Corrosion-induced thickness diminution of an ageing bulk carrier by Nataša Kovač, Špiro Ivošević, Nikola Momčilović

“…The formulation of predictive corrosion models, grounded in historical data accumulated during vessel operations, emerges as an optimal strategy for designing structural elements and guaranteeing their structural integrity. …”
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Intelligent Early Warning System for Construction Safety of Excavations Adjacent to Existing Metro Tunnels by Wei Tian, Jiang Meng, Xing-Ju Zhong, Xiao Tan

“…This study uses a backpropagation neural network to predict the real-time deformation of the tunnel based on monitoring data from the adjacent construction site. …”
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Self-esteem and social media addiction level in adolescents: The mediating role of body image by Mehmet Colak, Ozlem Sireli Bingol, Ali Dayi

“…It was found that the social media addiction levels of the participants negatively predicted their self-esteem and body image levels. …”
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Alzheimer’s disease recognition using graph neural network by leveraging image-text similarity from vision language model by Byounghwa Lee, Jeong-Uk Bang, Hwa Jeon Song, Byung Ok Kang

“…In this work, we propose a method that predicts dementia automatically by representing the relationship between images and texts as a graph. …”
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Risk Evaluation for the Formation of Gastroduodenal Erosion and Ulceration Induced by Meloxicam in Patients with Seropositive and Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis by R. A. Pavlyukov, M. R. Konorev

“…In the course of monitoring patients (for 4–8 years) with rheumatoid arthritis who took meloxicam, the authors established high rates of the prognostic (rheumatoid) factor for predicting the formation of gastric and duodenal erosions and ulcers: forecast sensitivity — 94.8 %, forecast specificity — 82.5 %, the proportion of correct forecasts — 87.7 %.Conclusions. …”
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Person-to-person bacterial transmission can change the sleep pattern in newly married couples by R. Rastmanesh, F. Marotta

“…Conclusions: The research will have important implications in terms of diagnosis and treatment of sleep disturbances through microbiota modulation, particularly from the perspective of diagnostic, predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine.…”
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Diabetic Retinopathy Is a Predictor of Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mansi Gupta, Indu Ramachandra Rao, Shankar Prasad Nagaraju, Sulatha V. Bhandary, Jayanti Gupta, Ganesh T. C. Babu

“…This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the predictive value of diabetic retinopathy (DR) for progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD). …”
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Examining the key factors behind foreign language anxiety (FLA) in online teaching of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) by Lađarević Maja Novak

“…The other independent variables are confirmed to be unreliable in predicting the overall level of language anxiety in an online ESP classroom.…”
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Epidemiology and Ecology of Toscana Virus Infection and Its Global Risk Distribution by Xue-Geng Hong, Mei-Qi Zhang, Fang Tang, Si-Hui Song, Jia-Yi Wang, Zhen-Yu Hu, Li-Ming Liu, Xiao-Ai Zhang, Yi Sun, Li-Qun Fang, Wei Liu

“…We searched PubMed and Web of Science for articles published between 1 January 1971 and 30 June 2023 to extract data on TOSV detection in vectors, vertebrates and humans, clinical information of human patients, as well as the occurrence of two identified sandfly vectors for TOSV. We further predicted the global distribution of the two sandfly vectors, based on which the global risk of TOSV was projected, after incorporating the environmental, ecoclimatic, biological, and socioeconomic factors. …”
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An optimization approach for improving steam production of heat recovery steam generator by Awsan Mohammed, Moath Al-Mansour, Ahmed M. Ghaithan, Adel Alshibani

“…The results also indicated that the proposed models for both approaches predict the future of steam production with an accuracy of 99%. …”
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Usefulness of Whole-Body Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography in Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Systematic Review by Giorgio Treglia, Silvia Taralli, Francesco Bertagna, Marco Salsano, Barbara Muoio, Pierluigi Novellis, Maria Letizia Vita, Fabio Maggi, Alessandro Giordano

“…Moreover, FDG-PET seems to be an important imaging modality for predicting the progression to MPNST and the outcome in patients with MPNST. …”
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Features of anthrax natural foci and Bacillus anthracis ecology by A. P. Rodionov, E. A. Artemeva, L. A. Melnikova, M. A. Kosarev, S. V. Ivanova

