Developmental trajectories of and reciprocal relationships between Chinese university students' foreign language reading self-efficacy and reading strategy use by Shiyu Zhou, Yingxian Zhang

“…Quantitative analyses indicated that the participants' foreign language reading self-efficacy firstly increased, followed by a decline, and then rose again, with significant individual variations in both initial levels and rates of change. The initial levels did not affect the rates of increase. …”
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Reconstructed influenza A/H3N2 infection histories reveal variation in incidence and antibody dynamics over the life course. by James A Hay, Huachen Zhu, Chao Qiang Jiang, Kin On Kwok, Ruiyin Shen, Adam Kucharski, Bingyi Yang, Jonathan M Read, Justin Lessler, Derek A T Cummings, Steven Riley

“…We inferred decreasing infection rates with increasing age, and found that annual attack rates were highly correlated across all locations, regardless of their distance, suggesting that age has a stronger impact than fine-scale spatial effects in determining an individual's antibody profile. …”
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Machine Learning Approaches to Predict No-Shows in Saudi Arabian Primary and General Healthcare Settings by Abdulrahman Alshehri, Abdullah Saeed, Abdullah AlShafea, Sabah Althubiany, Mohammed Alshehri, Amer Alzahrani, Khalid Hakami, Lamia Ibrahim, Abdulrahim Alshehri, Rana Alamri

“…This study identified significant regional, seasonal, and environmental factors affecting no-show rates, with higher no-show rates occurring during certain months and under specific weather conditions. …”
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Depression among older adults in Norway 1995-2019: Time trends, correlates, and future projections in a population study: The HUNT study. by Maria Lage Barca, Eivind Aakhus, Ellen Melbye Langballe, Thomas Hansen, Ragnhild Holmberg Aunsmo, Geir Selbæk, Steinar Krokstad, Bjørn Heine Strand

“…<h4>Conclusion and implications</h4>Depression rates among adults aged 70 + decreased by 50% from 1995 to 2019, but less so among the oldest old. …”
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Effect of newborn genomic screening for lysosomal storage disorders: a cohort study in China by Xin Wang, Yun Sun, Xian-Wei Guan, Yan-Yun Wang, Dong-Yang Hong, Zhi-Lei Zhang, Ya-Hong Li, Pei-Ying Yang, Tao jiang, Zheng-feng Xu

“…The study calculated the incidence and carrier rates for each LSD though NBGS, as well as the positive screening rate, the false positive rate and the positive predictive value of the screening process. …”
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New models for MPNST: establishment and comprehensive characterization of two tumor cell lines by Sara Ortega-Bertran, Edgar Creus-Bachiller, Miriam Magallón-Lorenz, Meritxell Carrió, Bernat Gel, Alberto Villanueva, Juan Carlos Lopez-Gutierrez, Anna Estival, Eduard Serra, Juana Fernández-Rodríguez, Conxi Lázaro

“…Methods The cell lines were isolated and extensively characterized genetically (tumor suppressor gene mutation status, DNA content), phenotypically (cell morphology, marker expression), and functionally (proliferation rate, colony formation capacity, migration rate, tumorigenic ability). …”
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Analysis of caesarean section and neonatal outcome using the Robson classification in a rural district hospital in Tanzania: an observational retrospective study by Ana Pilar Betran, Giovanni Putoto, Francesca Tognon, Donald Maziku, Angela Borghero, Giovanni Fernando Torelli, Gaetano Azzimonti

“…The aim of this study was to assess the pattern of CS rates according to the Robson classification and describe maternal and perinatal outcomes by group at the Tosamaganga Hospital in rural Tanzania.Design Observational retrospective study.Setting St. …”
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Characterizing timber harvest occurrence and intensity to inform forest carbon management across the eastern United States by Matthew B. Russell, Catherine J. Chamberlain, Lynn Riley, Natalia A. Mushegian, John S. Gunn, Ethan P. Belair, Sebastian U. Busby

“…Timber harvesting plays an important role in determining how forest management practices influence carbon storage and sequestration patterns. We analyzed recent harvesting patterns across the eastern United States to quantify harvest area, intensity, and type of silviculture across timberlands. …”
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An Integrated Framework for Infectious Disease Control Using Mathematical Modeling and Deep Learning by Mohammed Salman, Pradeep Kumar Das, Sanjay Kumar Mohanty

“…Unlike the existing model, emphasis is given to suggesting a model that is capable of investigating stability while considering the effect of vaccination and migration rate. Next, the influence of vaccination on the rate of infection is effectively predicted using an efficient deep learning model by employing the long-term dependencies in sequential data. …”
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Comparative analysis of data transformation methods for detecting non-technical losses in electricity grids by Maria Gabriel Chuwa, Daniel Ngondya, Rukia Mwifunyi

“…The high accuracy and low false positive rates enable utilities to recover unbilled revenue and reduce inspection costs, amplifying savings compared to raw data or traditional approaches. …”
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Importance of hospital-specific antibiotic policy for ensuring maternal quality of care in India: A narrative review by Arijit Banerjee, Jhuma Biswas

“…Implementing hospital-specific antibiotic policies effectively reduces infection rates and improves maternal-neonatal outcomes through standardized regimens prioritizing narrow-spectrum antibiotics and utilizing local antibiograms. …”
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CFD investigation of mechanical heart valve orientations in modulating left ventricular hemodynamics by R.S.V.N. Murty, P. Pabsetti, R. Harish

