What is the learning effect of video review in postgraduate medical education: a systematic review by Marieke Robbrecht, Myriam Van Winckel, Antonius Mulder, Mieke Embo

“…The investigated effect needed to be classified at least as a Kirkpatrick level 2. We iteratively developed a standardized data extraction form to extract study characteristics. …”
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Strengthening teamwork and respect (STAR) in maternity units: developing a health system intervention in South Africa by Tanya Doherty, Ruwayda Petrus, Sandra Land, Christiane Horwood, Veronique Filippi, Lyn Haskins, Cleo Phewa, Sphindile Mapumulo, Silondile Luthuli, Vaughn M. John

“…The intervention design was an iterative process informed by literature reviews, formative data collection, consultation with provincial, district and hospital management stakeholders, expert reviewer inputs and piloting of proposed activities. …”
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Investigating the intrinsic top-down dynamics of deep generative models by Lorenzo Tausani, Alberto Testolin, Marco Zorzi

“…In this work, we study the generative dynamics of a recent extension of the DBN, the iterative DBN (iDBN), which more faithfully simulates neurocognitive development by jointly tuning the connection weights across all layers of the hierarchy. …”
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Fatigue Life Evaluation of Racks for the Three Gorges Ship Lift Based on the Load Spectrum by Chen Zhuo, Shi Lubing, Yan Xiaoqing, Tang Weibi, Li Xuefei, Liu Zhongming

“…In addition, the cumulative iteration method is used to calculate the contact and bending safety factors of the rack, which realizes the comparison between the actual load and the design load of the rack and the operation safety performance verification. …”
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Comprehensive benefits evaluation of low impact development using scenario analysis and fuzzy decision approach by Ting Ni, Xiaohong Zhang, Peng Leng, Mark Pelling, Jiuping Xu

“…The robustness of the proposed approach is reinforced by four key aspects: the impact of the Thiessen polygon method in ArcGIS, the influence of composite runoff coefficient and iterative optimization in SWMM, the effect of hesitant fuzzy linguistic sets and TOPSIS on weight calculation, and the contribution of simulations under different return periods to stability analysis.…”
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Emergency contracting and the delivery of elective care services across the English National Health Service and independent sector during COVID-19: a descriptive analysis by Rocco Friebel, Michael Anderson, Laia Maynou, Jon Fistein

“…This study aims to describe subsequent changes in trends in elective care service delivery following implementation of the initial iteration of this contract.Methods Population-based retrospective cohort study, assessing the delivery of all publicly funded and privately funded elective care delivered in England between 1 April 2020 and 31 July 2020 compared with the same period in 2019. …”
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Creation of Text Vignettes Based on Patient-Reported Data to Facilitate a Better Understanding of the Patient Perspective: Design Study by Sofia Charlotte Kelly, Emilie Kauffeldt Wegener, Lars Kayser

“…Part 2 focused on the development of scale-based strings representing all READHY dimensions, which were evaluated through iterative cognitive interviews. In part 3, clinicians and patients assessed the understanding and relevance of the text vignettes. …”
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Aperture-Fed Quad-Port Dual-Band Dielectric Resonator-MIMO Antenna for Sub-6 GHz 5G and WLAN Application by Trushit Upadhyaya, Ikmo Park, Rajat Pandey, Upesh Patel, Killol Pandya, Arpan Desai, Jayesh Pabari, Gangil Byun, Yogeshwar Kosta

“…The optimum isolation was achieved by carefully placing the antenna elements on the substrate through multiple iterations. The antenna provides port isolation better than 20 dB at both resonances with full ground profile. …”
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Optimisation of Longitudinal Seismic Energy Dissipation System for Straddle-type Monorail-Cum-Road Long-Span Cable-Stayed Bridge by Xiong Liang, Baomu Li, Xiaolu Liu, Linong Liang

“…To investigate the optimal longitudinal seismic energy dissipation system of straddle-type monorail-cum-road long-span cable-stayed bridges, the Niutianyang Bridge was selected as the engineering background, and the explicit time-domain dimension-reduced iteration method was adopted to carry out nonlinear time-history analysis. …”
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Understanding how and why audits work: protocol for a realist review of audit programmes to improve hospital care by Rijk Gans, Kees Ahaus, Lisanne Hut-Mossel, Gera Welker

“…This protocol will provide the rationale for using a realist review approach and outline the method.Methods and analysis This review will be conducted using an iterative four-stage approach. The first and second steps have already been executed. …”
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Estimating the Relative Risks of Spatial Clusters Using a Predictor–Corrector Method by Majid Bani-Yaghoub, Kamel Rekab, Julia Pluta, Said Tabharit

