Gastroscopy Yield in the Young: Comprehensive Assessment of Endoscopic and Histologic Findings—A Comparative Study by Fadi Abu Baker, Amir Mari, Oren Gal, Randa Taher, Dorin Nicola, Majeed Zahalka, Abdel-Rauf Zeina

“…Endoscopic findings revealed a significantly higher diagnosis rate of gastritis than controls (48.2% vs. 35.7%; p<0.001). …”
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Network analysis of socioeconomic disparities and public transport in COVID-19 spread: a case study in northeast Brazil by Taise F Cavalcante, Waneska de S Barboza, Cliomar A dos Santos, Adriano Antunes de S Araújo, Lucindo José Quintans-Júnior, Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho

“…Conclusions: Our study highlights the vital role of urban mobility patterns in the spread of COVID-19. Neighborhoods with better living conditions that serve as hubs of activity and movement, enable gatherings and interactions among people from diverse regions, including those from areas with higher infection rates. …”
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Vulture dominance in a scavenger assemblage in the Neotropical dry forest by Paul Monar-Barragán, Hernán Vargas, Rubén Pineida, Andy Salazar, Emilio Virgos, Fabricio Narváez, Sebastián Kohn, Juan de Dios Morales, Juan Sebastián Restrepo-Cardona

“…Both carcass detection time and consumption rates were influenced by carcass size, particularly in the case of consumption rates, where larger carcasses exhibited higher consumption rates than smaller ones. …”
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Integrated modeling of boron powder injection for real-time plasma-facing component conditioning by F. Effenberg, K. Schmid, F. Nespoli, A. Bortolon, Y. Feng, B.A. Grierson, J.D. Lore, R. Maingi, D.L. Rudakov

“…The mixed-material migration modeling shows evolving boron deposition patterns, suggesting the formation of mixed B-C layers or predominantly B coverage depending on the powder mass flow rate. …”
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Epidemiological insights and healthcare challenges of tuberous sclerosis complex in Shizuoka Prefecture: a retrospective cohort study by Satoshi Kishida, Eiji Nakatani, Takeshi Usui, Shuhei Fujimoto, Seiichiro Yamamoto, Yoshiki Miyachi

“…TSC cases were identified using the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) code Q85.1. Adjusted prevalence rates were calculated, and analyses were performed on patient demographics, healthcare utilization, comorbidities, and treatment patterns. …”
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Prevalence and incidence of idiopathic subglottic stenosis in southern and central Alberta: a retrospective cohort study by Ryan K. Chan, Beau Ahrens, Paul MacEachern, J. Douglas Bosch, Derrick R. Randall

“…The total iSGS prevalence was 9.28/100,000 with a mean annual incidence rate of 0.71/100,000 per year. Significant clustering was observed (Moran’s index 0.125; z-score 2.832; p = 0.0046) and the highest rates of prevalence were observed in southern Alberta and in rural communities heterogeneously dispersed around Calgary FSAs. …”
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Genomic alterations of marine yeast Scheffersomyces spartinae under spontaneous and mutagenic conditions by Yu-Ting Bai, Awkash Sharma, Qian Xiang, Li-Yan Tian, Ke-Jing Li, Bao-Ying Guo, Lei Qi, Dao-Qiong Zheng

“…Heat stress at 37 °C increased the SNVs and InDels rates to 1.4 × 10⁻¹⁰ and 7.5 × 10⁻¹¹ per base pair per cell division. …”
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Global, regional, and national impact of Down syndrome on child and adolescent mortality from 1980 to 2021, with projections to 2050: a cross-sectional study by Erdengqieqieke Ye, Erman Wu, Erman Wu, Rui Han, Rui Han

“…Despite improvements in life expectancy and quality of life due to medical progress, children and adolescents (under the age of 20 years) with Down syndrome still face higher mortality rates. Future research is essential to elucidate the epidemiological patterns and trends in Down syndrome among children and adolescents, enabling the development of effective prevention and intervention strategies to improve survival and health outcomes.MethodsThis study draws on Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 mortality data for children and adolescents with Down syndrome. …”
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Towards developing new private sector maternity care models in South Africa: results from a deliberative stakeholder dialogue by Tanya Doherty, Sue Fawcus, Vishal Brijlal, Geetesh Solanki

“…Caesarean rates are rising globally, four of the five countries with the highest caesarean rates are middle-income countries and private hospital care is a strong predictor of caesarean birth. …”
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Association of loneliness with healthcare transitions and mortality in older adults in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study by Laura C Rosella, Jin Luo, Rachel Strauss, Susan E Bronskill, Vivek Goel, Paula A Rochon, Nathan M Stall, Jun Guan, Rinku Sutradhar, Christina Yu, Stephanie A Chamberlain, Rachel D Savage, Andrea Gruneir, Claudia Sanmartin, Azmina Altaf

