A comprehensive guide to study the agreement and reliability of multi-observer ordinal data by Sophie Vanbelle, Christina Hernandez Engelhart, Ellen Blix

“…Methods This paper considers the generalisation of the proportion of (dis)agreement, the mean absolute deviation, the mean squared deviation and weighted kappa coefficients to more than two observers in the presence of an ordinal outcome. …”
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Investigation on spatial variability and influencing factors of drinking water iodine in Xinjiang, China. by Zhen Yang, Chenchen Wang, Yanwu Nie, Yahong Sun, Maozai Tian, Yuhua Ma, Yuxia Zhang, Yimu Yuan, Liping Zhang

“…The iodine content in 78.6% of total sampling points are less than 10 μg/L, and only that in the 3.4% are more than 40 μg/L. …”
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Attitudes and Behaviours of Farmers in Using of Pesticides in Çarşamba District of Samsun by Aybike Bayraktar, Ismet Boz

“…For this purpose, a survey was conducted with 112 farmers determined by stratified sampling method. According to the findings, most of the farmers in the region do not prefer other methods different form chemical control methods. …”
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Skin Staphylococcus aureus detection and relationship to atopic dermatitis outcomes using culture and metagenomic sequencing by Arya Dahal, Wan Chi Chang, Elisabet Johansson, Brittany Grashel, David Morgan, Lindsey Williams, Mindy Hammonds, Seiya Sachdeva, Dan Spagna, Latha Satish, Jocelyn M. Biagini, Lisa J. Martin, David B. Haslam, Nicholas J. Ollberding, Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey

“…Despite this, there is no consensus regarding the optimal method to detect SA. Studies comparing metagenomic shotgun sequencing (MSS) and culture-based methods in SA detection and relationships to AD outcomes are lacking. …”
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Designing and determining the effectiveness of a suicide intervention package for psychologists working in the primary health care system by Mousa Chakeri Hakami, Hamid Poursharifi, Behrouz Dolatshahee, Seyed Hamzeh Seddigh

“…Among them, 135 people were included in the intervention group and 135 people were included in the comparison group using a convenience sampling method. They were selected among those referred to eight comprehensive rural and urban health service centers in eight cities of Hormozgan Province. …”
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Curriculum implementation of cooperative learning models in pantun writing instruction by Komarudin Komarudin

“…In addition, in terms of the learning process, the use of TPS makes the students more active and the instruction more optimal than the conservative methods. …”
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A Novel Active Learning Approach for Improving Classification of Unlabeled Video Based on Deep Learning Techniques by Mohamed Salama

“…Unlike passive learning methods that randomly select samples for labeling, our approach actively identifies the most informative unlabeled instances to be annotated. …”
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Application of a GA-BP Neural Network in Accurately Characterizing the Diffusion Range of Groundwater Pollutants by Jiayun JI, Xiao XIAO, Pinlu YANG, Yang LIU, Yahong ZHOU

“…The results demonstrate that the GA-BP model significantly improves the accuracy of pollutant diffusion mapping and offers a more reliable method for environmental pollution assessment, especially in areas with limited sampling data. …”
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Adaptive bayesian sparse polynomial chaos expansion for voltage balance of an isolated microgrid at peak load by Sunil Kumar, Rashmi Agarwal, Harivardhagini Subhadra

“…Unlike traditional BSPCE methods that utilize fixed sampling strategies, our adaptive approach dynamically modifies sampling locations in response to approximation errors or model sensitivities. …”
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HEALTH INSURANCE OWNERSHIP TO INCREASE THE UTILIZATION OF PRIMARY HEALTH SERVICES IN RURAL HIGHLANDS by Yudi Adnan, Syahrul Basri, Munawir Amansyah, Zilfadillah Arranury

“…Objectives: This study aimed to explore the role of health insurance ownership in increasing the utilization of primary health services in rural highland areas in Indonesia. Methods: This research used a quantitative design with a cross-sectional survey method. …”
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Religiosity and Green Entrepreneurship Motivation: The Role of Commitment to Environment by Maisaroh, Aidha Trisanti, Arief Darmawan

“…The sampling method was purposive random sampling from 160 SME Leaders in Yogyakarta. …”
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Development and validation of a tool to assess the knowledge, awareness, and practice toward the screening of prostate cancer among adult men by Adithya G. Rao, Winniecia Dkhar, S Sharath, Rajagopal Kadavigere, Abhimanyu Pradhan, Neil Abraham Barnes

“…The questionnaire was validated for reliability using intraclass correlation, inter-rater reliability via Cohen’s kappa, and internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha in Phase III. A convenience sampling method was used to select 60 study participants. …”
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The effect of lying on the stomach on the spine angles of 13-18-year-old students in Karaj by zahra Keshtpour, Mohammad Ali Soleyman Fallah

“…For this purpose, 105 13-18-year-old students of girls' schools in District 3 of Karaj during the academic year 2020-2021, who were accustomed to lying on the stomachs, randomly participated in the study by convenience sampling method and based on the number of study hours per day, less than 1 h, between 1 and 2 h and more than 2 h placed in three groups. …”
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Reliability analysis of seismic subsidence of loess foundation based on Kriging surrogate model by Changming HU, Simeng ZHANG, Jiazhi QIAN, Yong ZHANG

“…In order to evaluate the safety level of seismic subsidence of loess foundation during earthquakes, this paper proposes a reliability analysis method based on the Kriging surrogate model. The sample points of random variables are extracted based on Latin hypercube sampling (LHS). …”
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Accelerating Convergence of Stein Variational Gradient Descent via Deep Unfolding by Yuya Kawamura, Satoshi Takabe

“…Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) is a prominent particle-based variational inference method used for sampling a target distribution. In this paper, we propose two novel trainable algorithms based on SVGD: deep-unfolded SVGD (DUSVGD) and Chebyshev-step based DUSVGD (C-DUSVGD). …”
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KINERJA KEUANGAN KONVENSIONAL, ECONOMIC VALUE ADDED, DAN RETURN SAHAM by Bambang Sudiyatno, Toto Suharmanto

“…Sampling technique in this study uses the census method, all companies in the food and beverage industry are used as a sample. …”
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A fuzzy track-to-track association algorithm with dynamic time warping for trajectory-level vehicle detection by Siqi Wan, Huaqiao Mu, Ke Han, Taesu Cheong, Chi Xie

“…The average association accuracy of all scenarios and error levels of the proposed method reached 97.33%, far higher than other benchmark methods. …”
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Exploring the health insurance dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi NCR, India by Ruchi Thakur, Mohd Shannawaz, Shazina Saeed, Kavitha Rajsekar

“…A simple random sampling technique was used to select blocks/sectors in the Delhi NCR region and then a systematic sampling method was applied to identify participants for data collection. …”
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The abundance of zooxanthellae on massive and branching coral reefs at Bama Beach, Baluran National Park, Situbondo, East Java by Raut Nugrahening Widhi, Raut Wahyuning Paluphi, Muh. Aksa Azis, Salim Abubakar, Sunarti Sunarti

“…The porpose of this study was to determine the abundance of zooxanthellae in massive and branching corals. The research method used was descriptive analysis. The sampling technique used direct field sampling by chisels, both on massive coral reefs or branching coral reefs. …”
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Gestational Diabetes as a Predictor of Sexual Dysfunction in Pregnant Women by Ommolbanin Zare, Masoumeh Simbar, Giti Ozgoli, Adeleh Bahar, Hamid Alavi Majd

“…A multistage cluster random sampling method was used, and samples were selected by convenience sampling method. …”
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