The global burden of lead exposure-related ischemic stroke: based on Bayesian age-period-cohort analysis by Xiaofang Chen, Lihua Zhao, Xiaxia Wu, Dan Chen, Mingya Yao

“…From 1990 to 2019, the age-standardized deaths rate (ASDR) of deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) exhibited a rise-and-fall pattern, with absolute cases increasing. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF BACKPROPAGATION AND HYBRID ARIMA-NN METHODS IN PREDICTING ACCURACY LEVELS OF RAINFALL IN MAKASSAR CITY by Hisyam Ihsan, Irwan Irwan, Andi Illa Erviani Nensi

“…The results showed that the Backpropagation method excelled with an RMSE value of 137.320 or 0.1149, indicating high accuracy in forecasting changes in seasonal trends and patterns. Hybrid ARIMA-NN gives good results with RMSE 145.834, as residues contain better nonlinearity compared to ARIMA models (4,0,1), although it shows a slightly higher error rate compared to Backpropagation.…”
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The Aging Population in Turkey is Ringing Alarm Bells at the Local Level by Mustafa Yakar, Ertuğrul Murat Özgür

“…In addition, the study indicates the elderly population to have increased at a higher rate than the national population growth rate in most districts over the 10-year period. …”
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Follow-up pathways for alcohol use disorders patients: A naturalistic study in a tertiary care center in south India by Soyuz John, M Somashekar Vidyashree, Samir Kumar Praharaj

“…Conclusion: The initial dropout rate was notably high, especially among patients referred from other hospital departments. …”
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On the effect of sampling frequency on the electricity theft detection performance by Fatemeh Soleimani Nasab, Foad Ghaderi

“…The performance degradation rate is significant for data with lower sampling frequencies. …”
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“Morphogenetic Action” Principle for 3D Shape Formation by the Growth of Thin Sheets by Dillon J. Cislo, Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Boris I. Shraiman

“…Specifically, we demonstrate that growth pattern selection can be formulated as an optimization problem and solved for the trajectories that minimize spatiotemporal variation in areal growth rates and deformation anisotropy. …”
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Spatial clusters and temporal trends of cutaneous malignant melanoma mortality in Spain by Lucía Cayuela, José-Juan Pereyra-Rodriguez, Juan-Carlos Hernández-Rodríguez, Aurelio Cayuela

“…Conclusion Mortality rates associated with CMM in Spain have remained stable in recent years. …”
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Quantifying transmission and immunity dynamics of multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants using models and epidemic data from a highly populated area. by Monica S Shah, Jiyoung Lee, Laura W Pomeroy

“…On average, transmission rates were lowest for the ancestral strain and highest for the Omicron variant. …”
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Analysis of bearing characteristics of cantilever anti-slip pile based on cohesion model in acid rain corrosion environment by Yanping Jia, Qingyang Ren, Songqiang Xiao, Senlin Gao, Wenhao Xie

“…The reliability of the cohesive force model is validated through comparisons of the load-displacement curves, bending moments, and crack distribution patterns. Building on this foundation, a numerical calculation model for cantilever anti-slip piles subjected to acid rain corrosion, considering various corrosion rates, is developed. …”
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An observational study of haemophilia A patients without inhibitors using the French national claims (SNDS) database by Marc Trossaërt, Aletta Falk, Laurène Gautier, Nana Kragh, Olivia Van Hinloopen, Remi Varin

“…Clinical characteristics, treatment patterns and switches, factor consumption, and rate of events of interest were determined. …”
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An epidemiological overview of the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in African Union member nations by Ogbonna C. Nwabuko, Osaro Mgbere

“…We conducted descriptive and inferential analyses of the reported cases, deaths, active cases, recoveries, and epidemiological measures, including morbidity and mortality rates (MMR), case fatality rate, and case ratios. …”
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Prevalence and relationship with health of off-label and contraindicated drug use in the United States: a cross-sectional study by Katharina E. Blankart, Frank R. Lichtenberg

“…Off-label prescriptions had a lower contraindication rate (48.8%) compared to indicated prescriptions (56.2%). …”
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Soil nitrate drives fine root decomposition under nitrogen addition in a subtropical forest by Guantao Chen, Yuqin Chen, Xingzhu Yao

“…Soil nitrate greatly explained the root decomposition rates among N treatments (R2 = 0.712 for lower-order roots and R2 = 0.520 for higher-order roots). …”
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Recording of Influenza-Like Illness in UK Primary Care 1995-2013: Cohort Study. by Pia Hardelid, Greta Rait, Ruth Gilbert, Irene Petersen

“…We estimated ILI recorded consultation rates per 100,000 person-weeks (pw) by age, gender, deprivation and winter season. …”
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Deep Learning-Assisted Discovery of Analogy-Inspired Designs within Peter Collins' Analogical Architectural Design Classification Framework by Hüseyin Özdemir

“…It was observed that adjustments in the learning rate parameter balanced classification accuracy and training time; lower learning rates reduced accuracy while extending training time. …”
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Norske drapsmenn (og kvinner) 1955-1982 by Hilde Dahl

“…The projects aim is to provide historical insight into the rates and patterns of Norwegian homicide during the period 1955 to 1982, based on material originally collected by psychologist Ragnar Christensen (1922-2011) over the course of three decades.…”
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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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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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Participation dynamics in population-based longitudinal HIV surveillance in rural South Africa. by Joseph Larmarange, Joël Mossong, Till Bärnighausen, Marie Louise Newell

“…Although the yearly participation rates were relatively modest (26% to 46%), cumulative rates increased substantially with multiple recruitment opportunities: 68% of eligible persons participated at least once, 48% at least twice and 31% at least three times after five survey rounds. …”
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A novel twin time series network for building energy consumption predicting. by Zhixin Sun, Han Cui, Xiangxiang Mei, Hailei Yuan

“…To overcome these issues, the study proposes Twin Time-Series Networks (T2SNET), which incorporates a time-embedding layer and a Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) to extract patterns from Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise (CEEMDAN), along with an adaptive fusion gate to combine energy consumption and meteorological data. …”
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