Assessing the impact on mode competitiveness of improvements of the Trans-Eurasian railway network by Seyed Mohseni, Edwin van Hassel, Thierry Vanelslander

“…Substantially less generalized chain cost reductions are achieved when shortening transit times, even when the latter goes up to half the initial transit time. …”
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Sustainability of Paddy Rice Farming in the Conservation of Birds in Uganda Amidst a Growing Expansion of the Rice farming Industry. by Sarah, Nachuha, Twagiramaria, Fortunate

“…This study was guided by the anthropogenic impacts hypothesis which proposes that humans have modified the ‘natural’ biodiversity patterns such that diversity is generally depressed in areas with long history of human occupation or intensive activities. …”
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Technical and Vocational Education and Training as Factors in the Socio-Economic Development of Rwanda A Case Study of Bushoki Sector, Rulindo District by Albertine, Bamutake Zikama

“…The dominant skills generally believed to have been gained from the training program are: hair cutting and dressing (18 percent of respondents), tailoring (18 percent of respondents), handcrafts (14 percent of respondents), and driving (10 percent of respondents). …”
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Machine learning-driven prediction of medical expenses in triple-vessel PCI patients using feature selection by Kuan-Yu Chen, Yen-Chun Huang, Chih-Kuang Liu, Shao-Jung Li, Mingchih Chen

“…The machine learning algorithms used included linear regression (LR), random forest (RF), support vector regression (SVR), generalized linear model boost (GLMBoost), Bayesian generalized linear model (BayesGLM), and extreme gradient boosting (eXGB). …”
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A robust adaptive meta-sample generation method for few-shot time series prediction by Chao Zhang, Defu Jiang, Kanghui Jiang, Jialin Yang, Yan Han, Ling Zhu, Libo Tao

“…The advantage is to realize fast adaptive convergence of samples to new tasks at lower cost, effectively control the overall generalization error, and improve the robustness and non-Gaussian generalization of sample posterior reasoning. …”
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Sandpiper Optimization Algorithm With Region Growing Based Robust Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Approach by Ibrahim AlMohimeed, Mohamed Yacin Sikkandar, A. Mohanarathinam, Velmurugan Subbiah Parvathy, Mohamad Khairi Ishak, Faten Khalid Karim, Samih M. Mostafa

“…Several retinal vessel segmentation models suffer from a lack of high generalization abilities and low accuracy due to the presence of complex symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns. …”
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Individual and joint effects of exposure to multiple organophosphate esters and the risk of depression in adults: Differences in sex, age, and physical activity by Qingmiao Wei, Jiyun Wei, Jun Liang

“…We aimed to assess the associations among five OPE levels in urine and depression by using NHANES 2011–2018. Generalized linear model, quantile g-computation (Qgcomp), and Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) were utilized to assess the effects of OPEs on depression. …”
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Progressive Self-Prompting Segment Anything Model for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images by Xiaoning Zhang, Yi Yu, Daqun Li, Yuqing Wang

“…Given the significant differences between ORSIs and the natural images used in pre-training, the generalization capability of these backbone networks is often limited, resulting in suboptimal performance. …”
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Investigating Maps of Science Using Contextual Proximity of Citations Based on Deep Contextualized Word Representation by Muhammad Roman, Abdul Shahid, Shafiullah Khan, Lisu Yu, Muhammad Asif, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi

“…Deep models require massive data for generalizing the model, however, the existing state-of-the-art datasets don’t provide much information for the training models to get generalized. …”
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Association between neutrophil-albumin ratio and ultrasound-defined metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease in U.S. adults: evidence from NHANES 2017–2018 by Ming-yu He, Xin-jie Du, Yi-ming Liu

