Sickness absence rates in NHS England staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from multivariate regression and time series modelling. by Ewan McTaggart, Itamar Megiddo, John Bowers, Adam Kleczkowski

“…We begin with a data analysis to indicate the temporal patterns of sickness absence in NHS England staff between January 2015 and September 2022 inclusive. …”
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Trends in Positive Urine Culture Rates and Antimicrobial Resistance in Non-Hospitalized Children from Western Romania: A Retrospective Observational Study by Constantin Catalin Marc, Maria Daniela Mot, Monica Licker, Delia Muntean, Daniela Teodora Marti, Ana Alexandra Ardelean, Alina Ciceu, Sergiu Adrian Sprintar, Daniela Adriana Oatis, Alin Gabriel Mihu, Tudor Rares Olariu

“…Future studies should focus on different regions and regularly update resistance patterns to keep treatment and prevention strategies aligned with local conditions.…”
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Normal Expiratory Flow Rate and Lung Volumes in Patients with Combined Emphysema and Interstitial Lung Disease: A Case Series and Literature Review by Karen L Heathcote, Donald W Cockcroft, Derek A Fladeland, Mark E Fenton

“…Pulmonary function tests in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis characteristically show a restrictive pattern including small lung volumes and increased expiratory flow rates resulting from a reduction in pulmonary compliance due to diffuse fibrosis. …”
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Urban malaria in Accra, Ghana: transmission risk and influence of irrigated vegetable farms by Abdul Rahim Mohammed Sabtiu, Isaac Kwame Sraku, Christopher Mfum Owusu-Asenso, Yaw Akuamoah-Boateng, Richard Tettey Doe, Emmanuel Nana Boadu, Judith Dzifa Azumah, Nana Aba Setorwu Eyeson, Anisa Abdulai, Godfred Amoateng, Simon Kwaku Attah, Fred Aboagye-Antwi, Yaw Asare Afrane

“…Tuba, an urban irrigated site, had the highest sporozoite infectivity (6.41%, 10/156), with higher indoor (6.82%, 6/88) than outdoor (5.88%, 4/68) rate. This study showed that irrigated urban Agriculture drives urban malaria transmission in Accra, with high human bloodmeal indices and sporozoite infectivity, especially indoors. …”
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Robot assisted sentinel lymph node biopsy using indocyanine green combined with carbon nanoparticles staining improved detection rates in breast cancer by Qinbo Wang, Qingyu Yang, Zuxiao Chen, Zongyan Li, Xiaoyan Fu, Yunxiang Luo, Yonghai Guo, Haiyan Li

“…Notably, CNSI staining was negative in two cases within the ICG + CNSI group, while one patient exhibited a false-negative staining pattern. Five instances of effusion and one case involving bleeding were reported; no significant differences emerged concerning postoperative complications, including breast drainage or hospital stay length, significant differences arose within numerical pain rating scale scores when comparing robot-assisted SLN biopsy positive versus negative groups (p = 0.021 < 0.05). …”
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Mathematical analysis of scrub typhus seasonal infection with re-scaled transmission rate considering Northeast India reported data from 2010 to 2022 by Biplab Dhar, Mohammad Sajid

“…We propose a Host-Vector model, a first of its kind, with a significant modification in the disease infection transmission rate. Our work aims to investigate a mathematical model by Atangana-Baleanu fractal-fractional operator that has seasonal pattern incorporating 2010–2022 data. …”
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EEG–fNIRS signal integration for motor imagery classification using deep learning and evidence theory by Mohammed E. Seno, Niladri Maiti, Maulik Patel, Mihirkumar M. Patel, Kalpesh B. Chaudhary, Ashish Pasaya, Babacar Toure

“…For EEG signals, spatiotemporal features are extracted using dual-scale temporal convolution and depthwise separable convolution, and a hybrid attention module is introduced to enhance the network's sensitivity to salient neural patterns. For fNIRS signals, spatial convolution across all channels is employed to explore activation differences among brain regions, and parallel temporal convolution combined with a gated recurrent unit (GRU) captures richer temporal dynamics of the hemodynamic response. …”
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Short Text Classification Based on Enhanced Word Embedding and Hybrid Neural Networks by Cunhe Li, Zian Xie, Haotian Wang

“…Furthermore, we propose a dual-channel hybrid model based on a Gated Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM), which jointly captures local features and long-range global dependencies. …”
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Antibiotic Resistance Rate among Bacterial Pathogens Isolated from Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid at a Tertiary Care Center in Western Uttar Pradesh, India by Sachin K Sharma1*, Saheli Bhadra1, Tarana Sarwat1, Dalip K Kakru1

