Scaling Up Departmental Health Insurance Units in Senegal: A Mixed-Method Study by Valéry Ridde, Mouhamadou Faly Ba, Babacar Kane, Anouk Chouaïd, Adama Faye

“…The study uses a mixed-methods approach, utilizing concept mapping and a focus group to examine scaling up departmentalization. …”
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Identifying and surveying on Enterprise Architecture Issues and challenges in Iranian selected enterprises: Mixed method by Samira Parsa, Nastaran Hajiheydari, ebrahim abasi

“…Next, we used Q-methodology; it has been applied as a mixed method in this study. In this step we had 4 interviews with managers and experts to identify some more issues. …”
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The intelligent fault identification method based on multi-source information fusion and deep learning by Dashu Guo, Xiaoshuang Yang, Peng Peng, Lei Zhu, Handong He

“…To more accurately enhance the morphological features of faults and achieve their rapid, precise, and intelligent identification, this paper employs a multi-source information fusion method. …”
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FedEmerge: An Entropy-Guided Federated Learning Method for Sensor Networks and Edge Intelligence by Koffka Khan

“…This formulation introduces a principled way to quantify and reward data diversity, enabling an emergent collective learning dynamic in which globally informative updates drive convergence. Unlike existing methods that weigh updates by sample count or heuristics, FedEmerge prioritizes clients with more representative, high-entropy data. …”
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Optimization of the Meat Flavoring Production Process for Plant-Based Products Using the Taguchi Method by Varuzhan Sarkisyan, Anastasiya Bilyalova, Valentina Vorobyeva, Irina Vorobyeva, Alexey Malinkin, Vladimir Zotov, Alla Kochetkova

“…A heat map of the volatile content was constructed to facilitate a comparison of the samples. The study demonstrates the effectiveness of the Taguchi method in optimizing the production process of meat flavorings for plant-based products and provides valuable insights for the development of more balanced odor profiles.…”
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A temporal fusion method for modeling the rate of penetration during deep geological drilling by Yang ZHOU, Chengda LU, Min WU, Xin CHEN, Ningping YAO, Haitao SONG, Youzhen ZHANG

“…MethodsTo address these challenges, this study proposed a fusion method combined with temporal regulation for ROP modeling: the SVR-MDBO method. …”
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A method for detecting the rate of tobacco leaf loosening in tobacco leaf sorting scenarios by Yansong Wang, Yansong Wang, Chunjie Zhang, Chunjie Zhang, Mingjie Wu, Mingjie Wu, Ruilin Luo, Lin Lu, Zaiqing Chen, Zaiqing Chen, Lijun Yun, Lijun Yun

“…Additionally, a loss function with a monotonic focusing mechanism was introduced to increase the model’s learning capacity for difficult samples, resulting in a YOLO-TobaccoStem model more suitable for detecting tobacco stem objects. …”
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FY-4A/AGRI Cloud Detection Method Based on Naive Bayesian Algorithm by Guo Xuexing, Qu Jianhua, Ye Lingmeng, Han Min, Shi Mojie

“…Due to the use of dynamic surface type files and sufficient training sample sizes for deep and shallow waters, the overall cloud recognition accuracy of the method is relatively ideal in four seasons, with the best performance in summer and autumn. …”
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Research on navigation method in closed-canopy orchard based on 3D LiDAR by Zhigang ZHANG, Kaiyuan BAO, Wenyu ZHANG, Fan DING, Zongyi TONG, Fukang ZHOU

“…Newton’s interpolation method was used to interpolate the body-centered position data, and the random sample consensus (RANSAC) algorithm was used to fit the navigation path, i.e., NIL-RANSAC, after the interpolation was completed. …”
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Comparison and Optimization of Sr Isotope Analysis in Carbonate Rocks by Multiple-step Leaching Method by Xu PAN, Ziwei SUN, Jiwei GAO, Hongmei GONG, Xiaohong WANG, Meng DUAN, Yuanyuan XIAO

