Highlights in IBD Epidemiology and Its Natural History in the Paediatric Age by Marco Gasparetto, Graziella Guariso

“…The current mean prevalence of IBD in the total population of Western countries is estimated at 1/1,000. The highest prevalence and incidence rates of IBD worldwide are reported from Canada. …”
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High Level Bioaerosol Protection against Infective Aerosols: How Medical Face Masks Compare against Respirators by Christian M. Sterr, Aline Dick, Lena Schellenberger, Julian Zirbes, Claudia Nonnenmacher-Winter, Frank Günther

“…To determine the as-worn bioaerosol protection efficacy of different face coverings and estimate the possible protective function against airborne diseases, we challenged different respirators and medical masks on a standardized dummy head with a bioaerosol containing MS2 bacteriophages as virus surrogates. …”
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Fezolinetant’s efficacy and safety in treatment of vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women: a meta-analysis and GRADE evaluation of randomized controlled trials by Abdallah R. Allam, Mohamed Salah Alhateem, Abdelrahman Mohamed Mahmoud

“…Our study aims to conduct a meta-analysis of these trials in order to estimate fezolinetant’s effectiveness and safety in the management of VMS in postmenopausal women. …”
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A Rate-Distortion Optimized Coding Method for Region of Interest in Scalable Video Coding by Hongtao Wang, Dong Zhang, Houqiang Li

“…Additionally, by imposing certain constraints on motion estimation, ROI part of the bitstream can be decoded without background slices of the same layer. …”
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Proactive Distributed Emergency Response With Heterogeneous Tasks Allocation by Justice Darko, Hyoshin Park

“…UAVs’ active sensing can shorten response time of emergency vehicles and reduce uncertainties associated with the estimated incident delay impact.…”
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A review on speech recognition approaches and challenges for Portuguese: exploring the feasibility of fine-tuning large-scale end-to-end models by Yan Li, Yapeng Wang, Lap Man Hoi, Dingcheng Yang, Sio-Kei Im

“…Then, taking European Portuguese speech recognition as an example, it takes the Fairseq-S2T and Whisper as benchmarks tested on a 500-h European Portuguese dataset to estimate the performance of large-scale pre-trained models and fine-tuning techniques. …”
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Flow and Transport in Tight and Shale Formations: A Review by Amgad Salama, Mohamed F. El Amin, Kundan Kumar, Shuyu Sun

“…Pore network models are discussed as a viable tool to estimate macroscopic parameters that are otherwise difficult to measure. …”
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Operational Risk Assessment for the Pollination Service with Apis mellifera Bees in Cashew Crops in Vichada, Colombia by Lizeth Castro Mercado, Juan José Bravo Bastidas, Juan Carlos Osorio Gómez

“…This substantial value is of great significance to the beekeeping sector, translating to a loss of $27.3 per hectare per year and directly impacting the estimated $437824 loss in the cashew sector. Such losses have far-reaching consequences, affecting the livelihoods of peasant beekeepers in the region and potentially discouraging the maintenance of bee colonies and forests.…”
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Analysis of the Influence of Quantile Regression Model on Mainland Tourists’ Service Satisfaction Performance by Wen-Cheng Wang, Wen-Chien Cho, Yin-Jen Chen

“…It is estimated that mainland Chinese tourists travelling to Taiwan can bring annual revenues of 400 billion NTD to the Taiwan economy. …”
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Grant Activities and Sustainability of Higher Education Institutions: Evidence from Russia by D. A. Endovitsky, V. V. Korotkikh, E. Y. Bubnova

“…In this research, we used the quantile regression model to identify the effects of inertial development and the effects associated with grant activities in the dynamics of universities performance indicators. We estimated the model parameters separately in each of the decile groups. …”
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Serum 25(OH)D Levels Modify the Association between Triglyceride and IR: A Cross-Sectional Study by Rongpeng Gong, Xin Tang, Ziying Jiang, Gang Luo, Chaofan Dong, Xiuxia Han

“…A total of 19,926 participants were included, each containing specific indicators for the study project. IR was estimated as a HOMA-IR index ≥2.73. Four multivariate logistic regression models were developed to analyze the association between TG and IR and whether different 25(OH)D levels influenced this association. …”
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GPS Phase Integer Ambiguity Resolution Based on Eliminating Coordinate Parameters and Ant Colony Algorithm by Ning Liu, Shuangcheng Zhang, Xiaoli Wu, Yu Shen

“…The method eliminates the coordinate parameters in the observation equation using QR decomposition transformation, and only estimates the ambiguity parameters using the Kalman filter. …”
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AR/VR technologies in management and education by A. I. Sosnilo, M. Y. Kreer, V. V. Petrova

“…For statistical confirmation of the obtained results the authors performed a correlation analysis of the forecast estimates of the development of AR and VR technologies in 2021–2023. …”
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Characterization of Erythromycin and Tetracycline Resistance in Lactobacillus fermentum Strains by Elizaveta Anisimova, Dina Yarullina

“…The aim of this study was to characterize erythromycin and tetracycline resistance of L. fermentum isolates and to estimate the potential transfer of resistance genes from lactobacilli to the other Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. …”
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Algorithm for preliminary processing of charge coupled devices array data based on the adaptive Wiener filter by Hl. S. Litvinovich, I. I. Bruchkouski

“…Obtained dependences of the noise components make it possible to estimate the noise level for well-known conditions of spectra registration. …”
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A Spatial Index for Identifying Opportunity Zones for Woody Cellulosic Conversion Facilities by Xia Huang, James H. Perdue, Timothy M. Young

“…Policy makers and investors need improved methods to identify the interactions associated with landscape features, socioeconomic conditions, and ownership patterns, and the influence these variables have on the geographic location of potential conversion facilities. This study estimated opportunity zones for woody cellulosic feedstocks based on landscape suitability and market competition for the resource. …”
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Reinforced AdaBoost Learning for Object Detection with Local Pattern Representations by Younghyun Lee, David K. Han, Hanseok Ko

“…In particular, we introduce an optimal selection of weak classifiers minimizing the cost function and derive the reinforced predictions based on a judicial confidence estimate to determine the classification results. The weak classifier of the proposed method produces real-valued predictions while that of the conventional Adaboost method produces integer valued predictions of +1 or −1. …”
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Trajectory inference from single-cell genomics data with a process time model. by Meichen Fang, Gennady Gorin, Lior Pachter

“…We also compare our parameter estimates of degradation rates to those derived from metabolic labeling datasets, thereby showcasing the biophysical utility of Chronocell. …”
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Köppen-Trewartha ve Thornthwaite Yöntemlerine Göre Isparta Yöresi İklim Tipinin Belirlenmesi by İbrahim Dursun, Nilüfer Yazıcı

“…Climate knowledge helps to estimate the character and vegetation of a region in relation to weather conditions. …”
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Enteropathogenic Bacterial and Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Asymptomatic Food Handlers in Rangsit University Canteens, Central Thailand by Sirima Kitvatanachai, Bajaree Jantrapanukorn, Utsanee Supcharoengoon, Chalirmporn Atasilp

“…This study is aimed at estimating the prevalence of enteropathogenic bacterial and intestinal parasitic infections among food handlers in Rangsit University canteens, central Thailand. …”
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