An Epidemiological and Multidrug Resistance Study for E. coli Isolated from Urinary Tract Infection (Three Years of Study) by Mahde S. Assafi, Fawwaz F. Ali, Reem Fouad Polis, Nisreen Jawad Sabaly, Sozan Muhsin Qarani

“…The uropathogenic E. coli rate was higher, statistically not significant, in females (21.4%) than males (18.5%) (P=0.4946). …”
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Acoustical Enrichment during Early Development Improves Response Reliability in the Adult Auditory Cortex of the Rat by Zbyněk Bureš, Kateryna Pysanenko, Jiří Lindovský, Josef Syka

“…Here, we show that rearing rat pups in a complex acoustically enriched environment leads to an increased reliability of responses of AC neurons, affecting both the rate and the temporal codes. For a repetitive stimulus, the neurons exhibit a lower spike count variance, indicating a more stable rate coding. …”
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Anomaly detection of smart grid stealing network attacks based on deep autoencoder by Huang Yan, Li Jincan, Yang Xiaqin, Li Pei, Li Zi

“…Simulation results demonstrate that the detector with an attention mechanism (AEA) achieves a 4%~21% higher detection rate and a 4%~13% lower false alarm rate compared to the best-performing existing detectors.…”
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MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images by Jianfeng Li, Yibing Yang, Liutong Yang, Yang Zhao, Qinghua Luo, Chenxu Wang

“…Due to the complex sea background and the different sizes and shapes of ships, the detection of ship targets has the problems of low detection rate, high false detection rate and high missed detection rate. …”
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Analysis of fibrous material deformation in the roll contact zone by Khurramov Shavkat, Abrorov Akbar, Abdullaev Akhror, Norov Nusiratjon, Baymatov Shakhriddin

“…The analytical description of the shape of contact curves and the thickness of processed material in the technological zone of a two-roll module in a dynamic mode is given, considering the deformation pattern of the processed material. It is determined that one of the factors that most influence the shape of the contact curve is the ratio of the compression rate of the coating deformation to the corresponding material feed rate. …”
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Viral etiology of severe acute respiratory infections in hospitalized patients, Shandong, China. by Chunwang Li, Yujie He, Xiao Pan, Huimin Yin, Yaowen Pei, Shaoxia Song, Lin Sun, Shu Zhang, Julong Wu, Zhong Li, Xianjun Wang, Zengqiang Kou, Lei Zhao, Weijia Xing, Ti Liu

“…Among patients aged 0-14 years, IFA and EV had the highest infection rates, both at 9.46% (7/74). In the 15-24 age group, IFA exhibited the highest infection rate at 19.70% (26/132). …”
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Reality of Road Safety Conditions at Critical Locations in Nablus City, Palestine with a Road Map for Future Interventions by Khaled Al-Sahili, Hozaifa Khader

“…Nablus occupies a high level among Palestinian Governorates in terms of traffic crash frequency and rate. The traffic safety system and program in Palestine, including Nablus city is weak and needs much improvement. …”
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Study on the propagation law of hydraulic fractures in heterogeneous permeability reservoirs. by Linhao Zou, Yinao Su, Xingsheng Xu, Wei Li, Huan Zhao, Mingxiu Zhang, Shengjie Jiao

“…The impacts of permeability heterogeneous, injection rate, and fracturing fluid viscosity on fracture morphology are systematically investigated, and the elasticity coefficient method was used to evaluate the influence weights of each parameter.The main conclusions are as follows: (1) Permeability distribution is the core factor controlling the fracture propagation direction, with HPL dominating the extension path while MPL and LPL show limited efficiency. (2) An increase in the number of permeability layers inhibits the overall expansion of cracks, and the shape of the cracks gradually changes to rectangular. (3) Higher injection rates significantly expand fracture area, whereas fracturing fluid viscosity ≥50 mPa·s stabilizes fracture morphology. (4) The elastic coefficient method identifies injection rate, permeability heterogeneous, and fracturing fluid viscosity as the key control parameters in order. …”
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Structural and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Al-Doped Zinc-Oxide Thin Films by Bong Ju Lee, Ho Jun Song, Jin Jeong

“…The charge-carrier concentrations in the films decreased from 1.69 × 1021 to 6.16 × 1017 cm−3 with increased gas flow rate from 7 to 21 sccm. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns show that the (002)/(103) peak-intensity ratio decreased as the gas flow rate increased, which was related to the increase of AZO thin film disorder. …”
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Senior high school students’ competence in logical operation and logical reasoning by Kodirun, Kadir, Busnawir, Wa Ode Indrawati

