Latent iron deficiency in non-anemic children under five years of age by Qurat ul Ain Riaz, Saima Ahsan, Tanveer Hussain Chaudhary, Abdul Hafeez Soomro, Muhammad Sabir Khan, Shanza Nazish

“…A total of 145 non-anemic children, ages 2-59 months were enrolled through non-probability consecutive sampling in this study. The complete blood count and C-reactive protein were sent for laboratory tests to rule out infection/inflammation. …”
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Optimizing the NGS-based discrimination of multiple lung cancers from the perspective of evolution by Ziyang Wang, Xiaoqiu Yuan, Kunkun Sun, Fang Wu, Ke Liu, Yiruo Jin, Olga Chervova, Yuntao Nie, Airong Yang, Yichen Jin, Jing Li, Yun Li, Fan Yang, Jun Wang, Stephan Beck, David Carbone, Guanchao Jiang, Kezhong Chen

“…Two clonal interpretation approaches primarily applied in clinical practice, MoleA (based on shared mutation comparison) and MoleB (based on probability calculation), were subsequently evaluated. …”
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Optimising metallic coatings strategies for enhanced surface performance of bioresorbable polymeric stents by Ana M. Sousa, Ana M. Amaro, Ana P. Piedade

“…Nevertheless, increasing the pressure reduces the probability of thrombus formation, making it suitable for use in Mg coatings. …”
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Prediction Score for Cervical Spine Fracture in Patients with Traumatic Neck Injury by Natsinee Athinartrattanapong, Chaiyaporn Yuksen, Sittichok Leela-amornsin, Chetsadakon Jenpanitpong, Sirote Wongwaisayawan, Pittavat Leelapattana

“…The clinical prediction score for C-spine fracture was developed by dividing the patients into three probability groups (low, 0; moderate, 1–5; and high, 6–11), and the accuracy was 82.52%. …”
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Assessing the effects of therapeutic combinations on SARS-CoV-2 infected patient outcomes: A big data approach. by Hamidreza Moradi, H Timothy Bunnell, Bradley S Price, Maryam Khodaverdi, Michael T Vest, James Z Porterfield, Alfred J Anzalone, Susan L Santangelo, Wesley Kimble, Jeremy Harper, William B Hillegass, Sally L Hodder, National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Consortium

“…The resulting model predicts the treatment combinations of anticoagulants and steroids are associated with the highest probability of improvement, followed by combined anticoagulants and targeted antivirals. …”
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PERCEPTION OF ONLINE VERSUS PHYSICAL LEARNING AMONGUNIVERSITY STUDENTS by Ramna Shafique, Muhammad Abdullah, Tooba Nasir, Sundas Salim, Sabrina Jam, Bina Fawad

“…Two hundred individuals were selected by employing non-probability sequential sampling based on the inclusion criteria. …”
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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

“…Moreover, the meta sampler of JLSG-Diffusion embeds meta-learning from the implicit probability measure level of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM), which makes the meta-sample distribution directly establish a function mapping with the new task and effectively quantifies the uncertainty of spatiotemporal dimension. …”
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Single-Round Patterned DNA Library Microarray Aptamer Lead Identification by Jennifer A. Martin, Peter A. Mirau, Yaroslav Chushak, Jorge L. Chávez, Rajesh R. Naik, Joshua A. Hagen, Nancy Kelley-Loughnane

“…The DNA library was specifically designed to increase the probability of binding by enhancing structural complexity in a sequence-space confined environment, much like generating lead compounds in a combinatorial drug screening library. …”
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Field Monitoring-Based and Theoretical Analysis of Baota Mountain Landslide Stability by Yaming Tang, Heping Shu, Qiang Xue, Jiayun Wang, Wei Feng, Hongna Ma, Yan’e Li, Jin Luo, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi

“…These results indicate that landslide No. 1 is relatively stable, but there is a probability of the occurrence of movement in landslide No. 2. …”
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Characterizing the Flow and Interaction of Microbubbles in a 2D Capillary Network for Targeted Drug Delivery: A Simulation Study by Sadegh Shurche, Akram Shahidani, Roghaye Bodaghi Hossein Abadi

“…By increasing the amount of kinetic energy of microbubbles, the probability of adhesion to the capillary wall decreases. …”
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DeepGlioSeg: advanced glioma MRI data segmentation with integrated local-global representation architecture by Ruipeng Li, Yuehui Liao, Yueqi Huang, Xiaofei Ma, Guohua Zhao, Yanbin Wang, Chen Song

