Realidades y Perspectivas del primer Centro de Acogida Especializado en la Atención de Menores vinculados al VIH/SIDA en Chile. by Alicia Nifuri C., Roberto Polanco C.

“…Lo anterior, hace que las terapias actuales deban considerarse de por vida, resultando interesante que se pueda hablar, hoy en día, de una cronicidad del VIH/SIDA lo cual cambia sustancialmente el foco de intervención en el campo clínico de lo realizado en los inicios de la infección. …”
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Technology Efficacy in Active Prosthetic Knees for Transfemoral Amputees: A Quantitative Evaluation by Amr M. El-Sayed, Nur Azah Hamzaid, Noor Azuan Abu Osman

“…The performances of its actuator, sensory system, and control technique that are incorporated in each reported system were evaluated separately and numerical comparisons were conducted based on the percentage of amputees’ gait deviation from normal gait profile points. …”
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Diagnosis of depression based on facial multimodal data by Nani Jin, Renjia Ye, Peng Li

“…Through the multi-modal feature fusion, the model can effectively capture different feature patterns related to depression.ResultsWe conduct extensive experiments on the publicly available clinical dataset, the Extended Distress Analysis Interview Corpus (E-DAIC). …”
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Rethinking the question of identity for indigenous public administration within public administration by Mahlala Sandiso ,Basheka Benon and Rapanyane Makhura Benjamin

“…It seeks to determine whether the lack of indigenous traditions as a foundation for current Public Administration will actually fulfil the essential knowledge demands of government by solving challenges that cannot be answered by public officials. …”
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Monetary Incentives and Labour Performance; A Case Study of Coffee Factories in Rukungiri District. by Edward, Muhwezi Bendera

“…Such challenges later culminated in employers resorting to performance related pay system where labour is incentivized according to work done or level of performance but it is not yet clear whether performance related pay actually motivates performance especially for the case of coffee factories in Rukungiri district. …”
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Materiality in reporting integration in South Africa: A natural language processing analysis by Cornelis T. van der Lugt, Hans-Peter Bakker, Nadia Mans-Kemp

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Clinical Significance of ErbB Receptor Family in Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yuh-Shyan Tsai, Hong-Lin Cheng, Tzong-Shin Tzai, Nan-Haw Chow

“…The estimates included the association significance, hazard ratios, and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) from actuarial curves and survival analyses. A meta-analysis was done on those reports using univariate log-rank tests or a Cox-regression model. …”
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How to finance sustainable tourism: Factors influencing the attitude and willingness to pay green taxes among university students by Cristina Ortega-Rodríguez, Julio Vena-Oya, Jesús Barreal, Barbara Józefowicz

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Spatio-temporal modelling of extreme low birth rates in U.S. counties by Kai Wang, Yingqing Zhang, Long Bai, Ying Chen, Chengxiu Ling

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Econometric Analysis of Macroeconomic to Age-Specific Mortality Rate in Malaysia: Evidence from Panel Data by Robiaatul Adawiah Edrus, Zailan Siri, Mohd Azmi Haron, Muhammad Aslam Mohd Safari, Mohammed K. A. Kaabar

“…Insurance companies, actuaries, financial institutions, demographers, and the government may suffer catastrophic losses as a result of imprecise mortality estimates. …”
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South African healthcare reforms towards universal healthcare – where to next? by G Solanki, T Wilkinson, N G Myburgh, J E Cornell, V Brijlal

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Towards developing new private sector obstetric care and contracting models in South Africa: Insights from public hospitals using private general practitioners to provide caesarean... by G C Solanki, T Doherty, V Brijlal, E Daviaud, S Fawcus

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Trend Analysis of Relative Sea Level Changes in the Aegean Sea with Copula Functions by Ahmet Yavuzdoğan, Emine Tanır Kayıkçı

