Classification and Regression Trees analysis identifies patients at high risk for kidney function decline following hospitalization. by Weihao Wang, Wei Zhu, Janos Hajagos, Laura Fochtmann, Farrukh M Koraishy

“…Among patients hospitalized during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it remains unclear which individuals are at the greatest risk of eGFR decline after discharge. …”
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LHB-YOLOv8: An Optimized YOLOv8 Network for Complex Background Drop Stone Detection by Anjun Yu, Hongrui Fan, Yonghua Xiong, Longsheng Wei, Jinhua She

“…In addition we compare the LSKAttention mechanism with other attention mechanisms to verify the effectiveness of the improvements. Compared with the baseline model, our method improves the average accuracy mAP@0.5 by 4.8%. …”
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Environmental influences on chorusing patterns in an Australian tropical savanna frog community by Sheryn Brodie, Slade Allen‐Ankins, Lin Schwarzkopf

“…Fine‐grained nightly data on patterns of chorusing and the relationship with environmental conditions allow us to understand the detectability of the presence, or absence, of the frog species in these habitats, and provide baseline data for monitoring and management programs.…”
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Are We Moving Too Fast?: Representation of Speed in Static Images by Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Neil Cohn

“…In Experiment 1, we compared subjective speed ratings given for motion lines trailing behind movers, suppletion lines replacing parts of the movers and backfixing lines set in the background against the baseline of having no extra cue. Experiment 2 was a replication of the first experiment with an addition of several motion lines considering the effect of quantity on conveyed speed. …”
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Self-adaptive fuzzing optimization method based on distribution divergence by XU Hang, JI Jiangan, MA Zheyu, ZHANG Chao

“…The experimental results show that on the benchmark FuzzBench, the code coverage speed and overall coverage achieved by the prototype are significantly better than those of the baseline fuzzer AFL++ and HavocMAB, and better results are achieved on most benchmarks compared to CmpLog. …”
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Understanding Types of Stigma Experienced in Black Women Living With HIV in Baltimore, Maryland: A Mixed Methods Study by Tanya Mikhael, Kyra Jennifer Waligora Mendez, Chun‐An Sun, Joy Chepkorir, Hae‐Ra Han

“…Methods Quantitative data were collected in the baseline survey, and qualitative data were gathered during 6‐month follow‐up focus group and individual interviews. …”
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Effects of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors on Urine Albumin to Creatinine Ratio in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients and Medication Care by Dong-Dong Wang, Cun Zhang, Yang Yang, Su-Mei He, Ping Zhu, Xiao Chen

“…The change rates of UACR from baseline were intended to be evaluation indicators. …”
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Evaluation of Urinary Tract Infection following Corticosteroid Therapy in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Exacerbation by Aliyeh Bazi, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Monireh Ghazaeian, Sahar Fallah, Narjes Hendoiee

“…The first treatment for multiple sclerosis exacerbation is usually short-term intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP), with or without a regimen of oral prednisone taper (OPT). …”
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FTACMT study protocol: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of faecal microbiota transplantation for autism spectrum disorder by Li Ling, Wei Wei, Li Lin, Li Ke, Ye Chen, Li Ning, Wang Yu, Zhang Xin, Yang Rong, Zhang Xueying, Cui Jiaqu, Chen Qiyi, Qin Huanlong, Du Yasong, Zhao Xiaoxin, Lu Jubao, Lv Xiaoqiong, Ma Chunlian, Chen Shidong, Kuang Guifang, Zhao Dongmei, Fang Shuanfeng, Zhang Xujing, Yang Binrang, Wang Yanxia, Yuan Song, Zhou Xiang, Zhang Beihua, Jiang Lin, Ji Hong, Yan Yinmei, Yan Peihua, Huang Linsheng, Zhang Shaoyi, Ma Chenhuan, Miao Yun, Ling Wenqi, Geng Bojing, Feng Xueying, Li Huilin, Liu Liyan, Wu Weijia, Li Dexin, Jiang Qianru

“…Outcomes will be evaluated at baseline, throughout the period of intervention, and at subsequent follow-ups for 2 months. …”
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Changing Treatment and Metastatic Disease Patterns in Patients with EGFR Mutated NSCLC: An Academic Thoracic Medical Investigator’s Consortium Registry Analysis by Margaret Stalker, MD, Connor B. Grady, MPH, Alex Watts, MS, Wei-Ting Hwang, PhD, Krishna Chandrasekhara, MS, Fangdi Sun, MD, Geoffrey Liu, MD, Devalben Patel, MD, Jorge Nieva, MD, Amanda Herrmann, MD, Kristen Marrone, MD, Vincent K. Lam, MD, Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD, Stephen V. Liu, MD, Gabriela Liliana Bravo Montenegro, MD, William Tompkins, MD, Tejas Patil, MD, Jared Weiss, MD, Kelsey Leigh Miller, MD, William Schwartzman, MD, Jonathan E. Dowell, MD, Khvaramze Shaverdashvili, MD, PhD, Liza Villaruz, MD, Amanda Cass, PharmD, Wade Iams, MD, Dara Aisner, MD, PhD, Charu Aggarwal, MD, MD, D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, Lova Sun, MD, Melina E. Marmarelis, MD

