Ivabradine use in critical care: a systematic review and metanalysis of cardiogenic and septic shock patients by Lorenzo Antonino Calabrò, Marco Pasetto, Sabino Scolletta, Filippo Annoni, Zoe Demailly, Katarina Halenarova, Katia Donadello, Fabio Silvio Taccone

“…In addition, the combination of dobutamine with ivabradine has been reported to optimize dobutamine inotropic action, while mitigating its positive chronotropic effects, resulting in a more efficient cardiac cycle and improved hemodynamics. …”
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Identification of Major Bleeding Events in Postoperative Patients With Malignant Tumors in Chinese Electronic Medical Records: Algorithm Development and Validation by Hui Li, Haiyang Yao, Yuxiang Gao, Hang Luo, Changbin Cai, Zhou Zhou, Muhan Yuan, Wei Jiang

“…Feature engineering involved bleeding expressions, high-frequency related expressions, and quantitative logical judgment, resulting in 270 features. …”
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Risk assessment of an Aedes flavivirus and its effect on pathogenic flavivirus replication in mosquitoes by Yumei Fu, Wan Zhao, Shaohui Wu, Jinqian Li, Qing Liu, Feng Jiang, Hong Lu, Le Kang, Qianfeng Xia, Feng Cui

“…Abstract Background Mosquitoes are efficient vectors of medically significant flaviviruses and serve as hosts for insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs). …”
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Adaptive Path Planning for Multi-UAV Systems in Dynamic 3D Environments: A Multi-Objective Framework by Gregorius Airlangga, Ronald Sukwadi, Widodo Widjaja Basuki, Lai Ferry Sugianto, Oskar Ika Adi Nugroho, Yoel Kristian, Radyan Rahmananta

“…The computational complexities of each algorithm are analyzed, with AMOPP exhibiting a time complexity of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>k</mi><mo>·</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and a space complexity of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, ensuring scalability and efficiency for large-scale operations. The study also presents a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative comparison of 14 algorithms using 3D visualizations, highlighting their strengths, limitations, and suitable application scenarios. …”
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LLM in the Loop: A Framework for Contextualizing Counterfactual Segment Perturbations in Point Clouds by Veljka Kocic, Niko Lukac, Dzemail Rozajac, Stefan Schweng, Christoph Gollob, Arne Nothdurft, Karl Stampfer, Javier del Ser, Andreas Holzinger

“…By leveraging the reasoning capabilities of LLMs, we generate perturbations that are not only computationally efficient but also semantically meaningful. The proposed framework undergoes rigorous evaluation, combining human inspection of LLM-generated suggestions with quantitative analysis of semantic classification model performance across different LLM variants. …”
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Fault diagnosis method of mine hoist main bearing with small sample based on VAE-WGAN by Fan JIANG, Hongyan SONG, Xi SHEN, Zhencai ZHU, Shuman CHENG

“…At the data level, VAE-WGAN was tested using the Case Western Reserve University dataset, and hyperparameters were optimized by evaluating the generation ability of VAE-WGAN through quantitative indicators. VAE-WGAN was trained using the bearing dataset of the mine hoist simulation test bench to achieve the expansion and expansion of the small sample dataset. …”
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Secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary children’s hospital in Canada: a mixed-methods study by Catherine Diskin, Annie Fecteau, Eyal Cohen, Arpita Parmar, Jeremy Friedman, Blossom Dharmaraj, Tanvi Agarwal, Kelly McNaughton, Alia Sunderji, David Faraoni, Jason Fischer, Jason Maynes

“…Themes including (1) timeliness of care, (2) disruption of patient-centred care, (3) new pressures in the provision of safe and efficient care and (4) inequity in the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, each impacting patients, their families and healthcare providers.Conclusion Being aware of the breadth of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across all of the identified themes is important to enable the delivery of timely, safe, high-quality, family-centred paediatric care moving forward.…”
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Scalable Hyperspectral Enhancement via Patch-Wise Sparse Residual Learning: Insights from Super-Resolved EnMAP Data by Parth Naik, Rupsa Chakraborty, Sam Thiele, Richard Gloaguen

“…P²SR is deployable on a high-performance computing (HPC) system with parallel processing, ensuring scalability and computational efficiency for large HSI datasets. Extensive evaluations on three diverse study sites demonstrate that P²SR consistently outperforms traditional and state-of-the-art (SOA) methods in both quantitative metrics and qualitative spatial assessments. …”
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Light Stable Isotopes and Their Ratios in Honey Components by Lev A. Oganesyants, Alexander L. Panasyuk, Dmitriy A. Sviridov, Mikhail Yu. Ganin, Alexey A. Shilkin, Oksana V. Serebryakova

