Identification of patients undergoing chronic kidney replacement therapy in primary and secondary care data: validation study based on OpenSAFELY and UK Renal Registry by Ben Goldacre, Dorothea Nitsch, Laurie A Tomlinson, Bang Zheng, Brian MacKenna, Amir Mehrkar, Lucy Plumb, Retha Steenkamp, Shalini Santhakumaran, Sebastian Bacon, Viyaasan Mahalingasivam, Caroline Morton, Louis Fisher, Edward PK Parker, Sue Lyon, Rob Konstant-Hambling

“…No codes existed whose exclusion would substantially improve the positive predictive value without a decrease in sensitivity.Conclusions Codes used in primary and secondary care data failed to identify a small proportion of prevalent patients receiving kidney replacement therapy. …”
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ITG turbulence in gyrokinetic simulations of high collisionality spherical tokamak plasmas by N. Kumar, G. Avdeeva, J. Candy, M. Reynolds, E. Belli, C.P. McNally

“…This paper presents a first detailed gyrokinetic analysis with the goal of understanding the dominant turbulent transport mechanisms and identifying the micro-instabilities present in small-aspect-ratio plasmas in the PI3 device, developed as magnetized target fusion targets. …”
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Estimating rare disease prevalence and costs in the USA: a cohort study approach using the Healthcare Cost Institute claims data by Keith A Crandall, Christine M Cutillo, Ainslie Tisdale, Mahdi Baghbanzadeh, Reva L Stidd, Manpreet S Khural, Laurie J Hartman, Jeff Greenberg, Kevin B Zhang, Ali Rahnavard

“…RDs face challenges in prevalence estimation due to a lack of specific disease coding and a small patient population, compounded by issues like data standardisation and privacy concerns. …”
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Enhanced YOLO11 for lightweight and accurate drone-based maritime search and rescue object detection. by Beigeng Zhao, Jiawen Zhao, Rui Song, Lizhi Yu, Xia Zhang, Jiren Liu

“…These modifications significantly improve the model's ability to detect small, overlapping, and rarely occurring objects, which are common challenges in maritime search and rescue tasks. …”
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Linguistic Parameters of the #National Identity of Peruvians through the Prism of Toponymy of Peru by Olga S. Chesnokova, Irina A. Martynenko

“…Peru differs from other countries of the South American continent in the small percentage of Spanish place names per se . …”
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Decoding as a linear ill-posed problem: The entropy minimization approach by Valérie Gauthier-Umaña, Henryk Gzyl, Enrique ter Horst

“…In an example with a generator code matrix of the Reed-Solomon type, we examined the two points of view about the noise. …”
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Replacing non-biomedical concepts improves embedding of biomedical concepts. by Enock Niyonkuru, Mauricio Soto Gomez, Elena Casarighi, Stephan Antogiovanni, Hannah Blau, Justin T Reese, Giorgio Valentini, Peter N Robinson

“…Embedding approaches often employ concept replacement to replace concepts that span multiple words, such as non-small-cell lung carcinoma, with a single concept identifier (e.g., D002289). …”
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MF-YOLO: Mask Wearing Detection Algorithm for Dense Environments by Peng Wen, Zhengyi Yuan, Junhu Zhang, Haitao Li

“…Experimental results in the public MASK dataset and the self-built SFMD dataset demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly accelerates convergence while improving accuracy by 2.1% and 1.3%, respectively, compared to the original network. Our code and datasets are publicly released on GitHub <uri>https://github.com/wenpengshishuaige/MF-YOLO</uri>.…”
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Fine-tuning text-to-SQL models with reinforcement-learning training objectives by Xuan-Bang Nguyen, Xuan-Hieu Phan, Massimo Piccardi

“…Text-to-SQL is an important natural language processing task that helps users automatically convert natural language queries into formal SQL code. While transformer-based models have pushed text-to-SQL to unprecedented accuracy levels in recent years, such performance is confined to models of very large size that can only be run in specialised clouds. …”
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Seismic Behaviour of Hybrid Precast Shear Walls with Partially Connected Vertically Distributed Reinforcements by Henglin Lv, Yuanzhou Wu, Xiongshi Hu, Cancan Huang, Kefang Liu

