A comparative study on tobacco prevalence and secondhand smoke exposure before and after the lockdown in Rizhao, China: analysis of 2022 and 2024 data by Zhao-Hui Liang, Gui-Zhi Han, Miao-Miao Liu

“…The results showed that the current smoking rate declined significantly from 32.53 to 25.84% (χ2 = 10.08, p = 0.002), with daily smoking rate also slightly decreased from 20.44 to 19.33% (χ2 = 0.36, p = 0.551). …”
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global seasonality of norovirus. by Sharia M Ahmed, Benjamin A Lopman, Karen Levy

“…Our results point to possible associations of season strength with rain in the wettest month and crude birth rate.…”
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Symmetric and asymmetric GARCH estimations of the impact of macroeconomic uncertainties on stock market dynamics in Tanzania by Michael Peter, Silas Mirau, Emmanuel Sinkwembe, Christian Kasumo, Calisto Guambe

“…Using monthly data on the Tanzania share index, inflation rate, GDP, and gold prices from February 2007 to December 2023, we examine how macroeconomic variations influence stock market volatility. …”
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Regional Gas Supply System Considered from the Standpoint of System Analysis and Regularities of its Functioning by D. R. Mоroz, N. V. Hruntovich

“…The values of correlation coefficients between the outdoor air temperature and gas flow rate according to the elements of the balance structure are calculated. …”
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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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Multi-Timescale Fault Interactions and Earthquakes: A Review by Mian Liu

“…Consequently, attention has been focused on the rate of strain accumulation on individual faults to infer their stress evolution, which, together with earthquake history, forms the basis for earthquake forecasting. …”
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Effects of Indoor Air Quality on Human Physiological Impact: A Review by Tong Nie, Guofu Zhang, Yinan Sun, Wenhao Wang, Tianai Wang, Haoyan Duan

“…Through an analysis of cardiovascular biomarkers (heart rate variability, blood pressure), respiratory parameters, and neurological indicators (electroencephalogram patterns), we identify the mechanisms linking air quality degradation to impaired physiological functioning. …”
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Type-specific human papillomavirus biological features: validated model-based estimates. by Iacopo Baussano, K Miriam Elfström, Fulvio Lazzarato, Anna Gillio-Tos, Laura De Marco, Francesca Carozzi, Francesca Carozzi, Annarosa Del Mistro, Joakim Dillner, Silvia Franceschi, Guglielmo Ronco

“…We devised a mathematical model to estimate the probability of infection transmission, the rate of clearance, and the patterns of immune response following the clearance of infection of 13 hrHPV types. …”
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Distribution analysis of rabies-transmitting animal bite cases from 2020 to 2023 in Ambon City, Maluku Province, Indonesia by Bertha Jean Que, Jerome Constantine Lekatompessy, Wendy Pelupessy

“…Results: The highest number of bite cases occurred in 2023, with 1,359 cases and an incidence rate (IR) of 3.79/1,000 residents. Nusaniwe District recorded the most cases (1,256), while Leitimur Selatan had the highest IR, peaking at 11.39/1,000 residents in 2023. …”
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Application of Multi-Scale Geological Modeling Technology in Sweet Spot Prediction of Shale Oil Reservoirs by HU Laidong, HUO Hanyong, GUAN Qianqian, TANG Caixia, TAO Ji, ZHANG Yuxuan

“…Taking the Jurassic lacustrine shale oil reservoir in Langzhong area of Sichuan basin as an example, to enhance the favorable lithofacies drilling encounter rate of horizontal wells, this study improves modeling accuracy through iterative optimization of structural models based on geological data, 3D seismic data, and horizontal well drilling insights. …”
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Evaluating Gestational Weight Gain and Its Maternal and Fetal Outcomes at Tertiary Care Hospital, Abbottabad by Wajeeha Yahya, Rabia Hammad, Halima Sadia, Takasur Bibi, Naila Khan, Mamoona Kouser, Ejaz Ahmed

