Principles for increasing equity in WASH research: understanding barriers faced by LMIC WASH researchers by J'Anna-Mare Lue, Salamata Bah, Kaelah Grant, Justine Lee, Leila Nzekele, James B. Tidwell

“…The social-ecological model was combined with this framework to identify the types of actors and the level of co-ordination needed to address these issues. Researchers who worked in both LMICs and high-income countries at different career stages were particularly aware of discrimination. …”
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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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Genetic diversity of the Central European wild boar (Sus scrofa scrofa) population and domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) breeds based on a microsatellite DNA locus by E. A. Snegin, V. M. Makeeva, A. P. Kaledin, A. M. Ostapchuk, I. D. Alazneli, A. V. Smurov

“…The revealed private alleles, characteristic of the wild boar and breeds, can later be used to identify them. The ordination of the centroids of different herds in the space of the first two principal coordinates based on the matrix of pairwise estimates of Nei’s genetic distances showed that the most distant populations are the Duroc and Boar breeds, and the most genetically close are the Yorkshire and Landrace breeds. …”
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Evaluation of the impact of PEPFAR transition on retention in care in South Africa’s Western Cape Province by J Chiliza, R Laing, F G Feeley, A T Brennan

“…To ensure the continuity of HIV care when a major funder withdraws sufficient and stable transition resources, investment in organisations that understand the local context, joint planning and co-ordination are required. …”
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Ten Years of the Global Reform of Financial Regulation: What is ahead? by L. S. Khudyakova

“…In the initial period – the first years after the crisis works were progressing in two directions simultaneously: a) co-ordination of activities of national financial regulatory bodies in coping with the crisis processes and neutralization of its consequences; b) development and reconciliation of major global standards of financial regulation. …”
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Enrichment of electrotrophic microorganisms from contrasting shallow-sea hydrothermal environments in bioelectrochemical reactors by Antoine Carissimo, Victoria Comes, Alenica Heussner, Anne-Hélène Prime, Roy E. Price, Gaël Erauso, Pierre-Pol Liebgott, Sven Kerzenmacher, Guillaume Pillot

“…Finally, microbial communities were described by 16S metabarcoding and ordination methods, and potential electrotrophic taxa were identified. …”
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Post‐Glacial Vegetation Trajectories on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau Reflect Millennial‐Scale Migration Lags in Complex Mountain Terrain Based on Sedimentary Ancient DNA and Dynamic... by Wei Shen, Stefan Kruse, Sisi Liu, Kathleen Stoof‐Leichsenring, Ingolf Kühn, Wenjia Li, Xianyong Cao, Zhi‐Rong Zhang, Chun‐Xia Zeng, Jun‐Bo Yang, De‐Zhu Li, Ulrike Herzschuh

“…Statistical analyses, including ordination‐based ecological trajectory analysis, yielded a significant match between sedaDNA and simulated results at single taxon and community levels including certain site‐specific differences. …”
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Analysis of the Modified Rankin Scale in Randomised Controlled Trials of Acute Ischaemic Stroke: A Systematic Review by Aimie Nunn, Philip M. Bath, Laura J. Gray

“…Historically, most acute stroke clinical trials were neutral statistically, with trials typically dichotomising ordinal scales, such as the modified Rankin Scale. …”
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A Carta de 25 de Fevereiro de 1327 e a Norma dita de 18 de Fevereiro de 1332 by Jorge Manuel de Matos Pina Martins Prata

“…A letter written by Gonçalo Domingues under royal command (Estremoz, February 25th 1327) has been considered by portuguese historians as an ordenamento (ordinance) forbidding lawyers and attorneys to be in residence in the royal Court tribunals.However, the internal analysis of the said letter, and its comparison with other charters of undisputed normative nature, as well as with the ordinance commonly accepted as having been issued on February 18th 1332, in Estremoz, allow us to infer that the mentioned 1327 letter is an introductory note whose primordial purpose was to accompany and introduce the ordinance of February 18th 1332, in its diffusion throughout the Kingdom: this leads to the conclusion that the allegedelly 1332 ordinance was in fact enacted in 1327. …”
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Determining the factors affecting the happiness levels of divorced individuals by ordered logistics regression analysis by Burak Uyar, Cevdet Büyüksu

