Association and risk of blood urea nitrogen-to-creatinine ratio with congestive heart failure in critically ill COPD patients by Jinjun Sun, Weiwei Chen, Hongli Xu

“…The blood urea nitrogen-to-creatinine ratio (BCR) is recognized as a crucial marker to assess renal function and cardiovascular risk. Nevertheless, the effects of BCR on COPD patients suffering comorbid congestive heart failure (CHF) is not clarified. …”
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A Wide-field Map of Ultracompact Dwarfs in the Coma Cluster by Richard T. Pomeroy, Juan P. Madrid, Conor R. O’Neill, Alexander T. Gagliano

“…The luminosity function defined by this data set shows an excess of sources at bright magnitudes, suggesting a bimodal formation scenario for UCDs. …”
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Exploring the concept of pain of Australian children with and without pain: qualitative study by Joshua W Pate, Tim Noblet, Julia M Hush, Mark J. Hancock, Renee Sandells, Meg Pounder, Verity Pacey

“…This study aimed to explore the concept of pain in children with and without persistent pain.Design In-depth, face-to-face interviews with drawing tasks were conducted with 16 children (aged 8–12 years) in New South Wales, Australia. Thematic analysis was used to analyse and synthesise the data.Setting Children with persistent pain were identified from a pain clinic waiting list in Australia, and children without pain were identified through advertising flyers and email bulletins at a university and hospital.Participants Eight children had persistent pain and eight children were pain free.Results Four themes emerged from the data: ‘my pain-related knowledge’, ‘pain in the world around me’, ‘pain in me’ and ‘communicating my concept of pain’. …”
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Quality Evaluation Method for Base Baijiu Based on Support Vector Machine Optimized by Genetic and Bootstrap Aggregating Algorithm by PANG Tingting, ZHANG Guiyu, LIU Kecai, LI Xiaoping, TUO Xianguo, PENG Yingjie, ZENG Xianglin

“…The radial basis kernel function support vector machine with the best performance was selected, and the parallel computing Bagging ensemble algorithm with strong adaptability to data diversity was used to construct a Bagging-SVM classifier for base baijiu classification. …”
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Sequential treatment strategy for biliary atresia: Kasai hepatoportoenterostomy-liver transplantation: a single-center retrospective comparative cohort study by Zhenyu Xie, Yang Chen, Yun Peng, Chengkun Luo, Bo Xiang, Jiayin Yang, Jiulin Song, Shuguang Jin

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of 300 patients with BA who underwent LT in our center. …”
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Application of artificial intelligence large language models in drug target discovery by Xinyu Liu, Jia Zhang, Xiaoran Wang, Maoda Teng, Guoying Wang, Xiaoming Zhou, Xiaoming Zhou

“…In proteomics, advancements have been made in protein structure analysis, function prediction, and interaction inference. …”
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Surgical Safety and Characteristics of Patients Donating Ovarian Biopsies During Elective Caesarean Sections: Insights From a Swedish Cohort Study by Ilmatar Rooda, Susanna Alder, Leonora Tebani, Sebastian Gidlöf, Catarina Arnelo, Karin Pettersson, Pauliina Damdimopoulou

“…ABSTRACT Background Studying ovaries and follicles in detail is crucial to understanding their normal function and identifying factors contributing to ovarian disease and infertility. …”
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Regulation of receptor interacting protein kinase 1-mediated apoptosis by cordycepin attenuated hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced renal tubular epithelial cell injury by Xiu-tao Han, Xiu-zhao Fan, Zhi-bo Zhao, Jing-yu Zhao, Jun-hu Li, Fang Zhang, Gai-ying Jiang, Li-jun Zhang, Fa-hui Chen, Meng-qi Bai, Xiao-shuang Zhou

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Spatial transcriptome profiling identifies DTX3L and BST2 as key biomarkers in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma tumorigenesis by Rutao Li, Na Li, Qianqian Yang, Xing Tong, Wei Wang, Chang Li, Jun Zhao, Dong Jiang, Haitao Huang, Chen Fang, Kai Xie, Jiamin Yuan, Shaomu Chen, Guangbin Li, Haitao Luo, Zhibo Gao, Dongfang Wu, Xiaoli Cui, Wei Jiang, Lingchuan Guo, Haitao Ma, Yu Feng

