Machine Learning Algorithms Analysis of Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE): Application to Credit Default Prediction by Emmanuel de-Graft Johnson Owusu-Ansah, Richard Doamekpor, Richard Kodzo Avuglah, Yaa Kyere Adwubi

“…The dataset was collected from a well-known commercial bank in Ghana. To resolve the imbalance, three data balancing approaches were used: under-sampling, oversampling, and the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE). …”
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Quid du port romain estuarien de Barzan (Charente-Maritime) ? by Vivien Mathé, Laurence Tranoy, Marion Druez, François Lévêque, Vincent Miailhe, Frédéric Pouget

“…The antique town of Barzan is located on the southwestern margins of the civitas Santonum, near the right bank of the Gironde estuary. The banks of the estuary were deeply eroded during the last glaciation and formed valleys that were subsequently flooded during the Holocene transgression. …”
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Production of Biogas and Bio-fertilizer from Abattoir Waste as Sustainable Management, Eastern Ethiopia, 2019 by Sina Temsgen Tolera, Fekade Ketema Alemu

“…The biogas or energy from the waste can replace firewood and charcoal and the expensive fossil fuels. Using Banks mathematical computation about 85,139.20m3/year of biogas estimated, could cover 36097.43kg of liquefied gas or 48129.89kg of kerosene or 280757.68kg of charcoal or 32086.59kg of furnace oil or 56151.5kg of petrol or 40108.2kg of diesel per a year in same functions. …”
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Molecular Prevalence and Identification of Ehrlichia canis and Anaplasma platys from Dogs in Nay Pyi Taw Area, Myanmar by Myint Myint Hmoon, Lat Lat Htun, May June Thu, Hla Myet Chel, Yu Nandi Thaw, Shwe Yee Win, Nyein Chan Soe, Yadanar Khaing, Su Su Thein, Saw Bawm

“…These amplicon sequences were compared with other sequences from GenBank. Among the 400 blood samples from dogs, 3 (0.75%) were positive for E. canis and 1 (0.25%) was positive for A. platys. …”
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Attitudes towards Donor Breast Milk in an Inner City Population by Abhinav Pal, Kultida Soontarapornchai, Lawrence Noble, Ivan Hand

“…Mothers with infants in the NICU were more likely than mothers of well babies to accept milk from a milk bank rather than a relative or friend (81% versus 39%, p≤0.001). …”
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Spatiotemporal Pattern Evolution in Global Green Trade Networks: Implications for Health Economics by Haiyan Zhou, Shaobin Wei, Xun Xi, Haitao Zhou, Hao Hu

“…To give a clear portrayal of changes in the global green product trade system, this study derives relevant trade data from the World Bank and the UN Comtrade and by analyzing the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of the global green product trade pattern from 2001 to 2018, and it explores the product structure and status changes of countries (regions) in the global trading system for green products. …”
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Intronic SNP in ESR1 encoding human estrogen receptor alpha is associated with brain ESR1 mRNA isoform expression and behavioral traits. by Julia K Pinsonneault, John T Frater, Benjamin Kompa, Roshan Mascarenhas, Danxin Wang, Wolfgang Sadee

“…In prefrontal cortex from subjects with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and controls (n = 35 each; Stanley Foundation brain bank), allelic ESR1 mRNA ratios deviated from unity up to tenfold at the exon4 marker SNP, with large allelic ratios observed primarily in bipolar and schizophrenic subjects. …”
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Credit Rating Model of Small Enterprises Based on Optimal Discriminant Ability and Its Empirical Study by Zhanjiang Li, Lin Guo

“…The small enterprise credit rating division not only satisfies the principle that the higher the credit grade, the lower the default loss rate, but also satisfies the principle that the credit group of small enterprises matches the credit grade, with credit data of 3111 small enterprises from a commercial bank for empirical analysis. The innovation of this study is the maximum ratio of the sum of the dispersions of credit scores between different credit ratings and the sum of the dispersions of credit scores within the same credit rating as the objective function, as well as the default loss rate of the next credit grade strictly larger than the default loss rate of the previous credit grade as the inequality constraint; a nonlinear credit rating optimal partition model is constructed. …”
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Do antibody CDR loops change conformation upon binding? by Chu’nan Liu, Lilian M. Denzler, Oliver E.C. Hood, Andrew C.R. Martin

“…With an increasing number of antibodies where both free and complexed structures have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank, a large-scale survey of CDR conformational change during binding is now possible. …”
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The Nature of Global Income Inequality and Its Determinants by Debesh Bhowmik

