Facilitators, barriers, and recommendations for mobile health applications among Chinese older populations: a scoping review by Wilson Kin Chung Leung, Connie Yim Ching Yau, Simon Ching Lam

“…Given that recent evidence has reported distinct mHealth adoption patterns between Chinese and non-Chinese populations, the aim of this scoping review was to map relevant evidence on the end-user perceptions and age-appropriate recommendations for interface design, persuasive features, and promotional strategies among Chinese older adults. …”
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Assessing training needs and influencing factors among personnel at centers for disease control and prevention in northeast China: a cross-sectional study framed by SDT and TPB usi... by Kexin Wang, Peng Wang, Min Wei, Yanping Wang, Huan Liu, Ruiqian Zhuge, Qunkai Wang, Nan Meng, Yiran Gao, Yuxuan Wang, Lijun Gao, Jingjing Liu, Xin Zhang, Mingli Jiao, Qunhong Wu

“…When formulating training plans, priority should be given to how to improve on-job training satisfaction and design a more targeted competency patterns tailored training curriculum. Moreover, organizational incentives aimed at motivating trainees and integrating career development goals into training program design are important. …”
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The Minimum Spectral Radius of an Edge-Removed Network: A Hypercube Perspective by Yingbo Wu, Tianrui Zhang, Shan Chen, Tianhui Wang

“…For that purpose, it is appropriate to gain insight into the pattern of an optimal solution to the SRMP by means of checking some regular networks. …”
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Objective Assessment of Cancer Biomarkers Using Semi-Rare Event Detection by Jeroen A. W. M. van der Laak, Albertus G. Siebers, Sabine A. A. P. Aalders, Johanna M. M. Grefte, Peter C. M. de Wilde, Johan Bulten

“…A gallery image is constructed showing the diagnostically most interesting cells as well as quantitative data expressing the biomarker staining pattern. To increase scanning speed, an adaptive scanning strategy is studied in which scanning is aborted when a sufficient number of positive cells has been identified. …”
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Reading Tabriz Municipality Building Based on Foucault’s Theory of Power by Noushin Ghorbani, Sahar Toufan, Habib Shah Hosseini, Nima Vali Zadeh, Hassan Sattari Sarbangholi

“…The results pointed to a pattern that can be used in the design of public buildings by city managers.…”
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Application of Concentration-Area fractal modeling and artificial neural network to identify Cu, Zn±Pb geochemical anomalies in Hashtjin area, NW of Iran by Ali Imamalipour, Hamed Ebrahimi, Amir reza Abdollahpur

“…This neural network automatically and through unsupervised learning identifies patterns, complex structures, and high-level features of the input data. …”
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A novel deep learning approach for predicting stone-free rates post-ESWL on uncontrasted CT by Ozgur Efiloglu, Muhammed Yildirim, Kadir Yildirim, Harun Bingol, Mustafa Kaan Akalin, Meftun Culpan, Bilal Alatas, Asif Yildirim

“…Since the local binary pattern (LBP) and histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) feature extraction methods gave more successful results than other methods, a new feature map was obtained using the neighborhood component analysis (NCA) dimension reduction method after combining the features obtained using these methods. …”
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A nomogram involving immune‐inflammation index for predicting distant metastasis‐free survival of major salivary gland carcinoma following postoperative radiotherapy by Wenbin Yan, Xiaomin Ou, Chunying Shen, Chaosu Hu

“…Abstract Background Postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) is beneficial in the improvement of local‐regional control and overall survival (OS) for major salivary gland carcinomas (SGCs), and distant metastasis remained the main failure pattern. This study was designed to develop a nomogram model involving immune‐inflammation index to predict distant metastasis‐free survival (DMFS) of major SGCs. …”
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Functional constipation by Yu. O. Shulpekova, A. A. Kurbatova, A. V. Sedova

“…The origin of functional bowel diseases is still presented in the context of biopsychosocial model; that develop due to impact of constitutive factors, in particular features of serotoninergic and adrenergic regulation, dietary habit, bile acid metabolism etc. …”
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Calcium levels in acid concentrate are critical - A case series of post-hemodialysis hypercalcemia due to high calcium in acid concentrate by Nabadwip Pathak, Sunil Kumar Nanda

“…Paired T-tests and McNamar tests were conducted for statistical analysis of biochemical and clinical variables. Results: A pattern of post-dialysis hypercalcemia was noted in all eleven patients due to a higher measured dialysate calcium concentration (mean ± SD) of 8.591 ± 0.5224 mg/dL as opposed to the prescribed dialysate calcium concentration of 6 mg/dL (1.5 mmol/L). …”
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Forecast of urban air pollution level by expertise by Elena O. Lazareva, Irina N. Lipovitskaya, Elena S. Andreeva, Yulia V. Yefimova

