Identification of Alternaria, Aspergillus, Fusarium and Penicillium spp. on Onion Plant (Allium cepa L.) Growing in Hatay, Amasya and Tokat Provinces Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrome... by Merve Kara, Emine Mine Soylu

“…These spectra were compared with Maldi Biotyper Real-Time Classification (RTC) and identification was performed. …”
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Buccal ureteroplasty options, techniques, long-term results by A. A. Volkov, N. V. Budnik, O. N. Zuban, I. D. Mustapaev, M. A. Abdulaev, A. V. Muziev

“…Severe complications according to the Clavien‑Dindo classification, requiring hospitalization of patients in the intensive care unit with organ dysfunction, as well as lethal outcomes were absent. …”
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Elevated Serum Chloride Levels Contribute to a Poor Prognosis in Patients with IgA Nephropathy by Yaling Zhai, Xingchen Yao, Yuanyuan Qi, Jingge Gao, Yazhuo Chen, Xinnian Wang, Feng Wu, Zhanzheng Zhao

“…Thec-indices of our predictive model were 0.80, 0.86, and 0.78, for 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively; Brier scores were 0.06, 0.09, and 0.16, respectively. …”
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A Machine Learning-Based Guide for Repeated Laboratory Testing in Pediatric Emergency Departments by Adi Shuchami, Teddy Lazebnik, Shai Ashkenazi, Avner Herman Cohen, Yael Reichenberg, Vered Shkalim Zemer

“…The minimal decision tree (MDT) algorithm was selected for its interpretability and capacity to generate optimally pruned classification trees. <b>Methods:</b> Children aged 3 months to 18 years with community-based complete blood count (CBC), electrolyte (ELE), and C-reactive protein (CRP) measurements obtained between 2016 and 2023 were included. …”
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Assessment of ESR1, PGR, ERBB2, and MKI67 mRNA in Hormone Receptor‐Positive Early Breast Cancer: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Hamid Rezvani, Shayan Forghani, Arman Forghani, Fatemeh Mahdavi Sabet, Atieh Akbari, Sanaz Tabarestani

“…Results The overall concordance between mRNA expression results and their corresponding IHC markers was 95.9% for ESR1/ER, 79.3% for PGR/PR, and 100% for ERBB2/HER2. There was a moderate correlation between MKi67 mRNA values and Ki67 IHC. …”
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Assessing environmental injustice in Kansas City by linking paediatric asthma to local sources of pollution: a cross-sectional study by Brian R Lee, Elizabeth Friedman, David Rahn, Beto Lugo Martinez, Atenas Mena

“…An increased distance from the nearest railyard of 3 km was associated with a decrease in overall asthma rates of 26%.Conclusion Significant negative associations between proximity to all pollution source types and asthma rates were observed. …”
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Machine learning-driven development of a stratified CES-D screening system: optimizing depression assessment through adaptive item selection by Ruo-Fei Xu, Zhen-Jing Liu, Shunan Ouyang, Qin Dong, Wen-Jing Yan, Dong-Wu Xu

“…Calibration analyses and decision curve analyses confirmed optimal clinical utility, particularly in the critical risk threshold range (0.3–0.6). Conclusions This study contributes to the refinement of CES-D by developing a machine learning-derived stratified screening version, offering an efficient and reliable approach that optimizes assessment burden while maintaining excellent psychometric properties. …”
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Differences between cases admitted to hospital and discharged from the emergency department after emergency medical services transport by Kathrin Hegenberg, Heiko Trentzsch, Stephan Prückner

“…They were especially likely to be young (OR 10.53 (CI 9.31 to 11.92), comparing &lt;15-year-olds to &gt;70-year-olds) and to fall under the categories ‘accidents/trauma’ (OR 2.87 (CI 2.74 to 3.01)) or ‘other emergencies (unspecified)’ (OR 1.23 (CI 1.12 to 1.34) (compared with ‘cardiovascular’). …”
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Knowledge reasoning and strategy optimization for ship operation and maintenance based on digital twin and improved KD tree algorithm by Liyao ZHANG, Ziqian GUO, Ruifang LI, Xun YE, Tao MA

“…ResultsThe experimental results show that the proposed improved KD tree algorithm (ω-KDtree-WOA) achieves an inference accuracy of 0.928 when the K value is 4 and the population size is 400, which is approximately 3.2% higher than that of the traditional KD tree algorithm under the same conditions. …”
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Epidemiology and patient characteristics of the US myasthenia gravis population: real-world evidence from a large insurance claims database by Richard J Nowak, Lesley-Ann Miller-Wilson, Joel Arackal, Yuriy Edwards, Jennifer Schwinn, Kristen Elizabeth Rockstein, Brett Venker

