Additive effect of anemia and renal impairment on long-term outcome after percutaneous coronary intervention. by Thomas Pilgrim, Martina Rothenbühler, Bindu Kalesan, Cédric Pulver, Giulio G Stefanini, Thomas Zanchin, Lorenz Räber, Stefan Stortecky, Simon Jung, Heinrich Mattle, Aris Moschovitis, Peter Wenaweser, Bernhard Meier, Thomas Gsponer, Stephan Windecker, Peter Jüni

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Applying a multi-state model we found evidence for a gradient of risk for the composite of bleeding, ischemic events, or death as a function of hemoglobin value and estimated glomerular filtration rate at baseline.…”
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Clinical Phenotype Identification and Validation of Patients with Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit by GONG Chao, YU Na, CHEN Haoran

“…The phenotype 1 patients had the highest risk of death (28-day mortality of 46.4%), dominated by abnormal renal function and elevated disease severity scores, while the phenotype 3 patients had the lowest risk of death (28-day mortality of 11.2%), and the best neurological function score. …”
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Mi-DETR: For Mitosis Detection From Breast Histopathology Images an Improved DETR by Fatma Betul Kara Ardac, Pakize Erdogmus

“…Additionally, a more stable model has been obtained by using the CIoU loss function instead of the L1+GIoU loss function used in the DETR model. …”
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A Novel Attention-Guided Enhanced U-Net With Hybrid Edge-Preserving Structural Loss for Low-Dose CT Image Denoising by Muhammad Zubair, Helmi Md Rais, Talal Alazemi

“…The model integrates residual blocks to improve feature representation and employs a custom hybrid loss function that combines structural loss with gradient regularization using the Euclidean norm, promoting superior CT image quality retention. …”
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Employing Huber and TAP Losses to Improve Inter-SubNet in Speech Enhancement by Jeih-Weih Hung, Pin-Chen Huang, Li-Yin Li

“…Despite the success of Inter-SubNet, one crucial aspect probably overlooked by Inter-SubNet is the unequal perceptual weighting of different spectral regions by the human ear, as it employs MSE as its loss function. In addition, MSE loss has a potential convergence concern for model learning due to gradient explosion. …”
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A Trimming Strategy for Mass Defects in Hemispherical Resonators Based on Multi-Harmonic Analysis by Yimo Chen, Fanrui Kong, Kai Zeng, Xiang Xi, Yan Shi, Dingbang Xiao, Xuezhong Wu

“…By integrating a rectangular pulse function into the mass distribution function to simulate etching grooves, spectral analysis revealed that groove depth and width determine the amplitude and gradient of introduced harmonics. …”
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A DQN-Based Algorithm for Operational Optimization of Freight Trains in Long Steep Downhill Sections by HE Zhiyu, LI Yinan, LI Hui, JI Zhijun

“…The study employed the batch collection of training samples utilizing experience replay and a double-network mechanism, along with the preprocessing of neural network state inputs, and the investigation into feasible regions within the action space using a variable ε-greedy strategy. A loss function based on the value function was then constructed, and network parameters were updated iteratively by a batch gradient descent method. …”
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Contribution of the major HCHO metabolic pathways to HCHO-uptake by geranium leaves under liquid HCHO stress by Han Shuang, Xiao Suqin, Sun Zhen, Xuan Xiuxia, Li Kunzhi, Chen Limei

“…Results suggested that the HCHO-absorption by geranium leaves was a power function in relation with the treatment time. In 2 mmol/L HCHO treatment, during the early stage (0-24 h), the primary functioned metabolic pathway was the Cit produced pathway in geranium leaves. …”
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A Refined Model of the CFTR Membrane Transporter as a Tool to Revert Misbehavior by Pedro M. S. Suzano, Michael González-Durruthy, Ricardo J. Ferreira, Cátia A. Bonito, Margarida D. Amaral, Daniel J. V. A. dos Santos

“…ABC proteins are large transmembrane efflux pumps that export substrates against the concentration gradient through ATP hydrolysis. Due to their efflux capabilities, they are crucial in drug metabolism. …”
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A systematic review on machine learning-aided design of engineered biochar for soil and water contaminant removal by Yunpeng Ge, Kaiyang Ying, Guo Yu, Muhammad Ubaid Ali, Abubakr M. Idris, Abubakr M. Idris, Asfandyar Shahab, Habib Ullah, Habib Ullah

“…., cation exchange capacity, electrical conductivity), and functional group properties, and their optimization for various contaminants. …”
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Unraveling the laser decal transfer-based printing of ZnO ceramic towards FEP-ZnO-based Piezo-Tribo hybrid nanogenerators by Arpit Kumar Singh, Anshu Sahu, Palani Iyamperumal Anand

