Ecological Study of the Vegetation in the Loka Abaya National Park, Ethiopia by Assegid Assefa, Tamrat Bekele, Sebsebe Demissew, Tesfaye Abebe

“…Vegetation data and some environmental variables including physical and chemical properties of the soil, altitude, slope, and ecological disturbance were collected and subjected to the agglomerative hierarchical classification and ordination with the canonical correspondence analysis. …”
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Functional switching among dynamic neuronal hub-nodes in the brain induces maintenance/transition of cognitive states by Jasleen Gund, Yashaswee Mishra, B. N. Mallick, R. K. Brojen Singh

“…The functional topology trends of the underlying hierarchical network organization have been characterized by the percentage of the hub and non-hub nodes, which further determines the global and local connectivity trends. …”
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Does hospital strategic alliance affect the paediatric service capacity of local hospitals? A difference-in-differences econometric analysis by Zhanchun Feng, Qian Fu, Li Zhang, Xiaolu Yu, Cuiping Xiao, Cuili Yang

“…The samples were divided into three groups—close cooperation group, loose-knit cooperation group and control group—differentiated by hierarchical clustering based on the implementation of core initiatives. …”
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Advanced point-of-care biomarker testing for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases by Wenjun Ming, Yidan Zhu, Wenjun Jiang, Jing Zhang, Jinxia Liu, Li Wu, Yuling Qin

“…With the growing implementation of hierarchical medical policies and increasing demand for health management services, the market for POCT cardiac biomarkers testing is expected to expand further as a crucial development direction within the field of medicine.…”
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Assessment of trace elements contamination and human health risk based on Monte Carlo simulation in a karst groundwater system affected by industrial activities by Liyun Yang, Qixin Wu, Shilin Gao, Meixue Peng, Jianping Zhu, Jie Zeng, Li Shi, Xinghe Li

“…Correlation Analysis (CA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) suggested that the sources of TEs are multifaceted, with industrial activities identified as the primary influencing factor. …”
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Using Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Fluorescence (SRXRF) to Assess the Impacts of Shipping Emissions on the Variations of PM10-bound Elemental Species by Siwatt Pongpiachan, Nichada Jearanaikoon, Kanjana Thumanu, Jureerat Pradubsri, Ratchadaporn Supruangnet, Chaisri Tharasawatpipat, Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi, Ronbanchob Apiratikul

“…By applying the concept of enrichment factor (EF), Se is exceedingly enriched in all observatory sites indicating that industrial emissions were the dominant contributor of Se at the ambient air of Lam Chabang. Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) successfully classify a group of V, Ti, Ga, and Ni at all sampling sites, which may be caused by shipping activities coupled with industrial emissions.…”
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Enhancing detection of STEC in the meat industry: insights into virulence of priority STEC by Mai-Lan Tran, Sabine Delannoy, Patrick Fach

“…Routine testing of beef samples should be revised to prioritize a hierarchical surveillance system based only on high risk STEC (STEC carrying the eae gene) and not on all STEC. …”
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Chemical Comparison of White Ginseng before and after Extrusion by UHPLC-Q-Orbitrap-MS/MS and Multivariate Statistical Analysis by Yun-Long Guo, Yang Wang, Yi-Lin Zhao, Xiu-Ying Xu, Hao Zhang, Cheng-Bin Zhao, Ming-Zhu Zheng, Shu-Ying Liu, Yu-Zhu Wu, Jing-Sheng Liu

“…Multivariate statistical analyses including supervised orthogonal partial least squared discrimination analysis (OPLS-DA) and hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA) were used to analyze components of white ginseng before and after extrusion. …”
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Quality Characteristics of Wheat Malts with Different Country of Origin and Their Effect on Beer Brewing by Yang Soo Byeon, Seung-Taik Lim, Hyun-Jin Kim, Han Sub Kwak, Sang Sook Kim

“…However, their acceptance trends were different depending on consumer preference segments by agglomerative hierarchical clustering analysis, implying the need for product development depending on the target consumer. …”
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Screening and Functional Pathway Analysis of Pulmonary Genes Associated with Suppression of Allergic Airway Inflammation by Adipose Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles by Sung-Dong Kim, Shin Ae Kang, Yong-Wan Kim, Hak Sun Yu, Kyu-Sup Cho, Hwan-Jung Roh

“…Lung tissues were removed and DEGs were compared pairwise among the three groups. DEG profiles and hierarchical clustering of the identified genes were analyzed to evaluate changes in gene expression. …”
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Advancing Underwater Vision: A Survey of Deep Learning Models for Underwater Object Recognition and Tracking by Mahmoud Elmezain, Lyes Saad Saoud, Atif Sultan, Mohamed Heshmat, Lakmal Seneviratne, Irfan Hussain

