Fertility intention and its correlates with reproductive-aged married women in Ethiopia: an adapted theory of planned behavior (TPB) by Fitsum Tariku Fantaye, Solomon Abrha Damtew, Kelemua Menegesha Sene

“…The population continues to grow at a rate of 2.7 and fertility rates remain at 4.6. Fertility is one of the three key aspects in shaping population dynamics, as women’s fertility intention for children play a significant role in determining actual fertility rates. …”
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Study on the age and growth characteristics of Sepia esculenta in the East coast of China based on beak microstructure by Bilin Liu, Bilin Liu, Bilin Liu, Bilin Liu, Yuzhe Ou, Minhua Zhou, Hu Zhang, Yueyue Xiao, Kaiwei Zu, Chaowen Zhu, Haisheng Hu

“…The ML-age relationship fitted a linear growth model, while BW-age relationships followed an exponential model for females and a power function model for males. Growth rate analysis showed varied growth trajectories with age, with the highest absolute growth rate (AGR) of ML observed at 120–150 days for females (1.23 mm/d) and at 60–90 days for males (1.93 mm/d). …”
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Enhanced-Dueling Deep Q-Network for Trustworthy Physical Security of Electric Power Substations by Nawaraj Kumar Mahato, Junfeng Yang, Jiaxuan Yang, Gangjun Gong, Jianhong Hao, Jing Sun, Jinlu Liu

“…Empirical evaluation using synthetic data derived from historical incident patterns demonstrates the significant advantages of EDDQN over other standard DQN variations, yielding an average reward of 7.5, a threat prevention success rate of 91.1%, and a notably low false alarm rate of 0.5%. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Survival Analysis of Patients with Supraclavicular Fossa Lymphadenopathy by Yi-Jou Kao, Wan-Lun Hsu, Yong-Chen Chen, Wu-Chia Lo, Ping-Chia Cheng, Li-Jen Liao

“…The malignant nodes were larger and had a greater short-to-long axis ratio, irregular margins, and abnormal vascular patterns (<i>p</i> < 0.01). The 5-year survival rate for patients with malignant SCLNs was 40%. …”
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Short-term solar irradiance forecasting model based on hyper-parameter tuned LSTM via chaotic particle swarm optimization algorithm by V Ashok Gajapati Raju, Janmenjoy Nayak, Pandit Byomakesha Dash, Manohar Mishra

“…The proposed DL architecture leverages the power of LSTM to learn complex temporal patterns in short-wave solar irradiance data. The main objective of the CPSO is to minimize the prediction error through optimizing the LSTM's hyper-parameters such as neurons in hidden layers, learning rate, batch size, dropout rate and activation function. …”
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Wear characteristics of armature surface and its thermal effects under different electromagnetic launch conditions by Luyao Liu, Hongshun Liu, Pengfei Lu, Haoxi Cong, Ali Mohammed Ali Abdo, Li Zhang, Qingquan Li

“…The optimal initial roughness range is 0.55–1.05 μm, with a wear rate of 0.21–0.25% and wear roughness of 7.91–8.31 μm. …”
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High Seroprevalence of Toxocara Infection among Mentally Retarded Patients in Hormozgan Province, Southern Iran by Mostafa Omidian, Mariye Diyaleh, Ali Pouryousef, Habibollah Turki, Fattaneh Mikaeili, Bahador Sarkari

“…The elevated seroprevalence rate of toxocariasis in the current study indicates that these subjects constitute a high-risk group for Toxocara infection, which may be attributed to their behavioral patterns.…”
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Paleomagnetism in Lake Pannon: Problems, Pitfalls, and Progress in Using Iron Sulfides for Magnetostratigraphy by Nick A. Kelder, Karin Sant, Mark J. Dekkers, Imre Magyar, Gijs A. vanDijk, Ymke Z. Lathouwers, Orsolya Sztanó, Wout Krijgsman

“…Alternating field demagnetization cannot resolve the individual components: it yields polarities corresponding to the dominant component resulting in erratic polarity patterns. Interpretation of LT and HT components allows a reasonably robust magnetostratigraphic correlation to the geomagnetic polarity time scale with the base of PAET‐30 at ~8.4 Ma and its top at ~6.8 Ma (average sedimentation rate of ~30 cm/kyr). …”
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Spatio-temporal variability analysis for climatic factors in urban districts with statistical trend line data estimates for sustainable development by Saloni Mangal, Renu Dhupper, Maya Kumari, Vipan Kumar Verma, Deepak Kumar

“…The results showed substantial rising maximum and minimum temperatures in all urban districts and relative humidity was found to have an increasing significant trend at the rate of 0.18–0.20%/year during the winter season. …”
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Constitutive Study of Limestone Damage in Karst Areas under Acidic Dry-Wet Cycles by ZHANG Yan, YUAN Pu-long, HUANG Lan-tao

