Analysis of risk factors for late postoperative pleural effusion in patients undergoing single-port thoracoscopic lung surgery by WANG Qin, XIA Guanghui, JIANG Jie, YANG Xiaoxin, DING Jiefang, YIN Ying, WU Guanghong, LIU Feng, CAO Hui, SHI Ye

“…Univariate analysis and ordinal logistic regression analysis were used to compare the following variables: gender, age, body mass index, smoking history, complications, or previous history (hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, tuberculosis), pleural thickening, chest adhesion, surgical technique and lymph node dissection, postoperative active breathing training, dietary habits (high protein diet, high fat diet, and average daily soup consumption). …”
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Explore the Ultra-High Density Urban Waterfront Space Form: An Investigation of Macau Peninsula Pier District via Point of Interest (POI) and Space Syntax by Yue Huang, Yile Chen, Junxin Song, Liang Zheng, Shuai Yang, Yike Gao, Rongyao Li, Lu Huang

“…As a typical coastal historical district, the Macau Peninsula pier district (mainly the Macau Inner Harbour) has a high building density and a low average street width, forming a vertical coastline development model that directly converses with the ocean. …”
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Change trajectory of dyadic coping and subjective well-being in patients with malignant bone tumors based on cross-lagged panel model and latent growth model: a longitudinal study by Rui Li, Chun-yan Zhang, Yue Wu, Yao Wang, Yi-fan Li, Xiao-juan Fan, Hong Song

“…The data were analyzed using a cross-lagged model and a latent variable growth model.ResultsThe cross-lagged modeling revealed that, on average, dyadic coping levels exhibited a significant and positive predictive relationship with subjective well-being at the subsequent node. …”
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Breeding of a new high-quality and mid-ripening peach cultivar Zijinyucui by XU Jianlan, SHEN Zhijun, GUO Lei, CAI Zhixiang, ZHANG Yuyan, ZHANG Binbin, ZHANG Chunhua, SONG Siyan, YU Mingliang, MA Ruijuan, DING Hui

“…All types of fruiting branches can flower and bear fruits normally. The average flower bud initiation occurs at the 2.1st node, with flower buds being 1.62 times more than leaf buds. …”
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Dynamical Analysis and Periodic Solution of a Chaotic System with Coexisting Attractors by Mingshu Chen, Zhen Wang, Xiaojuan Zhang, Huaigu Tian

“…Chaotic attractors with no equilibria, with an unstable node, and with stable node-focus are presented in this paper. …”
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A Novel and Feasible Intracorporeal Esophagojejunostomy Anastomosis in Totally Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy Surgery: Sutureless L-Shape with Endoscopic Assistance (SLEJ) by Ibrahim Burak Bahcecioglu, Sumeyra Guler, Sevket Baris Morkavuk, Mujdat Turan, Gokhan Giray Akgul, Mirac Baris Erzincan, Kubilay Kenan Ozluk, Osman Bardakci, Mehmet Ali Gulcelik

“…In our technique, gastrectomy, lymph node dissection, anastomosis preparation, esophagojejunostomy anastomosis, and enteroenterostomy anastomosis were all performed laparoscopically and intracorporeally. …”
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Research on Mobile Agent Path Planning Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Shengwei Jin, Xizheng Zhang, Ying Hu, Ruoyuan Liu, Qing Wang, Haihua He, Junyu Liao, Lijing Zeng

“…The architecture first enables mapless navigation through a DDQN foundation, subsequently integrates long short-term memory (LSTM) networks for the fusion of environmental features and preservation of training information, and ultimately enhances the path’s quality through redundant node elimination via an obstacle–path relationship analysis, combined with Bézier curve-based trajectory smoothing. …”
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Cooperative Bargain for the Autonomous Separation of Traffic Flows in Smart Reversible Lanes by Guangbing Xiao, Haibo Zhang, Ning Sun, Yong Chen, Jiamin Shi, Yong Zhang

“…Simulation results show that CoB can recover an average of 98.6% messages within 100 milliseconds in a 50-node network. …”
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Reliability evaluation method of distributed generation in rural power grid based on network partition by KONG Fanfang, YANG Dedong, ZHANG Rui, XU Peng, LI Yimiao, YAO Ximan

“…The results show that compared with the average power supply accuracy of the actual distributed power supply, the error of the test results of this method is controlled within 0.2%, which is far lower than the error of the reliability evaluation of the distribution network with distributed generation and the node vulnerability evaluation method of the distribution network considering the random characteristics of the distributed generation, indicating that the proposed method can accurately evaluate the reliability of distributed power supply in rural power grid.…”
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Automatic Acne Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv7 by Delong Zhang, Chunyang Jin, Zhidong Zhang, Xiyuan Cao, Chenyang Xue

