Retrospective Analysis of Numerical Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) Scores in Diabetic Neuropathy Patients Receiving Gabapentin and Non-Gabapentin Therapies at an Indonesian Tertiary Hosp... by Rifky Alif Novianto, Hanik Badriyah Hidayati, Hermina Novida, Klára Bodová

“…This study aimed to evaluate and compare Numerical Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) profiles in DNP patients receiving gabapentin and non-gabapentin therapies at Dr. …”
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Identification of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Parent-teacher Administered ADHD Rating Scale-IV among Pre-school Children of Belagavi City by Deepa C. Metgud, Vinanti Sanjay Makasare

“…Results: We estimated 16.4% ADHD prevalence in pre-school children of Belagavi city rated by both teacher and parent and included both male and female participants. …”
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Survival rate of indirectly bonded brackets using single vs. two-component orthodontic adhesive: A 12-month split-mouth clinical trial by Federica Pellitteri, Francesca Cremonini, Marco Bellavia, Mario Palone, Luca Lombardo

“…Objective: Compare the bonding survival rate of two distinct bonding materials: Ortho Solo + Gradia LoFlo Resin and single component GC Ortho Connect. …”
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Numerical assessments of scour depth predictions downstream of box culverts under various flow and blockage conditions by Kaywan Othman Ahmed, Mohammad Reza Kavianpour, Ata Amini, Younes Aminpour

“…The analysis revealed that predictions from numerical models corresponded closely with experimental outcomes, although the scour depths calculated by the models were generally lower than those observed under both steady and unsteady flow conditions. While blockage rates notably impacted scour patterns in the first hydrograph of unsteady flows, increasing blockage percentages did not reliably result in proportional increases in scour depth, as seen in the second hydrograph for unsteady and both steady flow conditions.…”
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Numerical Analysis of Conditions for Partial Discharge Inception in Spherical Gaseous Voids in XLPE Insulation of AC Cables at Rated Voltage and During AC, VLF and DAC Tests by Paweł Mikrut, Paweł Zydroń

“…Using COMSOL 6.1 and MATLAB R2021b, a coupled electro-thermal model of a 110 kV AC cable was implemented, for which the critical gaseous void dimensions were estimated and phase-resolved PD patterns were generated for the rated voltage and the VLF and DAC test voltages specified in the relevant standards. …”
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SCIENTIFIC AND METHODOLOGICAL BACKGROUND OF ANTI-CANCER ACTIVITIES ON THE BASISOF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES IN LARGE INDUSTRIAL REGION by I. R. Rakhmatullina, A. M. Khanov, O. N. Lipatov, K. Sh. Gantsev, G. Kh. Akhmadullina, Sh. R. Kzyrgalin

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Differences in Larval Microhabitat Between Two Cryptic, Sympatric Salamander Species (<i>Desmognathus folkertsi</i> and <i>D. amphileucus</i>) in Northeastern Georgia, USA by Carlos D. Camp, Erick M. Fortner

“…We also found a significant difference between species in flow rate. We found no differences in any other variable that explained larval distribution patterns. …”
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Older adults looking at dog pictures - psychobiological effects by Catia Correia-Caeiro, Teresa Romero, Kun Guo, Daniel S. Mills

“…Therefore, in this study we tested if looking at static dog images could have physiological and/or psychological effects in older adults, by collecting salivary oxytocin, heart rate, optimism scores, testing cooperativeness/competitiveness, and examining gaze patterns when looking at dog pictures in three conditions: dogs facing the observer, dogs facing sideways, or control pixelated pictures. …”
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Rates and causes of mortality among children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities in Scotland: a record linkage cohort study of 796 190 school children by Angela Henderson, Sally-Ann Cooper, Deborah Kinnear, Craig Melville, J P Pell, Michael Fleming, Gillian S Smith

“…Objectives To investigate mortality rates and causes in children and young people with intellectual disabilities.Design Retrospective cohort; individual record linkage between Scotland’s annual pupil census and National Records of Scotland death register.Setting General community.Participants Pupils receiving local authority-funded schooling in Scotland, 2008 to 2013, with an Additional Support Need due to intellectual disabilities, compared with other pupils.Main outcome measures Deaths up to 2015: age of death, age-standardised mortality ratios (age-SMRs); causes of death including cause-specific age-SMRs; avoidable deaths as defined by the UK Office of National Statistics.Results 18 278/947 922 (1.9%) pupils had intellectual disabilities. 106 died over 67 342 person-years (crude mortality rate=157/100 000 person-years), compared with 458 controls over 3 672 224 person-years (crude mortality rate=12/100 000 person-years). …”
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Comparison of Fiscal Policy Cyclicality Models in Foreign Countries by M. O. Kakaulina, S. E. Demidova

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Formation of productivity of binary and single-species cenosis in the conditions of the Western Forest-Steppe by N. М. RUDАVSКА, H. S. КОNYК, А. М. SHUVАR, L. L. BЕHЕN, О. F. ТYМCHYSHYN, H. М. DОRОТА