“…According to some researchers, the increasingly emerging initiatives for the elimination or conservation of anthrax burial sites are not only useless, but also harmful, since they exclude the possibility of further predicting the risks associated with soil foci that surround livestock burial sites and cannot be decontaminated. …”
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Genotype-Phenotype Correlation in Patients with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency in Cuba by Tania Mayvel Espinosa Reyes, Teresa Collazo Mesa, Paulina Arasely Lantigua Cruz, Adriana Agramonte Machado, Emma Domínguez Alonso, Henrik Falhammar

“…The correlation between the detected molecular defect and the clinical expression of 21OHD was reasonable in the Cuban population, which could allow phenotypic predictions to be made from the genotype.…”
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Optic nerve sonographic parameters in idiopathic intracranial hypertension, case-control study by Islam El Malky, Wael Elshazly Aita, Alaa Elkordy, Marwa Nasreldeen, Mahmoud Abdelhafiz, Amr M. Tael, Hazem Mo. Abdelkhalek

“…Aim of our study was discovering the changes in ultra-sonographic indices and which one could predict the increased ICP. Sixty-eight patients were diagnosed as definite IIH and 68 healthy volunteers are included in the study who had the same sex and age. …”
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The impact of emotional abuse on Internet addiction in Chinese children: the sequential mediation roles of emotional dysregulation and regulatory emotional self-efficacy by Wang Liu, Wang Liu, Jie Huang, Jie Huang, Yu-Ling Li, Yu-Ling Li, Xiang Gao, Xiang Gao, Zi-Yi Xu, Zi-Yi Xu, Yong-Hui Li, Yong-Hui Li

“…The hypothesized model was tested using Mplus 8.3 with 5,000 bootstrap samples.ResultsEmotional abuse positively predicts Internet addiction in children; emotional dysregulation and regulatory emotional self-efficacy mediate this relationship independently, and have chain-mediating effects in this relationship.ConclusionEmotional abuse impacts children’s Internet addiction through the development of emotional regulation and self-perception of their abilities in emotional regulation. …”
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An Approach for Spatial Statistical Modelling Remote Sensing Data of Land Cover by Fusing Data of Different Types by Antonella Belmonte, Carmela Riefolo, Gabriele Buttafuoco, Annamaria Castrignanò

“…To demonstrate the statistical, as well as practical, effectiveness of such a method, it was compared by a cross-validation test with a univariate approach for predicting each soil property. The positive results obtained should stimulate advanced statistical techniques to be applied more and more widely to RS data.…”
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Predictors of anxiety and depression in patients with oral cancer undergoing radical resection with reconstructive surgery by Kento Kaminogo, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Tokura, Hiroyuki Kimura, Shinichi Kishi, Norihisa Ichimura, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Go Ohara, Hui Chen, Norio Ozaki, Masashi Ikeda, Hideharu Hibi

“…In this study, we investigated the factors that predict worsening psychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety and depression, in patients with oral cancer. …”
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The Natural History and Predictors for Intervention in Patients with Small Renal Mass Undergoing Active Surveillance by Zaher Bahouth, Sarel Halachmi, Gil Meyer, Ofir Avitan, Boaz Moskovitz, Ofer Nativ

“…To describe the natural history of small renal mass on active surveillance and identify parameters that could help in predicting the need for intervention in patients with small renal masses undergoing active surveillance. …”
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Applying auxiliary supervised depth-assisted transformer and cross modal attention fusion in monocular 3D object detection by Zhijian Wang, Jie Liu, Yixiao Sun, Xiang Zhou, Boyan Sun, Dehong Kong, Jay Xu, Xiaoping Yue, Wenyu Zhang

“…Two depth encoders are supervised by ground truth depth and bounding box respectively, working independently to complement each other’s limitations and predicting more accurate target distances. Furthermore, Depth-DETR employs cross modal attention mechanisms to effectively fuse three different features. …”
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Study of Frequency and Characteristics of Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization in Thalassemic Patients: Multicenter Study from Palestine by Adham Abu Taha, Ahmad Yaseen, Sa’d Suleiman, Omar Abu Zenah, Hammam Ali, Rania Abu Seir, Khaled Younis

“…Age, sex, starting age of transfusion, number of transfused units, and history of splenectomy could not predict the occurrence of alloimmunization.…”
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