Meaning and Practice of Palliative Care for Hospitalized Older Adults with Life Limiting Illnesses by Bethel Ann Powers, Sally A. Norton, Madeline H. Schmitt, Timothy E. Quill, Maureen Metzger

“…Description of four practice paradigms (EOL transitions, prognostic uncertainty, discharge planning, and patient/family values and preferences) and identification of the underlying structure and communication patterns of PC consultation services common to them. …”
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The Overlooked Role of the Stratosphere Under a Solar Constant Reduction by Ewa M. Bednarz, Daniele Visioni, Antara Banerjee, Peter Braesicke, Ben Kravitz, Douglas G. MacMartin

“…The coupled stratospheric‐tropospheric response exerts a previously overlooked first‐order influence on southern hemispheric surface climate in the solar dimming experiments, including on the position of the tropospheric jet and Hadley Circulation and thus, ultimately, precipitation patterns. This perturbation, opposite to that expected under SAI, highlights the need for caution when attributing responses in idealized experiments.…”
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Modelling Blast Effects on a Reinforced Concrete Bridge by Markellos Andreou, Anastasios Kotsoglou, Stavroula Pantazopoulou

“…A two-span reinforced concrete bridge was thoroughly investigated and the results provide insightful information regarding the damage patterns and localization.…”
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Energy management of smart buildings during crises and digital twins as an optimisation tool for sustainable urban environment by Konstantinos Chatzikonstantinidis, Nicholas Afxentiou, Effrosyni Giama, Paris A. Fokaides, Agis M. Papadopoulos

“…While gradient boosting models performed well, LSTM showed superior accuracy in capturing long-term patterns. These models are crucial for anticipating energy demand fluctuations, especially during unforeseen events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Multiplex genome editing for climate-resilient woody plants by Madhab Kumar Sen, Sunil Kanti Mondal, Rohit Bharati, Lucie Severova, Karel Šrédl

“…Climate change is severely impacting global forest ecosystems, stressing woody plants due to rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events. These pressures threaten biodiversity and disrupt the essential roles forests play in carbon sequestration, timber production, and ecosystem stability. …”
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Aspergillus-Related Lung Disease by Alia Al-Alawi, C Frank Ryan, Julia D Flint, Nestor L Müller

“…An intact host defence is important to prevent disease, but individuals with pre-existing structural lung disease, atopy, occupational exposure or impaired immunity are susceptible. Three distinctive patterns of aspergillus-related lung disease are recognized: saprophytic infestation of airways, cavities and necrotic tissue; allergic disease including extrinsic allergic alveolitis, asthma, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, bronchocentric granulomatosis and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia; and airway and tissue invasive disease -- pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis, acute bronchopneumonia, angioinvasive aspergillosis, chronic necrotizing aspergillosis and invasive pleural disease. …”
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The Metabolic Features of Tumor-Associated Macrophages: Opportunities for Immunotherapy? by Sonja S. Mojsilovic, Slavko Mojsilovic, Victor H. Villar, Juan F. Santibanez

“…Here, we review the main functional TAM metabolic patterns influenced by TME, including glycolysis, amino acid, and fatty acid metabolism. …”
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Two Case Reports of Varicocele Rupture during Sexual Intercourse and Review of the Literature by Chalil Arif, Konstantinos Kotoulas, Chrysostomos Georgellis, Konstantinos Frigkas, Athanasios Bantis, Emmanouil Patris

“…Although different pathophysiological patterns have been proposed, there is no consensus in the urological society to date. …”
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An improved video watermarking algorithm with extraction using a mobile device camera by O.O. Evsutin, A.S. Melman, D.I. Podbolotov, A.G. Stankevich

“…This study proposes an approach to improve the efficiency of the algorithm for embedding digital watermarks into video data based on rectangular patterns, which provides resistance to screen shooting. …”
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The Effect of Financial Distress, Information Asymmetry, and CEO Characteristics on Earnings Management: The Moderating Role of Internal Control by Neli Nuraeni, Ajeng Luthfiyatul Farida

“…This research project will look at infrastructure, transportation, and logistics-related IDX-listed firms from 2018 to 2022. It will look for patterns in earnings management as an influence of financial distress, information asymmetry, and CEO characteristics like narcissism and power. …”
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Design and Implementation of Single-Layer 4 × 4 and 8 × 8 Butler Matrices for Multibeam Antenna Arrays by George A. Adamidis, Ioannis O. Vardiambasis, Melina P. Ioannidou, Theodoros N. Kapetanakis

