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The practice of drug emergency supply in China during the COVID-19 pandemic: A policy mix perspective
Background Public health emergencies such as COVID-19 severely disrupt drug supply chains, creating sudden surges in demand, labor shortages, and regulatory challenges. Existing st...
A hybrid ensembling and autoencoder scheme for improving sensing reliability in cognitive radio networks
This paper proposes a hybrid ensemble classifier with denoising autoencoder (ECDAE) framework to address reliability and robustness challenges in cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) for cognitive radio...
Enhancing sustainable agricultural export performance through digitalization: The distinct roles of domestic and foreign inputs
Amid the restructuring of global value chains (GVC), digital transformation has become a vital strategy for enhancing agricultural export performance and strengthening international competitiveness, w...
Seroprevalence of diphtheria and tetanus antibodies among children and adolescents in high- and low-immunization coverage areas in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Introduction Diphtheria and tetanus remain significant public health concerns in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)....
Reliability analysis of inverted exponentiated Rayleigh parameters via progressive hybrid censoring data with applications in medical data
This paper examines the estimation of model parameters, reliability, and hazard rate functions of the inverted exponentiated Rayleigh distribution under progressive hybrid Type-I censoring. Three esti...
Ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block attenuates early postoperative visceral pain after laparoscopic hysterectomy: A prospective randomized controlled trial
Background Postoperative visceral pain remains a major challenge following laparoscopic hysterectomy. While stellate ganglion block (SGB) is increasingly utilized for acute and chr...
Diabetes management cascade in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Objectives This study aims to determine the prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance among the adult population in Ulaanbaatar, identify gaps in clinical care by asses...
Engagement and retention in HIV care in rural Southern U.S. using an All-Payer Claims Database
Access to HIV care is a persistent challenge in rural settings. Arkansas has one of the highest proportions of rural residents in the U.S., yet data on statewide engagement and retention in HIV care a...
Early-pregnancy HDL-related inflammatory indices and risk of preeclampsia: A retrospective cohort study
Background Preeclampsia (PE) is closely associated with dyslipidemia and inflammatory imbalance. High-density lipoprotein (HDL)-related inflammatory indices have demonstrated predi...
Perinatal Imaging in Partnership with Families (PIPKIN): Longitudinal cohort study protocol
While advances in behavioural and neuroimaging methods suitable for use with infants have greatly increased our understanding of infant brain function, cognition and behaviour in recent years, relativ...
Association between nighttime sleep duration trajectories and frailty in middle-aged and older adults: A work-in-progress model based on a CHARLS cohort
Background Frailty is a major public health issue that impairs the quality of life and health outcomes of middle-aged and older adults. Changes in sleep patterns may play a critica...
Circadian rhythm disruption as a potential contributor to BPPV: Evidence from a young rat model vestibular effects of circadian disruption
Circadian rhythm disturbances, increasingly common due to artificial lighting and modern lifestyle factors, may underlie vestibular dysfunction such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), eve...
Immune landscape and biomarker identification in Q fever: a comprehensive diagnostic analysis
Objectives Q fever (QF), a zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii , exhibits highly heterogeneous clinical...
Multi-AGV path planning method for the textile industry based on improved ant colony optimization algorithm and R-tree line-segment bilayer conflict detection
Integrated transcriptome and metabolome analysis of melanin-related genes and metabolites in Muchuan Black Bones Chickens
The Muchuan Black Bones Chickens represent a significant subtype of the Sichuan mountain black bones chickens. In the breeding of black bone chickens, the degree of melanization tends to separate due...
Correction: Optimized model predictive control for improving dynamic stability and steering accuracy in multi-axle cranes
Impact of guided inquiry-based laboratory experiments on secondary school students’ attitudes toward biology in Ethiopia: A quasi-experimental study
Attitude plays a vital role in achieving modern science education goals by enhancing students’ conceptual understanding, motivation, academic performance, interest, and engagement in scientific inquir...
A lightweight tunnel vehicle re-ldentification model based on YOLOv11n and FaceNet
With the advancement of computer vision, vehicle re-identification (Re-ID) in tunnel environments faces critical challenges like low-resolution imagery, lighting variations, and occlusions, which grea...
A novel few-shot object detection framework for multi-scene driving based on contrastive proposal encoding
This paper proposes a few-shot object detection algorithm based on FSCE, tailored for multi-scenario driving environments. Unlike existing methods that focus on single scenarios, our approach addresse...
Implementing postpartum family planning services in rural Rwanda: A mixed-methods study
Introduction Postpartum family planning (PPFP) reduces adverse maternal-child outcomes related to short interpregnancy intervals and unintended pregnancies. This mixed-method study...
Early combination of albumin with crystalloids administration might not be beneficial for the survival of ischemic stroke patients with sepsis: A retrospective analysis from MIMIC‑IV database
The high incidence of sepsis following stroke is a key factor driving increased mortality. Despite the lack of clinical benefit from albumin therapy in stroke patients, emerging data support the use o...
Association between methylmalonic acid and Alpha-Klotho in American adults: A cross-sectional study
Objectives Methylmalonic acid is a surrogate biomarker of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress. Serum soluble α-Klotho, as a key anti-aging factor, is regarded as one of...
JMM-TGT: Self-supervised 3D action recognition through joint motion masking and topology-guided transformer
In the field of 3D skeleton action recognition, research on self-supervised learning methods has primarily focused on spatio-temporal feature modeling. However, these methods rely heavily on modeling...
Correction: Implementing the IMPALA continuous monitoring system for paediatric critical care in Malawi: A mixed methods study of barriers and facilitators
Assessing the diagnostic accuracy of biochemical, anthropometric, and combined indices for metabolic syndrome prediction in a cohort from Qatar Biobank
Introduction Metabolic syndrome (MetS) poses a substantial health risk, particularly in Qatar. This study aimed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of various indices for MetS ident...