High-speed FSO-5G wireless communication system with enhanced loss compensation using high-power EDFA by Stotaw Talbachew Hayle, Hua-Yi Hsu, Chia-Peng Wang, Hai-Han Lu, Jia-Ming Lu, Wei-Wen Hsu, Yu-Chen Chung, Yu-Yao Bai, Kelper Okram

“…The system supports downlink rates of 1-Gb/s/4.5-GHz and 10-Gb/s at 24-GHz and 39-GHz, and an uplink rate of 10-Gb/s/28-GHz. …”
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Complications and radiographic outcomes of operatively treated navicular fractures by Thomas R. Johnston, III, BS, William Fray McCormick, BS, Connor J. Donley, MS, MD, Matthew McCrosson, BS, Samuel Schick, MS, MD, Michael D. Johnson, MD

“…Patients with a TNJ dislocation have increased rates of TNJ arthritis while TNJ spanning fixation is associated with increased rates of navicular AVN and reoperation. …”
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Macroevolutionary processes in turtles (Testudines): a view from biomic specialization and historical climatic changes by Juan S. Thomas, Sara Gamboa, Manuel Hernández Fernández, Manuel Hernández Fernández, Oscar Murillo, Jonathan S. Pelegrin

“…Vrba suggests that lineages display varying tendencies toward generalism or specialization in biome occupancy, with a tendency towards the accumulation of specialists due to their higher rate of speciation through vicariance. It also posits differences in biome occupancy patterns driven by the environmental characteristics of biomes, with a higher presence of biome specialist species in biomes that are placed in the extremes of the global climatic gradients. …”
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Insights into the epidemiological analysis of subarachnoid hemorrhage burden and trends in middle-aged and elderly populations: a global perspective from the Global Burden of Disea... by Guiming Chen, Yuzhou Cai, Meng Ju, Xiye Zheng, Peng Bai

“…We calculated age-standardized incidence rates (ASIR), age-standardized prevalence rates (ASPR), age-standardized mortality rates (ASMR), and age-standardized disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) rates (ASDR). …”
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Cross-language orthographic neighborhood density effects in Dutch–English and Spanish–English bilinguals by Britta Biedermann, Britta Biedermann, Elisabeth Beyersmann, Mara Blosfelds, Christella Macapagal, Ashleigh Rosevear, Welber Marinovic

“…Overall, no interaction was detected between L1 and L2 NDs for reaction times or error rates. Additionally, a factorial permutation test confirmed the L2 facilitatory effect on both reaction times and error rates, while it supported an L1 inhibitory effect for error rates only. …”
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Variations in the Use of Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in Primary Care in England: A Population-Based Cohort of 531,735 FITs from 495,121 Patients Between 2019 and 2023 by Morton AJ, Crooks CJ, West J, Nicholson BD, Humes DJ

“…This is the first study on national patterns of FIT testing, showing a rapid but unequal increase across England.There is large variation in the proportion of FIT results exceeding the referral criteria of 10 μgHb/g faeces between English regions that is associated with the rate of testing in each region. 3) What do these results mean?…”
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Vesiculation dynamics – Part 2: Decompression-induced H₂O vesicle growth, onset, and progression of coalescence by P. L. Marks, M. Nowak

“…This coalescence driven pattern mimics the expected decompression rate dependence of initial VND in cases of vesicle nucleation.…”
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Arctic Climate Variability and Trends from Satellite Observations by Xuanji Wang, Jeffrey Key, Yinghui Liu, Charles Fowler, James Maslanik, Mark Tschudi

“…The annual mean surface temperature has increased at a rate of 0.34°C per decade. The decadal rates of cloud fraction trends are −3.4%, 2.3%, and 0.5% in winter, spring, and summer, respectively. …”
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Generalized Rowlins–Shellhardt equation and its application for optimization of well operation modes by Vladimir A. Tolpaev, Kurban S. Akhmedov

“…To improve the accuracy and reliability of calculations of forecast flow rates, it is necessary to take into account changes in the filtration and capacitance properties of the formation in bottom-hole zones caused by the values of reservoir pressure and depression changing over time. …”
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HPV vaccination, screening disparities, and the shifting landscape of cervical cancer burden: a global analysis of trends, inequalities, and policy implications by Yingxin Zhang, Zhe Fan, Jiankang Wang, Bing Guan, Fengyi Zhou, Zihan Tang, Wentao Wu, Aimin Huang

