Determinants of Food Insecurity and the Choice of Livelihood Strategies: The Case of Abay Chomen District, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia by Bacha Gebissa, Wandu Geremew

“…As for the technique of data analysis, this study employed descriptive statistics for the food insecurity index, as well as a binary logistic model and a multinomial logit model for the choice of household livelihood techniques. …”
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The nature of association of oral para-functional habits with anxiety and big-five personality traits in Saudi adult population by Nouf Albesher, Modi Aljohani, Misam Alsenani, Ohood Turkistani, Mahmoud Salam, Adel Almutairi

“…Descriptive statistics (n,%; Mean ± SD), bivariate analytic statistics (Pearson’s Chi square, T-test) and binary logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine factors associated with the study outcomes. …”
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A MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR SUICIDAL THOUGHTS PREDICTION USING LOGISTIC REGRESSION AND SMOTE ALGORITHM by Sarni Maniar Berliana, Omas Bulan Samosir, Rafidah Abd Karim, Victoria Pena Valenzuela, Krismanti Tri Wahyuni, Andi Alfian

“…The outcome variable was binary (1 for suicidal thoughts, 0 for none). The study used seven predictors: age, education level, residence type, physical and sexual violence, smoking frequency, alcohol consumption, and depression. …”
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Juror Characteristics and Decision Making in a Developed Coercive Control Case by Kacey May Barnett, Russell Woodfield, Rachel A. Conlon

“…Binary logistic regression findings showed that higher scores on the MADVA (CC) Scale were the only significant predictor of returning a Not Guilty verdict. …”
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Association of 3-year change in frailty index with risk of all-cause mortality among older Chinese population: a national cohort study by Dechen Liu, Qianqian Ma, Mingyu Zuo, Yuqi Niu, Jinjin Wang, Guoli Yan

“…The primary outcome was all-cause mortality, which was a binary variable and defined as completed data and censored data. …”
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The effects of ethnic sentiment and social differentiation on pastoralists’ willingness to turn out of pasture by Pengcheng Li, Yifei Xie, Xiandong Li, Yong Xia

“…In order to deeply explore the influence of pasture turn-out on herders’ traditional lifestyle and to promote the rational utilization of pastureland in pastoral areas, the study is based on 437 interview data of herders in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang. It adopts the Binary Logit model to analyze the influence and mechanism of herders’ willingness to turn out of pastureland in terms of ethnic sentiment and social differentiation. …”
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Virus infection and severe asthma exacerbations: A cross-sectional study in Children’s Hospital 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by Thuy Van Thao Nguyen, Tuan Anh Tran, Vu Thuong Le, Kien Gia To

“…The percentage of children with a positive skin prick test was 83%. The most common indoor aeroallergen was house dust mites (81.1%). …”
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Transfer learning prediction of type 2 diabetes with unpaired clinical and genetic data by YounSung Jung, SeanKyo Han, EunHee Kang, SoYoung Park, MinHee Kim, NanHee Kim, TaeJin Ahn

“…We also address class imbalance by applying a positively weighted binary cross-entropy (BCE) loss and a weighted random sampler (WRS). …”
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Multivariable regression models improve accuracy and sensitive grading of antibiotic resistance mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Sanjana G. Kulkarni, Sacha Laurent, Paolo Miotto, Timothy M. Walker, Leonid Chindelevitch, Carl-Michael Nathanson, Nazir Ismail, Timothy C. Rodwell, Maha R. Farhat

“…We train multivariate logistic regression models on over 52,000 MTBC isolates to associate binary resistance phenotypes for 15 antitubercular drugs with variants extracted from candidate resistance genes. …”
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Physical Activity Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Among Pregnant Women Attending Maternal Health Care Service in Eastern Ethiopia by Reyad Shek Adem, Aboma Motuma, Behailu Hawulte Ayele

“…Data were entered into EpiData version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS 26.0 software. Binary logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with physical activity practice. …”
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Capturing drug use patterns at a glance: An n-ary word sufficient statistic for repeated univariate categorical values. by Gabriel J Odom, Laura Brandt, Clinton Castro, Sean X Luo, Daniel J Feaster, Raymond R Balise, CTN-0094 Team

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We extended the concept of a binary UDS variable to multiple categories: "+" [positive for substance(s) of interest], "-" [negative for substance(s)], "o" [patient failed to provide sample], "*" [inconclusive or mixed results], and "_" [no specimens required per study design]. …”
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Professional values, ageism, attitudes and willingness towards geriatric care among nursing students in China: a multiple path analysis by Rui Pang, Fang Liu, Tingheng Li

