Gender and age differences in the global burden of peptic ulcers: an analysis based on GBD data from 1990 to 2021 by Ruirui Tan, Dan Zhao, Xiaomei Zhang, Tong Liu, Chao Han, Zhongcheng Li, Chenxi Qi, Zhaohui Wang

“…The global prevalence is expected to improve, while PU-related mortality is likely to plateau without significant increases or decreases.ConclusionThe global burden of PU has declined significantly over the past three decades. …”
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Accurate size-based protein localization from cryo-ET tomograms by Weisheng Jin, Ye Zhou, Alberto Bartesaghi

“…Particle picking is an essential step in the cryo-ET/STA image analysis pipeline that consists in locating the position of proteins within crowded cellular tomograms so that they can be aligned and averaged in 3D to improve resolution. While extensive work in 2D particle picking has been done in the context of single-particle cryo-EM, comparatively fewer strategies have been proposed to pick particles from 3D tomograms, in part due to the challenges associated with working with noisy 3D volumes affected by the missing wedge. …”
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Identification of Priority Areas for Ecological Restoration at a Small Watershed Scale: A Case Study in Dali Prefecture of Yunnan Province in China by Qiyuan Zhou, Qiuping Zhu, Yu Feng, Jinman Wang

“…From 2015 to 2020, soil retention per unit area increased by 5.09%, while water purification for N and P showed marginal improvements of 0.97% and 0.39%, respectively. …”
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Understanding the dynamics of financial and economic crises: a comprehensive analysis by Mekki Hamdaoui, Abderraouf Mtiraoui, Zohra Aroussi, Mounir Smida

“…Findings indicate that while all crisis types may stem from unfavorable conditions, there exists a time lag in triggering and duration. …”
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Global burden and trends of testicular cancer in adolescents and young adults from 1990 to 2021, with predictions to 2035 by Shengjian Yu, Zeying Guo, Zijian Qiu, Liejiong Wang, Xiuxia Chen, Feng Xuan

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APPLICATION OF IMPROVED EXPERIENCE WAVELET TRANSFORM IN FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF WIND TURBINE GEARBOX by HU Xuan, LI Chun, YE KeHua

“…Aiming at the problems that the minor fault features of wind turbine gearbox bearings are easily submerged and difficult to extract under the background of strong noise, a continuous average spectral negative entropy（CASN） is proposed to improve the empirical wavelet transform（EWT）. …”
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Comparative analysis of antimicrobial resistance and genetic diversity of Bordetella bronchiseptica isolates obtained from swine within the United States by Tracy L. Nicholson, Sarah M. Shore

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Addressing non-response and measurement errors in time-scaled surveys by Poonam Singh, Pooja Maurya, Prayas Sharma

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Physics-Informed Neural Networks for the Reynolds Equation with Transient Cavitation Modeling by Faras Brumand-Poor, Florian Barlog, Nils Plückhahn, Matteo Thebelt, Niklas Bauer, Katharina Schmitz

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Cross-Antenna Polyphase Interleaving and Inversion scheme to reduce the PAPR of MIMO-FBMC/OQAM system by Mounira Laabidi, Ridha Boualleguee

“…However, one major drawback of MIMO-FBMC/OQAM is the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the output signals. …”
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Wavelet Transform Aided Single-Carrier FDMA With Index Modulation by Zhou Lu, Mohammed El-Hajjar, Lie-Liang Yang

“…Furthermore, the GS-based system can employ the proposed low-complexity TSD, allowing to achieve a similar bit error rate (BER) performance as MLD, while requiring significantly low complexity.…”
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The impact of new VAT enforcement on financial performance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia non-financial listed companies using the event study and ARMA model by Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Otaibi, Normaziah Mohd Nor, Yusniyati Yusri, Nedaa Guzaiz

“…The study concludes that while the VAT increase aims to enhance government revenues, it imposes substantial financial strain on companies, potentially leading to long-term economic repercussions. …”
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Bio-FM-Spray restoration of concrete pavement: Experimental investigation by Alireza Soleimanbeigi, Parham Hayati, Jafar Sobhani, Parvaneh Saffarian

“…FM alone achieved a high healing efficiency of 97 % at a 0.5 mm crack width due to C-S-H formation, while bacterial sprays reached 68 % efficiency for the same crack width via MICP. …”
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Trends in lower extremity peripheral arterial disease incidence since 1990 and forecasting future statistics using Global Burden of Disease 2021: a time-series analysis by Jiacheng Li, Chengxin Weng, Tiehao Wang, Wei Lu, Lihong Lin, Jiawen Wu, Guobing Cheng, Qiang Hu, Yi Guo

“…In 2021, the highest ASIR was in the Americas, while Africa had the lowest. Gender and age disparities were significant, and females and older populations were at higher risk. …”
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Rethinking composite quantification by capturing biological and ecological diversity across multiple dimensions by Ioan Sîrbu, Ana-Maria Benedek, Monica Sîrbu

“…Our framework contributes to comparing multidimensionally and multicriterially ecological systems, which can also be translated as a useful tool for assessing conservation effectiveness, ecological monitoring, and management, while enhancing communication and information dissemination. …”
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Large-Signal Stability Analysis of a Modular Multilevel Converter Based on Mixed Potential Theory by Hanhang Yin, Qianming Xu, Xiaoping Zhou, Xucheng Huang, Lei Wang, Zhikang Shuai, Josep M. Guerrero

“…Modular multilevel converters (MMC) have been widely applied in high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems, while complex dynamic characteristics pose challenges for stable operation under large-signal disturbance. …”
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Performance Analysis of RIS-Aided Hybrid RF-FSO Communications With Index Modulation by Yuna He, Wenchao Qi, Pengfei Shen, Lu Lu

“…The fading in the RF link is modeled using the Nakagami-m distribution, while the FSO link is affected by attenuation, turbulence, and pointing errors, with turbulence characterized by the Gamma-Gamma distribution. …”
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Forecasting progress: analyzing the trajectory of under-five child mortality for Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone towards SDG3 using ARIMA time series model by Zakariya Kuupah Adama, Felix Okoe Mettle, Benedict Mbeah Baiden, Nelson Kiprono Bii

“…Abstract This study employs the AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model to forecast under-five mortality rates in Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone for the years 2030 and 2031. …”
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Method for limiting the peak factor using an additional compensation signal in a system with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing for a Gaussian channel by Th. T. Pham, O. V. Tikhonova

“…Increasing the limitation level is shown to increase the PAPR value, while varying the number of additional signals changes PAPR insignificantly. …”
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A Polar Coding Scheme With Selected Index Modulation by Si-Yu Zhang, Jia-Qi Zhang, Xin-Wei Yue, Chao-Wei Wang

“…Sophisticated polar decoding enhances the corresponding performance while degrading the coding rate and complexity. For better decoding performance and efficiency, this paper presents a polar coding scheme with selected index modulation (PC-SIM). …”
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