“…The findings carry significant clinical implications, supporting evidence-based valve placement decisions that can substantially improve patient outcomes, survival rates and long-term cardiovascular health.…”
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Machine learning in stream and river water temperature modeling: a review and metrics for evaluation by C. R. Corona, T. S. Hogue, T. S. Hogue

“…<p>As climate change continues to affect stream and river (henceforth stream) systems worldwide, stream water temperature (SWT) is an increasingly important indicator of distribution patterns and mortality rates among fish, amphibians, and macroinvertebrates. …”
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Proactive Data Placement in Heterogeneous Storage Systems via Predictive Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning by Suchuan Xing, Yihan Wang

“…The system incorporates a sophisticated reward mechanism that balances performance gains against migration overhead, while employing prioritized experience replay and adaptive learning rates to handle non-stationary workload characteristics. …”
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Residential solar adoption—main determinants and the future of small-scale photovoltaics by Severin Reissl, Luis Sarmiento, Johannes Emmerling

“…We present a data-driven microsimulation model analyzing residential photovoltaic adoption in Germany to address uncertainties in future adoption rates. We develop and calibrate a technology adoption model incorporating economic, financial, and behavioral factors to replicate historical adoption patterns from 2007 to 2020 and project future scenarios. …”
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Decomposition analysis of economic growth in Afar region, Ethiopia by Getachew Wollie Asmare

“…This paper is aimed to decompose, the economic growth of the Afar national regional state of Ethiopia in to labor productivity, employment rate and working age population and to verify whether the positive economic growth registered earlier on the region was a job creation growth or not. …”
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DRANS: Daily Routine Analysis for Node Searching in delay tolerant networks by Xingyu He, Guisong Yang, Hao Zhang

“…In delay tolerant networks, the success rate and the transmission speed are restricted by limited social interaction and complex node mobility pattern analysis. …”
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Smart intrusion detection model to identify unknown attacks for improved road safety and management by Faisal Alshammari, Abdullah Alsaleh

“…ACIDS integrates convolutional neural networks (CNN) for hierarchical feature extraction, the synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) to address class imbalance and an open-set classification framework to detect novel attack patterns. The model was evaluated on the AWID dataset, achieving an accuracy of 94%, a perfect detection rate of 100% and a low false alarm rate of 3%. …”
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Study of the Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Recycled Concrete Containing Ferronickel Slag Subjected to Impact by Caisong Luo, Ai Qi, Changlin Zhou, Ruifeng Liu, Hao Qiu, Lin Lang, Zheming Zhu

“…The effects of loading rate and recycled aggregate replacement rate on the compressive strength, toughness index, peak strain, and failure pattern of the concrete were investigated, and four different loading rates and aggregate replacement rates were selected. …”
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Mineral and bone disorder of maintenance hemodialysis patients in Chuzhou by XU Qi, YE Li-ping, CHENG Wei, GAO Lu, SUN Ai-hua, GAO Ye-hu, LIN Li, CHEN Tian-hao, YAO Yin-ping, YAO Yong

“…Objective To understand the mineral and bone disorder(MBD) status of the maintenance hemodialysis(MHD) patients in Chuzhou.Methods The MHD patients were investigated in hemodialysis centers of 7 hospitals in Chuzhou from April 2014 to June 2014.Study data included general demographic characteristics,laboratory examination,clinical manifestation and medications,etc.Taking KDOQI and KDIGO guidelines as standard respectively,success rate of adjusted serum calcium,phosphorus,and intact parathyroid hormone(iPTH) was observed,and then compared with the dialysis outcomes and practice patterns study(DOPPS4).At last,success rate of adjusted serum calcium,phosphorus,and iPTH in patients with MHD was compared in hospitals of various grades.Results(1) Among the selected 1021 cases,598 cases were male and 423 cases female.Mean age in patients was(56.8 ± 17.3) years old and the average dialysis time was(46.6 ± 37.3) months.The top three original diseases were chronic glomerulonephritis(50.1%),diabetic nephropathy(20.2%) and hypertensive nephrosclerosis(14.1%).(2) Based on KDOQI guidelines,the control rate of adjusted serum calcium,serum phosphorus,and iPTH in MHD patients was 40.5%,37.4%and 21.3%,which was lower than that based on DOPPS4(56.7%,52.6%and 29.6%)(all P<0.01).(3) On the basis of KDIGO guidelines,the control rate of adjusted serum calcium,serum phosphorus,and iPTH in MHD patients was 51.5%,19.8%and 46.2%respectively.(4) By comparing hospitals of various grades on the basis of KDOQI guidelines,we found that the control rate of serum phosphorus and iPTH in patients admitted to tertiary hospitals was higher than to secondary hospitals(P<0.05),while the control rate of adjusted serum calcium had no obvious difference.(5) The treatment situation of MBD:On the basis of KDIGO guidelines,the inappropriate treatment of low serum calcium,hyperphosphatemia and secondary hyperparathyroidism accounted for 47.5%,47.6%and 32.5%respectively.Conclusions The control rate of serum calcium,phosphorus and iPTH in MHD patients of Chuzhou is very low.MHD patients in tertiary hospitals have more ideal control situation than secondary hospitals,indicating that close monitoring and management are expected to improve the success rate.…”
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