“…Moreover, multibeam antenna arrays fed by the BMs are constructed. The radiation patterns are measured and compared with theoretical data; a good agreement is achieved. …”
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The Power of Words from the 2024 United States Presidential Debates: A Natural Language Processing Approach by Ana Lorena Jiménez-Preciado, José Álvarez-García, Salvador Cruz-Aké, Francisco Venegas-Martínez

“…This study analyzes the linguistic patterns and rhetorical strategies employed in the 2024 U.S. presidential debates from the exchanges between Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. …”
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The 2023 Mw 7.8–7.7 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes were loosely slip-predictable by Ellis Vavra, Yuri Fialko, Fatih Bulut, Aslı Garagon, Sefa Yalvaç, Cenk Yaltırak

“…Here, we use historical earthquake records, measurements of interseismic deformation, and published slip models of the 2023 events to evaluate the recurrence patterns of large earthquakes. We compare slip deficit that accrued on each fault segment since the respective penultimate events to the average coseismic slip of the 2023 doublet. …”
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A Radiative Transfer Modeling Methodology in Gas-Liquid Multiphase Flow Simulations by Gautham Krishnamoorthy, Rydell Klosterman, Dylan Shallbetter

“…The impacts of the multiphase modeling option, initial bubble diameter, and gas flow rates on the radiation distribution patterns within the reactor were also examined. An increase in air inlet velocities resulted in an increase in the fraction of larger sized bubbles and their contribution to the scattering coefficient. …”
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Association of Subjective Cognitive Concerns With Performance on Mobile App–Based Cognitive Assessment in Cognitively Normal Older Adults: Observational Study by Caroline O Nester, Alyssa N De Vito, Sarah Prieto, Zachary J Kunicki, Jennifer Strenger, Karra D Harrington, Nelson Roque, Martin J Sliwinski, Laura A Rabin, Louisa I Thompson

“…MethodsParticipants (N=122; Meanageeducation ResultsSCC was not associated with app satisfaction or protocol motivation, but it was significantly associated with lower rates of protocol adherence (ß=−.20, PP ConclusionsSCCs are associated with worse overall memory performance on mobile app assessments, patterns of cognitive inefficiency (variable working memory), and mildly diminished adherence across an 8-day assessment period. …”
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High Accuracy 2D-DOA Estimation for Conformal Array Using PARAFAC by Liangtian Wan, Weijian Si, Lutao Liu, Zuoxi Tian, Naixing Feng

“…Due to the polarization diversity (PD) of element patterns caused by the varying curvature of the conformal carrier, the conventional direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms could not be applied to the conformal array. …”
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Direct observation of the atomic density fluctuation originating from the first sharp diffraction peak in SiO2 glass by Akihiko Hirata, Shuya Sato, Motoki Shiga, Yohei Onodera, Koji Kimoto, Shinji Kohara

“…The correspondence between the local electron diffraction patterns of FSDPs and the atomic configurations constructed based on the X-ray and neutron diffraction results revealed that the local atomic density fluctuations originated from the quasi-periodic alternating arrangements of the columnar chain-like atomic configurations and interstitial tubular voids, as in crystals. …”
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Evolving Spiking Neural Network Model for PM2.5 Hourly Concentration Prediction Based on Seasonal Differences: A Case Study on Data from Beijing and Shanghai by Hengyuan Liu, Guibin Lu, Yangjun Wang, Nikola Kasabov

“…Furthermore, inadequate processing of the available spatio-temporal data has precluded the capture of predictive historical patterns. Therefore, we have developed a staging evolving spiking neural network (eSNN) model named Staging-eSNN that first employs a time series clustering algorithm to distinguish the seasonal from the diurnal variation in the PM2.5 concentration. …”
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Vitreous Mediators in Retinal Hypoxic Diseases by Roberto dell'Omo, Francesco Semeraro, Giulio Bamonte, Francesco Cifariello, Mario R. Romano, Ciro Costagliola

“…The modern particle-based flow cytometric analysis is more direct, stable and sensitive than the colorimetric readout of the conventional ELISA but, similar to ELISA, is influenced by vitreous hemorrhage, disruption of the blood-retina barrier, and high serum levels of a specific protein. Finding patterns in the expression of inflammatory cytokines specific to a particular disease can substantially contribute to the understanding of its basic mechanism and to the development of a targeted therapy.…”
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The Prevalence of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours Relative to Obesity among Adolescents from Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia: Rural versus Urban Variations by Anwar A. Al-Nuaim, Yahya Al-Nakeeb, Mark Lyons, Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa, Alan Nevill, Peter Collins, Michael J. Duncan

“…Methods. 1270 volunteered youth (15–19 years) completed a self-report questionnaire that contained 47 items relating to patterns of physical activity (PA), sedentary activity, and eating habits. …”
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