Using online public animal price data as a signal for predicting an increase in animal disease outbreak reports: a pilot study on cross-correlation modeling in Thailand by Veerasak Punyapornwithaya, Supitchaya Srisawang, Chalita Jainonthee, Wengui Li, Ronello Abila, Bolortuya Purevsuren

“…For ASF, cross-correlations between farm-gate pig prices and ASF outbreak reports were detected at lag 0, lag 3, lag 4, and lag 5 in the primary dataset; however, no significant correlation was observed in the extended dataset. …”
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Visual vs. Spatial Contributions to Microsaccades and Visual-Spatial Working Memory by Joshua T. Gaunt, Bruce Bridgeman

“…Microsaccade rates and directions were monitored while observers performed a visual working memory task at varying retinal eccentricities. …”
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Circadian blood pressure profile in patients with arterial hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by T. E. Steshina, A. I. Chesnikova, V. P. Terentyev

“…In patients with AH and COPD, CBPP was characterized by "non-dipper" and "night-peaker" patterns associated with high heart rate, that was probably explained by COPD negative impact on AH clinical course. …”
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A failure by any other name: The phenomenon of underpreparedness by Jill Bradbury, Ronald Miller

“…In order to further understand the reasons for the disproportionately high failure rate among students from disadvantaged schools, the responses of DS failing students are compared to those of their peers from advantaged schools (AS) who also failed the course. …”
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A novel framework for modeling quarantinable disease transmission. by Wenchen Liu, Chang Liu, Dehui Wang, Yiyuan She

“…The framework surpasses conventional uniform mixing and static rate assumptions by incorporating adaptive power laws, dynamic transmission rates, and spline-based smoothing techniques. …”
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Assessing Slide Coverage by Cytoscreeners during the Primary Screening of Cervical Smears, Using the AxioHOMEⓇ Microscope System by Robert W. Baker, Gerard Brugal, Dulcie V. Coleman

“…We have used the HOME Microscope system to examine the screening patterns of cytotechnologists who undertake the primary screening of cervical smears, in order to measure accuracy of screening against screening time, slide coverage, and mean screening rate. …”
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Social Work in Republic of Buryatia by Tatyana Bazarova

“…The introduction of market economy principles, the process of privatisation, and the last economic crises in the Federation of Russia have brought many social phenomena - among them increasing poverty, homelessness and still high rate of unemployment are the worst one. It makes the changes in the state social welfare programmes and functioning patterns be implemented. …”
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The impact of labor market trends on consumer and savings behavior of the population by M. Yu. Akimov

“…As indicators that allow us to identify patterns of formation of consumer and savings behavior of the population, such indicators as employment, unemployment, labor productivity, labor price, average unemployment period, the participation rate of women, men, youth, pensioners, migrants in the workforce, education level, place of residence (city, countryside) can be used, region of the country), consumer spending and savings.The article identifies the main current trends in the Russian labor market that shape the labor behavior of the population and determine the personnel policy of employers. …”
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A Comprehensive Approach to Synthetic Distribution Grid Generation: Erdős–Rényi to Barabási-Albert by Mohammad Shahraeini

“…A comparison of the Erdős and Barabási-Albert models shows variations in maximum degree values, branching rates, and mixing patterns. The original Barabási-Albert model tends to have nodes with higher degrees and increased branching rates, which can be adjusted by the richness index. …”
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The Evolution of Urbanization in Dodoma: A 21-Year Spatial Assessment by N. S. Sumari

“…Additionally, Sorenson’s UEII coefficient reveals an urban growth rate of approximately 9,131 hectares over the same period, with a coefficient value of 0.224. …”
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A Survey of Canadian Gastroenterologists about the Management of Barrett’s Esophagus by Lisa MacNeil-Covin, Alan G Casson, Dickran Malatjalian, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten

“…The aims of the present study were to determine practice patterns of Canadian gastroenterologists for screening patients with Barrett’s esophagus and to compare current practice patterns with published guidelines. …”
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MATHEMATICAL-CARTOGRAPHIC MODELING AND CARTOGRAPHY OP DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION IN THE REGIONS OF EUROPE AND RUSSIA by A. I. Igonin, V. S. Tikunov

