Observing the Coming of Age of Video Game Graphics: Exploring the historical development of video game graphics through distant viewing, hermeneutics and image clustering by Adrian Demleitner

“…I approached the early history of video game images through distant viewing, a computational method for analysing visual patterns across large image datasets. For this inquiry, I created the Video Games History Screenshot dataset and visualised the games’ images along their similarity. …”
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Budget Impact Analysis of Treatment Flow Optimization in Epilepsy Patients: Estimating Potential Impacts with Increased Referral Rate to Specialized Care by Masaki Iwasaki, Takashi Saito, Akiko Tsubota, Tatsunori Murata, Yuta Fukuoka, Kazutaka Jin

“…Therefore, further research with reliable data such as big data analysis or a national survey with real-world treatment patterns is needed.…”
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Enhancing ALS disease management: exploring integrated user value through online communities evidence by Jan Hruška, Pavel Bachmann, Samuel Amponsah Odei

“…The posts were categorized based on the five aspects of IUV, and an in-depth content analysis was conducted to explore patterns, challenges, and experiences associated with AT usage.ResultsThe analysis revealed significant challenges across all aspects of IUV. …”
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Exploring the enigma of low prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in India by Ateev S. Chandna, Satish Suhas, Rahul Patley, Damodharan Dinakaran, Narayana Manjunatha, Girish N. Rao, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Mathew Varghese, Vivek Benegal, NMHS National Collaborators Group

“…A detailed analysis of sociodemographic profiles, prevalence patterns, comorbidities, economic and social impact, and treatment-seeking behavior was conducted. …”
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Linking key trophic chemical indicators to spatio-temporal variabilities of fish traits and functional diversity along the Nakdong River by Namsrai Jargal, Ji Yoon Kim, Kwang-Guk An

“…RLQ and fourth-corner analysis revealed significant patterns in trait-based community structure related to chemical parameters. …”
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Diffusion Smart-seq3 of breast cancer spheroids to explore spatial tumor biology and test evolutionary principles of tumor heterogeneity by Antony Cougnoux, Loay Mahmoud, Per A. Johnsson, Alper Eroglu, Louise Gsell, Jakob Rosenbauer, Rickard Sandberg, Jean Hausser

“…Spatial gene and pathway expression patterns suggest biologies specific to spheroid regions, which we validate by immunostainings and pharmacological interventions. …”
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Physical Activity and Risk of Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Prediabetes among Males and Females in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2014 by Mabeline Velez, Lisa Chasan-Taber, Eva Goldwater, Nicole VanKim

“…In terms of diagnosed prediabetes, females meeting guidelines had lower risk (OR range: 0.65-0.76), while only males engaging in the most MVPA had lower risk; findings were no longer significant after adjustment. Patterns were similar for leisure-time MVPA, but conflicting for occupational PA; females with 10-20 MET-hrs/week had a higher risk of diagnosed prediabetes (OR =1.71, 95% CI 1.11-2.61) and males with >20 MET-hrs/week had a higher risk for undiagnosed prediabetes (OR =1.17, 95% CI 1.02-1.35) after adjustment. …”
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Contribution of Medical Wards Contamination to Wound Infection among Patients Attending Ruhengeri Referral Hospital by Emmanuel Munyeshyaka, Parfait Cyuzuzo, Callixte Yadufashije, John Karemera

“…The main objective of this study was to investigate the contribution of medical wards contamination to wound infection and antibiotics susceptibility patterns at Ruhengeri Referral Hospital, Musanze district, Rwanda. …”
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Exploring the transition to agroforestry for smallholder farmers: a feasibility study for the Ashanti region of Ghana by Youp Dumas, Jolien Ubacht, Ellen van Andel, Lily Akorfa Keledorme

“…Smallholder farmers in the Ashanti region of Ghana face challenges due to shifts in climate patterns that have a significant negative impact on their crop yields. …”
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Diverse Molecular Genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolates Circulating in the Free State, South Africa by Anneke Van der Spoel van Dijk, Pakiso M. Makhoahle, Leen Rigouts, Kamaldeen Baba

“…SITVITWEB identified 49 different patterns with allocation to six lineages including Latin-American-Mediterranean (LAM) (18 isolates), T (14 isolates), Beijing (five isolates), S (six isolates), Haarlem (one isolate), and X (five isolates), while 37 (43.0%) orphans were identified. …”
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Advance in Different Modes of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Rehabilitation of Dysphagia after Stroke by Jiahui TAI, Junfa WU, Tingwei WANG, Yi WU

