Use of Population Weighted Density Index for Coronavirus Spread in the United States by Huseyin Yuce, Hannah Stauss, Adrienne Persad

“…In addition to the density, the proportion of people over 65 years of age, the number of total healthcare workers, and average temperature in each county positively contributed to the case numbers, while education level and income per capita had a negative effect. **Discussion:** For the spread, understanding the population characteristics and dynamics is as important as understanding the infectious disease itself. …”
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ALBERTA: ALgorithm-Based Error Resilience in Transformer Architectures by Haoxuan Liu, Vasu Singh, Michal Filipiuk, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari

“…We introduce an efficient self-correction mechanism for resolving erroneous detection with an average of less than 2% overhead per error.…”
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Preliminary results of open comparative randomized study PHG-M3/P01-09 «ORION» on application of «Phosphogliv» in combined therapy of chronic hepatitis C by M. V. Mayevskaya

“…Four-week application of phosphogliv (glycirrhizinic acid) in a dose of 2,5 g iv 5 times per week, previous to onset of antiviral therapy (AVT) by standard interferon α-2b/ribavirin in the mode corresponding to revealed genotype, has resulted in statistically significant decrease of serum transaminases: alanineaminotransferase (ALT), asparaginaminotransferase (AST) and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) activity in comparison to the group of the patients, that received only standard interferon α-2b/ribavirin (р <002, Wilcoxon T) to the 4-th week of treatment. …”
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A Concise Review of Recent Advancements in Carbon Nanotubes for Aerospace Applications by Silvia Zecchi, Giovanni Cristoforo, Erik Piatti, Daniele Torsello, Gianluca Ghigo, Alberto Tagliaferro, Carlo Rosso, Mattia Bartoli

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The Effect of Medium Chain Triglycerides on Time to Nutritional Ketosis and Symptoms of Keto-Induction in Healthy Adults: A Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial by Cliff J. d C. Harvey, Grant M. Schofield, Micalla Williden, Joseph A. McQuillan

“…We compared changes in beta-hydroxybutyrate (BOHB), blood glucose, symptoms of keto-induction, and mood disturbance, in 28 healthy adults prescribed a ketogenic diet, randomised to receive either 30 ml of MCT, or sunflower oil as a control, three times per day, for 20 days. The primary outcome measured was the achievement of NK (≥0.5 mmol·L−1 BOHB). …”
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Enhanced heart sound classification using Mel frequency cepstral coefficients and comparative analysis of single vs. ensemble classifier strategies. by Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Amir Haider, Mazhar Hussain Malik, Mohammad Adeli, Olfa Mzoughi, Entesar Gemeay, Mokhtar Mohammadi, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Parisa Khoshvaght, Thantrira Porntaveetus, Amir Masoud Rahmani

“…Heart sounds are first pre-processed to remove noise and then segmented into S1, systole, S2, and diastole intervals, with thirteen MFCCs estimated from each segment, yielding 52 MFCCs per beat. Finally, MFCCs are used for heart sound classification. …”
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Adoption and Impact of the Maize Hybrid on the Livelihood of the Maize Growers: Some Policy Insights from Pakistan by Akhter Ali, AbduRahman Beshir Issa, Dil Bahadur Rahut

“…The results from PSM revealed that hybrid maize adopters had higher grain yields in the range of 94–124 kgs per hectare as compared with nonadopters. Similarly household income levels were more in the range of Pakistani rupees 2,176–3,518, while the poverty levels were lower in the range of 2-3 percent for hybrid maize adopters. …”
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Effect of Electromyographic Biofeedback Therapy on Ulnar Nerve Injury in Different Degrees by Beibei LI, Yiming XU, Lixing LI, Yuehong BAI

“…The control group was treated with medicine, kinesitherapy and laser physiotherapy, while the treatment group received electromyographic biofeedback therapy in addition,15 minutes per time, once a day, treated lasted for 8 weeks. …”
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FACTORS INFLUENCING THE EFFECTIVE CAPTURE OF INDIRECT COSTS IN ACCIDENT REPORTS BY EMERGING CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS IN SOUTH AFRICA by Ayodeji .O. Aiyetan, Chikezirim Okorafor

“…It was revealed that none of the reports were compliant as per the pre-set theme used. The reasons behind the non-compliance were sought for, through another round of data collection deploying questionnaire surveys. …”
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Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Charcoal Production Activities of Rural Households in Mecha District, Ethiopia by Kassahun Tassie, Berihun Misganaw, Solomon Addisu, Ermias Tesfaye

