Evaluation of the Diagnosis and Antibiotic Therapy of Sepsis in the Emergency Department: A Retrospective Observational Study by Eszter Varga, Sándor Somodi, Máté Molnár, Dóra Ujvárosy, Krisztina Gaál, Attila Vaskó, Zoltán Szabó, Ildikó Bácskay, István Lekli, Adina Fésüs

“…Guideline-adherent antibiotics may lead to significantly higher survival rate in sepsis.…”
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Regularities of crustal faulting and tectonophysical indicators of fault metastability by Yu. L. Rebetsky

“…The differences in the types of shearing in the sources of weak and strong earthquakes are related to the relationships between three dynamic parameters of the medium: velocity of seismic wave propagation, rate of rupture propagation, and displacement rate of the sides of the fracture. …”
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Development of wireless electronic nose and using of remote monitoring by HU Ying, WANG Jun

“…At the same time, selecting the appropriate pattern recognition algorithm can make the system more accurate.…”
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Smartwatch-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment for High-Temporal-Density, Longitudinal Measurement of Alcohol Use (AlcoWatch): Feasibility Evaluation by Chris Stone, Sally Adams, Robyn E Wootton, Andy Skinner

“…ResultsThe compliance rate for all participants who started the study for the smartwatch μEMA method decreased from around 70% in week 1 to 45% in week 12, compared with the online TLFB method which was flatter at around 50% over the 12 weeks. …”
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Selfish Node Detection in Delay Tolerant Networks Using Fuzzy Logic by Fahimeh Rashidjafari, Nahideh Derakhshanfard, Behrouz Shahrokhzadeh, Ali Ghaffari

“…Due to frequent disruptions in communication links, nodes in DTNs rely on a store, carry, and forward pattern to transmit messages. This forwarding and carrying of messages is achieved through cooperation among relay nodes. …”
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Molecular Evidence of High Proportion of Plasmodium vivax Malaria Infection in White Nile Area in Sudan by Makarim M. Adam Suliman, Bushra M. Hamad, Musab M. Ali Albasheer, Maytha Elhadi, Mutaz Amin Mustafa, Maha Elobied, Muzamil Mahdi Abdel Hamid

“…We found that on average 20% and 36.5% of malaria infections in both study areas were caused by P. vivax using both microscopy and PCR, respectively. This change in pattern is likely due to the recent demographic changes and high rate of immigration from neighbouring countries in the recent years. …”
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Identification of a Surface Marine Vessel Using LS-SVM by David Moreno-Salinas, Dictino Chaos, Jesús Manuel de la Cruz, Joaquín Aranda

“…Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have shown a great performance in pattern recognition and classification research areas having an inherent potential ability for linear and nonlinear system identification. …”
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Cognitive load estimation in VR flight simulator by Archana Hebbar, Sanjana Vinod, Shah, A.K., Abhay Pashilkar, Pradipta Biswas

“…To estimate the pilot’s cognitive load, we used low-frequency pupil diameter variations, fixation rate, gaze distribution pattern, EEG signal-based task load index and EEG task engagement index. …”
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Research on the spatial structure of desert tourism flow based on ecological digital footprints: a case study of Ningxia by Baoling Dong, Xiaowei Guo, Qiang Luo

“…The results indicate that (1) the high rate of visitors in Ningxia is closely related to the grade value of the scenic spots and the popularity of cities, and the most popular scenic spots are concentrated in the Ningxia section of the Yellow River Basin. (2) Hot desert scenic spots with historical, cultural, and urban development characteristics have greater advantages and competitiveness; these spots can better connect with less popular tourism nodes and serve as breakthrough points for the rational allocation of tourism resources. (3) The tourism flow network among scenic spots in Ningxia is relatively loose, with an imbalance in the tourism network among these spots. (4) The spatial tourism flow presents a pattern of superposition and coincidence of multiple triangular structures. …”
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The Al-Abiadh Valley Drainage Basin Environmental Aspects Extraction Using Quantitatively Morphometric Analyses of Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission Data by Jawad et al.

