Acoustic exposure reveals variation in curtailment effectiveness at reducing bat fatality at wind turbines by Trevor Peterson, Adam Rusk, Caroline Byrne, Seta Aghababian, Sydney Edwards

“…Site‐specific data from turbine‐mounted acoustic detectors could therefore provide more sensitive feedback on curtailment effectiveness than carcass searches, which cannot typically detect differences in fatality rates among curtailment strategies with similar cut‐in speeds. …”
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Fifty Years of Climate Change Studies: A Scientometric Assessment by Sulaimon Oyeniyi Adebayo, Hardeep Singh, Supreet Kaur, Himanshi Sharma, Jai Sharma, Karman Singh Sethi

“…The results highlight an average annual growth rate of 14.3%, with over 69% of the total publications produced in the last decade (2012-2021). …”
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Identification and expression analysis of cinnamyl CoA reductase gene family and function of StCCR6 in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) by Chong Du, Yunzhu Che, Zengli Zhang, Fumeng He, Xinqi Zhang, Yujie Han, Zelin Yang, Jiaqi Wang, Tianshuai Qi, Ying Lan, Yingnan Wang, Fenglan Li

“…Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase (CCR), a key rate-limiting enzyme in plant lignin biosynthesis, critically regulates plant growth, development, and abiotic stress responses. …”
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Filling characteristics of grout diffusion zone in fractured rock mass and its influence mechanism on rock mass strength by Ermeng ZHANG, Lang LIU, Yanchun XU, Yu FEI, Jishi GENG, Yabing LIN

“…A systematic research approach was established to investigate the correlation between slurry filling patterns and the strength of the reformed rock mass. …”
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Cross-sectional examination of characteristics of higher-dose buprenorphine prescriptions during the era of illicit fentanyl by Bradley D. Stein, Flora Sheng, Brendan K. Saloner, Adam J. Gordon, Jessica S. Merlin

“…Methods We used IQVIA data to conduct a cross-sectional study of opioid use disorder-indicated buprenorphine prescriptions dispensed at retail pharmacies January 2019 - December 2020; categorized prescriptions as ≤ 16mg, > 16 to 24 mg, and > 24 mg daily dose; and examined overall rates and rates by patient, insurer and county characteristics, and prescriber specialty. …”
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Impact of clay coating on sandstone reservoir quality: A multiphase-field investigation by numerical simulation by Akash KUMAR, Michael SPÄTH, Nishant PRAJAPATI, Benjamin BUSCH, Daniel SCHNEIDER, Christoph HILGERS, Britta NESTLER

“…Such parameters include the growth of exposed pyramidal faces, lateral encasement, coating coverage, and coating pattern, etc. The coating pattern has a remarkable impact on cementation, with the layered coatings corresponding to fast cement growth rates. …”
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A two-stage model for enhanced mango leaf disease detection using an innovative handcrafted spatial feature extraction method and knowledge distillation process by Mohammad Manzurul Islam, Mst. Nasrat Jahan Niva, Abdullahi Chowdhury, Saleh Masum, Rifat Ara Shams, Taskeed Jabid, Md. Sawkat Ali, Md. Mostofa Kamal Rasel, Muhammad Firoz Mridha

“…In the first stage, we implement an innovative, block-based feature extraction technique using Local Directional Patterns (LDP) and Local Directional Pattern variance (LDPv) on a comprehensive dataset, MangoLeafBD, consisting of 4000 images, achieving satisfactory results in terms of detection accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and false negative rate. …”
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Influence of Land-Use and Landcover on the Nest Distribution and Breeding Success of Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica Regulorum) In Kiyanja- Kaku Wetland Ecosystem. by Tayebwa, Gilbert

“…The overall breeding success rate was 0.84, with 47.4% of nests successfully hatching all chicks. …”
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Differential Cortical Responses of Functional and Sensory Electrical Stimulation in Closed-Loop Tremor Suppression for Parkinson’s Disease by Xiaoqi Zhao, Tinglan Huang, Mengyue Jin, Hongbo Zhao, Yu Shi, Yanlin Wang, Xiao Shen, Zhen Li, Qingqing Shi, Xiaodong Zhu, Lin Meng