“…The proposed technology of laser decal transfer has significant potential for the complex printing of sensors without directly affecting the material, allowing for controlled gradient-based properties. This approach holds great promise for futuristic technologies enabling the selective printing of functional piezoelectric and triboelectric sensors.…”
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UV-ageing effects on polystyrene microplastics surface polarity and transport in soils by Leila Shafea, Marc-O. Goebel, Susanne K. Woche, Stephan Peth

“…In the present study, 1 µm polystyrene microspheres (PS-MP) were aged with UV irradiation using an irradiance of 2.05 W m−2 (ultraviolet A, UVA; 365 nm) and 5.58 W m−2 (ultraviolet C, UVC; 254 nm) and different exposure times between 24 und 1176 hours to generate a gradient in MP ageing. The UV-ageing effects on PS-MP were characterised in terms of changes in particle size, zeta potential, and surface functional groups as determined by attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). …”
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Nitrogen Supply Mitigates Temperature Stress Effects on Rice Photosynthetic Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Water Relations by Zhuang Xiong, Fangzhou Zheng, Chao Wu, Hui Tang, Dongliang Xiong, Kehui Cui, Shaobing Peng, Jianliang Huang

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Structural and Electronic Properties of Qatranaite by Anna Majtyka-Piłat, Dariusz Chrobak, Roman Nowak, Marcin Wojtyniak, Mateusz Dulski, Joachim Kusz, Józef Deniszczyk

“…The present study was performed theoretically by means of density functional theory- (DFT-) based calculations within the frame of local density approximation (LDA) and general gradient approximation (GGA). …”
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Physical simulation test study on the stability of wading personnel in mine water inrush roadway by Qiang WU, Yi YAO, Yuanze DU, Huiping LI, Yingwang ZHAO, Hua XU, Shouqiang LIU, Xiao WANG

“…Through statistical analysis of the data, the linear negative correlation between the slope against water and downhill with water and the slope of personnel on the roadway slope was revealed, and the formula of “slope × fitted gradient + horizontal velocity intercept” was proposed to determine the specific prediction function. …”
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Investigation of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of NiSe in cubic phase by incorporating Hubbard U corrections: a DFT + U study by G. Ajay, M. Mohamed Sheik Sirajuddeen, Sakthivel Pandurengan, V. Ashwin, K. Ravichandran

“…Abstract The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of NiSe in the cubic phase were investigated under the framework of density functional theory (DFT) within the full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method. …”
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Geographical origin identification of dendrobium officinale based on NNRW-stacking ensembles by Yinsheng Zhang, Chen Chen, Fangjie Guo, Haiyan Wang

“…Dendrobium officinale is a well-recognized functional food material. Considering its therapeutic effect and price vary among different geographical origins, this paper proposed an origin identification method based on Raman spectroscopy and NNRW (neural network with random weights)-stacking ensemble model. …”
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Assessment of magnetism and magnetocrystalline anisotropy of (Mn $$_x$$ Fe $$_{1-x}$$ ) $$_2$$ P $$_{1-y}$$ Si $$_y$$ (x,y = 0 or 1/3) compounds for permanent magnets by Priti Rani, Ali H. Reshak, Renu Singla, Jyoti Thakur, Sarvesh Kumar, Timothy A. Hackett, Dania Ali, Manish K. Kashyap

“…Abstract In order to calculate the prospects for new transition-metal rich and rare-earth free permanent magnets, we have investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of Fe $$_{2}$$ P and related Mn- or/and Si-substituted compounds using full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FPLAPW) method under generalized gradient approximation (GGA) exchange-correlation (XC) functional. …”
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The dance of sodium: de-intercalation voltage in metal-organic frameworks by Eman F. Shams, Hammed H. A. M. Hassan, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Mariusz Jaremko, Mohan L. Verma, Morsy Abu-Youssef

“…Abstract The sodium ion de-intercalation voltage in doped metal-organic framework (MOF) UAX-1 [ZnNa(m-BDC)2] (m-BDC = 1,3-benzene-dicarboxylate) was investigated using density functional theory (DFT). The sodium chemical potential in the cathode was employed to accurately calculate the de-intercalation voltage. …”
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Increased resting heart rate indicates high-workload hearts with augmented aortic hydraulic power in hypertensive pigs. by Pao-Yen Lin, Bo-Wen Lin, Tong-Sian Lai, Yan-Hsiang Yang, Meei Jyh Jiang

“…Through coarctation of the infrarenal abdominal aorta (AA), we induced hypertension in minipigs and evaluated physiological reactions and morpho-functional changes of the heart. Moderate aortic coarctation was achieved with approximately 30 mmHg systolic pressure gradient in minipigs. …”
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