“…With the development of research, different pulse stimulation patterns have been developed and experimentally applied in the treatment of post-stroke dysphagia. …”
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Preparation and characterization of nano composites from metal oxides and activated carbon from banana peel (MO@BPAC, MO=NiO, CuO and ZnO) for 2 nitrophenol removal from aqueous so... by Ahmah Rafat, Saeedeh Hashemian, Masoud Reza Shishabor

“…Formation of MO@BPAC nanocomposites was confirmed by analysis methods. The XRD patterns showed formation of nanocomposites did not change crystalline phase of metal oxides. …”
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Modeling to medical and economic data using: The transmuted power unit inverse Lindley distribution by Eman A. Eldessouky, Osama H. Mahmoud Hassan, Badr Aloraini, Ibrahim Elbatal

“…The hazard rate function may display both increasing and decreasing patterns, offering significant flexibility in the formulation of statistical models for biomedical and economic research. …”
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Assessing Romania's progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8, 9, 10 and 12: a comparative analysis in the EU context by Irina Puiu

“…However, significant challenges remain in the areas of industrial innovation, reducing inequalities, and achieving more sustainable consumption and production patterns. The findings reveal that while Romania is moving towards its 2030 targets, gaps persist, particularly in aligning with EU benchmarks on social inclusion and environmental responsibility. …”
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Health-related quality of life and nutrient intake of the elderly with type 2 diabetes according to comorbidity burden: a cross-sectional study by Yejung Choi, Kyong Park

“…Additionally, there are differences in nutrient intake patterns among those with more comorbidities, specifically decreased carbohydrate intake and increased fat intake. …”
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Stress in autism (STREAM): A study protocol on the role of circadian activity, sleep quality and sensory reactivity. by Clara C Gernert, Christine M Falter-Wagner, Valdas Noreika, Barbara Jachs, Nazia Jassim, Kathryn Gibbs, Joaquim Streicher, Hannah Betts, Tristan A Bekinschtein

“…This proof-of-concept study protocol outlines an innovative, individualised approach towards investigating the interrelationships between stress indices, sleep and circadian activation patterns, and sensory sensitivity in autism. Embracing an individualized methodology, we aim to collect 14 days of data per participant from 20 individuals with autism diagnoses and 20 without. …”
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Electrochemical Properties of Ce0.5Sr0.5 (Co0.8Fe0.2)1−xZrxO3−δ Cathode Materials for Low Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (LIT-SOFCs) Synthesized by Sol-Gel Method... by Beyene Tesfaw Ayalew, P. Vijay Bhaskar Rao

“…X-ray diffractometer (XRD) patterns of all samples give nanosized particles of a high-degree crystalline cathode having a cubic-type perovskite structure of space group Pm-3m with the existence of oxygen vacancies in the lattices. …”
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Celle des riches et celle des pauvres by Bernard Roussel, Feleke Woldeyes

“…Recent effort of promoting Kafa kororima, which quality has been ameliorated, is facing to the consumption habit and existing commercialization patterns. Various provenances which quality has been ameliorated have some difficulties to find a good place in the market.…”
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HSTCN-NuSVC: A Homogeneous Stacked Deep Ensemble Learner for Classifying Human Actions Using Smartphones by Sarmela Raja Sekaran, Ying Han Pang, Ooi Shih Yin, Lim Zheng You

“…In this model, multiple enhanced TCN networks with diverse architectures are organised parallelly to capture hierarchical spatial-temporal patterns from raw inertial signals. Each base model (i.e., TCN) incorporates dilations and residual connections to preserve longer effective histories, allowing the model to retain longer-term dependencies. …”
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Ten years of collaboration between France and Japan - Studies on reproduction in Japanese macaques by Cécile Garcia, Fred Bercovitch, Takeshi Furuichi, Michael A Huffman, Andrew MacInstosh, Lucie Rigaill, Rafaela S C Takeshita, Keiko Shimizu

“…This holistic study, combining fieldwork and laboratory experiments, and using a multidisciplinary approach (behavioral observations (sexual interactions), digital photography (visual scoring of female sexual skin color), hormonal (fecal ovarian steroids) and chemical data (components of female vaginal secretions)) allowed us to assess how different signals may combine to influence patterns of primate mate choices.…”
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