Predicting Adverse Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Premature Neonates with Intrauterine Growth Restriction Using a Three-Layered Neural Network by Anca Bivoleanu, Liliana Gheorghe, Bogdan Doroftei, Ioana-Sadiye Scripcariu, Ingrid-Andrada Vasilache, Valeriu Harabor, Ana-Maria Adam, Gigi Adam, Iulian Valentin Munteanu, Carolina Susanu, Iustina Solomon-Condriuc, Anamaria Harabor

“…Clinical and paraclinical data were used to construct a three-layered artificial neural network, and its predictive performance was assessed. …”
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The relationship between discriminatory work environment and psychological distress in Italian organizations: Are lack of supervisor support and economic stress mediating factors? by Giorgia BONDANINI, Gabriele GIORGI, Francesco CHIRICO, Amelia RIZZO, Hicham KHABBACHE, Francesca ROMANA TESTA, Giulia FOTI, Federico ALESSIO, Valerio VINCIARELLI, Georgia Libera FINSTAD

“…Introduction:The construct of a discriminatory work environment is becoming increasingly significant in organizations due to its potential impact on corporate, health, and economic stress. …”
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Application of Machine Learning to Background Rejection in Very-high-energy Gamma-Ray Observation by Jie Li, Hongkui Lv, Yang Liu, Jiajun Huang, Yu Wang, Wenbin Lin

“…Machine learning (ML) models, including logistic regression, support vector machines, decision trees, random forests, XGBoost, CatBoost, and deep neural networks (DNN) were constructed and trained using data sets of four energy bands ranging from 10 ^12 to 10 ^16 eV, and finally fused using the stacking ensemble algorithm. …”
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Modeling of maternal behavior to improve the development of children under five based on social cognitive theory (SCT) and the information-motivation-behavioral skills model (IMB) by Ida Nursanti, Bhisma Murti, Sri Mulyani

“…This study aims to examine the influence of, and relationships between, the variables of the social cognitive theory (SCT) and the information-motivation-behavioral skills (IMB) model constructs on maternal behavior in improving child development and the development of children under five years of age. …”
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Protocol for the development and multisite validation of the Quality of Dying and Death-Revised Global Version scale by Camilla Zimmermann, Ekaterina An, Sarah Hales, Gary Rodin, Eve Namisango, Kenneth Mah, Lameck Thambo, Christian Ntizimira, Alyssa Tilly, Warren Lewin, Mano Chandrakumar, Arnell Baguio, Nazira Jaffer, Maria Chikasema, Kayla Wolofsky, Mary Goombs

“…The Quality of Dying and Death (QODD) scale is the best-validated measure of the construct, but many items are not relevant to participants, particularly in low-resource settings. …”
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Genomic, Evolutionary, and Pathogenic Characterization of a New <i>Polerovirus</i> in Traditional Chinese Medicine <i>Viola philippica</i> by Yuanling Chen, Gaoxiang Chen, Jiaping Yu, Yali Zhou, Shifang Fei, Haorong Chen, Jianxiang Wu, Shuai Fu

“…An infectious cDNA clone of VPPV was successfully constructed and shown to infect <i>Nicotiana benthamiana</i>. …”
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The Recent Technologies to Curb the Second-Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic by M. Poongodi, Mohit Malviya, Mounir Hamdi, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf, Seifedine Kadry, Orawit Thinnukool

“…Innovative advancements are essential for the subsequent pandemics where-in the forthcoming difficulties can indeed be approached to such a degree that it facilitates constructive solutions more comprehensively. In this study, futuristic and emerging innovations are analyzed, improving COVID-19 effects for the general public. …”
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Parameter influence analysis and optimization of wheel–rail creepage characteristics in high-speed railway curves by Bolun An, Jiapeng Liu, Guang Yang, Feng shou Liu, Tong Shi, Ming Zhai

“…Multiple numerical experiments were designed using the Latin Hypercube Sampling method to extract wheel-rail creepage indicators and construct a parameter-creepage response surface model. …”
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Predictive and Prognostic Factors of Synchronous Colorectal Lung-Limited Metastasis by Yuqiang Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Da Liu, Ming Zhou, Fengbo Tan, Wenxue Liu, Hong Zhu

“…A multivariate logistic regression model was constructed to identify independent predictors of SCLLM. …”
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Augmented prediction of vertebral collapse after osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures through parameter-efficient fine-tuning of biomedical foundation models by Sibeen Kim, Inkyeong Kim, Woon Tak Yuh, Sangmin Han, Choonghyo Kim, Young San Ko, Wonwoo Cho, Sung Bae Park

“…Among 245 enrolled patients with acute OVCF, data from 200 patients were used for the development dataset, and data from 45 patients were used for the test dataset. To construct an accurate prediction model, we explored two backbone architectures: convolutional neural networks and vision transformers (ViTs), along with various pre-trained weights and fine-tuning methods. …”
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Global Ionospheric Scintillation Estimation Based on Phase Screen Modeling From One‐Dimensional Satellite Data by Yuhao Zheng, Chao Xiong, Luca Spogli, Rayan Iman, Lucilla Alfonsi