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How cluster B-related personality traits in mothers shape their ratings of their adolescents’ personality: a multisource approach using the Trait-Reputation-Identity model by R. Franssens, M. C. Gouwy, J. Vergauwe, B. De Clercq

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Identification of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using Parent-teacher Administered ADHD Rating Scale-IV among Pre-school Children of Belagavi City by Deepa C. Metgud, Vinanti Sanjay Makasare

“…Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental disorder with a persistent pattern of distractibility, hyperactivity, restlessness, and other disturbances of executive function. …”
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Survival rate of indirectly bonded brackets using single vs. two-component orthodontic adhesive: A 12-month split-mouth clinical trial by Federica Pellitteri, Francesca Cremonini, Marco Bellavia, Mario Palone, Luca Lombardo

“…Objective: Compare the bonding survival rate of two distinct bonding materials: Ortho Solo + Gradia LoFlo Resin and single component GC Ortho Connect. …”
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On a microdemographic framework for decomposing contemporary fertility dynamics by Stephen J. Shaw

“…Abstract The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) obscures key components of fertility dynamics, leading to a calculated 49% information loss and a substantive 0·385 reduction in Adjusted R² compared to its decomposed components: the Total Maternal Rate (TMR) and Children per Mother (CPM), formalized in this study, where TFR = TMR × CPM. …”
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THE ANALYSIS OF THE PREVALENCE OF PROSTATE CANCER IN THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN FOR THE LONG PERIOD OF OBSERVATION by I. R. Rakhmatullina

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Numerical Analysis of Conditions for Partial Discharge Inception in Spherical Gaseous Voids in XLPE Insulation of AC Cables at Rated Voltage and During AC, VLF and DAC Tests by Paweł Mikrut, Paweł Zydroń

“…Using COMSOL 6.1 and MATLAB R2021b, a coupled electro-thermal model of a 110 kV AC cable was implemented, for which the critical gaseous void dimensions were estimated and phase-resolved PD patterns were generated for the rated voltage and the VLF and DAC test voltages specified in the relevant standards. …”
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Rates and causes of mortality among children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities in Scotland: a record linkage cohort study of 796 190 school children by Angela Henderson, Sally-Ann Cooper, Deborah Kinnear, Craig Melville, J P Pell, Michael Fleming, Gillian S Smith

“…Objectives To investigate mortality rates and causes in children and young people with intellectual disabilities.Design Retrospective cohort; individual record linkage between Scotland’s annual pupil census and National Records of Scotland death register.Setting General community.Participants Pupils receiving local authority-funded schooling in Scotland, 2008 to 2013, with an Additional Support Need due to intellectual disabilities, compared with other pupils.Main outcome measures Deaths up to 2015: age of death, age-standardised mortality ratios (age-SMRs); causes of death including cause-specific age-SMRs; avoidable deaths as defined by the UK Office of National Statistics.Results 18 278/947 922 (1.9%) pupils had intellectual disabilities. 106 died over 67 342 person-years (crude mortality rate=157/100 000 person-years), compared with 458 controls over 3 672 224 person-years (crude mortality rate=12/100 000 person-years). …”
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The Reliability of Diagnosing Schizophrenia Using the GRU Layer in Conjunction with EEG Rhythms by Pankaj Kumar Sahu, Karan Jain

“…The proposed study demonstrates the applicability of alpha-EEG rhythm in a Gated-Recurrent-Unit-based deep learning model for studying schizophrenia. …”
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Geomorphic constraints on differential surface uplift across the Dien Bien Phu Fault, northwestern Vietnam, and its implications on crustal dynamics in the southeastern Tibetan Pla... by Thi-Hue Dinh, Chih-Tung Chen, Yu-Chang Chan

“…This study offers, for the first time, new constraints on surface uplift pattern across the fault based on quantitative tectonic geomorphology analyses (normalized steepness index, and erosion rate from fluvial shear stress) combined with mapping of river terraces. …”
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High-speed threat detection in 5G SDN with particle swarm optimizer integrated GRU-driven generative adversarial network by R. Shameli, Sujatha Rajkumar

“…The DL model integrates the Particle Swarm Optimizer-Gated Recurrent Unit Layer-Generative Adversarial Network-Intrusion Detection System classifier (PSO-GRUGAN-IDS). …”
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A hybrid deep learning model EfficientNet with GRU for breast cancer detection from histopathology images by M. Pradeepa, B. Sharmila, M. Nirmala

“…A hybrid deep learning model is proposed, integrating EfficientNetV2 for multi-scale feature extraction with a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) enhanced by an attention mechanism to model sequential dependencies. …”
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