COMPARISON OF POISSON REGRESSION AND GENERALIZED POISSON REGRESSION IN MODELING THE NUMBER OF INFANT MORTALITY IN WEST JAVA 2022 by Toha Saifudin, Fatiha Nadia Salsabila, Mubadi'ul Fitriani, Azizatul Kholidiyah, Nina Auliyah, Fildzah Tri Januar Ariani, Suliyanto Suliyanto

“…These findings emphasize the need to use GPR to model cases with overdispersion in count data, so as to provide more reliable information for policy and intervention strategies.…”
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Autism in the Faroe Islands: Diagnostic Stability from Childhood to Early Adult Life by Eva Kočovská, Eva Billstedt, Asa Ellefsen, Hanna Kampmann, I. Carina Gillberg, Rannvá Biskupstø, Guðrið Andorsdóttir, Tormóður Stóra, Helen Minnis, Christopher Gillberg

“…Stability of the DISCO algorithm subcategory diagnoses was more variable but still good for AD. Both systems showed excellent stability over the seven-year period for “any ASD” diagnosis, although a number of clear cases had been missed at the original screening in 2002. …”
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Does academic excellence predict non-cognitive competencies? Insights from a situational judgement test among medical students in Nigeria by Ifunanya Clara Agu, Uche Shalom Obi, Chinyere Ojiugo Mbachu, Adanna Chukwuma

“…Abstract Background Situational judgment tests (SJTs) are becoming more widely accepted for assessing medical students’ behavioral (non-cognitive) competencies. …”
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Healthy days at home and prognosis of older adults with cancer and non-cancer serious life-limiting illnesses by Oluwaseun J. Adeyemi, Nina Siman, Allison M. Cuthel, Keith S. Goldfeld, Corita R. Grudzen

“…Conclusion While poor prognosis is associated with fewer healthy days at home, cancer diagnosis is associated with more healthy days at home. Our findings highlight the need for tailored care models to reduce hospitalizations and increase HDaH for patients with serious life-limiting illnesses other than cancer.…”
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Evaluation of a 3D-printed nanohybrid resin composite versus a milled resin composite for flexural strength, wear and color stability by Ghydaa A. Mahran, Ahmed El-Banna, Dalia I. El-Korashy

“…A paired t-test was used for dependent variable analysis, and the Mann‒Whitney U test was used for independent variables (α = 0.05). …”
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Fear of intimate partner and women’s engagement in exercise: insights from a national survey in Kenya by Joshua Okyere, Abigail Kabukie Dosoo, Castro Ayebeng, Precious Adade Duodo, Kwamena Sekyi Dickson

“…Results Most women exercised three or more days per week (59.6%) while 22.9% did not exercise at all. …”
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Enhancing Kármán Vortex Street Detection via Auxiliary Networks Incorporating Key Atmospheric Parameters by Yihan Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Qiao Su, Chaoyue Wu, Yuqi Zhang, Daoyi Chen

“…This advancement paves the way for more robust automated analysis of atmospheric fluid dynamics phenomena.…”
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Renin‐Angiotensin‐Aldosterone System Profiling in Horses Before and After Exercise by Todd Holbrook, Jorge Hernandez, Taralyn McCarrel, Guy Lester, Margaret Sleeper, Oliver Domenig, Darcy Adin

“…Hypothesis We hypothesized that exercise would activate both RAAS pathways and that endurance exercise would cause more activation of the classical pathway compared to short‐duration, high‐intensity exercise in horses. …”
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Regional healthcare resource allocation and decision-making: Evaluating the effectiveness of the three-stage super-efficiency DEA model by Ying Liu, Lanxian Mai, Feng Huang, Zhiyu Zeng

“…This study addresses the challenge of achieving a more rational allocation of medical resources at the regional level, using Guangxi Province, China, as a case study. …”
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Clinical Differences between Early- and Late-Onset Asthma: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Jiaming Li, Ling Ye, Jun She, Yuanlin Song

“…EOA and LOA were based on age of diagnosis (before and after age 40 years, respectively). Clinical variables were collected with an emphasis on allergic features, analyzed, related, and compared using one-way ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis test. …”
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Galaxies Lighting Up: Discovery of Seventy New Turn-on Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei by Qian Yang, Paul J. Green, Xue-Bing Wu, Michael Eracleous, Linhua Jiang, Yuming Fu

“…The turn-on CL AGN are selected from spectroscopically classified galaxies with subsequent significant and dramatic variability in both the optical and mid-infrared bands, indicating a mechanism of changing accretion rate of the supermassive black holes (BHs) rather than variable obscuration. …”
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GENDER AND VARIATIVE REPRESENTATION OF REFLECTIONS ON LOVE BY ZINAIDA GIPPIUS by Elena V. Pedchenko