“…Both FES and SES significantly reduced tremor amplitude, with FES showing overall greater suppression (hand suppression rate: 60.72% vs. 48.31%, p >0.05; forearm suppression rate: 62.25% vs. 54.41%, p >0.05) where substantial inter-individual variability was observed. …”
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Timing of Surgery and Preoperative Predictors of Surgical Site Infections for Patients with Depressed Skull Fractures in a Sub-Saharan Tertiary Hospital: A Prospective Cohort Study by Hervé Monka Lekuya, Jelle Vandersteene, Larrey Kasereka Kamabu, Rose Nantambi, Ronald Mbiine, Anthony Kirabira, Fredrick Makumbi, Stephen Cose, David Patrick Kateete, Mark Kaddumukasa, Edward Baert, Moses Galukande, Jean-Pierre Okito Kalala

“…The outcome variables were the incidence risk of SSI, types of SSI, microbial culture patterns of wound isolates, and hospital length of stay. …”
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Clinicopathological characterization of Switch/Sucrose-non-fermentable (Swi/Snf) complex (ARID1A, SMARCA2, SMARCA4)-deficient endocervical adenocarcinoma by Chao Cao, Zi-Yun Wu, Wei Liao, Li-Jun Wei, Hao-Yu Liang, Xia Yang, Rong-Zhen Luo, Li-Li Liu

“…Defining Swi/Snf deficiency as loss of any subunit, the overall deficiency rate was 5.96% (36/604). Swi/Snf-deficient ECA tended to advanced FIGO stage (III-IV, P = 0.041), larger tumor size (P < 0.001), deeper stromal invasion (≥ 1/3, P = 0.046), and higher lymph node metastasis rate (P = 0.037). …”
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Annual dialysis data report 2022, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) Renal Data Registry by Norio Hanafusa, Masanori Abe, Nobuhiko Joki, Junichi Hoshino, Masatomo Taniguchi, Kan Kikuchi, Takeshi Hasegawa, Shunsuke Goto, Tetsuya Ogawa, Eiichiro Kanda, Shigeru Nakai, Toshihide Naganuma, Kenichiro Miura, Atsushi Wada, Yoshiaki Takemoto

“…The number of chronic dialysis patients was 347,474 at the end of 2022, marking the first decrease since the beginning of this survey. The prevalence rate of dialysis patients was 2781 per million population. …”
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Cause-specific mortality in individuals with and without mental disorders according to socioeconomic position: a population-based cohort studyResearch in context by Danni Chen, Linda Ejlskov, Julie Werenberg Dreier, Natalie C. Momen, Lisbeth Mølgaard Laustsen, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Jayati Das-Munshi, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll

“…We estimated mortality rate ratios (MRRs) and rate differences (MRDs) with Poisson regression models. …”
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Trends in Antihypertensive Drug Use and Irrational Prescriptions Among Elderly Patients in China (2016&amp;ndash;2023): A Nationwide Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Hong D, Chen W, Du S, Ren J, Lv D, Shan W, Lu X, Zhao Q

“…The overall proportion of first-line antihypertensive prescriptions was 97.47% but showed a slight declining trend (APC=− 0.66%, P=0.004). The rates of inappropriate combination medication and overall irrational prescriptions decreased, while the rate of contraindicated medication prescriptions increased (P&lt; 0.001). …”
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Real-world effectiveness of post-trastuzumab emtansine treatment for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer: a multicenter, matched cohort analy... by C. Courtinard, V. Barbet, R. Schiappa, F. Pilleul, S. Michiels, S. Dabakuyo, S. Gourgou, A. Jaffre, B. Asselain, L. Bosquet, K. Dunton, M. Rosenlund, Z. Liang, J. Cathcart, S. Delaloge

