Antibiogram Profile of Patients Having Urinary Tract Infection Treated with Most Commonly Used Antibiotics by Bilal Ahmad, Faleesha Gul, Said Hassan, Haseeba Arif, Amber Javaid, Shawkat Ali

“…Conclusion: Escherichia coli remains the dominant pathogen, with Fosfomycin proving generally effective, while resistance to cefotaxime is notable. …”
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Evaluating Normalization Methods for Robust Spectral Performance Assessments of Hyperspectral Imaging Cameras by Siavash Mazdeyasna, Mohammed Shahriar Arefin, Andrew Fales, Silas J. Leavesley, T. Joshua Pfefer, Quanzeng Wang

“…Our results demonstrate that normalization can mitigate the impact of some factors during HSI camera evaluation, with performance varying across methods. Generally, noisy spectra pose challenges for normalization methods that rely on limited reflectance values, while methods based on reflectance values across the entire spectrum (such as standard normal variate) perform better. …”
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Use of Attention Maps to Enrich Discriminability in Deep Learning Prediction Models Using Longitudinal Data from Electronic Health Records by Lucía A. Carrasco-Ribelles, Margarita Cabrera-Bean, Jose Llanes-Jurado, Concepción Violán

“…We trained them on 10 years of data from EHRs from Catalonia (Spain) and evaluated them using a 5-fold cross-validation to predict 1-year all-cause mortality in a subsample of 500,000 people over 65 years of age. Results: Generally, the simplest architectures led to the best overall discriminability, slightly decreasing with complexity by up to 8.7%. …”
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Petrophysical Properties and Microstructural Analysis of Faulted Heterolithic Packages: A Case Study from Miocene Turbidite Successions, Italy by Hannah Riegel, Miller Zambrano, Fabrizio Balsamo, Luca Mattioni, Emanuele Tondi

“…Fault-related fractures (macro- and microscopic) in the damage zone generally increase the permeability parallel to the fault, except when they are cemented or filled with gouge material. …”
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High-z Stellar Masses Can Be Recovered Robustly with JWST Photometry by R. K. Cochrane, H. Katz, R. Begley, C. C. Hayward, P. N. Best

“…Fitting the synthetic photometry with various star formation history models, we show that recovered stellar masses are, encouragingly, generally robust to within a factor of ∼3 for galaxies in the range M _⋆  ∼ 10 ^7 −10 ^9 M _⊙ at z  = 5−10. …”
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NavBLIP: a visual-language model for enhancing unmanned aerial vehicles navigation and object detection by Ye Li, Li Yang, Meifang Yang, Fei Yan, Tonghua Liu, Chensi Guo, Rufeng Chen

“…Additionally, these methods often fail to effectively integrate multimodal inputs, which restricts their adaptability and generalization capabilities when facing complex and diverse scenarios.MethodsTo address these challenges, we introduce NavBLIP, a novel visual-language model specifically designed to enhance UAV navigation and object detection by utilizing multimodal data. …”
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Blast loading prediction in a typical urban environment based on Bayesian deep learning by Weiwen Peng, Meilin Pan, Chunjiang Leng, Shufei Wang, Wei Zhong

“…Compared with existing data-driven methods, the proposed method can generalize better in this typical urban environment studied in this paper, and improved prediction accuracy and uncertainty quantification capability are acquired, while maintaining comparable prediction rapidity. …”
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Immunoinfiltration Analysis of Mitochondrial Damage‐Related Genes in Lung Adenocarcinoma and Construction of a Classification and Prognostic Model Integrated With WGCNA and Machine... by Jirong Zhang, Lin Lin

“…The ML models for classification and prognosis that were constructed demonstrated good effectiveness and generalization capabilities. Discussion Mitochondrial damage‐related genes are crucial in LUAD progression and linked to immune infiltration. …”
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Factors associated with ABCDEF bundle implementation for critically ill patients: An international cross-sectional survey in 54 countries by Junpei Haruna, Takeshi Unoki, Keibun Liu, Kensuke Nakamura, Shigeaki Inoue, Osamu Nishida

“…Outcomes were categorized according to the income level of the country (high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries) in which each ICU was located. A multilevel generalized linear model was developed to identify the factors associated with ABCDEF bundle implementation for each income level. …”
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Transformer-Based Amharic-to-English Machine Translation With Character Embedding and Combined Regularization Techniques by Surafiel Habib Asefa, Yaregal Assabie

“…The primary challenges include the scarcity of parallel data, which increases the risk of overfitting and limits the model’s ability to generalize effectively, and the complex morphology of Amharic, which further complicates learning patterns in translation tasks. …”
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Approaches to ecological sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa: Evaluating the role of globalization, renewable energy, economic growth, and population density by Abdikafi Hassan Abdi, Siyad Abdirahman Siyad, Mohamed Okash Sugow, Omar Mohamed Omar

