Association of vancomycin trough levels, AUC and AUC/MIC ratios with clinical outcomes in patients with enterococcal bacteremia: a prospective cohort study by Eda Kubra Sel, Berfu Tufan, Gundag Kupra Atagun, Vildan Avkan Oguz, Ozgen Alpay Ozbek, Mukaddes Gumustekin, Serife Reyhan Ucku, Ayse Gelal

“…The 30-day all-cause mortality rate was 28.3%. Regarding treatment efficacy, only the AUCss cutoff value was found to be statistically significant; patients with AUCss<616 µg·h/mL had a higher rate of efficacy compared to those with AUCss≥616 µg·h/mL (p = 0.031). …”
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Bifurcation analysis of multistability and hysteresis in a model of HIV infection by I. V. Mironov, M. Yu. Khristichenk, Yu. M. Nechepurenko, D. S. Grebennikov, G. A. Bocharov

“…The macrophage activation rate constant is considered as a bifurcation parameter. …”
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Biogeochemical responses to water management: Insights from the regulated Geum River, Korea by Min-Young Lee, Tae-Hoon Kim, Yongwon Kim, Hyebin Kim, Tae-Woo Kang, Sung-Eun Park

“…We compared conditions during August 2021 (gate-closing) and August 2022 (gate-opening), periods with starkly different residence times (3.5 vs. 0.5 days) that resulted in distinct biogeochemical dynamics. …”
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Cervical malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors: A case report and literature review by SUN Shuohui, LIU Qinyao, MA Junli, LI Xiao, WANG Zhifa

“…As a kind of tumor with a high degree of malignancy, the recurrence rate of MPNST is determined by the design of surgical method, the size of resection, and whether to further radiotherapy and chemotherapy after surgery.…”
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Anaesthetic profile of thymol and menthol in zebrafish larvae model by Raquel S.F. Vieira, Diana Sousa, Luís M. Félix, Carlos A.S. Venâncio

“…Following the determination of the effective anaesthetic concentration, three concentrations (100, 200 and 300 mg/L for thymol and 200, 400 and 500 mg/L for menthol) were further tested by focusing on mortality rate, heart rate, behaviour features of induction and oxidative effects in comparison to MS-222 and eugenol. …”
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Application of Image Processing Technology in the Diagnosis of Football Injury by Liyun Xu, Zhubo Xu

“…Among them, the sensitivity of pattern recognition based on image processing can reach 68.9%, and the detection rate of football injuries can also be maintained at about 81.2%. …”
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SOH Estimation Method for Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Partial Discharge Curves Based on CGKAN by Shengfeng He, Wenhu Qin, Zhonghua Yun, Chao Wu, Chongbin Sun

“…Finally, multiple experiments under different conditions are conducted, and the results demonstrate that the proposed CGKAN method, by integrating the individual advantages of 1D-CNN, BiGRU, and KAN, efficiently captures complex nonlinear patterns in battery health features and maintains stable performance across various operating conditions.…”
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Mental Health in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight by Sitara Ejaz, Hafiz Muhammad Haseeb Khaliq

“…Young people are experiencing increasing levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness at an alarming rate. Serious damage to emotional health stems from the pervasive information overload and social envy people experience through their constant online connection 3. …”
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Shear Strength Characteristics of Soft Soil in Nansha District of Guangzhou by WANG Wei-qi, LIAN Chang-jiang, LI Jian-ping, CHEN Zhi-yong, CHENG Dong-hai, CAI Wei-long, TANG Kai, LI Chao

“…Certain anomalies and unconventional patterns are observed in the dataset, including the opposite variation trends in the consolidated quick shear strength of both silt and silty soil with increasing depth, as well as the difference in the rate of strength change for silt at depths of 10 m≤h&lt;20 m under consolidated quick shear compared to direct shear conditions. …”
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Maternal asthma and newborn DNA methylation by Casper-Emil Tingskov Pedersen, Thanh T. Hoang, Jianping Jin, Anna Starnawska, Raquel Granell, Hannah R. Elliott, Anke Huels, Heather J. Zar, Dan J. Stein, Yining Zhang, Herman T. den Dekker, Liesbeth Duijts, Janine F. Felix, Júlia Sangüesa, Mariona Bustamante, Maribel Casas, Martine Vrijheid, Latha Kadalayil, Faisal I. Rezwan, Hasan Arshad, John W. Holloway, Stefan Röder, Ana C. Zenclussen, Gunda Herberth, Nicklas Heine Staunstrup, Henriette Thisted Horsdal, Jonathan Mill, Eilis Hannon, iPSYCH-MINERvA Group, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Giancarlo Pesce, Nour Baïz, Barbara Heude, Sahra Hosseinian-Mohazzab, Carrie V. Breton, Sophia Harlid, Justin Harbs, Magnus Domellof, Christina West, Edwina Yeung, Xuehuo Zeng, Wenche Nystad, Siri E. Håberg, Maria C. Magnus, Diana Schendel, Stephanie J. London, Klaus Bønnelykke

