Optimising Air Change Rates: A CFD Study on Mitigating Pathogen Transmission in Aircraft Cabins by Jaydon Benn, Lin Tian

“…Using ANSYS Fluent 2024, four scenarios were simulated at ACH rates of 15, 20, 25, and 30, with 4 µm pathogens injected into the cabin from a single infector. …”
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Counseling for change: Unraveling quit rates among tobacco users in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, India by Swati Misra, Kaushik Kumar Ramanbhai Damor, Hetal Rathod, R. Naveen Shyam Sundar, Dipesh V. Parmar

“…Results: Among 106 current tobacco users assessed using the Fagerström Test, 53.78% fell in the 3–4 scale category, while 29.25% were in the 0–2 scale category. The quit rate reached 34.28% after the final FGD. Conclusion: The study reveals a heightened tobacco prevalence in the Saurashtra region and varying usage patterns across age groups. …”
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Robustness of point measurements of carbon dioxide concentration for the inference of ventilation rates in a wintertime classroom by Carolanne V.M. Vouriot, Maarten van Reeuwijk, Henry C. Burridge

“…Measurements taken near the walls, often the location of CO₂ sensors, are compared with those made throughout the classroom and found to be more representative of the ventilation rate if made above the breathing zone. These findings are robust with respect to ventilation flow rates and to the flow patterns observed, which were tested by varying the effective vent areas and the ratio of the vent areas.…”
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Modeling and mapping of contextual factors associated with adolescent birth rates in Thailand between 2009 and 2018 by Thutchanut Phantra, Thanapoom Rattananupong, Kittipong Saejeng, Wiroj Jiamjarasrangsi

“…Abstract Background To meet indicator 3.7.2 in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Thailand must reduce the adolescent birth rate (ABR) to below 15 per 1,000 women aged 15–19 years by 2027, down from 20.9 per 1,000 in 2023. …”
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Natural estuarine cycles of nocturnal hypoxia significantly reduce growth rates of North Atlantic bivalves by Jeffrey Kraemer, Christopher J. Gobler

“…Application of these relationships to DO patterns at 19 sites across NY during summer indicated nocturnal hypoxia at these locales may have repressed bivalve growth rates by 10 – 240%. …”
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A Low-Cost Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna-Based Peanut Defect Rate Detection System by Yuanyuan Yin, Fangyan Ma, Xiaohong Liu, Shuhao Wang, Junjie Xia, Liqing Zhao

“…In comparison to some traditional statistical models, such as linear regression, which may struggle with non-linear data patterns, XGBoost effectively modeled the complex relationship between the scattering parameters and the defect rate. …”
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Acoustic emission and crack evolution characteristics of cemented tailings backfill under different loading rates by Shenghua YIN, Yun ZHOU, Xiaobing YANG, Wei CHEN, Junwei CHEN

“…To investigate the dynamic regulation mechanism of loading rate on crack evolution in cemented tailings backfill (CTB), uniaxial compression tests with acoustic emission (AE) monitoring were conducted at loading rates v of 0.002, 0.004, 0.008, and 0.010 mm/s. …”
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Dysphagia education in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: student self-competency ratings during their dysphagia course by Sana Smaoui, Sandhya Ganesan, Trish Williams

“…The objectives of this study were to explore patterns in self-perceived competency ratings for SLT students at AAU and determine the impact of clinical experiences during student training. …”
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Study on the Variation Law of Water Consumption Rate of Cascade Hydropower Station under Different Conditions by Xueshan Ai, Xiaoke Zhang, Renwei Guo, Xiao Li, Mian Wang, Fengshuo Liu, Jiawei Zhang

“…The variation pattern of the water consumption rate of hydropower stations under different conditions obtained in this paper can provide technical support for the real-time economic operation of cascade hydropower stations.…”
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Thermoanalytical and Kinetic Studies for the Thermal Stability of Emerging Pharmaceutical Pollutants Under Different Heating Rates by Christian Ebere Enyoh, Tochukwu Oluwatosin Maduka, Miho Suzuki, Senlin Lu, Qingyue Wang