“…Then, for each time interval, we selected the top 25 clusters with the highest relative risks and iteratively predicted the relative risks of clusters from intervals three to seven. …”
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Computational complexity when constructing rational plans for program execution in a given field of parallel computers by V. M. Bakanov

“…Comparative indices of the computational complexity of obtaining PPE plans and other parameters (including code density, etc.) were obtained for various SPF transformation scenarios. An iterative approach to improving heuristic methods favors developing optimal schemes for solving the objective problem.Conclusions. …”
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Do global health networks facilitate innovation, learning and sharing? A qualitative analysis of the Quality-of-Care Network in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda. by Kondwani Mwandira, Seblewengel Lemma, Albert Dube, Kohenour Akter, Asebe Amenu Tufa, Agnes Kyamulabi, Gloria Seruwagi, Catherine Nakidde, Kasonde Mwaba, Nehla Djellouli, Charles Makwenda, Tim Colbourn, Yusra Ribhi Shawar

“…We conducted 227 key informant interviews with QCN actors at global, national, and facility levels iteratively in two to four rounds from June 2019 to March 2022. …”
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A grey wolf optimization approach for evaluating the engine responses of various biodiesel blends in an internal combustion engine by Chukwuka Prosper Ozule, Adeyinka Oluwo, Nehemiah Sabinus Alozie, John Rajan, Swaminathan Jose, Sunday Ayoola Oke, Ugochukwu Sixtus Nwankiti

“…The responses and parameters greatly improved from initial values to stopping criterion of 200 iterations. Instances reported include brake specific fuel consumption, which improved from 2.6468 to 1.0816 g/kWhr, blend ratio changes from 0.5031 to 0.4760%, speed drop from 0.0031 to 0.0010rpm, and load drop from 0.0017 to 0.0010%. …”
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NIGWO-iCaps NN: A Method for the Fault Diagnosis of Fiber Optic Gyroscopes Based on Capsule Neural Networks by Nan Lu, Huaqiang Zhang, Chunmei Dong, Hongtao Li, Yu Chen

“…In this paper, effectiveness experiments were carried out on the simulation dataset and real dataset, respectively; the diagnostic accuracy of the fault diagnosis method in this paper reached 99.41% on the simulation dataset; the loss value in the real dataset converged to 0.005 with the increase in the number of iterations; and the average diagnostic accuracy converged to 95.42%. …”
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A Seed-Expanding Method Based on TOPSIS for Community Detection in Complex Networks by Jianjun Cheng, Wenbo Zhang, Haijuan Yang, Xing Su, Tao Ma, Xiaoyun Chen

“…To put this framework into practice, we concretize it in this paper by considering four centrality measures as attributes to identify the seed vertices of communities first, then expanding communities by iteratively inserting one unclassified vertex into the community to which its most similar neighbor belongs, and the similarity between them is the largest among all pairs of vertices. …”
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Bearing Fault Classification Using Improved Antlion Optimizer and Extreme Learning Machine by Zhuanzhe Zhao, Yu Zhang, Qiang Ma, Yujian Rui, Guowen Ye, Mengxian Wang, Yongming Liu, Zhen Zhang, Neng Wei, Zhijian Tu

“…In view of the stagnation of iteration, Lévy flight strategy is introduced and the adaptive change of disturbance step length is controlled. …”
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Quadratic programming model for calibration of mine ventilation network under limited measured air quantities by Fengliang WU, Tong WANG

“…The optimal solution of the ventilation network in the example was obtained after 49 iterations, a significant improvement over the times of trial and error, which could reach 3.4×1010 for the worst-case scenario. …”
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Urban Surface Water Mapping from VHR Images Based on Superpixel Segmentation and Target Detection by Qingwei Liu, Yugang Tian, Lihao Zhang, Bo Chen

“…The method includes three steps: clustering water bodies into sparse targets at the object level by an improved scale-adaptive simple non-iterative clustering (SA-SNIC) superpixel segmentation; generating new bands with additional spectral, spatial, and derived features, to increase the dimensions of original data and enhance the separability between water bodies and background covers; and constructing a positive-negative constrained energy minimization multitarget sparse detector to highlight the water bodies while suppressing shadows. …”
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PROTOTYPING A WEB-PUBLISHED ACADEMIC ENGLISH COURSEBOOK FOR INDONESIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS by Muhaimin Abdullah, Syarifuddin Dollah, Haryanto Atmowardoyo

“…The samples of this study were 5 classes consisting of 125 6th semester students majoring in primary school teacher education study program at Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia. Through iterative cycle of prototyping, the findings of this study provide an ideal design of a web-published academic English coursebook exclusively addressed to solve a contextual educational issue detected in the locus of this research, as mandated by literature on design-based research. …”
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