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In addressing the challenges posed by the numerous rotor structure parameters and the difficulty in analyzing the air gap magnetic field distribution in interior permanent magnet (IPM) motors, and to enhance the performance of automotive IPM synchron...

Chemoimmunotherapy improved overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) in two phase III trials. They set the age-stratified subgroup analyses at 65 years; however, over...

In this article, we present a numerical analysis of the energy and mass transport behavior of microrotational flow via Riga plate, considering suction or injection and mixed convection. The thermal stratified parameters of nanofluid are captured usin...

The mean velocity distributions of unstably and stably stratified atmospheric surface layers (ASLs) are investigated here using the symmetry approach. Symmetry groups for the mean momentum and the Reynolds stress equations of ASL are searched under r...

Accurate and reliable information about the situation in refugee or internally displaced person camps is very important for planning any kind of help like health care, infrastructure, or vaccination campaigns. The number and spatial distribution of s...

Since the pioneering work of Taylor, the analysis of flow regimes of incompressible, viscous fluids contained in circular Couette systems with independently rotating cylinders have charmed many researchers. The characteristics of such kind of flows h...

Introduction: MAPT locus is associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD), which is located within a large inversion region of high linkage disequilibrium (LD). We aimed to determine whether the H2-haplotype protective effect and its effect size dep...

Background/Objectives: To investigate the relationship between patient age and the clinical efficacy of subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) for allergic rhinitis (AR), aiming to provide a reference for patient selection and efficacy improvement in clin...

Background/Objectives: We investigated the association between leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and liver fibrosis, and whether this relationship differs by obesity and diabetes status. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using data...

Various sociodemographic and behavioral health factors have been reported to influence the development of metabolic syndrome (Mets). In addition, the effects of various sociodemographic and health related characteristics on single-person households a...

A comprehensive numerical analysis has been conducted to investigate unsteady natural convection (UNC), bifurcation behavior, and heat transfer (HT) in a rectangular enclosure containing thermally stratified air. The enclosure comprises a uniformly h...

At present, there is no commonly used method for predicting soil resistance to the driving (SRD) of monopiles, because all available methods are developed based on an installed offshore pile with a diameter of 2–3 m. In addition, due to the com...

The aim of this study is to improve the understanding of land changes in the Jiulong River watershed, a coastal watershed of Southeast China. We developed a stratified classification methodology for land mapping, which combines linear stretching, an...

Background: Differences in the prognosis and associated factors in patients with heart failure with a preserved fraction (HFpEF) according to sex remain uncertain. Objective: The objective was to determine the relevance of sex-stratified predictive m...

Low-temperature discharged water from thermally-stratified reservoirs in spring and summer will have a negative environmental impact on fish breeding and agricultural irrigation downstream. The temperature-control curtain (TCC) is a selective withdra...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is increasingly associated with microbial and metabolic disturbances, including the altered production of gut-derived uremic toxins. We investigated urinary concentrations of five representative uremic toxins—indo...

Background: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has a high prevalence of obstructive coronary artery disease and total coronary occlusion. Consequently, these patients are frequently loaded with antiplatelets and anticoagulants before hospital arri...

Background/Objectives: Subjective well-being (SWB) in pre-adolescents declines with age due to rising school-related stress and boredom. Outdoor physical activity (PA) may mitigate these effects, yet age-specific associations remain understudied. Thi...

This study aimed to examine global hypertensive heart disease (HHD) trends (1990–2019). Methods: We extracted data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 Study, encompassing 204 countries and territories. We analyzed the age-adjusted mort...

Background/Objective: This study investigated the associations between dietary patterns and subjective cognitive function among older Japanese adults and examined whether these associations differed according to sleep duration. Methods: This longitud...

Wind is generally considered an important factor driving the transport and mixing processes in stratified enclosed systems such as lakes and reservoirs. Lake Abashiri is one of the instances of such a system. For these systems, typically, the tempora...

Little is known about the funding organizations and mechanisms behind artificial intelligence (AI) research conducted in United States (U.S.) educational systems (K12 and higher education). This study therefore performs a bibliometric and network ana...

Nanostructures with the two-dimensional (2D) periodicity are attracting increasing attention due to their promising applications in planar optical devices and their potential for scalable industrial production. While Rigorous Coupled-Wave Analysis (R...

Groundwater table rising (GTR) represents a well-known issue that affects several urban and agricultural areas of the world. This work addresses the link between GTR and the formation of solute plumes from contaminant sources that are located in the...

Gut-derived uremic toxins may play a key role in neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) via host-microbe metabolic interactions. We evaluated five uremic toxins—p-cresyl sulfate (PCS), indoxyl sulfate (IS), trimeth...