“…Nitrogen isotope ratios in honey proteins proved to be an efficient tool for determining honey authenticity and an additional criterion for identifying bee products. …”
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Genome-wide population-based association study of extremely overweight young adults--the GOYA study. by Lavinia Paternoster, David M Evans, Ellen Aagaard Nohr, Claus Holst, Valerie Gaborieau, Paul Brennan, Anette Prior Gjesing, Niels Grarup, Daniel R Witte, Torben Jørgensen, Allan Linneberg, Torsten Lauritzen, Anelli Sandbaek, Torben Hansen, Oluf Pedersen, Katherine S Elliott, John P Kemp, Beate St Pourcain, George McMahon, Diana Zelenika, Jörg Hager, Mark Lathrop, Nicholas J Timpson, George Davey Smith, Thorkild I A Sørensen

“…This suggests that population-based study designs with enriched sampling of individuals with the extreme phenotype may be an efficient method for identifying common variants that influence quantitative traits and a valid alternative to genotyping all individuals in large population-based studies, which may require tens of thousands of subjects to achieve similar power.…”
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RGB and RGNIR image dataset for machine learning in plastic waste detectionZENODO by Owen Tamin, Ervin Gubin Moung, Jamal Ahmad Dargham, Samsul Ariffin Abdul Karim, Ashraf Osman Ibrahim, Nada Adam, Hadia Abdelgader Osman

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Suitability evaluation for deep geological storage of mine water in the Ordos Basin by GULBOSTAN Tursun, Wanghua SUI, AIBIBAI Mamat, Weifeng YANG, Ge CHEN, Liang GAO

“…ObjectiveGiven the issues of large mine water drainage in coal mines in China, as well as the corresponding high treatment cost and low utilization rate, thoroughly investigating efficient, environmentally friendly, economically feasible mine water treatment technologies is the key to the green transformation and the implementation of the sustainable development strategy in the coal industry. …”
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Visual detection of Coxsackievirus A6 using a reverse transcription polymerase spiral reaction method by Kun Wang, Yuanhang Ai, Juan Luo, Longying Liang, Weiwei Zhang, Guojun Cao, He Zha, Jie Wu, Kun Lei, Shifei Yao, Kaifeng Wu

“…The results were benchmarked against those obtained using quantitative reverse transcription - polymerase chain reaction (qRT - PCR). …”
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What should be publicly funded in the Colombian health system? A mixed methods study of citizens’ perceptions by Juan Carlos Velasquez, Claudia Marcela Vélez, Diana Patricia Díaz-Hernández, Pamela Velázquez-Salazar, Gilma Hernández-Herrera, Daniel Felipe Patiño-Lugo, Olga Francisca Salazar-Blanco, Leydi Camila Rodríguez-Corredor, Viviana María Vélez-Marín, Anny Julieth Jaramillo-García

“…We performed a content analysis of the interviews, and, for the quantitative strand, we performed a principal component analysis and varimax rotation to identify view patterns. …”
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The dynamics of chemoattractant receptors redistribution in the electrotaxis of 3T3 fibroblasts by Jagoda Gorzkowska, Wiktoria Kozak, Sylwia Bobis-Wozowicz, Ivan Cherepashuk, Zbigniew Madeja, Sławomir Lasota

“…This process was more efficient at higher dcEF intensities, specifically, asymmetry was greater at 3 V/cm compared to 1 V/cm, consistent with the biphasic mechanism observed only under the stronger dcEF. …”
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Effect of strategic imperative on technology adoption in academic libraries in Pakistan: A TAM &amp; PLS-SEM analysis by Majid Ali, Chun Lyu, Xin Tian, Chengan Jiang, Li Gang

“…Purpose: In the current technological and innovation era, academic libraries are facing challenges in implementing new technologies to provide secure, efficient, and transparent Technology-Based Services (TBS) and finding innovative solutions to enhance information dissemination. …”
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Design of a novel and robust 2-DOF PIDA controller based on enzyme action optimizer for ball position regulation in magnetic levitation systems by Serdar Ekinci, Davut Izci, Mostafa Jabari, Mohit Bajaj, Olena Rubanenko

“…Overall, the proposed EAO-optimized 2-DOF PIDA controller offers a computationally efficient, auto-tunable, and robust solution for high-precision maglev control.…”
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TEACHING COMPUTATIONAL THINKING IN SAUDI ARABIAN SCHOOLS USING SMARTPHONE APPS by Abdullah Alenezi

“…This study incorporates qualitative and quantitative research techniques to provide an inclusive perspective. …”
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OPTIMIZING THE CONTROL OF TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE OF FOREHAND STROKE AMONG 12-YEAR OLD TENNIS PLAYERS USING MARTIN'S SIGMA METHOD by M. Chalakov

“…RESULTS: The obtained quantitative assessments allow comparing the achievements of players in each of the performed tests. …”
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A Comparative Study of Major Risk Assessment (RA) Frameworks in Geologic Carbon Storage (GCS) by Elvin Hajiyev, Marshall Watson, Hossein Emadi, Bassel Eissa, Athar Hussain, Abdul Rehman Baig, Abdulrahman Shahin

“…The analysis critically compares over 20 qualitative, semi-quantitative, quantitative, and hybrid RA techniques employed throughout GCS operations. …”
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