Factors associated with readmission after long-term administration of tolvaptan in patients with congestive heart failure by Shoko Yamashita, Miki Takenaka, Masayuki Ohbayashi, Noriko Kohyama, Tatsuya Kurihara, Tomiko Sunaga, Hisaaki Ishiguro, Mari Kogo

“…In the multivariate analysis, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <30 mL/min/1.73 m2 (odds ratio, 3.22; 95% confidence interval, 1.661–6.249; P = 0.001) was an independent significant factor. …”
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Long-term Characterization of Urban PM10 in Hungary by Zita Ferenczi, Kornélia Imre, Mónika Lakatos, Ágnes Molnár, László Bozó, Emese Homolya, András Gelencsér

“…Abstract Over urban areas in Hungary, the annual average PM10 concentrations are not frequently higher than 40 µg m–3. Despite the mitigation efforts of the local governments, the annual number of exceedances of the daily limit of 50 µg m–3 is higher than what is outlined in EU Directive No 2008/50/EC. …”
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Weak gravity conjecture validation with photon spheres of quantum corrected Reissner–Nordstrom–AdS black holes in Kiselev spacetime by Mohammad Reza Alipour, Mohammad Ali S. Afshar, Saeed Noori Gashti, Jafar Sadeghi

“…Our analysis reveals that black holes with a charge greater than their mass $$(Q > M)$$ ( Q > M ) possess photon spheres or exhibit a total topological charge of the photon sphere $$(\text {PS} = -1),$$ ( PS = - 1 ) , which upholds the WGC. …”
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Evaluation of Background Black Carbon Concentration in India by Maji Smaran, V. Vinoj

“…Our analysis reveals that the background BC over India reaches its highest during the winter season, 2.32 µg m–3 (background BC ~86%), and its lowest during the monsoon season, 0.60 µg m–3 (background BC ~79%). …”
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The relationship between vitamin E and C intake with total activity of erythrocytes and breast milk superoxide dismutase in lactating mothers by Ninik Mudjihartini, Diyah Eka Andayani, Sheira Taflah Putri Handana

“…SOD total activity in erythrocyte and breastmilk showed a median value of 423.73 U/mL and 58.34 U/mL, respectively. The correlation between vitamin E intake with total SOD activity in erythrocyte (r = 0.143 p > 0,05) and breast milk (r = 0.041, p > 0,05) was not significant. …”
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Higher risk of carotid plaque among lean individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A retrospective study. by Jiangfeng Xue, Lun Zhao, Liang Shao, Huiwang Zhang, Yewei Feng, Ping Shuai

“…<h4>Object</h4>A retrospective study, investigate the association between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and carotid plaque (CP) in lean [body mass index (BMI) <24Kg/m2] and non-lean (BMI≥24Kg/m2) populations, as well as identify the related influence factors.…”
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Comparison of OnBaseU Tests with Biomechanical Motion Analysis in Youth Baseball Pitchers by Tessa Hulburt, Taylor Catalano, Kristen F. Nicholson

“… # Methods OnBaseU screening and 3D motion capture pitching evaluations were completed for 103 adolescent pitchers (age = 15.2 ± 1.29 years; height = 1.80 ± 0.0866 m; weight = 76.2 ± 13.8 kg). A motion capture seated trunk rotation test was also conducted on 80 of the 103 youth players (age = 15.2 ± 1.32 years; height = 1.80 ± 0.0889 m; weight = 75.7 ± 13.9 kg)…”
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Modification of the telomerase gene with human regulatory sequences resets mouse telomeres to human length by Fan Zhang, De Cheng, Kenneth I. Porter, Emily A. Heck, Shuwen Wang, Hui Zhang, Christopher J. Davis, Gavin P. Robertson, Jiyue Zhu

“…To address this, we engineer a mouse strain with a humanized mTert gene (hmTert), replacing specific non-coding sequences with human counterparts. …”
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Fusion of multi-scale attention for aerial images small-target detection model based on PARE-YOLO by Huiying Zhang, Pan Xiao, Feifan Yao, Qinghua Zhang, Yifei Gong

