Dynamics of Kidney Function in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Atrial Fibrillation Who Receive Dabigatran by N. A. Novikova, Z. K. Salpagarova, M. I. Chashkina, A. A. Bykova, Z. A. Alimova, А. S. Yadykina, D. F. Mesitskaya, N. A. Babakova, D. A. Andreev

“…During 5 years of follow-up, 66 (49.6%) patients had an average decrease in GFR of 3.32 ml/min/1.73 m2 per year. …”
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Forecasting acute childhood malnutrition in Kenya using machine learning and diverse sets of indicators. by Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Laura Ferguson, Caleb Robinson, Shiphrah Kuria, Herbert Wanyonyi, Samuel Murage, Samuel Mburu, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M Lavista Ferres, Bistra Dilkina

“…We further found that machine learning models with satellite-based features alone also outperform Window Averaging baselines, while not needing clinical data at inference time. …”
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Evaluating the Performance of Satellite-Derived Soil Moisture Products Across South America Using Minimal Ground-Truth Assumptions in Spatiotemporal Statistical Analysis by B. G. Mousa, Alim Samat, Hong Shu

“…The results presented that SMAP overall outperforms SMOS and ASCAT, with the highest average correlation (0.55 with GLDAS and 0.61 with ERA5), slight average bias (−0.058 with GLDAS and −0.014 with ERA5), and lowest average ubRMSE (0.045 with GLDAS and 0.041 with ERA5). …”
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Providing financial protection in health for low-income populations: a comparison of health financing designs in East Asia by Qian Zhang, Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Alex Jingwei He, Chenhong Peng, Aya Abe, Inhoe Ku, Irene Y.H. Ng, Xi Zhao

“…To compare financial protection outcomes, we derived the data through the “model family approach” and jurisdiction-level statistics and simulated catastrophic health spending of lung cancer for individuals across four income levels: (1) no income; (2) earning minimum wage; (3) earning half the national/regional average wage; and (4) earning the national/regional average wage. …”
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Evaluation of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer and Microsoft Copilot Performance on the American Society of Surgery of the Hand Self-Assessment Examinations by Taylor R. Rakauskas, BS, Antonio Da Costa, BS, Camberly Moriconi, BS, Gurnoor Gill, BA, Jeffrey W. Kwong, MD MS, Nicolas Lee, MD

“…However, ChatGPT-3.5 sided with an average of 72.2% users when correct and 62.1% when incorrect, compared to an average of 67.0% and 53.2% users, respectively, for ChatGPT-4. …”
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Effect of Relative Isometric Strength on Countermovement Jump Performance in Professional and Semi-Professional Soccer Players by Nicholas Joel Ripley, Jack Fahey, Nabil Hassim, Paul Comfort

“…Stronger players performed the CMJ more efficiently when observing the mRSI, with a shorter time to take off, while producing greater average relative forces during the braking phase. …”
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Dynamic changes of media prefrontal cortex astrocytic activity in response to negative stimuli in male mice by Ai-Mei Wu, Jing-Ya Zhang, Wei-Zhong Lun, Zhi Geng, Ye Yang, Jun-Cang Wu, Gui-Hai Chen

“…In TRT, FS or SD test, a somatic stimulus led to higher average calcium activity level and faster average peak latency in repeated trails. …”
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Using the optimal seed germination temperature approach to determine the potential distribution of Inga jinicuil in Mexico under climate change scenarios by Salvador Sampayo-Maldonado, Daniel Cabrera-Santos, Patricia Dávila-Aranda, Norma Isela Rodríguez-Arévalo, Alma Orozco-Segovia, Maraeva Gianella, Elizabeth Bell, Michael Way, Robert H. Manson, Gabina S. Quintas, Cesar M. Flores-Ortíz, Tiziana Ulian

“…While the optimal temperature was found in the range of 29.58 to 33.02 °C (average To: 31.52 ± 1.43 °C). …”
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Efficacy of external warming in attenuation of hypothermia in surgical patients by Zeba Snježana, Šurbatović Maja, Marjanović Milan, Jevđić Jasna, Hajduković Zoran, Karkalić Radovan, Jovanović Dalibor, Radaković Sonja

“…Results. In the W group, the average Te, Tf and Th did not change significantly during the intraoperative as well as the postoperative period. …”
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Assessing soil quality in association with frozen ground in the source areas of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by Shizhen Li, Dongliang Luo, Jinniu Wang, Yanqiang Wei, Ziqiang Yuan

