False-positive tolerant model misconduct mitigation in distributed federated learning on electronic health record data across clinical institutions by Maxim Edelson, Anh Pham, Tsung-Ting Kuo

“…Future work can apply our methodology to more sophisticated machine learning algorithms or scale the experiments in a large-scale learning scenario with more participating sites and larger sample sizes.…”
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Estimating canopy fuels across Europe with satellite data and allometric equations by E. Kutchartt, E. Kutchartt, J. R. González-Olabarria, J. R. González-Olabarria, N. Aquilué, N. Aquilué, A. Trasobares, F. Pirotti, F. Pirotti

“…Validation was carried out by comparing the results with higher-accuracy sampling methods, combining LiDAR data and field measurements in different European latitudes, typically applied on a smaller scale and with greater detail. …”
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Correcting for case-mix shift when developing clinical prediction models by Haya Elayan, Matthew Sperrin, Glen P. Martin, Niels Peek, Frieder Braunschweig, Jonas Faxén, Joakim Alfredsson, David A. Jenkins

“…This method uses a probabilistic similarity metric to re-weight data samples in the source set (before the case-mix shift) to more closely match the target set (after the case-mix shift), assuming the target set reflects the target population. …”
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Senegal’s Iodine Puzzle: Iodine Status, Salt Iodization, and Dietary Iodine Sources by Rita Wegmüller, Maguette F Beye, Ndeye F Ndiaye, Volkan Cakir, Ndèye Yaga Sy, Sitor P Ndoure, Maty D Camara, Malick Anne, Nafissatou B Lo, Jessica Rigutto, Germana H Leyna, Amid Abdelnour, Fabian Rohner, Nicolai Petry, James P Wirth, Valeria Galetti

“…Objectives: This survey assessed iodine status in nonpregnant females and examined dietary sources contributing to their iodine intake. Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2023 and was nationally representative. …”
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The efficacy of Telegram Messenger as a tool for enhancing argumentative writing among students in open and distance learning by Nazirah Md Yusof, Amelia Abdullah

“…Qualitative feedback from selected students indicated that Telegram Messenger encouraged participation and made the writing process more engaging and interactive. Research limitations/implications – The study involved a relatively small sample size of 60 students from two cases and lasted only 10 weeks. …”
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Undergraduate medical students’ perspectives on research education and their confidence in research skills: a cross-sectional study from Palestine by Ahmad Rjoub, Motaz Daraghma, Yazan Dumaidi, Mohammad A. Nour, Dalya Abusnaina, Tareq Fiqyat, Hamza A. Abdul-Hafez, Fadi Zaben, Malik Zaben

“…This study aimed to evaluate Palestinian medical students’ perspectives on the adequacy of research education and examine their confidence in research skills in an attempt to improve research teaching. Methods A cross-sectional, survey-based study design was used. …”
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Rubber Band Ligation versus Injection Sclerotherapy for the Management of Grade I and Grade II Haemorrhoids: A Prospective Interventional Study by Kanika Sharma, Ramachandran Ponniah Iyyappan, Ponmani Agasthiya Manimaran, Sanniyasi Saravanan

“…While both methods relieve symptoms and enhance patients’ quality of life, they vary in mechanisms, techniques, and outcomes. …”
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Likelihood of Leveraging Augmented Reality Technology to Promote HIV Prevention and Treatment Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Cameroon: Cross-Sectional Survey by Zhao Ni, Intan Maharani Sulistyawati Batubara, Jackson Jr Nforbewing Ndenkeh, Georges Bediang, Habakkuk Yumo, Xuehong Zhang, Sunyong Oh, Yuchen Zhao, LaRon E Nelson

“…The study findings will lay the groundwork for developing AR-based interventions to prevent and treat HIV in Cameroon and beyond. MethodsThis was a cross-sectional survey conducted in Yaounde, Cameroon, in which 637 adolescent girls and young women were recruited using a combination of multistage cluster and snowball sampling techniques. …”
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Women's enrollment in community-based health insurance and its determinants in Sidama national regional state, Ethiopia, 2024: A multilevel analysis. by Kare Chawicha Debessa, Keneni Gutema Negeri, Mesay Hailu Dangisso

“…Utilizing qualitative methods will yield insights into women's perceptions of CBHI, facilitating more effective strategies. …”
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Factors associated with willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine among residents of Hoima District, Mid-Western Uganda by John Turyagumanawe, Winfred Kansiime, Aggrey Byaruhanga, Juliet Babirye

