Operating Voltage and Frequency Regime Validation of Grid Code Requirements in South Africa by Gideon D. Joubert, Atanda K. Raji

“…The testing methodology involves feeding grid disturbance event data to an RPP modeled after Eskom’s Sere wind farm in South Africa, which is operated in line with local RPP-specific grid code voltage and frequency requirements to assess the testbed’s grid code-guided RPP operating approach. …”
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Effective breastfeeding technique and associated factors among lactating mothers in Gidan District, North-East, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study by Eskedar Getie Mekonnen, Desale Bihonegn Asmamaw, Yohannes Ayanaw Habitu, Wubshet Debebe Negash, Dawit Zenamarkos Desta

“…Individual scores of three variables about breast feeding, namely positioning, attachment and suckling, were computed to generate the outcome variable, that is, breastfeeding technique. …”
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Supplementation of Multistrain Probiotics Improves Milk Production, Blood Metabolites, Digestibility, and Rectal Microbiota during the Prepartum and Early Lactation Stages in Cross... by Mohamed S. Ayyat, Usama M. Abdel Monem, Gamal Abdel-Rahman, Adel Ibrahim Hussein, Hamdy A. El-Nagar, Wael M. Wafa, Samir Mahgoub, Adham A. Al-Sagheer

“…The MPF supplementation significantly enhanced feed conversion and significantly interacted with milk solids-not-fat, lactose, total solids, and protein. …”
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Comparative, cross-sectional study of the format, content and timing of medication safety letters issued in Canada, the USA and the UK by Jeremy M Grimshaw, Margaret C Watson, Lise M Bjerre, Matthew Hogel, Cody D Black, Simon Parlow, David de Launay, Donald R Mattison

“…Format, content and timing of each medication safety letter were assessed using an abstraction tool comprising 21 characteristics deemed relevant by consensus of the research team.Main outcome measures Main outcome measures included, first, characteristics (format and content) of medication safety letters and second, overlap of subject and release date across countries.Results Of 330 medication safety letters identified, 227 dealt with unique issues relating to medications available in all three countries. …”
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Cosmetic Outcome of Feminizing Genitoplasty in DSD (Disorders of Sex Development) by ِِAsmaa Gaber Rizk, Hamdy Muhammad Hussein, Sara Mohammed Habib Abdel-Hamied, Nezar Abdelraouf Abo Halawa

“…Postoperative care involved antibiotics, analgesics, oral feeding, and vaginal calibration. Outcomes were assessed using Creighton and Lean scores. …”
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Prevalence And Social Factors Associated With Postpartum Depression In Urban Areas Of Pakistan: Cross-Sectional Study by Muhammad Moeed Azwar Bhatti, Muhammad Saarim Ashraf, Hafsa Bhatti, Mahwash Jamil, Kaniz Mukhdooma, Zainab Ibrahim

“… Objective: A type of mental sickness known as postpartum depression (PPD), which affects some women after giving birth, is characterized by feelings of melancholy, anxiety, and weariness that can interfere with day-to-day activities and the ability to form attachments with the infant. …”
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Multiscale characterization of medical devices and pharmaceutical formulations with 3D X-ray microscopy and computed tomography by Herminso Villarraga-Gómez, Ria L. Mitchell

“…This paper discusses advancements in 3D X-ray imaging workflows for characterizing medical devices and pharmaceutical formulations. It also covers deep-learning (DL) data reconstruction techniques that enhance 3D X-ray microscopy (XRM) and computed tomography (CT) applications in drug delivery and the pharmaceutical industry. …”
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OMSF2: optimizing multi-scale feature fusion learning for pneumoconiosis staging diagnosis through data specificity augmentation by Xueting Ren, Surong Chu, Guohua Ji, Zijuan Zhao, Juanjuan Zhao, Yan Qiang, Yangyang Wei, Yan Wang

“…Abstract Diagnosing pneumoconiosis is challenging because the lesions are not easily visible on chest X-rays, and the images often lack clear details. Existing deep detection models utilize Feature Pyramid Networks (FPNs) to identify objects at different scales. …”
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Factors associated with assertiveness among Japanese community pharmacists: a cross-sectional study by Mitsuaki Ishii, Sachiko Ozone, Shoichi Masumoto, Tetsuhiro Maeno

“…In the context of information sharing between physicians and community pharmacists, assertive self-expression (defined as ‘a style of openly expressing one's needs and feelings while respecting others’) is beneficial. …”
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Reducing lead requirements for wearable ECG: Chest lead reconstruction with 1D-CNN and Bi-LSTM by Kazuki Hebiguchi, Hiroyoshi Togo, Akimasa Hirata

“…Wearable ECG devices encounter significant challenges in replicating the diagnostic capabilities of standard 12-lead ECGs, primarily due to the complexity of electrode placement and the need for specialized equipment. This study aims to develop a deep learning model capable of reconstructing complete 12-lead ECG waveforms using a minimal number of chest leads, thereby optimizing lead configurations for wearable ECG systems. …”
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Effects of Artemisia argyi leaf water extract (AWE) on growth performance, muscle quality, intestinal microbial, and metabolomics of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) by Di Sun, Nanyang Zeng, Yingjia Pan, Qingsong Shu, Jixing Zou, Yingshi Huang, Guoxia Wang, Jun Shi

