Spatial inequalities of COVID-19 incidence and associated socioeconomic risk factors in Portugal by Ricardo Almendra, Paula Santana, Claudia Costa

“…Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) models were applied to explore the spatially varying association between age-standardized COVID-19 incidence rate in 2020 and socioeconomic conditions in Portugal, at the municipality level. …”
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PREVALENCE AND PATTERN OF UTERINE BLEEDING AMONG BREASTFEEDING WOMEN USING PROGESTERONE-ONLY PILLS by Prima Dhewi Ratrikaningtyas, Dian Rosdiana, Siswanto Agus Wilopo

“…Discontinuation of POPs was mostly due to bleeding pattern disorders. Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence and pattern of uterine bleeding on breastfeeding women using contraceptive pills containing progesterone derivatives. …”
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Geographic patterns in wildland fire exposures and county-level lung cancer mortality in the United States by Richard V. Remigio, Ian D. Buller, Michael S. Bogle, Maria E. Kamenetsky, Samantha Ammons, Jesse E. Bell, Jared A. Fisher, Neal D. Freedman, Rena R. Jones

“…We evaluated geographic patterns in these exposures and their association with lung cancer mortality (LCM) rates across the conterminous United States (US). …”
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Oral Urate-Lowering Therapy Use and Efficacy Following Pegloticase Treatment: Findings from a Rheumatology Network Database by Lissa Padnick-Silver, Andrew Concoff, Hong-Ye Gao, Qianhong Fu, Brian LaMoreaux, N. Lawrence Edwards

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Thermodynamics of Morphogenesis: Beading and Branching Pattern Formation in Diffusion-Driven Salt Finger Plumes by Hisashi Ozawa, Sayaka Murayama-Ogino, Axel Kleidon

“…When the rate increases, a linear finger starts meandering, branching, and multiple branching, whereas when the rate is decreased, it produces a beading pattern. …”
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Study on the Movement and Distribution Patterns of Sand Particles in a Vane-Type Multiphase Pump by Chenwei Wang, Guangtai Shi, Yao Liu, Haigang Wen, Wenjuan Lv

“…The study found that: sand particle diameter, flow rate, rotational speed, and oil content significantly influence the trajectories of the solid–liquid two-phase flow, the motion characteristics of sand particles, and the vortices in the liquid flow field. …”
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Study of the pine wilt disease occurrence and its range expansion pattern based on GIS by ZHANG Zhi-cheng, SUN Jiang-hua, HUANG Bao-xu, ZHANG Feng, OUYANG Hua

“…Results show that PWD occurrence rate in Chu-Zhou and Ma-An-Shan region varied from 0.18% to 46%. …”
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Method for recognizing abnormal operation patterns in hydraulic support machine-following and shifting control by MA Zhitao, FU Xiang, LI Haojie, NIU Penghao, JIA Yifan

“…The remaining four stroke-related features were input into the decision tree model to identify stroke anomaly patterns. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieved a precision of 100% and recall rate of over 95% for identifying shutdown fluctuation and over-time shifting types. …”
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A Two-Phase Pattern Generation and Production Planning Procedure for the Stochastic Skiving Process by Tolga Kudret Karaca, Funda Samanlioglu, Ayca Altay

“…This study studies a multiproduct case for the SSP under uncertain demand and waste rate, including products of different widths. This stochastic version of the SSP considers a random demand for each product and a random waste rate during production. …”
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Brucellosis in Marine Mammals: Meta‐Analysis of Prevalence, Infection Patterns, Host Specificity and Zoonotic Potential by Nasrin Sultana Tonu, Anowar Hossain, Sadequl Islam, Bristi Kona Debnath

“…Geographic patterns indicated Asia as the region with the highest prevalence (36%), followed by Oceania and Antarctica, suggesting environmental and population density factors may influence infection rates. …”
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Experimental study of settlement and migration patterns of proppant in long narrow fractures in deep shale by LIU Haoqi, CHEN Fuhong, YU Zhili, GONG Wei, LUO Xi, LIN Hun

“…A total of 11 experimental groups were designed to investigate the effects of fracturing fluid viscosity, injection rate, proppant concentration, proppant particle size, proppant type, and fracture width variation. …”
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Palm-Print Pattern Matching Based on Features Using Rabin-Karp for Person Identification by S. Kanchana, G. Balakrishnan

“…Experiment is conducted on the factors such as pattern matching efficiency rate, time taken on multiple palm-print feature matching efficiency, and cumulative accuracy on hashing.…”
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Transformations of traditional land use and settlement patterns of Kosarysche Ridge (Chornohora, Western Ukraine) by Nowak Agnieszka, Tokarczyk Natalia

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The Pattern of Respiratory Disease Morbidity and Mortality in a Tertiary Hospital in Southern-Eastern Nigeria by Victor Aniedi Umoh, Akaninyene Otu, Henry Okpa, Emmanuel Effa

“…Tuberculosis/HIV coinfection rate was 50.7%. HIV infection was the single most important predictor of an adverse outcome (OR 5.1, 95% CI 2.05–12.7, P<0.001). …”
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Antimicrobial resistance pattern and uropathogens distribution in children visiting a referral hospital in Mogadishu by Abdikarin Ahmed Mohamed, Yavuz Bastug, Cem Senol, Mohamed Muktar Kassim, Abdisalam Abdullahi Yusuf, Abdikarim Hussein Mohamed

“…About 27% of the pathogens had a multidrug-resistant (MDR) pattern. A resistance rate against nitrofurantoin at 24.6%, fosfomycin at 15.2% and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (SMX-TMP) at 79.7% was noted. …”
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Patterns of diversity in biomedical coauthorships: An analysis across authors' ethnicity, gender, age, and expertise. by Apratim Mishra, Haejin Lee, Sullam Jeoung, Vetle I Torvik, Jana Diesner

“…Our findings reveal a consistent pattern of demographic homophily, where scientists tend to collaborate with others who share similar ethnic and gender backgrounds. …”
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Associative Analysis Data Mining Pattern Against Traffic Accidents Using Apriori Algorithm by Ruswati Ruswati, Acep Irham Gufroni, Rianto Rianto

“…The police recorded data on accidents that occurred in several regions of East Priangan namely Ciamis and Tasikmalaya Regencies for the 2016-2017 period reaching an accident rate of ± 1500. The analysis that can be done to reduce the intensity of the occurrence of these events is to use data mining processing techniques. …”
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Injury Patterns and Demographics in Child and Adolescent Assault Victims Presenting to US Emergency Departments by Randall T. Loder, Samantha Palma, Maddie Smith

“…To correlate injury patterns with patient demographics in child and adolescent assault victims. …”
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Analysis of the Evolution of Non-Agriculturization Arable Land Use Pattern and Its Driving Mechanisms by Ying Zhang, Qiang Wang, Yueming Hu, Wei Wang, Xiaoyun Mao

“…From 2005 to 2010, the rapid increase in the non-agriculturization rate of arable land in Guangzhou was mainly driven by population density and per capita income, both having a positive impact. …”
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THE EFFECT OF COMPANY CHARACTERISTICS ON THE PATTERN OF ASYMMETRIC COST BEHAVIOUR AND ITS REFLECTION ON THE CONTINUITY OF PROFITS by Ali Union, Walaa Kadhem, Ali Jabber, Karrar Hameedi

“…The research recommends the necessity of studying and analyzing the asymmetric cost behaviour pattern to understand its influence on business size, as well as focusing on enhancing company characteristics that management can improve, such as determining the optimal size of working capital and the financial leverage rate in light of the optimal financing structure study. …”
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