Abnormal Cerebral Perfusion and Functional Connectivity in Women with Overactive Bladder by Shichun Chen, Zongpai Zhang, Yakun Zhang, Kenneth Wengler, Steven Weissbart, Weiying Dai, Xiang He, Justina Tam

“…A flexible factorial design was implemented with three factors: subject, group (control, OAB at baseline, and OAB posttreatment), and urge state (low vs. high). …”
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Characterizing the pharmacological interaction of the antimalarial combination artefenomel-piperaquine in healthy volunteers with induced blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum to predi... by Azrin N. Abd-Rahman, Daniel Kaschek, Anne Kümmel, Rebecca Webster, Adam J. Potter, Anand Odedra, Stephen D. Woolley, Stacey Llewellyn, Lachlan Webb, Louise Marquart, Stephan Chalon, Myriam El Gaaloul, James S. McCarthy, Jörg J. Möhrle, Bridget E. Barber

“…The general pharmacodynamic interaction (GPDI) model implemented in the Bliss Independence additivity criterion was developed to characterize the pharmacological interaction between artefenomel and piperaquine. …”
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Development of targeted safety hazard management plans utilizing multidimensional association rule mining by Xingbang Qiang, Guoqing Li, Yuksel Asli Sari, Chunchao Fan, Jie Hou

“…Investigating hidden hazards and implementing closed-loop management are essential strategies for accident prevention in the mining industry. …”
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The Role of COVID-19 in Excess Mortality in Slovakia: A Novel Approach Based on Healthcare Billing Records by Peter Barančok, Ján Dudek, Petra Ištokovičová, Daniela Kandilaki, Michal Kotrč, Ľubica Löffler, Matej Mišík, Roman Mužik, Beáta Saal, Martina Vrbiková, Rudolf Zajac, Martin Selvek, Peter Pažitný

“…Given the high level of excess mortality, the officially confirmed deaths are likely underestimated, and the presented methodology provides a more precise measure of mortality. Additionally, healthcare billing records prove valuable in identifying these deaths at the individual patient level using claims data of health insurance companies, which is crucial for implementing targeted preventive measures and improving preparedness for future pandemics.…”
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An Adaptive YOLO11 Framework for the Localisation, Tracking, and Imaging of Small Aerial Targets Using a Pan–Tilt–Zoom Camera Network by Ming Him Lui, Haixu Liu, Zhuochen Tang, Hang Yuan, David Williams, Dongjin Lee, K. C. Wong, Zihao Wang

“…The resulting dataset is tested on various model structures and backbone sizes of two mainstream object detection frameworks, Ultralytics’ YOLO and MMDetection. Additionally, the algorithm implements and compares two popular object trackers, Bot-SORT and ByteTrack. …”
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Multi-group global tests for restricted mean survival time and restricted mean time lost: a variable transformation approach by Shuyu Chen, Mengyao Wang, Xingyou Zhou, Wenbin Zhang, Chengfeng Zhang, Zheng Chen

“…Conclusions The proposed transformation-based global tests offer researchers a flexible, assumption-free tool to compare treatment effects across multiple groups with enhanced reliability and interpretability. Additionally, an R package "compRM" was developed to implement the proposed methods.…”
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Delineating Ababi Mountains spring recharge zones using combined isotope hydrology and geophysical methods by I Nengah Simpen, I Wayan Redana, Putu Doddy Heka Ardana

“…The effectiveness of this integrated approach was further validated through additional isotopic analysis of rainfall at 1,514 m a.s.l. …”
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Assessing the incidence of enteric viruses in bivalve mollusks at Alexandria's seafood markets by Gomaa Mostafa-Hedeab, Nehal I. Ahmed, Hany Abdelfattah Elhady, Abozer Y Eledrdery, Alaa oqalaa E. Alibrahim, Amgad T. Khalifa, Abdou K. Allayeh

“…These findings underscore the urgent need for Egypt to implement routine monitoring of seafood viromes and improve sanitation infrastructure, aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Organizing a COVID-19 triage unit: a Swiss perspective by Georgios Peros, Ferda Gronki, Nadine Molitor, Michael Streit, Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Urs Karrer, Fabian Lunger, Michel Adamina, Stefan Breitenstein, Tenzin Lamdark

“…At this stage, patients are then discharged home after additional testing or admitted to the hospital for management. …”
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Deep LBLS: Accelerated Sky Region Segmentation Using Hybrid Deep CNNs and Lattice Boltzmann Level-Set Model by Fatema A. Albalooshi, M. R. Qader, Yasser Ismail, Wael Elmedany, Hesham Al-Ammal, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Vijayan K. Asari

“…Additionally, we utilize a local image fitting level-set function to characterize the region-based active contour model. …”
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Multi-Task Water Quality Colorimetric Detection Method Based on Deep Learning by Shenlan Zhang, Shaojie Wu, Liqiang Chen, Pengxin Guo, Xincheng Jiang, Hongcheng Pan, Yuhong Li

