Longitudinal serological and virological survey of hepatitis E virus in wild boar (Sus scrofa majori, Maremman wild boar) and fallow deer (Dama dama) populations in a protected are... by Luca De Sabato, Mariagiovanna Domanico, Paola De Santis, Daniele Cecca, Giulia Bonella, Giovanni Mastrandrea, Roberta Onorati, Luigi Sorbara, Bianca Maria Varcasia, Barbara Franzetti, Andrea Caprioli, Antonio Battisti, Fabio Ostanello, Ilaria Di Bartolo

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Machine learning-driven prediction of medical expenses in triple-vessel PCI patients using feature selection by Kuan-Yu Chen, Yen-Chun Huang, Chih-Kuang Liu, Shao-Jung Li, Mingchih Chen

“…The machine learning algorithms used included linear regression (LR), random forest (RF), support vector regression (SVR), generalized linear model boost (GLMBoost), Bayesian generalized linear model (BayesGLM), and extreme gradient boosting (eXGB). …”
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The skin manifestations in end-stage renal disease patients in Jordan, single-center experience by Mohammad Hassan Al-thnaibat, Heba M. Urabi, Hadeel S. Alkofahi, Ola Mohannad Alshriedeh, Raneem Alshraideh, Hanan Esmadi, Ahmed Sheyyab, Bakri Roumi Jamal, Hanan Khaled Hasan

“…Findings 83.1% (N = 64) of the participants on hemodialysis presented with one or multiple skin conditions. Generalized xerosis, generalized pruritis, pigmentary alterations and arteriovenous (AV) shunt-associated complications were found in 63.6% (N = 49), 36.4% (N = 28), 16.9% (N = 13) and 7.8% (N = 6) respectively. …”
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Adicción a los teléfonos inteligentes en adolescentes tras la pandemia por la COVID‑19 by Bladimir Becerra-Canales, Edgar Hernández-Huaripaucar, Domizbeth Becerra-Huamán, Carmen Laos-Anchante, María Dávalos-Almeyda, María José Cevallos-Cardenas, Jeny del Rio-Mendoza

“…Participaron 581 adolescentes que respondieron a un cuestionario con variables generales y la Escala de Adicción a los Teléfonos Inteligentes. …”
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Health and Environmental Impact of Hospital Wastes: Systematic Review by Hela Ghali, Asma Ben Cheikh, Sana Bhiri, Lamia Bouzgarrou, Mohamed Ben Rejeb, Imed Gargouri, Houyem Said Latiri

“…However, these methods are generally not adequate for the disposal of pathological, radioactive, laboratory, and chemotherapy wastes. …”
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A robust adaptive meta-sample generation method for few-shot time series prediction by Chao Zhang, Defu Jiang, Kanghui Jiang, Jialin Yang, Yan Han, Ling Zhu, Libo Tao

“…The advantage is to realize fast adaptive convergence of samples to new tasks at lower cost, effectively control the overall generalization error, and improve the robustness and non-Gaussian generalization of sample posterior reasoning. …”
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Sandpiper Optimization Algorithm With Region Growing Based Robust Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Approach by Ibrahim AlMohimeed, Mohamed Yacin Sikkandar, A. Mohanarathinam, Velmurugan Subbiah Parvathy, Mohamad Khairi Ishak, Faten Khalid Karim, Samih M. Mostafa

“…Several retinal vessel segmentation models suffer from a lack of high generalization abilities and low accuracy due to the presence of complex symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns. …”
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Individual and joint effects of exposure to multiple organophosphate esters and the risk of depression in adults: Differences in sex, age, and physical activity by Qingmiao Wei, Jiyun Wei, Jun Liang

“…We aimed to assess the associations among five OPE levels in urine and depression by using NHANES 2011–2018. Generalized linear model, quantile g-computation (Qgcomp), and Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) were utilized to assess the effects of OPEs on depression. …”
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Systematic review of infant and young child feeding practices in conflict areas: what the evidence advocates by Jai K Das, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Amna Rabbani, Zahra A Padhani, Faareha A Siddiqui