“…Results revealed that the CLQ site, abundant in organic matter, exhibited the largest average SQI at 0.59, while the CMEH site located in seasonally frozen ground recorded the lowest value (0.26), highlighting the influence of frozen soil types on soil quality. …”
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Isotopic composition (δ18 О, δ2 Н) of glacial ice in Kamchatka: relation with modern climate changes in the Pacific Region by Yu. N. Chizhova, V. N. Mikhalenko, I. A. Korneva, Ya. D. Muravyov, A. G. Hayredinova, M. A. Vorobiev

“…The values of δ18 О and δ2 Н of the ice vary from −16 to −24‰ and from −110.5 to −177.7‰ at average values of −20.5 and −150.2‰, respectively. …”
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Thermal and Aerodynamic Researches of Staggered Bundles for Choice of an Effective Spacing of Round-Finned Tubes by V. B. Kuntysh, A. B. Sukhotskii, G. S. Marshalova, V. V. Dudarev, V. N. Farafontov

“…The transverse tube spacing in bundles S1was 64.0 or 68.0 mm, while the longitudinal spacing S2 was 54.4 or 50.0 mm. …”
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Horse owners seeking online health information: a mixed-methods study by Laura Haase, Laura Haase, Julia Winter, Sophia Grummt, Martin Sedlmayr, Brita Sedlmayr

“…All participants chose the Google search engine as the starting point for their search and formulated an average of 3.71 (SD: 2.02) queries. Each of these queries contained an average of 3.81 words (SD: 1.57). …”
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Age-related changes in the quadriceps tendon: Collagen fibril diameter decreases with aging by Yoshihiro Ishida, Yasushi Takata, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Mitsuhiro Kimura, Naoki Takemoto, Manase Nishimura, Noriyuki Ozaki, Satoru Demura, Junsuke Nakase

“…Background: The quadriceps tendon (QT) has recently gained attention as a graft tendon for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction due to its high strength from a larger ultrastructural collagen fibril diameter in children than that of the semitendinosus tendon. While QT collagen fibril diameter increases with growth, changes in older adults remain unclear. …”
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Timing of exposure to household poverty and adolescent mental health problems by Y. Koyama, A. Isumi, T. Fujiwara

“…There were also average associations of household poverty at any grade with more internalizing (ψ = 0.19 [0.10; 0.29]) and externalizing problems (ψ = 0.10 [0.002; 0.19]). …”
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Microplastic contamination in Czech drinking water: insights from comprehensive monitoring by Jan Halfar, Silvie Heviánková, Kateřina Brožová, Kristina Čabanová, Alice Valigůrová, Oldřich Motyka

“…In the first campaign, fibers and transparent microplastics were predominantly detected, while in the second collection, fragments and blue microplastics were more common. …”
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Phenotypic and genetic characterization of Halari donkey of Gujarat by ASHISH C PATEL, POOJA M MANKAD, NARENDRA NANDANIYA, SHERSINH CHAUHAN, RAMESH BHATTI, R S JOSHI

“…The temperament is generally docile; however, nervous temperament was also rarely observed. The average face length, face width, ear length, ear width was observed as 46.86+ 0.09, 16.89+ 0.20, 28.64+0.16 and 10.64+ 0.12 cm in males while, 46.56+0.04, 19.60+ 0.06, 29.53+ 0.05 and 12.36+ 0.04 cm in females, respectively. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Water Quality in the Anhui Section of Yangtze River by FENG Jia-cheng, CAO Xue-kang, TAO Li, HUA Fei, WU Kang

“…[Conclusion] (1) The overall average WQI value in the Anhui section of the Yangtze River is 71.65, indicating good water quality. …”
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An EG-Tree Model Incorporating Spatial Heterogeneity for Analyzing Multifactorial Coupling Effects on Carbon Emissions Across Industries and Regions in China by Jinrui Zang, Xin Hu, Kun Qie, Zian Zhang, Shi Zhang

“…The consumption of natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas has a smaller impact on the average carbon emission intensity of various industries under the EG-Tree model with corresponding carbon emission intensity impact factors of 5057.90 and 2789.57, respectively. (3) The Northeast region is a low-carbon area, while the East region is a high-carbon area, with total carbon emissions of 2,238,646.60 million tons and 5,566,314.00 million tons of CO₂, respectively. …”
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Outcomes of Early Weightbearing Following Open Reduction and Internal Fixation of Unstable Ankle Fractures in a Geriatric Population by Valerie Carbajal MD, Daniel Choi MD, Brent Kokobun MD, Arash Aminian MD, David Lee MD, Thomas Harris MD

“…The average BMI was 26.2%. 62% of patients reported one or more medical comorbidities. …”
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