Temporal–Spatial Patterns of the Water Deficit in the Main Maize-Cropping Regions of China by Yuhan Wang, Jin Zhao

“…The results show that the average water deficit rate across all regions was 33%, with only 15.4% of precipitation meeting maize-water needs. …”
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Age of tobacco, nicotine and cannabis use initiation in Switzerland: a sequence analysis among adolescents and young adults by Diana Fernandes, Lorraine Chok, Jérémy Cros, Luc Lebon, Karin Zurcher, Alexandre Dubuis, Cathy Berthouzoz, André Berchtold, Yara Barrense-Dias

“…Methods Data were collected from an online questionnaire disseminated through social media and professional partners, targeting youth aged 14–25 in French-speaking Switzerland in August 2022. …”
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Analyzing Trends in Suicidal Thoughts Among Patients With Psychosis in India: Exploratory Secondary Analysis of Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment Data by Ameya P Bondre, Aashish Ranjan, Ritu Shrivastava, Deepak Tugnawat, Nirmal Kumar Chaturvedi, Anant Bhan, Snehil Gupta, Abhijit R Rozatkar, Srilakshmi Nagendra, Siddharth Dutt, Soumya Choudhary, Preethi V Reddy, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, John A Naslund, John Torous

“…Results after imputation of missing data showed an average of 12.1 episodes and 228 days (average lag) between the first drop in PANSS scores and last reported SI. …”
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Erosional history by combining 210Pbex and 137Cs methods with sediment fingerprinting and measurements by Negin Ghaderi Dehkordi, Abdulvahed Khaledi Darvishan, Paolo Porto, Mohamad Reza Zare

“…Precisely identifying the main sediment sources within a watershed is vital for developing targeted management strategies aimed at reducing erosion and improving water quality. …”
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A CVAE-based generative model for generalized B1 inhomogeneity corrected chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI at 5 T by Ruifen Zhang, Qiyang Zhang, Yin Wu

“…The model was trained from pixel-wise source–target paired Z spectra under multiple B1 with target B1 as a conditional variable. …”
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Reduce the User Burden of Multiuser Myoelectric Interface via Few-Shot Domain Adaptation by Bo Xue, Le Wu, Aiping Liu, Xu Zhang, Xiang Chen, Xun Chen

“…Thus, FSSDA allows every target domain sample to be paired with all source domain samples and optimizes the feature distance between each target domain sample and the source domain samples within the same batch, instead of direct estimation of the data distribution of the target domain. …”
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Prognostic impact of coronary microvascular dysfunction in patients with myocardial infarction evaluated by new angiography-derived index of microvascular resistance by Benoit Caullery, Laurent Riou, Stephanie Marliere, Estelle Vautrin, Nicolas Piliero, Olivier Ormerzzano, Helene Bouvaist, Gerald Vanzetto, Gilles Barone-Rochette

“…Results: A total of 178 patients were included (65.0 ± 12.8 years on average, 74 % male gender). An AngioIMR > 40 was found in 72 patients. …”
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Development and validation of a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) questionnaire for healthcare professionals on environmental sustainability in healthcare in Southern Africa... by Karien Mostert, Filip Maric, Megan Rohde, Stefani Odendaal, Natasha Mubi, Danté Knock, Emma Field, Tanita Botha, Helga Lister

“…The following stages included two rounds of expert input, separated by a pilot study with the target population to receive feedback regarding the instrument’s structure, relevance, and length. …”
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Pilot study of the safety and efficacy of angiogenic therapy in diabetic foot syndrome by Igor L. Plaksa, Nina D. Mzhavanadze, Roman E. Kalinin, Igor A. Suchkov, Michail U. Bakunov, Vyacheslav T. Krivichin, Sergey A. Matveev, Artur A. Isaev, Roman V. Deev

“…RESULTS: The use of pl-VEGF165 as part of complex treatment allowed to achieve wound healing in 65,7% of patients with chronic ulcerative defects, the safety of the target limb was 84%. Carrying out therapeutic angiogenesis as a part of the combined therapy ensured a reduction in the average area of the resistant to treatment defects from 3.6 [1.0; 7.05] cm2 to 0.0 [0.0;2.0] cm2 (p=0,001), which correlated with an increase in the TcPo2 index by 15% from 35 [29.5; 40.5] to 40.5 [36.0; 46.5] mm Hg (p= p=0,005) and in the ABI by 16% from 0.96 [0.82;1.08] to 1.11 [0.85; 1.24] (p=0,062). …”
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CFAR-DP-FW: A CFAR-Guided Dual-Polarization Fusion Framework for Large-Scene SAR Ship Detection by Tianjiao Zeng, Tianwen Zhang, Zikang Shao, Xiaowo Xu, Wensi Zhang, Jun Shi, Shunjun Wei, Xiaoling Zhang

“…The integration is designed to enhance the detection sensitivity for small-scale maritime targets by utilizing dual-polarization's rich feature representation, and CFAR's strength in suppressing background noise, highlighting potential targets. …”
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Mass balance, metabolic disposition, and pharmacokinetics of a single IV dose of [14C]CA102N in HT-29 xenograft athymic nude mice by Eskouhie Tchaparian, Hua-Yang Lin, Yuchih Chen, J. Neil Hunter, Sindy Yin, Huey Ng, Albert Wu, Albert Wu

