Spatial patterns and determinants of knowledge on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Ethiopia: a geographically weighted regression analysis by Angwach Abrham Asnake, Alemayehu Kasu Gebrehana, Yohannes Mekuria Negussie, Beminate Lemma Seifu, Hiwot Altaye Asebe, Bezawit Melak Fente, Meklit Melaku Bezie, Mamaru Melkam, Zufan Alamrie Asmare, Sintayehu Simie Tsega

“…These challenges contribute to the suboptimal uptake of PMTCT services, leading to higher rates of vertical HIV transmission and exacerbating health inequities. …”
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Survival Patterns and Prognostic Factors in Lip Cancer Patients: A 15-Year Single-Center Experience from Northeastern Brazil by Guilherme Carlos Beiruth Freire, Luiz Eduardo Rodrigues Juliasse, Salomão Israel Monteiro Lourenço Queiroz, Ruthinéia Diógenes Alves Uchôa Lins, Carlos Fernando Mourão, Bruno César de Vasconcelos Gurgel

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Antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Salmonella isolates from clinical, food, and environmental sources in Addis Ababa and surrounding towns, Ethiopia by Abebe M. Aga, Demise Mulugeta, Dassalegn Muleta, Adugna Abdi Woldesemayat, Abera Motuma, Musin Kelel, Bilise Wakitole, Shambel Tadesse, Zinash Teferi, Fanos Tadesse Woldemariyam, Serkadis Oljira, Henok Ferede, Natnael Berihun, Samson Girma, Dereje Nigussie, Mesfin Tafesse Gemeda

“…Notably, clinical isolates exhibited significantly higher resistance levels compared to food and environmental sources, with 40% of clinical isolates demonstrating MDR patterns. Gentamicin (3.3%), ceftriaxone (6.6%), and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid (9.8%) remained largely effective, showing low resistance rates. …”
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Analyzing Medication Adherence Patterns Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Thi-Qar, Iraq: A Cross-Sectional Study by Adel Gassab Mohammed, Nassar Taha Yaseen, Dheyaa K. AlWaeli

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Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Crop Diversification Among Smallholder Farmers in Bergville, South Africa by Busisiwe Vilakazi, Alfred O. Odindo, Mutondwa M. Phophi, Paramu L. Mafongoya

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Outcomes and vaccination patterns against COVID-19 in a cohort of sickle cell disease patients in the state of Rio de Janeiro by Claudia de Alvarenga Maximo, Jorge Francisco da Cunha Pinto, Fabiana Canedo Pinto, Patrícia Brasil

“…Sociodemographic data, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, mortality rates, and COVID-19 vaccination status were collected. …”
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Major Traumatic Injury and Exposure to Mitochondrial-Derived Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns Promotes Neutrophil Survival Accompanied by Stabilisation of the Anti-Apoptotic Pr... by Thomas Nicholson, Michael Macleod, Antonio Belli, Janet M. Lord, Jon Hazeldine

“…Culturing HCs neutrophils with mtDAMPs or mtDNA significantly delayed apoptosis rates, promoted stabilisation of Mcl-1, and reduced caspase-3 activation. …”
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Nosocomial transmission, adaption and clinical outcomes of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae by Yanjun Liu, Zhiqian Wang, Zijuan Jian, Peilin Liu, Yanming Li, Fang Qin, Qun Yan, Wenen Liu

“…CR-HvKp exhibited diverse evolutionary patterns linked to nosocomial transmission, particularly in the ICU. …”
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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Driving Factors of Cropland Abandonment in Metropolitan Suburbs: A Case Study of Chengdu Directly Administered Zone, Tianfu New Area, Sichuan Province,... by Mingyong Zuo, Guoxiang Liu, Chuangli Jing, Rui Zhang, Xiaowen Wang, Wenfei Mao, Li Shen, Keren Dai, Xiaodan Wu

“…The results demonstrate an average annual abandonment rate of approximately 8%, exhibiting minor fluctuations but significant spatial clustering characteristics, with abandonment hotspots concentrated in peri-urban areas that gradually expanded toward urban cores over time, while exurban regions showed lower abandonment rates. …”
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Resistance Patterns of <i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</i> in PLHIV: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Republic of Cyprus, 2015–2023 by Michaela Takos, George Siakallis, Annalisa Quattrocchi, Maria Alexandrou, Panagiota Papadamou, Loukia Panagiotou, Danny Alon-Ellenbogen

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Spatial patterns and clustering of dengue incidence in Mexico: Analysis of Moran's index across 2,471 municipalities from 2022 to 2024. by Oliver Mendoza-Cano, Rogelio Danis-Lozano, Xóchitl Trujillo, Miguel Huerta, Mónica Ríos-Silva, Agustin Lugo-Radillo, Jaime Alberto Bricio-Barrios, Verónica Benites-Godínez, Herguin Benjamin Cuevas-Arellano, Juan Manuel Uribe-Ramos, Ramón Solano-Barajas, Yolitzy Cárdenas, Jesús Venegas-Ramírez, Eder Fernando Ríos-Bracamontes, Luis A García-Solórzano, Arlette A Camacho-delaCruz, Efrén Murillo-Zamora

