Most prevalent jobs of doctoral degree graduates by detailed field of study by Marc Frenette, Tomasz Handler

“…Among the disciplines most highly linked to university professors and lecturers, female doctoral graduates were generally less likely than their male counterparts to be employed as university professors and lecturers. For example, the five disciplines most highly linked to university professors and lecturers among women were business administration and management, general (68.7%); registered nursing/registered nurse (61.0%); social work, general (56.6%); mathematics, general (56.2%); and exercise science and kinesiology (52.7%). …”
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Lightweight Tea Shoot Picking Point Recognition Model Based on Improved DeepLabV3+ by HU Chengxi, TAN Lixin, WANG Wenyin, SONG Min

“…Initially, MobilenetV2 was employed as the feature extractor, substituting traditional convolution operations with depth wise separable convolutions. …”
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Economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture production at the crop level by A.Z. Bi, K.B. Umesh, B. Md Abdul, D. Sivakumar, P. Srikanth

“…The use of land, water, fertilizer, and pesticides affects production costs and earnings.  Farmers can employ a variety of techniques, including as crop rotation, cover crops, agro forestry, organic farming, carbon sequestration and decreased tillage, which enhance soil health and lessen erosion, to preserve environmental sustainability. …”
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Modeling Factors Influencing Project Financing Risk by Gholamreza Sharafi, Kiamars Fathi Hafashjani, Faegh Ahmadi

“…MethodsTo explore these dynamics, this study employs an objective-oriented approach, leveraging a descriptive-correlational method for data collection. …”
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Establishment and Evaluation of a Rat Model of Non-Puerperal Mastitis by YIN Yulian, MA Lina, TU Siyuan, CHEN Ling, YE Meina, CHEN Hongfeng

“…Immunohistochemistry was employed to detect CD138 expression levels. ELISA was used to measure the levels of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-1β, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in mammary tissue to comprehensively assess the model. …”
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Three Weeks on a Ketogenic Diet Reduces Free Testosterone and Free Estradiol in Middle-Aged Obese Men and Women by Mads Svart, Nikolaj Rittig, Thien Vinh Luong, Nigopan Gopalasingam, Esben Thyssen Vestergaard, Lars Gormsen, Esben Søndergaard, Henrik Holm Thomsen, Claus H. Gravholt

“…After each study period, participants underwent examination following an overnight fast, with repeated measures employed to analyze concentrations of plasma β-OHB and sex hormone levels. …”
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Predictors of Colorectal Cancer Screening and Screening Modalities among Patients seen at Federally Qualified Health Centers Funded by the United States Health Resources and Servic... by Megan R.M. Aaronson, Nadereh Pourat, Connie Lu, Jayraan Badiee, Helen Yu-Lefler, Benjamin Picillo, Hank Hoang, Folasade P. May

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Effect of chemoradiotherapy on the dynamics of circulating lymphocyte subsets in patients with non-metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Lilan Yi, Lilan Yi, Yinfang Gu, Yinfang Gu, Longhua Guo, Longhua Guo, Xiaofang Zou, Xiaofang Zou, Guowu Wu, Guowu Wu

“…This study aimed to characterize the dynamics of the proportions and absolute counts of peripheral circulating lymphocyte subsets in non-metastatic NPC before and after CRT, and to elucidate their association with clinical responses.MethodsA total of 91 patients with non-metastatic NPC were enrolled. Flow cytometry was employed to detect the expression of CD3, CD4, CD8, CD56, and CD19 on peripheral blood cells. …”
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On Channel Transforms to Enhance Reciprocity and Quantization in Physical-Layer Secret Key Generation by Ghalib Hussain, Syed Junaid Nawaz, Shurjeel Wyne, Mohammad N. Patwary

“…Notably, when the correlation of the reciprocal channel is set to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\rho =0.8$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, the samples excursion qualification threshold is set to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L=3$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and GG fading conditions set as defined by <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha =2$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\xi =1$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\upsilon =1$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, the proposed algorithm, which employs sample biasing and transformation, offers an average improvement of 0.02% in KGR and 0.15% in KDR performance compared to the conventional UQ scheme. …”
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Digital Platforms’ Adoption by Educational Stakeholders in Private Secondary Schools During and after the Lockdown in Port Harcourt Local Government Area, Rivers State by Ella Gogo Blaise, Ebi Bio Awotua-Efebo