“…Abstract Synopsis Health inequalities intensified, burden shifting to low-resource regions despite preventive advancements. HPV and screening rates diverged by SDI, highlighting coverage gaps. …”
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Changes and trends in mortality, disability-adjusted life years, life expectancy, and healthy life expectancy in China from 1990 to 2021: a secondary analysis of the global burden... by Xuelin Cheng, Wenchang Jia, Jing Zhou, Yaxin Xu, Jian Zou, Ming Liu, Sunfang Jiang, Xiaopan Li

“…Using Joinpoint Regression Software, we analyzed trends in the top ten cause-specific DALY rates in 2021. Furthermore, we employed the Bayesian Age-Period-Cohort model to forecast age-standardized rates (ASR) of mortality for the next decade. …”
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CONTEMPORARY GEODYNAMICS OF THE GAROMAI ACTIVE FAULT (SAKHALIN ISLAND) by N. F. Vasilenko, A. S. Prytkov

“…In the immediate vicinity of the fault zone, multidirectional horizontal displacements occur at a rate up to 1.6 mm/yr, and uplifting of the ground surface takes place at a rate of 3.4 mm/yr. …”
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Analysis of the status and risk factors for Helicobacter pylori infection and drug resistance in the Lianyungang area, China by Chuchu Yang, Huahui Zhang, Shouying Li, Zhimei Zhang

“…Drug sensitivity testing is needed to provide more accurate individualized treatment and improve the eradication rate of H. pylori. Continuous monitoring of local antibiotic resistance patterns remains the first choice for empirical treatment.…”
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Demographic variation in continuous glucose monitoring utilisation among patients with type 1 diabetes from a US regional academic medical centre: a retrospective cohort study, 201... by Min-Woong Sohn, Mary E Lacy, Omer Atac, Kory R Heier, Daniela Moga, John Fowlkes, Aaron J Kruse-Diehr, Teresa M Waters

“…In models stratified by age, we examined patterns of CGM use across insurance categories and found that CGM rates were persistently low among those with public versus private insurance.Conclusions In this retrospective review of patients with T1D receiving care at a regional academic medical centre from 2018 to 2021, nearly half of our sample used CGM. …”
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Breastfeeding Supports and Services in Rural Hawaii: Perspectives of Community Healthcare Workers by Jeanie L. Flood

“…In the state of Hawaii, breastfeeding initiation rates are higher than the national average but fall below target rates for duration. …”
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FST and genetic diversity in an island model with background selection. by Asad Hasan, Michael C Whitlock

“…The theory of background selection may be split into two regimes: the background selection regime, where selection pressures are strong and mutation rates are sufficiently low such that deleterious alleles are at a deterministic mutation-selection balance, and the interference selection regime, where selection pressures are weak and mutation rates are sufficiently high that deleterious alleles accumulate and interfere with another, leading to selective interference. …”
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Variation in thermal physiology can drive the temperature-dependence of microbial community richness by Tom Clegg, Samraat Pawar

“…Here, we derive a general empirically-grounded theory that can explain this phenomenon by linking microbial species richness in competitive communities to variation in the temperature-dependence of their interaction and growth rates. Specifically, the shape of the microbial community temperature-richness relationship depends on how rapidly the strength of effective competition between species pairs changes with temperature relative to the variance of their growth rates. …”
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Parasite spatial distribution shapes parasite aggregation on host populations, but not at high parasite density by Chris Wojan, Allison K. Shaw, Meggan E. Craft

“…Our work suggests that fine‐scale spatial patterns of parasites can play a strong role in shaping how hosts are parasitized, particularly when parasite density is low‐to‐moderate and recovery rates are slow.…”
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Identifying the evolutionary building blocks of the cardiac conduction system. by Bjarke Jensen, Bastiaan J D Boukens, Alex V Postma, Quinn D Gunst, Maurice J B van den Hoff, Antoon F M Moorman, Tobias Wang, Vincent M Christoffels

“…The endothermic state of mammals and birds requires high heart rates to accommodate the high rates of oxygen consumption. …”
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Commercial probiotics enhance growth and immunity of white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) and resistence to infection by Vibrio parahaemolyticus by Germain Maurus, Joan Tang Xiao Joe, Quốc Hùng Phạm, Shih‐Chao Lin, Ming‐Wei Lu

“…Juvenile shrimp were fed varying doses of AFPB (0.5%, 1%, 2%, and 5%) during their maturation period, and their growth indices, including weight, growth rate, feed conversion ratio, and survival rate, were measured biweekly. …”
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