Use of free labour in the media within the scope of citizen journalism: A case study of the main news bulletin on Show TV by Sertaç Kaya

“…Media organisations are now using user-generated content derived from images submitted by the public to report news that their reporters do not have access to. …”
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Water Quality Monitoring Using Landsat 8 OLI in Pleasant Bay, Massachusetts, USA by Haley E. Synan, Brian L. Howes, Sara Sampieri, Steven E. Lohrenz

“…Current monitoring techniques rely on in situ sampling, which can be expensive and limited in spatial and temporal coverage. Satellite remote sensing, using the Landsat 8 (Operational Land Imager, OLI) platform, has the potential to provide more extensive coverage than traditional methods. …”
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A qualitative assessment of the content validity of the ICECAP-A and EQ-5D-5L and their appropriateness for use in health research. by Thomas Keeley, Hareth Al-Janabi, Paula Lorgelly, Joanna Coast

“…This paper reports a qualitative assessment of the content validity and appropriateness for use of the eq-5D-5L and ICECAP-A measures, using novel methodology.…”
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Automatic detection of methane emissions in multispectral satellite imagery using a vision transformer by Bertrand Rouet-Leduc, Claudia Hulbert

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Investigating access and use of digital tools for agriculture among rural farmers: A case study of Nkomazi Municipality, South Africa by Olorunfemi Oluwasogo David, Mamiane Thapelo Austin, Matiwane Mona Ben

“…The data were analyzed descriptively using percentages, means, and ranks, and multiple linear regression was employed to analyze the influence of the farmers’ socio-economic characteristics on their utilization of digital tools. …”
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Tobacco treatment billing and tobacco use disorder diagnosis in healthcare settings in the United States: an analysis of South Carolina medicaid claims by Kinsey Pebley, Joni D. Nelson, Julie L. Marshall, Alana M. Rojewski

“…While Medicaid in all states provides some coverage of tobacco cessation treatments, rates of tobacco use remain much higher among Medicaid beneficiaries (30.0%) compared to those with private insurance (18.0%). …”
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Diabetes Device Use and Glycemic Control among Youth with Type 1 Diabetes: A Single-Center, Cross-Sectional Study by Khalid Sheikh, Sara K. Bartz, Sarah K. Lyons, Daniel J. DeSalvo

“…At a large, diverse, pediatric diabetes center, disparities in diabetes device use were present across sex, race/ethnicity, health insurance coverage, and primary language of parent(s). …”
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Integrating Otsu Thresholding and Random Forest for Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Classification and Seasonal Analysis of Water and Snow/Ice by Xuexia Sun, Xiaoyao Li, Bingxiang Tan, Jian Gao, Lei Wang, Shimei Xiong

“…Accurate land use/land cover (LULC) classification and the detection of seasonal dynamics are crucial for effective environmental monitoring and resource management. …”
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Mapping Wind Turbine Distribution in Forest Areas of China Using Deep Learning Methods by Pukaiyuan Yang, Zhigang Zou, Wu Yang

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A similarity-based multi-objective test optimization technique using search algorithm by Amir Sohail Habib, Saif Ur Rehman Khan, Shahid Hussain, Naseem Ibrahim, Habib un Nisa, Abdullah Yousafzai

“…Moreover, we found that GWO attained a higher similarity score than the other considered search algorithms using the employed similarity measures. Conclusion:: Based on the attained results, we believe that the proposed technique could be useful for the researchers and practitioners by effectively handling multi-objective regression test optimization problem.…”
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Calculating Semantic Frequency of GSL Words Using a BERT Model in Large Corpora by Liu Lei, Gong Tongxi, Shi Jianjun, Guo Yi

“…(3) Can this approach be verified? Using a BERT-based framework, we annotated 1,891 GSL headwords (10,925 senses) in the 100-million-word British National Corpus (BNC), representing each sense with a 1,024-dimensional vector. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with awareness and use of HIV self-testing kits among young women aged 15–24 in Ghana by Martin Wiredu Agyekum, Margaret Appiah, Frank Kyei-Arthur, Grace Frempong Afrifa-Anane, Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi, Isaac Yeboah, Marijanatu Abdulai

“…The dependent variables were awareness and use of HIVST kits. Binary logistic regression models were used to examine the factors associated with awareness and use of HIVST kit. …”
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Hardware-Accelerated Data Readout Platform Using Heterogeneous Computing for DNA Data Storage by Xiaopeng Gou, Qi Ge, Quan Guo, Menghui Ren, Tingting Qi, Rui Qin, Weigang Chen

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Inference of epidemiological dynamics based on simulated phylogenies using birth-death and coalescent models. by Veronika Boskova, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Tanja Stadler

“…For each tree, we re-estimated the epidemiological parameters using both a birth-death and a coalescent based method, implemented as an MCMC procedure in BEAST v2.0. …”
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Use of total knee arthroplasty by type of public insurance scheme: a cross-sectional study based on claims data in Thailand by Ipek Gurol-Urganci, Jan van der Meulen, Anne Mills, Woranan Witthayapipopsakul, Apichat Asavamongkolkul

“…In patients who underwent TKA, we used a generalised linear model to estimate absolute differences (AD) by the insurance scheme in the use of mobile-bearing implants and simultaneous BTKA. …”
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Effects of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Soil Organic Carbon Stock in Jira Watershed, Mid-Lands of Northern Ethiopia. by Guesh Assefa, Gebeyehu Taye, Kassa Teka

“…Socioeconomic activities and natural environmental changes are the main drivers of land use and land cover (LULC) changes worldwide and this directly affects the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) stock. …”
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Evaluation of commuter perception and optimization of public transit routes in Hyderabad using TOD applications by Sania Rehman, Mir Aftab Hussain Talpur, Ali Raza Khoso, Imtiaz Ahmed Chandio, Furqan Javed Arain

“…It illustrates the service area coverage of the existing public Transit route network based on walkable distances converted to travel times using ArcGIS. …”
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Theory-Based Social Media Intervention for Nonmedical Use of Prescription Opioids in Young Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Cheuk Chi Tam, Sean D Young, Sayward Harrison, Xiaoming Li, Alain H Litwin

“…Given the advantages of flexibility, wide coverage, and real-time responses and assessment, using social media appears to be a promising and innovative approach to delivering psychosocial intervention to young adults. …”
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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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Inlay-Retained Fixed Dental Prosthesis: A Clinical Option Using Monolithic Zirconia by Davide Augusti, Gabriele Augusti, Andrea Borgonovo, Massimo Amato, Dino Re

“…The case report presented describes an IRFDP treatment using a CAD/CAM monolithic zirconia IRFDP; clinical and laboratory steps are illustrated, according to the most recent scientific protocols. …”
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