Comparative efficacy of half-dose and one-third-dose photodynamic therapy in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy: a retrospective study by Mohsen Farvardin, Dorna Eghtedari, Maryam Shahmohammadi, Mohammadkarim Johari

“…The recurrence rate of SRF was significantly higher in the one-third-dose group (20%) compared to the half-dose group (7.5%) (P =.015). …”
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Comparative Characteristics of a Subsequent Morbidity Wave COVID-19 in Various Regions of the World by A. P. Bavrina, N. V. Saperkin, O. V. Drugova, N. N. Karjakin, O. V. Kovalishena

“…The average incidence rate in the compared countries ranged from 500.98 ± 417.06 per 100,000 in India to 4399.43 ± 2390.77 per 100,000 in the US. …”
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Modeling of Photochemical and Photothermal Effects in Soft Tissue Subjected to Laser Irradiation by Marek Jasiński, Maria Zadoń

“…The connection between bioheat transfer and PDT models is taken into account through the respective relationships between perfusion rate, capillary blood velocity, and the maximum oxygen supply rate. …”
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Resolving contiguous vowels across word boundaries in Spanish: L2 learners, levels, and tasks by Erik W. Willis, D. Eric Holt, Carly Carver

“…The intermediate learners increased the frequency of linking contiguous vowels to 49% in the narrative-retell task, whereas the advanced L2 speakers slightly reduced their linking rate to 68%. The Mexican monolingual speaker comparison group produced linked speech in a narrative-retell task at a rate of 93%. …”
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Air Entrainment and Gas Transfer in Wave Breaking Events by S. Di Giorgio, S. Pirozzoli, A. Iafrati

“…We show that the volume of gas transferred across the air‐water interface increases significantly with the amount of air entrained due to wave breaking, peak values in the transfer velocity being concurrent with peaks in energy dissipation rate and air entrainment. The gas transfer velocity is observed to scale approximately as the one‐fourth power of the energy dissipation rate, consistent with previous theoretical predictions. …”
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Size and impact of the Brussels knowledge economy by Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Johan Eyckmans, Peter Teirlinck, André Spithoven, Gilles Van Hamme

“…Over the period 2008-2020, the compound annual growth rate of knowledge-intensive employment was highest in the surrounding Brussels functional metropolitan area. …”
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Temporal Trends in Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalizations From 2009-2018 in Alberta: A Retrospective Population-Based Cohort Study by Anita Dahiya, Natasha Wiebe, Tyrone G. Harrison, Matthew T. James, Neesh Pannu

“…Furthermore, there was an overall increase in rates of AKI in patients aged younger than 60 and a decrease in the most elderly of patients in both the crude and adjusted data, suggesting potential changes in practice patterns and patient characteristics. …”
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Brainstem catecholaminergic neurons induce torpor during fasting by orchestrating cardiovascular and thermoregulation changes by Mingxiu Cheng, Meiqi Wang, Liang Wang, Fangfang Yin, Jiayi Shen, Xin Xing, Yuyan Shi, Zhiwei Liu, Ping Wu, Wenling Gao, Yanyan Fan, Peng Cao, Cheng Zhan

“…Importantly, the heart rate decline precedes body temperature reduction, resembling patterns observed in natural torpid animals. …”
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Global Trajectories of Colorectal Cancer Burden From 1990 to 2021 and Projection to 2040 by Xiaolu Chen, Xuesi Dong, Yadi Zheng, Chenran Wang, Zilin Luo, Jiaxin Xie, Zeming Guo, Xiaoyue Shi, Xinyue Zhu, Yongjie Xu, Wei Cao, Fei Wang, Ni Li

“…Most countries showed slowly increasing incidence rates (49.0%, n = 100) and stable age‐standardized mortality rates (51.0%, n = 104). …”
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Vulture dominance in a scavenger assemblage in the Neotropical dry forest by Paul Monar-Barragán, Hernán Vargas, Rubén Pineida, Andy Salazar, Emilio Virgos, Fabricio Narváez, Sebastián Kohn, Juan de Dios Morales, Juan Sebastián Restrepo-Cardona

“…Both carcass detection time and consumption rates were influenced by carcass size, particularly in the case of consumption rates, where larger carcasses exhibited higher consumption rates than smaller ones. …”
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Genomic alterations of marine yeast Scheffersomyces spartinae under spontaneous and mutagenic conditions by Yu-Ting Bai, Awkash Sharma, Qian Xiang, Li-Yan Tian, Ke-Jing Li, Bao-Ying Guo, Lei Qi, Dao-Qiong Zheng

“…Heat stress at 37 °C increased the SNVs and InDels rates to 1.4 × 10⁻¹⁰ and 7.5 × 10⁻¹¹ per base pair per cell division. …”
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Towards developing new private sector maternity care models in South Africa: results from a deliberative stakeholder dialogue by Tanya Doherty, Sue Fawcus, Vishal Brijlal, Geetesh Solanki

“…Caesarean rates are rising globally, four of the five countries with the highest caesarean rates are middle-income countries and private hospital care is a strong predictor of caesarean birth. …”
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A Frequency-Aware Transformer for Multiscale Fault Diagnosis in Electrical Machines by Yurim Choi, Inwhee Joe

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves 99.9% diagnostic accuracy by maintaining an exceptionally low false alarm rate and missed detection rate, thereby ensuring high reliability. …”
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FDEM Modelling of Rock Fracture Process during Three-Point Bending Test under Quasistatic and Dynamic Loading Conditions by Huaming An, Yushan Song, Hongyuan Liu

“…After that, the effects of the loading rate on the rock strength and rock fracture toughness are discussed, and the mesh size and mesh orientation on the fracture patterns are also discussed. …”
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Hybrid deep learning for IoT-based health monitoring with physiological event extraction by Sivanagaraju Vallabhuni, Kumar Debasis

“…It further enhanced the True Positive Rate (TPR) by 25% through using an online learning algorithm with Incremental Gradient Descent with Momentums. …”
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A comparative study on tobacco prevalence and secondhand smoke exposure before and after the lockdown in Rizhao, China: analysis of 2022 and 2024 data by Zhao-Hui Liang, Gui-Zhi Han, Miao-Miao Liu

“…The results showed that the current smoking rate declined significantly from 32.53 to 25.84% (χ2 = 10.08, p = 0.002), with daily smoking rate also slightly decreased from 20.44 to 19.33% (χ2 = 0.36, p = 0.551). …”
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global seasonality of norovirus. by Sharia M Ahmed, Benjamin A Lopman, Karen Levy

“…Our results point to possible associations of season strength with rain in the wettest month and crude birth rate.…”
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Regional Gas Supply System Considered from the Standpoint of System Analysis and Regularities of its Functioning by D. R. Mоroz, N. V. Hruntovich

“…The values of correlation coefficients between the outdoor air temperature and gas flow rate according to the elements of the balance structure are calculated. …”
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An Integrated Framework for Infectious Disease Control Using Mathematical Modeling and Deep Learning by Mohammed Salman, Pradeep Kumar Das, Sanjay Kumar Mohanty

“…Unlike the existing model, emphasis is given to suggesting a model that is capable of investigating stability while considering the effect of vaccination and migration rate. Next, the influence of vaccination on the rate of infection is effectively predicted using an efficient deep learning model by employing the long-term dependencies in sequential data. …”
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Multi-Timescale Fault Interactions and Earthquakes: A Review by Mian Liu

“…Consequently, attention has been focused on the rate of strain accumulation on individual faults to infer their stress evolution, which, together with earthquake history, forms the basis for earthquake forecasting. …”
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