“…Copula functions, which are frequently used in many fields such as statistics, economics, actuarial analysis, meteorology and hydrology, have a correlation structure that reflects linear and nonlinear relationships and can show local dependencies. …”
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Pensiones y jubilaciones de gobiernos estatales en México y su impacto en las finanzas públicas 2020-2021 by José Antonio Villalobos López

“…En este trabajo se concluye que, para 2020-2021, el pasivo actuarial de 30 de las 32 entidades federativas correspondió a 4.1 billones de pesos, es decir, el 18.6% del PIB de 2020 (o 17.2% del PIB de 2019, antes de la contingencia por covid-19). …”
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Mobile Integrated Healthcare: Preliminary Experience and Impact Analysis with a Medicare Advantage Population by Daniel J. Castillo, J. Brent Myers, Jonathan Mocko, Eric H. Beck

“…Patients participating in the MIH program were compared with contemporaneous, risk-matched non-participants as well as to actuarially expected cost and utilization based on historical claim experience. …”
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Inverse power XLindley distribution with statistical inference and applications to engineering data by Amal S. Hassan, Najwan Alsadat, Christophe Chesneau, Mohammed Elgarhy, Mohamed Kayid, Suleman Nasiru, Ahmed M. Gemeay

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Enhanced Human Skeleton Tracking for Improved Joint Position and Depth Accuracy in Rehabilitation Exercises by Vytautas Abromavičius, Ervinas Gisleris, Kristina Daunoravičienė, Jurgita Žižienė, Artūras Serackis, Rytis Maskeliūnas

“…By using a dual-camera setup and fusing the predicted human skeletal models, it is possible to construct a complete human model even when one camera does not capture all body parts and to refine depth coordinates through error correction using a linear regression model.…”
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Factors influencing trust in algorithmic decision-making: an indirect scenario-based experiment by Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Rebecca Marrone, Malgorzata Korolkiewicz, Florence Gabriel, George Siemens, Srecko Joksimovic, Yuki Yamada, Yuki Mori, Talal Rahwan, Maria Sahakyan, Belona Sonna, Assylbek Meirmanov, Aidos Bolatov, Bidisha Som, Izuchukwu Ndukaihe, Nwadiogo C. Arinze, Josef Kundrát, Lenka Skanderová, Van-Giang Ngo, Giang Nguyen, Michelle Lacia, Chun-Chia Kung, Meiselina Irmayanti, Meiselina Irmayanti, Abdul Muktadir, Fransiska Timoria Samosir, Marco Tullio Liuzza, Roberto Giorgini, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Hassan Banaruee, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Kris Ariyabuddhiphongs, Wachirawit Rakchai, Natalia Trujillo, Stella Maris Valencia, Armina Janyan, Armina Janyan, Kiril Kostov, Pedro R. Montoro, Jose Hinojosa, Jose Hinojosa, Kelsey Medeiros, Thomas E. Hunt, Julian Posada, Raquel Meister Ko Freitag, Julian Tejada

“…This ensures that individuals are not solely relying on algorithms that may not fully capture the complexity and nuances of human behavior and decision-making. …”
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Enhancement and Expansion of the Neural Network-Based Compact Model Using a Binning Method by Jinyoung Choi, Hyunjoon Jeong, Sangmin Woo, Hyungmin Cho, Yohan Kim, Jeong-Taek Kong, Soyoung Kim

“…However, the ANN-based compact model using only one set of model parameters (global-ANN) requires larger model sizes to achieve wider coverage and higher accuracy in order to capture the unpredictable nonlinearities of emerging devices. …”
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An Innovative Aircraft Skin Damage Assessment Using You Only Look Once-Version9: A Real-Time Material Evaluation System for Remote Inspection by Kuo-Chien Liao, Jirayu Lau, Muhamad Hidayat

“…The system utilizes the real-time object detection capabilities of the you only look once-version 9 (YOLO v9) algorithm, combined with imagery captured from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based aerial platform. …”
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