Continuous professional development and instructors’ beliefs about and practice of active learning method in Bahir Dar university by Mulugeta Teka Kahsay

“…The study first employed one sample t-tests which showed that, though these instructors held significantly stronger beliefs about active learning methods than the expected level, they reportedly implemented active learning methods slightly less frequently than the expected level. Then, after computing means and standard deviations for each of the two groups of respondents (31 HDP participants and 27 non-participants), multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was applied to compare the difference between HDP participants and non-participants in their beliefs and practice of active learning methods (when both dependent variables considered together). …”
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The Canadian Bronchiectasis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Registry: a study protocol by Christina S. Thornton, Nicole Boechler, Vidhi Desai, Ranjani Somayaji, Swathi Purighalla, Sarah Brode, Theodore K. Marras, Ryan Cooper, Maeve Smith, Julie Jarand

“…The inclusion criteria are a diagnosis of bronchiectasis by clinical history and computed tomography and/or pulmonary NTM infection as defined by American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines. …”
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Mathematical Analysis of Malaria Epidemic: Asymptotic Stability With Cost-Effectiveness Study by Sacrifice Nana-Kyere, Baba Seidu, Kwara Nantomah

“…With the Latin hypercube sampling and partial rank correlation coefficient method, the uncertainty in R0 is computed with a 95% confidence interval, with the mean, and 5th and 95th percentiles, respectively, simulated as 0.143788, 0.01545, and 0.41491. …”
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Right-sided superior vena cava draining into the left atrium in a patient with persistent left-sided superior vena cava emptying into the right atrium: a case report by Lamia Jamjoom

“…Brain imaging confirmed a diagnosis of brain micro-abscesses/embolic infarctions, while cardiac computed tomography revealed a right-sided superior vena cava draining into the left atrium with a right-to-left shunt and a persistent left superior vena cava draining into the coronary sinus. …”
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Complications and Mortality Characterization in Acute Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease by Ricardo Leyva Tornés, Lázaro Ibrahim Romero García, Esther Mayor Guerra, Yordanis Páez Candelaria, Karima Gondres Legró, Pedro Alexei Bacardí Zapata

“…The variables selected were: sex, type of complications, topography of the lesion by neuroimaging, state at discharge, and direct cause of death. 95 % confidence intervals were computed. The non-parametric Chi squared test of independence was applied and a significance level α = 0.05 was selected. …”
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3D-AOCL: Analytic online continual learning for imbalanced 3D point cloud classification by Ziqian Zeng, Jianwei Wang, Lin Wu, Weikai Lu, Huiping Zhuang

“…Online continual learning in the field of autonomous driving faces several challenges: inefficient data fusion, catastrophic forgetting, insufficient computational resources, violation of road privacy and categories imbalance. …”
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Prognostic Value of Atherosclerotic Extent in Diabetic Patients with Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease by Yipu Ding, Zinuan Liu, Guanhua Dou, Xia Yang, Xi Wang, Dongkai Shan, Bai He, Jing Jing, Yundai Chen, Junjie Yang

“…Risk scores derived by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) could identify high-risk group among patients with nonobstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), but the ability is still uncertain in the presence of diabetes mellitus (DM). …”
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Optimal Agent Framework: A Novel, Cost-Effective Model Articulation to Fill the Integration Gap between Agent-Based Modeling and Decision-Making by Abolfazl Taghavi, Sharif Khaleghparast, Kourosh Eshghi

“…In this regard, a novel nature-inspired model articulation called optimal agent framework (OAF) has been proposed to ameliorate the disadvantages and enhance the realization of proper decisions in ABM at a relatively low computational cost. The framework is examined with the Bass diffusion model. …”
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Association between coffee and caffeine intake and functional dyspepsia by Glareh Koochakpoor, Asma Salari-Moghaddam, Ammar Hassanzadeh Keshteli, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh, Peyman Adibi

“…Logistic regression was applied to compute odds ratios for FD and its components considering a wide range of covariates. …”
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Plasma YKL-40 Elevation on Admission and Follow-Up Is Associated with Diastolic Dysfunction and Mortality in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction by Selcuk Pala, Munevver Sari, Gokhan Kahveci, Elnur Alizade, Ugur Arslantas, Abdulkadir Uslu

“…Left ventricle systolic and diastolic functions and Tei index were computed by transthoracic echocardiography. Results. …”
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Assimilation of Sparse Continuous Near‐Earth Weather Measurements by NECTAR Model Morphing by I. A. Galkin, B. W. Reinisch, A. M. Vesnin, D. Bilitza, S. Fridman, J. B. Habarulema, O. Veliz

