A Simpler Approach to Coefficient Regularized Support Vector Machines Regression by Hongzhi Tong, Di-Rong Chen, Fenghong Yang

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Do community-based digital health inclusion programmes contribute to tackling health inequalities in disadvantaged population groups?: a qualitative study of experiences of a city-... by Shoba Poduval, Lily Arnold, Emma Carta, Danielle Nimmons, Irene Stratton, Michael Shaw, Katherine Bradbury, Fiona Stevenson

“…Findings suggest moderators of implementation are provision of community spaces, social activities and devices and Wi-fi, and recipient-centred support through community understanding, personalised regular support and trusting relationships. Impacts on service-users include improved social and emotional resilience and basic digital skills. …”
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Health management information system utilization and associated factors in public and private health facilities of Mogadishu, Somalia by Adam Sheikh Said, Dmitry Ivanovich Kicha, Yulia Sh. Gushchina, Amenti Teka Geferso, Maye Omar

“…Health workers who did not receive regular supportive supervision were 69.5% less likely to use HMIS (AOR = 0.432, 95% CI: 0.218–0.856) than those who did receive regular supportive supervision. …”
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Individual-level cortical morphological network analysis in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: diagnostic and prognostic insights by Yifeng Yang, Meijing Yan, Lianxi Sun, Xiao Liu, Xuhao Fang, Shihong Li, Guangwu Lin

“…Finally, preoperative MRI-derived MINDs were integrated into a LASSO-regularized support vector regression (SVR) model to predict postoperative cognitive and gait improvements following shunt surgery. …”
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THE DECLINING ASWAJA THEOLOGY KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION: A Case Study of al-Jam’iyatul Washliyah in Medan City by Maulana Andi Surya

“…According to his research, educational institutions that regularly support Aswaja books undergo internal changes and come to terms with the reality that teachers, or ustadh, are becoming less and less proficient in the classics. …”
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The Efficacy of Supportive Peri-Implant Therapies in Preventing Peri-Implantitis and Implant Loss: a Systematic Review of the Literature by Ausra Ramanauskaite, Tellervo Tervonen

“…Articles were included only if 1) they comprised a group of patients involved in/adhering to regular supportive peri-implant therapies (SPTs) and a control group without such therapies or with poor adherence to them, 2) the protocol of the SPTs was clearly described and 3) the outcome was indicated by means of clinical/radiological changes or implant loss. …”
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Long-term and interannual variations of atmospheric methane observed by the NIES and collaborative observation networks by Taku Umezawa, Yasunori Tohjima, Yukio Terao, Motoki Sasakawa, Astrid Müller, Tazu Saeki, Toshinobu Machida, Shin-Ichiro Nakaoka, Hideki Nara, Shohei Nomura, Masahide Nishihashi, Hitoshi Mukai, Matthias Max Frey, Isamu Morino, Hirofumi Ohyama, Yukio Yoshida, Jiye Zeng, Hibiki Noda, Makoto Saito, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Takafumi Sugita, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Yosuke Niwa, Akihiko Ito, Yousuke Yamashita, Tomoko Shirai, Misa Ishizawa, Kentaro Ishijima, Kazuhiro Tsuboi, Yousuke Sawa, Hidekazu Matsueda

“…This study demonstrates the capability of observational data from the NIES and collaborative networks in accurately characterizing spatiotemporal variations in atmospheric CH4 regularly, supporting the improvement of our estimates of the global CH4 budget.…”
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Red-necked avocets disperse at continental scales and breed following high rainfall in distant locations by Rowan Mott, Thomas A. A. Prowse, Micha V. Jackson, Sonia Sanchez-Gomez, Andrew T. D. Bennett, Jody O’Connor, Daniel J. Rogers, Justin D. Brookes, Phillip Cassey

“…We carried out the first tracking of Red-necked Avocets (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae), a nomadic waterbird, to document their movements as they dispersed from the Coorong (a coastal refuge that regularly supports > 5% of the global population) to core breeding areas in central Australia. …”
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Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting: Healthcare Providers’ Experiences from Southern Highland Tanzania by Dorkasi L. Mwakawanga, Manase Kilonzi, Erick G. Philipo, Aron Martine, Tusaligwe Mbilinyi, Nancy F. Kileo, Bryceson Mkinga, Cleopatra Justine Shonyella, Juma A. Mohamedi, Aurelia Clement, Davance Mwasomola, Stella E. Mushy, Nathanael Sirili

“…In addition to the ongoing on-the-job training and regular supportive supervision for HCPs to improve the ADR practice, there is still a need to explore other strategies to be used as motives for HCPs to report ADR regularly.…”
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Utilisation of district health information system and its associated factors among health professionals working at public health facilities of the southwest of Ethiopia: cross-sect... by Shuma Gosha Kanfe, Gebiso Roba Debele, Robera Demissie Berhanu, Habtamu Setegn Ngusie, Mohammedjud Hassen Ahmed

