A discourse on healthy ageing in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada by Paul Alhassan Issahaku

“…A purposive sample of 15 participants aged 65 years and above, recruited across the island of Newfoundland, provided interview data, which were analyzed following discourse analysis guidelines. …”
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Smart City Policies in Realizing the Quality of Public Services in Yogyakarta City by Raissa Almira Deandra, Achmad Nurmandi, Helen Dian Fridayani

“…Next, we conducted the analysis using Nvivo 14 software. This paper reveals that (1) Smart Government, with its online procedures, has begun to function effectively; (2) Smart Mobility excels in traffic control; and (3) Smart Living is more prominent in security indicators. …”
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Different Factors Influencing Early Stages of Intestine Microbiota Formation by S. G. Makarova, M. I. Broeva

“…This survey presents analysis of the latest data concerning the affection of both antenatal and postnatal factors at early stages of intestinal microbiota conditioning in children.…”
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Investigation of operation factors in the self-balancing device of the washing machine in resonance zone by Sergey N. Alekhin, Sergey P. Petrosov, Alexey S. Alekhin

“…The research results are submitted in diagrams. The results analysis allows drawing the conclusions on the obtained data application perspectiveness to ensure maximum efficiency of the process of balancing irregular masses of textiles in the drum during the whizzing cycle.…”
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Factors associated with disability among the adult population in Nepal by Ram Prasad Dhakal, Vijay Aryal, Pitambar Acharya, Yadav Acharya, Devaraj Acharya

“…The study utilized the data incorporating the Washington Group on Disability to assess functional limitations across six key functional domains–vision, hearing, communication, cognition, mobility, and self-care. …”
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Evaluation of Patients' Recovery from Hepatitis C Following Antiviral Treatment with Daclatasvir and Sofosbuvir in AL-Baha Region by Fahad Alghamdi, Rashed Mohammed

“…Those patients were confirmed to be infected by PCR analysis in the Al Baha region. The patients' data and enzyme profiles were obtained from the general directorate of health affairs in the Al Baha region, the Ministry of Health, and the SANED Platform…”
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PM10 AIR QUALITY INDEX MODELING USING ARFIMA-GARCH METHOD: BUNDARAN HI AREA OF DKI JAKARTA PROVINCE by Susilo Hariyanto, Salsabila Gustia Wibawa, Solikhin Solikhin

“…ARFIMA is used to model long memory data characterized by a slowly decreasing Autocorrelation Function (ACF) plot (hyperbolic) or a difference value in the fractional from. …”
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Modeling eye gaze velocity trajectories using GANs with spectral loss for enhanced fidelity by Shailendra Bhandari, Pedro Lencastre, Rujeena Mathema, Alexander Szorkovszky, Anis Yazidi, Pedro G. Lind

“…Our findings reveal that the LSTM-CNN architecture trained with this new loss function exhibits the closest alignment to the real data distribution, effectively capturing both the distribution tails and the intricate temporal dependencies. …”
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The Attractivity of Ornamental Plants to Some Natural Enemies of Pest by Fatima Ramdan Muhamed Al Kawan, Bagyo Yanuwiadi, Zaenal Fanani

“…The result showed that there were 5 ornamental plants in the area study as Acalypha siamensis, Osmoxylon lineare, Canna indica, Crinum asiaticum L. and Oleina syzigium. Data analysis using Community structure of Arthropods, Index of Diversity, and Index of Similarity on different area. …”
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Physiotherapists’ User Acceptance of a Lower Limb Robotic Exoskeleton in Specialized Rehabilitation: Qualitative Exploratory Study by Anstein Olimb Hillkirk, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Hege Mari Johnsen

“…Semistructured interviews were conducted with 7 expert physiotherapists in a Norwegian specialized rehabilitation hospital. Data collection and analysis were guided by the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology framework. …”
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Potential Benefits from Physical Exercise in Advanced Cancer Patients Undergoing Systemic Therapy? A Narrative Review of the Randomized Clinical Trials by Federico Bozzetti

“…The purpose of this review is the analysis of the literature concerning the effects of physical exercise in cancer patients undergoing medical oncologic treatment. …”
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Daily Trips Characteristics in Novi Sad – Gender Differences by Ana VUJIČIĆ, Valentina MIROVIĆ, Jelena MITROVIĆ SIMIĆ, Nenad RUŠKIĆ

“…The discussion is based on a descriptive analysis of the basic travel characteristics as a function of gender and a comparison with a previous traffic study – Nostram. …”
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Correlation between Interdialytic Weight Gain and Intradialytic Hypotension in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Undergoing Hemodialysis in Tertiary Referral Hospital by Artaria Tjempakasari, Nitya Prasanta, Aditiawardana, Magdeline Elizabeth Carrasco

“…Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a condition characterized by kidney damage or reduced function lasting at least 3 months. Hemodialysis (HD) is a key treatment for CKD, replacing kidney function in fluid and acid–base electrolyte balance, metabolic waste removal, and blood pressure management. …”
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Pathogenetic role of the autonomic nervous system in arterial hypotension cardiac remodeling in young women by V. M. Baev, Т. Yu. Agafonova

“…To study the features of cardiac remodeling on condition of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in young women with idiopathic arterial hypotension (IAH).Material and methods. A comparative analysis of the echocardiography data in women with IAH aged 18-25 years with a predominance of sympathetic (n=150) and parasympathetic (n=60) parts of the ANS was performed. …”
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Relationship between oral hypofunction and medical expenditure in older adults in Japan by Takatoshi Hiroshimaya, Yoshiaki Kawagoe, Kazuto Fukuhara, Hiroshi Ijichi, Naofumi Tamaki

“…Abstract This study aimed to analyze the impact of poor oral function on medical expenditures among older adults. …”
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Exploring the Rich Tapestry of Cultural Identity in Selected Siswati Short Stories by Khulisile Judith Nkuna, Innocent Zitha

“…Subsequently, the thematic analysis was employed to critically and qualitatively analyse the function of Siswati short stories in advancing cultural identity. …”
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Effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on fear of falling and physical activity in Parkinson’s disease: a randomised controlled trial by Jiyoung Gwak, Jinse Park

“…Secondary outcomes will encompass the assessment of motor function, balance and fall frequency using the Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, Berg Balance Scale and Timed Up and Go test. …”
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Adaptive Filtering for Channel Estimation in RIS-Assisted mmWave Systems by Shuying Shao, Tiejun Lv, Pingmu Huang

“…The Log-Sum NLMS algorithm incorporates a log-sum penalty in its cost function for faster convergence, while the Hybrid NLMS-NLMF employs a mixed error function for better performance across varying signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions. …”
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Providing a Framework for Performance Evaluation of Organizations in Successfully Implementing TQM, Based on Knowledge Management Approach and Organizational Agility by Neda Irannejad, Hadi Shirouyehzad, Arash Shahin

“…The weights resulting from two-stage house of quality have been used as the weights for the design of the two-stage data envelope analysis (DEA) model by the weight control method. …”
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Estimating bicycle route choice model in value-of-time space, a case study for Gothenburg by Chengxi Liu, Fredrik Johansson, Ida Kristoffersson, Clas Rydergren

“…To achieve this, travel time, desired speed and delays at intersections are estimated from GPS data. A Path-size Logit model is developed where a utility function for each alternative (route) is formulated using travel time rather than distance. …”
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