Assessment of antenatal care quality in Ethiopia: Facility-based study using service provision assessment data. by Addisu Alehegn Alemu, Alec Welsh, Theodros Getachew, Marjan Khajehei

“…<h4>Background</h4>Antenatal care (ANC) coverage in low- and middle-income countries has increased in the past few decades. …”
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Analysis of the Dbzh Reflectivity of a Radar and the Precipitation in Bogota Using Functional Statistics and Data Mining Techniques by Angel Villabona-Ortiz, Rodrigo Ortega-Toro, Yessica Ramirez-Yara

“…This study aims to identify the sweep angle of the dual polarimetric weather radar located in Bogotá, owned by the District Institute for Risk Management and Climate Change (IDIGER), which presents the greatest statistical variability and spatial coverage, in terms of the horizontal component of reflectivity, using functional data analysis, in order to take this reflectivity sweep angle as a reference for correlation analysis between the data recorded by the radar and the accumulated precipitation measured on the surface. …”
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Reinforcement learning-based dynamic field exploration and reconstruction using multi-robot systems for environmental monitoring by Thinh Lu, Divyam Sobti, Deepak Talwar, Wencen Wu

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Localization of Disulfide Bonds in Ribonuclease Using Low pH Trypsin and LC-ESI-QTOF-MS by Amélie Bornex, Saša M. Miladinović

“…The goal was to minimize disulfide bond scrambling during sample preparation. By using N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) for alkylation of free cysteines, we achieved 92% sequence coverage and successfully identified the native disulfide bonds between specific cysteine residues. …”
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Protocol for capturing a full transcriptome from single preimplantation embryos using So-Smart-seq by Chunyao Wei, Jeannie T. Lee

“…So-Smart-seq preserves strand information and minimizes 5′ to 3′ coverage bias. We describe steps for the analysis of single mouse preimplantation embryos, including embryo isolation, library preparation, ribosomal cDNA depletion, and initial data processing. …”
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Is Autogenous cortical bone sheet reliable for the management of defects around dental implants by using scalpel technique? by Burak Bayram

“…Background: The aim of this study is to present a very easy technique for coverage of dehiscence and fenestration defects around the dental implantsfrom the nearest bone source by using a sharp scalpel and the analysis of its clinical results.Materials and Methods:750 screw dental implants were inserted by the same surgeon. …”
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A Cross-Layer Framework for Network Management in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Weighted Cognitive Maps by Amr El-Mougy, Mohamed Ibnkahla

“…Using extensive computer simulations, the proposed system is evaluated. …”
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Hydrate-Bearing Sediment Imaging of Ghost Reflection in Vertical Cable Seismic Data Using Seismic Interferometry by Linfei Wang, Zhong Wang, Huaishan Liu, Jin Zhang, Lei Xing, Yanxin Yin

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Rapid Beam Forming in Smart Antennas Using Smart-Fractal Concepts Employing Combinational Approach Algorithms by Mounissamy Levy, Sumanta Bose, D. Sriram Kumar, Anh Van Dinh

“…Smart antennas use an array of low gain antenna elements which are connected by a network. …”
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Corrosion Inhibition of Aluminium Using Exudate Gum from Pachylobus edulis in the Presence of Halide Ions in HCl by S. A. Umoren, I. B. Obot, E. E. Ebenso

“…The anti-corrosive effect of Pachylobus edulis exudate gum in combination with halides ions (Cl–, Br– and I–) for aluminium corrosion in HCl was studied at temperature range of 30-60°C using weight loss method. Results obtained showed that the naturally occurring exudate gum acts as an inhibitor for aluminium corrosion in acidic environment. …”
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IMPROVING ACCURACY OF PREDICTION INTERVALS OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME USING QUANTILE REGRESSION FOREST AND SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY VARIABLES by Asrirawan Asrirawan, Khairil Anwar Notodiputro, Bagus Sartono

“…Quantile regression forest (QRF) is a non-parametric method for estimating the distribution function of response by using the random forest algorithm and constructing conditional quantile prediction intervals. …”
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NDVI Estimation Throughout the Whole Growth Period of Multi-Crops Using RGB Images and Deep Learning by Jianliang Wang, Chen Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Zhaosheng Yao, Ying Wang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yi Sun, Fei Wu, Dongwei Han, Guanshuo Yang, Xinyu Liu, Chengming Sun, Tao Liu

“…The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is an important remote sensing index that is widely used to assess vegetation coverage, monitor crop growth, and predict yields. …”
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Optimal Positioning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Base Stations Using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming by Gowtham Raj Veeraswamy Premkumar, Bryan Van Scoy

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Assessing plant species diversity in Maltese rocky cliffs using Hill numbers and its implications for conservation by Gianmarco Tavilla, Sandro Lanfranco

“…This study assesses plant diversity within Malta’s rocky cliffs, focusing on changes over five decades (1973 and 2024). Using Hill numbers alongside coverage-based and size-based rarefaction and extrapolation methods, the research evaluates species richness, Simpson diversity, and Shannon diversity. …”
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COSMIC FP method in software development estimation using artificial neural networks based on orthogonal arrays by Nevena Rankovic, Dragica Rankovic, Mirjana Ivanovic, Ljubomir Lazic

“…The minimum magnitude relative error (MRE) to evaluate these architectures considering the cost effect function, the type of data used in the training, testing, and validation of the proposed models, was used. …”
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First dorsal metacarpal artery islanded flap: A useful flap for reconstruction of thumb pulp defects by Satish Chetan, Nema Sunit

“…It is very important to reconstruct these defects using sensate flaps as the thumb pulp needs to be sensate for implementing the various functions of the thumb. …”
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Relaxing parametric assumptions for non-linear Mendelian randomization using a doubly-ranked stratification method. by Haodong Tian, Amy M Mason, Cunhao Liu, Stephen Burgess

“…Non-linear Mendelian randomization is an extension to standard Mendelian randomization to explore the shape of the causal relationship between an exposure and outcome using an instrumental variable. A stratification approach to non-linear Mendelian randomization divides the population into strata and calculates separate instrumental variable estimates in each stratum. …”
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Trip mode inference from mobile phone signaling data using Logarithm Gaussian Mixture Model by Xiaoxu Chen, Chao Yang, Xiangdong Xu

“…This study provides an important opportunity to infer trip mode from the aspect of probability using mobile phone signaling data.…”
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Intelligent Recognition Method for Ferrography Wear Debris Images Using Improved Mask R-CNN Methods by Xiangwen Xiao, Weixuan Zhang, Qing Wang, Yuan Liu, Yishou Wang

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TUBERCULOSIS CASE MODEL USING GCV AND UBR KNOT SELECTION METHODS IN TRUNCATED SPLINE NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION by Sitti Anggraeni, Sifriyani Sifriyani, Qonita Qurrota A'yun

“…The response variable used is the percentage of successful treatment of tuberculosis patients in Indonesia with predictor variables namely the percentage of people who smoke over the age of 15 years, the percentage of households that have access to proper sanitation, the percentage of poor people, the percentage of food processing establishments that meet the standard requirements , national health insurance membership coverage and percentage of accredited hospitals. …”
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