“…Evaluation on the VisDrone2019 dataset indicates that PARE-YOLO achieves a 5.9% improvement in mean Average Precision (mAP) at a threshold of 0.5, compared to the original YOLOv8 model. …”
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Determination of Ketotifen Fumarate in Syrup Dosage Form by High Performance Liquid Chromatography by Mohammed Ali Salih, Dlivan Fattah Aziz, Salar Ibrahim Ali

“…l in 500 ml of methanol) at a flow rate of 1.5 mL/min (mobile phase A 40 %:mobile phase B 60%) at column temperature using 40 ° C, the retention time for ketotifen fumarate was 6.4±0.5 min. …”
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Energy-efficient microwave heating for rapid fabrication of porous carbon nanofibers by Haoyue Zhao, Xinyu Li, Fangqin Su, Ning Qi, Jian Fang

“…Due to the rapid internal and volumetric heating, CNFs prepared using microwave heating exhibit a larger carbon content (92.86 %) and a larger BET specific surface area (687 m2/g) than their counterparts prepared using traditional heating methods (88.49 % and 460.7 m2/g). …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE VARIATION OF THE ROUGHNESS OBTAINED DURING TURNING WITH TRANSVERSE FEED DUE TO THE MODIFICATION OF THE FUNCTIONAL GEOMETRY OF THE CUTTING TOOL by Mădălin TOMESCU, Ionela Magdalena ROTARU

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Advancing energy efficiency: thermomechanical characterization of plastic-infused concrete for sustainable building solutions by Siddique, Mohammed Javeed, Akhas, Punitha Kumar

“…This modification leads to the highest annual savings, calculated at 0.9946 $/m2 in Muscat and 0.9928 $/m2 in New Delhi, along with a marked reduction in carbon emissions—19 kg/kWh in Oman and 18.2 kg/kWh in New Delhi. …”
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Human microbiome, applied to clinical practice by V. T. Ivashkin, K. V. Ivashkin

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Cost-Benefit analysis for energy efficiency of existing hotel building by Satriopratomo Dhimas F., Padma Devia Yatnanta, Susanti Lilya

“…For the selected alternative is the hybrid of window addition at dismantled room area and insulated wall that decrease energy consumption and cost into 871,06 kWh/m2/year (12,16%) and IDR 2.346.637.473 respectively. …”
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Boosting biogas production through innovative data-driven modeling and optimization methods at NJWTP by Jingsong Duan, Guohua Cao, Guoqing Ma, Bayram Yazdani

“…Furthermore, the DBN-BOOA model identified optimal operational parameters that maximized biogas production to 31.35 m³/min, surpassing the outputs of the other models. …”
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Recent advances in applications of green nanocomposites in enhanced oil recovery: a comprehensive review of different characterization methods and effective parameters by Meysam Hemmati, Yaser Ahmadi

“…The interfacial tension is also greatly diminished according to the modifying character of NCs, so that causes a reduction in IFT of more than 33.8 mN/m. By 30–50% OOIP, the EOR techniques can produce larger volumes of oil, while nanotechnology is capable of more oil recovery up to 50–60% OOIP. …”
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Prediction of Nonunion in the Diaphyseal Segment of Long Bones in Adults Using the RUST Score and Modified RUST Score by Anupam Gupta, C Prasanna, BK DinakarRai

“…Background: The study analyzed the radiographic union score for tibia (RUST) and modified radiographic union score for tibia (mRUST), a time-based scoring system for categorizing delayed union and nonunion, to assess 3-month fracture healing in the diaphyseal segment of long bones. …”
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FastEEC: Fast evaluation of N-point energy correlators by Ankita Budhraja, Wouter J. Waalewijn

“…This implies that the energy correlator can be computed on (sub)jets, effectively reducing M. Furthermore, we utilize a dynamical (sub)jet radius that allows us to obtain reliable results without restricting the angular scales being probed. …”
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Exploring the evolution of structure growth in the universe with field-fluid interactions through dynamical stability analysis by Anirban Chatterjee, Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, Debasish Majumdar

“…The interaction is introduced by incorporating a non-zero source term into the continuity equations of the two sectors (with opposite signs), modeled as $$\bar{Q}_0 \equiv \alpha \bar{\rho }_\textrm{m}(H + \kappa \dot{\phi })$$ Q ¯ 0 ≡ α ρ ¯ m ( H + κ ϕ ˙ ) . …”
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