“…Ethiopia is one of the largest charcoal-producing countries in Africa where its urban consumers burn over 3 million tons per year. The purpose of this study was to measure the amount of charcoal produced and its related environmental and socioeconomic impact in the study area. …”
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Retraction: Impact of coated phycocyanin and phycoerythrin on antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of soap, anti-acne face wash and hand sanitizer gel by Bahareh Nowruzi, Hossein Hashemi

“…The patient previously underwent a thread-lift procedure, including inserting lifting threads from behind the ears using sharp needles and absorbable threads, with one thread per side. Despite gradual improvement in sensation, muscle weakness and loss of the platysmal band persisted for approximately two months post-procedure. …”
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Machine Learning in Acute Stroke Neuroimaging. A Systematic Literature Review by D. Matuliauskas, I. Stražnickaitė, A. Samuilis, D. Jatužis

“…The average reported sensitivity and specific- ity were 0.746 and 0.862, respectively. 27 out of 60 studies used human operators, with the average number of human operators per study being 3.7±2.9. Conclusions. AI solutions can be widely applied in computation of infarct volumes. …”
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Autologous Fat Grafting in the Treatment of Facial Scleroderma by Mehdi Gheisari, Arman Ahmadzadeh, Nilofar Nobari, Behzad Iranmanesh, Nikoo Mozafari

“…Autologous fat injection ranging from 15 to 40 ml was administered per patient, based on their face morphology. The patients were evaluated at baseline and 3 months after fat injection. …”
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Evaluation of sleep and treatment discipline in people with epilepsy by D. Streckytė, R. Mameniškienė

“…Sleep regimen did not depend on epilepsy type (p>0.05), 35% of respondents slept less than 7 hours per night, and 53% did not follow sleep regimen, which was related to treatment indiscipline (p=0.027). …”
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A Group-Based Signal Timing Optimization Model Considering Safety for Signalized Intersections with Mixed Traffic Flows by Fen Wang, Keshuang Tang, Keping Li, Zhigang Liu, Lin Zhu

“…A probabilistic approach was developed to estimate the probability of occurrence of conflicts, with a novel safety indicator combining postencroachment time and kinetic energy for measuring conflict severity. The average delay per person, according to the Highway Capacity Manual 2010 method, was adopted in this paper. …”
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Evaluation of the 3 mm Thickness Splint Therapy on Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMDs) by Nihat Akbulut, Ahmet Altan, Sibel Akbulut, Cemal Atakan

“…They were evaluated according to follow-up treatment period, TMD pain, muscle pain, mouth opening, diet score, and splint usage time per day. Results. There was important treatment success that 22 (88%) of patients were totally healed. …”
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Analyzing the Mechanical, Durability, and Microstructural Impact of Partial Cement Replacement with Pumice Powder and Bamboo Leaf Ash in Concrete by Haris Hassen Adem, Fikreyesus Demeke Cherkos

“…Moreover, on the 28th day, Mix-2 with (35.84 MPa) and Mix-3 with (33.55 MPa) met the desired mean compressive strength (33.5 MPa) required for C-25 concrete per the ACI standards. Additionally, the flexural strength of concrete produced with partial replacement of Mix-2 with a flexural strength of 3.86 MPa fulfills the minimum strength requirement of 3.5 MPa specified by the C-25 ACI standards. …”
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Adaptive potential of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) varieties of Azerbaijan by Kh. N. Rustamov, Z. I. Akparov, M. A. Abbasov

“…Durum wheat yields under the conditions of moderately continental climate in Mountainous Shirvan depended on the number and weight of grains per ear. The varieties identified for the best adaptability are recommended to be included in crosses to develop new plastic cultivars of durum wheat.…”
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Morbidity and mortality in the Cienfuegos Provincial Hospital (2018-2022) by Rodolfo Javier Rivero Morey, Lya del Rosario Magariño Abreus, Jeisy Rivero Morey, Arelys Falcón Hernández, Moisés Aramís Santos Peña

“…In 2021, 2,879 patients died; for a mortality rate of 8 per 1000 inhabitants.<br /><strong>Conclusions</strong>: most patients who come to hospital services are admitted by clinical specialties with a stay. …”
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Image Analysis Based Grading of Bladder Carcinoma. Comparison of Object, Texture and Graph Based Methods and Their Reproducibility by Heung‐Kook Choi, Torsten Jarkrans, Ewert Bengtsson, Janos Vasko, Kenneth Wester, Per-Uno Malmström, Christer Busch

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