Parametric Study and Experimental Validation of Acoustic Leaky Wave Antenna in Spatial Localization by Alejandro Fernandez-Garrido, Maria Campo-Valera, Elena Abdo-Sanchez, Ruben Pico, Antonio-Javier Garcia-Sanchez, Rafael Asorey-Cacheda

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The incidence of radiologically verified community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalisation in adults living in southern Sweden, 2016-2018: a population-based study by Elisabeth Rünow, Frida Valeur, Gustav Torisson, Karin Hansen, Christian Theilacker, Kristian Riesbeck, Jonas Ahl

“…The crude incidence rate of CAP requiring hospitalization was 259 (95% CI: 246–272) and age-standardized rate was 294 (95% CI: 280–309) per 100,000 person-years. Among those aged 80 years and older, hospitalization rate was 17 times higher vs those aged 18–64 years, yielding an IRR 17.4 (95% CI: 15.4–19.7). …”
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Genetic parameters for milk production traits of Simmental cows with random regression test-day model by A. Otwinowska-Mindur, E. Ptak, W. Jagusiak, A. Zarnecki

“…A minimum of two daughters per sire was required. Daily yields were collected between 5 and 305 days in milk. …”
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Oral nutritional supplements for gastric cancer – the review of current evidence by A. L. Potapov, V. E. Khoronenko, E. V. Gameeva, Zh. V. Khailova, A. D. Dorozhkin, V. Yu. Scoropad

“…It is recommended that the patient consume at least 200–250 ml of the mixture per day, and in the early postoperative period focus have to be made not on the target volume, but on signs of tolerability.…”
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Analysis of genetic relationships of genotypes of the genus Rosa L. from the collection of Nikita Botanical Gardens using ISSR and IRAP DNA markers by I. I. Suprun, S. A. Plugatar, I. V. Stepanov, T. S. Naumenko

“…The numbers of polymorphic fragments ranged from 12 to 31, averaging 19.25 fragments per marker. For markers UBC 864 and UBC 843, unique fingerprints were identified in each accession studied. …”
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Management of sustainable land use projects in accordance with EU requirements by Elena Shebanina, Iurii Kormyshkin, Alona Kliuchnyk, Georgiy Reshetilov, Oleksandr Zhebko

“…The number of certified organic producers in Ukraine (3.2 per 100,000 population) is 6.4 times lower than the average for EU countries. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Overweight and Obesity among Primary School Children Aged 7–17 Years in Urban Mbarara, Uganda by Benedict Twinomugisha, Abdon Marius Birungi

“…Findings revealed that 54.3% of participants were walking to school compared to 45.7% that were cycling/bicycling and 76.3% playing and doing household chores as opposed to 23.7% that spent their leisure time through reading and watching TV, 74.2% took more than two meals per day, and 79.4% often took vegetables and fruits compared to 20.6% that took them most of the time. …”
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Incidence of chronic wounds in Singapore, a multiethnic Asian country, between 2000 and 2017: a retrospective cohort study using a nationwide claims database by Nicholas Graves, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Orlanda Q Goh, Ganga Ganesan, Yi Zhen Ng, Keith Harding

“…In 2017, the crude incidence rate (CIR) was 15 per 100 000 persons (95% CI 14 to 16) for venous wounds, 56 (95% CI 53 to 58) for arterial, 168 (95% CI 164 to 173) for diabetic and 183 (95% CI 179 to 188) for pressure wounds. …”
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Short-term evolution and dispersal patterns of fluconazole-resistance in Candida auris clade III by Irving Cancino-Muñoz, Juan Vicente Mulet-Bayona, Carme Salvador-García, Nuria Tormo-Palop, Remedios Guna, Concepción Gimeno-Cardona, Fernando González-Candelas

“…Moreover, we have estimated the evolutionary rate of clade III to be 2.25e-7 s/s/y (2.87 changes per year). We found that one of these subgroups shows intrinsic resistance to fluconazole and is responsible for the majority of cases within this clade globally. …”
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Effectiveness of dynamic neuromuscular stabilization training on strength, endurance, and flexibility in adults with intellectual disabilities, a randomized controlled trial by Hamed Babagoltabar-Samakoush, Behnoosh Aminikhah, Saeid Bahiraei

“…Participants in the intervention group engaged in the DNS training program for 8 weeks, with 3 sessions per week, while the control group maintained their usual activities. …”
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Wastewater-based estimation of temporal variation in shedding amount of influenza A virus and clinically identified cases using the PRESENS model by Hiroki Ando, Michio Murakami, Masaaki Kitajima, Kelly A. Reynolds

