The prolonged health sequelae “of the COVID-19 pandemic” in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Melsew Setegn Alie, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Gossa Fetene Abebe, Desalegn Girma

“…A meta-analysis of proportions was conducted using the random-effects restricted maximum-likelihood model. …”
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Effect of Robot-Assisted Gait Training on Lower Limb Motor Function of Children with Cerebral Palsy： A Meta-Analysis by JIANG Xiaoyu, BI Hongyan, SUN Wenyu, LIU Huifen, SU Hang, JIANG Jiahui

“…If <italic>P</italic>&lt;0.1 or <italic>I</italic>²&gt;50%, a random effects model would be used.ResultsA total of 10 RCTs with 390 cases were included, 187 cases in the control group, 203 cases in the experimental group. …”
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Estimated prevalence and incidence of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in Japan by Tsukasa Okamoto, Mariko Hanafusa, Taketomo Abe, Takashi Shimamura, Masaru Ito, Yoko Wakai, Torahiko Jinta, Katsuyuki Higa, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Yasumi Okouchi, Ryo Okuda, Masashi Bando, Takafumi Suda, Hiromi Tomioka, Takeo Fujiwara, Masato Takase, Shigemi Yoshihara, Hiroshi Odajima, Yasunari Miyazaki

“…Methods: For adults, the study hospitals were selected by stratified random sampling according to numbers of beds. The sampling rate was set at about 20%. …”
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International prevalence of consultation with a naturopathic practitioner: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Amie Steel, Jon Adams, Brenda Leung, Holger Cramer, Matthew J Leach, Jon Wardle, Joshua Goldenberg, Janet Schloss, Rebecca Redmond, Joanna Elizabeth Harnett, Claudine Van de Venter, Andy McLintock, Ryan Bradley, Jason Hawrelak, Kieran Cooley

“…Other prevalence timeframes were reported as secondary measures.Methods Meta-analysis of prevalence data was conducted using random effects models based on individual countries and WHO world regions.Results The literature search identified eight manuscripts summarising 14 studies reporting prevalence for inclusion in the review. …”
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Tryptophan and/or canthaxanthin in quail diets: effects on performance, carcass traits, hematology, blood chemistry and hepatic antioxidant capacity by Khaled H. El-Kholy, Mohamed E. Sokariaa, Mohammed F. El Basuini, Sara F. Fouda, Tarek A. Ebeid, Ibrahim T. El-Ratel, Mahmoud M. Azzam, Alessandro Di Cerbo, Ahmed A. Elolimy, Mahmoud Madkour, Mahmoud Alagawany

“…The sum of 200 unsexed, 1-week-age Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica), with a nearly similar body weight (BW) of 33.50 ± 1.20 g, were assigned, in random, to four experimental groups. Each group consisted of five replicates, with 10 birds per replicate. …”
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Synthesizing Local Capacities, Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Meta-Learning to Optimize Forest Carbon Assessment in Data-Poor Regions by Kamaldeen Mohammed, Daniel Kpienbaareh, Jinfei Wang, David Goldblum, Isaac Luginaah, Esther Lupafya, Laifolo Dakishoni

“…Notably, a stacking ensemble of support vector machines and random forest achieved the highest accuracy (R² = 0.84, RMSE = 1.36), followed by an ensemble of all base learners (R² = 0.83, RMSE = 1.39). …”
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Correlation between the white blood cell/platelet ratio and 28-day all-cause mortality in cardiac arrest patients: a retrospective cohort study based on machine learning by Huai Huang, Guangqin Ren, Shanghui Sun, Zhi Li, Yongtian Zheng, Lijuan Dong, Shaoliang Zhu, Xiaosheng Zhu, Wenyu Jiang

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to evaluate the association between the white blood cell-to-platelet ratio (WPR) and 28-day all-cause mortality among patients experiencing cardiac arrest.MethodsUtilizing data from 748 cardiac arrest patients in the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV (MIMIC-IV) 2.2 database, machine learning algorithms, including the Boruta feature selection method, random forest modeling, and SHAP value analysis, were applied to identify significant prognostic biomarkers. …”
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Mortality Prediction Using SaO2/FiO2 Ratio Based on eICU Database Analysis by Sharad Patel, Gurkeerat Singh, Samson Zarbiv, Kia Ghiassi, Jean-Sebastien Rachoin

“…Model hyperparameters were tuned using the Sklearn RandomizedSearchCV with tenfold cross-validation. We used AUC as our metric for model performance. …”
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Clinical Observation on Chronic Low Back Pain Treated by Sling and Tuina Exercise Therapy by Ning WANG, Yi DING, Qiangqiang XU, Jiapeng ZHANG, LI Li

“…Objective:To observe the changes of morphology of local core stable muscles including transversus abdominal muscle and multifidus muscle by using musculoskeletal ultrasound, and explore the clinical effect of sling and tuina exercise technique on chronic low back pain (CLBP).Methods:A total of 90 CLBP cases were collected according to the random number table method, which were outpatient and inpatient admitted to the rehabilitation department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. …”
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Artificial Intelligence Models May Aid in Predicting Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with T1 Colorectal Cancer by Ji Eun Baek, Hahn Yi, Seung Wook Hong, Subin Song, Ji Young Lee, Sung Wook Hwang, Sang Hyoung Park, Dong-Hoon Yang, Byong Duk Ye, Seung-Jae Myung, Suk-Kyun Yang, Namkug Kim, Jeong-Sik Byeon