“…GWG was categorized according to IOM guidelines, with outcomes measured as cesarean delivery rates and incidence of low birth weight (LBW <2500g).  …”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics and influencing factors of soil heterotrophic respiration in northeast China. by Dan Liu, Cheng Long Yu, Rui Feng, Shi Ping Yin

“…And it had a significant increasing trend at the rate of 5.75 × 108 kg/year. (2) From the spatial differentiation and spatial clustering pattern, Rh was dominated by a northeast-southwest direction, its spatial distribution center was close to the northeast geographical center, and it had no obvious contraction or expansion trend on the whole. (3) In the northern and northeastern regions of the study area, vegetation cover directly influences local soil respiration rates. …”
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Structural and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Al-Doped Zinc-Oxide Thin Films by Bong Ju Lee, Ho Jun Song, Jin Jeong

“…The charge-carrier concentrations in the films decreased from 1.69 × 1021 to 6.16 × 1017 cm−3 with increased gas flow rate from 7 to 21 sccm. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns show that the (002)/(103) peak-intensity ratio decreased as the gas flow rate increased, which was related to the increase of AZO thin film disorder. …”
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Senior high school students’ competence in logical operation and logical reasoning by Kodirun, Kadir, Busnawir, Wa Ode Indrawati

“…Students performed best on geometric problems (70.05%), followed by algebra, statistics, and calculus problems, with the lowest success rate in calculus-related logical problems (28.04%). …”
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PENGENALAN EKSPRESI RAUT WAJAH BERBASIS JARINGAN SARAF TIRUAN BACKPROPAGATION DENGAN METODE PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS by Harizahayu Harizahayu

“…Pattern recognition without using the PCA method, the level of memorization and generalization reaches 100% at the 40th iteration and 0.0099 error with a learning rate and momentum of 0.8, while facial pattern recognition using the PCA method, the memorization and generalization level reaches 100% in the iteration. to -1000 and error 0.00103 with learning rate and momentum 0.9.…”
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Mutational features of chromids and chromosomes in Pseudoalteromonas provide new insights into the evolution of secondary replicons by Wanyue Jiang, Jiao Pan, Tongtong Lin, Yaohai Wang, Yanze Wang, Rongxiao Zhang, Xiaoming Zhou, Yu Zhang

“…In addition, the context-dependence and variation pattern of the base-pair substitutions (BPSs) rates of the entire replicons exhibited differences that may be caused by the different replication directions of the chromids. …”
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Exploration of fever characteristics in parturients under continuous temperature monitoring during labor analgesia and analysis of the impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes: an... by Xia Li, Xia Li, Junli Ma

“…Additionally, the fever group had a higher rate of meconium-stained amniotic fluid (grade III), used more analgesics, and had a higher rate of antibiotic use. …”
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Methodological development study: Dynamic mask attention graph neural network for mechanical ventilation in elderly intensive care unit patients by Yi Xie, Ni Xie, Jiao Guo

“…Results The experiments showed that DymaGNN achieved an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.8363 and 0.8557 on the intubation prediction task on MIMIC-IV and eICU datasets, respectively, and maintained an AUC of 0.8115 under a 15% data missing rate. Visualization of the feature interaction graph revealed the relationship between important features such as respiratory rate and oxygen saturation. …”
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Revisiting Spatiotemporal Changes in Global Urban Expansion during 1995 to 2015 by Yang Zhang, Huiying Wang, Peng Xie, Yingxue Rao, Qingsong He

“…This study used global land-use data interpreted from remote sensing images to quantitatively analyze the spatial and temporal changes in global urban expansion over the past 20 years, as well as the source, rate of expansion, and urban growth patterns of newly added urban land (NAUL) around the world. …”
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Generating Large Time–Bandwidth Product RF-Chirped Waveforms Using Vernier Dual-Optical Frequency Combs by Mohammed S. Alshaykh

“…In this work, we propose a photonics-based large-TBWP RF chirp generator utilizing dual optical frequency combs with a small difference in the repetition rate. By employing dispersion modules for frequency-to-time mapping, we convert the spectral interferometric patterns into a temporal RF sinusoidal carrier signal whose frequency is swept through the optical shot-to-shot delay. …”
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