“…The flood hazard is absent at the basin mouth because the valley runoff takes a long time to reach the sink (Al-Razaza Lake), located in the middle part of Iraq, with a low flow peak due to the high permeability soil, the arid to semi-arid climate, and the low annual precipitation rate.          The region studied is an alluvial basin with similar geological structural solidity in most places. …”
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Klinische Sportmedizin by Hazzaa Walaa Eldin A, 2, Mattes K

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Research on Longitudinal Intelligent Control of Autonomous-rail Rapid Tram by TANG Liang, SHEN Mengyu, XIAO Lei

“…And then, it presents the multi-mode division of longitudinal intelligent control designed in the finite-state machine (FSM) pattern and from simulation of drivers' behavior characteristics, and proposes the intelligent longitudinal control strategy and algorithm to enable the intelligent train operation control functions, such as autonomous following, automatic operation at traffic light intersections, automatic deceleration on curves, and parking at stations in high-precision alignment. …”
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South Africa's diminishing coal reserves by Chris Hartnady

“…Despite this doubling since to just over 8 Gt, the underlying pattern has been one of faltering growth. Hubbertarian analysis predicts a peak in production rate of about 284 Mt/yr in 2020, at which stage approximately half (12 Gt) of the total resource (23 Gt) will be exhausted. …”
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Design of a Small Modified Minkowski Fractal Antenna for Passive Deep Brain Stimulation Implants by Sara Manafi, Hai Deng

“…The performance metrics such as the return loss, the specific absorption rate (SAR), and the radiation pattern within skin and muscle-fat-skin tissues are evaluated for the designed antenna. …”
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A 60-year atmospheric nitrate isotope record from a southeastern Greenland ice core with minimal postdepositional alteration by Z. Wei, S. Hattori, S. Hattori, S. Hattori, A. Tsuruta, Z. Jiang, S. Ishino, K. Fujita, S. Matoba, L. Geng, A. Lamothe, R. Uemura, N. Yoshida, N. Yoshida, N. Yoshida, J. Savarino, J. Savarino, Y. Iizuka

“…The ice core from the southeastern Dome (SE-Dome) in Greenland is a potential record of variations in atmospheric chemistry that has experienced a lower postdepositional effect owing to a high accumulation rate (<span class="inline-formula">∼1</span> m water equivalent per year). …”
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Investigation on Potential-Induced Degradation in a 50 MWp Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Power Plant by Jingsheng Huang, Hongtao Li, Yaojie Sun, He Wang, Hong Yang

“…The results obtained in this paper show that the maximum power degradation rate of solar modules was as high as 53.26% after only one year of operation because of PID in the field. …”
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East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to the recent acceleration in global warming by Bjørn H. Samset, Laura J. Wilcox, Robert J. Allen, Camilla W. Stjern, Marianne T. Lund, Sharar Ahmadi, Annica Ekman, Maxwell T. Elling, Luke Fraser-Leach, Paul Griffiths, James Keeble, Tsuyoshi Koshiro, Paul Kushner, Anna Lewinschal, Risto Makkonen, Joonas Merikanto, Pierre Nabat, Larissa Narazenko, Declan O’Donnell, Naga Oshima, Steven T. Rumbold, Toshihiko Takemura, Kostas Tsigaridis, Daniel M. Westervelt

“…Here we show, using a large set of simulations from eight Earth System Models, how a time-evolving 75% reduction in East Asian sulfate emissions partially unmasks greenhouse gas-driven warming and influences the spatial pattern of surface temperature change. We find a rapidly evolving global, annual mean warming of 0.07 ± 0.05 °C, sufficient to be a main driver of the uptick in global warming rate since 2010. …”
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A novel spatial heterogeneity decay model for depicting scale-effects in urban land by Weilin Wang, Rong Wang, Yangyang Lu, Yuanyuan Meng, Zhou Zhou

“…Based on the scale-effect model, we derived characteristic indicators (maximum, minimum, fluctuation, and rate of decay) of the SHUL scale-effect and compared their variation across Chinese cities. …”
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Understanding the changes in multi-structure, physicochemical properties, and in vitro digestibility of quinoa starch by annealing with hydrogen-infused and plasma-activated water... by Hang Liu, Ge Tian, Shanshan Gao, Shuang Liu

“…The total hydrolysis rate and rapidly digestive starch content decreased in QS after ANN treatment, and resistant starch level markedly increased. …”
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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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