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Precision improvement for indoor positioning based on fuzzy inference system with ultra-wideband wireless communications
This paper investigates the enhancement of positioning accuracy in indoor non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments using ultra-wideband (UWB) and angle of arrival (AoA) technologies. It examines the appl...
Correction: Physical activity and cohabitation status moderate the link between diabetes mellitus and cognitive performance in a community-dwelling elderly population in Germany
Purpose in life and coping strategies: Main associations and moderation by concurrent distress
Individuals with more purpose in life tend to report less subjective stress. This association may be due, in part, to the use of more adaptive coping strategies. This research examines how purpose is...
Hypergammaglobulinemia in treated and untreated people with HIV
Background B cell abnormalities are an early feature of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV) infection, leading to hypergammaglobulinemia....
Molecular and structural reprogramming of gastric cancer revealed by systems-level transcriptomic analysis
Gastric cancer (GC) is a major cause of cancer mortality and remains difficult to diagnose early and treat effectively. Although transcriptomic profiling has defined extensive molecular heterogeneity,...
Effects of massive transfusion (10-20 litres) versus ultramassive transfusion (≥20 litres) on mortality in adult liver transplant recipients: A propensity-score matched study
Background Ultramassive perioperative fluid transfusion during orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) identifies a high-risk recipient phenotype and is associated with substantiall...
Retraction: SARS-CoV2 mRNA vaccine intravenous administration induces myocarditis in chronic inflammation
Observer-based prescribed-time lag bipartite consensus of nonlinear multi-agent systems under event-triggered mechanism
Considering the complexity of lag time and the convergence time, as well as the influence of the observer and the event-triggered mechanism, the prescribed-time lag bipartite consensus (PTLBC) control...
Retraction: Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country
Against the grain: Leveraging machine learning to analyze mudbrick structures
Mudbricks have been a fundamental building material since the Neolithic, yet their compositional variability and technological flexibility can be challenging for systematic and reproducible fabric cha...
Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) adoption, surgical barriers, and graft customization preference among corneal surgeons: A cross-sectional survey
Objective To assess surgeon preferences, challenges, and graft-size customization practices in Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK), and to explore their association w...
Cost-effectiveness of stem cell therapy versus standard of care for acute and subacute ischemic stroke
A recent meta-analysis demonstrated the efficacy of stem cell therapy for ischemic stroke; however, its cost-effectiveness has not yet been sufficiently explored. Building on the clinical data from th...
Graph-guided adaptive companding for PAPR reduction in power-domain NOMA systems
Power-domain Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (PD-NOMA) is a promising multiple-access technique for fifth-generation (5G) and beyond-fifth-generation (B5G/6G) wireless networks because of its ability t...
Machine learning reveals microbiome differences by periodontitis severity
Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease driven by microbial dysbiosis, yet the microbial signatures associated with severity remain incompletely understood. This study investigated changes in...
Data assimilation approach for addressing incompleteness in pedestrian flow measurement techniques using particle filter
Understanding the dynamics of pedestrian flow in urban areas is crucial for decision-making in urban planning and marketing strategies. Previous methods for analyzing pedestrian flow can be divided in...
“Every shoulder is different”: A qualitative study of clinicians’ insights on the causative factors and strategies of managing work-related shoulder disorders among firefighters
Background Work-related shoulder disorders (WSDs) are the third most prevalent work-related musculoskeletal disorder in firefighting, a significant occupational health concern amon...
The Walking Trail Making Test is more accurate than a Dual-Task Walking Test for screening the level of fall risk among community-dwelling older people
Background Preventing falls is a major issue for older people. Aging leads to a decline in executive functions and functional capacities, increasing the risk...
Differential epigenetic regulation of glucose-induced alteration of miR-9 in retinal and cardiac endothelial cells
Diabetic complications are significant causes of reduced quality of life among people living with diabetes. Endothelial dysfunction is a core component of diabetic complications. Microvascular endothe...
Assessing attention towards plants: Development and first steps to the validation of the Hidden Object Picture Instrument (HOPI)
Public awareness of plants remains limited despite their essential ecological and societal roles. A major challenge in addressing this issue is the absence of validated instruments that measure attent...
STGAD: Self-temporal generative adversarial framework with transformer attention for unsupervised multivariate time-series anomaly detection and localization
Unsupervised anomaly detection in multivariate time series is important for maintaining the reliability of complex cyber-physical systems. However, existing methods often face practical challenges in...
HIV-1 genetic diversity and reverse transcriptase resistance mutations in Benin before dolutegravir era, West Africa
Benin adopted the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Test and Treat” recommendation in 2016 and, since 2019, has updated this protocol by including dolutegravir (DTG) as the preferred first-line treat...
Evaluation of the effect of refined management of prospective prescription review rules for antimicrobial agents in an outpatient setting of a county-level hospital in China
Objective To explore the impact of implementing a refined management system for prospective prescription review and to provide evidence for improving the rational use of antibiotic...
Learning semantic similarity from sentence pairs using hybrid features centric approach and explainable siamese neural networks
Semantic embeddings play an important role in modern natural language processing because they help models understand meaning beyond individual words. Accurate text similarity is essential for many app...
Non-targeted metabolomics reveals myocardial metabolic alterations in epileptic rats
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is closely associated with cardiovascular dysfunction, yet its mechanisms remain unclear. Emerging evidence suggests that epilepsy-induced cardiac dysfuncti...
Benefits and harms of copyright restrictions and conditions on burnout and other psychometric assessment scales
Introduction Copyright conditions can hinder the scientific and usage impact of essential assessment tools in healthcare, organizational psychology, and other fields. The stories o...