Wheat Production Across East Africa: Trend, Instability, and Decomposition Analysis Using Time Series Approach by Habtamu Mossie Andualem, Mesfin Bekele Gebbisa, Zsuzsanna Bacsi

“…As a result, this study examines the growth patterns, variability, and instability of wheat production in East Africa, specifically in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania, between 1993 and 2023. …”
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Zoonotic diseases in China: epidemiological trends, incidence forecasting, and comparative analysis between real-world surveillance data and Global Burden of Disease 2021 estimates by Yun-Fei Zhang, Shi-Zhu Li, Shi-Wen Wang, Di Mu, Xi Chen, Sheng Zhou, Hai-Jian Zhou, Tian Qin, Qin Liu, Shan Lv, Yan Lu, Ji-Chun Wang, Yu Qin, Guo-Bing Yang, Yong-Jun Li, Jian-Yun Sun, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Mai-Geng Zhou, Can-Jun Zheng, Biao Kan, Shun-Xian Zhang

“…For most diseases, incidence rates were consistently higher in males than females. …”
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FPGA Implementation for 24.576-Gbit/s Optical PAM4 Signal Transmission with MLP-Based Digital Pre-Distortion by Sheng Hu, Tianqi Zheng, Chengzhen Bian, Xiongwei Yang, Xinda Sun, Zonghui Zhu, Yumeng Gou, Yuanxiao Meng, Jie Zhang, Jingtao Ge, Yichen Li, Kaihui Wang

“…In this work, an MLP-DPD scheme was implemented on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The FPGA was used to generate a 14.7456 GBaud pre-distorted pulse amplitude modulation 4-level (PAM4) signal. …”
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Short Report: Estimating Blood Lactate Dynamics from Sweat Lactate and Sweat Rate After High-Intensity Exercise – A Pilot Regression-Based Study by Hattori M, Yashiro K

“…Sweat lactate (SWL) and sweat rate (SWR) have been explored as non-invasive alternatives, but their capacity to estimate BL dynamics after short-term high-intensity exercise remains unclear.Purpose: This pilot study aimed to evaluate whether BL dynamics can be predicted using a regression model based on the time-series patterns of SWL and SWR measured by wearable sensors.Methods: Five healthy male athletes (three sprinters and two endurance runners) performed a 30-second Wingate anaerobic test. …”
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Empirical Study on Urban Rail Transit Station Impact Range Considering Feeder Transport Radiation by ZHENG Xiang, WANG Zhi, YE Xiafei, SHI Hongkai, NONG Xingzhong

“…Taking typical urban rail transit lines in Osaka, Japan as the research object, the feeder range and sharing rate of stations under three feeder modes (walking, cycling, and road-based public transport) are calculated, and the distribution pattern of these data is analyzed. …”
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Association between different types and characteristics of fetal deceleration during labour and neonatal acidemia at delivery: A case-control study by Maria Fogelberg, Charlotte Dahlbäck, Frida Ekengård, Gisela Rickle, Andreas Herbst

“…Objective: Classification of fetal heart rate (FHR) decelerations as suspicious or pathological differs between current interpretation templates for intrapartum cardiotocography. …”
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A hybrid ultra-short-term photovoltaic power prediction framework integrating ant colony optimization for clustering with Bi-GRU by Xinyi Liu, Zitao Wang, Yang Wang, Shanke Liu, Lijun Yu

“…Kendall’s Rank Correlation Coefficient is utilized as the core metric for feature selection to identify the optimal predictive feature subset, resulting in a 9-feature set that achieves the best predictive performance (R2 = 0.8153). Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (Bi-GRU) models are independently constructed based on these scenario labels to enable scenario-adaptive predictions. …”
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Classification of Individuals With COVID-19 and Post–COVID-19 Condition and Healthy Controls Using Heart Rate Variability: Machine Learning Study With a Near–Real-Time Monitoring C... by Carlos Alberto Sanches, Andre Felipe Henriques Librantz, Luciana Maria Malosá Sampaio, Peterson Adriano Belan

“… BackgroundHeart rate variability (HRV) is a validated biomarker of autonomic and inflammatory regulation and has been associated with both acute COVID-19 and post–COVID-19 condition. …”
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Reliability Analysis of Improved Type-II Adaptive Progressively Inverse XLindley Censored Data by Refah Alotaibi, Mazen Nassar, Ahmed Elshahhat