“…We developed AI models to predict LNM using four algorithms: regularized logistic regression classifier (RLRC), random forest classifier (RFC), CatBoost classifier (CBC), and the voting classifier (VC). …”
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Micro-Credit Institutions’ Services and Sustainability of Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises During Covid-19 Pandemic in Kigezi Region, South Western Uganda. by Agaba, Moses, Kaaya, Siraj, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun

“…The research population was divided into clusters (areas or districts) and the required sample was selected using simple random sampling. The study used an interviewer-administered structured questionnaire to collect the data. …”
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Presenting the model of customer participation with brands in social media with emphasis on cultural differences by Hamed Saghafian, Samad Aali, morteza mahmoodzadeh

“…The statistical population in the qualitative part includes 10 experts from the scientific community and academic specialists and experts of the top 500 companies in Iran based on the ranking of the Industrial Management Organization, who were selected purposefully; and in the quantitative part, it includes the managers of the top 500 companies in Iran based on the ranking of the industrial management organization, and the statistical sample will be selected from among the companies that have active accounts in social networks and considered as the statistical population; and based on Cochran's formula, 217 people were selected as a sample by random sampling method. Data analysis in the qualitative section is based on the content analysis method; and in the quantitative section, SPSS and PLS software are used. …”
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Designing a model to improve the behavior of Iranian handicrafts e-commerce customers by increasing customer trust by mohsen seidi, Fataneh Alizadeh Meshkani, Ahmad Sardari, Abdullah Naami

“…The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part includes 19 Iranian experts, including university professors in the fields of marketing management, handicrafts and senior managers of companies that export handicraft products, who through non-random sampling in the form of snowballs, were selected for interviews. …”
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Designing a model of institutionalization of organizational culture based on synergy in the tourism holding of Parsian Hotels Group by Behnam Rahemi, Majid Jahangirfard, Farshad Hajalian

“…The statistical population of this research included all employees (Tourism Holding - Parsian Hotels Group), the sample size was 165, and the sampling method was random. The questionnaire tool was made by the researcher, and its validity was verified by face validity, and the reliability with Cronbach's alpha test, which was 0.88. …”
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Presenting the agility model of the organization in order to improve the productivity of human resources by Asie Mohmedi, Rashid Zolfaghari, Mahsa Gholam hossein zadeh

“…The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part includes 10 academic specialists, professors and senior managers in the field of human resources and experts in the field of organizational behavior, and sampling was carried out by the theoretical saturation method; and in the quantitative part it includes 2500 people from all employees of Shomal Drilling Company, 333 of whom were selected through the Cochran formula by stratified random sampling method. The research collection tool is a semi-structured interview and a researcher-made questionnaire. …”
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Designing the entrepreneurial government model in attracting and selecting public sector human resources by Atieh sarayani, Vahid Pourshahabi, Nourmohammad yaghobi, Amin reza kamaliyan

“…The statistical population of the research is all human resource managers and experts in government organizations located in Sistan and Baluchistan province, whose number in 2020 is about 700 people, and the sample size is based on the rule proposed by Bentler and Chu (1987), based on which a total of 390 people were selected by simple random sampling. The collection tool in this research is a researcher-made questionnaire, taken from the qualitative part. …”
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Explaining the model of value creation of tax income and gross domestic product based on tax system reforms by Bahram Ramazani, Mojtaba Malekichoobari, Sina Kheradyar

“…The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part includes 12 managers and assistants of the tax system, experts and consultants selected by non-probability sampling method with multiple strategies (intensity and snowball); and in the quantitative part it includes 265 people from those who were working in the administration of tax affairs of Tehran province, selected by random cluster sampling method. Data collection was done by semi-structured interviews in the qualitative part; and by the questionnaire in the quantitative part. …”
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Educational effectiveness of cognitive and metacognitive strategies on educational self-destructive behaviors and negative self-evaluation thinking in Arabic lessons by Ali Nourihamid Altome, Mohammad hassani, Masoumeh Talebi

“…The statistical population of the research includes the middle school students of the holy city of Karbala, 105 of whom were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling, and randomly divided into three groups of 35 (a control group of 35 and two experimental groups of 35 people). …”
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Presentation of knowledge sharing model in Bank Maskan Iran by Maryam Firoozi, ahmad vedadi, alireza Amirkabiri

“…The statistical population in the qualitative part includes 15 experts, professors, and all people who have had practical or research activities in the field of knowledge sharing, using a purposive sampling method; and in the quantitative part, it includes 344 employees of the headquarters of Maskan Bank of Tehran, using a simple random sampling method. Data collection was done in the qualitative part by using semi-structured interviews; and in the quantitative part by a researcher-made questionnaire. …”
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Investigating the impact of variety of e-retail delivery service options on customer retention by Soheila Zarinjoy alvar, shahin raz, Ali Tavakolifar

“…These numbers were selected based on the available random sampling method. The collection tool in this research included a questionnaire used to confirm its validity, face validity and Cronbach's alpha were used for its reliability. …”
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