Identifying and Ranking the Effective Factors in Improving the Quality of Student Dormitories by Comparing Analytical Network Process (ANP) and DEMATEL Methods. Case Study: Student... by Kheyrollah Rahseparfard, Mohammad Moradi, Shohreh Teymoori

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Survival status and determinants of under-five mortality in Sudan: Evidence from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2014 by Huda Mohamed Mukhtar AHMED, Hiba Abbas Omer ELKARIB, Mutaz Fikri Mohamed Osman DIGNA

“…Non-parametric methods such as Kaplan–Meier survival function and log-rank were used to assess the effect of socioeconomic and demo- graphic variables on under-five mortality. …”
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General Principles of Anti-Corruption in V4 Visegrad Countries: Experience of Hungary by V. S. Makarenko

“…The author has clarified the place of Hungary and Ukraine in the world rankings as the result of the study, in particular in the Corruption Perceptions Index. …”
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Funding for China’s Top Universities: Does Size Matter? by S. S. Donetskaya, Liang Bin

“…Despite the similar possibilities gained by universities when they transition to the status of elite institutions, each of them has a different budget structure and distinct operational results, which are primarily associated with the positions of universities in international rankings.   Therefore, the aim of the article is to show whether increased investment in development really allows Chinese universities to be successful in the ranking race.   …”
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Phylogenetic taxon definitions for Fungi, Dikarya, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota by David S. Hibbett, Meredith Blackwell, Timothy Y. James, Joseph W. Spatafora, John W. Taylor, Rytas Vilgalys

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Beyond clay: tracing Mekelle’s pottery tradition through ethnoarchaeological and sociocultural lenses by Kibrom Gebremariam

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Stress resistance in barley cultivars of various agroecological origin under extreme continental climate conditions by O. A. Yusova, P. N. Nikolaev, Ya. B. Bendina, I. V. Safonova, N. I. Aniskov

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Genealogy of the Omsk Batyushkins family in first half of the 19th century according to church records by D. I. Petin

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Using Human-Centered Design to Bridge Zero-Dose Vaccine Gap: A Case Study of Ilala District in Tanzania by Simon Martin Nzilibili, Hellen Maziku, Awet Araya, Ruthbetha Kateule, Millenium Anthony Malamla, Suna Salum, Furaha Kyesi, Lotalis Gadau, Tumaini Menson Haonga, Florian Tinuga, Rashid Mfaume, Zaitun Hamza, Georgina Joachim, Alice Geofrey Mwiru, Alex Benson, Oscar Kapela, Ona Machangu, Norman Jonas, Ntuli Kapologwe

“…<b>Background:</b> Immunization plays a substantial role in reducing the under-five mortality rate. However, Tanzania still has a significant number of zero-dose and under-vaccinated children and was ranked among the top ten African countries with the highest numbers of zero-dose children in 2022. …”
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An improvement on the efficiency bounds and efficiency classifications in DEA with imprecise data by Bohlool Ebrahimi, Duško Tešić

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Assessing quality of life in German, French, Italian and Polish smart cities: Identifying the need for further development by Brian F. G. FABRÈGUE, Andrea BOGONI

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A proposal for measuring hotels’ managerial responses to User-Generated-Content Reviews by Javier Perez-Aranda, María Vallespín, Sebastian Molinillo

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Who Puts the ‘Open’ in Open Knowledge? by Montgomery Lucy, Neylon Cameron, Wilson Katie, Huang Chun-Kai (Karl), Hosking Richard, Ozaygen Alkim, Handcock Rebecca

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STAR Guideline Terminology (I): Planning and Launching by LI Zhewei, SHI Qianling, LIU Hui, LUO Xufei, WANG Zijun, TIAN Jinhui, GE Long, CHEN Yaolong, Methodology and Technology Specialisation Committee of the STAR Working Group

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Posttreatment Blood Pressure as a Key Predictor in a 5‐Year Stroke Prediction Model by Nan Zhang, Jiarong Mei, Fangfang Fan, Yan Zhang, Ziyi Zhou, Jianping Li

“…We also developed a random forest model to rank the variable importance. The 5‐year stroke risk prediction model for hypertensive individuals includes 10 risk factors, ranked by importance as follows: average systolic blood pressure during treatment, age, average diastolic blood pressure during treatment, baseline systolic blood pressure, history of diabetes, baseline total cholesterol level, baseline folate level, self‐reported stress, smoking, and folic acid supplementation or not. …”
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The Influences of the Model Configuration on the Simulation of Stratospheric Northern-Hemisphere Polar Vortex in the CMIP5 Models by Zelin Cai, Ke Wei, Luyang Xu, Xiaoqing Lan, Wen Chen, Debashis Nath

“…The extreme cold polar vortex bias, which was found in the CMIP3 models, vanishes in the CMIP5 models with HTOP, HVer, and NOG but persists in the other CMIP5 models. …”
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Research on Influential Factors of PM2.5 within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region in China by Jinchao Li, Lin Chen, Yuwei Xiang, Ming Xu

“…In this paper, we use fishbone method to set up the influential factor set of PM2.5 qualitatively. Then we use Spearman rank correlation test and panel data regression model to analyze the data of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from 2012 to 2015 quantitatively. …”
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Environmental Surveillance and Transmission Risk Assessments for SARS-CoV-2 in a Fitness Center by Hongwan Li, Sripriya Nannu Shankar, Chiran T. Witanachchi, John A. Lednicky, Julia C. Loeb, Md. Mahbubul Alam, Z. Hugh Fan, Karim Mohamed, Arantzazu Eiguren-Fernandez, Chang-Yu Wu

“…We did not detect SARS-CoV-2 by rRT-PCR analyses in any air or surface sample. …”
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Investigating the Process of Urban Physical Development with Emphasis on Real Estate Taxes (Case Study: Five regions of Zahedan) by Abdolali Puor Keikhaei, Mahmoud Reza Anvari, Gholam Reza Miri

“…The results of the status of the studied indices in determining the physical development of each of the 5 study areas in Zahedan in the output of the fuzzy inference system in the MATLAB software show that the 5th region with a score of 0.82 and first area with a score of 0.79 have a desirable level. …”
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Wolfgang Mórócz z Beketfalvy (1575–1648). Spoločenský vzostup kariérneho úradníka v ranonovovekom Uhorsku by Frederik Federmayer

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