Advancing the Sensitivity Frontier in digital contact tracing: Comparative analysis of proposed methods toward maximized utility by Junko Ami, Yanbo Pang, Hiroshi Masui, Takashi Okumura, Yoshihide Sekimoto

“…The estimation combines simulated movement patterns of residents with real-world data from app usage in Japan, utilizing both simulation and numerical modeling, with missing data supplemented through sensitivity analysis.The sensitivity of BLE-based DCT is severely limited by the application’s usage rate, with an estimated baseline of just 10.9%, and even under highly optimistic assumptions, it only reaches 27.0%. …”
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Information-Theoretical Analysis of Team Dynamics in Football Matches by Yi-Shan Cheng, Acer Yu-Chan Chang, Kenji Doya

“…The results indicate that average causal emergence with relative distance and CoM as a macroscopic feature across entire games shows a strong correlation with differences in ball possession rate between home and away teams. In contrast, clustering coefficients based on inverse distance and velocity similarity showed moderate to weak correlations with ball possession rate, indicating that these metrics may capture localized interactions that are less directly tied to team-level emergent behavior compared to CoM. …”
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Balanced state of networks of winner-take-all units. by Rich Pang

“…This represents a new model of brain activity capable of simultaneously reproducing realistic spike trains and diverse nonlinear firing rate patterns well posed for flexible computation, and which can be trained or fit to data.…”
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Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: VVC/H.266 Intra Mode QTMT Based CU Partition Using CNN by Sameena Javaid, Safdar Rizvi, Muhammad Talha Ubaid, Abdullah Tariq

“…Due to the use of brute force quest for residual rate-distortion the quad-tree and multi-type tree (QTMT) structure of the coding unit (CU) split and contributes over 98% of the encoding time. …”
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Study on Propagation Behaviors of Hydraulic Fracture Network in Tight Sandstone Formation with Closed Cemented Natural Fractures by Jun Zhang, Yu-Wei Li, Wei Li, Zi-Jie Chen, Yuan Zhao, Fa-Hao Yu, Yan Zheng

“…The increase in the injection rate will promote the formation of the complex HF network. …”
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The use of camera traps to study the hooded skunk Mephitismacroura (Carnivora: Mephitidae) abundance by Miguel Briones-Salas, Dagoberto Ramos-Méndez, Mario C. Lavariega, Alina Gabriela Monroy-Gamboa

“…With 2520 camera days of sampling effort, we obtained 41 photographs of the hooded skunk, an average of 6.2 photographs per station, meaning a capture rate of 1.63 photographs/camera-day per 100. Based on pelage color patterns and specific characteristics, we identified 25 individuals (seven to twelve skunks per season). …”
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Correlation and Prediction Analysis of Cyanobacteria with Water Environment Data by Sang-Leen Yun

“…Flow quantity and flow rate were inversely correlated with cyanobacteria cell density. …”
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Adaptive AI-enhanced computation offloading with machine learning for QoE optimization and energy-efficient mobile edge systems by Dinesh Kumar Nishad, Vandna Rani Verma, Pushkar Rajput, Sandeep Gupta, Anurag Dwivedi, Dharti Raj Shah

“…The system’s security analysis yields a 98% threat detection rate, with response times under 100 ms. Meanwhile, reliability metrics indicate a 99.8% task completion rate and a mean time to failure of 1,200 h. …”
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Life–History Traits of <i>Eremias pleskei</i> Nikolsky, 1905 from Northeastern Anatolia by Kamil Candan, Elif Yıldırım Caynak, Serkan Gül, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Çetin Ilgaz, Cantekin Dursun

“…Lastly, survival rate and adult life expectancy were calculated for each sex. …”
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The Single-Leg Wall Squat Test: An Assessment of Functional Lower Extremity Endurance in University Students by BJ Lehecka, Jordan Black, Jacob Jindra, Carlisle McCloud, Christopher Pummell

“… # RESULTS Average SLWS test performance was 76.2 ± 35.2 repetitions. Average heart rate and RPE post-SLWS were 146.3 ± 17.1 bpm and 8.3 ± 1.2 out of 10, respectively. …”
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Real-Time Observations of Leaf Vitality Extinction by Dynamic Speckle Imaging by Elise Colin, Enrique Garcia-Caurel, Karine Adeline, Aurélien Plyer, Xavier Orlik