“…Differences in baseline characteristics between patients with CAP ≥ 285 dB/m and < 285 dB/m were analyzed. A generalized additive model (GAM) and restricted cubic splines (RCS) were applied to explore the nonlinear relationship between NAR and CAP, followed by generalized linear models (GLMs). …”
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Association of Red Blood Cell Distribution Width With Carotid–Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity in a Southern Chinese Population by Xing Yu, Yali Huang, Yunyun Su, Liangdi Xie

“…Both Spearman's correlation analysis and generalized linear regression analysis revealed a significant association between RDW and cfPWV. …”
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Effects of the maternal and child health handbook and other home-based records on mothers’ non-health outcomes: a systematic review by Akira Shibanuma, Masamine Jimba, Rogie Royce Carandang, Jennifer Lisa Sakamoto, Ekaterina Yarotskaya, Milana Basargina, Mika Kondo Kunieda

“…These records were also inconsistently used across different health facilities and professionals.Conclusions The MCH handbook fostered the mother–child bond. Mothers were generally satisfied with the use of home-based records, but their engagement depended on how these records were communicated and used by healthcare providers. …”
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Approaches to the usage of machine translation systems for the organization of independent work of students of a pedagogical university with English-language scientific texts by Tatiana N. Suvorova, Lyubov A. Shunina, Ivan V. Shunin

“…Methods of comparison and generalization of the obtained results are used in order to determine the effectiveness of the proposed online course “Machine translation of scientific texts”. …”
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The Dynamic Damage Mechanisms and Failure Modes of Coal-Rock Masses under the Action of High Order P-Waves by Feng Li, Mingxin Bi, Jing Tian, Shuhao Fang

“…Therefore, the coal-rock masses generally experienced tensile and shear failures under high order P-waves. …”
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Advances in the carbon-ceramic composites oxidation and ablation resistance: A review by Anna Didenko, Alexey Astapov

“…The results of the generalization are presented in the form of tables and schematic images of microstructures of forming oxide films with layer detailing. …”
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Optimal distribution modeling and multifractal analysis of wind speed in the complex terrain of Sichuan Province, China by Cun Zhan, Renjuan Wei, Lu Zhao, Shijun Chen, Chunying Shen

“…Multifractality was confirmed by the non-linear dependencies of the Generalized Hurst Exponent [h(q)] and mass exponent [τ(q)] on q, as well as by the multifractal spectrum widths exceeding 0.05. …”
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Multicomponent intervention for schoolchildren with asthma: Pilot cluster randomized controlled trial by Marina Reznik, MD, MS, Florinda Islamovic, MD, Jill S. Halterman, MD, MPH, Cheng-Shiun Leu, PhD, Jiaqing Zhang, PhD, Philip O. Ozuah, MD, PhD

“…Child PA (primary outcome) was measured by accelerometers at 4 time points, and caregivers completed surveys on asthma symptoms. Analyses used generalized linear mixed models with generalized estimating equation adjusting for clustering. …”
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Perioperative or neo/adjuvant chemoimmunotherapy versus chemotherapy for resectable non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Qiong Zhang, Jia Duan, Yuanmei Zhang, Lei Yang, Duo Li

“…OS: Perioperative immunotherapy was notably more effective than adjuvant immunotherapy and standard chemotherapy. Chemotherapy generally had fewer severe adverse effects compared to neoadjuvant and perioperative immunotherapy. …”
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Introduction by James Costa, Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus

“…Dans cette introduction, après avoir posé la problématique générale du numéro, nous nous focaliserons sur le sens de la notion de conflit interne aux mouvements de revitalisation, en tentant de dégager les différents types d’enjeux idéologiques, symboliques, matériels, qu’ils permettent de mettre en évidence.Enfin, nous introduirons les différentes contributions. …”
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Non-covalent interactions in supported asymmetric catalysis: a brief account by Ibos, Léa, Schulz, Emmanuelle

“…This account focuses on procedures that lead to the formation of non-covalent interactions between the chiral active sites and the chosen support, as they generally involve less tedious synthetic modifications and can allow either the chiral catalyst or the support to be easily recovered, at will. …”
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