Comparison of Tropospheric Horizontal Gradients Modeling Methods in LEO Constellation Augmented GNSS Precise Point Positioning by Xinyu Zhang, Wenwu Ding, Xiaochuan Qu, Hongjin Xu, Xuanzhao Tan, Yunbin Yuan

“…The estimation of high-temporal-resolution gradient parameters instead of traditional daily gradient parameters can significantly improve the accuracy of ZTD in the extreme weather events. Therefore, this research underscores the spatial and temporal resolution of horizontal gradient models, which meets the growing demand for GNSS/LeGNSS data processing during the severe weather events.…”
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Feasibility pilot of a novel coaching intervention to optimize cannabis use for chronic pain management among Veterans by Kevin F. Boehnke, Gabrielle Bowyer, Jenna McAfee, Tristin Smith, Catherine Klida, Vivian Kurtz, Evangelos Litinas, Poonam Purohit, Anne Arewasikporn, Dana Horowitz, Laura Thomas, Jennifer Eckersley, Mia Railing, David A. Williams, Daniel J. Clauw, Kelley M. Kidwell, Amy S. B. Bohnert, Rachel S. Bergmans

“…Among those who completed end of intervention surveys (16/21), 87.5% were very or completely satisfied with the intervention and 81.3% rated coaching as very or extremely helpful. All participants reported improvement on the PGIC, with 63% reporting much or very much improvement. …”
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Influenza A H1N1 Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Characteristics and Risk Factors—A Case-Control Study by Romina Abelleira, Alberto Ruano-Ravina, Adriana Lama, Gema Barbeito, María E. Toubes, Cristina Domínguez-Antelo, Francisco J. González-Barcala, Nuria Rodríguez-Núñez, Pedro J. Marcos, María L. Pérez del Molino, Luis Valdés

“…A few and easy to obtain clinical parameters might be extremely useful to distinguish H1N1 CAP from CAPs of other origin.…”
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Use of Blood Lipid Indicators as a Screening Tool of Insulin Resistance among Individuals in Low-Income Country Sides of China: A Multiethnic Region Study by Yi-Zhong Yan, Jia-Ning Fan, Jia-Ming Liu, Yun-hua Hu, Jiao-Long Ma, Jia He, Heng Guo, Xiang-hui Zhang, Xin-ping Wang, Shu-gang Li, Shu-Xia Guo

“…BLIs had a certain diagnostic value for IR and could be used as a screening tool for IR among Uygurs, Kazakhs, and Hans in Xinjiang. These findings are extremely important for the prevention and treatment of IR and metabolic diseases in remote rural areas.…”
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Food insecurity and the risk of HIV acquisition: findings from population-based surveys in six sub-Saharan African countries (2016–2017) by Danielle Barradas, Nicholus Mutenda, Hetal Patel, Avi J Hakim, Lloyd Mulenga, Sally Findley, Andrea Low, George Rutherford, Sarah Ayton, Elizabeth Gummerson, Amee Schwitters, Rogerio Bonifacio, Mekleet Teferi, James Juma, Claudia Ahpoe, Choice Ginindza, Samuel Biraro, Karam Sachathep, Ahmed Saadani Hassani, Willford Kirungi, Keisha Jackson, Leah Goeke, Neena Philips, Jennifer Ward, Steven Hong

“…Heightened food insecurity during climactic extremes could imperil HIV epidemic control, and food support to women with SFI during these events could reduce HIV transmission.…”
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Clinical efficacy of Tuina therapy combined with traditional Chinese exercises in the treatment of symptomatic lumbar disc herniation: a multicentre randomised controlled trial pro... by Zhihong Fan, Shenghong Jia, Xin Zhou, Chao Li, Jiahao Shao, Xiaofeng Liu, Yitao Liao, Yenan Xu, Dandan He, Shixiang Wu, Xian Zhang

“…BackgroundLow back pain and lower extremity sensory and functional abnormalities are common symptoms of lumbar disc herniation (LDH), which can easily cause walking dysfunction and significantly impair the quality of life of patients. …”
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Prognostic Modeling for Bone Sarcomas Based on a Large Prospective Cohort From a Tertiary Care Cancer Center in India by Jyoti Bajpai, Laboni Sarkar, Sushmita Rath, Akash Pawar, Arun Chandrashekharan, Goutam Panda, Dharmpal Jakar, Jaya Ghosh, Siddhartha Laskar, Bharat Rekhi, Nehal Khanna, Jifmi Jose, Mukta Ramdawar, Nilendu Purandare, Prabhat Bhargava, Nivedita Chakrabarty, Kunal Gala, Yogesh Kembhavi, Venkatesh Rangarajan, Shripad Banavali, Sudeep Gupta

