Antifungal Agents’ Trends of Utilization, Spending, and Prices in the US Medicaid Programs: 2009–2023 by Abdulrahman A. Alsuhibani, Norah A. Alobaid, Manar H. Alahmadi, Jood S. Alqannas, Wejdan S. Alfreaj, Rana F. Albadrani, Khalid A. Alamer, Yasser S. Almogbel, Ali Alhomaidan, Jeff J. Guo

“…This study evaluates trends in antifungal use among Medicaid beneficiaries, focusing on prescribing patterns, costs, and pricing to optimize therapy. <b>Methods:</b> Using the national Medicaid outpatient pharmacy claims data collected by the US Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services, a retrospective drug utilization analysis was conducted for antifungal medications from 2009 to 2023. …”
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Evaluating Manganese-Doped Magnetic Nanoflowers for Biocompatibility and In Vitro Magnetic Hyperthermia Efficacy by Andreea-Elena Petru, Cristian Iacovita, Ionel Fizeșan, Roxana Dudric, Ionut-Valentin Crestin, Constantin Mihai Lucaciu, Felicia Loghin, Bela Kiss

“…Cellular uptake was quantified via a colorimetric iron determination method, while in vitro MH efficacy was tested by subjecting Mn-NF-loaded A549 cells to AMF exposure at different field strengths and nanoparticle concentrations. …”
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A Stochastic-Variational Model for Soft Mumford-Shah Segmentation by Jianhong (Jackie) Shen

“…In contemporary image and vision analysis, stochastic approaches demonstrate great flexibility in representing and modeling complex phenomena, while variational-PDE methods gain enormous computational advantages over Monte Carlo or other stochastic algorithms. …”
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Biochar-based fertilizer increases soil nutrients and enhances tea quality: a metabolomics-based analysis by Zhenyu Yang, Zetao Ren, Xiangzhen Zhu, Wenyan Yang, Zhengqian Ye, Luming Tian, Jiawei Ma

“…IntroductionBiochar-based fertilizers (BF) have emerged as a promising strategy to improve soil physicochemical and biological properties, thereby enhancing tea yield and quality.MethodsA field experiment was conducted using two types of BF- ordinary BF (BF1, containing 15% biochar) and optimized BF (BF2, containing 30% biochar)- applied for either 1 or 2 years. …”
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Development of an Intelligent System for Processing Semistructured Data: Industry Structuring and Advanced Analysis of Information Extracted from Comments to Video Clips in Social... by A. A. Poguda, H. Tape

“…By using natural language processing (NLP) methods, we identified key themes and emotions in the comments while conducting sentiment analysis that highlights major emotional trends. …”
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Introducing the carbon footprint reduction index (CaFRI) as a software-supported tool for greener laboratories in chemical analysis by Fotouh R. Mansour, Paweł Mateusz Nowak

“…Abstract Carbon Footprint Reduction Index (CaFRI) has been presented as a newly developed web tool designed to assess and enhance the sustainability of analytical methods, with a focus on estimating greenhouse gas emissions (available at bit.ly/CaFRI ). …”
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Non-digital game-based learning: a powerful tool to teach theories of architecture by Alia Sameh Okasha

“…While the conclusion stresses the role of fun and active learning, it suggests a gradual shift from non-digital to digital game-based learning and highlights that these methods require significant further investigation.…”
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VQE-generated quantum circuit dataset for machine learning by Akimoto Nakayama, Kosuke Mitarai, Leonardo Placidi, Takanori Sugimoto, Keisuke Fujii

“…In contrast, dealing with quantum data, such as quantum states or circuits, may be the task where we can benefit from quantum methods. Therefore, it is important to develop practically meaningful quantum datasets for which we expect quantum methods to be superior. …”
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Multi-Level Feature Fusion Attention Generative Adversarial Network for Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Image Denoising by Yiming Qian, Yichao Meng

“…It optimizes cross-feature interactions and channel-wise information flow. …”
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Global trends of depressive disorders among women of reproductive age from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis of burden, sociodemographic disparities, and health workforce correla... by Fangyi Dai, Yuzhou Cai, Min Chen, Yong Dai

“…Notably, countries with high depressive disorder burden, such as Georgia, might benefit from increasing the number of Audiologists and Counsellors while optimizing the role of Medical Assistants and Community Health Workers in detection and referral. …”
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Effects of high dietary threonine supplementation on growth performance, health biomarkers, and intestinal histology in cyclic heat-stressed broilers by Abia Khalid, Sania Bashir, Asma Kalsoom, Hafiz Faseeh Ur Rehman, Muhammad Afzal Rashid, Mansur Abdullah Sandhu, Habib Ur Rehman, Muhammad Shahbaz Yousaf