“…Introduction: Osimertinib is now a standard first-line (1L) therapy for EGFR-mutated (EGFRm) advanced NSCLC. …”
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New horizons for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treatment through PosturalSpine^® D’Amanti Method by Francesca Campoli, Maria Chiara Parisi, Antonino Zoffoli, Donatella Di Corrado, Vincenzo Francavilla, Elvira Padua, Giuseppe Messina

“…The two groups are similar in the anthropometric characteristics, in baseline Risser index and in the Cobb angles average and no statistically significant differences were found between the two groups. …”
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Incremental Data Stream Classification with Adaptive Multi-Task Multi-View Learning by Jun Wang, Maiwang Shi, Xiao Zhang, Yan Li, Yunsheng Yuan, Chenglei Yang, Dongxiao Yu

“…Specifically, the attention mechanism is first used to align different sensor data of different views. …”
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Advancing early detection of organ damage and cardiovascular risk prevention: the Suzhou cardiometabolic health study protocol - exploring the role of oral microbiome and metabolic... by Mengmeng Zhu, Mengmeng Zhu, Yiwen Li, Wenting Wang, Longkun Liu, Wenwu Liu, Jiayu Yu, Qian Xu, Jing Cui, Yanfei Liu, Keji Chen, Yue Liu, Yue Liu

“…The study will be conducted in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China, planning to include 5000-6000 eligible subjects, with inclusion criteria of age ≥18 years, excluding individuals with a history of CVD and other serious diseases. Baseline assessment includes demographic information, lifestyle (including dietary patterns), medical history, physical examination, and collection of tongue coating microbiota samples. …”
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Molecular identification and distribution of insect larvae in the Lower Danube River by Menabit Selma, Iancu Lavinia, Pavel Ana B., Popa Adrian, Lupascu Naliana, Purcarea Cristina

“…On the other hand, only Hydropsyche bulgaromanorum, Triaenodes bicolor and S. morio larvae were identified in the upstream section (Sulina branch). These data provide baseline information on the larger range of some of the most common aquatic insects in the Romanian Danube section in relation to several environmental parameters based on the first molecular identification of these species using COI gene sequencing.…”
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Clinical and Capillaroscopic Modifications of the Psoriatic Plaque during Therapy: Observations with Oral Acitretin by Giuseppe Stinco, Cinzia Buligan, Enzo Errichetti, Francesca Valent, Pasquale Patrone

“…In the present work we evaluated the effects of acitretin (0.8 mg/kg/day) on videocapillaroscopic alterations and the clinical response in 11 patients affected by plaque psoriasis at the baseline (T0) and after 4 (T1), 8 (T2), and 12 (T3) weeks. …”
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Negative Affect, Type D Personality, Quality of Life, and Dysfunctional Outcomes of Total Knee Arthroplasty by Matthias Vogel, Christian Riediger, Martin Krippl, Jörg Frommer, Christoph Lohmann, Sebastian Illiger

“…Baseline self-rated physical health did not connect to the dissatisfaction with TKA 1-year postoperatively.…”
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Anemia among HIV-Infected Patients Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa: Improvement in Hemoglobin regardless of Degree of Immunosuppression and the Initiating ART Re... by Simbarashe Takuva, Mhairi Maskew, Alana T. Brennan, Ian Sanne, A. Patrick MacPhail, Mathew P. Fox

“…We conducted a prospective analysis among 10,259 HIV-infected adults initiating first-line ART between April 2004 and August 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. …”
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A Deep-Learning Prediction Model for Imbalanced Time Series Data Forecasting by Chenyu Hou, Jiawei Wu, Bin Cao, Jing Fan

“…Finally, extensive experiments show that our model performs better than other baselines in terms of mean absolute error and mean absolute percentage error.…”
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Evaluation of Clinical Effectiveness and Subjective Satisfaction of a New Toothbrush for Postsurgical Hygiene Care: A Randomized Split-Mouth Double-Blind Clinical Trial by Marco Montevecchi, Annalisa Moreschi, Maria Rosaria Gatto, Luigi Checchi, Vittorio Checchi

“…Ten consecutive patients with at least two scheduled symmetrical periodontal surgeries were selected. Following the first periodontal surgery, a test (TB1) or control (TB2) toothbrush was randomly assigned. …”
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A Damage-Tolerant Task Assignment Algorithm for UAV Swarm in Confrontational Environments by Chao Chen, Weidong Bao, Tong Men, Wen Zhou, Daqian Liu, Li Ma

“…On the basis of the damage-tolerant and overlapping mechanism, for the first time, we propose a new damage-tolerant task assignment algorithm named DTTA, aiming at promoting the task success probability. …”
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