The Guyana Diabetes and Foot Care Project: Improved Diabetic Foot Evaluation Reduces Amputation Rates by Two-Thirds in a Lower Middle Income Country by Julia Lowe, R. Gary Sibbald, Nashwah Y. Taha, Gerald Lebovic, Madan Rambaran, Carlos Martin, Indira Bhoj, Brian Ostrow

“…Type 2 diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in Guyana, South America. A complex, interprofessional, quality improvement intervention to improve foot and diabetes care was rolled out in two phases. …”
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Role of autophagy defects and significance of adherent-invasive <i>Escherichia coli</i> in Crohn's disease development by I. V. Mayev, D. N. Andreev, D. V. Rakitina, Yu. P. Baykova

“…According to modern concept, etiology of CD has complex nature and is determined by genetic predisposition, infectious agents and environmental factors. …”
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Solar Thermochemical Fuel Production: A Novel, Validated Multiphysics Reactor Model for the Reduction–Oxidation of Nonstoichiometric Redox Cycles by Francesco Orsini, Domenico Ferrero, Davide Papurello, Massimo Santarelli

“…The proposed analytical model can be applied to arbitrarily complex reactor geometries. The inherently local nature of the model also allows the spatial distributions of the redox material’s conversion and utilization to be obtained, paving the way for optimization strategies of the reactor’s design and operation.…”
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A Configurable Semantic-Based Transformation Method towards Conceptual Models by Tiexin Wang, Jingwen Cao, Chuanqi Tao, Zhibin Yang, Yi Wu, Bohan Li

“…Conceptual models are built to depict and analyze complex systems. They are made of concepts and relationships among these concepts. …”
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Toll-like receptors in atopic dermatitis: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications by Ahmad Vafaeian, Fateme Rajabi, Nima Rezaei

“…However, significant challenges exist, including off-target effects due to ubiquitous TLR expression and complex roles in immune responses. Future directions include CRISPR-based gene editing to understand TLR functions, development of specific TLR modulators for targeted therapy, and machine learning applications to predict drug responses and identify novel ligands. …”
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An Effective Methodology for Diabetes Prediction in the Case of Class Imbalance by Borislava Toleva, Ivan Atanasov, Ivan Ivanov, Vincent Hooper

“…Our methodology can outperform existing machine learning algorithms and complex deep learning models. Applying our proposed methodology is a simple and fast way to predict labels with class imbalance. …”
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A comparative study of machine learning algorithms for fall detection in technology-based healthcare system: Analyzing SVM, KNN, decision tree, random forest, LSTM, and CNN by Afuan Lasmedi, Isnanto R. Rizal

“…The superiority of CNN and LSTM in detecting more complex fall patterns aligns with previous studies emphasizing the capabilities of deep learning models in sensor data classification. …”
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An Imaging Method for Marine Targets in Corner Reflector Jamming Scenario Based on Time–Frequency Analysis and Modified Clean Technique by Changhong Chen, Wenkang Liu, Yuexin Gao, Lei Cui, Quan Chen, Jixiang Fu, Mengdao Xing

“…In the corner reflector jamming scenario, the ship target and the corner reflector array have different degrees of defocusing in the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image due to their complex motions, which is unfavorable to the subsequent target recognition. …”
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Prioritizing DevOps Implementation Guidelines for Sustainable Software Projects by Muhammad Zohaib, Ahmed Alsanad, Areej Abdullah Alhogail

“…Implementing DevOps principles can be complex for software organizations. However, sustainable DevOps implementation can lead to the development of high-quality projects with a favorable return on investment. …”
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Decisions about the use of psychotropic medication during pregnancy: a qualitative study by Irene Petersen, Vanessa Pinfold, Sarah Hamilton, Fiona Stevenson, Charlotte Walker, Ceri R J Dare, Harminder Kaur, Ruth Lambley, Paulina Szymczynska, Vicky Nicolls

“…Recruitment to the study was via peer networks and the women interviewed came from different regions of England.Setting Interviews were arranged in places where women felt comfortable and that accommodated their childcare needs including their home, local library and the research office.Results The views expressed demonstrated complex attempts to engage with decision-making about the use of psychotropic medicines in pregnancy. …”
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Phenotypic traits differentiating the genetic resources of pea (<i>Pisum sativum</i> L.) by the type of use by E. V. Semenova, A. P. Boyko, L. Y. Novikova, M. A. Vishnyakova

