Outcomes of Suprapatellar Intramedullary Nail Fixation of Tibial Shaft Fractures in Skeletally Immature Patients by Carlos D. Pargas-Colina, MD, Tori J. Coble, DO, Sara E. Davis, BS, David D. Spence, MD, Jonathan K. Rowland, BS, Derek M. Kelly, MD, Benjamin W. Sheffer, MD

“…The reported Visual Analog Scale pain scale averaged 1.87 at the final follow-up. Most patients reported return to full activities (87%), with the operative leg comparable to the contralateral leg in 78% of cases. …”
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UAV spatiotemporal crowdsourcing resource allocation based on deep reinforcement learning by Yaxi LIU, Xulong LI, Jiahao HUO, Wei HUANGFU

“…This approach aims to minimize the average AoI across the network while also reducing the energy consumption of IoT devices. …”
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Machine learning assisted estimation of total solids content of drilling fluids by B.T. Gunel, Y.D. Pak, A.Ö. Herekeli, S. Gül, B. Kulga, E. Artun

“…The model was able to estimate total solids content in those four mud samples with an average absolute error of 1.08% of total solids content. …”
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Macular morphologic changes following successful retinal detachment repair by scleral buckling surgery by Petrović Nenad, Todorović Dušan, Srećković Sunčica, Šarenac-Vulović Tatjana, Jovanović Mihailo, Ranđelović Danijela

“…The numerical values of parameters for each operated eye were compared with those of the fellow (control) eye of each patient. …”
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Ten-year survival in early-stage breast cancer patients in a comprehensive breast cancer care program in India by Priyansh Nathani, Priyansh Nathani, Parth Tailor, Prashant Bhandarkar, Priti Patil, Pratima Pimpalkar, Niranjna Swaminathan, Riya Sawhney, Riya Sawhney, Nobhojit Roy, Nobhojit Roy, Anita Gadgil, Anita Gadgil

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A multidisciplinary approach in determining of prevalence of coronary artery disease and treatment strategies in patients with pathology of the aorta and peripheral arteries by B. G. Alekyan, A. V. Pokrovsky, N. G. Karapetyan, А. Sh. Revishvili

“…The age of patients ranged from 29 to 93 years, an average — 67,2+8,8 years. Also 32,5% of patients (n=223) were older than 71 years. …”
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End-stage Ankle Arthritis: Variations in the Current State of Practice of Asia-Pacific Foot and Ankle Surgeons by Chin Yik Tan, Joshua Balogun-Lynch, Gowreeson Thevendran

“…About six (75%) of the surgeons who answered surgical duration reported an average time of 120 minutes to perform the operation. …”
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Mechanical and biological evaluation of two fresh pepper varieties by Shanwen Zhang, Shanwen Zhang, Shaowen Li, Shaowen Li, Min Dai, Min Dai, Enhui Lu, Enhui Lu, Sixing Liu, Sixing Liu, Linquan Ge, Yongji Zhang, Chunsong Guan, Binxing Xv, Wei Su, Hong Miao, Hong Miao

“…The operation of roller-type pepper harvesters involves striking and pulling the peppers, which may result in incomplete detachment from their stems or cause surface damage or breakage of the peppers. …”
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Effective integration of drone technology for mapping and managing palm species in the Peruvian Amazon by Ximena Tagle Casapia, Rodolfo Cardenas-Vigo, Diego Marcos, Ernesto Fernández Gamarra, Harm Bartholomeus, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Silvana Di Liberto Porles, Lourdes Falen, Susan Palacios, Nandin-Erdene Tsenbazar, Gordon Mitchell, Ander Dávila Díaz, Freddie C. Draper, Gerardo Flores Llampazo, Pedro Pérez-Peña, Giovanna Chipana, Dennis Del Castillo Torres, Martin Herold, Timothy R. Baker

“…Our approach detects individual palms of three species, even when densely clustered (average overall score, 74%), with high accuracy and completeness for Mauritia flexuosa (precision; 99% and recall; 81%). …”
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Regulating electric double layer in non-fluorinated ether electrolyte enables high-voltage and low-temperature lithium metal batteries by Renfei Zhao, Yuanhang Gao, Zuosu Qin, Yuelin Li, Tao Zhang, Anqiang Pan, Ning Zhang, Renzhi Ma, Xiaohe Liu, Gen Chen

“…As a result, cells assembled with a total of 1 M ternary lithium salts in G2 solvent can operate at high voltage of 4.4 ​V. The Li||NCM811 ​cells maintain 80.2% capacity retention after 270 cycles at room temperature, with an average Coulombic efficiency of 99.5%, and exhibit 88.4% capacity retention after 200 cycles at −30 ​°C.…”
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Evaluating Long‐Term Outcomes of Children Undergoing Surgical Treatment for Congenital Heart Disease for National Audit in England and Wales by Kate L. Brown, Qi Huang, Ferran Espuny‐Pujol, Julie A. Taylor, Jo Wray, Carin van Doorn, Serban Stoica, Christina Pagel, Rodney C. G. Franklin, Sonya Crowe

