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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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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Real-World Clinical Characteristics, Treatment Patterns, and Clinical Outcomes in US Patients with Stage I–III Resected NSCLC Without Known EGFR Mutations: The RESECT Study by Jhanelle E. Gray, Rachel J. Salomonsen, Ignacio Diaz Perez, Alice Wang, Ling Cai, Graham Wetherill, Yang Xiao, Claire Fielden, Nefeli Georgoulia

“…Five-year overall survival rates were 73.4%, 61.9%, and 50.5% in stage I, II, and III patients; 5-year real-world relapse-free survival rates were 35.4%, 23.1%, and 14.0%. …”
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Temporal Variation and Spatial Heterogeneity in Boarding/Alighting Patterns at Urban Railway Stations: Implications for Estimating Optimal Construction Scale—A Case Study in Seoul,... by WooKeol Cho, Kyoungtae Kim, Inmook Lee, Soyoung (Iris) You

“…Initially, the factors influencing the peak-hour concentration rates in railway stations were identified using a linear regression model. …”
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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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Distinct patterns of osteoradionecrosis after photon-based radiotherapy and carbon ion radiotherapy for unresectable adenoid cystic carcinoma of the head and neck: case series from... by Eivind Storaas, Marta D. Switlyk, Sigrun Dahl, Cecilie D. Amdal, Åse Bratland, Thuy-Tien M. Huynh, Hanne A. Eide, Barbara Vischioni, Ester Orlandi, Einar Dale

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Speciation of Clinically Significant Coagulase Negative Staphylococci Isolates from Clinical Samples and their Susceptibility Pattern: A Cross-sectional Study from Western Uttar Pr... by Priya, Ismat Rehana, Anita Pandey, Rajesh Kumar Shah, Jitendra Kumar Chaudhary

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Prevalence, antimicrobial resistance patterns, and associated factors of Staphylococcus aureus among different clinical specimens in Wad Medani, Sudan: a four-year, laboratory-base... by Yousif B. Hamadalneel, Marwa F. Alamin, Hifa O. Ahmed, Safa F. Eltoum, Elmuntasir Elamin

“…The overall S. aureus isolation rate was 39.1% (697/1784). The strains were primarily isolated from female patients (79.5%, 554/697), 38.9% of whom (271/697) were aged 30–44 years. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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Analysis of clinical features, prognosis and comprehensive therapeutic strategies in 261 patients with limited-stage esophageal small cell carcinoma by LIU Di, NI Jianjiao, ZHAO Kuaile, XIANG Jiaqing, ZHANG Zhen, ZHANG Junhua

“…This study aimed to analyse survival outcomes, prognostic factors, failure patterns and therapeutic strategies in patients with LS-SCEC. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Emergency Medical Service Trauma Patient Transportation Patterns Before and After Level 1 Regional Trauma Center Establishment: A Retrospective Single-Cen... by Hyeong Seok Lee, Won Young Sung, Jang Young Lee, Won Suk Lee, Sang Won Seo

“…Yearly comparisons revealed a gradually increasing trend in the hospital death rate (ptrend=0.031). Conclusions After establishing a level 1 RTC, the EMS transportation of severe trauma patients increased gradually along with the long-distance transportation of minor trauma patients. …”
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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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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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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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