“…Dry pea varieties occupied an intermediate position. The complex of phenotypic traits identified determines the differences between three types of pea use, which is important when selecting the initial material for breeding appropriate varieties.…”
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Hybrid learning in post-pandemic higher education systems: an analysis using SEM and DNN by Alvin Muhammad ‘Ainul Yaqin, Ahmad Kamil Muqoffi, Sigit Rahmat Rizalmi, Faishal Arham Pratikno, Remba Yanuar Efranto

“…The DNN demonstrated its ability to capture complex, nonlinear relationships and provide actionable insights into factors driving student interests. …”
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The Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis to Explore Associations between Categories of Qualitative Variables in Healthy Ageing by Patrício Soares Costa, Nadine Correia Santos, Pedro Cunha, Jorge Cotter, Nuno Sousa

“…MCA provided a powerful tool to explore complex ageing data, covering multiple and diverse variables, showing if a relationship exists and how variables are related, and offering statistical results that can be seen both analytically and visually.…”
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Effects of alkali treatment on the bending and fracture behavior of biomaterial bamboo by Xiaohan Chen, Xianke Wang, Shaohua Gu, Aiyue Huang, Haitao Cheng

“…Although bamboo has broad application prospects in the transportation industry, its insufficient flexibility remains a challenge when designing components with large curvature and complex shapes. In this study, SEM, XRD, FTIR, and micron-level computed tomography (Micro-CT) were used to investigate the effects of alkali treatment with different mass concentrations and different loading directions on the flexibility expression of bamboo, and to evaluate the potential relationship between the structure and flexibility of bamboo. …”
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Exploring the Node Importance and Its Influencing Factors in the Railway Freight Transportation Network in China by Qipeng Sun, Xiaozhuang Guo, Wenjing Jiang, Haiying Ding, Tingzhen Li, Xingbo Xu

“…Node importance is a key factor affecting the overall operation efficiency of a railway freight transportation network (RFTN) that can be measured with the indicators of Hub and PageRank. Based on complex network theory and the national railway cargo exchange data of China’s provinces, this study constructs an RFTN model with the 31 provinces as the nodes and measures the values of Hub and PageRank for the 31 provinces. …”
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Different Pathological Roles of Toll-Like Receptor 9 on Mucosal B Cells and Dendritic Cells in Murine IgA Nephropathy by Tadahiro Kajiyama, Yusuke Suzuki, Masao Kihara, Hitoshi Suzuki, Satoshi Horikoshi, Yasuhiko Tomino

“…Although pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is still obscure, pathological contribution of mucosal immunity including production of nephritogenic IgA and IgA immune complex (IC) has been discussed. We have reported that mucosal toll-like receptor (TLR)-9 is involved in the pathogenesis of human and murine IgAN. …”
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Tinea manuum: a 5 year retrospective study of demographic data, clinical characteristics, and treatment outcomes by Panittra Suphatsathienkul, Pattriya Jirawattanadon, Lalita Matthapan, Waranyoo Prasong, Chatisa Panyawong, Akkarapong Plengpanich, Sumanas Bunyaratavej, Charussri Leeyaphan

“…Among 50 positive cultures, dermatophytes accounted for 86% and nondermatophytes for 14%, with Trichophyton rubrum (54%) and Trichophyton mentagrophytes complex (24%) being the most frequent pathogens. Systemic antifungal treatment was administered to 57% of patients, with a mycological cure rate of 56.4%. …”
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Electromagnetic Low-Frequency Dipolar Excitation of Two Metal Spheres in a Conductive Medium by Panayiotis Vafeas, Polycarpos K. Papadopoulos, Dominique Lesselier

“…Considering two solid impenetrable (metallic) obstacles, excited by a magnetic dipole, the scattering boundary value problem is attacked via rigorous low-frequency expansions in terms of integral powers (ik)n, where n≥0, k being the complex wave number of the exterior medium, for the incident, scattered, and total non-axisymmetric electric and magnetic fields. …”
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Assessing the Antenna Performance (Radiated Power) and Electromagnetic Impact (SAR) on a User of a Wearable RF Communication Device, Involving Variously Structured Models by Patryk Zradzinski, Jolanta Karpowicz, Krzysztof Gryz

“…The use of a simplified model of W-RFCD may lead to incorrect conclusions about its performance and a substantial underestimation of the SAR values (10g-SAR values are up to double in the most complex exposure scenarios examined, compared to the most simplified). …”
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Using a YOLO Deep Learning Algorithm to Improve the Accuracy of 3D Object Detection by Autonomous Vehicles by Ramavhale Murendeni, Alfred Mwanza, Ibidun Christiana Obagbuwa

“…This study advances the field by showing how an efficient 2D detector can be extended to meet the complex demands of 3D object detection in real-world driving scenarios without sacrificing computational efficiency.…”
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