“…Epidemiological evidence shows that IYCF practices were generally poor in conflict settings with median prevalence of exclusive breast feeding at 25%, continued breast feeding at 29%, bottle feeding at 58.3%, introduction to solid, semisolid or soft foods at 71.1% and minimum dietary diversity at 60.3%.IYCF practices were affected by displacement, stress, maternal malnutrition and mental health, family casualties and free distribution of breast milk substitutes. …”
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Progressive Self-Prompting Segment Anything Model for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images by Xiaoning Zhang, Yi Yu, Daqun Li, Yuqing Wang

“…Given the significant differences between ORSIs and the natural images used in pre-training, the generalization capability of these backbone networks is often limited, resulting in suboptimal performance. …”
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Investigating Maps of Science Using Contextual Proximity of Citations Based on Deep Contextualized Word Representation by Muhammad Roman, Abdul Shahid, Shafiullah Khan, Lisu Yu, Muhammad Asif, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi

“…Deep models require massive data for generalizing the model, however, the existing state-of-the-art datasets don’t provide much information for the training models to get generalized. …”
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Association between neutrophil-albumin ratio and ultrasound-defined metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease in U.S. adults: evidence from NHANES 2017–2018 by Ming-yu He, Xin-jie Du, Yi-ming Liu

“…Differences in baseline characteristics between patients with CAP ≥ 285 dB/m and < 285 dB/m were analyzed. A generalized additive model (GAM) and restricted cubic splines (RCS) were applied to explore the nonlinear relationship between NAR and CAP, followed by generalized linear models (GLMs). …”
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Association of Red Blood Cell Distribution Width With Carotid–Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity in a Southern Chinese Population by Xing Yu, Yali Huang, Yunyun Su, Liangdi Xie

“…Both Spearman's correlation analysis and generalized linear regression analysis revealed a significant association between RDW and cfPWV. …”
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Effects of the maternal and child health handbook and other home-based records on mothers’ non-health outcomes: a systematic review by Akira Shibanuma, Masamine Jimba, Rogie Royce Carandang, Jennifer Lisa Sakamoto, Ekaterina Yarotskaya, Milana Basargina, Mika Kondo Kunieda

“…These records were also inconsistently used across different health facilities and professionals.Conclusions The MCH handbook fostered the mother–child bond. Mothers were generally satisfied with the use of home-based records, but their engagement depended on how these records were communicated and used by healthcare providers. …”
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Approaches to the usage of machine translation systems for the organization of independent work of students of a pedagogical university with English-language scientific texts by Tatiana N. Suvorova, Lyubov A. Shunina, Ivan V. Shunin

“…Methods of comparison and generalization of the obtained results are used in order to determine the effectiveness of the proposed online course “Machine translation of scientific texts”. …”
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The Dynamic Damage Mechanisms and Failure Modes of Coal-Rock Masses under the Action of High Order P-Waves by Feng Li, Mingxin Bi, Jing Tian, Shuhao Fang

“…Therefore, the coal-rock masses generally experienced tensile and shear failures under high order P-waves. …”
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Advances in the carbon-ceramic composites oxidation and ablation resistance: A review by Anna Didenko, Alexey Astapov

“…The results of the generalization are presented in the form of tables and schematic images of microstructures of forming oxide films with layer detailing. …”
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Mapping Habitat Structures of Endangered Open Grassland Species (<i>E. aurinia</i>) Using a Biotope Classification Based on Very High-Resolution Imagery by Steffen Dietenberger, Marlin M. Mueller, Andreas Henkel, Clémence Dubois, Christian Thiel, Sören Hese

“…By employing various modeling techniques, including Generalized Additive Models (GAM), Generalized Linear Models (GLM), and Random Forest (RF), we assessed the influence of different modeling parameters and pseudo-absence (PA) data generation on model performance. …”
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Morphological properties of two-dimensional and three-dimensional bedforms in open channel flow: A flume experiments study by Wenhong Cao, Xu Geng, Chunjing Liu, Lingfeng Zhang

“…The superimposed dunes generally exist in the downstream area of the stoss side of the dunes. …”
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Shifts in northern Arizona plant and insect pollinator communities between 2 years with substantially different precipitation totals by P. R. Chesshire, P. R. Chesshire, L. M. Holeski

“…We determined that plant species richness decreased in the dry year across all life zones, and at the highest life zone, Spruce Fir, overall pollinator species generalization increased in the dry year, with a larger number of species considered to be “core generalists”. …”
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