“…To ensure robust and reliable findings, advanced econometric techniques—namely Panel-Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE), Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS), and Driscoll-Kraay estimators—are employed to address heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence issues prevalent in panel data. …”
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The GWAS-MAP|ovis platform for aggregation and analysis of genome-wide association study results in sheep by A. V. Kirichenko, A. S. Zlobin, T. I. Shashkova, N. A. Volkova, B. S. Iolchiev, V. A. Bagirov, P. M. Borodin, L. С. Karssen, Y. A. Tsepilov, Y. S. Aulchenko

“…In contrast to research in human genetics, GWAS on farm animals often does not meet generally accepted standards (availability of information about effect and reference alleles, the size and direction of the effect, etc.). …”
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Determinants of Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Decision-Making among Nurses in Primary Health Care Facilities by Opeoluwa Oluwatoyin Olabode, Funmilayo A. Okanlawon, Emmanuel O. Adesuyi, Oluwadamilare Akingbade, Chinomso Nwozichi, Yetunde Olufunmilayo Tola

“…The study concluded that while nurses generally possessed good knowledge of Evidence-Based Practice, the highest levels of expertise were observed among ward managers. …”
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Comparison Between Topographic-Based and Manifest-Based Astigmatism Corrections in the Second (Visumax 800)-Generation Keratorefractive Lenticule Extraction Surgery: A Real-World S... by Chia-Yi Lee, Hung-Chi Chen, Shun-Fa Yang, Yi-Jen Hsueh, Chin-Te Huang, Jing-Yang Huang, Ie-Bin Lian, Chao-Kai Chang

“…The independent T-test and generalized estimate equation were used to investigate differences between the two groups. …”
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Assessment of Radiometric Calibration Consistency of Thermal Emissive Bands Between Terra and Aqua Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers by Tiejun Chang, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Carlos Perez Diaz, Aisheng Wu, Hanzhi Lin

“…Results show that the calibration of the two MODIS sensors and their respective Earth measurements are generally consistent and within their design specifications. …”
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The market of full-cycle construction companies: analysis of the current state and key trends by Yu. A. Laamarti, E. G. Dedov, A. A. Nikolaev

“…Theoretical analysis of research works, statistical data analysis and comparative analysis, data generalization and systematization are among the main research methods.Results. …”
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Human Herpesviruses, Bacteria, and Fungi in Gingivitis and Periodontitis Pediatric Subjects: A Systematic Review by Federica Di Spirito, Massimo Pisano, Mario Caggiano, Giuseppina De Benedetto, Maria Pia Di Palo, Gianluigi Franci, Massimo Amato

“…In pediatric periodontitis, biofilms were more diverse and pathogenic, with increased prevalence of <i>A. actinomycetemcomitans</i> (56.09%), <i>P. gingivalis</i> (55.4%), and <i>T. forsythia</i> (35.9%). Generalized periodontitis showed higher CMV (36.36%) and EBV-I (36.24%) prevalence than gingivitis (HSV-I 18.75%). …”
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Metabolomic Links between Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake and Obesity by Bingjie Zhou, Reiko Ichikawa, Laurence D. Parnell, Sabrina E. Noel, Xiyuan Zhang, Shilpa N. Bhupathiraju, Caren E. Smith, Katherine L. Tucker, Jose M. Ordovas, Chao-Qiang Lai

“…We examined the association of plasma metabolomic profiles with SSB intake and obesity risk in 781 participants, aged 45–75 y, in the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study (BPRHS) using generalized linear models, controlling for potential confounding factors. …”
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Association of Questionnaire‐Assessed Fall Risk With Uncontrolled Blood Pressure and Therapeutic Inertia Among Older Adults by Grant T. Hiura, Talar W. Markossian, Beatrice D. Probst, Katherine Habicht, Holly J. Kramer

“…This study examined the association of a fall risk assessment, based on patient response to three questions administered by trained staff, with uncontrolled BP (≥140/90 mmHg) during a clinic visit and with TI during clinic visits with uncontrolled BP among 13 893 patients age ≥ 65 years corresponding to 41 122 primary care visits. Separate generalized linear mixed effects models were used to examine the association of fall risk (low, moderate, and high) with uncontrolled BP and with TI at a clinic visit after adjustment for demographics, comorbidities, and total number of visits. …”
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Antisense oligonucleotides for the arterial hypertension mechanisms study and therapy by L. O. Klimov, A. A. Seryapina, V. F. Zarytova, A. S. Levina, A. L. Markel

“…Despite the fact that there is a large group of antihypertensive drugs on the market, mainly representing different combinations of inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system, adrenoreceptor blockers in combination with diuretics, there is no generally accepted “gold standard” for drugs that would not have side effects. …”
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