A Hybrid Model for Psoriasis Subtype Classification: Integrating Multi Transfer Learning and Hard Voting Ensemble Models by İsmail Anıl Avcı, Merve Zirekgür, Barış Karakaya, Betül Demir

“…The dataset includes 930 images labeled by expert dermatologists from the Dermatology Clinic of Fırat University Hospital, representing four distinct subtypes: generalized, guttate, plaque, and pustular. …”
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Effect of Web-Based Education on Self-efficacy and Self-care Ability in Heart Failure Patients by Ratih Arum Vatmasari, Kuswantoro Rusca Putra, Heni Windarwati

“…The study sample consisted of 80 individuals with heart failure with New York Heart Association (NYHA) II-IV classes and separated into two groups: the intervention group (n = 40) and the control group (n = 40). …”
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Aedes-borne arboviral human infections in Europe from 2000 to 2023: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Nadja Hedrich, Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar, Martin P. Grobusch, Patricia Schlagenhauf

“…Nineteen deaths were reported, of which three were associated with chikungunya virus infection, 12 with dengue, and four with yellow fever. Notable sequelae included persistent arthralgia from chikungunya and neurological effects in Zika-infected infants. …”
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Dog alerting and/or responding to epileptic seizures: A scoping review. by Amélie Catala, Hugo Cousillas, Martine Hausberger, Marine Grandgeorge

“…Out of 28 studies published in peer-reviewed journals dealing with this topic, only 5 (one prospective study and four self-reported questionnaires) qualified for inclusion according to PRISMA guidelines. …”
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Investigating the Perceived Impact of Surgeons' Burnout on Surgical Physician Associates' Wellness in United States Ambulatory Surgery Centers by Rhionna Smith, Lihua Dishman, John Fick, Kathleen Thomas

“…To ensure validity and reliability, we individually reviewed the survey instrument to ensure it be formative of the two study constructs, two retired newspaper editors completed the cognitive interviews, and four subject matter experts critically reviewed it. …”
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Measuring overall functional diversity by aggregating its multiple facets: Functional richness, biomass evenness, trait evenness and dispersion by Laurie Anne Wojcik, Ursula Gaedke, Ellen vanVelzen, Toni Klauschies

“…Consequently, we developed an index K defined as the geometric mean of four independent facets: functional richness (the classic measure of the coverage of the trait axis), biomass evenness and trait evenness (quantifying how evenly distributed the biomass and traits are among species and within the feasible trait range, respectively) and dispersion (quantifying the spread around the biomass‐weighted mean trait). …”
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Legal and Organizational Principles of Militia Activities of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1956 by V. A. Grechenko

“…The year 1956 was significant both in the history of Ukraine and the USSR, but also for world history. The death of I.V. Stalin in 1953 marked the beginning of the partial liberalization of the political regime in the Soviet Union; the strongest impetus for the continuation and intensification of this process was in 1956, the year of the XX Congress of the CPSU and the CPSU Central Committee Resolution “On overcoming the Stalin’s cult of personality and its consequences”, where a lot of terrible truth about the Soviet past was told for the first time. …”
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Effective Strategies for Teaching Arabic Prosody in Oral Communication Skills by Nur Syukriyah Mohd Suib, Harun Baharudin

“…The questionnaire was evaluated by four reviewers, and the results indicated a high level of reliability, as evidenced by Cronbach Alpha values of 0.91 for prosody teaching strategies and 0.90 for prosody knowledge. …”
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Clinical and Genetic Characteristics of ABCC8 Nonneonatal Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review by Meng Li, Xueyao Han, Linong Ji

“…Nine of these variants were confirmed to be activating or inactivating through functional studies, while four variants (p.R370S, p.E1506K, p.R1418H, and p.R1420H) were confirmed to be inactivating. …”
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Similarities in socioeconomic disparities and inequalities in women’s nutritional status and health care in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Nigeria by Tina G. Sanghvi, Edward A. Frongillo

“…We investigated inequalities in low and high body mass index (BMI), anaemia, iron and folic acid supplementation, four or more antenatal care visits, institutional deliveries, and access to health services. …”
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Development and Validation of Precipitation Enhanced Densities for the Empirical Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Model by C. Watson, D. R. Themens, P. T. Jayachandran