“…Results We identified 27 CpGs associated with maternal asthma during pregnancy at False Discovery Rate < 0.05 but none for maternal asthma ever. Two distinct CpGs were associated with paternal asthma. …”
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Optimization of off-centered lens parameters in high-power stimulated Brillouin-scattering phase-conjugation mirror by Hongli Wang, Hongli Wang, Chaoshuai Liu, Tianrun Jiang, Kaiyang Li

“…This study can provide valuable experimental references for the application of SBS-PCMs in high power and high-repetition rate laser systems.…”
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Waste Reduction Analysis with Lean Manufacturing Approach by Eulis Yulianti Faridah, Trio Yonathan Teja Kusuma

“…As a result, the production capacity of 1040 pcs per day cannot be achieved, and is only able to produce at the rate of 200-300 pcs. As a calculation reference to determine the degree of accuracy, a adequacy and uniformity test of the data will be carried out, then calculate the rating factor and determine the allowance for the calculation of normal time and standard time. …”
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AEMS: Adaptive Ensemble GNNs for Multibehavior Stream Recommendation by Ritchie Natuan Caibigan, Punyaphol Horata, Pusadee Seresangtakul

“…The AEMS synergizes long-term preference patterns (derived from historical interactions) with real-time user intents and item attributes (captured through multibehavior signals), integrating them via an adaptive ensemble neural gating mechanism. …”
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Characteristics of water and soil loss occurrence under contour hedges condition in red soil slope fields by LI Xin-ping, CHEN Xin, WANG Zhao-qian, MA Kun, ZHANG Ru-liang

“…Soil physical characteristics and soil infiltration were significantly improved by hedge roots and higher water infiltration capacity and infiltration rate were maintained in different hedgerows. Regression models were also established to simulate the relationships between runoff, soil loss and infiltration capacity.…”
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Deep learning driven prediction and comparative study of surrounding rock deformation in high speed railway tunnels by Zeping Yang, Zhikai Cheng, Da Wu

“…The methodology incorporates quadratic exponential smoothing for outlier mitigation, followed by sequential feature extraction using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and bidirectional gated recurrent units (GRUs). Comparative experiments demonstrate the model’s superiority over conventional architectures including RNN, LSTM, GRU, and CNN-GRU. …”
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Forecasting Sales in Live-Streaming Cross-Border E-Commerce in the UK Using the Temporal Fusion Transformer Model by Qi Zhang, Xue Li, Pengbin Gao

“…Our multimodal approach integrates diverse time series data, including historical sales, key opinion leader (KOL) influence, and seasonal patterns. The Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT) model demonstrated consistently lower Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and Mean Squared Error (MSE) across all forecasting horizons compared to other machine learning approaches, including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), and Gated Recurrent Unit(GPU)-accelerated architectures. …”
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A clustering-based federated deep learning approach for enhancing diabetes management with privacy-preserving edge artificial intelligence by Xinyi Yang, Juan Li

“…We develop tailored models that enhance prediction accuracy by clustering patients based on carbohydrate (CHO) intake patterns. Utilizing Simple Recurrent Neural Network (SimpleRNN) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) methods, the study evaluates the performance of local patients who contribute to training the cluster and global (non-cluster) models. …”
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Attachment Theory and Physical Well-Being by Mikhail Yu. Kozlov

“…Unsafe internal attachment patterns have a negative impact on the development of a wide range of somatic pathologies, primarily cardiovascular and immune systems, and impaired functioning of the HPA axis, mediated by associative anxiety. …”
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Anomaly Detection in Network Traffic via Cross-Domain Federated Graph Representation Learning by Yanli Zhao, Zongduo Liu, Junjie Pang

“…Traditional detection approaches typically rely on statistical features while overlooking the interaction patterns and structural dependencies among traffic flows. …”
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Unveiling gender imbalances among PhD students: early inequalities in productivity and impact influenced by supervisor-student gender combinations by Maria Antfolk

“…Even though women earn the same rate of PhD degrees, the gender imbalance becomes increasingly prominent at higher academic levels. …”
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