“…Patients and methods: Patients from the French Epidemiology Strategy and Medical Economics (ESME) mBC database who initiated treatment for HER2+ mBC between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2016, and received one or more treatment lines following T-DM1 were propensity score matched 1 : 1 to patients from DESTINY-Breast01 to create an ESME DB-01 matched cohort. Treatment patterns, real-world best overall response, real-world objective response rate (rwORR), real-world disease control rate (rwDCR), real-world progression-free survival (rwPFS), and overall survival (OS) were estimated, including by prior pertuzumab exposure and de novo/relapsed mBC status. …”
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Ecological drivers of nesting behavior in a subtropical city: An observational study on spotted doves by Yao Sheng, Mengjie Lu, Junpeng Bai, Xiaobin Xie, Long Ma, Wanyou Li, Zhen Zhang, Fang Ming, Xueli Zhang, Ziwei Zhang, Zhifeng Xu, Yuqing Han, Bicai Guan, Luzhang Ruan

“…The results revealed that the nest reuse rate was 38.08% (n = 115). Nests closer to trunk, with lower nest position and higher large‐scale urbanization score tended to have higher reuse rate. …”
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Sensitization to inhaled and food allergen sources in patients with allergic diseases in Eastern China by Zhibang Hu, Zhibang Hu, Chunhui Wang, Jianrong Xue, Shiyu Yang, Yongzheng Bao, Yunhui Wu, Xiaoju Hou, Yishake Kaiseer, Jing Ma

“…The highest sIgE-positive rate for inhaled allergen sources was observed in the 11–15 years group, and the positive rates of sIgE for food allergen sources decreased with advancing age. …”
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Global burden of tuberculosis among adults aged 60 years and older, 1990-2021: Findings from the global burden of disease study 2021 by Junping Liu, Yue Zhou, Juan Guan, Yaping Liu, Weijian Song, Wei Liu, Xinle Yin, Yuqin Liu, Ting Li, Long Jin, Lihan Zhang, Yunkai Li, Lin Wu, Nan Wang, Zhaoyue Liu, Xinru Liu, Yanfu Wang, Qunhong Wu, Libo Liang

“…Results: A decreasing trend in age-standardized incidence rate, age-standardized mortality rate, and disability-adjusted life-years rates for TB and drug-susceptible TB was observed among the elderly population worldwide, whereas an upward trend was noted for MDR-TB and XDR-TB. …”
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Benefits of aldosterone receptor antagonism in chronic kidney disease: the BARACK-D RCT by F D Richard Hobbs, Richard McManus, Clare Taylor, Nicholas Jones, Joy Rahman, Jane Wolstenholme, Louise Jones, Jennifer Hirst, Sam Mort, Ly-Mee Yu

“…These higher rates of negative renal change reduced in scale over the study but did not equalise between arms. …”
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Age-related cognitive decline and associations with sex, education and apolipoprotein E genotype across ethnocultural groups and geographic regions: a collaborative cohort study. by Darren M Lipnicki, John D Crawford, Rajib Dutta, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Nicole A Kochan, Gavin Andrews, M Fernanda Lima-Costa, Erico Castro-Costa, Carol Brayne, Fiona E Matthews, Blossom C M Stephan, Richard B Lipton, Mindy J Katz, Karen Ritchie, Jacqueline Scali, Marie-Laure Ancelin, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Mary Yannakoulia, Efthimios Dardiotis, Linda C W Lam, Candy H Y Wong, Ada W T Fung, Antonio Guaita, Roberta Vaccaro, Annalisa Davin, Ki Woong Kim, Ji Won Han, Tae Hui Kim, Kaarin J Anstey, Nicolas Cherbuin, Peter Butterworth, Marcia Scazufca, Shuzo Kumagai, Sanmei Chen, Kenji Narazaki, Tze Pin Ng, Qi Gao, Simone Reppermund, Henry Brodaty, Antonio Lobo, Raúl Lopez-Anton, Javier Santabárbara, Perminder S Sachdev, Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium (COSMIC)

“…<h4>Background</h4>The prevalence of dementia varies around the world, potentially contributed to by international differences in rates of age-related cognitive decline. Our primary goal was to investigate how rates of age-related decline in cognitive test performance varied among international cohort studies of cognitive aging. …”
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