Intelligent Prediction of Lost Circulation and Gas Invasion in Cementing Operations Based on ACO-SWXGBoost by Wei Ji, Mengyuan Xiong, Shuangjin Zheng

“…The model extracts both raw features and slope-based variations of key parameters—flow rate, pressure, and density—to enhance representation, incorporates a sliding window and time decay mechanism to capture dynamic patterns, and leverages ACO to optimize hyperparameters for improved predictive performance. …”
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Statistical Analysis of a Generalized Variant of the Weibull Model Under Unified Hybrid Censoring with Applications to Cancer Data by Mazen Nassar, Refah Alotaibi, Ahmed Elshahhat

“…Characterized by one scale parameter and two shape parameters, the proposed model offers enhanced flexibility for modeling diverse lifetime data patterns and hazard rate behaviors. Notably, its hazard rate function can exhibit five distinct shapes, including upside-down bathtub and bathtub shapes. …”
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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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Inter-cluster and intra-cluster flow distribution and proppant allocation in deep coalbed methane orientation fracturing by Ruiyue YANG, Yiwen LIU, Yu LI, Mengmeng ZHOU, Yanjin GONG, Zhongwei HUANG

“…The study examines the characteristics of inter-cluster and intra-cluster flow distribution and proppant distribution under different orientation perforating patterns, flow rates, sand ratios, cluster numbers within one stage, and graded proppant injection. …”
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Genomic-based genotype and drug susceptibility profile of Mycobacterium kansasii in China by Yiting Wang, Yiting Wang, Xichao Ou, Bing Zhao, Hui Xia, Yang Zheng, Yang Zhou, Ruida Xing, Yuanyuan Song, Shengfen Wang, Yanlin Zhao, Huiwen Zheng

“…Rifabutin and clarithromycin were the most highly active against M. kansasii strains, with the susceptible rate of 100 and 99.35%, respectively. Followed by amikacin and linezolid, the resistance rate was 5.88 and 7.19%, respectively. …”
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Mapping the global burden of early-onset Parkinson’s disease: socioeconomic and regional inequalities from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Xinyu Li, Jingpei Zhou, Wanqing Peng, Renhui Zhao, Quan Sun, Zhijuan Liu, Yanning Liu, Ziyuan Li, Ziting Huang, Yihui Zhang, Shuqiao Zhang, Xubo Hong, Zhenhu Chen, Jun Lyu, Jun Lyu, Nanbu Wang

“…Countries with higher SDI levels, particularly China, Bolivia, and Peru, bore the greatest burden. Socioeconomic patterns suggested high-middle SDI regions experienced the highest rates of incidence and prevalence, whereas middle-SDI regions showed the highest rates of disability and mortality. …”
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Comparative analysis of antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium and its monophasic variant in food and clinical patients in He’nan Province from 2015 to... by WU Lingling, QIU Zhengyong, LI Yongli, LIAO Xingguang, HAN Zhiwei, ZHANG Xiuli

“…The resistance rate of S. typhimurium to cefazolin was significantly higher than that of monophasic S. typhimurium （P<0.05）. …”
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An Epidemiological and Multidrug Resistance Study for E. coli Isolated from Urinary Tract Infection (Three Years of Study) by Mahde S. Assafi, Fawwaz F. Ali, Reem Fouad Polis, Nisreen Jawad Sabaly, Sozan Muhsin Qarani

“…The uropathogenic E. coli rate was higher, statistically not significant, in females (21.4%) than males (18.5%) (P=0.4946). …”
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal trajectory analyses of sleep duration and frailty among middle-aged and older Chinese adults by Wei Zheng, Yan Sun, Xianling Liu, Miao Lu, Di Xu

“…Conversely, the initial level of frailty significantly negatively predicted the initial level of sleep duration (β = − 0.36, P < 0.001), and the rate of change in frailty negatively predicted the rate of change in sleep duration (β = − 0.71, P < 0.001). …”
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A Dual-Strategy Framework for Cyber Threat Detection in Imbalanced, High-Dimensional Data Across Heterogeneous Networks by T. Saranya, S. Indra Priyadharshini

“…The proposed IDS is evaluated using metrics that specifically evaluate anomaly detection capabilities, such as Accuracy, Precision, DR (Detection Rate), Specificity, MR (Miss Rate), FAR (False Alarm Rate), F1-Score, Cohen&#x2019;s Kappa, MCC, ROC-AUC. …”
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Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Shoreline Changes and Reclamation in the Qinzhou Bay and the Manila Bay by Zhang Wenliang, Guo Junli, Liu Zhuocheng, Shi Lianqiang, Gong Zhaohui, Zhang Daheng