“…Weekly case counts, obtained through the normative epidemiological surveillance system for vector-borne diseases, were used to calculate incidence rates per 100,000 population. Geographic Information Systems were employed to analyze spatial patterns, while Local Moran's I statistic and a k-nearest neighbors spatial weights matrix identified spatial clusters. …”
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Survival benefits of primary tumor resection in metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer: an analysis of SEER data by Jiaqiang Dan, Jingya Tan, Yao Guo, Xin Lu, Ying Leng, Renxi Tang, Junyan Li, Junhua Huang

“…Abstract Metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer (mDTC) can exhibit aggressive growth and disseminate to distant organs, thereby reducing survival rates. The benefits of primary tumor resection (PTR) for patients with mDTC are still debated. …”
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A flow pattern recognition method for gas-liquid two-phase flow based on dilated convolutional channel attention mechanism. by Jie Liu, Yang Wu

“…Addressing the issue of insufficient key feature extraction leading to low recognition rates in existing deep learning-based flow pattern identification methods, this paper proposes a novel flow pattern image recognition model, Enhanced DenseNet with transfer learning (ED-DenseNet). …”
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Identification of Gas-Water Two-Phase Flow Patterns in Horizontal Wells of Shale Gas Reservoirs Based on Production Logging Data by Xiaoyun Zhao, Hongwei Song, Mingxing Wang, Xinlei Shi

“…In order to clarify the gas-water two-phase flow law in horizontal wells and study the gas-water two-phase flow characteristics in horizontal wells, firstly, the gas-water two-phase in a horizontal well is numerically simulated and analyzed, and the flow pattern distribution under different well inclination angles and different phase separation flow rates is obtained. …”
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Social jet lag is associated with core symptoms in 2-3-year-old children with autism spectrum disorders by Hongyu Chen, Ting Yang, Jie Chen, Yuan Ding, Yuan Ding, Xueli Xiang, Qiuhong Wei, Qiuhong Mou, Binlin Yuan, Binyue Hu, Danyang Zhang, Dan Ai, Tingyu Li, Tingyu Li

“…There are significant differences in sleep patterns between weekends and weekdays, characterized by later bedtimes, delayed wake-up times, increased total sleep duration, and reduced prevalence of sleep deficiency during weekends. 2) The 2-3-year-old group had the highest rates of sleep insufficiency (80.77% on weekdays; 82.17% on weekends). …”
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Altered Translocation Pattern as Potential Glyphosate Resistance Mechanism in Blackgrass (<i>Alopecurus myosuroides</i>) Populations from Lower Saxony by Markus Radziewicz, Dirk M. Wolber, Thomas Pütz, Diana Hofmann

“…In a foregoing dose–response study, individual plants from four out of six tested populations survived full (1800 g a.i. ha⁻¹) or double (3600 g a.i. ha⁻¹) glyphosate dose rates permitted, suggesting the presence of tolerant biotypes with yet unknown resistance mechanisms. …”
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Diagnostic Modalities for Detecting Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis and Resistance Patterns of Rifampicin and Isoniazid at a Referral Hospital: A Retro Prospective Study by Ankur Kumar, Amresh Kumar Singh, Vivek Gaur, Ashwini Kumar Mishra, Anita Mehta, Raj Kishore Singh

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Prevalence and patterns of subnormal visual acuity and refractive errors among preschool children in Sucheng district: a cross-sectional study by Lei Shen, Yuqing Cui, Nana Zhao, Fan Yang, Qian Zhou, Xue Wang, Shuyan Qin

“…The overall prevalence of subnormal visual acuity was 12.4%, with a significantly higher rate observed in male participants (13.1%) than in female participants (11.5%, P<0.001). …”
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Study on the evolution patterns and predictive modeling of ambient air quality in oasis cities of arid regions: a case study of Urumqi by Bian Jing, Ren Xiaofeng

“…BackgroundThis study investigates the evolution patterns and future trends of ambient air quality in oasis cities within arid regions, with Urumqi as a representative case.MethodsUtilizing observational data from eight urban monitoring stations, we comprehensively analyze air quality variations and project future scenarios through the Air Quality Index (AQI), Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, and Grey correlation modeling. …”
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Combining Groovy Popular Music Drum Beats with Catchy Keyboard or Guitar Patterns: The Urge to Move and Catchiness in Polyphonic Context by Toni A. Bechtold, Ben Curry, Maria A. G. Witek

“…We were able to predict a combination's effect based on the separate ratings of the keys/guitar and drums only to a limited extent: unless the individual instruments were rated similarly on urge to move and catchiness, the outcome showed no clear pattern in the ratings. …”
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