“…The model revealed that a 50 % probability of IAV detection in wastewater corresponds to 0.53 (95 % CrI: 0.35–0.78) cases per 100,000 people, as observed in clinical surveillance over two weeks. …”
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Development of a model for measuring sagittal plane parameters in 10–18-year old adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis based on RTMpose deep learning technology by Zhijie Kang, Guopeng Shi, Yong Zhu, Feng Li, Xiaohe Li, Haiyan Wang

“…The model took an average of 9.27 s to automatically measure the 15 anatomical parameters per X-ray image. Conclusion The deep learning model based on RTMpose can effectively enhance clinical efficiency by automatically measuring the sagittal plane parameters of the spine in X-rays of patients with AIS. …”
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Sustainable Ultrasound-Assisted Solid-Phase peptide synthesis (SUS-SPPS): Less Waste, more efficiency by Salvatore Mottola, Alessandra Del Bene, Vincenzo Mazzarella, Roberto Cutolo, Ida Boccino, Francesco Merlino, Sandro Cosconati, Salvatore Di Maro, Anna Messere

“…Notably, SUS-SPPS reduces solvent usage per coupling cycle by 83–88%, marking a significant breakthrough in sustainable peptide synthesis.…”
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Mild hyperthermia with magnetic resonance- guided high intensity focused ultrasound combined with salvage chemoradiation for recurrent rectal cancer by Jonathan Peng, Ari Partanen, Samuel Pichardo, Robert Staruch, Kaitlyn Perry, Merrylee McGuffin, Yuexi Huang, Kelvin KW. Chan, Shun Wong, Greg Czarnota, Kullervo Hynynen, William Chu

“…Radiation was delivered to a dose of 30.6 Gy in 1.8 Gy per fraction with concurrent capecitabine. MR-HIFU was delivered on days 1, 8 and 15 of concurrent chemoradiation. …”
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Prediction of mortality and prioritisation to tertiary care using the 'OUR-ARCad' risk score gleaned from the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic-A retrospective cohort study from Sou... by Narendran Gopalan, Vinod Kumar Viswanathan, Vignes Anand Srinivasalu, Saranya Arumugam, Adhin Bhaskar, Tamizhselvan Manoharan, Santosh Kishor Chandrasekar, Divya Bujagaruban, Ramya Arumugham, Gopi Jagadeeswaran, Saravanan Madurai Pandian, Arunalatha Ponniah, Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, Baskaran Dhanraj, Vineet Kumar Chadha, Balaji Purushotham, Manoj Vasanth Murhekar

“…<h4>Results</h4>Of 617 COVID-19 patients (325 survivors, 292 non-survivors), treated as per prevailing national guidelines, with a slight male predilection (358/617 [58.0%]), fatalities in the age group above and below 50 years were (217/380 [57.1%]) and (75/237 [31.6%]), p<0.001. …”
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Meridional anisotropy in contrast sensitivity and visual evoked potential in adults with high myopic astigmatism by Siu Sang Anthony Wu, Tsz Wing Leung, Tsz Wing Leung, Tsz Wing Leung

“…We assessed CS using a spatial four-alternative forced-choice procedure and recorded ssVEP at spatial frequencies ranging from 0.6 to 12 cycles per degree (cpd) for horizontal and vertical gratings. …”
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Assessing water dependencies and risks in Dutch industries: Distribution, consumption and future challenges by C.J. Teo, J. Poinapen, J.A.M.H. Hofman, T. Wintgens

“…It advocated a more sophisticated approach that moves beyond mere water usage per unit of output to encompass the production complexities that significantly affect water dependency in particular industries. …”
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Prediction of fish (Coilia nasus) catch using spatiotemporal environmental variables and random forest model in a highly turbid macrotidal estuary by Vishal Singh Rawat, Gubash Azhikodan, Katsuhide Yokoyama

“…This study aims to predict the catch per unit effort (CPUE) of the Japanese Grenadier Anchovy (Coilia nasus) in the Chikugo River estuary by analyzing an extensive dataset of hourly fish catches and environmental variables through Random Forest (RF) models. …”
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Epidemiology of breast cancer in Chinese women from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis and comparison with the global burden by Zheng Long, Yujie Qiu, Zhenghao Long, Zicheng Jin

“…The age-standardized rates per 100,000 women were 355.72 for prevalence (+ 103.22% from 1990), 37.00 for incidence (107.40%), 8.24 for mortality (-8.24%), 281.54 for disability-adjusted life years (-6.68%), 25.86 for years lived with disability (110.24%), and 255.69 for years of life lost (-11.62%). …”
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Cost-effectiveness of targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS) for detection of tuberculosis drug resistance in India, South Africa and Georgia: a modeling analysisResearch in co... by Suvesh Shrestha, Angelina Addae, Cecily Miller, Nazir Ismail, Alice Zwerling

“…The primary outcome was incremental cost (2021 US$) per disability-adjusted life year (DALY) averted. …”
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