Travel Burden and the Direct Medical Costs of Urologic Surgery by Daniel J. Olson, John L. Gore, Kenn B. Daratha, Kenneth P. Roberts

“…As a consequence, traveling to receive care from a high volume provider may be associated with better outcomes. However, travel may also be associated with a decision by the healthcare provider to increase the length of stay due to a decreased ability to return to the primary hospital should complications arise. …”
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Design of a new hydrokinetic turbine simulation model based on the extended power coefficient concept by Manuel Rico-Secades, Antonio Javier Calleja-Rodríguez, Aitor Fernández-Jiménez, Eduardo Álvarez-Álvarez, Fher Said Macedo-Garcia, Jaime Arau-Roffiel

“…The physical limits of the energy extraction are also determined. Even, a methodology has been developed to dynamically find the values of the extended power coefficient according to the blockage produced in the channel.Moreover, and based on this extended coefficient, a hydrokinetic turbine simulation model is presented to be applied in cases of flow blockage instead of the actual models of the electrical simulators based in the classical coefficient. …”
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Design of Silicide-Strengthened Nb–Si–Cr–(Mo) alloys for additive manufacturing by Alice Perrin, Patxi Fernandez-Zelaia, Chris Ledford, Yan-Ru Lin, Ellen Berry, Ryan Dehoff, Michael Kirka, Ying Yang

“…One alloy was found to be qualitatively the least brittle while also attaining a hardness of 13 GPa and was therefore identified as a good candidate for additive manufacturing.…”
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Spi-VSTL: Image data collection platform using off-the shelf hardware for vertically supported crops in state-of-the-art glasshouses by Namal Jayasuriya, Malith Weerasekara, Oula Ghannoum, Yi Guo, Wen Hu

“…Other use cases and room for further development are also discussed.…”
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Digital trophies: using social media to assess wildlife crime in Lebanon by André F. Raine, Jason Gregg, Lloyd Scott, Axel Hirschfeld, Ghassan Ramadan-Jaradi, Filippo Bamberghi

“…Protected mammals were also posted as trophies, including the Near Threatened striped hyaena Hyaena hyaena. …”
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Why PD-L1 expression varies between studies of lung cancer: results from a Bayesian meta-analysis by Preston Ngo, Wendy A. Cooper, Stephen Wade, Kwun M. Fong, Karen Canfell, Deme Karikios, Marianne Weber

“…Although the underlying prevalence of PD-L1 expression varies in the lung cancer population based on tumour-related factors, controllable differences in testing parameters also account for variations in PD-L1 prevalence.…”
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Influence of multi-point laser shock peening process on surficial mechanical properties in gear steels by XUE Cheng, LEI Duncai, YAN Xueyuan, ZANG Shunlai, DONG Hongtao, YOU Zhiwei

“…With the increase of laser energy and impact times，the surface residual stress and micro-hardness also increase，but the increase magnitude will decrease，showing a certain saturation trend.…”
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Searching for the best post-land abandonment management to enhance long-term carbon storage in Mediterranean mountain areas by Melani Cortijos-López, Teodoro Lasanta, Erik Cammeraat, Estela Nadal-Romero

“…Focusing on soil environment and its growing importance in a climate change scenario, it is of great interest to study how land management and landscape changes can affect, not only the soil carbon storage process, but also its dynamics. A study was conducted in La Rioja (Iberian System, Spain), comparing three post-abandonment management strategies: secondary succession, forest management, and shrub clearing and extensive grazing. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA (1986-2018): AUTO-REGRESSIVE DISTRIBUTED LAG APPROACH by Isiaka Kareem JIMBA, Rosemary Bukola AJALA

“…The study revealed that private domestic investment and economic growth moves in a long run. It also found that in the short run, GFCF has a negative and significant effect on economic growth, CPCS and EXR have negative and insignificant effects on economic growth, while FDI and INF have positive and insignificant effects on economic growth. …”
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription Generation Model Based on Search Enhancement by ZHAO Zijuan, REN Xueting, SONG Kai, QIANG Yan, ZHAO Juanjuan, ZHANG Junlong

“…In addition, the proposed model can recommend herbs that do not appear on the prescription label but are useful for relieving symptoms, which shows that the model can learn some interactions between herbs and symptoms. This research also lays a foundation for the future research on intelligent query and prescription generation of TCM.…”
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Study and application on the size effect and end effect of red sandstone mechanical properties by Feng Chen, Jinyang Du, Yanhong Du, Ruxuan Li, Chun’an Tang, Yishan Pan, Gen Li

