Tracing the 2018 Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami’s Impact on Palu, Indonesia: A Remote Sensing Analysis by Youshuang Hu, Aggeliki Barberopoulou, Magaly Koch

“…The scientific novelty lies in the integration of widely used environmental indices (dNDVI, dNDWI, and dNDSI) with threshold-based Decision Tree classification to delineate tsunami-affected areas. …”
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Using Inverse Distance Weighting to Determine Spatial Distributions of Airborne Chemical Elements. Case Study: Douala, Cameroon by Joseph Magloire Fossokeng Mouafo, Claudiu Tănăselia, André Nana Yakam, Jules Richard Priso, Mohammed Ketata, Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor

“…Air pollution due to heavy metals has become a major problem in urban centers worldwide. Tree barks provide measurements of particulate concentration with an indication of the associated chemical composition. …”
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18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Accuracy in the Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Review and Cost-Effectiveness by Nieves Gómez León, Sofía Escalona, Beatriz Bandrés, Cristobal Belda, Daniel Callejo, Juan Antonio Blasco

“…The cost-effectiveness of PET/CT for disease classification was examined using a decision tree analysis. Results. Compared with histology, the accuracy of PET/CT for disease staging has a positive predictive value of 80%, a negative predictive value of 95%, a sensitivity of 94%, and a specificity of 82%. …”
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Early Detection of Seasonal Outbreaks from Twitter Data Using Machine Learning Approaches by Samina Amin, Muhammad Irfan Uddin, Duaa H. alSaeed, Atif Khan, Muhammad Adnan

“…This work proposes a machine-learning-based approach to detect dengue and flu outbreaks in social media platform Twitter, using four machine learning algorithms: Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Decision Tree (DT), with the help of Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF). …”
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Development of Vegetative Propagation Strategies for Balanites aegyptiaca in the Sahel, Niger by Moussa Massaoudou, Rabiou Habou, Zounon Christian Serge Félix, Abasse Tougiani, Patrick Van Damme

“…Anthropogenic and animal pressures often lead to low tree recruitment rates and seedling survival. Under certain conditions, multipurpose species such as Balanites aegyptiaca have shown dramatic decreases in population numbers. …”
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Fast In-House Next-Generation Sequencing in the Diagnosis of Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: A Hospital Budget Impact Analysis by Ubong Silas, Maximilian Blüher, Antonia Bosworth Smith, Rhodri Saunders

“…**Methods:** The differences between 2 hospital pathways were established with a cohort-level decision tree that feeds into a Markov model. A pathway that used in-house NGS (75%) and the use of external laboratories (so-called send-out NGS) (25%), was compared with the standard of exclusively send-out NGS. …”
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Comparative mitogenome analysis of two ectomycorrhizal fungi (Paxillus) reveals gene rearrangement, intron dynamics, and phylogeny of basidiomycetes by Qiang Li, Yuanhang Ren, Dabing Xiang, Xiaodong Shi, Jianglin Zhao, Lianxin Peng, Gang Zhao

“…Phylogenetic analysis of the combined mitochondrial gene set gave identical and well-supported tree topologies, indicating that mitochondrial genes were reliable molecular markers for analyzing the phylogenetic relationships of Basidiomycota. …”
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Algorithms and Results of Eye Tissues Differentiation Based on RF Ultrasound by R. Jurkonis, A. Janušauskas, V. Marozas, D. Jegelevičius, S. Daukantas, M. Patašius, A. Paunksnis, A. Lukoševičius

“…The backscattered ultrasound signal parameters characterizing intraocular and orbit tissues were processed by decision tree data mining algorithm. The pilot trial proved that applied methods are able to correctly classify signals from corpus vitreum blood, extraocular muscle, and orbit tissues. …”
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Health Economic Analysis of Two-Layer Bandage System for Treatment of Chronic Venous Insufficiency by Peter J. Mallow

“…**Methods:** A probabilistic decision tree model was developed to estimate the incremental CPR for a 2LB system. …”
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Volleyball as a means to develop speed endurance in girls aged 16-18 by Iryna Kryventsova, Yevheniia Strelnykova, Roman Boichuk, Krzysztof Wnorowski

