Wheat crop producers’ technical efficiency and its determinants in Oromia region of Ethiopia: evidence from West Shewa zone by Melkamu Girma, Abule Mehare, Mengistu Ketema

“…The stochastic Cobb-Douglas production function was estimated to measure the level of technical efficiency. …”
Get full text

HEALTHY NUTRITION AS A SYMBIOSIS OF RATIONAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY by L. Telezhenko, P. Bilenkyi

“…Diets should be selected properly to provide a daily rate of various antioxidants. …”
Get full text

Methodological quality of multivariate prognostic models for intracranial haemorrhages in intensive care units: a systematic review by Denis Frasca, Fanny Feuillet, Maxime Leger, Raphaël Cinotti, Yohann Foucher, Jeanne Simon-Pimmel, Laetitia Bodet-Contentin, Etienne Dantan

“…We aimed to methodologically assess prognostic tools for functional outcomes in severe spontaneous intracranial haemorrhages.Data sources Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses recommendations, we conducted a systematic review querying Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane in January 2020.Study selection We included development or validation of multivariate prognostic models for severe intracerebral or subarachnoid haemorrhage.Data extraction We evaluated the articles following the CHecklist for critical Appraisal and data extraction for systematic Reviews of prediction Modelling Studies and Transparent Reporting of multivariable prediction model for Individual Prognosis Or Diagnosis statements to assess the tools’ methodological reporting.Results Of the 6149 references retrieved, we identified 85 articles eligible. …”
Get full text

Health education interventions for individuals with visual or hearing impairment: a scoping review by Sohyun Jin, Geumbo Ko, Youngshin Song

“…Abstract Background Visual impairment refers to a deficiency in one or more functions of the visual system, while hearing impairment refers to a loss of auditory function, defined either by its impact on communication and daily activities or by clinical thresholds of hearing ability. …”
Get full text

Eeg-based detection of epileptic seizures in patients with disabilities using a novel attention-driven deep learning framework with SHAP interpretability by Tawfeeq Shawly, Ahmed A. Alsheikhy

“…We articulate the mathematical characteristics of feature selection driven by NAM, delineate the convergence attributes of the loss function, and present measures of explainability through Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP). …”
Get full text

SIMPLE: Simple Intensity Map Producer for Line Emission by Maja Lujan Niemeyer, José Luis Bernal, Eiichiro Komatsu

“…Simple can be applied to any spectral line sourced by galaxies. The Simple code is based on lognormal mock catalogs of galaxies including positions and velocities and assigns luminosities following the luminosity function. …”
Get full text

Current status of developments in the field of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines by Tatiana S. Kotomina

“…This was facilitated by research to identify the structure of RSV, to study the basic functions of RSV components as well as the mechanisms of innate and acquired immune responses to infection. …”
Get full text

Reinforcement Learning for Optimizing Renewable Energy Utilization in Buildings: A Review on Applications and Innovations by Panagiotis Michailidis, Iakovos Michailidis, Elias Kosmatopoulos

“…For evaluation, the paper examines and outlines the different attributes in the field considering the following: methodologies of RL; agent types; value-action networks; reward functions; baseline control approaches; RES types; BEMS types; and building typologies. …”
Get full text

Greenhouse gas emissions of global construction material production by Seth Kane, Josefine A Olsson, Sabbie A Miller

“…Both construction material production and emissions are primarily driven by structural materials, such as concrete and steel. Material selection can play a key role in reducing emissions in the context of the function, with variation in emissions of structural materials per unit strength between 0.001–0.1 kg CO _2 /kg/MPa and in insulation materials per R -value/thickness of 0.018–0.14 kg CO _2 /kg/(K⋅m ^2 W ^−1 ))). …”
Get full text

A Systematic Search for Candidate Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Using Periodic Mid-infrared Light Curves of Active Galactic Nuclei by Di Luo, Ning Jiang, Xin Liu

“…Notably, we find no overlap between our sample and optical periodic sources, which can be explained by a distinct preference for certain periods due to selection bias. …”
Get full text

Prediction of the pharmaceutical solubility in water and organic solvents via different soft computing models by A. Yousefi, k. movagharnejad

“…Molecular weight, melting point, temperature and the number of each functional group in the pharmaceutical compound and organic solvents were selected as the input variables of these three different neural network models. …”
Get full text