“…Cell–cell communication analysis of scRNA-seq and SMI data indicated that the migration inhibitory factor (MIF)-CD74 axis may exhibit pro-tumor interactions between macrophages and epithelial cells. …”
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Unraveling Fish Community Diversity and Structure in the Yellow Sea: Evidence from Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Bottom Trawling by Jinyong Zhang, Xiaoyu Cui, Lin Lin, Yuan Liu, Jinqing Ye, Weiyue Zhang, Hongjun Li

“…In addition, we compared the various methods used to estimate the distributions of taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity factors. We found that eDNA metabarcoding detected a greater number of species (86 vs. 41), genera (73 vs. 37), and families (42 vs. 25) than bottom trawl results at each sampling station. eDNA metabarcoding provided higher Shannon, Simpson, and Chao1 alpha diversity indices than the bottom trawl results. …”
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Reference equations for the 6-minute walk distance in healthy Portuguese subjects 18–70 years old by M.J. Oliveira, R. Marçôa, J. Moutinho, P. Oliveira, I. Ladeira, R. Lima, M. Guimarães

“…Introduction Six-minute walk test (6MWT) is used for evaluating functional exercise capacity. To the best of our knowledge, there are no reference equations to predict six-minute walk distance (6MWD) for the Portuguese population. …”
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Exploring the prevalence of atopic disease among adult cancer survivors: insights from the 2021 NHIS. by Lu Xiao, Yuhui Shen, Nana Xiang, Juebo Yu

“…Data analysis was performed between May 11, 2024, and July 30, 2024. …”
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GWO and WOA variable step MPPT algorithms-based PV system output power optimization by Abderrahim Zemmit, Abdelouadoud Loukriz, Khaled Belhouchet, Yahya Z. Alharthi, Muhannad Alshareef, Prabhu Paramasivam, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim

“…The primary advantage of these methods lies in their adaptive step-size optimization, leveraging multiple criteria to determine the optimal step size. A novel fitness function was developed to improve tracking accuracy, minimize ripple, and reduce overshoot. …”
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Information carried by different magnetic observations: A review by David Gubbins

“…Results from potential theory inform the choice of measurement and data analysis. For example, knowing the vertical component of magnetic field provides a solution for the full magnetic field everywhere in the potential region. …”
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Effects of Absenteeism on Academic Performance of Pupils in Rubuguri Town Council Kisoro District. by Alfred Safari, Ruteisire

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Critical conflict probability: A novel risk measure for quantifying intensity of crash risk at unsignalized intersections by Aninda Bijoy Paul, Ph.D., Ninad Gore, Ph.D., Shriniwas Arkatkar, Ph.D., Gaurang Joshi, Ph.D., Md Mazharul Haque, Ph.D.

“…However, in developing countries, challenges such as underreporting and limited crash data hinder the direct correlation of traffic conflicts with reported crashes for effective safety analysis. …”
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Machine Learning-Based VO₂ Estimation Using a Wearable Multiwavelength Photoplethysmography Device by Chin-To Hsiao, Carl Tong, Gerard L. Coté

“…The rate of oxygen consumption, which is measured as the volume of oxygen consumed per mass per minute (VO₂) mL/kg/min, is a critical metric for evaluating cardiovascular health, metabolic status, and respiratory function. Specifically, VO₂ is a powerful prognostic predictor of survival in patients with heart failure (HF) because it provides an indirect assessment of a patient’s ability to increase cardiac output (CO). …”
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Periodontal Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: Implications for Systemic Health and Dental Management by Tayyaba Rafiq, Anjum Younus, Muhammad Mustafa, Suman Saeed Siddiqui, Khurram Anwar, Ravina Kumari, Kanwal Fatima, Aman Ullah Khan

“…The research evaluated patient-reported oral health data with renal function results along with systematic inflammatory marker levels.  …”
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Linking digital transformation, organizational strategic intuition, entrepreneurial orientation, and sustainable operation performance in the Vietnamese food industry by It Nguyen Van

“…I evaluated the acquired data using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) and multigroup analysis. …”
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EEG-SymNet: multi-channel EEG signal-based schizophrenia diagnosis using channel recalibration and symmetric spatial temporal transformer network by Naif Alsharabi, Rakesh Kumar Mahendran, Gharbi Alshammari

“…Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by distorted thinking, perceptions, emotions, and behavior, which can significantly impair an individual’s ability to function in daily life. Early and effective diagnosis is crucial, as it enables timely intervention, which can improve outcomes and reduce the burden on patients and healthcare systems. …”
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