Classification of kinesiophobia in patients after cardiac surgery under extracorporeal circulation in China: latent profile and influencing factors analysis from a cross-sectional... by Qi Li, Rong Wang, Yanmei Gu, Tong Ren, Jing Jing Piao, Wenhui Xing, Yujing Liang

“…Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the influencing factors at different latent classifications.Results The average performance of each indicator in Model 3 is best suited for analysis, Entropy=0.873 and bootstrap likelihood ratio test (p)＜0.0001. …”
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A medical insurance fund operation performance evaluation system under the DRG payment mode reform by Zijian Wang, Zijian Wang, Zijian Wang, Weifu Chang, Weifu Chang, Aijing Luo, Aijing Luo, Aijing Luo

“…However, few studies undertake performance evaluations of medical insurance funds under DRG payments, especially those incorporating the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)-Entropy Weight Method (EWM)- Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation (FCE) method model.MethodsThis study utilizes operational data from medical insurance funds across eight cities in S Province, China, from 2020 to 2022. …”
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G-UNETR++: A Gradient-Enhanced Network for Accurate and Robust Liver Segmentation from Computed Tomography Images by Seungyoo Lee, Kyujin Han, Hangyeul Shin, Harin Park, Seunghyon Kim, Jeonghun Kim, Xiaopeng Yang, Jae Do Yang, Hee Chul Yu, Heecheon You

“…In addition, a hybrid loss function that combines dice loss, cross-entropy loss, and Hausdorff distance loss is designed to address class imbalance and improve segmentation performance in challenging cases. …”
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IoT-Based Multisensors Fusion for Activity Recognition via Key Features and Hybrid Transfer Learning by Ahmad Jalal, Danyal Khan, Touseef Sadiq, Moneerah Alotaibi, Sultan Refa Alotaibi, Hanan Aljuaid, Hameedur Rahman

“…Key features are extracted using techniques such as ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF), MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Regions), DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform), and KAZE for image data, and LPCC (Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficients), PSD (Power Spectral Density), AR Coefficient, and entropy for sensor data. Feature fusion is performed using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) to create a unified feature set, which is then classified using ResNet50 (Residual Neural Network) to recognize activities such as using a smartphone, cooking, and reading a newspaper. …”
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BSG-WSL: BackScatter-guided weakly supervised learning for water mapping in SAR images by Kai Wang, Zhongle Ren, Biao Hou, Weibin Li, Licheng Jiao

“…Finally, a confidence cross-entropy loss is introduced to utilize pseudo-labels to train the extraction model and achieve precise water extraction in different scenarios. …”
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Visual Imagery in Modern Mind-Body Practices: Biophotonic Information Transfer through Water-Mediated Neural Resonance by Valeriy Babelyuk, Igor Popovych, Olga Smoleńska, Anna Michalska, Radosław Muszkieta, Magdalena Hagner-Derengowska, Yuriy Dobrovolsky, Galyna Dubkova, Tetyana Korolyshyn, Walery Zukow

“…These changes correlate with specific EEG patterns and entropy measures. Water exposed to practitioners during KKK shows altered properties, including modified light emission characteristics and structural changes. …”
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Soil Microbial Responses to Varying Environmental Conditions in a Copper Belt Region of Africa: Phytoremediation Perspectives by Kabwe Nkongolo, John B. Mukalay, Antoine K. Lubobo, Paul Michael

“…For fungi, <i>Fusarium</i> exhibited the highest proportion of the fungal genera at all the sites, with a relative abundance ranging from 15.6% to 20.3%. Shannon diversity entropy indices were high and similar, ranging from 8.3 to 9 for bacteria and 7.0 and 7.4 for fungi. …”
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Association between intraoperative fluid management and postoperative outcomes in living kidney donors: a retrospective cohort study by Ja Eun Lee, Chisong Chung, Sunghae Park, Kyo Won Lee, Gaab Soo Kim

“…Donors were divided into tertiles according to intraoperative crystalloid infusion rate (ml/kg/hr), and associations between the tertile and outcomes were investigated with inverse probability of treatment weighting with entropy balancing. Primary outcome was maximal rise of serum creatinine (sCr). …”
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A systematic scoping review of latent class analysis applied to accelerometry-assessed physical activity and sedentary behavior. by Michael Kebede, Annie Green Howard, Yumeng Ren, Blake Anuskiewicz, Chongzhi Di, Melissa A Troester, Kelly R Evenson

“…The criteria to guide the selection of the final number of classes and model fit varied across studies, including Bayesian Information Criterion (63%), substantive knowledge (63%), entropy (50%), Akaike information criterion (50%), sample size (50%), Bootstrap likelihood ratio test (38%), and visual inspection (38%). …”
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Electroencephalogram-Based Brain Connectivity Analysis in Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by Yuzhang Wu, Zhitao Li, Ruowei Qu, Yangang Wang, Zhongzhen Li, Le Wang, Guangrui Zhao, Keke Feng, Yifeng Cheng, Shaoya Yin

“…After calculating the power spectrum by EEG data analysis tool, DTABR (δ+θ/α+β ratio), Pearson’s correlation coefficient (Pearson r), Granger’s causality, and phase transfer entropy (PTE), we performed statistical analysis between two groups. …”
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Camel tick species distribution in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates using MaxEnt modelling by Nighat Perveen, Sabir B. Muzaffar, Areej Jaradat, Olivier A. Sparagano, Arve L. Willingham, Ala Tabor