“…In cases where the dependent variable is categorical and ordinal, the Ordinal Logistic Regression Model is used for model estimation. …”
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Preoperative neck ultrasound combined with pathological data can significantly impact the outcome of medullary thyroid carcinoma by Maurilio Deandrea, Tommaso Piticchio, Alberto Mormile, Francesca Retta, Giovanni Canale, Alessandra Caracciolo, Lorenzo Daniele, Pierpaolo Trimboli

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Forecasting mental states in schizophrenia using digital phenotyping data. by Thierry Jean, Rose Guay Hottin, Pierre Orban

“…Previous research focused on binary classification and continuous regression, disregarding the often ordinal nature of prediction targets derived from clinical rating scales. …”
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Measuring Competency: Improving the validity of your procedural performance assessments by Pamela B. Andreatta, PhD, Christopher H. Renninger, MD, Mark W. Bowyer, MD, Jennifer M. Gurney, MD

“…The objective of the study was to compare the use of ordinal scales and interval scales for capturing surgical competency information for general surgeons performing 3 complex trauma procedures. …”
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On Generalizations of Projective QTAG-Modules by Fahad Sikander, Firdhousi Begam, Tanveer Fatima

“…In this manuscript, we define the class of ω1-weakly α-projective QTAG-modules for the infinite ordinal α and provide its systematic study for the finite ordinal. …”
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Infraestructuras de abastecimiento y desagüe en la Granada de la primera mitad del siglo XVI by Daniel Jesús Quesada Morales

“…Based on the information from the Granada Water Ordinances of 1538, published in 1552, as an integral part of the City Ordinances, the present work presents the current Granada’s Water Regime in the first half of the 16th century, concerning the ditches that supplied it, both inside and outside the walled enclosure; the days indicated to be able to use its water for domestic use and irrigation; as well as repair and management tasks, and everything related to the perfect distribution of such precious hydraulic resources.…”
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An Investigation into the Use and Meaning of Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Scale Scores by Renee M. Hendricks, Mohammad T. Khasawneh

“…The scales are of an ordinal type and hence the resulting scores are ordinal, not providing a quantifiable progression nor severity level, but a categorical value and survey total. …”
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Romanian Legislation Based on The EU Green Deal Strategy by Cristina-Matilda VĂNOAGĂ

“…Thus, we briefly discuss The National Integrated Energy and Climate Change Plan 2021- 2030, Emergency Ordinance 71/2021 on the promotion of non-polluting road transport vehicles, in support of low-emission mobility, Rabla Plus Program 2024, Emergency Ordinance 108/2022 regarding the decarbonisation of the energy sector, the proposed National Hydrogen Strategy and presents the modifications to the Law 220/ 2008. …”
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Describing the Level of Awareness of Micro-Enterprises in Local Taxation by Paul Cezam Rivera, Allene Kyle Mirrar, Mark Nicole Malazarte

“…Keywords: local tax ordinances, tax awareness, Philippine taxation, micro-enterprises, taxation…”
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Attitudes toward mathematics and virtual teaching of students in the context of COVID-19: validation and reliability of instruments by Isis Schmitt-Cerna, Maritza Ramírez-Olascuaga, Wendy Arhuis-Inca, Miguel Ipanaqué-Zapata, Sarai Raquel Arhuis-Inca, Janina Bazalar-Palacios

“…The research utilized exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses to evaluate the attitudes mathematics and the perception of virtual teaching instruments’ structure, and assessed reliability through Cronbach’s Alpha (α), Ordinal Alpha (ordinal α), and Omega (Ω) indicators.ResultsExploratory factor analysis showed that Model 2, with factor loadings above 0.40, was the most suitable for both instruments. …”
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Measurement of Interobserver Disagreement: Correction of Cohen’s Kappa for Negative Values by Tarald O. Kvålseth

“…As measures of interobserver agreement for both nominal and ordinal categories, Cohen’s kappa coefficients appear to be the most widely used with simple and meaningful interpretations. …”
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