“…Compared with those who were not lonely, moderately lonely respondents transitioned at a faster rate from the community to home care, and severely lonely respondents transitioned at a faster rate from the community to LTC; although, both associations were attenuated with adjustment (RRML 1.37; 95% CI 1.00 to 1.85 and RRSL 1.96; 95% CI 0.99 to 4.12, respectively). …”
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Burden of bacterial lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized children and epidemiological characteristics of pathogens in Hanzhong, China (2023–2024) by Chunmei Zheng, Yu Hu, Hang Hu, Wenhua Chen, Sanjun He, Xiaoxia Huang, Chengchao Lai, You Gao, Jin Tang

“…Children aged 0–3 years were the highest risk group for Staphylococcus aureus infection (11.61%), while the detection rates of various pathogens declined with increasing age. …”
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Global Trends in the Incidence and Primary Causes of Femoral Fractures, Excluding Femoral Neck Fractures: A Global Epidemiological Study by Fu F, Liu B, Pu H, Wang Y, Zhang P, Wei S, Gu H, Zhang Q, Ye H

“…However, the incidence rate dropped from 160.49 to 146.57 per 100,000 (EAPC: − 0.35). …”
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Corrosion mechanism of a high corrosion-resistance Zn–Al–Mg coating in typical extremely harsh marine and cold environments by Yuwei Liu, Tianzhen Gu, Miaoran Liu, Zhenyao Wang, Gongwang Cao, Quanzhong Guo, Chuan Wang

“…The findings revealed that the corrosion behavior of Zn–Al–Mg coating is significantly influenced by environmental conditions, exhibiting varying rates and processes in high-temperature marine and extremely cold urban environments, which lead to distinct corrosion patterns and pit morphologies over time. …”
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Experimental study on the injectivity, adsorption, and in-situ rheology of HPAM polymer in intact and fractured sandstone by Abdullah Alajmi, Meshal Algharaib, Mahmoud Ali

“…For each slug, four different injection flow rates were examined (1.5, 1.0, 0.75, and 0.1 cc/min). …”
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In vitro assessment of dietary mealworm (Tenebrio molitor L.) combined with a natural source of tannins (Acacia farnesiana L.) for sheep feeding by Manuel Gonzalez-Ronquillo, Navid Ghavipanje, Lizbeth E. Robles Jimenez, Eduardo Cardoso-Gutiérrez, José Manuel Pino Moreno, Manuela Renna, Einar Vargas-Bello-Pérez

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Leveraging Real-Time Population-Scale GPS Data to Forecast and Identify Components of Epidemic Dynamics by Dr Alejandra Hidalgo, Dr Steven Schulz, Dr Ashish Thampi, Richard Pastor

“…Sensing real-time contact patterns is a representation of infection dynamics and therefore they are key to forecasting infection rates of SARS-CoV-2—in contrast to the retrospective nature of infection surveillance. …”
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Mutational features of chromids and chromosomes in Pseudoalteromonas provide new insights into the evolution of secondary replicons by Wanyue Jiang, Jiao Pan, Tongtong Lin, Yaohai Wang, Yanze Wang, Rongxiao Zhang, Xiaoming Zhou, Yu Zhang

“…In addition, the context-dependence and variation pattern of the base-pair substitutions (BPSs) rates of the entire replicons exhibited differences that may be caused by the different replication directions of the chromids. …”
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Quantifying the cumulative impact of winter habitat loss on a critically endangered migratory parrot by Ross Crates, Robert Heinsohn

“…If observed rates of habitat loss in the HCC continue, halve, or double, the additional impact from that region alone on the swift parrot population could lead to a decline of 32% over 100 years. …”
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Characteristics of pore dynamics in shale reservoirs by CO2 flooding by ZHANG Zhichao,BAI Mingxing,DU Siyu

“…The pore utilization characteristics of CO2 during shale oil displacement are a crucial indicator for evaluating its effectiveness in enhancing shale oil reservoir recovery rates. Therefore, experiments on supercritical CO2 displacing shale cores were conducted in the laboratory, and nuclear magnetic resonance（NMR） online core scanning technology was used to study the pore utilization characteristics and patterns of CO2 displacement in shale oil reservoirs. …”
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Soil erosion estimation and risk assessment based on RUSLE in Google Earth Engine (GEE) in Turkiye by Endalamaw Dessie Alebachew, Wudu Abiye, Orhan Dengiz, İnci Demirağ Turan

“…Our analysis provides spatial insights into erosion patterns across the region, revealing that soil loss rates range from 0–5 t/ha/yr in stable areas to over 200 t/ha/yr in severely eroded regions. …”
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