“…For 38 (43.6%) of 82 AYA with metastatic extremity ES, significant factors were failure to complete protocol (HR, 3.88) and metastases not amenable to local treatment (HR, 10.6).CONCLUSIONWe developed simple, effective prognostic models for AYA with bone sarcomas with specific potential relevance for low- and middle-income countries.…”
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Analysis of mutations in CDC27, CTBP2, HYDIN and KMT5A genes in carotid paragangliomas by E. N. Lukyanova, A. V. Snezhkina, D. V. Kalinin, A. V. Pokrovsky, A. L. Golovyuk, O. A. Stepanov, E. A. Pudova, G. S. Razmakhaev, M. V. Orlova, A. P. Polyakov, M. V. Kiseleva, A. D. Kaprin, A. V. Kudryavtseva

“…Surgical treatment remains high-risk and extremely challenging; radiation and chemotherapy are poorly effective. …”
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Permafrost pore structure and its influence on microbial diversity: Insights from X-ray computed tomography by Nathan D. Blais, Joy M. O’Brien, Hannah Holland-Moritz, Lauren Farnsworth, Robyn A. Barbato, Thomas A. Douglas, Alexandra Contosta, Julie Bobyock, Erin C. Rooney, Taylor Sullivan, Jessica Gilman Ernakovich

“…These insights help to explain how soil physical structure acts to influence microbial communities in this extreme environment.…”
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Effect of intermittent theta burst stimulation combined with acoustic startle priming motor training on upper limb motor function and neural plasticity in stroke individuals: study... by Jing Zhang, Yu Chen, Mingzhu Wang, Nan Xia, Jinghong Li, Weiqiang Liang, Yangyang Yin, Linhan Zhai, Qiuxia Wang

“…The primary outcomes are the changes in the Fugl-Meyer Assessment-Upper Extremity and Modified Ashworth Scale after the 3-week intervention. …”
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Bayesian joint-regression analysis of unbalanced series of on-farm trials by Turbet Delof, Michel, Rivière, Pierre, Dawson, Julie C, Gauffreteau, Arnaud, Goldringer, Isabelle, van Frank, Gaëlle, David, Olivier

“…In addition, on-farm trials can often generate more extreme observations than trials carried out on research stations. …”
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A flood resilience assessment method of green-grey-blue coupled urban drainage system considering backwater effects by Yue Liu, Xiang Zhang, Jie Liu, Yao Wang, Haifeng Jia, Shiyong Tao

“…Currently, the increasing frequency of urban floods—driven by extreme rainfall resulting from climate change, human-induced urbanization, and inadequacies in urban drainage systems—has heightened interest in resilient cities. …”
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High-resolution spatiotemporal analysis of chikungunya epidemics between 2019 and 2020 in Salvador, Brazil: a municipality-level transmission dynamics studyResearch in context by Hernan D. Argibay, Cristiane W. Cardoso, William M. de Souza, Raquel L. Souza, Maysa Pellizzaro, Geraldo M. Cunha, Julie Clennon, Scott C. Weaver, Mitermayer G. Reis, Uriel Kitron, Guilherme S. Ribeiro

“…The census tract level incidence in 2020 exhibited a non-linear correlation with the 2019 incidence; up to a certain level, the 2020 risk increased as the 2019 incidence increased, but when the 2019 incidence was extreme, the 2020 risk was reduced. Interpretation: These findings suggest that CHIKV transmission is localized, even during what appeared to be a citywide epidemic, creating high-risk pockets within the city. …”
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Differences in the response to TNF inhibitors at distinct joint locations in patients with psoriatic arthritis: results from nine European registries by Adrian Ciurea, Seraphina Kissling, Andrea Götschi, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg, Simon Horskjær Rasmussen, Bálint Tamási, Burkhard Möller, Michael J. Nissen, Bente Glintborg, Anne Gitte Loft, Almut Scherer, René Bräm, Karel Pavelka, Jakub Závada, Joao Madruga Dias, Paula Valente, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Olafur Palsson, Vappu Rantalaiho, Ritva Peltomaa, Catalin Codreanu, Corina Mogosan, Florenzo Iannone, Marco Sebastiani, Gareth T. Jones, Gary J. Macfarlane, Isabel Castrejon, Ziga Rotar, Brigitte Michelsen, Johan K. Wallman, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma, Oliver Distler, Mikkel Østergaard, Merete Lund Hetland, Raphael Micheroli, Caroline Ospelt

