Comparing the photocatalytic activity of suspended and floating Ag-decorated TiO2 for dye removal by Nila Davari, Ermelinda Falletta, Claudia L. Bianchi, Viviane Yargeau, Cristina Rodriguez-Seco, Daria C. Boffito

“…In the first step, an ultrasound-assisted sol-gel method followed by spray drying was adopted to synthesize powder photocatalysts. …”
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Restoring Control: Real-World Success with Imipenem–Relebactam in Critical MDR Infections—A Multicenter Observational Study by Andrea Marino, Giuseppe Pipitone, Emmanuele Venanzi Rullo, Federica Cosentino, Rita Ippolito, Roberta Costa, Sara Bagarello, Ylenia Russotto, Chiara Iaria, Bruno Cacopardo, Giuseppe Nunnari

“…Statistical analysis involved descriptive methods and correlation analysis for mortality predictors. …”
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Rules of acupoint and parameter selection for electrostimulation in treatment of functional dyspepsia based on bibliometrics by Dan WANG, Pei-jing RONG

“…Objective: To analyze the electrostimulation parameters and acupoint prescriptions for treatment of functional dyspepsia (FD) based on bibliometric methods. Methods: The relevant papers were searched from PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI), Wanfang Data, China Science and Technology Journal Database(VIP) and China Biology Medicine disc(Sinomed), dated from January 1st, 2010 to May 31st, 2023. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of maternal disorders, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the global burden of disease study 2021 by Jie Huang, Yuanyuan Man, Zan Shi, Xiaojie Fu, Wenhao Shi, Xiaoling Liang

“…The highest maternal mortality remained in low-SDI regions, with a substantial 63% decrease (51.85 to 19.44 per 100,000), while high-SDI regions showed minimal changes. Disease burden from hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, and abortion declined significantly, while ectopic pregnancy saw stagnation. …”
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Blood Urea Nitrogen as a Predictor of Severe Acute Pancreatitis Based on the Revised Atlanta Criteria: Timing of Measurement and Cutoff Points by Suhan Lin, Wandong Hong, Zarrin Basharat, Qipin Wang, Jingye Pan, Mengtao Zhou

“…This study evaluated the prognostic accuracy of BUN for severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) and in-hospital mortality (IHM) in terms of the best timing for BUN measurement and the optimal BUN cutoff points. Methods. BUN determinants at the time of admission and 24 hrs after hospital admission were recorded and analyzed statistically. …”
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Effect of Green Synthesized Fe₃O₄NP Priming on Alfalfa Seed Germination Under Drought Stress by Xinyue Wang, Mengting Ge, Xueqing He

“…These findings highlight that Fe₃O₄NPs synthesized via Ginkgo leaf extracts and enzymatic ultrasonic methods exhibit promising agricultural potential. …”
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The PANEN nomogram: clinical decision support for patients with metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm referred for peptide receptor radionuclide therapy by Aviral Singh, Aviral Singh, Aviral Singh, Sebastian Sanduleanu, Harshad R. Kulkarni, Thomas Langbein, Philippe Lambin, Richard P. Baum

“…A random survival forests (RSF) method was used to construct a model with an optimal number of clinical variables. …”
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Prognostic value of peripheral blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with gastric cancer by ZHANG Le, LI Wei, HUANG Zeping, WANG Wenjie, CHEN Xiao

“…The Cox proportional-hazards model was used to evaluate risk factors for overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS). Kaplan-Meier method was used to conduct survival analysis, while log-rank test was used to evaluated the differences. …”
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Personalized Treatment Response in Progressive MS: Can the Patient's Profile Influence the Outcome? by Francesca Bovis, Ludwig Kappos, Sophie Arnould, Goeril Karlsson, Maria Pia Sormani

“…Identifying factors that predict individual treatment response is crucial for optimizing patient care, and this study aimed to demonstrate the feasibility (proof of concept) of applying a statistical method to predict individual treatment response in MS trials. …”
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Long-term straw return with moderate nitrogen levels reshapes soil bacterial communities in a vertisol by Zichun Guo, Rui Qian, Rui Qian, Rui Qian, Wei Li, Tianyu Ding, Tianyu Ding, Lei Gao, Lei Gao, Xinhua Peng

“…IntroductionIncorporating straw into the soil is a sustainable practice that can mitigate some of the adverse effects of excessive N fertilization on soil structure degradation and microbial diversity reduction.MethodsThis objective of this study was to determine the combined effects of straw management (straw return and straw removal) and N fertilization (0, 360, 450, 540, 630, and 720 kg N ha−1 yr.−1) on crop yields, soil properties, and soil microbial communities in a long-term wheat-maize cropping system.Results and discussionThe results showed that moderate N application (N450–N540) with straw return optimized wheat (283.5 kg ha−1) and maize (346.5 kg ha−1) yields, whereas higher N fertilization (N630, N720) led to soil acidification (pH decline of 0.51–1.67 units), irrespective of straw management. …”
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Dynamic control of upper limit for rainfall storing and effective use in rice paddies based on improved AquaCrop model by En Lin, Rangjian Qiu, Xinxin Li, Mengting Chen, Shizong Zheng, Fei Ren, Xiaoming Xiang, Chenglong Ji, Yuanlai Cui, Yufeng Luo