“…The results indicate that the compressive strength of specimens increases with their size, and specimens of different sizes exhibit notable differences in failure modes. This paper also designs a novel "enhance strength and reduce rockburst" negative Poisson’s ratio material pad based on the "cyclo-hoop effect" induced by the end effect, aiming to improve the strength of compressed components and reduce the intensity of energy release during failure. …”
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New options for targeting TRPV1 receptors for cancer treatment: odorous Chinese herbal medicine by Minghui Zhang, Minghui Zhang, Zongao Wang, Zongao Wang, Shaojun Liu, Shaojun Liu, Yuxuan Li, Yuxuan Li, Yanting Gong, Yanting Gong, Min Liu, Min Liu

“…Vanilloid1 (TRPV1), a subfamily of transient receptor channels, is one of the non-selective calcium channels, which is a bridge between cellular response and extracellular environmental networks, and is involved in a variety of pathophysiological processes. It is also involved in the process of cancer occurrence and progression, and researchers are revealing its role in cancer. …”
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Detrimental effects of cadmium on male infertility: A review by Nebojša Zečević, Jovana Kocić, Milan Perović, Aleksandar Stojsavljević

“…This review strongly implies that Cd levels were notably higher in seminal plasma of infertile cases than controls. The review’s data also indicate that exposure to tobacco smoke is a major source of elevated seminal and blood Cd levels in infertile men. …”
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Mpox gastrointestinal manifestations: a systematic review by Rahul Ramakrishnan, Atira Shenoy, Ranganathan Madhavan, Damon Meyer

“…The authors selected English language papers that discussed the GI symptoms in mpox patients. A manual search was also conducted in the reference sections of these publications for other relevant papers.Results 33 papers involving 830 patients were selected for this review. …”
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Transformer-based malware detection using process resource utilization metrics by Dimosthenis Natsos, Andreas L. Symeonidis

“…We compare the proposed Transformer-based architecture with the leading LSTM model in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score and training time, focusing on performance across varying sample sizes and validate our results with rigorous statistical methodologies. …”
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Intramedullary Nailing of Proximal Tibia Fractures in Semi-extended Position Using Suprapatellar Approach: Results and Outcomes by Kumar Rohit, Vikas Verma

“…When performed following the established surgical principles and techniques and proper patient and implant selection, it provides excellent clinicoradiological outcome with less complications as compared to other fixation methods for such fractures. There is also absence of anterior knee pain which is very common in the standard infrapatellar approach due to which its use could be extended for nailing of all types of tibia fractures.…”
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Flexible and cost-effective deep learning for accelerated multi-parametric relaxometry using phase-cycled bSSFP by Florian Birk, Lucas Mahler, Julius Steiglechner, Qi Wang, Klaus Scheffler, Rahel Heule

“…Abstract To accelerate the clinical adoption of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI), frameworks are needed that not only allow for rapid acquisition, but also flexibility, cost efficiency, and high accuracy in parameter mapping. …”
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Significance, pharmacological properties, and industrial applications of bael (Aegle marmelos): A review of current knowledge by Farina Mujeeb, Ahamad Faiz Khan, Vinay Kumar Pandey, Ashapurna Sinha, Mukul Machhindra Barwant, Sarvesh Rustagi, Béla Kovács, Ayaz Mukarram Shaikh

“…To support green energy practices, plant byproducts have also been investigated for reclamation and biodegradable resources. …”
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Predictive Value of Obstetrical Doppler Parameters to Predict Oxidative Stress and Cord Blood PH in Newborn Infants by Vakkas Korkmaz, Alptekin Tosun, Enis Özkaya, Dilek Menekşe Beşer, Tuncay Küçüközkan, Fadıl Kara

“…None of the MCA Doppler parameters were significantly correlated with cord blood pH or cord blood GGT (P>0.05). Also, MCA Doppler studies could not significantly predict cord blood pH<7.21 OR GGT>101(P>0.05). …”
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Real-Time Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception in Edge-Enabled Vehicular Environments by Samuel Thornton, Nithin Santhanam, Rajeev Chhajer, Sujit Dey

“…These changes have led to improvements in driver safety and have also created a highly heterogeneous environment of vehicles on the road today in terms of sensing and computing. …”
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