Thalamic burst and tonic firing selectively indicate patients’ consciousness level and recovery by Huan Wang, Yongxiang Hu, Qianqian Ge, Yuanyuan Dang, Yi Yang, Long Xu, Xiaoyu Xia, Peng Zhang, Sheng He, Steven Laureys, Yan Yang, Jianghong He

“…Patients diagnosed with vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome exhibited less-active neurons, with longer and more variable burst discharges, than those in a minimally conscious state. …”
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Global and Local Interpretable Machine Learning Allow Early Prediction of Unscheduled Hospital Readmission by Rafael Ruiz de San Martín, Catalina Morales-Hernández, Carmen Barberá, Carlos Martínez-Cortés, Antonio Jesús Banegas-Luna, Francisco José Segura-Méndez, Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, Isabel Morales-Moreno, Juan José Hernández-Morante

“…Future research should include more clinical variables to refine this model further.…”
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The age at natural menopause of Chinese Han and Tibetan women by Shiqi Chen, Liangbo Yang, Furui Chen, Furui Chen, Yu Qiu, Yu Qiu, Jing Zhang, Jesse Li Ling, Qiaolan Liu, Yan Gong

“…Factors associated with later menopause have included older age at survey, ever married, high school and above educational level, annual household income of ≥200,000 RMB, no smoking, habit of eating spicy food, no history of severe food shortage, more gravidity, less parity, use of intrauterine device, and no history of using oral contraceptives.ConclusionsThe age at natural menopause of Chinese Han women was earlier than that of Chinese Tibetan women. …”
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Assessing equity of care across metastatic breast cancer treatment junctures: a multi-site retrospective cohort study by Carolyn Brown, Hyeun Ah Kang, Michael Johnsrud, Jamie Terry, Gury Doshi, Stephanie Broussard, Chinelo Orji

“…More proactive and equitable care in mBC toward the end of their care journey is warranted.…”
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The combined associations of excess body weight, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia with hyperglycemia among nondiabetic older adults in regional China by Xiaojun Ouyang, Liubao Gu, Ting Xu, Tianrui Deng, Huiqing Xu, Yunting Xu, Guofeng Ao, Wei Tang, Fei Xu

“…Body weight and height, blood pressure, fasting plasma triglycerides, and glucose were objectively measured, while socio-demographic attributes, lifestyle and behaviors, and disease history were self-reported. The outcome variable was hyperglycemia. Independent variables included EBW, HTN, HTG, and their combinations. …”
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Enhanced Peak and Extended Cooling of the Extreme-ultraviolet Late Phase in a Confined Solar Flare by Shihan Li, Yu Dai, Mingde Ding, Zhen Li, Jinhan Guo, Hao Wu

“…We further verify such a scenario by analytically solving the cooling process of a late-phase loop characterized by a variable cross section.…”
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Temporal Trends of Maternal Mortality Due to Obstetric Hemorrhage in Chinese Mainland: Evidence from the Population-Based Surveillance Data Between 2000 and 2019 by Yi Mu, Jun Zhu, Yanping Wang, Jiani Zhang, Mingrong Li, Peiran Chen, Yanxia Xie, Juan Liang, Xiaodong Wang, Dandan Shi

“…China needs to develop more effective interventions to reduce maternal deaths due to obstetric hemorrhage, especially for postpartum uterine atony and uterine rupture.…”
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AlphaMissense Predictions and ClinVar Annotations: A Deep Learning Approach to Uveal Melanoma by David J. Taylor Gonzalez, MD, Mak B. Djulbegovic, MD, MSc, Meghan Sharma, MD, MPH, Michael Antonietti, BS, Colin K. Kim, BS, Vladimir N. Uversky, PhD, DSc, Carol L. Karp, MD, Carol L. Shields, MD, Matthew W. Wilson, MD

“…Objective: Uveal melanoma (UM) poses significant diagnostic and prognostic challenges due to its variable genetic landscape. We explore the use of a novel deep learning tool to assess the functional impact of genetic mutations in UM. …”
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THE FIRST RESULTS OF STUDIES OF TEMPORARY VARIATIONS IN SOILRADON ACTIVITY OF FAULTS IN WESTERN PRIBAIKALIE by К. Zh. Seminsky, А. А. Bobrov

“…Radon concentrations in soil air are variable depending on factors that are considered external (planetary) and internal (geodynamic) relative to the Earth. …”
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Penerapan Feature Engineering dan Hyperparameter Tuning untuk Meningkatkan Akurasi Model Random Forest pada Klasifikasi Risiko Kredit by Nadea Putri Nur Fauzi, Siti Khomsah, Aditya Dwi Putra Wicaksono

“…The research dataset, consisting of 32.581 lines, 11 predictor variables, and one response variable, is secondary data on Credit Risk. …”
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Fitotoxicidade e seletividade do herbicida trifloxysulfuron sodium na mamona cultivar BRS Nordestina Toxicity and selectivity of trifloxysulfuron-sodium herbicide in castor bean cu... by Uilma C. de Q. Ferreira, Wilton N. de Queiroz, Napoleão E. de M. Beltrão

