Maternal education, health profession and cigarette smoking are decisive factors for self-medication in children by parents by Duborija-Kovacevic Natasa, Martinovic Milica, Belojevic Goran, Lausevic Dragan, Asanin Bogdan

“…Specific maternal factors that independently raise the probability of SMCP are higher education, health profession and smoking.…”
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A Denoising Based Autoassociative Model for Robust Sensor Monitoring in Nuclear Power Plants by Ahmad Shaheryar, Xu-Cheng Yin, Hong-Wei Hao, Hazrat Ali, Khalid Iqbal

“…Accuracy, autosensitivity, spillover, and sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) based fault detectability metrics are used for performance assessment and comparison with extensively reported five-layer AANN model by Kramer.…”
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Performance Analysis of Thermodynamic Indices and Atmospheric Stability Parameters in Thunderstorm Prediction: The Case of Samsun by Ahmet Can Kaya, Veli Yavuz

“…Statistical performance tests such as Probability of Detection (POD), False Alarm Ratio (FAR), Miss Rate (MR), Critical Success Index (CIS), Hiedke Skill Score (HSS), and True Skill Score (TSS) were used to measure the success of the indices and parameters in predicting thunderstorm events. …”
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The Congress of Mongolologists-Philologists In Ulanbaatar (1959) in the Ideological Contexts of the Cold War by Tatiana I. Yusupova

“…Mongolian scholars discussed their probability in 1958 with Yu. Roerich during his business trip to Ulaanbaatar. …”
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Use of UTAUT for analyzing the acceptance and use of electric scooters in the public transport system by Fernando Marroquín-Ciendúa, Manuel Medina-Labrador, Laura Camila Hurtado Méndez, Lorena Patricia Mora Hernández, Cristian Nicolás Puentes Guzmán

“…Results indicate that without prior knowledge or incentives, the probability of scooter use is just 1.59%. However, prior knowledge alone raises adoption likelihood to 71.14%, while additional incentives, such as gamification and point-based rewards, increase it to 90.37%. …”
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The role of chinese culture and strategic orientation in enhancing competitive advantage and firm performance in Indonesian chinese family companies by Susan Kustiwan, Asep Hermawan, Agustinus Sri Wahyudi

“…The sample was selected using a non-probability sampling technique with a purposive sampling approach, where companies were chosen based on certain criteria, such as family structure, years of operation, and family member involvement in management. …”
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Distributionally Robust Variational Quantum Algorithms With Shifted Noise by Zichang He, Bo Peng, Yuri Alexeev, Zheng Zhang

“…We model the noise level as a random variable with an unknown probability density function (PDF), and we assume that the PDF may shift within an uncertainty set. …”
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Analysis of a multi-server retrial queue with a varying finite number of sources by Ciro D'Apice, Alexander Dudin, Sergei Dudin, Rosanna Manzo

“…In this case, with a fixed probability, the source that generated this request is deleted from the system. …”
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Assessing the situation of cities from the perspective of urban crisis management components (Case study: Shirvan city) by Mehdi Mohammadzadeh moghafam, mohammad motamedi, Ezzatollah Mafi

“…Finally, the quota non-probability sampling method, in which the number of samples is determined in advance and is from experts, was distributed. …”
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Production of Californium-252 by Using Reverse Reaction Technology by Aqeel L. Oudah, Sameera A. Ebrahiem, Khalid H. Mahdi

“…The results show that the probability values increase with the neutron's energy smoothly. …”
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Modeling and analysis of ensemble average solvation energy and solute–solvent interfacial fluctuations by Shao Yuanzhen, Chen Zhan, Zhao Shan

“…The construction of these models relies on a new diffuse interface definition u(x)u\left(x), which represents the probability of a point xx found in the solute phase among all microstates. …”
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Effects of Li2O on Structure and Viscosity of CaO-Al2O3-Based Mold Fluxes by Lifeng Chen, Kun Liu, Peng Han, Bin Yang, Lianghua Feng

“…The results show that the formation of stable structures of Si-O in the mold fluxes was beneficial to reduce the probability of structural interconnection, degree of polymerization, and viscosity of the molten slag. …”
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Machine learning prediction of combat basic training injury from 3D body shape images. by Steven Morse, Kevin Talty, Patrick Kuiper, Michael Scioletti, Steven B Heymsfield, Richard L Atkinson, Diana M Thomas

“…From the 3D body imaging scans, a database consisting of 161 anthropometric measurements per basic training recruit was used to predict the probability of discharge from the US Army due to injury. …”
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Exploring the hemoglobin-to-red blood cell distribution width ratio (HRR) to peripheral arterial disease nexus: a comprehensive analysis of NHANES data from 1999 to 2004 by Zhihai Yu, Bin Lu, Rui Han, Can Tu

“…A one-unit increase in HRR corresponded to a 56% reduction in the probability of PAD. ROC analysis indicated HRR as a stronger protective factor for PAD compared to other variables. …”
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Exposing End-to-End Delay in Software-Defined Networking by Ting Zhang, Bin Liu

“…We disclose that SDN switches cannot completely avoid the generation of flow setup even in proactive mode and conduct data mining on the probability of flow setup. We propose an analytical model for the end-to-end delay. …”
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Performance Analysis of Proxy-Based Object-Oriented Distributed Systems Using Game Theory by Hossein Sadr, Pyman Bayat, Mozhdeh Nazari Solimandarabi

“…But when there is a strategy of an infinitely-repeated game, the cooperation between nodes will depend on the discount factor, or the probability of the next stage.…”
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Statistical analysis of stress–strength in a newly inverted Chen model from adaptive progressive type-Ⅱ censoring and modelling on light-emitting diodes and pump motors by Refah Alotaibi, Mazen Nassar, Zareen A. Khan, Ahmed Elshahhat

“…To assess the effectiveness of different point and interval estimates, some precision metrics are applied, especially root mean square error, interval length, and coverage probability. Finally, two practical problems are examined to demonstrate the significance and applicability of the given estimation approaches. …”
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Constellation Optimization for MIMO VLC System With Signal-Dependent Noise: Receiver-Side Design and Lookup Table Establishment by Jiaqi Wei, Yuan Wang, Nuo Huang, Yan-Yu Zhang, Yi-Jun Zhu, Wenliang Hao, Chen Gong

“…We propose a constellation optimization method aiming at minimizing the system pairwise error probability. In order to obtain the transmitter constellation, we design the demapping rules from the perspective of energy efficiency and illumination uniformity. …”
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Temporal Characteristics of Heat Waves and Cold Spells and Their Links to Atmospheric Circulation in EURO-CORDEX RCMs by Eva Plavcová, Jan Kyselý

“…Zonal flow reduces the probability of temperature extremes in both seasons, while advection of warm/cold air from the south-easterly/north-easterly quadrant plays a dominant role in developing heat waves/cold spells. …”
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Adaptive CNN Ensemble for Complex Multispectral Image Analysis by Syed Muslim Jameel, Manzoor Ahmed Hashmani, Mobashar Rehman, Arif Budiman

“…Due to the complexities (spatial, spectral, dynamic data sources, and temporal inconsistencies) in online and time-series multispectral image analysis, there is a high occurrence probability in variations of spectral bands from an input stream, which deteriorates the classification performance (in terms of accuracy) or makes them ineffective. …”
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