Sparse high-dimensional decomposition of non-primary auditory cortical receptive fields. by Shoutik Mukherjee, Behtash Babadi, Shihab Shamma

“…Here, we focus on the relationship between ferret primary auditory cortex (A1) and a secondary region, dorsal posterior ectosylvian gyrus (PEG). …”
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Epidemiology of notifiable outbreaks in different hospital units in Saudi Arabia: A national descriptive study by Nawal M. Alanazi, Nasser H. Alshanbari, Hala M. Roushdy, Yahya I. Alnshbah, Eman Ali Barnawi, Nawaf M. Almatrafi, Rula Felemban, Zainah M. Al Shahrani, Nadeen Burhan, Aiman El-Saed, Khalid H. Alanazi

“…Outbreaks notified by 117 MOH hospitals and 53 private hospitals in 20 Saudi regions were included. Results: A total of 1240 outbreaks were notified, including 2392 patients, 2703 infections, and 806 deaths. …”
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Améliorer l’enseignement dans le supérieur by Iryna Hontarenko, Oksana Kovalenko

“…Additionally, the authors highlight the importance of understanding the main stages of delivering a lecture, recognizing the nuances of maintaining students’ effective attention, and involving them in active learning practices. …”
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Community credit scores and community socioeconomic deprivation in association with type 2 diabetes across an urban to rural spectrum in Pennsylvania: a case–control study by Jonathan Pollak, Melissa N Poulsen, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Katherine Moon, Joseph DeWalle, Annemarie G Hirsch, Brian S Schwartz, Lorraine Dean, Meghann Reeder

“…We analysed community credit scores (CCS) in association with new onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) across a geographically heterogeneous region of Pennsylvania and evaluated whether associations were independent of community socioeconomic deprivation (CSD), which is known to be related to T2D risk.Methods In a nested case–control study, we used medical records to identify 15 888 T2D cases from diabetes diagnoses, medication orders and laboratory test results and 79 435 diabetes-free controls frequency matched on age, sex and encounter year. …”
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Judges versus artificial intelligence in juror decision-making in criminal trials: Evidence from two pre-registered experiments. by Eiichiro Watamura, Yichen Liu, Tomohiro Ioku

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>This study examined whether jurors are more likely to defer to judgments by human judges or AI, especially in cases involving mitigating circumstances in which human-like reasoning may be valued.<h4>Methods</h4>Two pre-registered online experiments were conducted with Japanese participants (Experiment 1: N = 1,735, Mage = 48.4; Experiment 2: N = 1,731, Mage = 48.5). …”
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Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Hepatitis E Vaccination in Reproductive-Age Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Vaidas Jotautis, Antigoni Sarantaki

“…Background: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection presents a significant health risk in endemic regions, especially for pregnant women, who face higher risks of severe complications, including maternal and fetal mortality. …”
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Extractivismos versus exportaciones de manufacturas en Sudamérica: un desafío pendiente by Darcy Fuenzalida-O\u2019Shee, Bárbara Valenzuela-Klagges

“…Resultados: el comportamiento exportador en manufactura es dinámico, con efectos positivos del producto nacional bruto del país importador, de países con frontera en común y de países con salida al océano Pacífico. El acuerdo regional Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur) y los acuerdos bilaterales de Chile con países miembros del Mercosur, con el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (tlcan) y con China no logran afectar este proceso exportador. …”
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Digital mapping of soil salinity with time-windows features optimization and ensemble learning model by Shuaishuai Shi, Nan Wang, Songchao Chen, Bifeng Hu, Jie Peng, Zhou Shi

“…An advanced feature-selection algorithm was then applied to refine the model-relevant features, and the transferability of the method across different regions was validated through empirical testing. The results revealed a 12 month periodicity in the correlation between Sentinel-1 time-series features and soil salinity, with an annual decay rate of 0.0019. …”
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HYDRAULIC ELEVATOR INSTALLATION ESTIMATION FOR THE WATER SOURCE WELL SAND-PACK CLEANING UP by V. V. Ivashechkin

“…A hydraulic-elevator installation parameters estimation example illustrates removing a sand pack from a water-source borehole of 41 m deep and 150 mm diameter bored in the village of Uzla of Myadelsk region, of Minsk oblast. The working efficiency of a manufactured and laboratory tested engineering prototype of the hydraulic elevator installation was acknowledged in actual tests at the indicated borehole site. …”
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Detecting Fish Diversity in Urban‐Impacted Ecosystems: A Comparative Approach of eDNA Metabarcoding and UVC by Arthur Chung, Y. C. Kam, Stanley K. H. Shea, Celia Schunter

“…Here we aim to examine the scope of underwater diversity detection and community shifts across habitat transitions spanning different geographic regions in Hong Kong SAR, a highly urbanized coastal city with limited underwater visibility of 3.93 ± 1.25 m during the sampling period. …”
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In vitro and in silico Anti-diabetes mechanism of phytochemicals from Curculigo pilosa and its pharmacokinetic profiling via α-amylase inhibition by Damilola A. Omoboyowa, Temitope C. Aribigbola, Simbo T. Akinsulure, Damilola S. Bodun, Ezekiel A. Olugbogi, Ebenezer A. Oni