“…The article also examined the cointegration and vector error correction analysis among global income inequality, global unemployment rate, global GDP growth rate and global inflation rate, respectively during 1991‒2023, using data from the World Bank Database and World Inequality Database by applying Johansen cointegration test (1988). …”
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Thrombophilic Genetic Factors PAI-1, MTHFRC677T, V Leiden 506Q, and Prothrombin 20210A in Noncirrhotic Portal Vein Thrombosis and Budd-Chiari Syndrome in a Caucasian Population by Mario D’Amico, Pietro Sammarco, Linda Pasta

“…Thrombophilic genetic factors PAI-1, MTHFRC677T, V Leiden 506Q, and Prothrombin 20210A were studied as risk factors in 235 Caucasian subjects: 85 patients with abdominal thrombosis (54 with portal vein thrombosis (PVT) and 31 with Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) without liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma) and 150 blood bank donors. Seventy-five patients with PVT/BCS showed associated disease or particular clinical status (46 PVT/29 BCS): 37 myeloproliferative neoplasm (20 PVT/17 BCS), 12 abdominal surgery (10 PVT/2 BCS), 10 contraception or pregnancy (6 PVT/4 BCS), 7 abdominal acute disease (6 PVT/1 BCS), and 9 chronic disease (4 PVT/5 BCS); ten patients did not present any association (8 PVT/2 BCS). …”
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The First Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of <i>Secale strictum</i> subsp. <i>africanum</i> Stapf (<i>Poaceae</i>), the Putative Ancestor of the Genus <i>Secale</i> by Lidia Skuza, Piotr Androsiuk, Romain Gastineau, Magdalena Achrem, Łukasz Paukszto, Jan Paweł Jastrzębski

“…The genome can be accessed on GenBank with the accession number OQ700974. This work sheds light on the evolutionary history of <i>Secale</i> and contributes to our understanding of chloroplast genomics in cereal ancestors, with potential applications in improving cereal crop resilience, advancing breeding strategies, and informing conservation efforts for genetic diversity.…”
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Stenting of the upper urinary tract: from bottom, from top, from side... by A. B. Novikov, V. P. Sergeev, D. V. Ergakov, E. A. Galliamov, A. G. Martov

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Molecular detection of Escherichia coli from ovine aborted fetuses in Mosul city, Iraq by Aamer Y. Al-Chalaby, Omer K. Alhankawe, Balsam Y. Rasheed

“…Nevertheless, the zapA gene was present in 40% of the isolates. GenBank accession numbers PQ191249.1 and PQ191250.1 were registered for the 23SrRNA gene. …”
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Cyber security laws and safety in e-commerce in India by A. K. Kashyap, M. Chaudhary

“…The Indian Penal Code addresses unauthorized access, hacking, identity theft, phishing, and computer virus dissemination. The Reserve Bank of India oversees online payment and financial security, mandating two-factor authentication, encryption, and secure payment channels. …”
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Soil Stabilization Using Terrasil And Zycobond on Ijikoyejo Street Surulere Lagos State Nigeria by A. A. Duyile, O. O. Amu

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Ensemble Learning for Three-dimensional Medical Image Segmentation of Organ at Risk in Brachytherapy Using Double U-Net, Bi-directional ConvLSTM U-Net, and Transformer Network by Soniya Pal, Raj Pal Singh, Anuj Kumar

“…Materials and Methods: The dataset comprised computed tomography (CT) scans of 60 patients obtained from our own institutional image bank and 10 patients from the other institute, all in Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine format. …”
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Assessment of XCI skewing and demonstration of XCI escape region based on single-cell RNA sequencing: comparison between female Grave’s disease and control by In-Cheol Baek, Soo Yeun Sim, Byung-Kyu Suh, Tai-Gyu Kim, Won Kyoung Cho

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A simulation study to quantitatively assess the performance of electronic prescribing systems in English NHS Hospital Trusts by Stephanie Klein, Athanasios Tsanas, Jamie Coleman, Rebecca Osselton, Jude Heed, Ann Slee, Neil Watson

“…We developed the web-based Electronic Prescribing Risk and Safety Evaluation (ePRaSE) tool, which comprises a bank of prescribing scenarios to evaluate the performance of EP systems. …”
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Development and validation of a species-specific environmental DNA (eDNA) primer for endangered Asian arowana, Scleropages formosus (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae) for law enforcement... by Nurul Affiqah Edora Mohd-Azhar, Haslawati Baharuddin, Mohamad-Sufiyan Salmi, Noor Faizah Ismail, Amatul-Samahah Md. Ali, Syazwan Saidin, Adibah Abu-Bakar

“…. • The species-specific primer of S. formosus was designed based on selected sequences obtained from GenBank • This report presents the potential application of eDNA in the management of the Malaysian 686 CITES Act for conservation monitoring of the Asian Arowana • The detection and wild population monitoring is possible through the eDNA method as complementary tools…”
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