“…Therefore, the more conservative method proposed by Li, et al[29] is recommended for leaching unknown limestone samples, and B7-B9 are the target steps for leaching representative primary carbonate fraction. …”
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An Efficient Analytical Method for Determining the Effects of Silver Nanoparticles on Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Estuarine Water by Xiangyi HOU, Xiaoyang WANG, Yuanyuan ZHANG, Ruohan LIANG, Feng LU, Qianqian YANG, Xiaodan PU, Yan ZHANG, Keming QU, Xuzhi ZHANG

“…No major error (ME) was found, indicating that the EMGA method for measuring the effects of Ag NPs on V. parahaemolyticus in estuarine water samples is reliable. …”
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Estimation of Willingness to Pay for Life Cycle Eco-label Using Spike Model (A Case Study of Fresh Packaged Agricultural Products) by samaneh heydari, Leili Abolhassani, Morteza Molaei, Ali Firoz-zare

“…The studied population is willing to pay about 71% more for freshly packaged agricultural products with an eco-label than the sample price without a label. …”
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Influence of asphaltene precipitation on development effect of typical heavy oil reservoirs in eastern South China Sea by TU Yi, DAI Jianwen, YANG Jiao, WANG Yahui, MIAO Yun, ZHONG Xulin

“…This article took nine typical heavy oil reservoirs in PY Oilfield as an example， selected nine natural core samples with high， medium， and low content of asphaltene， and conducted critical pressure experiments for asphaltene precipitation by using viscosity and light transmission methods. …”
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Studying the Methods of Drought Coping by Farmers: (Case Study: Shirvan County of Northern Khorasan Province) by Ahmad Abedi Sarvestani, Khalil Ghorbani, Gohar Khaksar-Moghadam

“…The population of the study consisted of the farmers in Shirvan County in Northern Khorasan province, in which 350 participants were studied using cluster random sampling method. The required information was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire whose content validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability was approved by Kuder-Richardson method as 0.72. …”
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Deep Learning and Methods Based on Large Language Models Applied to Stellar Light Curve Classification by Yu-Yang Li, Yu Bai, Cunshi Wang, Mengwei Qu, Ziteng Lu, Roberto Soria, Jifeng Liu

“…The study furnishes 2 detailed catalogs illustrating the impacts of phase and sampling intervals on deep learning classification accuracy, showing that a substantial decrease of up to 14% in observation duration and 21% in sampling points can be realized without compromising accuracy by more than 10%.…”
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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL RECOGNITION METHODS USING EXAMPLES OF IDENTIFYING WORDS SPOKEN BY NATIVE SPEAKERS by Elchin Ismailov

“…In the proposed approach, the sound signal is considered as a onedimensional representation of sound wave oscillations with a certain sampling frequency. To implement the task, classical DTW and DDTW methods, as well as methods based on the Fourier transform, discrete and continuous wavelet transforms are used. …”
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The Impact of Online Learning on Digital Literacy Skills in Higher Education: Survey Methods and Test Analysis by Otang Kurniaman, Hadriana, Nur Islami, Zetra Hainul Putra, Zufriady

“…The research uses a survey method in the form of a questionnaire and tests through SPSS. …”
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Gambling and the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Quebec (Canada): protocol for a mixed-methods study by Magaly Brodeur, Sophie Audette-Chapdelaine, Annie-Claude Savard, Sylvia Kairouz

“…The objective of this study is to draw a portrait of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gamblers and to learn more about their experiences during the pandemic in the province of Quebec.Method and analysis This study has a sequential explanatory mixed-method design in two phases. …”
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A new dataset for measuring the performance of blood vessel segmentation methods under distribution shifts. by Matheus Viana da Silva, Natália de Carvalho Santos, Julie Ouellette, Baptiste Lacoste, Cesar H Comin

“…Interestingly, while some training sets lead to Dice scores as low as 0.59, a careful selection of the training samples results in a Dice score of 0.85. Thus, the VessMAP dataset can be used for the development of new active learning methods for selecting relevant samples for manual annotation as well as for analyzing the robustness of segmentation models to distribution shifts of the data.…”
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Association Between Infant Carrying Methods, Duration, and Trunk Position among Nursing Mothers of Lahore by Somia Faisal, Aroosha Nadeem, Shoaib Waqas

“…Objective: To determine the association between infant carrying methods, duration, and trunk position among nursing mothers of Lahore. …”
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