Prediction of mortality and prioritisation to tertiary care using the 'OUR-ARCad' risk score gleaned from the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic-A retrospective cohort study from Sou... by Narendran Gopalan, Vinod Kumar Viswanathan, Vignes Anand Srinivasalu, Saranya Arumugam, Adhin Bhaskar, Tamizhselvan Manoharan, Santosh Kishor Chandrasekar, Divya Bujagaruban, Ramya Arumugham, Gopi Jagadeeswaran, Saravanan Madurai Pandian, Arunalatha Ponniah, Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, Baskaran Dhanraj, Vineet Kumar Chadha, Balaji Purushotham, Manoj Vasanth Murhekar

“…A summated score above 50, mandated tertiary care management (sensitivity-90%, specificity-75%; AUC-0.89), validated in 2000 bootstrap dataset.<h4>Conclusions</h4>The OUR-ARCad risk score, could potentially maximize recovery in a raging COVID-19 pandemic, through prioritisation of tertiary care services, neither straining the health system nor compromising patient's safety, delivering and diverting care to those who needed the most.…”
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Herpes zoster vaccine and the risk of stroke: a population-based cohort study using linked data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink by Fawziah Marra, Kathryn Richardson, Helen I McDonald, Yoon Kong Loke, Helen Mary Parretti

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Mining Potential Drug Targets and Constructing Diagnostic Models for Heart Failure Based on miRNA-mRNA Networks by Xiangming Fang, Rensheng Song, Jiaxing Wei, Qin Liao, Zhenhong Zeng

“…Finally, diagnostic models were constructed based on differential miRNAs. The GEO dataset was used to screen 66 differentially expressed miRNAs, incorporating 56 downregulated miRNAs and 10 upregulated miRNAs. …”
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Development and validation of a prediction model for all-cause mortality in maintenance dialysis patients: a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Jingcan Wu, Xuehong Li, Hong Zhang, Lin Lin, Man Li, Gangyi Chen, Cheng Wang

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Design a Robust DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation Scheme in SDN-Edge-IoT by Leveraging Machine Learning by Habtamu Molla Belachew, Mulatu Yirga Beyene, Abinet Bizuayehu Desta, Behaylu Tadele Alemu, Salahadin Seid Musa, Alemu Jorgi Muhammed

“…We evaluated four popular classifiers (K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), Random Forest (RF), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and FeedForward Neural Network (FFNN)) on benchmark datasets CICIDS2017 and Edge-IIoTset, conducting both binary and multi-class classifications. …”
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Environmental, social, and governance performance: The role of Chinese employee stock ownership plans by Yasi Liu, Shaun McDowell, Chunxiao Xue, Jianing Zhang

“…This study investigates how the ESG performance of publicly listed companies in China is influenced by employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Utilizing a dataset covering 4,464 publicly listed Chinese corporations from 2009 to 2022, this analysis employs fixed-effects regressions to reveal the beneficial impact of ESOPs on corporate ESG ratings. …”
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LDWLE: self-supervised driven low-light object detection framework by Xiaoyang shen, Haibin Li, Yaqian Li, Wenming Zhang

“…In quantitative measurements, it achieves an AP of 25.5 and 38.4 on the synthetic datasets COCO-d and VOC-d, respectively, and achieves the best AP of 30.5 on the real-world dataset ExDark. …”
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Endoplasmic reticulum stress-related CLIP4 plays a procarcinogenic role in hepatocellular carcinoma: an integrated analysis by Anqi Wang, Sitong Yan, Weijia Jiang, Xiang Chen, Yuhan Huang, Xiangyu Zu, Xiao Du, Lulu Fan, Jiatao Liu, Guoping Sun

“…Results Analysis of TCGA datasets and tissue microarrays demonstrated that elevated CLIP4 expression was associated with poor prognosis in HCC. …”
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Association between medication adherence and disease outcomes in patients with hepatitis B-related cirrhosis: a population-based case–control study by Vivian Chia-Rong Hsieh, Kuo-Yu Fu, Meng-Lun Hsieh, Jou-An Chen