“…The results show that in the past 40 years, the coastline of Qinzhou Bay has generally advanced towards the sea, with a coastline length increase of 44.78 km, an average End Point Rate(EPR)of 6.81 m/a, and average Linear Regression Rate(LRR)of 6.16 m/a. …”
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Feasibility and diagnostic performance of sentinel node biopsy for staging cN0 oral squamous cell carcinoma in a previously treated neck by Therese Mørch, Jesper F. Tvedskov, Irene Wessel, Birgitte W. Charabi, Kathrine K. Jakobsen, Christian Grønhøj, Katalin Kiss, Giedrius Lelkaitis, Jann Mortensen, Andreas Kjaer, Christian vonBuchwald, Anders Christensen

“…Feasibility was assessed by the rate of successfully performed SNB neck staging procedures. …”
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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

“…Summary: Background: Mental disorders are associated with elevated cause-specific mortality rates; however, the role of socioeconomic position (SEP) on these associations remains unclear. …”
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The contribution of a short electrocardiographic diastolic interval to diastolic dysfunction and HFpEF by A. M. L. N. van Ommen, L. R. Bear, C. Carlos Sampedrano, N. C. Onland-Moret, M. J. Cramer, F. H. Rutten, E. Dal Canto, I. I. Tulevski, G. A. Somsen, N. K. Sweitzer, R. Coronel, H. M. den Ruijter

“…In the subgroup with “delayed relaxation”, beta-blocker use was associated with a significantly lower risk of death, which was not observed in those with “stiff” ventricles showing pseudonormalization or restrictive inflow patterns. Findings were independent of heart rate, and not exclusive to women. …”
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Tuberculosis disease burden in China: a spatio-temporal clustering and prediction study by Jingzhe Guo, Ce Liu, Fang Liu, Erkai Zhou, Runxue Ma, Ling Zhang, Bin Luo

“…The regions with relatively large percentage decreases in the mortality rate of PTB include Tianjin (−52.25%) and Shanghai (−68.30%). …”
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The Long-term Variations and Influencing Factors of Soil Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity in Terraces on the Loess Plateau by PENG Xin, NI Lingshan, JI Keyan, DAI Wei, WANG Zhuoxiao, CHANG Heng, FANG Nufang

“…The Ks of farmland increased continuously with construction age of 7, 20, 30 and 40 years, increasing from 0.18 mm/min to 0.28 mm/min, with a growth rate of 55.56%. The Ks of orchard increased with the increase of construction years firstly, then showed a decreasing trend after 30 years, and the Ks of orchard with a construction age of 30 years was significantly higher than that of orchard with a construction age of 7 years, increasing from 0.12 mm/min to 0.35 mm/min, with a growth rate of 191.67%. …”
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Machine learning-optimized dual-band wearable antenna for real-time remote patient monitoring in biomedical IoT systems by Umar Musa, Amor Smida, Muhammad S. Yahya, Mohamed I. Waly, Jun Jiat Tiang, Nazih Khaddaj Mallat, Surajo Muhammad, Abubakar Salisu

“…The heart rate ranged from 65 to 99 BPM, and the body temperature ranged from 30 to 37 °C. …”
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Analysing Time Series of Land Subsidence in the West of Tehran Province (Shahriar Plain) and its Relation to Groundwater Discharge by InSAR Technique by Ramin Papi, ُSara Attarchi, Masoud Soleimani

“…The mean velocity of deformation along the satellite line of sight (LOS) in the time period of study, shows the displacement at an average rate of -10 cm / year and a maximum rate of -27 cm / year in the Shahriar plain in the west of Tehran province. …”
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A Frequency-Aware Transformer for Multiscale Fault Diagnosis in Electrical Machines by Yurim Choi, Inwhee Joe

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves 99.9% diagnostic accuracy by maintaining an exceptionally low false alarm rate and missed detection rate, thereby ensuring high reliability. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics of acute viral and mycoplasma respiratory infections in Yongzhou, China: a retrospective descriptive study by Ying Jiang, Ying Jiang, Junyan Lu, Junyan Lu, Zhengrong Tan, Zhengrong Tan, Hanmei Wan, Hanmei Wan, Min Tang, Min Tang, Jiani Li, Jiani Li, Tao Zhou, Tao Zhou, Wenlong Tang, Wenlong Tang

“…Significant seasonal variations were observed, with winter showing the highest pathogen detection rates (49.04%, p &lt; 0.001), and seasonal patterns changed notably during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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