Efficacy and safety of musculoskeletal manipulations in elderly population with musculoskeletal disorders: a systematic review by Alessandro Mauro, Donatella Bagagiolo, Michela Persiani, Luca Cicchitti, Luca Vismara, Irene Bruini, Francesca Buffone

“…Introduction Non-pharmacological interventions, including musculoskeletal manipulations (MMs), have been proven effective for musculoskeletal disorders.Objectives To evaluate if MMs, including osteopathic manipulation and chiropractic care, are effective to improve quality of life, pain intensity and function in older adults with musculoskeletal disorders.Design Systematic review.Data sources A systematic search was conducted on MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, from database inception up to 2 January 2025.Eligibility criteria Randomised controlled trials, controlled non-randomised trials and open label trials evaluating the efficacy and safety of MM such as osteopathic manipulation, chiropractic manipulation, myofascial release, craniosacral therapy, as monotherapy or adjunctive therapies in older people (age ≥65 years) with musculoskeletal disorders. …”
Get full text

Fat globule size distribution in commercial ice cream determined through ideal application of the laser diffraction technique by Rafael A. Garcia, Faith Olszewski, Benjamin M. Plumier

Get full text

Effectiveness of exercise therapy in patients with knee osteoarthritis: an overview of systematic reviews by Daisuke Sasaki, Takashi Kitagawa, Yuichi Isaji, Kunihiro Onishi, Masateru Hayashi, Wataru Okuyama

“…Objective This study aimed to assess the methodological quality of published systematic reviews of exercise therapy in knee osteoarthritis and summarise their reported effectiveness on quality of life, knee joint function, or adverse events.Design Overview of systematic reviews.Data sources PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science and CENTRAL (searched on 14 April 2025), plus grey literature (PROSPERO, Epistemonikos, OpenGrey).Eligibility criteria for selecting studies We included systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials in patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis by imaging or clinical criteria and treated conservatively with exercise therapy; we excluded reviews that enrolled patients scheduled for surgery, with acute inflammation or osteoarthritis of other joints (hand, hip, ankle), for which relevant author data could not be obtained after one contact attempt, or that did not report at least one primary outcome (quality of life, knee joint function or adverse events).Data extraction and synthesis Two reviewers independently extracted data on study characteristics, interventions and outcomes, and assessed methodological quality using the AMSTAR 2 (A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews 2) tool. …”
Get full text

Bridging Behavioural, Neural, and First-Person Insights into Working Memory Strategies by Anka Slana Ozimič, Nina Purg Suljič, Aleš Oblak, Jurij Bon, Toma Strle, Grega Repovš

“… Working memory is a core cognitive function, yet findings regarding its behavioural and neural underpinnings are often inconsistent. …”
Get full text

Theoretical Model of Possibility of 15-minute City in Urban Planning Using the Meta-Synthesis Method by Hafez Mahdnejad

“…About 81% of the sources are related to the years 2022 and 2021. 16% of the selected sources are related to the years 2020 and 2019. …”
Get full text

Why the term "professional language" can confuse the reader? by Les?aw Cirko

“…In the first part of the article, the aforementioned sources of interpretative dangers in reading are pointed out, using the history of research as an example. …”
Get full text

Construction and Application of Psychological Quality Assessment Model for College Students Based on Extensive Data Analysis by Ping Zou, Yanjun Wu, Jingdan Zhang

“…This paper combines the application methods of big data technology, collects the management data related to the psychological quality assessment of college students, saves them into the system database with certain storage logic, and realizes the function of psychological quality assessment through the design of selected psychological quality assessment data, data management and data resource management and other parts based on the data results of extensive data analysis. …”
Get full text

A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Energy Prioritization by Mohsen Rezaei

“…The goal is to investigate and rank Iran’s main RE sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar PV, and wind). …”
Get full text

Aquatic Emission and Properties Analysis for Wind Turbine Blades by R. Jai Ganesh, Manjunathan Alagarsamy, G. Gabriel Santhosh Kumar, P. Tamilnesan, K. Kaarthik, Jemal Mohammed Yimer

“…The materials needed the cost of continuance and function, and the cost of fuel influences the cost of energy production. …”
Get full text