“…The primary route of radioactivity elimination was through urine, accounting for an average of 77% of the dose with around 13.2% excreted in the feces. …”
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Calibration and Validation of NOAA-21 Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Nadir Mapper Sensor Data Record Data by Banghua Yan, Trevor Beck, Junye Chen, Steven Buckner, Xin Jin, Ding Liang, Sirish Uprety, Jingfeng Huang, Lawrence E. Flynn, Likun Wang, Quanhua Liu, Warren D. Porter

“…The deep convective cloud target approach is used to monitor the stability of NOAA-21 OMPS reflectance above 330 nm, showing a variation of 0.5% over the observed period. …”
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Determinants of Campylobacter species diversity in infants and association with family members, livestock, and household environments in rural Eastern Ethiopia by Amanda Ojeda, Loïc Deblais, Bahar Mummed, Mussie Brhane, Kedir A. Hassen, Belisa Usmael Ahmedo, Yenenesh Demisie Weldesenbet, Dehao Chen, Xiaolong Li, Cyrus Saleem, Mark J. Manary, Luiz F. W. Roesch, Sarah L. McKune, Arie H. Havelaar, Gireesh Rajashekara, the CAGED Research Team

“…Our findings emphasize the need for targeted interventions addressing environmental, dietary, and behavioral factors to reduce Campylobacter transmission in resource-limited settings. …”
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The Effects of Various Dietary and Exercise Interventions on Continuously Measured Glucose Levels in People with Type 2 Diabetes, and Potential for Personalized Treatment by Iris M. de Hoogh, Tim Snel, Regina J. M. Kamstra, Tanja Krone, Hannah M. Eggink, Hanno Pijl, Albert A. de Graaf

“…Results: On overage, a low carbohydrate diet, walking after a meal, and an active day resulted in improved CGM metrics, including a lower mean glucose (−0.70, −0.34, and −0.25 mmol/L, respectively) and SD (−0.22, −0.05, and −0.02) and higher time in range (6.9, 3.5, and 3.2%, respectively), the latter being the average percentage of time per day spend in the target glucose range (3.9–10.0 mmol/L). …”
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Berberine attenuates obesity-induced skeletal muscle atrophy via regulation of FUNDC1 in skeletal muscle of mice by Yijie Wu, Yanhui Yang, Caixia Du, Xiaoyue Peng, Wenying Fan, Baocheng Chang, Chunyan Shan

“…These results suggest that BBR ameliorated obesity-induced skeletal muscle atrophy in mice by modulating the skeletal muscle mitophagy receptor FUNDC1, which may be a potential therapeutic target for obesity-induced skeletal muscle atrophy.…”
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Succulent-YOLO: Smart UAV-Assisted Succulent Farmland Monitoring with CLIP-Based YOLOv10 and Mamba Computer Vision by Hui Li, Fan Zhao, Feng Xue, Jiaqi Wang, Yongying Liu, Yijia Chen, Qingyang Wu, Jianghan Tao, Guocheng Zhang, Dianhan Xi, Jundong Chen, Hill Hiroki Kobayashi

“…Additionally, we develop Succulent-YOLO, a customized target detection model optimized for succulent image classification, achieving a mean average precision (mAP@50) of 87.8% on high-resolution images. …”
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A qualitative RE-AIM evaluation of an embedded community paramedicine program in an Ontario Family Health Team by Sarisha Philip, Lauren Konikoff, Samuel Tiukuvaara, Tracey Izzard, Kyle Sitka, Ghislain Bercier, Kimberley Hewton, Barry Bruce, Mark Fraser, Karen Ferguson, Chris LeBouthillier, Courtney Maskerine, Krystal Kehoe MacLeod

“…Results Reach: The community paramedicine program is primarily used by physicians to target older patients with multiple chronic conditions, frequent health care use, and limited social support. …”
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Successful application of dietary ketogenic metabolic therapy in patients with glioblastoma: a clinical study by Andreas Kiryttopoulos, Athanasios E. Evangeliou, Irene Katsanika, Ioannis Boukovinas, Nikolaos Foroglou, Basilios Zountsas, Angeliki Cheva, Vaios Nikolopoulos, Thomas Zaramboukas, Tomas Duraj, Thomas N. Seyfried, Martha Spilioti

“…As an assessment criterion, we set an optimistic target for adherence to the ketogenic diet beyond 6 months. …”
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Short-term displacement prediction for newly established monitoring slopes based on transfer learning by Yuan Tian, Yang-landuo Deng, Ming-zhi Zhang, Xiao Pang, Rui-ping Ma, Jian-xue Zhang

“…The fine-tuned model based on accumulated data on the target newly established monitoring slope further reduced the three-day RMSE by 37.2%, demonstrating a considerable predictive accuracy. …”
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A three year review of Tuberculosis surveillance data in Montserrado County, Liberia, 2016-2018 by Alberta Berlynda Corvah, Himiede Wilson Sesay, Delia Akosua Bando, Patrick Konwloh, Benedict Calys-Tagoe, Ernest Kenu

“…Cases were detected at the rate of 46% in 2017 and 43% in 2018 with Bushrod district detection rate of 151%. On average, 34% of patients on treatment were cured and 15% defaulted showing treatment success rate at 24%. …”
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