Paediatric Measles in Romania: A Comparative Clinical and Epidemiological Analysis of the 2017–2019 and 2023–2024 Epidemic Waves at a Tertiary Care Centre in Bucharest by Gheorghiță Jugulete, Mădălina Maria Merișescu, Bianca Borcos, Alexandra Nicoleta Totoianu, Anca Oana Dragomirescu

“…A retrospective analysis evaluated mortality rates, distribution by age and sex, as well as clinical disease patterns. …”
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Sociodemographic and Clinical Profiles of Patients Admitted in Tertiary Level Pediatric Hospital of Nepal: An Observational Study by Anil Kumar Shrestha, Santosh Adhikari, Sushil Gyawali, Bal Mukunda Basnet, Sobi Lal Maharjan, Pujash Karmacharya, Deepak Raj Paudel

“…This study highlighted higher mortality rates in critical care units. …”
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Assessing adherence to physical activity guidelines and correlates among older Korean adults with a focus on 10-minute bout duration using subjective and objective measures. by Junhui Park, Su Hyun Kim, Young Hoon Kim, Chang-Hyung Lee

“…<h4>Background</h4>Understanding physical activity (PA) patterns in older adults is crucial for effectively promoting adherence to PA guidelines. …”
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Obesity and micronutrients deficit, when and how to suplement by Sebastián Pablo Chapela, Andres Luciano Nicolas Martinuzzi, Natalia Daniela Llobera, Florencia Ceriani, Victoria Gonzalez, Martha Montalvan, Ludovica Verde, Evelyn Frias-Toral

“…Since the 1990s the worldwide rate of obesity has escalated significantly. This overflow affects all demographic groups, with a notable impact on older adults and women. …”
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Unpacking Violence: Examining Socioeconomic, Psychological, and Genetic Drivers of Gun-Related Homicide and Potential Solutions by John Menezes, Kavita Batra

“…African Americans experienced homicide rates of 23.1 per 100,000, ten times the rate among Whites. …”
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Performance tracking in female youth soccer through wearables and subjective assessments by Stefan Kranzinger, Christina Kranzinger, Wolfgang Kremser, Burkhard Duemler

“…A robustness check confirmed these patterns also hold when analyzing the 99th percentile of performance outputs. …”
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Pest categorisation of the avocado sunblotch viroid by EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Claude Bragard, Paula Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Alan MacLeod, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A Navas‐Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Emilio Stefani, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Wopke Van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappalà, Quirico Migheli, Irene Vloutoglou, Andrea Maiorano, Marco Pautasso, Philippe Lucien Reignault

“…The viroid is naturally transmitted at an extremely high rate by seeds (up to 100% in asymptomatically infected trees), but with a low efficiency by pollen (only to the produced seeds), and possibly through root grafts. …”
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Height development and multiple bone health indicators in children aged 2-12 years with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). by Bingying Wang, Linyuhan Zhou, Shuangru Li, Huayan Xu, Yingkun Guo, Qin Hu, Min Huang, Dan Zhou, Xiaotang Cai, Qiu Wang, Xiaomei Sun

“…<h4>Results</h4>The growth curve for 2-12 years old boys with DMD indicates a slower growth rate compared to the average population. At age two, children with DMD have a similar height to their peers, but gradually falls behind afterwards. …”
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Are climate change adaptation strategies interrelated? Evidence from Borana pastoral communities, southern Ethiopia by Abraham Abera Feyissa, Ayana Angassa, Menfese Tadesse

“…The results indicate that while there are various adaptation strategies, some have a very low adoption rate. The majority of households (90%) used at least two of these adaptation strategies, and only 1.67% used all of them. …”
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Understanding More about Vaping among Asian Adolescents Aged 14-15 Years Old in New Zealand: The ASH Year 10 Snapshot Survey Analysis (2014-2022) by Ko Ko, Christopher Bullen, Joanna Ting Wai Chu, Sally Frances Wong

“…However, vaping prevalence among Asian adolescents was lower and had a slower rate of growth than Non-Asian adolescents. Among Asian major subgroupings, Indian adolescents showed the highest vaping prevalence (ever vaping = 21.1%, 95% CI 18.7 – 23.7 and current vaping = 6.2%, 95% CI 4.8 – 7.8) in 2022 and, in all ethnic groupings, vaping in girls overtook that of boys. …”
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Intelligent Detection of Oceanic Front in Offshore China Using EEFD-Net with Remote Sensing Data by Ruijie Kong, Ze Liu, Yifei Wu, Yong Fang, Yuan Kong