“…Furthermore, compared to YOLOv8n, the parameter count and computational load were reduced by 25.8% and 25.6%, respectively. Additionally, precision improved by 2.8%, recall increased by 3.5%, mAP50 enhanced by 2%, and mAP95 rose by 1.9%. …”
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Development of a Virtual Telehandler Model Using a Bond Graph by Beatriz Puras, Gustavo Raush, Javier Freire, Germán Filippini, Pedro Roquet, Manel Tirado, Oriol Casadesús, Esteve Codina

“…Experimental analyses validate the BG-3D simulation model of the telehandler implemented in 20-SIM establishing it as an effective tool for estimating stability limits with satisfactory precision and for predicting dynamic behaviour across diverse operating conditions. …”
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Multi-Modal Emotion Detection and Sentiment Analysis by Shoaib Sikunder Malik, Muhammad Ilyas, Yasin Ul Haq, Rabia Sana, Muhamamd Saad Razzaq, Fahad Maqbool, Muhammad Salman Pathan

“…For frames, we employ Random Forest and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Afterwards, we implement model ensembling across the three modalities. …”
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Small-Size Eight-Element MIMO Metamaterial Antenna with High Isolation Using Modal Significance Method by Tirado-Mendez Jose Alfredo, Jardon-Aguilar Hildeberto, Flores-Leal Ruben, Rangel-Merino Arturo, Perez-Miguel Angel, Gomez-Villanueva Ricardo

“…The electromagnetic barriers, implemented with strip lines, achieved isolation values exceeding 20 dB for adjacent elements (<0.023 λ) and approaching 40 dB for opposite ones (<0.23 λ) after analyzing the surface current distribution by the <i>MS</i> method. …”
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Exploring Blockchain&#x2013;IoT Convergence for Logistics Traceability: A Systematic Review and Future Outlook by Yahaya Saidu, Shuhaida Mohamed Shuhidan, Izzatdin Abdul Aziz, MD Mahmudul Alam, Dahiru Adamu Aliyu, Muhammad Muntasir Yakubu, Shamsuddeen Adamu

“…This study presents a systematic review of the current state of BC-IoT integration for logistics traceability, focusing on its motivations, deployment strategies, technical implementations, and evaluation approaches. A total of 1,619 records were initially retrieved from IEEE Xplore, MDPI, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Web of Science, from which 61 peer-reviewed studies published between 2015 and 2024 were selected and analyzed. …”
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AI-based nanotoxicity data extraction and prediction of nanotoxicity by Eunyong Ha, Seung Min Ha, Zayakhuu Gerelkhuu, Hyun-Yi Kim, Tae Hyun Yoon

“…The automation process was implemented using Python-based LangChain. We used 216 nanotoxicity research articles as training data to refine prompts and evaluate LLM performance. …”
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Impact of Learning Management Systems and Digital Skills on TPACK Development Among Pre-service Mathematics Teachers by Muh Fitrah, Caly Setiawan, Widihastuti Widihastuti, Anastasia Sofroniou, Nur Azizatur Rahmawati, Arina Arina, Sri Ratna Sari, Iskandar Iskandar

“…Higher digital skills improve pre-service teachers' ability to integrate technology into pedagogy and content. Additionally, final-year pre-service teachers show greater competencies. …”
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Real-time inference of the end of an outbreak: Temporally aggregated disease incidence data and under-reporting by I. Ogi-Gittins, J. Polonsky, M. Keita, S. Ahuka-Mundeke, W.S. Hart, M.J. Plank, B. Lambert, E.M. Hill, R.N. Thompson

“…Here, we analyse data from the 2018 Ebola outbreak in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, during which an Ebola Response Team (ERT) was deployed to implement public health measures. We use a renewal equation transmission model to perform a quasi real-time investigation into when the ERT could be withdrawn safely at the tail end of the outbreak. …”
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Phosphorus loading and carp disturbance synergistically promote dominance of free-floating macrophytes over submerged plant competitors by Rui Zhou, Dong Luo, Lei Li

“…Reducing P loading and implementing measures to control benthic fish abundance may enhance the resilience of submerged macrophyte-dominated states in shallow lakes and ponds, with additional reductions in N further mitigating the synergistic impacts of nutrient loading on ecosystem stability.…”
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Advanced Signal Processing Algorithm-Based State Estimation and Denoising of ECG Signals for Biomedical Applications by Saad Arif, Mohammad Maroof Maroof Siddiqui, Nayef Alqahtani, Kamran Shah, Muhammad Attique Attique Khan, Naoufel Kraiem

“…Quantitatively, the process achieves a mean square error (MSE) of 0.001382, representing a 48.5% improvement over the variant without the attention mechanism (MSE =0.002682). Additionally, the signal-to-noise ratio is enhanced by 6.3 dB, reaching 15.87 dB, the highest among all tested methods. …”
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