Core Outcome Set development for LEPtospirosis trials (COS-LEP): a study protocol to develop a core outcome set for the evaluation of clinical therapeutic interventions for human l... by Nathaniel Lee, Chris Smith, Robin Bailey, Koya Ariyoshi, Sarah Smith, Nick Black, Tansy Edwards

“…This will not only be a key feature in the design of a future definitive randomized controlled trial, but also provide a structure for clinicians and researchers collecting treatment cohort data in the various settings where leptospirosis is a public health issue.…”
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Decile-based index drought insurance to help improve income stability for wheat producers in Australia by Jonathan Barratt, Jarrod Kath, Brian Collins, Shahbaz Mushtaq, Duc-Anh An-Vo

“…The impact of drought on farm income was assessed, and the effectiveness of the proposed insurance structure was evaluated in terms of income stability and financial utility. …”
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A distributed hybrid physics–AI framework for learning corrections of internal hydrological fluxes and enhancing high-resolution regionalized flood modeling by N. N. T. Huynh, P.-A. Garambois, B. Renard, F. Colleoni, J. Monnier, H. Roux

“…The first dataset involves 235 catchments in France, used for local calibration–validation and model structure comparisons between the classical Génie Rural (GR)-like model and the hybrid approach. …”
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Identification and characterization of native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plants growing under organic and conventional farming conditions in Oman by Ali Al-Hinai, Rhonda Janke, Ewald Sieverding, Muhammad Farooq, Daniel Menezes-Blackburn

“…Although arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are widespread in both natural and agricultural environments, their biodiversity and community structure are not well understood. This is particularly true for the influences of different farming practices on their taxonomic distribution. …”
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Adverse Effects of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs in Pediatrics: Case Series According to the Doctor Reports in Republic of Crimea through 2010 to 2018 by Alexandr V. Matveev, Anatoly E. Krasheninnikov, Elena A. Egorova, Elena I. Konyaeva, Ksenia N. Koryanova

“…Meanwhile, the monitoring of adverse effects (AEs) of this drug class and analysis of AEs structure in pediatrics is essential. Our aim was to study AEs related to NSAIDs in children. …”
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Tourism disaster management dilemmas: Insights from Mandalika, Indonesia by Roni Ekha Putera, Aqil Teguh Fathani, Sari Lenggogeni, Asrinaldi

“…The results show that the tourism disaster management (TDM) situation in Mandalika faces a complex dilemma because the governance structure is centralized in the national tourism authority, thus limiting the role of the community and local authorities. …”
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The Role of Pulmonary Genetic Variations in the Pathogenesis of Pediatric Postinfectious Bronchiolitis Obliterans by Sedef Narin Tongal, Gülsüm Kayhan, Özge Yılmaz, Merve Öçalan, Hasan Yüksel

“…In all but one, a wide range of variations genes related to both pulmonary structure and function were identified. The genes identified included those related to primary ciliary dyskinesia (DNAH genes), surfactant metabolism disorder (ABCA3, CSF2RB), pulmonary fibrosis (MUC5B, SFTP), and bronchiectasis (SCNN1B). …”
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Lossy DICOM conversion may affect AI performance by Robin Sebastian Mayer, Fabian Fliedner, Ingvild Frøberg Mathisen, Anna Laib, Julia Bein, Marco Eichelberg, Peter J. Wild, Nadine Flinner

“…After conversion no human perceptible differences were present between the images, nevertheless they were not identical and had structure similarity indices (SSIM) of ~ 0.85 to ~ 0.96 on average, while the vendor specific converter in general achieved higher values. …”
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Geomorphological and Geological Characteristics Slope Unit: Advancing Township-Scale Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Strategies by Gang Chen, Taorui Zeng, Dongsheng Liu, Hao Chen, Linfeng Wang, Liping Wang, Kaiqiang Zhang, Thomas Glade

“…This is accomplished by integrating geomorphological features, such as slope gradient and aspect, with geological features, including lithology, slope structure types, and disaster categories, to develop a process for extracting slope units based on both geomorphological and geological characteristics. …”
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An efficient parallel runoff forecasting model for capturing global and local feature information by Yang-hao Hong, Dong-mei Xu, Wen-chuan Wang, Hong-fei Zang, Xiao-xue Hu, Yan-wei Zhao

“…It constructs a multi-feature set in a “sequence-to-sequence” manner and employs a parallel structure of an Encoder and BiGRU (Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit) to simultaneously capture changes in both local, adjacent features and global characteristics, ensuring comprehensive attention to the sequence features. …”
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Coherent DOA Estimation of Multi-Beam Frequency Beam-Scanning LWAs Based on Maximum Likelihood Algorithm by Yifan Yang, Rihui Zeng, Qingqing Zhu, Weijin Fang, Biyun Ma, Yide Wang