“…In marital relations, she values mutual understanding and “mutual knowledge” much more than the sensual manifestations that she leaves for “amorousness”. …”
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A study of stressful life events in patients with first-episode acute coronary syndrome (ACS)—a hospital-based case–control study by Muntaqueem Ul Kousar, Shaheena Parveen, Masood Maqbool, Yasir Hassan Rather, Fazle Roub Bhat, Neelofar Jan, Ubaid Rasool

“…At the same time, specific life events like Exposure to fire or explosion (OR = 3.35) and Transportation accidents (OR = 3.08) were more likely to occur in cases. Overall, there were significant differences in the prevalence and pattern of various types of SLEs between cases and controls. …”
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Adherence to COVID-19 policy measures: Behavioral insights from The Netherlands and Belgium. by Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Adam Atherly

“…We found that motivations, beliefs about the effectiveness of measures, and pre-pandemic behavior play an important role. The Dutch were more likely to wash their hands than the Flemish (15.4%, p<0.01), visit family (15.5%, p < .01), run errands (12.0%, p<0.05) or go to large closed spaces such as a shopping mall (21.2%, p<0.01). …”
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Prevalence and determinants of medication adherence among hypertensive patients: An institution-based cross-sectional study. by Azaz Bin Sharif, Syed Sharaf Ahmed Chowdhury, Md Zakir Hossain, Md Anwar Hossain, Ahmed Hossain, Hasan Mahmud Reza

“…Compared to patients who had hypertension for less than or equal to 5 years, patients suffering from hypertension for 6-10 years had 68% (AOR= 0.32; 95% CI: 0.11-0.95) and patients suffering for more than 10 years had 72% (AOR= 0.28; 95% CI: 0.09-0.84) lower odds of medicine adherence, respectively. …”
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CCG•CGG interruptions in high‐penetrance SCA8 families increase RAN translation and protein toxicity by Barbara A Perez, Hannah K Shorrock, Monica Banez‐Coronel, Tao Zu, Lisa EL Romano, Lauren A Laboissonniere, Tammy Reid, Yoshio Ikeda, Kaalak Reddy, Christopher M Gomez, Thomas Bird, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Lawrence J Schut, Alfredo Brusco, J Andrew Berglund, Lis F Hasholt, Jorgen E Nielsen, SH Subramony, Laura PW Ranum

“…Abstract Spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 (SCA8), a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CTG•CAG expansion, is unusual because most individuals that carry the mutation do not develop ataxia. To understand the variable penetrance of SCA8, we studied the molecular differences between highly penetrant families and more common sporadic cases (82%) using a large cohort of SCA8 families (n = 77). …”
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A distributed hybrid model for agricultural water-land resource matching by Shufang Wang, Mohamed Khaled Salahou, Liping Wang, Honghui Sang, Shiwei Li, Yuping Lv

“…In this study, a distributed hybrid model (VIC-RCM) based on the Variable Infiltration Capacity-3Layers (VIC-3L), Random Forest Cellular Automata Markov model (RF-CA-Markov), and Global Climate Models (GCMs) was developed. …”
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Skeletal Manifestations, Bone Pain, and BMD Changes in Albanian Type 1 Gaucher Patients Treated with Taliglucerase Alfa by Virtut Velmishi, Erjon Troja, Marjeta Tanka, Donjeta Bali, Ermira Dervishi, Afërdita Tako, Laurant Kollcaku, Paskal Cullufi

“…Especially children demonstrated a significant improvement in BMD (p = 0.00061) compared to adults (p = 0.3673). Mean BMD change was more indicative in switched patients (p = 0.0142) compared to naïve patients (p = 0.147). …”
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Knowledge, Awareness and Behaviors of Somalian Female University Students regarding Cervical Cancer, HPV and the HPV Vaccine: A Cross-Sectional Study by Şeyma Zehra Altunkurek, Samira Hassan Mohamed

“…In future research, the reasons for these inadequacies should be revealed through more comprehensive studies.…”
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Metabolic, Inflammatory and Imaging Biomarkers in Evaluation of Coronary Arteries Anatomical Stenosis in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease by O. A. Koshelskaya, T. E. Suslova, I. V. Kologrivova, N. Y. Margolis, O. A. Zhuravleva, O. A. Kharitonova, I. V. Vinnitskaya

“…It allowed to determine probability P for CA stenosis of 70% or more for each patient using formula Р, where L=0.89-1.09×gender+ 0.51×triglycerides–0.28×HDL+0.24×hsCRP (HDL – high density lipoproteins). …”
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