“…The experimental results demonstrate the robust detection capabilities of the model, achieving an mean average accuracy(mAP) of 83.7% in acne detection. …”
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Evaluating post 2024 election scenarios for the UK based on political party manifestos. by Richard Stafford, Jenny Alexander, Stephen Axon, Zach Boakes, Elena Cantarello, Abigail R Croker, Marin Cvitanović, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Tilak Ginige, Natalie Harris, Ellie-Anne Jones, Yiannis Kountouris, Darren Lilleker, Freya Russell, James R Sokolnicki, Sarah J Upson, Ellie Vincent

“…Most notably, parties who had the strongest tax cutting policies resulted in lower average incomes and higher levels of inequality in society, despite the rhetoric provided for these policies in the party manifestos. …”
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Correlation between clinical features, medical history, and lifestyle factors with colorectal cancer stage by Asma Sghaier, Mohamed Amine Elghali, Nouha Haddad, Wassim Dziri, Amal Letaief, Imtinen Belaid, Sabri Youssef

“…Aims: This study aimed to identify factors correlated with advanced tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stages of CRC at diagnosis. …”
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Quality of life and risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases among physicians in Tomsk Oblast by Evgeny S. Kulikov, Alisya A. Almikeeva, Olga S. Kobyakova, Nailya M. Faizulina, Ivan A. Deev, Natalya P. Garganeeva, Nikolay D. Yarovoy, Elena A. Starovoitova, Alexander F. Kanev

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Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping of First Pod Height in Faba Bean Based on Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) by Shubao Lou, Changcai Teng, Wanwei Hou, Xianli Zhou, Hongyan Zhang, Yujiao Liu

“…The genetic linkage map contained seven linkage groups with 3012 SNP markers with an overall length of 4089.13 centimorgan (cM) and an average marker density of 1.36 cM. Thirty-eight QTLs for the first pod node (FPN) and FPH were identified (19 each for FPN and FPH). …”
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A measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution network using optical frequency comb by Wenhan Yan, Xiaodong Zheng, Wenjun Wen, Liangliang Lu, Yifeng Du, Yan-Qing Lu, Shining Zhu, Xiao-Song Ma

“…Fully connected, trusted node-free QNs have been realized based on entanglement distribution, in which the low key rate and the large overhead make their practical application challenging. …”
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Data Uploading and Exchange Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Networks in the City Traffic Environment by Tiaojuan Ren, Yourong Chen, Binbin Zhou, Hexin Lv, Zhangquan Wang, Sen Xu, Lizhe Yu, Zhen Hong

“…In DUEA, the three-tier network architecture composed of vehicle nodes, relay nodes and sink nodes is considered. …”
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Improved YOLO-Based Pulmonary Nodule Detection with Spatial-SE Attention and an Aspect Ratio Penalty by Xinhang Song, Haoran Xie, Tianding Gao, Nuo Cheng, Jianping Gou

“…Comprehensive experiments conducted on the LUNA16, LungCT, and Node21 datasets reveal that our approach achieves superior precision, recall, and mean average precision (mAP) across various IoU thresholds, surpassing previous state-of-the-art methods while maintaining computational efficiency. …”
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Oropharyngeal tularemia cases admitted to a military hospital in Ankara, Turkey by Ahmet Karakas, Omer Coskun, Cumhur Artuk, Umit Savasci, Hanefi Cem Gul, Gurkan Mert, Ismail Yasar Avci, Bulent Ahmet Besirbellioglu, Can Polat Eyigun

“…Ten of the cases fully recovered, while five required surgical lymph node drainage. Spontaneous drainage occurred in the single remaining case. …”
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Contrastive learning of similarity meta-path clustering for multi-behavior recommendation by Juan Liao, Aman Jantan, Zhe Liu, Himanshu Dhumras, Omed Hassan Ahmed

“…Second, we introduce a similarity meta-path framework, which constructs a meta-path-based similarity graph through node-level similarity computation, allowing the model to transfer prior knowledge to low-resource tasks. …”
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Risk factors for major low anterior resection syndrome: meta-analysis and systematic literature review by Evgeny A. Khomyakov, Islam O. Nafedzov, Oksana Y. Fomenko, Mikhail V. Alekseyev, Sergey A. Frolov, Stanislav V. Tchernyshov, Evgeny G. Rybakov

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