“…In this context, the integration time primarily influences the radiometric levels, while the frame acquisition rate emerges as the key parameter for generating activity index maps. …”
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Are the Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents as Effective for OCD as for Anxiety and Depression? by Lauren Milgram, Madison E. Bigler, Elizabeth R. Halliday, Kiara R. Timpano, Jill Ehrenreich-May

“…<b>Results</b>: OCD symptoms improved at a slower rate than anxiety and depression symptoms during the first half of UP-C/A treatment but at a comparable rate to anxiety and depression symptoms during the second half of treatment. …”
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Nexus between economy and environment: Greening India’s agriculture to combat climate change by YAZHINI A, MALAISAMY A, RASWANTHKRISHNA M, BALASUBRAMANIAN M, VIDHYAVATHI A

“…Weak decoupling is most evident in situations where both agricultural GDP and greenhouse gas emissions increase simultaneously but the emissions growth rate is less than the growth rate of GDP. Using the structural vector auto regressive (SVAR) model, the paper illustrates that an immediate increase in CEI reduces the net export (NE) and GDP. …”
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Difference in summer heatwave-induced damage between desert native and urban greening plants in an arid desert region. by Bo-Rui Li, Nan Sun, Ming-Shan Xu, Qi-Xing Sun, Hui-Ming Wang, Jie Zhou, Xu Luo, Guang-Hui Lv, Xiao-Dong Yang

“…Water potentials of leaf and branch in pre-dawn and midday, P50, leaf dry matter content, net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate and stomatal conductance of desert native species were significantly lower than those of urban greening plants (P < 0.05), while twig specific hydraulic conductivity, Huber value, wood density, intrinsic water use efficiency and the specific leaf area showed opposite patterns (P < 0.05). …”
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Personalizing Seizure Detection for Individual Patients by Optimal Selection of EEG Signals by Rosanna Ferrara, Martino Giaquinto, Gennaro Percannella, Leonardo Rundo, Alessia Saggese

“…Validation on the publicly available CHB-MIT dataset achieved an average balanced accuracy of 0.83 and a false-positive rate of approximately 0.1/h. The system’s performance matches, and in some cases outperforms, state-of-the-art systems that use four fixed channels in temporal regions, demonstrating the potential of two-channel wearable solutions, specifically with a non-negligible 30% reduction in the false-positive rate. …”
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Limited ilioinguinal approach for unstable pelvic fractures in children aged <3 years by C. Gonzalez-Cancino, M. Gonzalez

“…Background: Pelvic fractures in pediatric trauma account for 0.5–1 % of total hospital admissions, whereas acetabular fracture occurs at a rate of one case per 100,000 children; the low presentation rate is due to its unique characteristics. …”
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The Role of Intrinsic Factors in Explaining Range Shifts of European Breeding Birds: A Meta‐Analysis by Femke E. M. Warmer, Wessel A. vanVliet, Pim vanHooft, Anouschka R. Hof

“…However, the observed range shift patterns are idiosyncratic in rate and direction. Species traits, such as ecological, life‐history and movement traits, may play an important role in determining range shifts by influencing a species' capacity to shift successfully. …”
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Defining the cellular environment in the organ of Corti following extensive hair cell loss: a basis for future sensory cell replacement in the Cochlea. by Ruth R Taylor, Daniel J Jagger, Andrew Forge

“…The variability of the cellular environment along an individual cochlea arising from patch-like generation of flat epithelium, and the possible variability between individuals resulting from genetic influences on the rate at which remodelling occurs may pose challenges to devising the appropriate regenerative therapy for a deaf patient.…”
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Analysis of the correlation between the group-based trajectory modeling of serum osmolality and prognosis in patients with sepsis-associated encephalopathy at 72 h after admission by Wentao Wu, Chen Wang, Yuhua Zhang, Yongpeng Xie, Xiaomin Li

“…The in-hospital mortality rate at 30 days was 12.8%. Based on model-defined criteria, three distinct osmolality trajectory groups were identified: Group 1 (59.6%), Group 2 (36.4%), and Group 3 (4.0%). …”
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Readings of 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in patients with stage II arterial hypertension (HTN) receiving planned antihypertensive therapy by O. V. Nilova, S. V. Kolbasnikov

“…In addition, there was a statistically significant (ANOVA, p&lt;0.05) difference in the rate of morning BP rise, which can serve as a precursor for the development of cardiovascular events in the morning compared to the group of patients with theadjusted therapy. …”
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