“…This retrospective claims analysis assessed the epidemiologic rates of MG in the USA and the characteristics of the incident and prevalent MG populations.Methods Patients with MG were identified using Inovalon closed claims data; those with ≥2 International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes for MG from 2016 to 2019, separated by ≥30 days, were eligible. …”
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Chronic and infectious respiratory mortality and short-term exposures to four types of pollen taxa in older adults in Michigan, 2006-2017 by Peter S. Larson, Allison L. Steiner, Marie S. O’Neill, Alan P. Baptist, Carina J. Gronlund

“…Deaths from infectious and chronic respiratory-related causes were selected using International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) codes. Pollen data were obtained from a prognostic model of daily pollen concentrations at 25 km resolution. …”
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Elevated serum asprosin and ANGPTL8 gene expression as novel biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of acute coronary syndrome by Zainulabdin Abdulnabi Abdulah Albreej, Gholamreza Dehghan, Alireza Nourazarian, Naser Aslanabadi, Jamshid Assadi

“…Identifying novel biomarkers is crucial to improving early detection and patient classification. Traditional markers such as cardiac troponins have limitations, including delayed detectability in blood samples, necessitating the search for better alternatives. …”
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Central Serous Chorioretinopathy from the Point of View of OCT-Angiography. Part 1. Chorioretinal Blood Flow Changes by A. G. Shchuko, S. I. Zhukova, T. N. Iureva, A. N. Zlobina

“…Conclusions: The revealed changes in regional blood flow are progressive and can be used as classification and prognostic criteria for choroidal dysfunction.…”
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Pulmonary complications in trauma patients with obstructive sleep apnea undergoing pelvic or lower limb operation by David H Livingston, Michele Fiorentino, Franchesca Hwang, Sri Ram Pentakota, Anne C Mosenthal

“…P&lt;0.01 was considered statistically significant.Results Among the 337 333 patients undergoing PLLI operation 3.0% had diagnosed OSA. Patients with OSA had more comorbidities and were more frequently discharged to facilities. …”
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An Ensemble Deep Learning Approach for Accurate Urinary Sediment Detection Using YOLOv9e and KD-YOLOX-ViT by Mansura Naznine, Abdus Salam, Muhammad Mohsin Khan, Sadia Farhana Nobi, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

“…The KD-YOLOX-ViT model also performed well, achieving precision, recall, mAP50, and mAP50-95 scores of 86%, 88%, 86.7%, and 53.3%, respectively. By ensembling YOLOv9e and KD-YOLOX-ViT using Weighted Box Fusion (WBF), the model achieved a final mAP50 of 94.18%. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the unplanned patient flow in a Danish healthcare region, focusing on emergency departments: a multicentre cohort study by Marianne Lisby, Hans Kirkegaard, Gitte Boier Tygesen, Sara Viskum Leth

“…The study examined changes in patient flow and key flow variables—number of contacts, length of stay (LOS), triage, re-contacts, mortality, International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes, isolations and SARS-CoV-2-positive patients—and compared differences between five EDs in the Central Denmark Region.Results The overall number of unplanned patient contacts decreased 3.6% from the previous period (257 657) to the COVID-19 period (248 706). …”
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Effect of Bakri balloon tamponade on hemorrhage during and after cesarean section in patients with placenta previa by Dongmei Li, Xiaobo He, Hairui Cai, Junjun Zhou

“…The success rate of BBT for managing PPH was 69.3%. The balloon failure group (n = 83) comprised those who had undergone BBT insertion, followed by B-lynch suture (n = 10), uterine artery ascending branch ligation (n = 32), pelvic arterial embolization (n = 21), or cesarean hysterectomy (n = 20). …”
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YOLOv8n-SSDW: A Lightweight and Accurate Model for Barnyard Grass Detection in Fields by Yan Sun, Hanrui Guo, Xiaoan Chen, Mengqi Li, Bing Fang, Yingli Cao

“…A new WIoU loss function was developed to improve bounding box classification and regression accuracy. Comprehensive performance analysis demonstrated that YOLOv8n-SSDW outperformed state-of-the-art models. …”
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Obstructive sleep apnea is ralated to metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease in type 2 diabetes mellitus by Xiaojiao Jia, Chunyan Zou, Na Lu, Qiang Lu, Changshun Xie

“…Moreover, the oxygen desaturation index (ODI) and the lowest oxygen saturation (LSaO2) during sleep were recorded. Classification and analysis were conducted according to the level and severity of ODI and LSaO2. …”
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A radiomics and deep learning nomogram developed and validated for predicting no-collapse survival in patients with osteonecrosis after multiple drilling by Fan Liu, De-bao Zhang, Shi-huan Cheng, Gui-shan Gu

“…Results A total of 144 patients (212 hips) were included in the study. ARCO classification, bone marrow edema, and combined necrotic angle were identified as independent risk factors for collapse. …”
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