“…For tracking tasks, transformer-based models like SiamFCA and FishTrack leverage hierarchical attention mechanisms and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to achieve high accuracy and robustness in dynamic underwater environments. …”
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Revisiting human language and speech production network: A meta-analytic connectivity modeling study by Chun-Wei Hsu, Chu-Chung Huang, Chih-Chin Heather Hsu, Yanchao Bi, Ovid Jyh-Lang Tzeng, Ching-Po Lin

“…In recent decades, converging evidence has reached a consensus that human speech production is carried out by large-scale hierarchical network comprising both language-selective and domain-general systems. …”
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Evaluating the impact of ESICM 2023 guidelines and the new global definition of ARDS on clinical outcomes: insights from MIMIC-IV cohort data by Duanhong Song, Qingquan Chen, Shangbin Huang, Shengxun Qiu, Zeshun Chen, Yuanhang Cai, Yifu Zeng, Xiaoyang Chen, Yixiang Zhang

“…Kaplan–Meier survival analysis was used to compare survival between the old and new definitions. A hierarchical clustering approach was applied to identify potential ARDS clinical subtypes. …”
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Reversal gene expression assessment for drug repurposing, a case study of glioblastoma by Shixue Sun, Zeenat Shyr, Kathleen McDaniel, Yuhong Fang, Dingyin Tao, Catherine Z. Chen, Wei Zheng, Qian Zhu

“…Results We prioritized the candidates via hierarchical clustering of their expression signatures and quantification of their reversal strength by calculating two self-defined indices based on the GGEP genes’ log2 foldchange (LFC) that the drug candidates could induce. …”
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An Ontology for Digital Medicine Outcomes: Development of the Digital Medicine Outcomes Value Set (DOVeS) by Benjamin Rosner, Matthew Horridge, Guillen Austria, Tiffany Lee, Andrew Auerbach

“…MethodsFrom a starting point of a 4-generation–deep hierarchical taxonomy developed by ADviCE, we developed DOVeS using the Web Ontology Language through the open-source ontology editor Protégé, and data from 185 vendors who had submitted structured product information to ADviCE. …”
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Les syndicats, les commissaires et le politique : (re)valorisations et conflits autour de la profession policière en Tunisie (2011-2022) by Audrey Pluta

“…These elements tend to reverse the hierarchical pyramid within the police, but also create desirable professional horizons for officers who were previously excluded from certain functions. …”
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Application of Clustering and Stepwise Discriminant Analysis Based on Hydrochemical Characteristics in Determining the Source of Mine Water Inrush by Weitao Liu, Jie Yu, Jianjun Shen, Qiushuang Zheng, Mengke Han, Yingying Hu, Xiangxi Meng

“…Using principal component analysis (PCA) to the raw data, two principal components were extracted, and the principal component scores were used as clustering variables for hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), 5 groups of abnormal water samples were eliminated and 3 clustering groups M1, M2 and M3 were obtained from the other water samples on the tree diagram. …”
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Factors Associated With Adolescents' Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Intention: A Cross‐Sectional Survey by Angela Chia‐Chen Chen, ChengChing Hiya Liu, Kimberly Arcoleo, Jiying Ling, Lorraine B. Robbins

“…Descriptive statistics, independent t‐tests, chi‐square test and hierarchical logistic regression were conducted to describe the sample, examine relationships between potential predictors and HPV vaccination intention and investigate sex differences. …”
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Spatiotemporal models with confounding effects: application on under-five mortality across four sub-Saharan African countries by Haile Mekonnen Fenta, Haile Mekonnen Fenta, Ding-Geng Chen, Ding-Geng Chen, Temesgen T. Zewotir, Najmeh Nakhaei Rad

“…Bayesian spatiotemporal hierarchical modeling with an integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) program was used to model the spatiotemporal distribution of U5M among children across 37 districts located in four disconnected sSA regions: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Ghana.ResultsA total of 170,356 under-five children from 37 districts were considered, and 15,467 died before the age of five. …”
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Attention Deficits in Stroke Patients: The Role of Lesion Characteristics, Time from Stroke, and Concomitant Neuropsychological Deficits by Simona Spaccavento, Chiara Valeria Marinelli, Roberto Nardulli, Luigi Macchitella, Umberto Bivona, Laura Piccardi, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Paola Angelelli

“…In keeping with the hierarchical organization of attention functions, results confirm the important role of the right hemisphere for the intensive components of attention, also highlighting the involvement of left hemisphere functioning for the selective aspects, possibly indicating a role of its linguistic functions.…”
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