inspired Evolution for Denoising PCG Signals in Unseen Noise Conditions by Lubna Siddiqui, Ashish Mani, Jaspal Singh

“…The filter coefficients were optimised using the proposed QiEA with Adaptive Rotation Gate Operator (ARGO). The proposed algorithm accelerates convergence towards optimal solutions based on fitness feedback, improving filter optimisation while clamping rotation angles to maintain algorithm stability. …”
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Global burden of gallbladder and biliary diseases (1990–2021) with healthcare workforce analysis and projections to 2035 by Fangyi Dai, Yuzhou Cai, Shangjin Yang, Jingyang Zhang, Yong Dai

“…Results The global age-standardized incidence rate decreased by 12.84% from 1990 to 865.4 per 100,000 population in 2021, while the absolute number of cases increased by 60.11%. …”
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Global burden of breast cancer and application of patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials: a systematic analysis based on the global burden of disease study 2021 and WHO inter... by Jiaxin Hao, Jiaxin Hao, Yijia Gong, Yijia Gong, Xiaowen Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Minghong Du, Minghong Du, Minghong Du, Huan Wang, Huan Wang, Huan Wang, Guolin Guo, Mengqing Zhou, Tian Tian, Hongguo Rong, Hongguo Rong, Hongguo Rong

“…This study analyzes geographic patterns, temporal trends and age patterns of female breast cancer disease burden globally and explored the association between age standardised rates for disability adjusted life years (ASDR) of female breast cancer and sociodemographic index (SDI). …”
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Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance in Children in Shandong Province, China, 2017&amp;ndash;2022: A Multicentre Retrospective Study by Yang S, Wang M, Wang S

“…In the composition of strain specimens, most of the strains came from the respiratory tract (59.8%), followed by pus (11.4%). The resistance rate of Staphylococcus spp. to penicillins remains high at 90%, while the resistance rate to linezolid is low but shows an upward trend. …”
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Outpatient antibiotic stewardship during the COVID-19 era: analysis of prescribing trends and guideline compliance by Minji Sohn, Benjamin Pontefract, Kushal Dahal, Michael Klepser

“…Methods: The primary outcomes were the rate of antibiotic prescribing per 1 000 prescription-related outpatient visits and identifying frequently prescribed antibiotics in adults and children. …”
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Adherence to guidelines for antibiotics used in the initial treatment of febrile neutropenia in patients with cancer: a study using health insurance claims database in Japan by Kanako Mizuno, Ryo Inose, Ryota Goto, Yuichi Muraki

“…Conclusion The study revealed an FN guideline adherence rate of 78.8% in Japan, along with changes in antibiotic prescribing patterns, including a trend toward carbapenem-sparing strategies between 2014 and 2022. …”
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Reproductive Transitions and Sperm Utilisation in a Facultatively Parthenogenetic Stick Insect by Jigmidmaa Boldbaatar, Pietro Pollo, Daniela Wilner, Nathan W. Burke, Russell Bonduriansky

“…We also observed similar reproductive performance between switch and non‐switch treatment groups, but females' population of origin influenced fertilisation rate and offspring sex ratio. In the non‐switch group, we found near‐equal fertilisation rates by the first and second male. …”
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Postoperative pneumonia in isolated coronary artery bypass grafting: A comprehensive study of epidemiology, etiology, and disease burden from China (2020-2023). by Yuxiao Zhan, Jian Zhang, Yang Yang, Rui Yang, Guojun Zhang

“…<h4>Results</h4>Postoperative pneumonia occurred at a rate of 11.34% among the cohort (518/4569),which fluctuated by year (P < 0.001). …”
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Analysis of 1560 Inpatient and Outpatient Escherichia coli Isolates from across Canada—Results from the CANWARD 2007 Study by Philippe RS Lagacé-Wiens, Mel DeCorby, Patricia J Baudry, Daryl J Hoban, James A Karlowsky, The Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Alliance (CARA), George G Zhanel

“…Fluoroquinolones and sulfonamides should be used cautiously and in consideration of local resistance patterns for infections caused by E coli, due to lower susceptibility rates. …”
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Physiological and Gene Expression Responses of Crassostrea ariakensis to Salinity Stress by Miaomiao YANG, Sudong XIA, Zhihong LIU, Xiujun SUN, Liqing ZHOU, Peizhen MA, Zhuanzhuan LI, Biao WU

“…The respiration, ammonia excretion, ingestion, and clearance rates of the oysters were measured using the static water method. …”
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Incidence, mortality, and risk factors of bladder, kidney, prostate and testicular cancers in China and comparisons with the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the Repub... by Gaohaer Kadeerhan, Zhongji Jiang, Hong Guo, Xinzhi Ma, Jin Zhang, Wenmin Guo, Jiedong Jia, Yibo Gao, Dongwen Wang

“…Conclusions The distinct age-specific patterns, elevated rates within specific age groups, and marked upward temporal trends of genitourinary cancers in China underscore the critical need for targeted, age-stratified public health interventions.…”
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GreenNav: Spatiotemporal Prediction of CO₂ Emissions in Paris Road Traffic Using a Hybrid CNN-LSTM Model by Youssef Mekouar, Imad Saleh, Mohammed Karim

“…In a global context where reducing the carbon footprint has become an urgent necessity, this article presents a hybrid CNN-LSTM prediction model to estimate CO₂ emission rates of Paris road traffic using spatio-temporal data. …”
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