“…Mineral fertilizer N32P32K32 ensured the formation of a greater number of beans, the mass and number of grains in the ear, and plant productivity, but had a negative effect on the process of root nodule formation: in mixtures with vetch, their mass decreased by 0.82–0.84 g/plant (to 0.52–0.66 g), in mixtures with lupine – by 0.07–0.17 g/plant (to 2.29–2.36 g). The same pattern was observed in single-species crops. Reduction of the seeding rate of the grain component by 1 million germinated seeds/ha in mixtures with legumes contributed to the increase in the number of grains in the ear (panicle) and seeds in the bean pod. …”
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Integrated commercial and low-fishmeal fermented feed boosts survival and modulates intestinal microbiota in pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) by Yanbo Cheng, Lanfen Fan, Yifei Liu, Kuiying Su, Guohuan Xu

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A spatiotemporal analysis of opioid prescriptions in Indiana from 2015 to 2019 by Paula A. Jaimes-Buitron, Nicole Adams, Nan Kong, Carolina Vivas-Valencia

“…These findings enhance the understanding of opioid prescription dynamics and identify patterns in opioid prescribing rates in terms of the proportion of patients receiving opioid prescriptions among urban vs. rural communities in Indiana.…”
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Mortality trends related to cardiogenic shock in heart failure patients aged 25 and older across the United States: A study utilizing the CDC WONDER database from 1999 to 2023 by Abdullah Naveed Muhammad, Sivaram Neppala, Himaja Dutt Chigurupati, Muhammad Omer Rehan, Hamza Naveed, Rabia Iqbal, Bazil Azeem, Ahila Ali, Mushood Ahmed, Prakash Upreti, Mobeen Zaka Haider, Yasar Sattar, Jamal S. Rana, Gregg C. Fonarow

“…Background: Cardiogenic shock (CS) remains crucial in mortality rates for heart failure (HF) patients. However, contemporary data on long-term mortality trends related to CS are limited. …”
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Towards sustainable architecture: Enhancing green building energy consumption prediction with integrated variational autoencoders and self-attentive gated recurrent units from mult... by Qing Zeng, Fang Peng, Xiaojuan Han

“…This study addresses these challenges by proposing an advanced deep learning framework that integrates Time-Dependent Variational Autoencoder (TD-VAE) with Adaptive Gated Self-Attention GRU (AGSA-GRU). The framework incorporates self-attention mechanisms and Multi-Task Learning (MTL) strategies to capture long-term dependencies and complex patterns in energy consumption time series data, while simultaneously optimizing prediction accuracy and anomaly detection. …”
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Classification of Individuals With COVID-19 and Post–COVID-19 Condition and Healthy Controls Using Heart Rate Variability: Machine Learning Study With a Near–Real-Time Monitoring C... by Carlos Alberto Sanches, Andre Felipe Henriques Librantz, Luciana Maria Malosá Sampaio, Peterson Adriano Belan

“… BackgroundHeart rate variability (HRV) is a validated biomarker of autonomic and inflammatory regulation and has been associated with both acute COVID-19 and post–COVID-19 condition. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of female infertility and trends from 1990 to 2021 with projections to 2050 based on the GBD 2021 analysis by Jie Liu, Yi Qin, Hui Liu, Yonglin Liu, Yi Yang, Yumei Ning, Huijun Ye

“…Abstract Female infertility represents a significant reproductive health issue that critically affects global fertility rates. In this study, we utilized the most recent data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2021. …”
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Longitudinal effects of stress in an academic context on psychological well-being, physiological markers, health behaviors, and academic performance in university students by Juan Camilo Benítez-Agudelo, Dayana Restrepo, Eduardo Navarro-Jimenez, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez

“…Heart rate variability (HRV), a widely used physiological marker of autonomic nervous system function and stress regulation, was assessed. …”
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Zoonotic diseases in China: epidemiological trends, incidence forecasting, and comparative analysis between real-world surveillance data and Global Burden of Disease 2021 estimates by Yun-Fei Zhang, Shi-Zhu Li, Shi-Wen Wang, Di Mu, Xi Chen, Sheng Zhou, Hai-Jian Zhou, Tian Qin, Qin Liu, Shan Lv, Yan Lu, Ji-Chun Wang, Yu Qin, Guo-Bing Yang, Yong-Jun Li, Jian-Yun Sun, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Mai-Geng Zhou, Can-Jun Zheng, Biao Kan, Shun-Xian Zhang

“…For most diseases, incidence rates were consistently higher in males than females. …”
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Association between different types and characteristics of fetal deceleration during labour and neonatal acidemia at delivery: A case-control study by Maria Fogelberg, Charlotte Dahlbäck, Frida Ekengård, Gisela Rickle, Andreas Herbst

“…Objective: Classification of fetal heart rate (FHR) decelerations as suspicious or pathological differs between current interpretation templates for intrapartum cardiotocography. …”
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