“…After 10 cycles, the strain at the peak damage rate was significantly reduced, indicating that acidic environments induce increased brittleness in limestone. …”
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Dimensional stabilization of 55%SiCp/Al composites by CUI Yan, LI Pengwei, LI Shuo, CAO Leigang, YANG Yue, LIU Yuan

“…The results show that compared with the 14 μm particle-reinforced samples， the 76 μm particle-reinforced samples and the gradation of 14 μm and 76 μm particle-reinforced samples show better dimensional stability， the size change rate （dV/V） of the control samples can be stabilized at about 1×10-3. …”
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Morbidity, mortality, and risk factors associated with Theileria parva seropositivity in a longitudinal calf study, Narok, Kenya by Wyckliff Ngetich, George Karuoya Gitau, Tequiero Abuom Okumu, Gabriel Oluga Aboge, Daniel Muasya

“…The cumulative incidence rate was 37 cases per 100 calf-years with higher incidence rate in agro-pastoral system. …”
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Photosynthetic performance index (PIabs) and malondialdehyde (MDA) content determine rice biomass under combined salt stress and prohexadione-calcium treatment by Guanqiang Zuo, Wanqi Mei, Naijie Feng, Dianfeng Zheng

“…In this study, we applied random forest machine learning with variable importance measures to quantify the relative importance of key physiological traits - including photosynthetic rate (Pn), photosynthetic performance index (PIabs), electron transport rate (ETR), maximum photosystem II efficiency (Fv/Fm), superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, and malondialdehyde (MDA) content- in rice subjected to NaCl (0.3%) and Prohexadione-Calcium (PCa) co-treatment. …”
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How key features of early development shape deep convective systems by Sophie Abramian, Caroline Muller, Camille Risi, Thomas Fiolleau, Rémy Roca

“…We find that a system’s growth rate during the first 2 h of development predicts its final size with a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.65. …”
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A machine learning model for early detection of sexually transmitted infections by Juma Shija, Judith Leo, Elizabeth Mkoba

“…Based on evaluation metrics, the AdaBoost model was identified as the best-performing model, achieving an accuracy of 97.45%, an F1 score of 97.7%, and the Receiver Operating Characteristics Area Under the Curve (ROC-AUC) with a higher true positive rate and a lower false positive rate. The study recommends integrating a machine learning model into healthcare systems to detect STIs early, improve medical care, reduce disease progression, and remove stigmatisation barriers. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 control measures on influenza positivity among patients with acute respiratory infections, 2018–2023: an interrupted time series analysis by Wei Chen, Huabin Wang, Xianlin Ten, Miao Fu, Meili Lin, Xiaoping Xu, Yongjun Ma

“…Before the pandemic, influenza primarily showed a winter peak pattern, whereas during the pandemic, the positivity rate declined significantly with no distinct peak. …”
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Experimental Study on the Effect of Freezing and Thawing on the Shear Strength of the Frozen Soil in Qinghai-Tibet Railway Embankment by B. Wang, J. H. Gao, Y. Q. Wang, X. J. Quan, Y. W. Gong, S. W. Zhou

“…After freezing-thawing action, it deserves to be mentioned that the cohesion increases slightly while the internal friction angles present a slight decrease trend compared to the initial state. (2) With the decrease in temperature and the gradual increase in cohesion, the temperature curve can be divided into a fast-growing section from 0 to −2°C, a slow-growing section from −2 to −8°C, and a second fast-growing section from −8 to −10°C owing to the combined effect of the pressure-thawing action and ice-water phase change. In addition, the rate of decrease in the internal friction angle also shows a similar pattern. (3) The cohesion and the internal friction angle of samples both tend to increase first and then decrease with the rise of the initial moisture content, and the critical initial moisture content is near the optimal moisture content of 15%. (4) Both the cohesion and the internal friction angle of the samples increase with dry density growth. …”
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The burden of colorectal cancer attributable to diet low in whole grains from 1990 to 2021: a global, regional and national analysis by Yuting Ma, Jinghuai Ni, Pingping Mei, Yan Chen, Xiutian Guo

“…BackgroundColorectal cancer (CRC) is a major global health issue, with rising incidence and mortality rates. Dietary factors, especially whole grains consumption, are critical in determining CRC risk. …”
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Visual Subfield Progression in Glaucoma Subtypes by Wei-Wen Su, Shian-Sen Hsieh, Shih-Tsung Cheng, Cheng-Wen Su, Wei-Chi Wu, Henry Shen-Lih Chen

“…An average follow-up of 6.94 ± 2.69 years that showed the rate of change of visual field threshold sensitivity was correlated with the peak posttreatment intraocular pressure (IOP) and the long-term IOP fluctuations in all GHT zones except in the inferior arcuate area. …”
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Impact of Calcium and Potassium Currents on Spiral Wave Dynamics in the LR1 Model by Xiaoping Yuan, Qianqian Zheng

“…We demonstrate that reducing gate variables accelerates wave propagation, thins spiral arms, and shortens action potential duration, ultimately inducing dynamic instability. …”
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