“…The cohort included 29 319 (41.3% of all operated CHD births) English and Welsh children born with sentinel CHDs in 2000 to 2022. …”
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Artificial slope deformation monitoring and analyzing based on SBAS technology by Xiaochuan Huang, Xiaochuan Huang, Xiaochuan Huang, Jincang Liu, Jincang Liu, Jincang Liu, Ting Yang, Ting Yang, Ting Yang, Yun Li, Yun Li, Yun Li, Lipeng Zhou, Lipeng Zhou, Lipeng Zhou

“…Our results revealed a maximum annual average settlement rate of −35.69 mm/yr and a peak cumulative settlement of −28.9 mm, with deformation trends strongly correlated to construction phases—primarily concentrated between April 2022 and March 2023. …”
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Identification of low-count, low-resolution gamma spectral radionuclide using 2DCNN-BiLSTM neural network by Shu-Xin Zeng, Rui Shi, Guang Yang, Xian-Guo Tuo, Xiong Zeng, Ya-Nan Shang, Zhou Wang, Heng Zhang

“…Results showed that the 2DCNN-BiLSTM model achieved an average identification accuracy of 96.58 %, surpassing the 95.70 %, 92.38 %, and 92.19 % accuracies of 2D-VGG16, 1D-CNN, and PCA-BPNN models, respectively. …”
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Precise Acetabular Prosthesis Positioning Using a Novel Robot‐Assisted Total Hip Arthroplasty System: A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial by Xiao Geng, Ziyang Dong, Yang Li, Minwei Zhao, Yanqing Liu, Zijian Li, Hong Cai, Ming Zhang, Xinfeng Yan, Zhiwen Sun, Xin Lv, Feng Guo, Feng Li, Hua Tian

“…The proportion of both anteversion and inclination angles in the safe zone was 92.2% in the experimental group and 50.8% in the control group, with significant difference (p < 0.01). The average operation time in the experimental group and control group was 116.4 and 80.5 min respectively, with significant difference (p < 0.01). …”
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Robot-assisted laparoscopic ureteropelvic junction plasty in children using the da Vinci Xi robotic system: a Russian first experience by V. V. Sizonov, A. G. Makarov, S. M. Pakus, D. G. Kvaratskhelia, E. V. Orlova, S. G. Piskunova, M. I. Kogan

“…The mean operative time across all cases was 146.7 ± 29.3 min. …”
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Spatial distribution of air temperature and relative humidity in the greenhouse as affected by external shading in arid climates by Hesham A. Ahmed, Yu-xin TONG, Qi-chang YANG, Abdulellah A. Al-Faraj, Ahmed M. Abdel-Ghany

“…In an evaporatively-cooled greenhouse in arid regions, the variation of the Tin and RHin in the vertical direction and along the sidewalls was much higher than that in the horizontal direction. The average variation of the Tin and RHin in the vertical direction was 5.2°C and 10% in the Gc and 5.5°C and 13% in the Gs, respectively. …”
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Hematocrit and total protein elimination as quality control parameters of cell salvage by Dörffel Debora, Klotz Edda, Wagner Patrick, Ehrig Karsten, Pretzel Karin, Hanisch Falko, Pruß Axel

“…Background: The use of cell salvage reduces homologous blood transfusions during operations and avoids associated complications. Therefore, autotransfusion is an integral part of Patient Blood Management (PBM). …”
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Laboratory-scale biogas production from vegetable juice waste using an IC reactor by Boualy Vongvisith, Chengyue Liang, Changmei Wang, Fang Yin, Kai Wu, Bin Yang, Jing Liu, Hong Yang, Wudi Zhang

“…However, during the operation of the IC reactor, even with a decrease in the HRT, the system did not overload. …”
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Effects of Tillage Practices on Water Consumption, Water Use Efficiency and Grain Yield in Wheat Field by Cheng-yan ZHENG, Zhen-wen YU, Yu SHI, Shi-ming CUI, Dong WANG, Yong-li ZHANG, Jun-ye ZHAO

“…Thus, the 1-yr subsoiling tillage, plus 2 yr of strip rotary planting operation may be an efficient measure to increase wheat yield and WUE.…”
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Dual Parallel Multielectrode Traveling Wave Mach&#x2013;Zehnder Modulator for 200 Gb/s Intra-datacenter Optical Interconnects by Eslam El-Fiky, Alireza Samani, Mohamed Sowailem, Mohamed Osman, Maxime Jacques, David Patel, Md. Ghulam Saber, Luhua Xu, Zhenping Xing, Meng Xiang, David V. Plant

“…We present a silicon photonic dual parallel multielectrode Mach&#x2013;Zehnder modulator (MEMZM) based transmitter targeting 200&#x00A0;Gb/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) short reach transceivers. The MEMZMs have an average <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_\pi$</tex-math></inline-formula> and electro-optic (EO) bandwidth of 5 V and 38&#x00A0;GHz, respectively. …”
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