Measuring Quality in Emergency Medical Services: A Review of Clinical Performance Indicators by Mazen J. El Sayed

“…Measuring quality in Emergency Medical Services (EMSs) systems is challenging. This paper reviews the current approaches to measuring quality in health care and EMS with a focus on currently used clinical performance indicators in EMS systems (US and international systems). …”
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On the Potential of Algorithm Fusion for Demographic Bias Mitigation in Face Recognition by Jascha Kolberg, Yannik Schäfer, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

“…With the rise of deep neural networks, the performance of biometric systems has increased tremendously. Biometric systems for face recognition are now used in everyday life, e.g., border control, crime prevention, or personal device access control. …”
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Reduction of Scarce Materials in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells and Implications on the Performance in the Field by Sebastian Pingel, Ioan Voicu Vulcanean, Timo Wenzel, Winfried Wolke, Vasileios Georgiou-Sarlikiotis, Philipp Schmid, Henning Nagel, Ulli Kräling, Martin Bivour, Anamaria Steinmetz

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Diagnostic Performance of Three ELISAs for Detection of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in Human Samples by Cássio Meira, Dahara Silva, Ivanilson Santos, Breno Barreto, Vinícius Rocha, Emanuelle Santos, Bruna dos Reis, Afrânio Evangelista, Ricardo Ribeiro dos Santos, Bruna Machado, Guilherme Ribeiro, Roberto Badaró, Milena Soares

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Outlining a Population “at Risk” of Parkinson’s Disease: Evidence from a Case-Control Study by Tommaso Schirinzi, Giuseppina Martella, Alessio D’Elia, Giulia Di Lazzaro, Paola Imbriani, Graziella Madeo, Leonardo Monaco, Marta Maltese, Antonio Pisani

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Comparative study of IoT- and AI-based computing disease detection approaches by Wasiur Rhmann, Jalaluddin Khan, Ghufran Ahmad Khan, Zubair Ashraf, Babita Pandey, Mohammad Ahmar Khan, Ashraf Ali, Amaan Ishrat, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alghamdi, Bilal Ahamad, Mohammad Khaja Shaik

“…The emergence of different computing methods such as cloud-, fog-, and edge-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems has provided the opportunity to develop intelligent systems for disease detection. …”
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New Conditions for the Exponential Stability of Nonlinear Differential Equations by Rigoberto Medina

“…We develop a method for proving local exponential stability of nonlinear nonautonomous differential equations as well as pseudo-linear differential systems. The logarithmic norm technique combined with the “freezing” method is used to study stability of differential systems with slowly varying coefficients and nonlinear perturbations. …”
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MMFW-UAV dataset: multi-sensor and multi-view fixed-wing UAV dataset for air-to-air vision tasks by Yang Liu, Zhihao Sun, Lele Xi, Lele Zhang, Wei Dong, Chen Chen, Maobin Lu, Hailing Fu, Fang Deng

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Estimating Body Related Soft Biometric Traits in Video Frames by Olasimbo Ayodeji Arigbabu, Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad, Wan Azizun Wan Adnan, Salman Yussof, Vahab Iranmanesh, Fahad Layth Malallah

“…Soft biometrics can be used as a prescreening filter, either by using single trait or by combining several traits to aid the performance of recognition systems in an unobtrusive way. In many practical visual surveillance scenarios, facial information becomes difficult to be effectively constructed due to several varying challenges. …”
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Preliminary Hybrid Modeling of the Panama Canal: Operations and Salinity Diffusion by Luis Rabelo, Mario Marin, Petros Xanthopoulos, Carlos Arellano Lennox, Pedro Coiduras, Bernardo Campos, Luz Andrade, Ricardo Collins, Erwin Atencio, Daryelis Pitty

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A non-electrical pneumatic hybrid oscillator for high-frequency multimodal robotic locomotion by Genliang Chen, Yongzhou Long, Siyue Yao, Shujie Tang, Junjie Luo, Hao Wang, Zhuang Zhang, Hanqing Jiang

“…This work provides an effective design paradigm in robotics, enabling autonomous and efficient execution of complex, high-performance tasks, without relying on electronic control systems.…”
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Space Optimization for Raw Material Transportation: Reducing Environmental Impact by Taraa Chaymae, Ezzine Latifa, Dadda Afaf, Elallouli Ikram, Ayyadi Aya, Elmoussami Haj

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Boron phosphide microwires based on-chip electrocatalytic oxygen evolution microdevice by Hongwei Su, Qing Guo, Hongtao Li, Alei Li, Yunlei Zhong, Xu Zhang, Lin Geng, Shuai Liu, Liuqi Dong, Xiaohang Pan, Lin Wang, Lixing Kang

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Isolation and characterization of novel peptides from fermented products of Lactobacillus for ulcerative colitis prevention and treatment by Dong He, Wen Zeng, Yi Wang, Yifan Xing, Kang Xiong, Nan Su, Chong Zhang, Yuan Lu, Xinhui Xing

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From Blood to Therapy: The Revolutionary Application of Platelets in Cancer-Targeted Drug Delivery by Lijuan Xie, Fengxu Gan, Yun Hu, Yibin Zheng, Junshan Lan, Yuting Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, Jianyu Zheng, Xing Zhou, Jie Lou

“…Biomimetic nanodrug delivery systems based on cell membranes have emerged as a promising approach for targeted cancer therapy due to their biocompatibility and low immunogenicity. …”
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Three-dimensional direct lithography of stable quantum dots in hybrid glass by Dezhi Zhu, Shangben Jiang, Ying Wang, Dejun Liu, Weijia Bao, Liwei Liu, Junle Qu, Yiping Wang, Changrui Liao

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Real-Life Data on the Efficacy of Canakinumab in Patients with Adult-Onset Still’s Disease by Antonio Vitale, Virginia Berlengiero, Jurgen Sota, Luisa Ciarcia, Nicola Ricco, Sara Barneschi, Mariam Mourabi, Giuseppe Lopalco, Chiara Marzo, Francesca Bellisai, Florenzo Iannone, Bruno Frediani, Luca Cantarini

“…Resolution of clinical manifestations was reported in 8/9 cases at the 3-month assessment; a significant decrease in the number of tender joints (p=0.009), swollen joints (p=0.027), and disease activity score on 28 joints-C-reactive protein (DAS28-CRP) (p=0.044) was observed during the study period. The systemic score of disease activity significantly decreased at the 3-month and 6-month assessments and at the last visit compared to the start of treatment (p=0.028, p=0.028, and p=0.018, respectively). …”
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Incidence of ophthalmic manifestations in congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) by Jennifer L. Rossen, Abdelhamid Hindi, Safa Rahmani, Brenda L. Bohnsack

“…Gestational age at birth, systemic findings, and ophthalmic findings at initial and final eye examinations were collected. …”
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New Benchmarking Methodology and Programming Model for Big Data Processing by Anton Kos, Sašo Tomažič, Jakob Salom, Nemanja Trifunovic, Mateo Valero, Veljko Milutinovic

“…The performance of data flow systems that are processing big data should not be measured with the measures defined for the prevailing control flow systems. …”
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Le sociologue dans l’action collective face au risque by Marc Mormont

“…Risk is a central component of modern industrial societies that have organised complex systems to tackle with them. Environmental problems progressively reveal new risks that are said modern risks because they can be dealt with through usual systems of risk assessment and management. …”
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