“…The ductility coefficient of the precast specimens was approximately 4, and the ultimate displacement angle was between 1/30 and 1/32, which was larger than the limit value of elastic-plastic interlayer displacement of shear wall structures required by the code. The reduction in the number of vertically distributed rebar connections led to a decrease in the bearing capacity, stiffness, ductility, and energy dissipation, but the impact was very small.…”
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Exploring Applications and Practical Examples by Streamlining Material Requirements Planning (MRP) with Python by João Reis

“…<i>Conclusions</i>: While the article focuses on demonstrating the practicality of Python in MRP, future endeavors will entail empirically integrating MRP.py with the ERP systems in small- and medium-sized companies. This integration will establish real-time data synchronization between the Python and ERP systems, leading to accurate MRP calculations and enhanced decision-making processes.…”
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Trajectory Planning and Optimisation for Following Drone to Rendezvous Leading Drone by State Estimation with Adaptive Time Horizon by Javier Lee Hongrui, Sutthiphong Srigrarom

“…Due to the relative simplicity of learning and operating a small-scale UAV, malicious organizations can field and use UAVs (drones) to form substantial threats. …”
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Unlocking the Potential of Digital Payment: How Financial Habits Drive Digital Payment Adoption Among Indonesia's MSMEs by Evelin Sutrisno, Romauli Nainggolan

“…Financial literacy is essential for proficient financial management, impacting the utilization and enhancement of financial technology such as digital payment within Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). This study investigates the influence of financial literacy on the effectiveness of digital payment use, with financial behavior serving as a mediating variable. …”
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An Algorithm to Automatically Generate the Combinatorial Orbit Counting Equations. by Ine Melckenbeeck, Pieter Audenaert, Tom Michoel, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet

“…Graphlets are small subgraphs, usually containing up to five vertices, that can be found in a larger graph. …”
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Welfare and research: automatic cognitive testing in social groups in macaques in the laboratory by Christophe Jouy, Nicolas Souedet, Didier Thenadey, Philippe Hantraye, Romina Aron Badin

“…Inspired by recent publications on automated cognitive testing in social groups, our laboratory developed a special application on tactile screens, AUTOBUNTO, by which each primate learnt its own pin code to launch a single trial of its own behavioral test. …”
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Design of a Compact Quad-Band Slot Antenna for Integrated Mobile Devices by Jian Dong, Xiaping Yu, Guoqiang Hu

“…By adopting these structures, it can produce four different bands, while maintaining a small size and a simple structure. Furthermore, a prototype of the quad-band antenna is designed and fabricated. …”
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Using multi‐pattern clustering methods to improve software maintenance quality by Yi‐Ting Chen, Chin‐Yu Huang, Tsung‐Han Yang

“…To solve this problem, software modularisation using clustering is an intuitive way to modularise and classify code into small pieces. , A multi‐pattern clustering (MPC) algorithm for software modularisation is proposed in this study. …”
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Graphlet decomposition dataset of Tallinn’s road network from January 2020 OpenStreetMap dataGithub by Mahdi Rasoulinezhad, Nasim Eslamirad, Jenni Partanen

“…This paper presents a comprehensive dataset of graphlet decomposition for the road network of Tallinn, Estonia, based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) data representing the road network state as of 1 January 2020. Graphlets, which are small subgraphs, serve as powerful tools for analyzing and classifying local street structures in urban networks. …”
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The what and where of adding channel noise to the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. by Joshua H Goldwyn, Eric Shea-Brown

“…We supply user-friendly MATLAB simulation code of these stochastic versions of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations on the ModelDB website (accession number 138950) and http://www.amath.washington.edu/~etsb/tutorials.html.…”
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Lab Retriever: a software tool for calculating likelihood ratios incorporating a probability of drop-out for forensic DNA profiles by Keith Inman, Norah Rudin, Ken Cheng, Chris Robinson, Adam Kirschner, Luke Inman-Semerau, Kirk E. Lohmueller

“…Abstract Background Technological advances have enabled the analysis of very small amounts of DNA in forensic cases. However, the DNA profiles from such evidence are frequently incomplete and can contain contributions from multiple individuals. …”
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