“…Yield losses across all scenarios remained below 3.00 %, confirming the strategy’s potential to optimize water management while minimizing adverse impacts on yield.…”
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Joint Lagrangian Relaxation and Dynamic Programming Approach for a Multi-Period Multi-Product Location-Inventory Problem by Claudio Araya-Sassi, German Paredes-Belmar, Gabriel Gutierrez-Jarpa, Ricardo Gatica Escobar

“…Additionally, it involves setting order sizes and reorder points to minimize system costs while meeting service level conditions. This problem is structured as a non-convex mixed integer nonlinear programming model. …”
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Enhanced Lightweight Quantum Key Distribution Protocol for Improved Efficiency and Security by Ashutosh Bhatia, Sainath Bitragunta, Kamlesh Tiwari

“…While the focus of this work is on the BB84 protocol, these optimizations are also directly applicable to a broader class of Discrete-Variable QKD (DV-QKD) protocols, such as six-state, B92, and E91, which share a fundamentally similar post-processing structure. …”
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Exploration on Cross-cultural Tolerance in Medical Care for Indigenous Tibetan Patients in Ultra-High-Altitude Areas by Feifei YU, Guangyong WANG, Jia WANG, LABUXIAGA, JIAYANGDUOJI, Yi XIE

“…Ultimately, it offered practical strategies to optimize the quality of medical services and provides insights and methods for healthcare support initiatives in ultra-high-altitude regions.…”
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Tracing Iridium Dissolution Pathways in Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers at Relevant Current Densities in Real Time by Nico C. Röttcher, Jiahua Zhou, Lukas Löttert, Karl J. J. Mayrhofer, Dominik Dworschak

“…Discrepancies with so far reported findings from full‐cell and half‐cell experiments highlight a lack of understanding of catalyst dissolution and the transportation of dissolved species in different systems. The presented method offers unique insights which will help to study and optimize catalyst dissolution by means of various manufacturing and operation parameters to ultimately improve the stability of catalyst layers for water electrolysis.…”
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Economic Peaks and Value-at-Risk Analysis: A Novel Approach Using the Laplace Distribution for House Prices by Jondeep Das, Partha Jyoti Hazarika, Morad Alizadeh, Javier E. Contreras-Reyes, Hebatallah H. Mohammad, Haitham M. Yousof

“…The MO^<i>P</i> method aids in balancing the reliability goals while optimizing the performance in the face of uncertainty.…”
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Toward Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation: A Language-Specific Fine-Tuning With LoRA for Specialized Large Language Models by Xiao Liang, Yen-Min Jasmina Khaw, Soung-Yue Liew, Tien-Ping Tan, Donghong Qin

“…This study introduces Language-Specific Fine-Tuning with Low-rank adaptation (LSFTL), a method that enhances translation for low-resource languages by optimizing the multi-head attention and feed-forward networks of Transformer layers through low-rank matrix adaptation. …”
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Efficient high-resolution microscopic ghost imaging via sequenced speckle illumination and deep learning from a single noisy image by Sukyoon Oh, Sukyoon Oh, Tong Tian, Tong Tian, Zhe Sun, Christian Spielmann, Christian Spielmann

“…By utilizing sequenced random speckle patterns of optimized sizes, we reconstructed large noisy images with fewer patterns while successfully resolving fine details as small as 2.2 μm on a USAF resolution target. …”
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Tailored microstructure and enhanced bonding strength of in-situ surface modified Cu flakes via oxidation–reduction bonding by Siliang He, Xiangdong Liu, Zhiliang Pan, Sheng Gao, Yang Zuo, Hiroshi Nishikawa

“…The growth mechanism of oxide and its dominant diffusion method were detailed. The sintered Cu joint strength increases with increasing number of oxide grains, while excess oxides will cause coarsening of reduced Cu nanoparticles and degradation of joint strength. …”
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Influence of dry-wet cycles on the strength behavior of biopolymer and fiber composite modified loess by Zherui Liang, Changgen Yan, Yihan Cao, Yuling Shi, Han Bao, Huaixin Li

“…Frequent dry-wet cycles in the Loess Plateau region often trigger shallow slope instability and soil erosion, while conventional soil stabilizers face challenges of environmental pollution and insufficient durability. …”
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