Background and Objectives: Aneuploidy is the leading cause of implantation failure and miscarriage, with prevalence increasing with maternal age. Embryos classified as chaotic, characterized by the presence of five or more chromosomal abnormalities,...

This study presents the preliminary results of the design and implementation of an advanced data management infrastructure developed to enhance the study, interpretation, and preservation of historical and archaeological contexts. Conducted within th...

Obesity does not modulate the glycometabolic benefit of insoluble cereal fibre in subjects with prediabetes—a stratified post hoc analysis of the Optimal Fibre Trial (OptiFiT). Background: OptiFiT demonstrated the beneficial effect of insoluble...

Urbanisation is a global trend rapidly transforming the biophysical and socioeconomic structures of metropolitan areas. To better understand (and perhaps control) these processes, more interdisciplinary research must be dedicated to the rural–urban i...

In response to the distinctive healthcare requirements of independent, healthy, community-dwelling older adults in Japan and other developed countries with aging populations, the current study examined the differences in factors associated with self-...

Micro-expression is the involuntary emotion of the human that reflects the genuine feelings that cannot be hidden. Micro-expression is exhibited by facial expressions that last for a short duration and have very low intensity. Because of these reason...

Automatic classification of fruits via computer vision is still a complicated task due to the various properties of numerous types of fruits. We propose a novel classification method based on a multi-class kernel support vector machine (kSVM) with th...

This work proposes a tea-category identification (TCI) system, which can automatically determine tea category from images captured by a 3 charge-coupled device (CCD) digital camera. Three-hundred tea images were acquired as the dataset. Apart from th...

Background: The association between specific chemical components of PM_2.5 and depression remains largely unknown. Methods: We conducted a time-stratified case-crossover analysis with a distributed lag nonlinear model (DLNM) to evaluate the relationsh...

Background/Objectives: This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of salvage interstitial brachytherapy (S-ISBT) for isolated local recurrence (ILR) of cervical and endometrial carcinoma, stratifying patients by pelvic irradiation history (PIH). Me...

Apolipoprotein E (APOE) allele 4 (APOE4), one of the robust genetic risk factors for AD, has also been associated with cognitive decline in terms of memory, executive function, language, and global cognitive function. APOE genotype-stratified analysi...

Most colorectal cancers (CRC) assumedly develop from precursor lesions, i.e., colorectal adenomas (adenoma-carcinoma sequence). Epidemiological and clinical data supporting this hypothesis are limited. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to es...

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-c) is an uncommon, but serious, inflammatory response that occurs after SARS-CoV-2 infection. As time went by, MIS-c was also reported as a potential adverse event following COVID-19 vaccination. A d...

This study presents a new imaging-based algorithm for simultaneously determining multiple velocity fields from stratified crossflows optically captured in a single field of view. The concept implements an additional automatic peak finding scheme into...

Background. Sex-based disparities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis remain underexplored, particularly in primary care settings. This study assessed sex differences in clinical burden, diagnostic delay, and missed diagnostic o...

Food safety is essential to ensure that food is safe for human consumption, particularly in light of the growing global and environmental changes, including population growth and climate variations. Meeting the increasing demand for food requires enh...

The serious nature of post-vaccination anaphylaxis requires healthcare professionals to be adequately trained to respond to these hypersensitivity emergencies. The aim of this study was to compare outcomes reported with cases of vaccine anaphylaxis s...

With the development of remote sensing technology, a number of fine-resolution (30-m) global/national land cover (LC) products have been developed. However, accuracy assessments for the developed LC products are commonly conducted at global and natio...

Background/Objectives: Internet use positively impacts mental health in older adults, with health literacy (HL) playing a key role. While social networks may complement individual HL, the role of neighborhood relationships in this association, partic...

Molecular and clinical heterogeneity is increasingly recognized as a common characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This heterogeneity makes difficult the...

Women with HIV may experience higher rates of non-AIDS comorbidities compared to men with HIV, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We investigated sex-related differences in the effects of HIV on monocyte phenotypes within the Ugan...

Over the past decades, benefiting from the development of computing capacity and the free access to Landsat and Sentinel imagery, several fine-resolution global land cover (GLC) products (with a resolution of 10 m or 30 m) have been developed (GlobeL...

In liver transplantation, older donor age is a well-known risk factor for dismal outcomes, especially due to the high susceptibility of older grafts to ischemia-reperfusion injury. However, whether the factors correlating with impaired graft and pati...

An estuary is an area where a complex circulation pattern appears due to various hydrodynamic parameters such as tides, river discharge, salinity and water density. Especially during a flood, a large amount of freshwater discharge from a river can ca...

Background and Objectives: Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is a complex disease characterized by heterogeneous clinical, pathological, and molecular features. Diagnosed frequently at advanced stages, it presents significant challenges in treatment du...