Integrating Drone Truthing and Functional Classification of Remote Sensing Time Series for Supervised Vegetation Mapping by Giacomo Quattrini, Simone Pesaresi, Nicole Hofmann, Adriano Mancini, Simona Casavecchia

“…The proposed methodology achieves a classification accuracy of 92.59%, significantly exceeding the commonly reported thresholds for habitat mapping. …”
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Assessment of degraded lands in the Ile-Balkhash region, Kazakhstan by Sanim Bissenbayeva, Ruslan Salmurzauly, Ruslan Salmurzauly, Aigul Tokbergenova, Nazym Zhengissova, Jialuo Xing

“…This study aims to evaluate the dynamics and risk rates of desertification, as well as its severity, in the Ile-Balkhash region. To achieve the set goal of objectives, a variety of methods were employed, including desertification divided index (DDI) for the identification of desertification dynamics, correlation analysis for the detection of relationships between different indicators, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for the modelling of the desertification risk rate in the study area. …”
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Vitamin K Antagonist Use and Level of Anticoagulation Control Among Patients at a Tertiary Hospital in Northern Tanzania by Sarah K. Gharib MMed, Abid M. Sadiq MMed, Faryal M. Raza MMed, Sophia S. Muhali MMed, Annette A. Marandu MMed, Norman J. Kyala MMed, Eliasa K. Ndale MMed, Venance P. Maro MMed, William P. Howlett PhD, Elifuraha W. Mkwizu MMed, Nyasatu G. Chamba PhD, Furaha S. Lyamuya MMed, Elichilia R. Shao MMed, Kajiru G. Kilonzo MPhil

“…Background Vitamin K antagonists (VKA) continue to be the principal anticoagulants for both the treatment and prevention of venous thromboembolism. …”
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Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability for a Hospital Building Using Field Data and Various Numerical Analyses Considering Bidirectional Ground Motion Effects by Alireza Kharazian, Arianna Guardiola-Villora, Juan José Galiana-Merino, Sergio Molina, Gonzalo Ortuño-Sáez, Juan Luís Soler-Llorens, José Antonio Huesca-Tortosa, Igor Gómez, David Montiel-López

“…The findings support the idea that field monitoring data should be combined with advanced modelling techniques to achieve a more accurate evaluation of the building’s seismic vulnerability, considering bidirectional effects.…”
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Application of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and multivariate statistical analysis in cancer diagnosis by Ao Song, Wanli Yang, Jun Wang, Yisa Cai, Lizheng Cai, Nan Pang, Ruihua Yu, Zhikun Liu, Chao Yang, Feng Jiang

“…The analysis of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve demonstrated that the area under the curve (AUC) exceeded 0.95 for all models, with the LDA model achieving an accuracy rate of 99.4% in identifying lung cancer patients compared to healthy individuals. …”
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Primary small cell carcinoma of the esophagus: Comparison between a Chinese cohort and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data by Qin Xiao, Haifan Xiao, Shuyu Ouyang, Jinming Tang, Baihua Zhang, Hui Wang

“…Further analysis found that surgery tended to achieve clinical benefits only for patients with localized disease (T1‐4aN0M0). …”
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Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano: The Man, His Time, and His Significance by Toyin Falola

“…Tis feat gave him his first taste at writing as an occupation, and the happiness that followed suit spurred him to achieve more. Isaac Delano believed that the first one was always going to be the hardest. …”
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Deep learning models reveal the link between dynamic brain connectivity patterns and states of consciousness by Chloé Gomez, Lynn Uhrig, Vincent Frouin, Edouard Duchesnay, Béchir Jarraya, Antoine Grigis

“…Then, an ablation study was achieved where we virtually inactivated specific brain areas. …”
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SOBREPESO E OBESIDADE NA INFÂNCIA E ADOLESCÊNCIA: POSSIBILIDADES DE MEDIDAS E REFLEXÕES SOBRE AS PROPOSTAS DE AVALIAÇÃO by Gabriel Gustavo Bergamann, Mauren Lúcia de Araújo Bergamann, Rodrigo Baptista Moreira, Eraldo dos Santos Pinheiro, Alexandre Carriconde Marques, Adroaldo Gaya

“…As doenças cardiovasculares (DCV) constituem-se como a principal causa de morte emgrande parte do mundo. Evidencias sugerem que a origem destes problemas esteja na infânciae que o sobrepeso/obesidade seja uma interveniente importante neste processo. …”
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Hybrid intelligence framework for optimizing shear capacity of lightweight FRP-reinforced concrete beams by Iman Faridmehr, Moncef L. Nehdi, Mohammad Ali Sahraei, Kiyanets Aleksandr Valerievich, Chiara Bedon

“…Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has elucidated the intricate interactions among variables, thereby deepening insights into the structural dynamics of FRP-RC beams. …”
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Removal of Ammonium from Aqueous Solutions Using Zeolite Synthesized from Electrolytic Manganese Residue by Changxin Li, Yuan Yu, Qingwu Zhang, Hong Zhong, Shuai Wang