“…We assessed the willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and associated factors among adult residents in Hoima District, Western Uganda. Methods: A cross-sectional study that employed concurrent mixed-methods comprising a survey and key informant interviews. …”
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Evaluation of the outcome of newborns in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) of hospitals in Mazandaran province during 2021 by Vajiheh Ghaffari, Mohammad Ghorbani

“…In this study, intubation was categorized as invasive ventilation, while other methods were classified as non-invasive ventilation. …”
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The burden of headache disorders in the adult population of Morocco: estimates, and a health-care needs assessment, from a cross-sectional population-based door-to-door survey by Najib Kissani, Latifa Adarmouch, Aboubacar Sidik Sidibe, Abderrahmane Garmane, Rachid Founoun, Mohamed Chraa, Andreas Husøy, Timothy J. Steiner

“…This study, collecting data from the same population-based sample, is the first to estimate headache-attributed burden not only in Morocco but, more widely, in the Maghreb countries of North Africa. …”
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Research Progress on Spectroscopic Analysis of Key Elements in Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel by Yan-lin WANG, Yu-ning YANG, Tao-xiang SUN

“…First, it is necessary to systematically study the chemical species and spectral patterns of different metal ions and establish a standard model to realize accurate analysis. Second, more efficient spectral analysis methods should be developed to meet the challenges of spectral overlap and baseline drift. …”
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Insight into Invertebrate Community in Solonchak Soil Type Using EDNA Metabarcoding – A Pilot Study by Lazić Cvijeta, Stefanović Milomir, Tubić Nataša Kočiš, Kuzmanović Ana, Radnović Dragan, Tamindžija Dragana, Milić Stanko, Vasin Jovica, Ninkov Jordana, Djan Mihajla

“…However, given the limited sample size, further studies should compare these two approaches using a more extensive dataset to better estimate their usefulness.…”
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Stochastic Analysis on the Resonance of Railway Trains Moving over a Series of Simply Supported Bridges by Tao Zhang, Taimu Jin, Jun Luo, Shengyang Zhu, Kaiyun Wang

“…The number theory method is employed to obtain the representative sample point sets of the random parameters, and the flow trajectories of probabilities for the TSB dynamics system are captured by a probability density evolution method (PDEM). …”
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DTCNet: finger flexion decoding with three-dimensional ECoG data by Fufeng Wang, Zihe Luo, Wei Lv, XiaoLin Zhu

“…To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel decoding method that transforms 2D ECoG data samples into 3D spatio-temporal spectrograms with time-stamped features via wavelet transform. …”
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The impact of psychological distance on preferences for prenatal screening and diagnosis for chromosomal abnormalities: A hierarchical Bayes analysis of a discrete choice experimen... by Tima Mohammadi, Wei Zhang, Aslam H Anis

“…<h4>Method</h4>A discrete choice experiment was conducted among a sample of pregnant women and a sample of the general Canadian population. …”
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ImagTIDS: an internet of things intrusion detection framework utilizing GADF imaging encoding and improved Transformer by Peng Wang, Yafei Song, Xiaodan Wang, Xiangke Guo, Qian Xiang

“…Furthermore, due to the serious class imbalance problem in IoT intrusion detection, we utilize Focal Loss to dynamically scale the model gradient and adaptively reduce the weights of simple samples to focus on hard-to-classify classes. Finally, we validate the effectiveness of the proposed method on the publicly available IoT intrusion detection datasets ToN_IoT and DS2OS, and the experimental results show that the proposed method achieves superior detection performance and higher robustness on class imbalance datasets compared to other remarkable methods.…”
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Development of a human analogue ADHD diagnostic system for family dogs by Barbara Csibra, Nóra Bunford, Márta Gácsi

“…Allowing for comparisons between ADHD vs. typical groups of family dogs, our method not only facilitates the improvement of the wellbeing of at-risk dogs, but also makes it more feasible to use dogs as a natural model species for studying ADHD.…”
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Newborn screening for sickle cell anemia in Antalya, Türkiye by Zeynep Öztürk, O Alphan Küpesiz, Gülsün Karasu, Vedat Uygun, Nihal Oygür, M Akif Yeşilipek

“…Blood samples were studied using the `Sickle Cell Short Program` test method on a Bio Rad Variant device. …”
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