“…Over a period of 56 days, varying concentrations of AWE—0 % (A0), 0.1 % (A1), 0.2 % (A2), and 0.4 % (A3)—were incorporated into the feed for carp. The effects of AWE supplementation were assessed through various parameters including growth performance, flesh quality, biochemical indices, tissue structure, intestinal microbiota composition, and metabolomics analysis. …”
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Pandemic or “Plandemic”?: The Mediating Role of Epistemic Justification Strategies in the Relationship Between COVID‐19 Conspiracy Beliefs and COVID‐19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs... by Ali Gökalp, Servet Üztemur, Po‐Ching Huang, Aslı Kartol, Hsin‐Chi Tsai, Erkan Dinç, Mark D. Griffiths, Chung‐Ying Lin

“…ABSTRACT Background In today's post‐truth times, where personal feelings and beliefs have become increasingly important, determining what is accurate knowledge has become an important skill. …”
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Swarm learning with weak supervision enables automatic breast cancer detection in magnetic resonance imaging by Oliver Lester Saldanha, Jiefu Zhu, Gustav Müller-Franzes, Zunamys I. Carrero, Nicholas R. Payne, Lorena Escudero Sánchez, Paul Christophe Varoutas, Sreenath Kyathanahally, Narmin Ghaffari Laleh, Kevin Pfeiffer, Marta Ligero, Jakob Behner, Kamarul A. Abdullah, Georgios Apostolakos, Chrysafoula Kolofousi, Antri Kleanthous, Michail Kalogeropoulos, Cristina Rossi, Sylwia Nowakowska, Alexandra Athanasiou, Raquel Perez-Lopez, Ritse Mann, Wouter Veldhuis, Julia Camps, Volkmar Schulz, Markus Wenzel, Sergey Morozov, Alexander Ciritsis, Christiane Kuhl, Fiona J. Gilbert, Daniel Truhn, Jakob Nikolas Kather

“…Methods In this study, we present an integrated pipeline combining weakly supervised learning—reducing the need for detailed annotations—with local AI model training via swarm learning (SL), which circumvents centralized data sharing. …”
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DISTANCE ESTIMATION TO THE INTERPHASE-FAULT LOCATION IN THE DISTRIBUTIVE AIR-LINE GRIDS BASED ON ANALYSIS OF THE HARMONIC COMPONENT PARAMETERS OF THE OPERATING EMERGENCY CONDITIONS by E. V. Kalentionok, Ye. O. Yakovchits

“…This approach compels to seek additional devices for tuning out the loadings of transformer-substations. …”
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Energy-Efficient Aerial STAR-RIS-Aided Computing Offloading and Content Caching for Wireless Sensor Networks by Xiaoping Yang, Quanzeng Wang, Bin Yang, Xiaofang Cao

“…Given the non-convex nature of this problem, we decompose it into a content caching decision subproblem, a computing offloading decision subproblem, a hovering position subproblem, and a STAR-RIS resource allocation subproblem. We propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)–successive convex approximation (SCA) combined algorithm to iteratively achieve near-optimal solutions with low complexity. …”
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Childbirth experience assessment tools based on COSMIN guidelines: A systematic review by Yifan Cheng, Ruxue Bai, Siyu Shan, Xinmiao Zhao, Chunling Xia

“…However, further validation of other measurement properties is needed.…”
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Associations of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein with neuropsychological outcomes and cerebral white matter hyperintensities in older adults at risk of dementia by Rachael Yu, Shawn D. Kong, Catriona Ireland, Genevieve Z. Steiner-Lim, Kimberley Bassett, Hannes Almgren, Dongang Wang, Chenyu Wang, Johannes C. Michaelian, Sharon L. Naismith

“…Structural MRI scans were used to estimate WMH lesion volumes in the whole brain, as well as periventricular, deep white matter, and frontal regions. After adjusting for relevant demographic and clinical factors, multiple regression analyses revealed that in participants with SCD, high hs-CRP concentrations were significantly associated with poorer executive function (β[95% CI] = −.20[−.65, −.04], p = .025) and processing speed (β[95% CI] = −.19[−.53, .00], p = .048). …”
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Somatic symptoms in schizophrenia: Association with socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, disability and quality of life by Mamta Sood, Ragul Ganesh, Ananya Mahapatra, Rohit Verma, Rakesh K. Chadda

“…Mean somatic symptoms score on PHQ-15 was 7.28 (± 3.83); 96.8% reported feeling tired, 76.3% had constipation or diarrhoea, 67.7% trouble in sleeping, 61.3% nausea or indigestion, 52.7% back pain and 51.6% headache. …”
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Physical Modelling of Rainfall-Induced Sandy and Clay-Like Slope Failures by Martina Vivoda Prodan, Josip Peranić, Sara Pajalić, Željko Arbanas

“…The model platform 2.3 m long, 1.0 m wide, and 0.5 m deep was used to build small-scale slope models with the same geometric conditions but different soil types/materials, including sand and two sand-kaolin mixtures with the same slope angle. …”
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A Study on Multi-Scale Behavior Recognition of Dairy Cows in Complex Background Based on Improved YOLOv5 by Zheying Zong, Zeyu Ban, Chunguang Wang, Shuai Wang, Wenbo Yuan, Chunhui Zhang, Lide Su, Ze Yuan

“…Four Shuffle Attention (SA) modules are integrated into the upsampling and downsampling processes of the YOLOv5 model’s neck network to enhance deep feature extraction of small-scale cow targets and focus on feature information, while maintaining network complexity and real-time performance. …”
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