Associations of weight change patterns with hyperuricemia risk in U.S. adults by Yadan Zou, Fang Li, Qiya Huang, Zhongxing Zhao, Shengguang Li, Huanxian Liu

“…Abstract The global incidence of hyperuricemia is increasing in parallel with rising obesity rates. This study investigated the relationship between weight change patterns and the risk of hyperuricemia. …”
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Healthcare attendance patterns by pregnant women in Durban, South Africa by S. Sibeko, J. Moodley

“…Background: High rates of perinatal mortality and morbidity and maternal mortality in South Africa remain a major problem. …”
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Muscle MRI Pattern in Dysferlinopathy and its Correlation with Dysferlin Gait by Tanushree Chawla, Dipti Baskar, Kiran Polavarapu, Veeramani Preethish-Kumar, Saraswati Nashi, Seena Vengalil, Karthik Kulanthaivelu, Jitender Saini, Akshata Huddar, Gopikrishnan Unnikrishnan, Bevinahalli Nanjegowda Nandeesh, Atchayaram Nalini

“…Spearman’s correlation analysis was used to find the correlation between muscle involvement and demographics, duration of illness, Muscular Dystrophy Functional Rating Scale (MDFRS), genotype, and gait pattern. …”
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Epidemiological trends and patterns of gastric cancer in the Kashmir Valley, India by Shaista Mushtaq, Nisar Ahmad Syed, G.M. Rather, Shahid Saleem, Athar Yousuf Rather, Shaheena Parveen

“…Results: The analysis revealed a significant increase in stomach cancer incidence across all districts of the Kashmir Valley, with the highest rates observed in South Kashmir. Hotspot analysis identified areas with a high concentration of cases in urban areas, particularly in districts such as Anantnag, Pulwama, and Srinagar. …”
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PATTERNS OF CAPTURE‐RELATED MORTALITY IN RIO GRANDE WILD TURKEYS by John H. Brunjes IV, Warren B. Ballard, Mark C. Wallace, Richard S. Phillips, Derrick P. Holdstock, Brian L. Spears, Matthew J. Butler, Michael S. Miller, Nancy E. McIntyre, Stephen J. DeMaso, Roger Applegate, Philip S. Gipson

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Content Analysis of Nutritional Supplement Intake Patterns and Doping Risk Awareness among Domestic Adult Athletes by Jung-Hyun Yun, Mi-Na Jin, Chang-Jin Lee

“…The patterns that showed the highest improvement rate were when the intake was once a day and 6–10 times per week. …”
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Uptake and correlates of modern contraceptive use among women aged 15–49 years in Botswana; evidence from the Botswana demographic survey 2017 by M Keetile, BK Masisi, P Lefadola, M Monnaatsie, T Kgolo, N Swart

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Intergenerational support dynamics and the sandwich generation: analyzing the effect of family migration on health among the Chinese migrant workers by Houyi Zhang, Fengxian Qiu, Jing Liu

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The New Patterns of the Israeli Road Measures and their Impact on the Palestinian Transport Sector by Khaled Al-Sahili

“…There was a decline in the number of certain measures (earth mounds/walls and trenches) and an increase in road blocks and gates. These measures targeted particular locations in the West Bank, and aimed at dividing it into geographical zones; north, middle, and south, in addition to the Jordan Valley. …”
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Runoff Evolution Patterns and Attribution Analysis in Xiliu Songhua River Basin by YAN Yuliang, DING Hong, ZHANG Jiayue, GAO Yu

“…The contribution rate of precipitation humidification to runoff change reached 57.24%~66.89%, and the contribution rate of human activities was only 4.39%~7.52%. …”
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Runoff Evolution Patterns and Attribution Analysis in Xiliu Songhua River Basin by YAN Yuliang, DING Hong, ZHANG Jiayue, GAO Yu

