Enhancing Typhoid Fever Diagnosis Based on Clinical Data Using a Lightweight Machine Learning Metamodel by Fariha Ahmed Nishat, M. F. Mridha, Istiak Mahmud, Meshal Alfarhood, Mejdl Safran, Dunren Che

“…<b>Methods:</b> A custom dataset comprising 14 clinical and demographic parameters—including age, gender, headache, muscle pain, nausea, diarrhea, cough, fever range (°F), hemoglobin (g/dL), platelet count, urine culture bacteria, calcium (mg/dL), and potassium (mg/dL)—was analyzed. …”
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A Novel Skeletonization Algorithm for Topologically Complex Structures: Comparative Analysis and Application to Renal Arterial Trees by Katarzyna Heryan, Stefan-Daniel Caliman

“…The method was quantitatively evaluated on artificial renal tree models using metrics such as branch count per hierarchical level and bifurcation angle fidelity. …”
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Using dead-reckoning to track movements and map burrows of fossorial species by James Redcliffe, Jesse Boulerice, Itai Namir, Rory Wilson, William J. McShea, Hila Shamon

“…We compared the accuracy of five techniques for deriving speed: vectorial dynamic body acceleration (VeDBA), vectorial static body acceleration (VeSBA), step count, and constant speed. Results Acceleration signals reliably indicated traveling behavior. …”
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Exploring Mortality and Prognostic Factors of Heart Failure with In-Hospital and Emergency Patients by Electronic Medical Records: A Machine Learning Approach by Yu CS, Wu JL, Shih CM, Chiu KL, Chen YD, Chang TH

“…Random forest, support vector machine (SVM), Adaboost, and logistic regression had better overall performances with areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROCs) of > 0.87. …”
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Mpox and Neglected Tropical Diseases in Pakistan: A Growing Planetary Health Concern by Wasim Alamgir, Hina Shan

“…Thankfully, despite the presence of the vector, Pakistan remains free of yellow fever and Zika cases. …”
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Dimensions fractales de réseaux vectoriels : méthodes d’estimation et robustesse des résultats by Nathalie Thommeret, Jean-Stéphane Bailly, Jean-Marc Bardet, Brigitte Kaiser, Christian Puech

“…However, only few papers compare or discuss the estimation methods and the uncertainty of the main fractal indicator, the fractal dimension. This work focuses on the fractal properties of vector networks both virtual and actual. …”
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Understanding mechanisms of thrombosis and thrombocytopenia with adenoviral SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: a comprehensive synopsis by Phillip LR Nicolson, Simon T Abrams, Gayatri Amirthalingam, Kevin Brown, Richard J Buka, Mark J Caulfield, Joshua Gardner, David Goldblatt, Charlotte Lovatt, Samantha J Montague, Dean J Naisbitt, Alan Parker, Sue Pavord, Mary E Ramsay, Jonathan AC Sterne, Cathie LM Sudlow, Cheng Hock Toh, Steve P Watson, Guozheng Wang, Angela M Wood, William Whiteley, Munir Pirmohamed

“…Methods The consortium employed a comprehensive approach across five work packages. This included designing cohort studies covering the entire English population and analysing local linked regional data sets to detect thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome occurrences in real time. …”
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FIRST RESULTS ON THE DIRECTION STATISTICS OF PAIRS OF EPICENTERS OF NEIGHBOR EARTHQUAKES ON KAMCHATKA by A. A. Gusev, A. A. Palueva

“…These phenomena can be described as a deviation (increase) of probability of short interevent distances and times as compared to the reference “pure random” or Poisson case; this tendency manifests itself in statistics of distances between epicenters. In the present work, we study the statistics of directions for vectors connecting pairs of epicenters of such small earthquakes which are close in space-time. …”
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A randomized controlled trial of Tickoff® (Metarhizium anisopliae ICIPE 7) for control of tick infestations and transmission of tick-borne infections in extensively grazed zebu cat... by Joseph Wang’ang’a Oundo, Shewit Kalayou, Gerrit Gort, Gebbiena M. Bron, Constantianus J.M. Koenraadt, Quirine ten Bosch, Daniel Masiga

“…Additionally, adverse environmental conditions resulted in low tick abundance and pathogen circulation towards the end of the study period, reducing the power of the study. This work re-emphasizes the challenges of randomized controlled field trials and the complexity of assessing the impact of vector control products on both direct and indirect impacts on pathogen transmission.…”
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Advancing Fractal Dimension Techniques to Enhance Motor Imagery Tasks Using EEG for Brain–Computer Interface Applications by Amr F. Mohamed, Vacius Jusas

“…For this purpose, all four classes provided in the BCI Competition IV 2a dataset are utilized with nine different combinations of seven FD methods: Katz, Petrosian, Higuchi, box-counting, MFDFA, DFA, and correlation dimension. The resulting features are then used to train five machine learning models: linear, Gaussian, polynomial support vector machine, regression tree, and stochastic gradient descent. …”
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Co-infection of cytomegalovirus and Leishmania without splenomegaly resulting in immunosuppression in an HIV-negative patient by Inder Preet Singh Bhatia, Siddharth Tripathi, Amulyajit Singh, Jayaraj Hasvi, Amit Rajan, Dahake Vandana Tukaram

“…Case description: We report an unusual case of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) in a patient who was extensively worked up for PUO. She was found to have low CD4 counts even though serial samples were negative for HIV. …”
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Improved identification and tracking of three-dimensional eddies in the Southern Ocean utilizing 3D-U-Res-Net by Chang Liu, Xiayan Lin, Xiayan Lin, Guangjun Xu, Guangjun Xu, Guoqing Han, Yu Liu

“…For eddy tracking, the VG algorithm counted 18168 eddy tracks, whereas the 3D-U-Res-Net counted 18559, reflecting a 2.15% bias. …”
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