“…On the other hand, from the Markovian chains, two patterns of credible interval estimates are also constructed. …”
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Performance Estimation of Low Power and Area-Efficient Parallel Pipelined FFT by Surya P, Arunachalaperumal C, Dhilipkumar S

“…The BI multiplier design was synthesized in a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and the results show that the area efficiency could be improved by about 30 % and the power consumption and delay could be reduced by 56 %. …”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics and associated drivers of COVID-19 incidence in Nepal by Bipin Kumar Acharya, Shristi Sharma, Laxman Khanal, Pramod Joshi, Meghnath Dhimal

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Response Mechanism of Extracellular Laccase Activity of Lyophyllum decastes to Cultivation Substrates and Subculture by Xue Xiong, Peng Li, Wei Li, Gui-he Zhang

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Variations in gamma radiation and alpha-emitting radionuclides in correlation with weather and location conditions by D. E. Tchorz-Trzeciakiewicz, J. A. Kamińska

“…Hourly variations of gamma radiation showed no consistent pattern. Statistical analysis indicated a positive correlation between gamma radiation and temperature at most locations, except near the sea where sea breezes influenced gamma dose rates. …”
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Local Polynomial Estimator in The Nonparametric Model of Inflation in Indonesia by Abdul Aziz, Nur Chamidah, Toha Saifudin

“…Nonparametric regression analysis can be used to model inflation data that does not form a particular pattern. This study applies a local polynomial nonparametric method to model the rate of change rate in the inflation over a period considering two factors influencing inflation: the rate of change in the BI interest rate and the rate of change rate in the money supply from the previous period. …”
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Insights from age-stratified endoscopic detection metrics support initiating colorectal cancer screening at age 45 by Majd Khader, Jorge-Shmuel Delgado, Rimon Artoul, Asher Shafrir, Abu-Freha Naim

“…Notably, the PDR difference between the 45–49 and 50–54 groups was not statistically significant (25.7% vs. 26.8%, p = ns), indicating comparable polyp burden. Carcinoma detection rates followed a similar pattern, with no significant difference between the 45–49 (0.29%) and 50–54 (0.29%) groups, while a substantial rise occurred from age 55 onwards (p < 0.05). …”
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Conv1D-GRU-Self Attention: An Efficient Deep Learning Framework for Detecting Intrusions in Wireless Sensor Networks by Kenan Honore Robacky Mbongo, Kanwal Ahmed, Orken Mamyrbayev, Guanghui Wang, Fang Zuo, Ainur Akhmediyarova, Nurzhan Mukazhanov, Assem Ayapbergenova

“…This study proposes a hybrid IDS model combining one-dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks (Conv1Ds), Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), and Self-Attention mechanisms. …”
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Machine learning and discriminant analysis model for predicting benign and malignant pulmonary nodules by Zhi Li, Wenjing Zhang, Jinyi Huang, Ling Lu, Dongming Xie, Jinrong Zhang, Jiamin Liang, Yuepeng Sui, Linyuan Liu, Jianjun Zou, Ao Lin, Lei Yang, Fuman Qiu, Zhaoting Hu, Mei Wu, Yibin Deng, Xin Zhang, Jiachun Lu

“…Conclusion The detection rate of PNs was 21.57% in the physical examination population undergoing chest CT. …”
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Inflammation and Nutritional Status Mediated the Increased of Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence Associated with eGFRdiff Post-Ablation by Huang W, Liu H, Luo Y, Xiong S, Suo S, Zhang Z, Shang L, Sun H

“…The difference between the estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFRdiff) based on these two markers helps assess cardiovascular risk factors unrelated to kidney function. …”
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Reduced periprosthetic fracture rate for a cemented anatomical versus a tapered polished stem in hip arthroplasty: A 6‐year follow‐up of a prospective observational cohort study... by Anna Josefsson, Michael Axenhus, Raéd Itayem, Sebastian Mukka, Martin Magnéli

“…Outcomes included the PFF rate, periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) and prosthetic dislocation. …”
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A method for dyadic cardiac rhythmicity analysis: Preliminary evidence on bilateral interactions in fetal–maternal cardiac dynamics by Diego Candia‐Rivera, Mario Chavez

“…Reports show occasional fetal–maternal heart rate couplings, but it has remained unclear whether these couplings extend to more complex oscillatory patterns of the heart rhythm. …”
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