“…Introduction. A climate pattern with marine features is typical for St. Petersburg. …”
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Randomization-Driven Hybrid Deep Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection by A. M. Mutawa, G. R. Hemalakshmi, N. B. Prakash, M. Murugappan

“…This study pioneers an innovative framework, using Multi-Scale Discriminative Robust Local Binary Pattern (MS-DRLBP) features, combined with a hybrid Convolutional Neural Network-Radial Basis Function (CNN-RBF) classifier, to enhance the detection of DR. …”
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'Navigating a lonely road to adulthood with an ever-changing map'; a framework and case study protocol exploring the transition to adulthood, mental health literacy and occupationa... by Martin Karaba Bäckström, Sonya Girdler, Ulf Jonsson, Carita Håkansson, Annika Lexén

“…Subsequently the subthemes and themes will be jointly analysed across participant groups using pattern matching in workshop formats.<h4>Conclusions</h4>The results of this case-study are expected to generate new knowledge of the reasons underpinning the increase in mental ill-health among young adults in Sweden. …”
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A Deep Learning-Based Diagnostic Framework for Shaft Earthing Brush Faults in Large Turbine Generators by Katudi Oupa Mailula, Akshay Kumar Saha

“…A key innovation lies in the use of FFT-derived spectrograms from both voltage and current waveforms as dual-channel inputs to the CNN, enabling automatic feature extraction of time–frequency patterns associated with different SEB fault types. …”
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Spatio-temporal evolution of cultural heritage and its response to the geographical environment: a case study of Fujian Province by Qingshu Lin, Peixu Hou

“…The results indicate that: (1) there are significant regional differences in the spatial distribution of cultural heritage in Fujian Province, with a high concentration in coastal areas and around the provincial capital, featuring diverse types, especially ancient buildings; (2) the distribution of cultural heritage has shown a trend of expansion from the central region to the southeastern coast and then to the southwest over historical development; (3) natural environmental factors, particularly rivers, temperature, and elevation, have a significant impact on the distribution of cultural heritage, while the direct impact of economic environmental factors is relatively minor. …”
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The Rise of FinTech and the Journey Toward a Cashless Society: Investigating the Use of Mobile Payments by SMEs in Oman in the Context of Vision 2040 by Hisham Al Ghunaimi, Faozi A. Almaqtari, Ronald Wesonga, Ahmed Elmashtawy

“…By utilizing secondary sources of data from the Central Bank of Oman and global FinTech reports, this research identifies essential enablers, such as security features and ease of use, which are propelled by developments in FinTech solutions. …”
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INTRODUCTION by Ken HYLAND, Octavia-Raluca ZGLOBIU-SANDU, Andrada FĂTU-TUTOVEANU

“…LSP, whether focusing on academic or professional contexts of communication, attempts to discover the key rhetorical structures, language relationships and lexical patterns of target texts by exploring how language is used in specific contexts. …”
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MAFcounter: an efficient tool for counting the occurrences of k-mers in MAF files by Michail Patsakis, Kimonas Provatas, Aris Karatzikos, Charalampos Koilakos, Ioannis Mouratidis, Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares

“…These alignments facilitate the exploration of sequence similarity patterns, providing valuable insights into sequence conservation, evolutionary relationships and for functional analyses. …”
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Simulation of single-species bacterial-biofilm growth using the Glazier-Graner-Hogeweg model and the CompuCell3D modeling environment by Nikodem J. Poplawski, Abbas Shirinifard, Maciej Swat, James A. Glazier

“…In our simulations, which generalize the PLHmodel by treating cells as spatially extended, deformable bodies, differentialadhesion between cells, and their competition for a substrate (nutrient), sufficeto produce a fingering instability that generates the finger shapes of biofilms.Our results agree with most features of the PLH model, although our inclu-sion of cell adhesion, which is difficult to implement using other modelingapproaches, results in slightly different patterns. …”
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3D-GloBFP: the first global three-dimensional building footprint dataset by Y. Che, X. Li, X. Liu, X. Liu, Y. Wang, W. Liao, X. Zheng, X. Zhang, X. Xu, Q. Shi, J. Zhu, H. Zhang, H. Zhang, H. Yuan, H. Yuan, Y. Dai, Y. Dai

“…Our approach integrated multisource remote-sensing features and building morphology features to develop height estimation models using the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) regression method across diverse global regions. …”
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