“…The multivariate typology gave heterogeneous results, which makes it possible to assess a wide range of territorial features of the demographic characteristics of the population and identify patterns of their distribution. So, for the typology of the second option, instead of the indicator of life expectancy, the general mortality rate was used, which strengthens the significance of this development for the analysis of the demographic movement of the population and gives a clearer idea of the causes and genesis of the dynamics of the demographic situation. …”
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Trace Metals, Crude Protein, and TGA-FTIR Analysis of Evolved Gas Products in the Thermal Decomposition of Roasted Mopane Worms, Sweet Corn, and Peanuts by Nonkululeko S. Masite, Somandla Ncube, Lawrence M. Madikizela, Fanyana M. Mtunzi, Vusumzi E. Pakade

“….), and sweet corn (Zea mays L. saccharata) was investigated under inert conditions using the TGA-FTIR analytical technique heated from 64 to 844°C at a heating rate of 20°C/min. The degradation patterns of the food samples differed as sweet corn and peanuts exhibited four degradation stages 188, 248, 315, and 432°C and 145, 249, 322, and 435°C, respectively. …”
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Identification of Relevant ECG Features for Epileptic Seizure Prediction Using Interpretable Machine Learning by Azra Abtahi, Philippe Ryvlin, Amir Aminifar

“…In this paper, we consider the well-established Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Lorenz features, and augment them with the electrocardiogram (ECG) multifractality features for the first time for seizure prediction. …”
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Preparation and Performance of Biomimetic Zebra-Striped Wood-Based Photothermal Evaporative Materials by Zebin Zhao, Wenxuan Wang, Zhichen Ba, Yuze Zhang, Hongbo Xu, Daxin Liang

“…Through the study of zebra patterns, it has been found that the black-and-white alternating patterns generate vortices on the surface of the zebra’s skin, thereby reducing the temperature. …”
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Self-Organizing Map-Based Classification for Fire Weather Index in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region and Their Potential Causes by Maowei Wu, Chengpeng Zhang, Meijiao Li, Wupeng Du, Jianming Chen, Caishan Zhao

“…Finally, the relative contributions of the fuel available index and the wildfire spread rate index to the FWI are quantified using a partial differential approach. …”
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Surveillance and evaluation of vector control in Fuyang District, Hangzhou for the 19th Asian Games by XU Jie, PAN Wenjin, TANG Renyu, DU Liqun

“…The positive detection rates of adult flies and cockroach traces showed no significant pattern, with the highest rate of 7.00% and 8.33%, respectively. …”
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Influence of Water Injection Pressure on Methane Gas Displacement by Coal Seam Water Injection by Tianwei Shi, Yishan Pan, Wenhong Zheng, Aiwen Wang

“…The test results show that with the same displacement time, the ratio of displaced methane increases with the increase in the water injection pressure. The displacement rate increases with the increase in the water injection pressure at the stage without water discharge, while the water displacement rate under different water injection pressures differed slightly; in the later displacement stage, a higher water injection pressure of the coal sample results in a faster attenuation of the displacement rate and water displacement rate due to the decrease in the methane content in the coal sample. …”
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AlexNet Convolutional Neural Network Architecture with Cosine and Hamming Similarity/Distance Measures for Fingerprint Biometric Matching by Ahmed Sabah Ahmed AL-Jumaili, Huda Kadhim Tayyeh, Abeer Alsadoon

“…Using the FVC2002 database, the proposed method showed a False Acceptance Rate (FAR) of 2.09% and a False Rejection Rate (FRR) of 2.81%. …”
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Machine learning and microfluidic integration for oocyte quality prediction by Hassan Saffari, Davood Fathi, Peyman Palay, Hamid Gourabi, Rouhollah Fathi

“…Additionally, oocyte diameter and the critical flow rate (Q)—defined as the minimum flow rate necessary for an oocyte to pass through the channel—were included as predictive variables. …”
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