Diagnostic and prognostic significance of premature ventricular complexes in community and hospital-based participants: A scoping review. by Sukardi Suba, Kirsten E Fleischmann, Hildy Schell-Chaple, Priya Prasad, Gregory M Marcus, Xiao Hu, Michele M Pelter

“…However, a causal association between PVCs and these outcomes cannot be established due to the purely observational study designs employed.…”
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The Association between Hypertension and Dementia in the Elderly by Michiya Igase, Katsuhiko Kohara, Tetsuro Miki

“…Future trials primarily designed to investigate the effects of antihypertensive agents on impaired cognition are needed.…”
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The Relationship between School Happiness and Digital Game Addiction by Semih Cayak, Ozge Erduran-Tekin

“…The study group of this research, which was designed in the relational survey model, consists of 204 fourth-grade primary school students studying in the Pendik district of Istanbul. …”
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A Compact Multi-Identity Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme Without Fresh Ciphertexts by Ziwei Wang, Ruwei Huang, Xiyi Wei

“…However, existing schemes face challenges such as large key sizes, inefficient ciphertext expansion processes, and reliance on outdated trapdoor designs, limiting their compactness and practicality. …”
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Perspectives of implementing software packaged system “Personnel Management System of the National Police of Ukraine” into the activities of the National Police of Ukraine by V. A. Korshenko

“…It has been alleged that the software package system “Personnel Management System of the National Police of Ukraine”, which was fully designed and developed by the employees of the research laboratory dealing with information protection and cybersecurity of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs customized by the Human Resourcing Department of the National Police of Ukraine, has no analogues among domestic and foreign software products. …”
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A SuperLearner-based pipeline for the development of DNA methylation-derived predictors of phenotypic traits. by Dennis Khodasevich, Nina Holland, Lars van der Laan, Andres Cardenas

“…Coupling SuperLearner with PCA in the predictor development process may be especially relevant for studies with longitudinal designs utilizing multiple array types, as well as for the development of predictors of more complex phenotypic traits.…”
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Antibacterial action of penicillin against Mycobacterium avium complex by D. Deshpande, G. Magombedze, S. Srivastava, T. Gumbo

“…In Monte Carlo experiments, 24 million international units of benzylpenicillin continuous infusion achieved the target exposure in lungs of >90% of 10,000 subjects until an MIC of 64 mg/L, designated the susceptibility breakpoint. CONCLUSIONS: Benzylpenicillin demonstrated a better bactericidal effect against MAC than guideline-recommended drugs before the development of resistance. …”
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Articulatory-to-Acoustic Conversion Using BiLSTM-CNN Word-Attention-Based Method by Guofeng Ren, Guicheng Shao, Jianmei Fu

“…In this paper, we used the electromagnetic articulography (EMA) database designed by Taiyuan University of Technology, which contains ten speakers’ 299 disyllables and sentences of Mandarin, and extracted 8-dimensional articulatory features and 1-dimensional semantic feature relying on the word-attention layer; we then trained 200 samples and tested 99 samples for the articulatory-to-acoustic conversion. …”
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Perspectives of medical sciences students regarding COVID-19 vaccination: a cross-sectional study by Maryam Aghabarary, Mahsa Khedmatizare, Roohangiz Norouzinia

“…A 47-item researcher-made questionnaire consisting of two sections (sociodemographic characteristics and perspectives regarding COVID-19 vaccination) was designed and utilized for data collection. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software version 22 using descriptive and analytical statistics (One-sample t-test, Friedman test, and Chi-Square) at a significance level of P ≤ 0.05. …”
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Linking the Historical Sample of the Netherlands with the USA Censuses, 1850–1940 by Diogo Paiva, Francisco Anguita, Kees Mandemakers

“…For this purpose, a linking process was designed, comprising of three stages: harmonization, matching and validation. …”
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Towards unbiased skin cancer classification using deep feature fusion by Ali Atshan Abdulredah, Mohammed A. Fadhel, Laith Alzubaidi, Ye Duan, Monji Kherallah, Faiza Charfi

