Health status, respiratory symptom and dyspnea trajectories in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a seven-year observation in clinical practice by Koichi Nishimura, Masaaki Kusunose, Ayumi Shibayama, Kazuhito Nakayasu

“…The patients were categorized into quartiles based on the rate of decline in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and changes in PROs. …”
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Emerging trends in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis and prediction using artificial intelligence: A bibliometric analysis of the top cited 100 articles by Guangheng Zhang, Weijie Zhao, Shimeng Lv, Ziyue Wang, Yunhao Yi, Haoteng Ma, Yitong Lu, Wei Yan, Jing Teng

“…The journal with both the highest number of published articles and the greatest citation frequency was NEUROIMAGE, while PROTEIN ENGINEERING DESIGN & SELECTION boasted the highest average citation rate. The country with the largest volume of published articles was the United States, followed by China and the United Kingdom. …”
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P53 marker expression in epithelial ovarian tumours in a centre in Nigeria – a descriptive study by Andrew Olushola Anjorin, Olaejirinde Olaniyi Olaofe, Atinuke Olu Anjorin, Ganiat Olutoyin Omoniyi-Esan, Akinwumi Oluwole Komolafe

“…This may contribute to the poor patient survival rate.…”
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Daily insider threat detection with hybrid TCN transformer architecture by Xiaoyun Ye, Huangrongbin Cui, Faqin Luo, Jinlong Wang, Xiaoyun Xiong, Wencui Zhang, Jiawei Yu, Wenhao Zhao

“…The model detects anomalies at each time step and achieves a recall rate of $$95\%$$ with a sequence length of 30 days. …”
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Protecting children’s vision is a systematic project—a cross-sectional survey on myopia among preschool children in Shantou, China by Yan-Shu Li, Jia-Qi Xie, Xiao-Mei Hong, Yu-Xin Zhu, Xi-Yu Lin, Bing-Yun Li

“…Results Of the 388 valid questionnaires collected, a myopia detection rate of 25.7% was observed, with a significant age-related increase (OR = 4.591, P = 0.018). …”
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PERAN SOSIAL EKONOMI KELUARGA DALAM MENANGGULANGI KESEHATAN ANAK DI INDONESIA by Syifa Pramudita Faddila, Laras Ratu Khalida, Uus Mohammad Darul Fadli, Aji Tuhagana

“…Globally, as many as 42 million children were overweight in 2015 and the obesity rate in Indonesia was around 10.8% in 2013. The purpose of this study was to determine the socioeconomic role of families in tackling children's health in Indonesia. …”
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EXTRAOSSEOUS ABNORMALITIES AND ARTIFACTS IN SKELETAL SCINTIGRAPHY by S. P. Mironov, A. A. Ansheles, D. N. Shulgin, V. B. Sergienko

“…Objective: to specify frequency, patterns and diagnostic significance of extraosseous soft tissue findings in 99mTc-pyrophosphate skeletal scintigraphy. …”
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ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN 2017 10TH REPORT OF THE NATIONAL REGISTRY by S. V. Gautier, S. M. Khomyakov

“…In 2017, the level of kidney transplantation was 8.0 per million of the population, the liver transplantation index was 3.0 per million of the population; the rate of heart transplantation is 1.7 per million of the population. …”
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Biomimetic Computing for Efficient Spoken Language Identification by Gaurav Kumar, Saurabh Bhardwaj

“…The proposed technique integrates speech preprocessing, which encompasses pre-emphasis, windowing, and frame blocking, followed by feature extraction utilizing pitch, energy, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), and Zero crossing rate (ZCR). Further, the selection of features is performed by DBO algorithm, which removes redundant features and helps to improve efficiency and accuracy. …”
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A Study on the Spatial Perception and Inclusive Characteristics of Outdoor Activity Spaces in Residential Areas for Diverse Populations from the Perspective of All-Age Friendly Des... by Biao Yin, Lijun Wang, Yuan Xu, Kiang Chye Heng

“…With the transformation of urban development patterns and profound changes in population structure in China, outdoor activity spaces in residential areas are facing common issues such as obsolete infrastructure, insufficient barrier-free facilities, and intergenerational conflicts, which severely impact residents’ quality of life and hinder high-quality urban development. …”
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Analysis of complex chromosomal structural variants through optical genome mapping integrated with karyotyping by Xiaoxi Zhu, Huiling Zheng, Xue Wan, Hang Duan, Ying Qi, Weijia Tang, Fan Yang, Fan Yang, Limei Yu, Limei Yu

“…This advancement substantially enhances the diagnostic rates of genetic etiology in patients experiencing RSA. …”
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Differential Cortical Responses of Functional and Sensory Electrical Stimulation in Closed-Loop Tremor Suppression for Parkinson’s Disease by Xiaoqi Zhao, Tinglan Huang, Mengyue Jin, Hongbo Zhao, Yu Shi, Yanlin Wang, Xiao Shen, Zhen Li, Qingqing Shi, Xiaodong Zhu, Lin Meng