“…We analysed the data using chi-squared analysis, t-tests, and binary logistic regression. To explore the mediating effect of nursing students' attitudes toward older adults, we constructed a mediation model and conducted a path analysis. …”
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Understanding the Second Victim Phenomenon Among Healthcare Workers in an Italian Hospital by Raffaella Sedile, Antonella Zizza, Luca Bastiani, Eugenia Carluccio, Marinella Marrazzi, Tommaso Bellandi, Giorgio O. Spagnolo

“…Among the seven dimensions measuring the effects of the SVS and two outcome variables, the highest percentage of agreement was found for psychological distress (23.5%), followed by turnover intentions (19.8%) and physical distress (9.9%); 23.8% of the interviewees declared that they did not receive institutional support, and 9.9% identified help resources mostly in non-work-related support (9.9%), followed by supervisor support (9.3%). The multivariable binary logistic regression analysis showed a positive association between the occurrence of an AE and the medical doctor profession (OR = 4.267, <i>p</i> ≤ 0.0001), and affiliation to intensive care departments (OR = 5.133, <i>p</i> ≤ 0.0001) and male gender (OR = 2.069, <i>p</i> = 0.033). …”
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Performance of Concrete Incorporating Waste Glass Cullet and Snail Shell Powder: Workability and Strength Characteristics by Udeme Udo Imoh, Akindele Christopher Apata, Majid Movahedi Rad

“…This study investigates the combined use of waste glass cullet (WGC) and snail shell powder (SSP) as a sustainable binary cementitious system to enhance the mechanical performance and durability of concrete, particularly for rigid pavement applications. …”
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Development and Evaluation of Effectiveness of a Universal Behavior Change Communication (UBCC) Model by Abhishek Mukherjee, Avantika Gupta, Geeta Patel, JK Kosambiya

“…Phase III demonstrated positive behavior change in “cloth washing practices” (P = 0.003) and “footwear practice” (P = 0.001). …”
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The mediating role of intrinsic capacity in balance and falls among older adults by Yao Cui, Jian Zhou, Qian Liu, Hui Ye, Bo Liu

“…Patients underwent the sensory organization test and limits of stability test. (1) Using fall history as a binary dependent variable and various balance indicators as independent variables, visual (VIS) (p = 0.011, OR 0.957), vestibular function (p < 0.001, OR 0.958), and direction control (p = 0.042, OR 0.967) were negatively associated with falls. (2) After incorporating IC scores, sensory function (p < 0.001, OR 0.154), SPPB (p = 0.003, OR 0.758), and SOT-Composite (p < 0.001, OR 0.900) were negatively associated with falls, while SAS (p = 0.008, OR 1.068) was positively associated with falls. (3) IC score mediated the relationship between movement velocity (MVL) and falls. …”
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A Statistical Analysis of Excess Mortality Mean at Covid-19 in 2020-2021 by Md Nurul Raihen, Sultana Akter, Fariha Tabassum, Farjana Jahan, Shakera Begum

“…We predict the pandemic period all-cause deaths in locations lacking complete reported data using the Binary logistic regression, and Probit regression analysis count framework. …”
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Validation of the Thai version of the modified social functioning scale (SFS) for individuals with schizophrenia by Warut Aunjitsakul, Kanthee Anantapong, Aimorn Jiraphan, Teerapat Teetharatkul, Katti Sathaporn, Napakkawat Buathong, Pakawat Wiwattanaworaset

“…The Employment and Withdrawal/Interpersonal subscales could not undergo EFA due to binary items and insufficient sampling adequacy. Cronbach’s alpha values of the modified subscales ranged from 0.75 to 0.87, indicating good internal consistency. …”
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Critical Component Overheating Monitoring Algorithm Integrating Temperature-sensing Patches and Computer Vision Trains by SHU Dong, ZHANG Beijia, YANG Hongtai

“…Precise localization of temperature-sensing patches in images is achieved by optimizing the YOLOV3 algorithm with a binary k-means clustering algorithm and an attention mechanism. …”
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A Memo on Factors Associated with Perception of Stigma Attached to PrEP: Evidence from the Keeping It LITE Study by Shahin Davoudpour, Gregory L. Phillips II, Pedro A. Serrano, Audrey L. French, Sybil G. Hosek

“…Data were drawn from the baseline survey (2017–2019) of the “Keeping It LITE Study”, involving a large cohort (n = 3330) of young sexual minority men, transgender men and women, and non-binary individuals in the US. Participants’ ages ranged from 13 to 34 years, with the majority (87%) assigned male at birth. …”
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