Pelvic Radiotherapy versus Radical Prostatectomy with Limited Lymph Node Sampling for High-Grade Prostate Adenocarcinoma by Christopher B. Baker, Andrew M. McDonald, Eddy S. Yang, Rojymon Jacob, Soroush Rais-Bahrami, Jeffrey W. Nix, John B. Fiveash

“…In this analysis, RT + ADT was associated with improved biochemical and metastatic control when compared to RP with limited LN sampling. How RT + ADT compares with more aggressive lymphadenectomy, as is currently our institutional standard, remains an important unanswered question.…”
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Evaluating AUC estimators across complex sampling designs: insights from COVID-19 patient data by Amaia Iparragirre, José María Quintana-López, Irantzu Barrio

“…This population has been sampled several times following different sampling designs, a logistic regression model has been fitted to each of these samples, and the AUC has been estimated using traditional and design-based estimators. …”
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A qualitative assessment of the acceptability of human papillomavirus self‐sampling and informational materials among diverse populations by Amanda F. Petrik, Jennifer S. Rivelli, Alison J. Firemark, Cheryl A. Johnson, Blake W. Locher, Sara Gille, Matthew J. Najarian, Alexandra M. Varga, Jennifer L. Schneider, Beverly Green, Rachel L. Winer

“…Methods We conducted qualitative interviews with patients, ages 30–65, who were Black/African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and/or transgender/nonbinary individuals assigned female at birth. …”
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Acceptability of self-sampling and self-testing for infections: a rapid systematic review on public users’ views by Aleksandra J. Borek, Caity Roleston, Runa Lazzarino, Mineli Cooray, Gail Hayward, Nia Roberts, Edward Blandford, Tom Fowler, Sarah Tonkin-Crine

“…Easier to perform and less invasive sampling approaches were more acceptable. However, some participants reported challenges to self-sampling/self-testing, such as not understanding instructions, pain/discomfort in collecting samples, and lack of confidence in interpreting results. …”
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A comparative analysis in monitoring 24-hour urinary copper in wilson disease: sampling on or off treatment? by Isabelle Mohr, Patrick Lamade, Christophe Weber, Viola Leidner, Sebastian Köhrer, Alexander Olkus, Matthias Lang, Andrea Langel, Patrischia Dankert, Melanie Greibich, Silke Wolf, Holger Zimmer, Patrick Michl, Aurélia Poujois, Karl Heinz Weiss, Uta Merle

“…Conclusion Off-therapy 24 h-UCE reflects the “free” copper pool more accurately than does urinary sampling. The study shows discordant results for both sampling methods in approximately half of the patients, revealing that interpretation of 24 h-UCE with respect to chelator-dosing decisions should be performed with caution.…”
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Sampling effort for community composition higher by a magnitude compared to species richness in passive acoustic monitoring by Kim Lindner, Sascha Rösner, Dana G. Schabo, Hicham Bellafkir, Markus Vogelbacher, Markus Mühling, Daniel Schneider, Nicolas Friess, Stephan Wöllauer, Bernd Freisleben, Nina Farwig

“…Our study demonstrates the relative importance of greater sampling effort especially for monitoring community composition, requiring more recording locations, duration and intervals in comparison to species richness. …”
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Low complexity radar signal classification based on spectrum shape by Liang YIN, Rui LIN, Xiaolei WANG, Yuliang YAO, Lin ZHOU, Yuan HE

“…In order to solve the problems of high computational complexity, low recognition accuracy of low signal to noise ratio (SNR) environment and low fidelity of simulation data in radar signal modulation recognition, a low complexity radar signal classification algorithm based on spectrum shape was proposed.Signal spectrum was normalized, feature parameters were extracted by spectrum sampling method, and then machine learning classification model was trained.The test results of the data generated by the radar signal source show that the classification accuracy of Barker code, Frank code, LFM code, BPSK, QPSK modulation and conventional radar signals is more than 90% (SNR≥3 dB).The algorithm has low computational complexity, can adapt to the change of signal parameters, and has good generalization.…”
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Advancing sustainable agricultural: A novel framework for mapping annual 30-m resolution national-level irrigated croplands by Enyu Du, Fang Chen, Huicong Jia, Jinwei Dong, Lei Wang, Yu Chen

“…This study presents an innovative method for mapping irrigated and rainfed croplands in mainland China with a local adaptive random forest classifier on the Google Earth Engine platform. …”
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Efficient multi‐perspective jamming feature perception network for suppressive jamming recognition with limited training samples by Minghua Wu, Yupei Lin, Dongyang Cheng, Xiaohai Zou, Bin Rao, Wei Wang