“…Both FES and SES significantly reduced tremor amplitude, with FES showing overall greater suppression (hand suppression rate: 60.72% vs. 48.31%, p >0.05; forearm suppression rate: 62.25% vs. 54.41%, p >0.05) where substantial inter-individual variability was observed. …”
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Timing of Surgery and Preoperative Predictors of Surgical Site Infections for Patients with Depressed Skull Fractures in a Sub-Saharan Tertiary Hospital: A Prospective Cohort Study by Hervé Monka Lekuya, Jelle Vandersteene, Larrey Kasereka Kamabu, Rose Nantambi, Ronald Mbiine, Anthony Kirabira, Fredrick Makumbi, Stephen Cose, David Patrick Kateete, Mark Kaddumukasa, Edward Baert, Moses Galukande, Jean-Pierre Okito Kalala

“…The group of surgical intervention >48 h had an increased incidence of SSI (57.3% vs. 42.7%, p = 0.006), a longer median of postoperative hospital stay (8[IQR = 6–12] days versus 5 [IQR = 4–9], [p < 0.001]), and a higher rate of reoperation (71.4% vs. 28.6%, p = 0.05) in comparison with the group of ≤48 h. …”
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Annual dialysis data report 2022, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) Renal Data Registry by Norio Hanafusa, Masanori Abe, Nobuhiko Joki, Junichi Hoshino, Masatomo Taniguchi, Kan Kikuchi, Takeshi Hasegawa, Shunsuke Goto, Tetsuya Ogawa, Eiichiro Kanda, Shigeru Nakai, Toshihide Naganuma, Kenichiro Miura, Atsushi Wada, Yoshiaki Takemoto

“…The number of chronic dialysis patients was 347,474 at the end of 2022, marking the first decrease since the beginning of this survey. The prevalence rate of dialysis patients was 2781 per million population. …”
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Clinicopathological characterization of Switch/Sucrose-non-fermentable (Swi/Snf) complex (ARID1A, SMARCA2, SMARCA4)-deficient endocervical adenocarcinoma by Chao Cao, Zi-Yun Wu, Wei Liao, Li-Jun Wei, Hao-Yu Liang, Xia Yang, Rong-Zhen Luo, Li-Li Liu

“…Defining Swi/Snf deficiency as loss of any subunit, the overall deficiency rate was 5.96% (36/604). Swi/Snf-deficient ECA tended to advanced FIGO stage (III-IV, P = 0.041), larger tumor size (P < 0.001), deeper stromal invasion (≥ 1/3, P = 0.046), and higher lymph node metastasis rate (P = 0.037). …”
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SUSCEPTIBLE VACCINATED INFECTED RECOVERED MODEL WITH THE EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING AND ITS APPLICATION TO PNEUMONIA DATA IN INDONESIA by Purnami Widyaningsih, Ghufron Musta'in, Dewi Retno Sari Saputro

“…The free target can also be achieved by increasing the exclusive breastfeeding rate to 73.9% and the Hib vaccination rate to 0.22.…”
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Analysis of Effects of Rough Strip Energy Dissipator on Hydraulic Property of Bend Flow by Honghong Zhang, Zhenwei Mu, Fan Fan, Fanqi Li

“…The energy dissipation rate of the R-SED decreased with an increase in discharge flow rate and ranged between 30% and 50%. …”
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Dynamics of free amino acids in beef during thermal processing and mathematical modeling of doneness correlation by Jiayu Sun, Lifen Wang, Zehua Huang, Nianguo Guo, Hongzhou An, Xiaobin Zhan, Mehdi Abddollahi, Zoltan Kovacs

“…Recognizing the nonlinear relationship between free amino acids and central temperature, Fisher's discriminant analysis was applied, achieving an 89.7% classification rate for non-enzymatic hydrolysis beef beef and 62.1% for enzymatically hydrolyzed beef. …”
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Numerical simulation study on oxygen transport in the natural circulation process of liquid lead–bismuth eutectic by Xiangdong Wang, Wentao Guo, Shengfei Wang, Haicai Lv, Fang Liu, Zhangpeng Guo

“…In order to study the oxygen transport characteristics of LBE in natural circulation circuit, this article uses FLUENT software to conduct CFD simulation using the oxygen transport model. The mass flow rate of natural circulation under different power conditions in the cold and hot sections was discussed. …”
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Protein abundance of AKT and ERK pathway components governs cell type‐specific regulation of proliferation by Lorenz Adlung, Sandip Kar, Marie‐Christine Wagner, Bin She, Sajib Chakraborty, Jie Bao, Susen Lattermann, Melanie Boerries, Hauke Busch, Patrick Wuchter, Anthony D Ho, Jens Timmer, Marcel Schilling, Thomas Höfer, Ursula Klingmüller

“…Second, downstream regulators of both pathways have differential effects on proliferation, suggesting that protein synthesis is rate‐limiting for faster cycling cells while slower cell cycles are controlled at the G1‐S progression. …”
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