“…Second, the model computes a region-based probability by comparing the number of pixels in tumor and background regions and assigns greater weight to regions with lower probabilities, thereby focusing on the tumor segment. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of the CNIC-Polypill Strategy Compared With Separate Monocomponents in Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease in Portugal: The MERCUR... by Carlos Aguiar, Francisco Araujo, Gabriel Rubio-Mercade, David Carcedo, Silvia Paz, Jose María Castellano, Valentín Fuster

“…Assuming a willingness-to-pay threshold of €30 000/QALY gained, there is a 79.7% and a 44.4% probability of the CNIC-Polypill being cost-effective and cost-saving, respectively, compared with the loose combination of monocomponents. …”
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SDG space: Revealing the structure and complementarities among sustainable development goals in China by Mimi Gong, Ke Yu, Changchang Zhou, Zhouyi Liu, Zhenci Xu, Ming Xu, Shen Qu

“…Using the most recent available but unpublished data for 31 Chinese provinces, the SDG space was constructed at the 17 SDG and 118 indicator levels by analyzing the probability of comparative advantage between each SDG or indicator pair co-occurring in the same place. …”
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Structural analysis of the impact of learning from errors and organizational failures on innovative performance with the mediation role of knowledge absorptive capacity (case study... by Sara Mohammadi, Farajallah Rahimi, Eslam Fakher, Ilnaz Irani Behbahani

“…The statistical population of the research includes the employees of cooperative companies in the city of Ahvaz, from which 348 individuals were selected as a non-probability accessible sample and examined. To collect the research data, standard questionnaires by Wang and Ellinger [1], Minbaeva et al. [2], Raibowick et al. [3], and Van Dyck et al. [4] were used. …”
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Genetic Types and Main Control Factors of Microfractures in Tight Oil Reservoirs of Jimsar Sag by Xiangye Kong, Jianhui Zeng, Xianfeng Tan, Haowei Yuan, Dan Liu, Qun Luo, Qianyou Wang, Rusi Zuo

“…A higher pore fluid content corresponded to a lower compressive strength of the rocks and a larger ring count, resulting in a higher probability of failure and microfracture formation. …”
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The Relationship between the Structure and Thermal Properties of Bi2O3-ZnO-B2O3 Glass System by Sung-Hung Lan, Chin-Tung Lee, Yi-Sheng Lai, Chien-Chon Chen, Hsi-Wen Yang

“…In terms of FTIR, as the melting temperature rises, the B-O-B bonding vibration concentration of [BO4] inside the borate glass decreases, and the density of B-O-B bonding vibration of [BO3] increases, Moreover, the increase in melting temperature increases the probability of reducing Bi ions to Bi0, reduces the bonding of Bi-O-B, and increases the bonding of B-O-B, and the CTE also slightly decreases.…”
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Speeding Violation Type Prediction Based on Decision Tree Method: A Case Study in Wujiang, China by Zeyang Cheng, Jian Lu, Zhenshan Zu, Yunxuan Li

“…., type 2) tends to occur under high rainfall environment, and the foreign license plate and autumn present a larger probability of high speeding violation level than the local license plate and other seasons (i.e., spring, summer, and winter), respectively. …”
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A Retrospective Claims Data Analysis on the Burden of COVID-19-Related Hospitalization in Adults at High Risk for Severe Disease Progression in Germany by Timotheus Stremel, Svitlana Schnaidt, Nicole Bihrer, Emma Fröling, Christian Jacob, Agnes Kisser

“…Abstract Introduction Individuals at increased risk of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) progression have a higher probability of being hospitalized. Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (NMV/r) is an antiviral drug aiming to prevent severe disease courses. …”
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Analytical Approach to the Selection of Research Topics for Gallstone Disease and Acute Cholecystitis (an Overview of Cochrane Reviews) by S. I. Panin, T. V. Nechay, A. V. Sazhin, A. V. Puzikova

“…The same applies to mortality, the probability of developing serious complications and the conversion rate of various minimally invasive procedures, as the required sample sizes (hundreds of thousands of observations) are difficult to achieve — currently range is from 0.03 to 21.9 %. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation of Top Coal Caving Methods at the Working Face of Extra-Thick Coal Seams Based on the Random Medium Theory by Shi Jiulin, Zhang Quntao, Gao Xiaojin, Xue Jisheng

“…Then, the caving body and coal-rock settlement along the working face during the caving process are studied based on both the random media theory and probability theory. Accordingly, the optimal caving interval and caving sequences are determined, and a novel interval symmetrical coal caving method is proposed. …”
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