“…Results: HS significantly reduced body weight gain and feed intake, while threonine supplementation did not improve these parameters. …”
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The association between triglyceride-glucose index, atherogenic index of plasma, systemic immune-inflammation index, and mortality in patients with acute coronary syndrome: the dir... by Weichen Luo, Zaixiao Tao, Xinxin Li, Yang Xu, Chun Yang, Rui Sun, Mi Wang, Zhenjun Ji, Genshan Ma

“…Glycolipid metabolism was assessed using the TyG and AIP index, while the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) evaluated inflammatory status. …”
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The efficacy and safety of antithrombotic therapy in patients undergoing TAVI: a network meta-analysis by Jingxian Han, Keyao Liu, Yuxin Li, Dong Han, Pengchong Liang, Ningjun Zhao, Shuqun Hu, Xianliang Yan

“…DAPT ranked highest for reducing cardiovascular mortality (SUCRA 68.7%), while OAC + SAPT showed superiority in preventing stroke/TIA (SUCRA 76.1%). …”
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Format-tuning of in vivo-launched bispecific T cell engager enhances efficacy against renal cell carcinoma by Carl H June, David Weiner, Christopher A Chuckran, Daniel Park, Ryan P O’Connell, Kevin Liaw, Nils Wellhausen, Pratik S Bhojnagarwala, Devivasha Bordoloi, Nicholas Shupin, Daniel Kulp

“…Multiple BTE formats exist, however, with limited cross-characterizations to help optimize new drug design. Here, we developed BTEs to treat ccRCC by targeting carbonic anhydrase 9 (CA9) while characterizing the persistent BTE (PBTE) format and comparing it to a new format, the persistent multivalent T cell engager (PMTE). …”
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Short- and long-term weekly patient-reported outcomes prediction undergoing radiotherapy: single-patient time series model vs. transformer-based multi-patient time series model by Yang Yan, Zhong Chen, Xinglei Shen, Ronald C. Chen, Hao Gao

“…VAR-Inc integrates follow-up PRO data to refine predictions, while TFT leverages multi-patient heterogeneous information to capture complex temporal patterns. …”
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Factors Influencing Telemedicine Adoption Among Health Care Professionals: Qualitative Interview Study by Fiona Schürmann, Daniel Westmattelmann, Gerhard Schewe

“…This gap highlights the need for a framework integrating risks, benefits, and trust in telemedicine adoption, while addressing health care’s unique dynamics. …”
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Leveraging FastViT based knowledge distillation with EfficientNet-B0 for diabetic retinopathy severity classification by Jyotirmayee Rautaray, Ali B.M. Ali, Meenakshi Kandpal, Pranati Mishra, Rzgar Farooq Rashid, Farzona Alimova, Mohamed Kallel, Nadia Batool

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Thermo-mechanical characterization and numerical modeling of lightweight mortars incorporating natural Pozzolan and expanded clay by Brahim Balizi, Hamza Karim Serroukh, Ayoub Aziz, Mouhcine Benaicha, Abdelilah Bellil, Abdellali El Khadiri, Najma Laaroussi

“…The purpose is to find optimal mortar mixtures for better thermal insulation with reasonable mechanical properties for green building construction. …”
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Development and study of mucoadhesive microcapsules for the nasal levodopa delivery by D. S. Gordeeva, V. V. Khutoryanskiy, R. I. Moustafine

“…The amount of released drug was determined using an Evolution™ 220 UV spectrophotometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) at a wavelength of 202 nm.Results and discussion. A method for MC preparation was developed, the device parameters and the optimal composition of microparticles were selected. …”
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Driplines Layout Designs Comparison of Moisture Distribution in Clayey Soils, Using Soil Analysis, Calibrated Time Domain Reflectometry Sensors, and Precision Agriculture Geostatis... by Agathos Filintas

“…Different sensor calibration methods [method 1(M1) = according to factory; method 2 (M2) = according to Hook and Livingston] were applied for the geospatial two-dimensional (2D) imaging of accurate GIS maps of rootzone soil moisture profiles, soil apparent dielectric <i>Ka</i> profiles, and granular and hydraulic parameters profiles, in multiple soil layers (0–75 cm depth). …”
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