“…The research methodology employed was a descriptive survey. A multi-stage sampling procedure was utilised to select a sample size of seven hundred and forty-two (742) participants, comprising four hundred and nine (409) students, two hundred and ninety-seven (297) teachers, and thirty-six (36) administrators from thirty-two (32) private secondary schools in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. …”
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Prevalence of common diarrheagenic enterobacteriaceae in Iran (2000–2023): a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mozhgan Derakhshan-Sefidi, Fereshteh Eidy, Somayyeh Nadi-Ravandi, Sareh Bagheri-Josheghani, Maryam Mirfakhraei

“…The criteria did not restrict patient demographics such as age, gender, health conditions, or occupation. This meta-analysis employed a 95% confidence interval (CI) for analysis. …”
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Loose cigarette purchase and adolescent smoking in Indonesia: a mixed-methods study by Vid Adrison, Dian Kusuma, Gea Melinda, Fariza Zahra Kamilah, Syifa Rizki Amelia, Sofwatun Nida

“…Objectives To investigate the relationship between purchasing loose cigarettes and adolescent smoking habits in Indonesia.Design and setting This study employed a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. …”
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Orchard-Wide Visual Perception and Autonomous Operation of Fruit Picking Robots: A Review by CHEN Mingyou, LUO Lufeng, LIU Wei, WEI Huiling, WANG Jinhai, LU Qinghua, LUO Shaoming

“…For example, low-level feature fusion utilizes basic attributes such as color, shapes and texture to distinguish fruits from backgrounds, while high-level feature learning employs more complex models like convolutional neural networks to interpret the contextual relationships within the data. …”
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Outcome Mapping as a Monitoring and Evaluation Tool for Livestock Value Chain Interventions: The Case of imGoats by Hailemichael Taye Beyene, Kees Swaans, Birgit Boogaard, Ramkumar Bendapudi, Saskia Hendrickx

“…Intervention:  The project employed value chain (VC) and Innovations Systems (IS) approaches rather than traditional methods of technology transfer. …”
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Nitidine chloride inhibits the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma by suppressing IGF2BP3 and modulates metabolic pathways in an m6A-dependent manner by Dan-dan Xiong, Zhen-dong Chen, Jian-di Li, Yu-long Deng, Rong-quan He, Zhi-guang Huang, San-qi An, Yi-wu Dang, Gang Chen

“…Results In this study, utilizing HCC cell and zebrafish xenograft models, we validated NC’s ability to inhibit the growth, metastasis, and angiogenesis of HCC. Subsequently, employing RNA sequencing, RT-qPCR, WB, molecular docking, MD simulation, SPR, and CCK8 off-target assays, we pinpointed IGF2BP3 as a direct target of NC. …”
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Pemilihan Strategi Implementasi Kesehatan Digital Pada Kelompok Pengambil Keputusan Menggunakan Metode Vikor by Sri Kusumadewi, Rahadian Kurniawan

“…The geometric average was employed to determine the weight composition of the five decision-makers. …”
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The relationship between social support and depression among older adults with hypertension in urban communities: mediating effects of coping styles by Dan Li, Jin-Hua Jie, Hong Li, Xue-Mei Xia, Yilin Zhang, Yilin Zhang, Yan Yang, Yan Yang, Jianjun Xiang, Jianjun Xiang, Jianjun Xiang, Hai-Lin Zhuang

“…Pearson correlation analysis was employed to test the correlation between variables. …”
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Oncolytic influenza virus enhances killing effect of gemcitabine against pancreatic cancer cells by MENG Zihe, MENG Zihe, XU Yongru, DENG Zhaoda

“…Multi-immunofluorescence staining was employed to analyze T cell infiltration and proliferation in the tumor tissues. …”
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Association and Interaction Analysis of Lipid Accumulation Product with Impaired Fasting Glucose Risk: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Jian Song, Xue Chen, Yuhong Jiang, Jing Mi, Yuyuan Zhang, Yingying Zhao, Xuesen Wu, Huaiquan Gao

“…The assessment of interactive effects was conducted by employing the three indicators as follows: (1) RERI (the relative excess risk due to interaction), (2) AP (attributable proportion due to interaction), and (3) SI (synergy index). …”
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Myocardial Infarction-Associated Shock: A Comprehensive Analysis of Phenotypes, SCAI Classification, and Outcome Assessment by Stanislav Dil, Maria Kercheva, Oleg Panteleev, Sergey Demianov, Aleksandr Kanev, Nina Belich, Boris Kornienko, Vyacheslav Ryabov

“…Logistic regression analysis was employed to identify predictors of mortality and improved survival outcomes. …”
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