Loneliness and general health of elderly by Farzaneh Sheikholeslami, Shadman Reza Masouleh, Naeema Khodadadi, Mohammad Ali Yazdani

“…Sampling performed, through ‎easy sampling method. …”
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Identification and Analysis of Plastic Microparticles in the Inlet and Outlet of the Wastewater Treatment Plant and Investigation of the Relationship between Different Seasons of t... by Gholamreza Darvishi, Majid Ehteshami, Naser Mehrdadi, Reza Abedini

“…Moreover, it was revealed that microfibers have a lower percentage of removal in wastewater treatment process than microparticles. The result of the method used has shown that more than 95% of the particles can be detected.…”
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Motivations for sustained use of modern contraceptives in a peri-urban area: An analytical cross-sectional study. by Seth Amponsah-Tabi, Hannah Boatemaa Asante, Edward T Dassah, Eric Sarpong Ansong, Maxwell Kankam, Amponsah Peprah, Charles Senaya, Jude John Annan, Roderick Larsen Reindorff, Henry S Opare-Addo

“…<h4>Results</h4>39.8% of study participants had used their method of contraception for 2 years with 14.4% having used theirs for 4 or more years. …”
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Surface-Related Multiple Suppression Based on Field-Parameter-Guided Semi-Supervised Learning for Marine Data by Jiao Qi, Siyuan Cao, Zhiyong Wang, Yankai Xu, Qiqi Zhang

“…To address these challenges, we propose a field-parameter-guided semi-supervised learning (FPSSL) method to more effectively eliminate surface-related multiples. …”
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Application of gender and optimizing the function of the board of commissioners in supervising the practice of corporate earnings management by Gandy Wahyu Maulana Zulma, Misni Erwati, Fitri Chairunnisa

“…The urgency of this research is importantto empirically examine the impact of the characteristics of the board of commissioners on earnings management practices in Indonesia by considering gender diversification factors in optimizing the supervisory function of the company's board of commissioners. The sampling method used is purposive sampling with specific criteria on companies listed on the IDX with a research period of 2018-2019 with a total sample of 368 firm years of observation. …”
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Multiclass Supervised Learning Approach for SAR-COV2 Severity and Scope Prediction: SC2SSP Framework by Shaik Khasim Saheb, B. Narayanan, T.V. Narayana Rao

“…Although a CT scan is the most common method for diagnosis, CXR is the most frequently utilized since it is more accessible, quicker, and less expensive. …”
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Drought and rural communities: strategies to deal with its consequences (Case study: Border Rural of Zahedan Township) by masood safari aliakbari, mohammad reza poodineh, mohammad azadpour

“…However, some farmers have used more relatively simple and low cost methods that do not need to specialize and with the characteristics of border villages. …”
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Green Information Literacy and Public Libraries: Assessing Librarians\' Awareness, Attitudes and Practices in Environmental Conservation by Zeynab Siami, Hadiseh Heidari, Mahdi Mohammadi

“…The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software with descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Results: The librarians had a moderate understanding of green information literacy, with more than half being unfamiliar with the concept prior to the study. …”
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The Factors Influence the Biosecurity Management of Swine Farm in Mekong Delta, Vietnam by Nguyen Thi Anh Thu, Budi Guntoro

“…The study involved 240 swine farmers in Long An and Ben Tre provinces to determine social demographic characteristics and biosecurity management status and analyze the effects of social demographics on biosecurity management, including planning, implementation, controlling, and adjustment, which were collected by a random sampling method. A descriptive statistic and multiple linear regression analysis were employed to analyze the data. …”
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Menopause-Specific Quality of Life among Rural Women: A Community-based Cross-sectional Study in Kerala, India by V. L. Nissy, Gopika Gopinathan Bhaskaran, S. S. Lal, G. K. Mini

“…The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence and pattern of menopause-specific quality of life (MENQOL) and associated factors of rural women in Kerala, India. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional community-based study was conducted among menopausal women in the Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala using a multistage random sampling method. …”
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Reliability Analysis of Improved Type-II Adaptive Progressively Inverse XLindley Censored Data by Refah Alotaibi, Mazen Nassar, Ahmed Elshahhat

“…This study offers a newly improved Type-II adaptive progressive censoring with data sampled from an inverse XLindley (IXL) distribution for more efficient and adaptive reliability assessments. …”
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Comparison of lifestyle between hypertension patients and healthy people by S Fatourehchi, N Sotoodeasl

“…Materials and methods: Totally, 93 people (41 patients with hypertension and 52 non-hypertension cases) were selected by available sampling method. …”
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The association between workloads and health hazard among delivery riders in China by Ai-Lin Mao, Chun-Miao Tian, Chen-Xi Liu

“…IntroductionDrawing on the extended job demands-resources model, this study aims to identify the primary occupational health risks affecting delivery riders and explore mechanisms between workload and illness.MethodsA respondent-driven sampling method was employed to minimize data bias. …”
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Screening and Stability Analysis of Reference Genes for Gene Expression Normalization in Hybrid Yellow Catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco ♀ × Pelteobagrus vachelli ♂) Fed Diets Conta... by Chaohui Guo, Zihao Zhang, Meina Zhang, Guojun Guo, Guangqing Yu, Daoquan Zhao, Ming Li, Guoxi Li, Bianzhi Liu

“…The expression stability of these six reference genes varied depending on tissue, sampling time point, and SBM dosage. Additionally, more variations were found among different tissues than among different SBM levels or sampling time points. …”
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Investigating on the relationship between plant measurements of Parapholis incurva with environmental factors and water point distance in rangelands of Incheh Borun Golestan provin... by Amin Mahmodian, Ghasem Ali Dianati, jalil Alavi

“…The sampling method was randomized-systematic. In the sampling area, the presence of P. incurva species was recorded. …”
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Investigating the contributors to hit-and-run crashes using gradient boosting decision trees. by Baorui Han, Haibo Huang, Gen Li, Chenming Jiang, Zhen Yang, Zhenjun Zhu

“…Given the U.S. Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS) dataset, the model is trained and compared with the state-of-art methods (Classification and Regression Tree, Random Forest, and Logistic Regression). …”
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Spatial Distribution of Poverty Clusters and Its Prediction Algorithms: A Visual Analytics Approach to Understanding the Disparities of Poverty Across Zones by Ngong'ho Bujiku Sende, Snehanshu Saha, Leon Fidele Ruganzu Uwimbabazi

“…The hybrid method was employed because supervised learning methods struggle with discovering hidden patterns due to pre-defined labels while clustering approach lacks predictive accuracy metrics. …”
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Presenting a model for the psychological competencies of managers for selection in the social security organization by khalil khomideh, hasan rangriz

“…The underlying categories of the research were identified using the foundation's qualitative data analysis method, and the final model was validated using the partial least squares method. …”
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Peculiarities of the Functioning of the Taboo Lexicon in the Modern Western Cinematography by S. A. Pankratova

“…Informative basis of the study is comprised of more than 300 examples selected by the method of continuous sampling from 19 Western films and y means of the internet-resource scripts.com, as well as slang and jargon dictionaries.Results and discussion. …”
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