Contact heterogeneity, rather than transmission efficiency, limits the emergence and spread of canine influenza virus. by Benjamin D Dalziel, Kai Huang, Jemma L Geoghegan, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Edward J Dubovi, Bryan T Grenfell, Stephen P Ellner, Edward C Holmes, Colin R Parrish

“…A key question in the study of emerging zoonoses is how the evolution of transmission efficiency interacts with heterogeneity in contact patterns in the new host species, as this interplay influences disease dynamics and prospects for control. …”
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Adherence to Anti-VEGF Treatment in Patients with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Real-World Study by Mekala Shellvarajah, Vuong Nguyen, Sarah Steinmann, Mark C. Gillies, Alexandros Sagkriotis, Daniel Barthelmes

“…Abstract Introduction The evolution of treatment patterns in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) warrants investigation into the impact of patients’ adherence to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) treatment on visual outcomes. …”
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Epidemiology and Implications of Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Units: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ali N Al-Awwady

“…This study aimed to determine patients’ patterns with TBI and estimate its contribution to injury-related mortality and population-wide mortality. …”
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Being a Pakistani mother in Catalonia: a mixed methods study by Maryam El Khayat, Magda Rivero, M. Teresa Anguera

“…We focused on identifying and describing patterns, practices and beliefs about parenting, identifying differential characteristics between the context of origin and the host context, and exploring Pakistani immigrants’ use of resources or assets in the area of parenting support.MethodsParticipants consisted of 20 women, established in Catalonia, Spain (<5 years of residence) who have children (at least one of preschool-age). …”
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A retrospective review of postgraduate physiotherapy research at the University of Zambia by Loveness A. Nkhata, Margaret M. Mweshi

“…Conclusion: The findings demonstrate sustained growth in postgraduate physiotherapy enrollment over the past 15 years, with a notable increase in female representation. …”
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Evaluation of patient awareness to drug treatment and self-medication practices: Unexplored dimensions in chronic heart failure management by Raakhi Kaliprasad Tripathi, Sujeet Krishna Bhilwade, Sharmila Vinayak Jalgaonkar, Dhiraj Kumar, Pramod Gitte

“…Consented patients aged >18 years of either gender with confirmed diagnosis of chronic HF on stable drug treatment were included. …”
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Prominent Zakat Institutions and Their Role in Advancing the Welfare of the Muslim Community in The Eastern Province of Sri Lanka by Raseethu Mohamed Kasjin

“…The primary objectives of this study are to introduce prominent Zakat institutions and to analyze the welfare contribution over the past five years from 2019 to 2023. Design/Method/Approach: This study used a mixed method. …”
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The Role of CA-125 Levels as a Prognostic Indicator for Response to Medical Treatment in Fallopian Ectopic Pregnancy by Mohammad Eslami Vaghar

“…The study further investigated the patterns of CA-125 levels and their potential association with the development of complications and β-hCG trends. …”
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MLRec: A Machine Learning-Based Recommendation System for High School Students Context of Bangladesh by Momotaz Begum, Mehedi Hasan Shuvo, Jia Uddin

“…Social media and mobile devices, commonly referred to as socimedevices, have become integral to students’ daily lives, influencing both their academic performance and overall well-being. Depending on usage patterns, these technologies can positively or negatively impact students’ education. …”
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Effects of landscape heterogeneity on bird communities in temperate, boreal, and montane forests – a review by Jérémy Cours, Rémi Duflot

“…Bird populations in Europe and North America have been strongly declining for the last 40 years. As mobile organisms, bird species are sensitive to landscape patterns; therefore, landscape effects on bird communities need to be understood to set relevant conservation measures. …”
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A Cross-Machine Intelligent Fault Diagnosis Method with Small and Imbalanced Data Based on the ResFCN Deep Transfer Learning Model by Juanru Zhao, Mei Yuan, Yiwen Cui, Jin Cui

“…Intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD) for mechanical equipment based on small and imbalanced datasets has been widely studied in recent years, with transfer learning emerging as one of the most promising approaches. …”
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Estimation of snow load and avalanche hazard assessment in Southeastern Afghanistan through remote sensing techniques by Nazir Khan Mohammadi, Mohammad Gul Arabzai, Zikui Wang

“…Climate change has intensified fluctuations in snowfall patterns, and consequently elevating the risks associated with snow-related hazards. …”
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Regional disparities on contraceptive intention and its sociodemographic determinants among reproductive women in Nigeria by Jamilu Sani, Alabi Olatunji Oluyomi, Ismail Garba Wali, Mohamed Mustaf Ahmed, Salad Halane

“…Conclusion There were significant regional disparities and complex sociodemographic patterns in contraceptive intention among Nigerian women. …”
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Traumatic Spinal Injuries in Saudi Arabia: A Retrospective Single-center Medical Record Review by Mohammed Alsabieh

“… Introduction: The aim of this retrospective medical record review was to describe the patterns and outcomes of traumatic spinal injuries (TSIs) in a tertiary care trauma center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Beluga Whale Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory–Random Forest Networks for Trajectory Control and Energy Optimization in Excavator Systems by Van Hien Nguyen, Kyoung Kwan Ahn

“…Over the past few years, reducing energy consumption in hydraulic excavators has gained increasing attention, driving significant research in this field. …”
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DPN-GAN: Inducing Periodic Activations in Generative Adversarial Networks for High-Fidelity Audio Synthesis by Zeeshan Ahmad, Shudi Bao, Meng Chen

“…In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have made significant progress in generating audio sequences. …”
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Spatiotemporal trends in hernia disease burden and health workforce correlations in aging populations: a global analysis with projections to 2050 by Fangyi Dai, Yuzhou Cai, Huayou Luo, Ruo Shu, Tong Zhang, Yong Dai

“…Spatial and temporal patterns were examined using age-period-cohort and frontier analyses. …”
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Urinary Dopamine Levels Can Predict the Avidity of Post-Therapy [¹³¹I]MIBG Scintigraphy in Unresectable or Metastatic Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas: A Preliminary... by Junki Takenaka, Shiro Watanabe, Takashige Abe, Satoshi Takeuchi, Kenji Hirata, Rina Kimura, Hiroshi Ishii, Naoto Wakabayashi, Mungunkhuyag Majigsuren, Kohsuke Kudo

“…The primary objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between MIBG avidity and catecholamine secretion patterns in patients with unresectable or metastatic PPGLs. …”
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Association of childhood-to-adulthood body size change with cancer risk: UK Biobank prospective cohort by Marko Mandic, Fatemeh Safizadeh, Ben Schöttker, Michael Hoffmeister, Hermann Brenner

“…Results Among 448,936 participants (mean [SD] age, 56.2 [8.1] years; 240,023 were female [53.5%]) and during a median follow-up of 11.7 years (interquartile range [10.9–12.4]), 21,289 incident obesity-related cancer cases were recorded. …”
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Assessing the Level of Consumption by Children in Households by K. V. Kuznetsov

“…Mason, and Deaton, that confirms the possible consumption patterns of Russian households.Conclusion. This article draws two key conclusions. …”
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