“…Oceanic fronts delineate the boundaries between distinct water masses within the ocean, typically marked by shifts in weather patterns and the generation of oceanic circulation. …”
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Improving the Reliability of Biometric Authentication Processes Using a Model for Reducing Data Drift by Vladimir Zh. Kuklin, Naur Z. Ivanov, Alexander N. Muranov, Islam A. Alexandrov, Elena Yu. Linskaya

“…The proposed algorithm demonstrates a high degree of accuracy, as evidenced by its equal error rate (EER), and is particularly well-suited to feature recognition tasks due to its adaptive model. …”
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Study on the interaction characteristics between pot seedling and planter based on hanging cup transplanter by Hongbin Bai, Fandi Zeng, Qiang Su, Ji Cui, Xuying Li

“…By setting different planting frequencies (22, 34, and 46 plants/min) as influencing factors, the mechanical variation patterns and collision motion characteristics of the pot seedlings were analyzed. …”
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Enhanced air quality prediction using adaptive residual Bi-LSTM with pyramid dilation and optimal weighted feature selection by R. Sudha, Ajith Damodaran, Gunaselvi Manohar

“…The accuracy and precision rate of the proposed model are 95.175% and 87.2%, which is better than traditional air quality prediction models. …”
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Clinical trial registration and publication in acupuncture studies: a systematic review by Yuto Matsuura, Naomi Takazawa Welch, Tomomi Sakai, Kiichiro Tsutani

“…However, the fully published papers rate is low at 10%. The publication of results of acupuncture clinical trials should also be rigorously mandated. …”
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Cancelable finger vein authentication using multidimensional scaling based on deep learning by Mohamed Hammad, Mohammed ElAffendi, Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif

“…We evaluated our system on three publicly available datasets for finger veins using various performance metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, and equal error rate (EER). The results demonstrated the effectiveness of our method, which achieved high accuracy, low error rates, and strong performance in diversity and irreversibility tests. …”
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Modeling the role of healthcare access inequalities in epidemic outcomes by Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Muntaser Safan, Sherry Towers, Jay Taylor

“…Extending our model to more than two groups with different levels of access to healthcare, we find that increasing the variance of recovery rates among groups, while keeping the mean recovery rate constant, also increases $\mathcal{R}_{0}$ and disease prevalence. …”
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Histological comparison between irradiated and non-irradiated breasts in breast reconstruction by Alberto Benedik, Ronan Caputi Silva Dias, Amanda Costa Campos, Carolina Oliveira Paranagua Castro, Marcela Caetano Cammarota, José Carlos Daher

“…Radiotherapy, an adjuvant strategy, provides favorable outcomes by reducing the rate of recurrence of the disease. This study aimed to compare histological differences between irradiated and non-irradiated breasts in the same patient. …”
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Coupling Coordination Development Between Cultivated Land and Agricultural Water Use Efficiency in Arid Regions: A Case Study of the Turpan–Hami Basin by Yue Kong, Abdugheni Abliz, Dongping Guo, Xianhe Liu, Jialin Li, Buasi Nurahmat

“…A coupling coordination degree model was constructed to evaluate their coordinated development level, with spatial autocorrelation and other methods used to examine spatiotemporal patterns. Key findings include: (1) The overall utilization efficiency of both resources was relatively low, with mean values of 0.516 and 0.596, showing a fluctuating upward trend and significant spatial heterogeneity; (2) The mean coupling coordination degree (CCD) ranked as follows: Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County (0.587) > Yiwu County (0.563) > Gaochang District (0.494) > Shanshan County (0.437) > Tuokexun County (0.417) > Yizhou District (0.342), with an annual growth rate of 4.6%; (3) Regional disparities were dominated by intra-regional differences (42.0%), followed by transvariation density (30.64%). …”
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Combined method for acoustic cavitation research by A. V. Kotukhov, V. S. Gavrilyuk, V. S. Minchuk, N. V. Dezhkunov

“…Technical characteristics of the installation allow you to adjust the rate of development of the cavitation region by varying the duration and period of the ultrasound pulses. …”
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