“…Abstract This paper introduces SkinWiseNet (SWNet), a deep convolutional neural network designed for the detection and automatic classification of potentially malignant skin cancer conditions. …”
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A contribution to the debate on the policy of sanctioning corporal punishment of children in Serbia: Attitude inconsistency by Stajkić Bojana, Hrnčić Jasna, Blagojević Milena

“…Data were collected through an online questionnaire designed for the research. The findings revealed that attitude toward CPC depends on situational context differences and the context's specificity level. …”
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A Technical Overview on Beta-Attenuation Method for the Monitoring of Particulate Matter in Ambient Air by Kritika Shukla, Shankar G. Aggarwal

“…Our review reveals that federal equivalent method (FEM) designated beta gauge monitors in various studies performed better (with slope < 1.5 and intercept < 2 µg m−3) during high RH ambient conditions against reference or federal reference method (FRM). …”
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School Leadership and Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Recent Developments and Future Prospects by Turgut Karakose, Tijen Tülübaş

“…AI has manifested itself in the field of education through several technologies such as intelligent tutoring systems, adaptive teaching/learning, large-scale assessment and evaluation designs, predictive modeling and learning analytics, educational games. …”

Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): Reports on Their Colonization, Beneficial Activities, and Use as Bioinoculant by Dew Biswas, Amit Kumar Chakraborty, Vikas Srivastava, Arunava Mandal

“…The main structure of this text is designed as an outline from the development of interrelation between plants and PGPR to the commercialization of PGPR based on their potential role in the field of agriculture.…”
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Research on Safe Driving Evaluation Method Based on Machine Vision and Long Short-Term Memory Network by Dongmei Shi, Hongyu Tang

“…Based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), attention mechanism (AM) is integrated into a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network structure, and the hybrid dual-stream AM-LSTM convolutional network channel is designed. The spatial stream channel uses the CNN method to extract the spatial characteristic value of video image and uses pyramid pooling instead of traditional pooling, normalizing the scale transformation. …”
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Contributions to the taxonomy of Dichotomius Hope, 1838 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Dichotomiini): Description of a new subgenus and redefinition of Dichotomius sensu stricto spec... by Jorge Armando Arias-Buriticá, Fernando Zagury Vaz-de-Mello

“…The incertae sedis species, D. agesilaus (Waterhouse, 1891) and D. compressicollis (Luederwaldt, 1929) (lectotype designated) are revised; the following information is presented for them: taxonomic history, species’ citation in published literature, redescription of males and females, list of material examined, photographs of the external morphology, male genitalia, and distribution map.…”
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Defence counsel's participation in a special pre-trial investigation of criminal offenses by S. Ye. Ablamskyi

“…Attention has been focused on the fact that the introduction of the procedural institute of special pre-trial investigation of criminal offenses is designed to ensure the inevitability of criminal liability for the committed criminal offence. …”
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Driving Innovation to Support Pupils with SEND Through Co-Production in Education and Research: Participatory Action Research with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Families in England by Michelle Jayman, Sophie Edmonds, Maria Gudbrandsen

“…However, evidence suggests pupils’ learning and wellbeing needs are often missed or unmet and legislation designed to increase families’ decision-making in education provision has not been translated into practice. …”
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A versatile site-directed gene trap strategy to manipulate gene activity and control gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans. by Haania Khan, Xinyu Huang, Vishnu Raj, Han Wang

“…To achieve this, we developed a versatile gene trap strategy based on cGAL, a GAL4-UAS bipartite expression system for C. elegans. We designed a cGAL gene trap cassette and used CRISPR/Cas9 to insert it into the target gene, creating a bicistronic operon that simultaneously expresses a truncated endogenous protein and the cGAL driver in the cells expressing the target gene. …”
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