“…The root mean square deviation shows reasonable level of stability within the simulation period for both curculigoside and acarbose. …”
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Multicriteria assessment of recently implemented conservation agriculture cropping systems across farmers’ plots in northwestern Cambodia by Sambo Pheap, Alexis Thoumazeau, Jun Murase, Vang Seng, Jean-Pierre Sarthou, Veng Sar, Linda Kimbo, Soklin Kheam, Pheakdey Chan, Pao Srean, Samrith Leang, Lyda Hok, Florent Tivet

“…Soil fertility depletion is a major challenge for annual rainfed cropping systems in the northwestern region of Cambodia which has recently undergone rapid agrarian changes. …”
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Investigating the status of the second victims of error and related factors in nurses: a description study by Fardin Shahbazzadeh, Aghil Habibi Soola, Sajjad Narimani, Mehdi Ajri-Khameslou

“…Abstract Background Errors not only affect patients as the primary victim but also have a negative impact on nurses as the secondary victim; therefore, understanding the reasons for the second victim’s error, as well as the elements that contribute to this phenomenon, is critical for managing the mistake. …”
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Modelling the mode choice behaviour of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) users in the Solent area of the UK by Nazam Ali, Seda Sucu Sagmanli, Nima Dadashzadeh, Djamila Ouelhadj

“…., taxi and wheelchair), indicating that current public/shared transport modes are not accessible and inclusive enough in the region. Possessing public transport passes seems to attract people towards public/shared transport modes. …”
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POLÍTICAS IMPERIALES Y RIESGOS DE APROPIACIÓN DE LOS RECURSOS NATURALES: EL CASO DEL AGUA EN PATAGONIA by Gerardo M. de Jong

“…El control de los excedentes a escala mundial requiere también de un consecuente control de los recursos naturales, de la tecnología y de la innovación tecnológica a esa escala, donde el espacio (ámbito de localización de los apetecidos recursos naturales) acrecienta día a día sus rasgos comunes en función de ciertos estilos dominantes de tecnología que aseguran una modalidad de control de los excedentes generados a partir de la puesta en valor de la dotación de recursos que la naturaleza ha brindado a cada región. Esto exige el control del acceso a la extracción de la riqueza generada mediante el control de los recursos disponibles, los que seguramente serán explotados con modalidades extractivas degradantes propias de la apetencia propias de la crisis estructural de la producción capitalista a escala mundial.…”
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Eucalyptus grandis WRKY genes provide insight into the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in defense against Ralstonia solanacearum by Jianlang Zhang, Xinzhu Yang, Chunyu Huo, Xinyi Fan, Qiutong Liu, Zhihong Liu, Yu Su, Zujing Chen, Zujing Chen

“…All EgWRKY genes are distributed irregularly across the 11 chromosomes, with 25 pairs identified as segmental duplicates and four as tandem duplicates. The promoter regions of 50% of members of each subfamily contain plant hormone-related cis-elements associated with defense responses, such as ABREs, TGACG motifs, and CGTCA motifs. …”
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Stability Analysis of a Weathered-Basalt Soil Slope Using the Double Strength Reduction Method by Xiaoliang Liu, Xin Chen, Mei Su, Shilin Zhang, Dengfeng Lu

“…The new method of double-strength finite element reduction presented in this paper is reasonable and feasible and is more in line with the actual situation of weathered-basalt soil slope instability in heavy rainfall areas.…”
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Analysis of Users’ Neural Responses to Native Advertisements Using Cognitive Indicators and Electroencephalography by Mina Montakhab Madani, Yalda Rahmati Ghofrani, Shahrokh Yousefzadeh Chabok, Rahmat Ali Saberi Haghayegh

“…A significant difference was observed in these regions. A correlation coefficient of 0.447 was observed between native advertising components and the average beta PSD, and correlation coefficients between attitude and the average theta PSD (F7=0.244), alpha (F3=0.13) and beta (F3=0.457) were positive and significant. …”
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Montelukast Use and Patterns of Ambulatory Care among Asian versus Non-Asian Adult Patients with Asthma and/or Allergic Rhinitis in the United States by Joseph Vasey, Shalini Bagga, Huan Huang, Tongsheng Wang, David Thompson

“…Future research should explore the reasons for these differences and whether they can be replicated in non-US settings.…”
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: comparative assessment of diagnostic and treatment approaches in the Russian Federation and People’s Republic of China by M. Ch. Semenistaya, Fan Jian-Gao, O. B. Velichenko, Ye. A. Kuznetsova, Ch. S. Pavlov

“…NAFLD is the leading disease entity among the other chronic liver diseases in the countries of various regions of the world, at the present time it is considered to be one of the main causes for cryptogenic liver cirrhosis development. …”
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