958 papers
This study demonstrates that in pediatric patients with Bardet-Biedl syndrome, cystatin-C-based eGFR identifies significantly more cases of chronic kidney disease than creatinine-based estimates, particularly in females, suggesting that routine reliance on serum creatinine alone may underestimate kidney impairment in this population.
This qualitative study identifies four distinct patient personas representing varying levels of health information literacy among individuals with cardiometabolic multimorbidity, providing a framework for developing targeted, personalized health interventions.
This meta-analysis of twelve studies indicates that while robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty offers superior radiographic alignment, greater postoperative range of motion, and better functional scores compared to conventional manual techniques, it requires longer operative time and does not consistently improve all patient-reported outcomes.
This retrospective study of 40 neonates demonstrates that early diagnosis and appropriate medical management of clinically significant arrhythmias, particularly supraventricular tachycardia and non-conducted premature atrial contractions, lead to favorable outcomes with low recurrence and mortality rates, even in cases complicated by arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy.
This paper presents a rigorously validated engineering workflow that integrates Bayesian optimization, genetic algorithms, and NPV-aware regularization to transform LSTM-based time-series proxies into reliable decision-support tools for waterflooding optimization, demonstrating that predictive accuracy alone is insufficient to guarantee economic returns and emphasizing the necessity of high-fidelity simulator re-evaluation.
This paper presents a reduced-order framework utilizing proper orthogonal decomposition and Gaussian process models to rapidly reconstruct temperature and heat-transfer coefficient fields in ribbed cooling channels, achieving high accuracy with significantly lower computational costs compared to traditional CFD simulations.
This paper proposes AG-MS-GNN, a novel few-shot bearing fault diagnosis framework that integrates adaptive physical graph construction, negative-sample-free contrastive feature enhancement, and multi-scale graph attention to achieve high-accuracy, generalizable diagnosis under variable operating conditions with limited data.
This study introduces a material-specific extension of the WHO-recommended Breteau Index using Sri Lankan surveillance data to demonstrate that unmanaged plastic waste serves as a major breeding habitat, accounting for approximately 22–34% of the national dengue burden and providing a practical framework for linking waste management policies to infectious disease control.
This study detected methicillin-resistant *Staphylococcus aureus* carrying the *mecA* gene in household harvested rainwater in Nigeria and utilized in silico molecular docking to identify epigallocatechin gallate, luteolin, andrographolide, and apigenin as promising phytocompounds for targeting the PBP2a protein, though these findings require further experimental validation.
This study provides the first evidence of an atypical AFG1-dominant toxigenic profile in Aspergillus section Flavi isolates from Uganda's cassava value chain, identifying soil as the primary contamination reservoir and highlighting that relying solely on AFB1 detection may underestimate aflatoxin risks.