“…Based on the single phase screen assumption, this study uses the one‐dimensional (1D) in‐situ plasma density data of ESA's Swarm constellation data to develop a three‐dimensional (3D) power spectrum of electron density perturbation and construct a model to estimate scintillations caused by small‐scale ionospheric plasma density irregularities. …”
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A Named Entity Recognition Model for Chinese Electricity Violation Descriptions Based on Word-Character Fusion and Multi-Head Attention Mechanisms by Lingwen Meng, Yulin Wang, Yuanjun Huang, Dingli Ma, Xinshan Zhu, Shumei Zhang

“…Experimental results on the constructed power grid field operation violation description dataset demonstrate that the proposed NER model outperforms the traditional BERT-BiLSTM-CRF model, with an average improvement of 1.58% in precision, recall, and F1-score. …”
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Probiotic active gel promotes diabetic wound healing through continuous local glucose consumption and antioxidant by Yingshuai Wang, Lihua Shi, Junna Lu, Fengyuan Wang, Zihan Zhou, Yuexuan Wang, Xiangyu Du, Di Qin, Fangman Chen, Dan Shao, Yuanyuan Gao, Cheng Gao, Tongyi Sun

“…Herein, we combined probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri with acid-responsive hydrogen-producing nanoparticles to construct probiotic active gel LR&AB@CAH to enable a cascade of glucose consumption and hydrogen production. …”
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The extraction of effective components and an antioxidant activity study of Tulipa edulis by Doudou Zhang, Dong Xiao, Tingting Yin, Shuangzhi Zhao, Olena Zhur, Xun Xiao, Hailun He, Leilei Chen

“…Human umbilical vein endothelial human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) cells were treated with 35 mmol/L glucose to construct a model of oxidative stress. Then, the cells were treated with the active component to observe whether the products of T. edulis could have a good protective effect on HUVEC cells induced by glucose. …”
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Design of a dual randomized trial in a type 2 hybrid effectiveness—implementation study by June Stevens, Sarah Denton Mills, Mary-Louise Millett, Feng-Chang Lin, Jennifer Leeman

“…Nevertheless, studies using this design are rare in the literature. Main text We construct a paradigm that breaks down the components of the DRCT and provide a step-by-step explanation of features of the design and recommendations for use. …”
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Stabilization effect and mechanism of heavy metals by microbial consortium of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria and urease-producing bacteria by Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Zhenghao Yan, Yongfang Yan, Shuangquan Li, Shuangquan Li, Shuangquan Li, Shuangquan Li, Shuangquan Li, Mingjiao Yu, Mingjiao Yu, Mingjiao Yu, Mingjiao Yu, Mingjiao Yu, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, Mingjiang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang

“…Microbial consortium of PSB and UPB were constructed for the stabilization of heavy metals by optimizing carbon and nitrogen sources. …”
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Minute ventilation in cardiorespiratory exercise and its relationship with ventricular ejection fraction by Alirio Bastidas-Goyes, Eduardo Tuta-Quintero, Juan D. Botero, Daniel Botero-Rosas, Daniel Prieto, Daniela Rubio, Cristian Lopez, Gustavo A. Hincapie, Barbarita Mantilla, Abraham Brito, Tatiana Vargas, Stefania Forero, Laura Villarraga, Andrea Giraldo, Monica Briceño, Alejandra Porras

“…A Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve was constructed to evaluate the discriminatory capacity between ventilatory equivalent for carbon dioxide and peak oxygen pulse. …”
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Effect of a Nutritional Education Intervention on the Reduction of Added Sugar Consumption in Schoolchildren in Southeastern Mexico: Community Study by Carmen Morales-Ruán, Teresa Shamah-Levy, Danae Gabriela Valenzuela-Bravo, Rebeca Uribe-Carvajal, Corin Hernández-Palafox, María Concepción Medina-Zacarías, Ignacio Méndez Gómez-Humarán

“…For the analysis, a generalized estimating equation (GEE) model was constructed using the Poisson distribution family to estimate the effect of the intervention. …”
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Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Unitary Neural Networks With Phase Encoding Enabled by In-Situ Training by Shengjie Tang, Cheng Chen, Qi Qin, Xiaoping Liu

“…Particularly, integrated photonic unitary neural networks (IPUNNs) are capable of mitigating gradient vanishing/explosion problems when deeper neural networks are constructed. Furthermore, their optical implementations are also much simpler compared to non-unitary counterparts. …”
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The influence of different forms of apple products on all-cause mortality in patients with hypertension by Chuang Sun, Yingying Chen, Yue Guan, Yiming Zeng, Jie Li, Liang Chen

“…Cox regression model was constructed to analyze the correlation between apple, apple juice, and apple sauce consumption and all-cause mortality in patients with hypertension.ResultsThe consumption of apples 3–6 times/week was associated with a 48% reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality in patients with hypertension (HR = 0.52, 95% CI: 0.37–0.72, p &lt; 0.001). …”
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