“…The 24‐hr deviation time series are used to compute and then globally interpolate the diurnal deviation harmonics. …”
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Shigella sonnei Bacteremia Presenting with Profound Hepatic Dysfunction by Oluwaseun Shogbesan, Andrew Rettew, Bilal Shaikh, Abdullateef Abdulkareem, Anthony Donato

“…Abdominal ultrasound and computed tomography of the abdomen showed hepatic steatosis and right-sided colitis. …”
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In silico identification of chilli genome encoded MicroRNAs targeting the 16S rRNA and secA genes of “Candidatus phytoplasma trifolii” by Vineeta Pandey, Aarshi Srivastava, Ramwant Gupta, Haitham E. M. Zaki, Haitham E. M. Zaki, Muhammad Shafiq Shahid, Rajarshi K. Gaur

“…The free energy between the miRNA:mRNA duplex was also computed, and the best value of −17.46 kcal/mol was obtained for CA-miR166c_2. …”
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Thermal Performance of a Dimpled Tube Parabolic Trough Solar Collector (PTSC) with SiO2 Nanofluid by M. Arun, Debabrata Barik, K. P. Sridhar, Milon Selvam Dennison

“…Different volume concentrations of the nanoparticles in the range of 0.1% to 0.5%, in steps of 0.1%, were chosen to prepare the nanofluids to carry out the experiments. Apart from this, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool was used to numerically analyze the parameters affecting the performance of the solar water heater, as well as the fluid flow pattern in the dimple texture tube. …”
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Evaluation of postoperative drainage necessity in posterior atlantoaxial fixation via intermuscular approach for odontoid fracture by Zhenji Xu, Ji Wu, Yong Li, Haibin Wang, Fei Chen, Bin Ni, Xuhua Lu, Qunfeng Guo

“…Bone fusion was evaluated through computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Postoperative paravertebral tissue edema was evaluated by the edema coefficient. …”
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Anonymous group key distribution scheme for the internet of vehicles by Zhiwang HE, Huaqun WANG

“…Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) play a crucial role in intelligent transportation systems by providing driving information and services such as collision prevention and improved traffic efficiency.However, when a trusted third party (TTP) interacts with a vehicle in VANET, it can be vulnerable to security threats like eavesdropping, tampering, and forgery.Many existing schemes rely heavily on TTP for key negotiation to establish session keys and ensure session security.However, this over-reliance on TTP can introduce a single point of failure and redundancy issues when TTP sends the same information to multiple vehicles.Additionally, key negotiation methods used for creating group session keys often result in increased interaction data and interaction times.An anonymous group key distribution scheme for the internet of vehicles was proposed to address these challenges.The Road Side Units (RSUs) were used to facilitate the creation of group session keys among multiple vehicles.Identity-based public key cryptography and an improved multi-receiver encryption scheme were utilized for communication between RSUs and vehicles, enabling two-way authentication and secure distribution of group session keys.During the key distribution process, a single encryption operation was sufficient to allow all group members to obtain a consistent session key.This reduced the reliance on TTP for authentication and group communication.Formal security proofs demonstrate that the proposed scheme satisfies basic security requirements.Furthermore, performance analysis and comparisons indicate that this scheme offers lower computational overhead and communication overhead compared to similar schemes.…”
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Downscaling of ERA5 reanalysis land surface temperature based on attention mechanism and Google Earth Engine by Shiyu Li, Hong Wan, Qun Yu, Xinyuan Wang

“…Therefore, to improve the spatial resolution of ERA5-Land LST data, this study proposes an Attention Mechanism U-Net (AMUN) method, which combines data acquisition and preprocessing on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud computing platform, to downscale the hourly monthly mean reanalysis LST data of ERA5-Land across China’s territory from 0.1° to 0.01°. …”
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Cancer Patients in Iraq by Hisham S Ibrahim Al-shaikhli, Redhwan Al-Naggar, Mahmoud Alkhateeb

“…A one-way ANOVA and a Fisher exact test were performed after descriptive statistics were computed to identify the variables connected to the different CAM types that were utilized. …”
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Intestinal Schwannoma: A Clinicopathological, Immunohistochemical, and Prognostic Study of 9 Cases by Zhenbo Shu, Chunsheng Li, Mingze Sun, Zhongmin Li

“…The main symptoms of the patients were abdominal pain and melena. Abdominal computed tomography showed intussusception, slightly high-density shadowing in the intestine, thickening of the intestinal wall, and an intestinal mass. …”
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Study on Hydraulic Connection and Seepage Law of Goaf Groups in Coal Mine Underground Reservoir by Wei Qin

“…On this basis, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical calculation of seepage properties of the coal/rock pillars was conducted. …”
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