“…Species presence data, land use/landcover, elevation, slope and 19 bioclimatic variables were used to model current and future distribution of H. dromedarii ticks using maximum entropy species distribution modelling (MaxEnt.). …”
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Coupling analysis of multi-systems urbanization: Evidence from China by Junqiang Luo, Weijing Ma, Shuang An, Zining Zhang, Yanchuan Fu, Hejun Huang, Genying Chang

“…Utilizing methods such as the entropy method, coupling coordination model, Theil index, and Geodetector, this study explores the spatiotemporal differentiation and driving factors of urbanization coupling coordination. …”
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Utilizing Local Waste: Sustainable Adsorption of Reactive Blue 235 on Surfactant-Modified Bamboo Fibers by Samriti Vaid, Varinder Kaur, Sanyog Sharma, Anupinder Singh, Bhavna Vaid, Raj Kumar Arya, G. D. Verros

“…The consistently negative values of ΔG (between −0.183 kJ/mol and −3.884 kJ/mol) at all temperatures underscored the feasibility, spontaneity, and entropy-driven nature of the adsorption of RB235 on CTAB-treated bamboo fiber (BAT). …”
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A Multi-Target Threat Assessment Method Based on Objective Three-Way Decision by Humberto Baldessarini Pires, Lamartine Nogueira Frutuoso Guimaraes, Sergio Reboucas

“…The O3WD quantifies uncertainty through cosine entropy, modeling its relationship with risk avoidance coefficients non-linearly. …”
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Physically Meaningful Surrogate Data for COPD by Harry J. Davies, Ghena Hammour, Hongjian Xiao, Patrik Bachtiger, Alexander Larionov, Philip L. Molyneaux, Nicholas S. Peters, Danilo P. Mandic

“…To ensure the faithfulness of our domain-aware COPD surrogates, the generated waveforms are examined through both flow waveforms and photoplethysmography (PPG) waveforms (as a proxy for intrathoracic pressure) in terms of duty cycle, sample entropy, FEV₁/FVC ratios and flow-volume loops. …”
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Improving remote sensing dehazing quality through local hybrid correction and optimization of atmospheric attenuation model based on wavelength by Daihong Zhao, Kun Shi, Zheng Li, Zheng Li, Meixiang Chen

“…Specifically, images processed by LHC exhibit moderate contrast and correlation, low homogeneity and high entropy, all these made the LHC method a very suitable solution for near-ground remote sensing tasks that required enhanced image detail and reduced artifacts. …”
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Characterizing Groundwater Level Response to Precipitation at Multiple Timescales in the Lubei Plain Region Using Transfer Function Analysis by Lewei Xu, Huili Gong, Beibei Chen, Chaofan Zhou, Xueting Zhong, Ziyao Ma, Dexin Meng

“…In addition, we evaluated the GWL seasonality and seasonal response while also considering apportionment entropy. We applied this framework to the Lubei Plain (LBP), and the findings indicated the following: (1) Annual precipitation in the LBP decreased from southeast to northwest, with July and August contributing 51.5% of total rainfall; spatial autocorrelation of GWL was high and was influenced by geological conditions and cropland irrigation. (2) The coherence between GWL and precipitation was 0.96 in the high-precipitation areas but was only 0.6 in overexploited areas, and sandy soils enhanced the effective groundwater recharge, with a gain of 1.65 and a lag time of 2.1 months. (3) Over interannual scales, GWL response was driven by precipitation distribution and aquifer characteristics, while shorter timescales (4 months) were significantly affected by human activities, with a longer lag time in overexploited areas, which was nearly 60% longer than areas that were not overexploited. (4) Groundwater exploitation reduced the seasonality of GWL, and irrigation reduced the coherence between GWL and precipitation (0.5), with a gain of approximately 0.5, while a coherence of 0.8 and a gain of 3.5 were observed in the non-irrigation period. …”
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Multiscale Adaptively Spatial Feature Fusion Network for Spacecraft Component Recognition by Wuxia Zhang, Xiaoxiao Shao, Chao Mei, Xiaoying Pan, Xiaoqiang Lu

“…Finally, a compound loss function comprising the cross-entropy and boundary losses is presented to guide the MASFFN better focus on the unclear component edge. …”
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An exploration of RSM, ANN, and ANFIS models for methylene blue dye adsorption using Oryza sativa straw biomass: a comparative approach by Sheetal Kumari, Smriti Agarwal, Manish Kumar, Pinki Sharma, Ajay Kumar, Abeer Hashem, Nouf H. Alotaibi, Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah, Manoj Chandra Garg

“…The thermodynamic adsorption parameters, including (∆G = -9.1489 kJ/mol), enthalpy change (∆H = -1457.2 kJ/mol), and entropy change (∆S = -19.03 J mol−1 K−1) indicated that the adsorption of MB onto the OSSB surface is exothermic and spontaneous under the experimental conditions. …”
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Assessment of Strategy Disclosure Drivers in Annual Company Report: A Meta-Synthesis Analysis by Akram Taftiyan, Mohammad Salari Abarghuoi

“…After identifying and determining the components, Shannon's entropy method was used to validate the meta-synthesis findings. …”
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