“…This study therefore investigates the thermal stability and degradation kinetics of CIP and IBU, under different heating rates. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) were employed to examine the thermal behavior of these compounds individually and in mixture (CIP + IBU) at heating rates of 10, 20, and 30 °C/min. …”
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Surgical subspecialization is associated with higher rate of rib fracture stabilization: a retrospective database analysis by Avanti Badrinathan, Anuja L Sarode, Christine E Alvarado, Jillian Sinopoli, Jonathan D Rice, Philip A Linden, Matthew L Moorman, Christopher W Towe

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Responses of microbial respiration rate and active bacterial communities to antecedent soil moisture on the Loess Plateau by Xiaodong Nie, Panpan Jiao, Lei Yang, Zhongwu Li

“…The drying and rewetting treatments significantly affected substrate availability, as rewetting from antecedent drought facilitated the enrichment of soil EOC and induced a pulse in the respiration rate compared to drying from antecedent wetting. …”
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Increased rate of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections in hospitalized immunocompromised pediatric patients by Sarah Khafaja, Sarah Khafaja, Yara Salameh, Celina F. Boutros, Cherine Awad, Kawthar Faour, Nadim Tfaily, Sarah Merhi, Zeinab El Zein, Zeinab El Zein, Samer Bou Karroum, Dana Oweini, Danielle Fayad, George F. Araj, George F. Araj, George F. Araj, Ramia Zakhour, Ghassan S. Dbaibo, Ghassan S. Dbaibo

“…The overall rate of MDR GNB isolated increased from 62.7% in 2015 to 90% in 2017. …”
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Juveniles of pink and chum salmon in the southern Okhotsk Sea in their late marine stage (August-October 2012). Distribution, feeding, patterns of growth by Artem Е. Lazhentsev, Olga А. Maznikova

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Real-Time TIMSrescore: timsTOF-optimized PSM Rescoring Boosts Identification Rates of Modified and Unmodified Peptide and Protein Identifications Using Collisional Cross Section, Retention Time, and Fragmentation Patterns, in Real-Time by Jonathan Krieger, Arthur Declercq, Ralf Gabriels, Robbin Bouwmeester, Lennart Martens, Tharan Srikumar, George Rosenberger, Dennis Trede, Shourjo Ghose, Dijana Vitko, Heidi Vitrac

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A Novel Human Action Recognition Model by Grad-CAM Visualization with Multi-level Feature Extraction Using Global Average Pooling with Sequence Modeling by Bidirectional Gated Recu... by Jayamohan Manoharan, Yuvaraj Sivagnanam

“…Efficient feature extraction was achieved by applying a pre-trained Inception V3 model and then bidirectional gated recurrent units (Bi-GRUs) to include sequential modeling. …”
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MODELING OPEN UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN KALIMANTAN ISLAND USING NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION WITH FOURIER SERIES ESTIMATOR by Rahmania Rahmania, Sifriyani Sifriyani, Andrea Tri Rian Dani

“…Furthermore, based on the results of parameter significance testing either simultaneously or partially, it shows that all predictor variables have a significant effect on the open unemployment rate. The predictor variables include the labor force participation rate, the average length of schooling, the percentage of poor people, economic growth rate, and total population.…”
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Experimental and Analytical Study on Multiscale Cushioning and Energy Absorption of Aluminum Foam at Different Strain Rates by Qianzhi Qiu, Hongtao Wang, Wentian Ma

“…In this research, the compressive behavior of closed-cell aluminum foam was examined across a broad strain rate spectrum, spanning from 0.005 s⁻¹ to 2000 s⁻¹. …”
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Assessing Atlantic sailfish catch rates based on Brazilian sport fishing tournaments (1996-2014) by Bruno L. MOURATO, Humberto HAZIN, Fábio HAZIN, Felipe CARVALHO, Alberto Ferreira de AMORIM

“…The following factors were tested in the analyses: "year" "month" and "local" representing the main effects of the explanatory variables. The overall pattern of the standardized catch rate indicates a relatively stable trend with a slight decline in the recent years, from 2009 to 2014. …”
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The Effect of Pain on the Relationship Between Triage Acuity and Emergency Department Hospitalization Rate and Length of Stay by Yan-He Lin, Nai-Wen Ku, Chia-Hsin Ko, Eric H. Chou, Chih-Hung Wang, Tsung-Chien Lu, Chien-Hua Huang, Chu-Lin Tsai

“…Triage level 1 was associated with the highest rate of hospitalization (35%), with a gradual decrease in hospitalization rate from levels 2 to 4. …”
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