“…Moreover, due to the nonlinear frequency response of the FBS-LWA, its response matrix does not satisfy the Vandermonde structure, which renders common rank-recovery techniques ineffective for processing coherent signals. …”
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Evaluation of the signals of the comfort of keeping dairy cows in the conditions of an industrial dairy complex by S. O. Sidashova, B. V. Gutyj, N. V. Magrelo, T. V. Martyshuk, I. V. Dvylyuk, H. V. Sus, U. M. Vus, V. B. Todoriuk

“…It is worth noting that some of the cows that did not rest lying down in an individual stall but stood in it in an unnatural position with a decision – upper limbs above the rear ones, which remained in the passage, was a signal of the cows' discomfort with the equipment or the structure of the box and the unwillingness of the cow in stay in it The results of our research, in contrast to literature data, showed a reliable influence of observing the order and mode of distribution of feed mixture on the behavior of cows in the time between milkings. …”
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An Over-the-Air Multi-User Convolutional Code for URLLC by Rafael Santos, Daniel Castanheira, Adao Silva, Atilio Gameiro

“…This scheme can be viewed as a non-orthogonal multiple access scheme, whose structure enables ML joint detection and decoding with the complexity of standard Viterbi algorithm.…”
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Analysis of Horizontal Wind Field Regional Difference within Boundary Layer in Chengdu West Mountainous Area and Plain Transition Area Based on Wind Profile Radar by CAO Yang, ZHAO Xiaoli, SU Debin, CHENG Xiang

“…The wind profile radar data observed from the western mountainous and eastern plain areas of Chengdu from 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2022 are used to analyse the regional differences in the vertical structure and daily variation trend of the boundary layer wind field. …”
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A study of the impact of technological innovation in food production on the resilience of the food industry by Wei Wang, Zhuoying Fu, Chongxu Liu, Jinghan Ding, Jiaxi Zheng, Chongmei Zhang, Haiyu Li

“…Based on the provincial panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2022, this study constructed an evaluation system for the resilience of the food industry. …”
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Study on Detection Method of Sulfamethazine Residues in Duck Blood Based on Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy by Junshi Huang, Runhua Zhou, Jinlong Lin, Qi Chen, Ping Liu, Shuanggen Huang, Jinhui Zhao

“…Density functional theory (DFT) was employed to optimize the molecular structure of SM2 and perform theoretical Raman vibrational analysis, thereby identifying its characteristic peaks. …”
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COVID-19 Diagnosis Using Spectral and Statistical Analysis of Cough Recordings Based on the Combination of SVD and DWT by Thabit Sultan Mohammed, Awni Ismail Sultan, Khattab M. Ali Alheeti, Karim Mohammed Aljebory, Hasan Ismail Sultan, Muzhir Shaban Al-Ani

“…Mean and median frequencies, which are known to be the most useful features in the frequency domain, are applied to generate an effective statistical measure to compare the results. The hybrid structure of DWT and SVD, adopted in this approach adds to its efficiency, where a 200 times reduction, in terms of the number of operations, is achieved. …”
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Molecular cloning and functional characterization of the shikimate kinase gene from Baphicacanthus cusia by Yuxiang Huang, Yuxiang Huang, Yuxiang Huang, Hexin Tan, Qing Li, Xunxun Wu, Zhiying Guo, Zhiying Guo, Junfeng Chen, Lei Zhang, Yong Diao

“…The exon-intron structure of BcSK consists of four exons and three introns. …”
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An integrated empirical and computational study to decipher help-seeking behaviors and vocal stigma by Aaron R. Glick, Colin Jones, Lisa Martignetti, Lisa Blanchette, Theresa Tova, Allen Henderson, Marc D. Pell, Nicole Y. K. Li-Jessen

“…Network analysis was performed to evaluate the effect of social network structure on the flow of IMB among virtual agents. …”
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MEDICO-GEOGRAPHICAL ASSESSMENT ECOLOGICAL-DEPENDENT INCIDENCE OF ADOLESCENT AND CHILD POPULATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF DAGESTAN by A. G. Gasangadzhieva, P. I. Gabibova, M. G. Daudova, S. N Mirzoeva

“…This study was conducted with the use of modern epidemiologi-statistical methods of analysis of medico-geographical data, therefore, the reliability and the level of expected results is not in doubt. …”
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