“…The contribution rate of precipitation humidification to runoff change reached 57.24%–66.89%, and the contribution rate of human activities was only 4.39%–7.52%. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution and convergence patterns of urban carbon emission efficiency in China by Chuanqing Wu, Heshun Deng, Hao Zhao, Qiwei Xia

“…The influence of economic level, industrial structure, foreign direct investment, urbanization rate, and green technology innovation on the rate of variation in UCEE exhibits notable heterogeneity.…”
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Effects of Different Solid–Liquid Parameters on Flow Characteristics and Performance Output of Mineral Extraction Pumps: Analysis and Experimental Validation by Shunjun Hong, Yuanwen Li, Xiaozhou Hu, Zihai Yang, Shaowei Lei, Pengyun Wei, Junhong Hu, Xingpeng Wang

“…Computational fluid dynamics methods, incorporating the <i>SST</i><inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>k</mi><mo>-</mo><mi>ω</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> turbulence model and the discrete phase model, were utilized to systematically investigate the pressure distribution, velocity field, streamline patterns, and performance characteristics of the mineral extraction pump under three operating conditions—low flow rate, rated flow rate, and high flow rate—while transporting mineral particles of three distinct sizes. …”
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Optimizing the Design of Soil-Mixing Blade Structure Parameters Based on the Discrete Element Method by Huiling Ding, Qiaofeng Wang, Mengyang Wang, Chao Zhang, Han Lin, Xin Jin, Haizhou Hong, Fengkui Dang

“…The key structural parameters included the bending line angle (<i>α</i>), bending angle (<i>β</i>), side angle (<i>δ</i>), tangential edge height (<i>h</i>), and bending radius (<i>r</i>); the straw burial rate (<i>Y</i>₁) and straw percentage in the seeding layer (<i>Y</i>₂) were selected as evaluation indicators. …”
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Gut microbiota pattern in children and adolescents with newly diagnosed immune thrombocytopenia by Mohsen Elalfy, Nayra Mehanna, Heba Ghazala, Marwa Tolba

“…Bifidobacterium spp. Detected at a lower rate in patient group compared to control group, but significantly higher in patients progressing to persistent ITP (P-ITP) than patients showing early remission. …”
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Review: Piglets’ (Re)Feeding Patterns, Mineral Metabolism, and Their Twisty Tail by Theo van Kempen, Eugeni Roura

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Noise-Robust Local Ternary Pattern Center for Noisy Texture Classification by Farhan A. Alenizi, Mokhtar Mohammadi, Mohammad Hossein Shakoor

“…In this paper, a version of LTP is proposed that is named Local Ternary Pattern Center (LTPC). This descriptor provides noise-robust and low feature numbers with a better classification rate than LTP and advanced LBP versions for noisy textures. …”
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Pattern Dynamics in a Spatial Predator-Prey System with Allee Effect by Gui-Quan Sun, Li Li, Zhen Jin, Zi-Ke Zhang, Tao Zhou

“…Our results indicate that predator mortality plays an important role in the pattern formation of populations. More specifically, as predator mortality rate increases, coexistence of spotted and stripe patterns, stripe patterns, spotted patterns, and spiral wave emerge successively. …”
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Research progress on damage-associated molecular patterns in acute kidney injury by Jiajia Li, Zhangxue Hu

“…Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are endogenous molecules released by cells in response to external stimuli that can trigger an inflammatory response by binding to specific pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). …”
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Decoding CMOS Rolling-Shutter Pattern in Translational or Rotational Motions for VLC by Chi-Wai Chow, Zhi-Qing Li, Yu-Cheng Chuang, Xin-Lan Liao, Kun-Hsien Lin, Yi-Yuan Chen

“…We propose and demonstrate a CMOS rolling-shutter pattern decoding scheme based on two newly introduced schemes, named row grayscale redistribution and differential grayscale packet selection to improve the performance in decoding the CMOS rolling-shutter pattern in translational or rotational motions. …”
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