“…Maximum ammonium uptake capacity was achieved at pH value 8.0, EMRZ dosage 0.2 g/100 mL, contact time 100 min, initial ammonium concentration 200 mg/L, and temperature 35°C. …”
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Identification of Adulterated Deer Blood Crystals in Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on MALDI-TOF MS Peptide Fingerprints Technique by Shen-xing WANG, Ling CAO, Qing HUANG, Cong-yu MA, Jian-bin PAN, Hao-dong ZHAO, Hai-wei SHI, Bin DI, Hong-yuan CHEN

“…These fingerprints were then combined with principal component analysis (PCA) in order to achieve rapid and accurate differentiation of blood crystals from different sources. …”
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Development and validation of a high-throughput qPCR platform for the detection of soil-transmitted helminth infections. by Nils Pilotte, Victor Omballa, Monica Voss, Leah Padgett, Malathi Manuel, Jeanne L Goodman, Tim Littlewood, Zayina Zondervenni Manoharan, Lisette van Lieshout, Jaco J Verweij, Manigandan Sekar, Ajith Kumar Muthukumar, Gretchen Walch, Abriana Warren, Mariyam Sheikh, Andrew Gonzalez, Sean R Galagan, Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur, Moudachirou Ibikounlé, Steven A Williams, Doug Rains, Ushashi Dadwal, Judd L Walson

“…While these efforts have succeeded in reducing morbidity associated with STH infection, recent modeling efforts have suggested that expanding intervention to treatment of the entire community could achieve transmission interruption in some settings. …”
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Affective-sexual and gender diversity in Spanish education: a systematic literature review by Delfín Ortega-Sánchez, Esther Sanz de la Cal, Jaime Ibáñez Quintana, Eduardo Encabo-Fernández

“…To this end, this systematic review offers an unprecedented and updated synthesis of the most prominent challenges and areas for improvement in Spain, for the purpose of identifying existing research gaps, as well as curricular and training needs in this transdisciplinary field.MethodsTo achieve this objective, the PRISMA guidelines are applied in the extraction and selection of indexed materials from two of the principal internationally renowned databases, namely the Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus. …”
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Women’s satisfaction with the quality of antenatal care services rendered at public health facilities in Northwest Ethiopia: the application of partial proportional odds model by Amanu Aragaw Emiru, GD Alene, Gurmesa Tura Debelew

“…In relation to this, better scores in history taking (aOR1=aOR2; 1.81 (95% CI 1.25 to 2.60)), counselling (aOR1 = aOR2; 1.89 (95% CI 1.33 to 2.69)) and screening (aOR1= aOR2; 18.10 (95% CI 11.52 to 28.39)) were associated with achieving higher satisfaction. We also observed a significant but lower satisfaction among women in the late trimester of pregnancy (aOR1 = aOR2; 0.87 (95% CI 0.78 to 0.97)). …”
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Quality Evaluation of Bioactive Ingredients in Lianhua Qingwen Capsule Based on Quantitative Analysis of Multicomponent by the Single Marker Method and the Chemical Recognition Pat... by Qianqian Zhou, Lin Yang, Yiwu Wang, Jiajia Zou, Shuya Li, Lei Dai, Yan Li, Dan He

“…Radar plot analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) found some quality differences existed between the three groups of samples. …”
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Information Geometry and Manifold Learning: A Novel Framework for Analyzing Alzheimer’s Disease MRI Data by Ömer Akgüller, Mehmet Ali Balcı, Gabriela Cioca

“…Preprocessed images were reduced via Principal Component Analysis (retaining 95% variance) and converted into statistical manifolds using estimated mean vectors and covariance matrices. …”
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Growth of inclined fatigue cracks using the biaxial CJP model by G. Laboviciute, C. J. Christopher, M. N. James, E. A. Patterson

“…The CJP model has been successful in achieving a sensible rationalisation of crack growth rate data for the specimens considered in this work, although some observations are not easily explained. …”
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Macrofaunal biopores: Diversity and regeneration rates across diverse pedoclimatic conditions studied with repacked soil cores by Charlotte Védère, Hanane Aroui Boukbida, Yvan Capowiez, Sougueh Cheik, Guillaume Coulouma, Rinh Pham Dinh, Séraphine Grellier, Claude Hammecker, Thierry Henry Des Tureaux, Ajay Harit, Jean Louis Janeau, Pascal Jouquet, Jean Luc Maeght, Pascal Podwojewski, Cornelia Rumpel, Stéphane Sammartino, Norbert Silvera, Siwaporn Siltecho, Lotfi Smaili, Bounsamay Soulileuth, Nicolas Bottinelli

“…After 12 months, biopores were characterized by X-ray computed tomography and grouped according to their diameter, length and sphericity index using principal component analysis followed by K-means clustering. …”
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Physical activity patterns in a representative sample of adolescents from the largest city in Latin America: a cross-sectional study in Sao Paulo by Maria Fernanda Tourinho Peres, Gerson Ferrari, Leandro F.M. Rezende, Gabriela Arantes Wagner, Alex A Florindo

“…The proportion of adolescents achieving at least 60 min/day (≥420 min/week) was 12.7% (95% CI 11.4–14.1), with a higher prevalence in boys (18.3%) and in those with higher socioeconomic status (17.4%). …”
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