“…Students performed best on geometric problems (70.05%), followed by algebra, statistics, and calculus problems, with the lowest success rate in calculus-related logical problems (28.04%). …”
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Effects of Heat Transfer Characteristics of R32 and R1234yf with Al2O3 Nanoparticle through U-Bend Tube Evaporator by Latifur Islam, Dipayan Mondal, Md. Ashraful Islam, Palash Das

“…After the bend, the frictional pressure drop increased at a higher rate than before the bend, and the vapor fraction increased at a higher rate.…”
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Unobtrusive stress detection using wearables: application and challenges in a university setting by Peter Neigel, Andrew Vargo, Benjamin Tag, Koichi Kise

“…We identify potential stress patterns by observing elevated waking heart rate (HR) and maximum waking HR, supported by related metrics such as sleep HR, sleep heart rate variability (HRV), activity patterns, and sleep phases.ResultsThe physiological changes align with significant academic and societal events, indicating a strong link to stress.DiscussionOur findings demonstrate the potential of consumer wearables to detect collective changes in stress biomarkers within a cohort using in-the-wild data, i.e., data that is noisy and has gaps. …”
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Geospatial technology based shoreline change analysis (1992–2022) and predictive forecast modeling for 2032 and 2042, utilizing DSAS, along the eastern coast of India by Harikrishna S., Gurugnanam B., Bairavi S.

“…The study found that the maximum erosion in the study area is 4.1 m/yr (end point rate (EPR)) and 4.21 m/yr (linear regression rate (LRR)) at the Maravakkadu coastal region, and the maximum accretion is 3.75 m/yr (EPR) and LRR of 4.12 m/yr at the Mettupalayam coast. …”
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Whisper Automatic Speech Recognition and GPT Large Language Models as Best Practice for Assessing Communication Progress in Autism Spectrum Disorder by Naela Fauzul Muna, Mukhammad Andri Setiawan

“…Whisper achieved a low Word Error Rate (WER) for mild autism (average 5%) and a higher rate for moderate autism (average 23%). …”
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Key Vital Signs Monitor Based on MIMO Radar by Michael Gottinger, Nicola Notari, Samuel Dutler, Samuel Kranz, Robin Vetsch, Tindaro Pittorino, Christoph Würsch, Guido Piai

“…This technique allows precise measurements of respiration patterns, periods of movement, and heart rate. Major practical problems arise as CW systems suffer from signal cancellation due to destructive interference, limited overall functionality, and a possibility of low signal quality over longer periods. …”
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Characteristics of Microseismic Generated During Shear Failure of Granite With Structural Plane of Various Connectivities by Xianzhe Liang, Zhicheng Hu, Xiufen Qin, Yaoqun Deng, Jianqing Jiang, Guoshao Su

“…Also, it can be found that in the middle-to-late stages of the tests, the b value initially drops to a very low level and then rises back to the original level; before rock failure, the b value continuously decreases at a swift rate, but the average rate of decrease increases with the increase in structural plane connectivity. …”
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Augmenting Coral Growth on Breakwaters: A Shelter-Based Approach by Almog Ben Natan, Natalie Chernihovsky, Nadav Shashar

“…No differences were found in coral settlement between the niches. Flow rate patterns remained similar in Exposed and Sheltered niches due to vortex formation in the Sheltered zones. …”
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Risk Factors of Clonally Related, Multi, and Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Severely Ill COVID-19 Patients by Meqdad Saleh Ahmed, Zirak Faqe Ahmed Abdulrahman, Zanan Mohammed Ameen Taha

“…The secondary infection of multi and extensively drug-resistant “Acinetobacter baumannii” in severely ill COVID-19 individuals is usually associated with extended hospitalisation and a high mortality rate. The current study aimed to assess the exact incidence rate of A. baumannii coinfection in severely ill COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICUs), to identify the possible mechanism of A. baumannii transfer to COVID-19 patients and to find out their resistance rate against different antibiotics. …”
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Epidemic Trends and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Hepatitis B in China: Surveillance Study by Xiaoxue Li, Jie Liang, Lanqing Ma, Shijie Shen, Xueying Han, Tao Sun, Heng Guo

“…The age effect showed that the incidence rate of hepatitis B reached its peak at the age of 22 years, with an average incidence rate of 176.173/100,000. …”
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Epidemiological Characteristics of Human Rabies in Urban and Suburban Districts in Shanghai, 2006–2021 by Zhi Li, Jiayu Hu, Zhuoying Huang, Xiang Guo, Jia Ren, Jing Qiu, Xiaoying Ma, Han Yan, Fang Huang, Xiaodong Sun

“…The body parts most frequently injured by dogs were the hands (48.84%). The fatality rate was 100%. Most cases (86.05%) were not treated after exposure. …”
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