A mathematical, classical stratification modeling approach to disentangling the impact of weather on infectious diseases: A case study using spatio-temporally disaggregated Campylo... by Giovanni Lo Iacono, Alasdair J C Cook, Gianne Derks, Lora E Fleming, Nigel French, Emma L Gillingham, Laura C Gonzalez Villeta, Clare Heaviside, Roberto M La Ragione, Giovanni Leonardi, Christophe E Sarran, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Francis Senyah, Arnoud H M van Vliet, Gordon Nichols

“…The findings challenge the assumption, commonly made in statistical models, that the transformed mean rate of infection for diseases like campylobacteriosis is a mere additive and combination of the environmental variables.…”
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Gender-responsive governance and conflict management practices in selected maritime higher education institutions in the Philippines: basis for the development of the training plan by Niño Elson O. Salabas, Sylvino V. Tupas

“…The analysis considers the key variables, including age, gender, length of service, and educational attainment. …”
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What the Owls Leave Behind: Pellet Size Variation Reflects Predator Body Size in Israel’s Owls by Ezra Hadad, Piotr Zduniak, Reuven Yosef

“…Habitat differences and ecological specialization likely contribute to further variability in pellet morphology, even among closely related taxa. …”
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A Decade of Experience Between Open and Minimally Invasive Hepatectomies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Andrew Min-Gi Park, Ye In Christopher Kwon, Kush Savsani, Aadi Sharma, Yuzuru Sambommatsu, Daisuke Imai, Aamir Khan, Amit Sharma, Irfan Saeed, Vinay Kumaran, Adrian Cotterell, Marlon Levy, David Bruno, Seung Duk Lee

“…Preoperative metrics like length of hospital stay (LOS) and operation duration were also evaluated. …”
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Association between albumin and short-term outcomes of unplanned early readmission emergency department patients: A retrospective cohort study. by Liang Zhou, Xiaona Cai, Kunpeng Hu, Shuo Tang, Dandan Gao, Xiaojuan Zhang, Yin Wu, Li He, Bangfu Zhou, Ruoyu Wu, Zhigang Zhang

“…Albumin levels are associated with short-term outcomes in patients admitted to the hospital for the first time, but its association with the outcomes of patients with unplanned early readmission to the ED is likely trivial.…”
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Automatic maxillary sinus segmentation and age estimation model for the northwestern Chinese Han population by Yu-Xin Guo, Jun-Long Lan, Wen-Qing Bu, Yu Tang, Di Wu, Hui Yang, Jia-Chen Ren, Yu-Xuan Song, Hong-Ying Yue, Yu-Cheng Guo, Hao-Tian Meng

“…Conclusion The maxillary sinus-based model is a promising tool for age estimation, particularly in adults, and could be enhanced by incorporating additional variables like dental dimensions.…”
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Adapting an agroecosystem model to account for cover crop management in the Midwest USA by Anna Orfanou, Gregg R. Sanford, Randall D. Jackson, Matthew D. Ruark, Claudio Gratton, Dimitrios Pavlou, Spyridon Mourtzinis, Shawn P. Conley, Christopher J. Kucharik

“…Environmental drivers like growing season length, accumulated GDDs, precipitation amount, and solar radiation were key drivers of cover crop AGB production, which is generally represented by Agro-IBIS. …”
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Shading effects on building energy performance: A multi-city analysis by Xiong Xiao, Jihui Yuan, Zhichao Jiao, Shaoyu Sheng, Jiale Chai, Xiangfei Kong, Craig Farnham, Kazuo Emura

“…By isolating shading from other variables like insulation, HVAC performance, and occupancy, the study provides clear, reproducible insights into how solar exposure directly influences energy demand.This work does not attempt to introduce a new concept, but instead fills a practical gap by offering a geometry-based, simulation-light method suitable for early-stage analysis. …”
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Application of machine learning techniques to predict the compressive strength of steel fiber reinforced concrete by Ala’a R. Al-Shamasneh, Arsalan Mahmoodzadeh, Faten Khalid Karim, Taoufik Saidani, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Jasim Alnahas, Mohammed Sulaiman

“…This study presents a robust machine learning framework to predict the CS of SFRC using a large-scale experimental dataset comprising 600 data points, encompassing key parameters such as fiber characteristics (type, content, length, diameter), water-to-cement (w/c) ratio, aggregate size, curing time, silica fume, and superplasticizer. …”
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Pre-treatment peripheral blood TCR repertoire as a predictor of response in patients with NSCLC treated with immunochemotherapy by Yong Yang, Hui-yu Jiang, Yuan Li, Fang Wu, Zhao-yang Chen, Guo-ping Zheng, Wen-Zhong Su, Hai-long Wang, Min Pang

“…Richness, Shannon diversity indices, and the usage of variable and joining genes were studied. TCR repertoire metrics were then correlated with CB, progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS). …”
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The Prevalence and Molecular Characterization of Bovine Leukemia Virus among Dairy Cattle in Henan Province, China by Yuxi Zhao, Xiaojie Zhu, Zhen Zhang, Jianguo Chen, Yingyu Chen, Changmin Hu, Xi Chen, Ian D. Robertson, Aizhen Guo