“…Abstract The Empirical Canadian High Artic Ionospheric Model (E‐CHAIM) provides the four‐dimensional ionosphere electron density at northern high latitudes (>50° geomagnetic latitude). …”
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The Soviet-British Relations at the Turn of 1917/1918: Key Issues and Untapped Opportunities by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…The author concludes that throughout this period neither side managed to win the diplomatic duel: Great Britain had lost its strategic ally whereas Russia after four years of struggle had to repel the military intervention of its ex-partners in the Entente.…”
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Effects of Biochar, Lime, and Compost Applications on Soil Physicochemical Properties and Yield of Pomelo (Citrus grandis Osbeck) in Alluvial Soil of the Mekong Delta by Le Van Dang, Ngo Phuong Ngoc, Ngo Ngoc Hung

“…The field trial was carried out in Hau Giang Province consecutively over 3 years from 2018 to 2020. Four treatments were used, namely control, biochar (5 ton·ha−1·year−1), lime (2 ton·ha−1·year−1), and compost (5 ton·ha−1·year−1). …”
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Bovine leukosis incidence in Republic of Dagestan in 2021 by A. R. Mustafayev

“…High percentage of BLV infection in the animal population was reported in fourteen Raions: Kumtorkalinsky (5.8%), Gunibsky (5.3%), Tarumovsky (3.3%), Karabudakhentsky (2.9%), Akhvakhsky (2.0%), Kizlyarsky (1.8%), Charodinsky (1.7%), Kazbekovsky (1.6%), Babayurtovsky (1.5%), Tlyaratinsky (1.1%), Dakhadayevsky (1.04%), Sergokalinsky (1.02%), Novolaksky (1.0%), Shamilsky (1.0%), and in four municipalities: Makhachkala (2.0%), Izberbash (1.14%), Khasavyurt (1,1%) and Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk (1.0%). …”
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Negative effects by mineral accretion technique on the heat resilience, growth and recruitment of corals. by Ewout Geerten Knoester, Richard Sanders, Daisy Durden, Bulisa O Masiga, Albertinka J Murk, Ronald Osinga

“…We investigated how MAT influences the bleaching resilience, condition and growth of four coral species and natural coral recruitment in Kenya. …”
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New Oral Anaticoagulant Prescribing Decisions amongst General Practitioners: Handle with Care by Ann Kirby, Aileen Murphy, Colin Bradley

“…This measures the joint decision making process of prescribing a NOAC based on four risk factors - renal impairment, hepatic impairment, other comorbidities and drug interactions. …”
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Shared decision-making between patients and healthcare providers at rural health facilities in Eastern Uganda: an exploratory qualitative study by Ranga Solomon Owino, Olivia Kituuka, Paul Kutyabami, Nelson K. Sewankambo

“…Data was analyzed thematically using NVivo-12 plus software. Results Four themes emerged which included: Paternalistic cultures of care, challenges, strategies for improvement, and ethical issues. …”
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Biochemical Characterization of Partially Stabilized Parthenium hysterophorus L. and Cow Dung Consortium and Its Effect on the Growth Performance of Maize (Zea mays L.) by Shetie Gatew, Andargachew Mengistu

“…Another approach is to make compost of it, transforming a problem into an opportunity. Four treatments viz. Parthenium (100%) and Parthenium to cow dung ratio (75 : 25, 50 : 50, 25 : 75 w/w) were partially stabilized for 60 days under aerated conditions. …”
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Dependence on Humidity and Aerosol Composition of the Gas-particle Partitioning of Weakly and Moderately Polar VOCs by Jeonghyeon Ahn, Guiying Rao, Eric P. Vejerano

“…Here, we report our measurement of the gas-particle partition coefficient (Kp) for weakly polar (trichloroethylene, TCE) and moderately polar (n-butanol, n-BuOH) VOCs under varying relative humidity (RH) levels onto organic and inorganic aerosols. Kp of TCE was four to five orders of magnitude lower than those of n-BuOH. …”
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Growth Characteristics of Sheep-Derived <i>Bacteroides fragilis</i> and Preliminary Research on Effects in Mice and Lambs by Cheng Cheng, Jinye Du, Jianping Tao, Darong Cheng

“…In lamb trials, <i>Bacteroides fragilis</i> intervention stopped diarrhea in four out of five lambs, partially restored intestinal microbiota diversity, and reduced the abundance of potential pathogens such as <i>Aerococcus suis</i> and <i>Corynebacterium camporealensis</i>. …”
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