Burden of hemodialysis on health-related quality of life: insights from a multi-center cross-sectional analysis in Southern Albania by Rezarta Lalo, Fatjona Kamberi, Eda Stasa, Kenedia Lalo

“…The Kidney Disease Quality of Life Questionnaire – Short Form (KDQOL-SF) was used for data collection. The data were processed using the statistical software IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23.0. …”
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Investigating the mineralogical and geochemical composition of fluvial sediments of Watari river system, Kano, Nigeria by Abdullah Musa Ali, Mohammed Yerima Kwaya, Ahmed Alhassan Aminu

“…The geological data can also be used as input information for the prediction of sedimentation rates in the Watari dam, Kano. …”
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Automated Digital Safety Planning Interventions for Young Adults: Qualitative Study Using Online Co-design Methods by Jonah Meyerhoff, Sarah A Popowski, Tanvi Lakhtakia, Emily Tack, Rachel Kornfield, Kaylee P Kruzan, Charles J Krause, Theresa Nguyen, Kevin Rushton, Anthony R Pisani, Madhu Reddy, Kimberly A Van Orden, David C Mohr

“… BackgroundYoung adults in the United States are experiencing accelerating rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors but have the lowest rates of formal mental health care. …”
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Study protocol: Return to Country, an Australia-wide prospective observational study about returning First Nations renal patients home by Alan Cass, Mandy Truong, Scott Jones, Stephen McDonald, Sandawana William Majoni, Yomei Jones, Cecilia Preece, Fiona Heerink, Andrew John Mallett, Cherian Sajiv, Khalil Patankar, Eddie Mulholland, Solomon Woldeyohannes, Paul Lawton

“…This will be achieved by mixed-methods data collection at health service (audit and process data), staff (surveys and qualitative interviews) and patient (survey testing, feedback sessions, health outcomes) levels. …”
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Big-Five Personality Types of Students in Department of Primary School Teacher Education and the Effects on Self-Directed Learning by Yulia Rizki Ramadhani, Jamaris Jamna, Solfema Solfema, Yuswin Harputra, Muhammad Syahril Harahap

“…Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and processed through SmartPLS3. …”
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Bayesian inference: more than Bayes’s theorem by Thomas J. Loredo, Robert L. Wolpert

“…Bayesian inference gets its name from Bayes’s theorem, expressing posterior probabilities for hypotheses about a data generating process as the (normalized) product of prior probabilities and a likelihood function. …”
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InSAR-based monitoring and analysis of settlement in high-filled road embankment and slope in loess region by Limin Wang, Shaoqiang Chai, Liang Sun, Liang Liu, Wen Ding

“…The Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technique was used to process the Sentinel-1A satellite data from 8 April 2021, to 9 May 2022. …”
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Understanding comfort and health of outpatient workers in hospitals, a mixed-methods study by AnneMarie Eijkelenboom

“… Against the backdrop of an increasing need for healthcare, staff shortages and relatively high rates of sick leave, understanding of wellbeing (comfort and health) of hospital workers is important. …”
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Demographic consequences of damage dynamics in single-cell aging by Murat Tuğrul, Ulrich K. Steiner

“…Confronting the model with various empirical E. coli mother machine data reveals nonexponential scaling in mortality rates, a scaling that cannot be captured by classical Gompertz-Makeham models. …”
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Breast cancer pathology image recognition based on convolutional neural network. by Weijian Fang, Shuyu Tang, Dongfang Yan, Xiangguang Dai, Wei Zhang, Jiang Xiong

“…We randomly select 80% of the data as the training set and 20% as the test set and compare them with the Inception-ResNet V2, ResNet101, DenseNet169, MobileNetV3 and EfficientNetV2 models. …”
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Improving Alcohol Use Screening on A University Campus with AUDIT-C: A Reflective Practice Report by Jamie Sutton

“…Early identification allows those with AUD to have the choice to make healthier decisions. This reflection process includes quantitative data from implementing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Concise (AUDIT-C) on this university campus and recommendations for future practice, policy, and research. …”
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From Policy to Practice: A Delphi Protocol on Life Projects for Autistic Adults by Giulia Ferrazzi, Martina Micai, Francesca Fulceri, Luca Pingani, Luca Ghirotto, Maria Luisa Scattoni, Gian Maria Galeazzi

“…Data will be analyzed through thematic and descriptive statistical methods. …”
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Evaluation of SaRIF High‐Energy Electron Reconstructions and Forecasts by S. A. Glauert, R. B. Horne, P. Kirsch

“…The reconstructions and forecasts are provided by the British Antarctic Survey Radiation Belt Model (BAS‐RBM) running as part of an automatic system using real‐time data to specify the boundary conditions and drive processes within the physics‐based model. …”
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A Study of Landslide Susceptibility Assessment and Trend Prediction Using a Rule-Based Discrete Grid Model by Yanjun Duan, Xiaotong Zhang, Wenbo Zhao, Xinpei Han, Lingfeng Lv, Yunjun Yao, Kun Jia, Qiao Wang

“…In this study, a landslide susceptibility (LS) model was developed using an ensemble machine learning (ML) approach which integrates geological and geomorphological data, hydrological data, and remote sensing data. …”
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Automated threat modelling and risk analysis in e-Government using BPMN by Daniele Granata, Massimiliano Rak, Giovanni Salzillo, Giacomo Di Guida, Salvatore Petrillo

“…Through this example, we illustrate how our methodology can be employed to ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation and meet the mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessment requirements.…”
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Effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation on perioperative neurocognitive dysfunction: study protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials by Ying Yang, Yongming Tian, Yulan Luo, Jiarong Zeng

“…Meta-analysis will be conducted using STATA V.15.1 statistical software. The data synthesis process will incorporate standardised methodologies, including heterogeneity testing, sensitivity analysis and assessment of publication bias.Ethics and dissemination This study will not involve the collection of biometric information or medical privacy data throughout the research process, thus complying with the exemption criteria outlined in the ‘Measures for Ethical Review of Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects.’ …”
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Do FinTech algorithms reduce gender inequality in banks loans? A quantitative study from the USA by Ziheng Song, Shafiq Ur Rehman, Chun PingNg, Yuan Zhou, Patick Washington, Ricardo Verschueren

“…The potential of FinTech algorithms to decrease gender bias in credit decisions is limited by the impartiality of the data used to train them. If the data is partial or biased, the algorithmic decision-making process may also be discriminatory, exacerbating existing inequalities. …”
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Algorithm for the formation of a system of multi-criteria metrics for evaluating the activity of energy companies taking into account ESG criteria by I.O.

“…The peculiarities, advantages and disadvantages of the methodologies of scientists are considered, in particular: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE). …”
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Stress Levels of Pregnant Women by Candan Ersanlı, Çağla Yiğitbaş

“…A survey form consisting of three parts was used as a data collection tool. Personal information form including questions about sociodemographic characteristics, birth history, pregnancy and pandemic; Pregnancy Stress Rating Scale and Coronavirus Anxiety Scale were employed. …”
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From rally to reality: unveiling long-term dynamics in political trust over two years of COVID-19 in Germany by Gundula Zoch, Steffen Wamsler

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