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Identifying clinical diagnostic trajectories associated with suicide death using temporal sequence mining of linked claims and mortality data

Most approaches to suicide risk assessment consider clinical conditions as independent risk factors, potentially overlooking prognostic information in the order in which conditions accumulate. We applied temporal sequence mining to linked claims and mortality data to identify ord...

Performance-based assessments in higher education: How ethnic background impacts stakeholders’ fairness perceptions of structured versus unstructured assessment methods

Performance-based assessments (PBAs), like literature reviews, evaluate students’ professional skills (e.g., analytical thinking). However, unclear evaluation criteria in PBAs lead to grading inconsistencies and biased outcomes. This diminishes perceptions of fairness among stake...

Binary-error compensation iteration for optimized Fourier single-pixel imaging

Fourier single-pixel imaging utilizing binary-speckles modulation offers significant advantages in high-speed acquisition; however, it is inherently constrained by quantization-induced image degradation. To address this challenge, we propose an optimized reconstruction method bas...

Designing warning sign configurations to increase driver attention and improve safety at highway work zones

As cities expand and road networks grow, highway construction and maintenance increase, making work zone safety critical due to high driver and worker fatalities. Driving through work zones is challenging due to speed limit reduction, lane closure, confusing temporary signs, and...

Interplay between silicon quantum dot surface functionality and diisocyanate chemistry in polyurea thin-film nanocomposite nanofiltration membranes for dye/salt separation

Dye/salt separation requires nanofiltration membranes that retain organic dyes while allowing dissolved salts to pass. This study examined how silicon quantum dot (SiQD) surface functionality and organic diisocyanate chemistry affect polyurea thin-film nanocomposite membranes pre...

Health literacy and advance care planning among adults in New York City

Advance care planning (ACP) is a process for determining future medical decisions. ACP requires individuals to communicate their wishes. There is limited research measuring rates of ACP by levels of health literacy. The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) is a framework for evaluating t...

Energy-aware scheduling approach for enhanced performance of parallel applications in simulated heterogeneous cloud environments

Energy-constrained workflow scheduling seeks to minimize application makespan while preserving a finite energy budget across heterogeneous DVFS-enabled resources. Existing pre-assignment methods generally distribute energy using a single task-level criterion, which can restrict t...

Comparative Study of Garuda (Khrut) Mythical Creature Visual Representation in Indonesian and Thai Architecture

Indonesia and Thailand share a common mythical heritage, Garuda (Khrut), which serves both as a spiritual figure and a symbol of national identity. However, significant differences exist in the stylistic approaches, symbolic narratives, and functional placements of Garuda imagery...

Gas sensor properties of CuGa2O4-based nanocomposites: role of phase composition and microstructure

Practical implementation of machine olfaction and electronic nose systems requires gas-sensing materials with excellent long-term stability for reliable operation in sensor arrays. Promising in this regard nanocrystalline CuGa 2 O 4 -based materials were synthesized by flame spra...

Dynamic thermal-radiation modeling of aluminum-containing RDX-beased thermobaric explosive fireballs with temperature-dependent emissivity

Thermal radiation from explosive fireballs is critical for assessing thermal damage and determining safety distances. However, existing constant-emissivity models cannot capture temperature-dependent changes in the radiative properties of combustion products. Airburst tests were...

Competitive flow identification and hemodynamic analysis in coronary artery bypass grafting

Low graft flow after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) may result from anastomotic stenosis or competitive flow, but differentiating these potential causes using intraoperative flow measurements remains challenging. This study aimed to explore graft-type-specific factors ass...

A meta-analysis of the effects of job satisfaction on organizational outcomes: Evidence from the Korean National Police

This study conducted a meta-analysis to examine the associations between job satisfaction and key organizational outcome variables—organizational commitment, turnover intention, organizational citizenship behavior, and police performance—within the context of the Korean National...

Patient Perspectives on Leveraging Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Therapy Visits to Improve Chronic Disease Care

Long-acting injectable (LAI) antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treatment of HIV requires more frequent healthcare interactions than standard care, offering opportunities to enhance monitoring and management of comorbid chronic conditions among people with HIV (PWH). We conducted i...

Premedication practices prior to neonatal laryngoscopy: a nationwide observational study in Belgian NICUs

Intubation or less invasive surfactant administration (LISA) in neonates both require laryngoscopy, a stressful and painful procedure. This study aimed to document premedication practices before laryngoscopy in Belgium and explore reasons for absence of premedication. Sub-analysi...

Advances in isothermal nucleic acid amplification-based HPV assays for cervical cancer screening in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review

Objective Cervical cancer disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where over 90% of deaths occur and where cost, infrastructure, and low acceptability impede the WHO 2020–2025 goal of elimination by 2030. This review synthesizes advances in isothermal...

Surgical margin distance and oncological outcomes in extremity soft tissue sarcomas: a retrospective study

The prognostic significance of surgical margin distance in extremity soft tissue sarcomas remains controversial. This study aimed to investigate the effect of surgical margin distance on local recurrence, metastasis, and mortality in patients with soft tissue sarcoma. Patients di...

A resource-aware framework for energy and bandwidth efficient IoT intrusion detection using lightweight federated learning over SDN

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) deployments has widened the network attack surface while increasing the cost of centralised intrusion detection, particularly when raw traffic must be moved to remote servers. We propose HFL-SDN-IDS, a hierarchical, resource-aware fram...

RetiWave-Mamba: a dual-stream network for retinal disease detection based on multi-scale context and feature-adaptive Mamba projection

Retinal diseases are a leading cause of irreversible vision impairment, making early and accurate diagnosis essential for effective treatment. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) serves as a critical imaging modality for this purpose, yet its automated analysis is hindered by inhe...

Structural topology optimization of railway vehicle wheel damping plates considering acoustic-vibration interaction

A topology optimization method for railway wheel damping plates is proposed to suppress the acoustic radiation caused by structural vibration, with the acoustic–vibration interaction explicitly taken into account. A configuration optimization framework for damping wheels is const...

National trends in hospitalization, mortality, and health-service burden from selected perinatal conditions among infants in Ecuador: a retrospective ecological time-series study, 2012–2024

Perinatal disorders remain major causes of infant morbidity, mortality, and hospital resource use, but national assessments that integrate hospitalization, mortality, and service utilization are limited in Ecuador. A retrospective ecological time-series study was conducted using...