“…A significant improvement was observed in almost all test exercises: the running time in the "Fir-tree" test decreased by 2.16 seconds (t=3.01, p < 0.05); the running time for 6x6 m decreased by 0.92 seconds (t=3.77, p < 0.05); the number of squats in 20 seconds increased by 4.31 times (t=4.46, p < 0.05); the number of leg raises to a 90° angle in a hanging position increased by 1.13 times (t=3.02, p < 0.05), and the number of torso raises from a lying on the back position increased by 1.81 times (t=4.49, p < 0.05). …”
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Machine Learning Algorithms Analysis of Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE): Application to Credit Default Prediction by Emmanuel de-Graft Johnson Owusu-Ansah, Richard Doamekpor, Richard Kodzo Avuglah, Yaa Kyere Adwubi

“…Random forest, decision tree, and logistic regression all performed well and might be utilized as alternatives to XGBoost classifiers for developing credit scoring models. …”
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Hybrid Learning Model for intrusion detection system: A combination of parametric and non-parametric classifiers by C. Rajathi, P. Rukmani

“…As a base learning model K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), and Support Vector Classification with Radial Basis Function (SVC-RBF), are adopted from a non-parametric classifier group. …”
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Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System Using Hybrid Machine Learning with Supervised Ensemble Stacking Model by Godfrey A. Mills, Daniel K. Acquah, Robert A. Sowah

“…Three machine learning algorithms comprising a multilayer perceptron neural network, a modified self-organizing map, and a decision tree were used for the detection framework. The intrusion detection system was trained and evaluated on benchmark datasets: NSL-KDD and CIC-DDoS2019. …”
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Investigating Light and Water Optimization for Early Seedling Establishment in Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth by Kelechi Godwin Ibeh, Adejoke Olukemi Akinyele

“…Seedling growth, development, and establishment are vulnerable stages for trees, greatly influenced by two important environmental factors: light availability and soil moisture regime. …”
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Clinical study and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of a Robot-Assisted Gait Training on children with neurological disorders: A quasi-experimental study by Simone GAZZELLINI, Martina ANDELLINI, Federica DE FALCO, Daniela CASASANTA, Giampietro CORDONE, Alessandra COLAZZA, Donatella LETTORI, Massimiliano RAPONI, Enrico CASTELLI, Maria Rosaria VINCI, Reparata Rosa DI PRINZIO, Maurizio PETRARCA, Matteo RITROVATO, Salvatore ZAFFINA

“…Conclusions: The HTA process provided the weights of each evaluation element described in the decision tree. Safety is considered the most important domain, followed by Ethical Aspects and Clinical Effectiveness, which reached about the same weight as the technical characteristics. …”
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Facultative parthenogenesis: a transient state in transitions between sex and obligate asexuality in stick insects? by Larose, Chloé, Lavanchy, Guillaume, Freitas, Susana, Parker, Darren J., Schwander, Tanja

“…Transitions from obligate sex to obligate parthenogenesis have occurred repeatedly across the tree of life. Whether these transitions occur abruptly or via a transient phase of facultative parthenogenesis is rarely known. …”
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Prediction of Current and Future Distributions of Chalcophora detrita (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Under Climate Change Scenarios by Arif Duyar, Muhammed Arif Demir, Mahmut Kabalak

“…An ensemble model was created by using 11 different algorithms (Artificial Neural Network, Classification Tree Analysis, eXtreme Gradient Boosting, Flexible Discriminant Analysis, Generalised Additive Model, Generalised Boosting Model, Generalised Linear Model, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, Maximum Entropy, Random Forest, Surface Range Envelope) to predict the potential suitable habitats of C. detrita. …”
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A Nodulation-Proficient Nonrhizobial Inhabitant of Pueraria phaseoloides by W. M. M. Wedage, A. H. M. N. R. Aberathne, I. N. Harischandra, D. Gunawardana

“…When we constructed a phylogenetic tree with neighboring sequences, we encountered nifH sequences of Pseudacidovorax, forming a monophyletic cluster, which too contained a single Azospirillum species. …”
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Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of GRAS transcription factors under cold stress in diploid and triploid Eucalyptus by Jiannan Liu, Hao Chen, Chenhe Li, Kang Du, Jun Yang

“…Eucalyptus is an important fast-growing tree species worldwide, yet its poor cold tolerance limits its cultivation range. …”
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Exploration of migration directions in different populations of Eothenomys miletus in the Hengduan Mountains of Yunnan Province: a genome-based analysis by Yanfei Cai, Ting Jia, Wanlong Zhu, Wanlong Zhu, Wanlong Zhu

“…Our results indicated that the ALS population is positioned at the base of the phylogenetic tree, and admixture analysis revealed that the ALS population is more closely related to the JC and DQ populations. …”
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