“…Sufficient skills (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) 3.83, 95% CI 1.92 to 7.64), being trained (AOR 3.90, 95% CI 1.95 to 7.79), high motivation (AOR 3.93, 95% CI 1.99 to 7.76), feedback provided (AOR 2.93, 95% CI 1.53 to 5.77) and regular supervision (AOR 3.06, 95% CI 1.56 to 6.01) were associated with utilisation of district health information systems.Conclusions In general, more than half of the respondents had good utilisation of district health information systems. Providing regular supportive supervision and feedback, having good skills on district health information system use, high motivation and being trained on district health information system will help to bring good utilisation of district health information system for decision making.…”
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EfficientNet B0 Feature Extraction with L2-SVM Classification for Robust Facial Expression Recognition by Ahmad Taufiq Akbar, Shoffan Saifullah, Hari Prapcoyo, Heru Rustamadji, Nur Heri Cahyana

“…To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a hybrid FER framework that combines EfficientNet B0 as a deep feature extractor with an L2-regularized Support Vector Machine (L2-SVM) classifier. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on asthma control among children: a qualitative study from caregivers’ perspectives and experiences by Jingjing Wang, Yuanmin Jia, Jingxian Bao, Mo Yi, Zeyi Zhang, Haixia Wang, Yizhang Li, Ou Chen

“…Children with asthma are advised to continue good asthma management, take their prescribed asthma medications as normal, wash their hands regularly and wear face masks. Regularly supported self-management and remote consultations should be provided during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Community participation and maternal health service utilization: lessons from the health extension programme in rural southern Ethiopia by Daniel G Datiko, Elias M Bunte, Gemeda B Birrie, Aschenak Z Kea, Rosie Steege, M Taegtmeyer, Meghan Bruce Kumar, Maryse C Kok

“… # Conclusion With focused training, guidance and regular supportive supervision, HEWs were able to stimulate and enhance community participation, resulting in better maternal health service utilization in rural communities. …”
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Tuberculosis treatment outcomes and associated factors among patients treated at Bosaso TB Hospital, Bosaso, Somalia: A five-year retrospective study. by Saaid Said Jama, Mohamed Mohamud Abdi

“…Therefore, we recommend strengthening the TB care system, conducting regular supportive supervision for TB facilities, implementing strategies to encourage drug adherence, strengthening mechanisms to minimize the anti-TB treatment default rate, improving counseling services, and giving more attention to the vulnerable age groups and HIV-positive patients.…”
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Testing the Applicability and Transferability of Data-Driven Geospatial Models for Predicting Soil Erosion in Vineyards by Tünde Takáts, László Pásztor, Mátyás Árvai, Gáspár Albert, János Mészáros

“…Soil loss was formerly modeled by USLE, thus providing non-observation-based reference datasets for the calibration of parcel-specific prediction models using various ML methods (Random Forest, eXtreme Gradient Boosting, Regularized Support Vector Machine with Linear Kernel), which is a well-established approach in digital soil mapping (DSM). …”
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GPs’ experienced challenges and strategies for supporting patient self-management in disease management programs for type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease - a qualita... by Larisa Pilic, Kira Molkentin, Alina Herrmann, Marcus Redaèlli, Lisa Kupsch, Lion Lehmann, August-Wilhelm Bödecker, Beate Sigrid Müller, Stephanie Stock, Stefan Wilm

“…Many GPs followed a patient-centered approach to foster SM in their patients, considering various challenging individual, social and institutional factors that influence SM in chronically ill patients. Conclusion GPs regularly support their patients’ SM as a routine part of the DMP through ongoing consultations and education. …”
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Improving utilisation of the WHO surgical safety checklist at Wollega University Referral Hospital: a multidimensional quality improvement project by Temesgen Tilahun, Ketema Badasa, Mulugeta Abebe, Amsalu Takele, Mesfin Abera, Gudetu Fikadu, Milkias Beki, Misganu Teshome, Megersa Fikadu

“…Therefore, we recommend the operation theatre team to make the WHO surgical safety checklist utilisation, its culture, and the hospital administration to conduct regular supportive supervisions and conducting a frequent clinical audit on its consistent utilisation. …”
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Evaluation of an Electronic Case-based Disease Surveillance System in Karene District, Sierra Leone by Eldred Olufemi Moore, Umaru Sesay, Adel Hussein Elduma, Solomon Aiah Sogbeh, Anna Jammeh, Amara Alhaji Sheriff, Bridget Magoba, Mohamed Alex Vandi, Gebrekrstos Negash Gebru

“…However, improvements are needed in stability, flexibility, and particularly predictive value positive. We recommend regular supportive supervision, enhanced feedback mechanisms, and continuous training for health workers to sustain and improve the system's performance.…”
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Regularities of crustal faulting and tectonophysical indicators of fault metastability by Yu. L. Rebetsky

“…The sites, wherefrom the earthquake were initiated, were often located in the zones of the highest stress gradients. These regularities support the term “metastability of the state of fault zone” (introduced to seismology from the physics of the states of matter) and justify it by a specific distribution pattern of stress values prior to the mega-earthquake. …”
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Prediction of STAS in lung adenocarcinoma with nodules ≤ 2 cm using machine learning: a multicenter retrospective study by Zhan Zhang, Yue Zhao, Yi-Jun Ma, Chuan-Qi Chen, Zhen-Yi Li, Yv-Kai Wang, Si-Jie Zhang, Hai-Ming Li, Yongmeng Li, Yu Tian, Hui Tian

“…Thirteen key variables, identified using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression, were included in the construction of eight machine learning models: decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), regularized support vector machine (RSVM), logistic regression (LR), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), multilayer perceptron (MLP), light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM), and K-nearest neighbors (KNN). …”
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