“…Considering the upper extremity, a higher rate of resolution of joint swelling (HR, 95% CI) was observed for the shoulder (1.65, 1.16–2.35) and elbow (1.90, 1.38–2.61), while a lower rate was found for the wrist (0.72, 0.62–0.83) compared to the joints of digit 3. …”
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Lethal necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis after bariatric surgery and bilateral mammaplasty by O. V. Blagova, D. Kh. Aynetdinova, A. V. Nedostup, N. A. Novikova, Ye. A. Kogan, Yu. V. Lerner, L. V. Kozlovskaya, V. V. Rameyev, N. A. Mukhin

“…To present a typical case of systemic autoimmune disease related to extremely aggressive medical alterations of the immune status which were carried out not only for life-saving indications, but for cosmetic reasons as well. …”
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Combining UAV Remote Sensing with Ensemble Learning to Monitor Leaf Nitrogen Content in Custard Apple (<i>Annona squamosa</i> L.) by Xiangtai Jiang, Lutao Gao, Xingang Xu, Wenbiao Wu, Guijun Yang, Yang Meng, Haikuan Feng, Yafeng Li, Hanyu Xue, Tianen Chen

“…Random Forest (RF), Adaptive Boosting (ADA), Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (GBDT), Linear Regression (LR), and Extremely Randomized Trees (ERT) are among the basis estimators that are integrated in the first layer. …”
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Study on the Key Influential Factors on Water Huff-n-Puff in Ultralow-Permeability Reservoir by Xiaoyan Wang, Kun Xie, Jie Zhang, Yong Zhang, Yang Zhang, Wei Wang, Xi Yan, Fengxiang Zhao

“…Besides, oil wells also face the problems of short stable or no production period, rapid decline rate, and extremely low development degree. Water huff-n-puff of oil recovery technology is a quality and efficiency technology to improve the development effect of an ultralow-permeability reservoir. …”
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Temperature-dependent toxicity and mechanisms of florfenicol on the embryonic development of marine medaka (Oryzias melastigma) by Xingying Guo, Xu Gong, Jinhui Wang, Tan-Duc Nguyen, Syed Shabi Ul Hassan Kazmi, Jiezhang Mo, Feng Hua, Wenhua Liu, Zhen Wang

“…The frequent occurrence of extreme weather due to climate change has also increased the uncertainty of effective toxicity identification and risk assessment of the chemicals of concern. …”
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Wear Behavior Analysis and Gated Recurrent Unit Neural Network Prediction of Coefficient of Friction in Al10Cu-B₄C Composites by Mihail Kolev, Ludmil Drenchev, Veselin Petkov, Rositza Dimitrova, Krasimir Kolev, Boris Yanachkov

“…These characteristics make them perfectly suited for applications demanding exceptional performance in extreme mechanical and tribological environments. …”
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Modeling the determinants of attrition in a two-stage epilepsy prevalence survey in Nairobi using machine learning by Daniel M. Mwanga, Isaac C. Kipchirchir, George O. Muhua, Charles R. Newton, Damazo T. Kadengye, Abankwah Junior, Albert Akpalu, Arjune Sen, Bruno Mmbando, Charles R. Newton, Cynthia Sottie, Dan Bhwana, Daniel Mtai Mwanga, Damazo T. Kadengye, Daniel Nana Yaw, David McDaid, Dorcas Muli, Emmanuel Darkwa, Frederick Murunga Wekesah, Gershim Asiki, Gergana Manolova, Guillaume Pages, Helen Cross, Henrika Kimambo, Isolide S. Massawe, Josemir W. Sander, Mary Bitta, Mercy Atieno, Neerja Chowdhary, Patrick Adjei, Peter O. Otieno, Ryan Wagner, Richard Walker, Sabina Asiamah, Samuel Iddi, Simone Grassi, Sloan Mahone, Sonia Vallentin, Stella Waruingi, Symon Kariuki, Tarun Dua, Thomas Kwasa, Timothy Denison, Tony Godi, Vivian Mushi, William Matuja

“…Results: Random forest (AUC = 0.98, accuracy = 0.95, Brier score = 0.06, and F1 = 0.94), extreme gradient boost (XGB) (AUC = 0.96, accuracy = 0.91, Brier score = 0.08, F1 = 0.90) and support vector machine (SVM) (AUC = 0.93, accuracy = 0.93, Brier score = 0.07, F1 = 0.92) were the best performing models (base learners). …”
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