“…It was verified, for the variable growth reduction, reflected by the height and size of the plants, that there was a significant effect for doses and stages of the development and the interaction among them, and the youngest plants were more sensitive to the product. …”
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ASSOCIATING eNOS GENE VARIANTS WITH COVID-19 SUSCEPTIBILITY IN THE TURKISH POPULATION by Naci Şenkal, Yasemin Oyacı, Timurhan Cebeci, Hilal Konyaoğlu, Murat Köse, Mustafa Önel, Alpay Medetalibeyoğlu, Gözde Yeşil Sayın, Mustafa Pehlivan, Sacide Pehlivan, Ümmühan İşoğlu Alkaç, Tufan Tükek

“…The eNOS G894T G/G genotype (p=0.030) was more common in the control group compared to the patient group. …”
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Contribution of entropy analysis on three-dimensional Prandtl model under Hall and ion slip effects with generalized mass and heat fluxes via OHAM by Sana Akbar, Muhammad Sohail, Syed Tehseen Abbas, Abha Singh

“…Extending the Prandtl fluid model in 3D allows more comprehensive demonstration of the under consideration physical system.…”
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Time to dietary diversity of complementary feeding improvements and its associated factors among infants aged 6–12 months in Ethiopia: evidence from performance monitoring for acti... by Feyisa Shasho Bayisa, Teshome Demis Nimani, Samuel Demissie Darcho, Abainash Tekola

“…A Cox proportional-hazard regression model was used to explore the association between independent variables and the outcome variable. The strength of the association was indicated by the adjusted hazard ratio (AHR) with a 95% confidence interval. …”
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Phytochemical profile and antimicrobial activity of individual frond extracts of Menisorus pauciflorus, Pteris catoptera, Conniogramme africana and Antrophyum mannianum by Herbert Nuwamanya, Ben Lukubye, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, Clement Olusoji Ajayi, Raphael Wangalwa, Eunice Apio Olet

“…The extracts possess antimicrobial bioactive agents but weak activity against E. coli, S. aureus and C. albicans. We recommend more studies on the effect of these fern extracts on other bacterial and fungal strains to prove their antimicrobial potential on various pathogenic bacteria and fungi.…”
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A simple risk index predicts endovascular treatment outcomes in acute ischemic stroke: prognostic value of SPAN-100 by Noémie Ligot, Marie Dagonnier, Boris Lubicz, Nicolas Brassart, Gilles Naeije

“…However, outcomes after MT remain variable, particularly in high-risk groups. The SPAN-100 index, a simple bedside tool combining age and baseline NIHSS scores, has been associated with poor outcomes in AIS patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis. …”
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Ultra-endurance race performance and muscle mass as predictors of cognitive capacity by Deina Vilite, Diana Lismane, Jelena Raudeniece, Jelena Raudeniece, Linda Laizane, Linda Laizane, Gita Gersone, Gita Gersone, Ilze Barone, Ilze Barone, Ilze Justamente, Ilze Justamente, Kristiana Kovtuna, Kristiana Kovtuna, Bart Roelands, Bart Roelands, Bart Roelands, Maksims Zolovs, Maksims Zolovs, Maksims Zolovs, Dace Reihmane, Dace Reihmane

“…Muscle mass was the only anthropometric variable significantly linked to enhanced cognition. …”
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Students’ perception of the educational environment at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for health sciences using DREEM tool by Mohammed Awawdeh, Lama A. Alosail, Maram Alqahtani, Afrah Almotairi, Rahaf N. Almikhem, Rahaf A. Alahmadi, Aida A. Aldughaither, Khalid A. Abalkhail

“…Conclusions Students of KSAU-HS generally perceived the educational environment as having more positive than negative. The educational level and college differed significantly in the overall DREEM score and the five subscales. …”
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Clinician Perspectives of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Based 3D Volumetric Analysis Tool for Neurofibromatosis Type 2–Related Schwannomatosis: Qualitative Pilot Study by Shelby T Desroches, Alice Huang, Rithvik Ghankot, Steven M Tommasini, Daniel H Wiznia, Frank D Buono

“…Overall, clinicians expressed concerns with current linear techniques, with clinicians agreeing that linear measurements can be variable with the possibility of two different clinicians calculating 2 different tumor sizes (mean 4.64, SD 0.49) and that volumetric measurements would be more helpful for determining clearer thresholds of tumor growth (mean 4.50, SD 0.52). …”
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Complex phenotype of Tourette syndrome in a ten-year-old boy (a clinical case) by T. V. Sorokman, N. Ya. Chernei, I. S. Sokolnyk, V. H. Ostapchuk

“…The prevalence of TS is quite variable, depends on epidemiological research methods and ranges from 0.3 % to 1.0 % worldwide. …”
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