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DPD-YOLO: dense pineapple fruit target detection algorithm in complex environments based on YOLOv8 combined with attention mechanism by Cong Lin, Wencheng Jiang, Weiye Zhao, Lilan Zou, Zhong Xue

“…Finally, high-resolution images of the pineapple fields were captured using drones to create a dataset, and extensive experiments were conducted. …”
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SFSCDNet: A Deep Learning Model With Spatial Flow-Based Semantic Change Detection From Bi-Temporal Satellite Images by K. S. Basavaraju, N. Sravya, Vibha Damodara Kevala, Shilpa Suresh, Shyam Lal

“…Experimental results of proposed network on the SECOND dataset demonstrate that the proposed model significantly improves the ability to localize critical changes and distinguish between change and no-change regions. …”
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Redo Aortic Valve Replacement After Prior Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights from Western Experience by Arber Aliu, Klodiana Durici, Ira Lazo, Altin Veshti

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Association between long-term exposure to air pollution and immune-mediated diseases: a population-based cohort study by Giovanni Adami, Angelo Fassio, Giovanni Orsolini, Davide Gatti, Maurizio Rossini, Ombretta Viapiana, Camilla Benini, Elena Fracassi, Giorgio Cattani, Marco Pontalti, Eugenia Bertoldo

“…The primary aim of the present study was to describe the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and risk of developing immune-mediated conditions.Methods We conducted a retrospective observational study on a nationwide dataset of women and men. Diagnoses of various immune-mediated diseases (IMIDs) were retrieved. …”
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Selective state models are what you need for animal action recognition by Edoardo Fazzari, Donato Romano, Fabrizio Falchi, Cesare Stefanini

“…These optimizations not only make the model more efficient but also enable it to outperform Transformer-based counterparts on the Animal Kingdom dataset, achieving a mean Average Precision of 74.6, marking an improvement over previous architectures. …”
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Tingkat keragaman ukuran benih ikan lele Clarias sp. yang diberi Artemia dengan periode yang berbeda by Dedi Jusadi, Farida Fitriani, Julie Ekasari, Apriana Vinasyiam

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Indoor ventilation frequency and cognitive function among Chinese old adults: the multiple mediation effect of anxiety and self-rated health by Lu Lin, Pingping He, Sihui Qiu, Xiaohui Qiu, Jiangping Chen

“…Methods Using the 2018 China Longitudinal Health and Longevity Survey (CLHLS) dataset, we finally selected 10,372 Chinese seniors over the age of 65. …”
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Single-cell transcriptomics analysis reveals dynamic changes and prognostic signature in tumor microenvironment of PDAC by Yongsheng Li, Zhilong Ding, Tingxin Cheng, Yihuai Hu, Fei Zhong, Shiying Ren, Shiyan Wang

“…We utilized a previously published comprehensive dataset comprising 31 samples (including 8 PDAC I, 9 PDAC II, 6 PDAC III, and 8 PDAC IV) to characterize the changes in TME composition with PDAC progression through advanced scRNA-seq analysis. …”
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A Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning Method Combining Spectral, Terrain, and Texture Features for Landslide Mapping by Yi He, Hesheng Chen, Qing Zhu, Qing Zhang, Lifeng Zhang, Tao Liu, Wende Li, Huaiyuan Chen

“…First, we construct a landslide multidimensional feature dataset using Sentinel-2A and Advanced Land Observing Satellite digital elevation model data. …”
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Driving-Related Neuropsychological Performance in Stable COPD Patients by Foteini Karakontaki, Sofia-Antiopi Gennimata, Anastasios F. Palamidas, Theocharis Anagnostakos, Epaminondas N. Kosmas, Anastasios Stalikas, Charalambos Papageorgiou, Nikolaos G. Koulouris

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MicroRNA-147a Targets SLC40A1 to Induce Ferroptosis in Human Glioblastoma by Peng Xu, Fei-Hang Ge, Wen-Xin Li, Zhen Xu, Xue-Li Wang, Jing-Lan Shen, Ai-Bo Xu, Rong-Rong Hao

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