“…The geographical annotation of the maximum clade credibility trees suggested that the two genotype 1 strains in Henan might have originated from Japan, while the genotype 7 strain is likely to have originated from Moldova. Subsequent Bayesian stochastic search variable selection analysis further indicated a strong geographical association between the Henan strains and Japan, as well as Moldova. …”
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Molecular clustering of patients with diabetes and pulmonary tuberculosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Francles Blanco-Guillot, Guadalupe Delgado-Sánchez, Norma Mongua-Rodríguez, Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Elizabeth Ferreira-Guerrero, Mercedes Yanes-Lane, Rogelio Montero-Campos, Miriam Bobadilla-Del-Valle, Pedro Torres-González, Alfredo Ponce-de-León, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Lourdes Garcia-Garcia

“…Studies were included if they met the following criteria: (i) studies based on populations from defined geographical areas; (ii) use of genotyping by IS6110- restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis and spoligotyping or mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) or other amplification methods to identify molecular clustering; (iii) genotyping and analysis of 50 or more cases of PTB; (iv) study duration of 11 months or more; (v) identification of quantitative risk factors for molecular clustering including DM; (vi) > 60% coverage of the study population; and (vii) patients with PTB confirmed bacteriologically. …”
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Morphometric analysis of the skull base and palatal regions for gender identification using CBCT: a retrospective study by Asmaa Uthman, Hesham Marei, Walid Elsayed, Sura F. Al-Bayati, Hawraa Shams Aldeen, Shishir Shetty, Musab Hamed Saeed, Natheer H. Al-Rawi

“…Among other skull base region parameters that were significant in term of gender-based difference like; the clivus length (CL) (p < 0.001), occipital condyle height (OCH) (p < 0.001), basal angle (BA) (p = 0.006) and transverse diameter of foramen magnum (p = 0.003). …”
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Children’s Characteristics as the Predictors of Stunting among Children Under 2 Years in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia by Tumaji, Agung D. Laksono, Hastin D. Kusumawardani

“…Children with short birth lengths are 1.373 times more likely than those with standard measurements to be stunted (95% CI 1.331–1.417). …”
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A guide to sunflowers: floral resource nutrition for bee health and key pollination syndromes by Salena Husband, Salena Husband, Katarina Cankar, Olivier Catrice, Stan Chabert, Silvio Erler, Silvio Erler

“…We found that while sunflower pollen’s nutritional quality is questioned due to lower protein and amino acid deficiencies, its nutrient content, like nectar sugars, had large variability. Sunflower pollen consumption showed mixed effects on Apis mellifera and Bombus species, sometimes negatively impacting development and survival. …”
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Relationship Between Harvesting Efficiency and Filament Morphology in <i>Arthrospira platensis</i> Gomont by Ga-Hyeon Kim, Yeong Jun Lee, Jong-Hee Kwon

“…<i>Arthrospira platensis</i>, a filamentous cyanobacterium, exhibits morphological variability influenced by biotic and abiotic factors. …”
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A short-arc hardware delay estimation method for inter-satellite links to improve BDS-3 precise orbit determination by Zhouming Yang, Yunbin Yuan, Bingfeng Tan

“…Conversely, some links like C30-C23 and C30-C33 show more pronounced variations, with STD values reaching 17.7 cm and 14.1 cm within three days. …”
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Comparison of early vs. routine removal of abdominal drainage tube after laparoscopic appendectomy for perforated appendicitis: a retrospective cohort study by Jun He, Gang Qian, Yefei Mao, Lei Gao

“…Postoperative outcomes, including overall complications, IAA, superficial surgical site infection (SSI), stump fistula, ileus, bleeding, postoperative length of stay (LOS), hospitalization costs and readmission to hospital, were compared.ResultsThese two groups were similar regarding demographic and perioperative clinical characteristics like age, sex, duration of symptoms and hematological examination indicators (P &gt; 0.05). …”
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A Deep Learning Framework for the Classification of Brazilian Coins by Debabrata Swain, Viral Rupapara, Amro Nour, Santosh Satapathy, Biswaranjan Acharya, Shakti Mishra, Ali Bostani

“…Most of the existing currency recognition systems are based on the physical properties of the currencies, such as length, breadth, and mass. At the same time, image-based methods rely on other properties like color, shape, and edge. …”
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Phenotypic and Complete Reference Whole Genome Sequence Analyses of Two <i>Paenibacillus</i> spp. Isolates from a Gray Wolf (<i>Canis lupus</i>) Gastrointestinal Tract by Jessika L. Bryant, Jennifer McCabe, C. Cristoph Klews, MiCayla Johnson, Ariel N. Atchley, Thomas W. Cousins, Maya Barnard-Davidson, Kristina M. Smith, Mark R. Ackermann, Michael Netherland, Nur A. Hasan, Peter A. Jordan, Evan S. Forsythe, Patrick N. Ball, Bruce S. Seal

“…The bacteria were typed as Gram-variable, and both were catalase/oxidase positive as well as sensitive to commonly used antibiotics. …”
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