“…This method extracts features from the time‐frequency spectrum of jamming signals from multiple perspectives, including local, multi‐scale, cross‐space, and global, to obtain more robust and discriminative jamming features and improve recognition under limited training sample conditions. …”
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The Evaluation of importance of ergonomic behaviors in an Iranian petrochemical company by entropy by M Khandan, M Maghsoudipour, Sh Vosoughi

“…This study was conducted in Khuzestan petrochemical company, which is located in the south of Iran, in 2010. Methods: The methodology was based on the Ergonomic Behavior Sampling (EBS), and by entropy. …”
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Perception of animal welfare issues during Chinese transport and slaughter of livestock by a sample of stakeholders in the industry. by Xiaofei Li, Sarah Zito, Michelle Sinclair, Clive J C Phillips

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Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety among Non-native Teachers of English: A Sample from Turkey by Gökhan Öztürk

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Obtaining self-samples to diagnose curable sexually transmitted infections: a systematic review of patients' experiences. by Priyamvada Paudyal, Carrie Llewellyn, Jason Lau, Mohammad Mahmud, Helen Smith

“…Previous studies suggest that clinic-based screening programmes capture only a small proportion of people with STIs. Self-sampling using non- or minimally invasive techniques may be beneficial for those reluctant to actively engage with conventional sampling methods. …”
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Total protein content in samples of dry red wine from various manufacturers for quality and authenticity control by Gasanova Dariya, Yang Jun-Lin, Chen Xiao-Yi, Smirnov Sergey, Levashov Pavel

“…Wine quality control is performed, which is based on spectrophotometric determination of total protein content with use of Coomassie G-250 dye, combined with analysis of optical absorbance spectra of wine samples. This approach is characterized by simplicity of procedure, rapidity and high availability of reagents and equipment, and all this makes it applicable for quality control of wine by practically any laboratory, and for visual qualitative analysis in field and home conditions. 10 samples of dry red grape wine are analyzed, and total protein content varies by no more than 35% from the average value among all samples, which is 248 μg/mL. …”
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Accuracy and acceptability of self-sampling HPV testing in cervical cancer screening: a population-based study in rural Yunnan, China by Rufei Duan, Hongying Yang, Xiuwei Zhai, Jing Yu, Chen Lu, Wenmin Yang, Tingfeng Long, Yan Dao, Gaofeng Li, Yongchun Zhou, Hongyi Zheng, Fanghui Zhao, Yong-Tang Zheng, Yunchao Huang

“…Self-sampling HPV DNA testing demonstrated comparable clinical accuracy to provider-sampling test and were more accurate than that of mRNA test and AI-assisted cytology. …”
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Preparation of noninfectious scRNAseq samples from SARS-CoV-2-infected epithelial cells. by Raven M Osborn, Justin Leach, Michelle Zanche, John M Ashton, ChinYi Chu, Juilee Thakar, Stephen Dewhurst, Sonia Rosenberger, Martin Pavelka, Gloria S Pryhuber, Thomas J Mariani, Christopher S Anderson

“…Federal Select Agent Program, as of 2020, and only a subset of these are outfitted with the equipment needed to perform high-throughput molecular assays. Here, we describe a method for preparing non-hazardous RNA samples from SARS-CoV-2 infected cells, that enables scRNAseq analyses to be conducted safely in a BSL2 facility-thereby making molecular assays of SARS-CoV-2 cells accessible to a much larger community of researchers. …”
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Automated capillary electrophoresis analyses of dried blood samples after patient-centric volumetric absorptive microsampling by Richard Maršala, Miloš Dvořák, Pavel Kubáň

“…An automated method for the analysis of dried blood samples collected by volumetric absorptive microsampling (VAMS) is presented for the first time. …”
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E-Bayesian Prediction for the Burr XII Model Based on Type-II Censored Data with Two Samples by Hassan M. Okasha, Chuanmei Wang, Jianhua Wang

“…Both illustrative examples with real data and the Monte Carlo simulation are carried out to show the new method is acceptable. The results show that Bayesian and E-Bayesian predictions with the two kinds of loss functions have little difference for the point prediction, and E-Bayesian confidence interval (CI) with the two kinds of loss functions are almost similar and they are more accurate for the interval prediction.…”
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Influence of Loading Time of a Load Plate and Sample Size on the Measurement of Physical Properties of Resilient Materials by Kyoung woo KIM, Jun oh YEON, Kwan seop YANG, Myung jun KIM

“…Since magnitude of dynamic stiffness changes with an increase in loading time, it is necessary to examine the setting of the loading time for a load plate under test conditions. Samples of size 300×300 mm, rather than 200×200 mm, yielded more reliable results for compressibility measurement. …”
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Identifying Parental Feeding Patterns in a Spanish Sample of Toddlers Using a Latent Class Analysis by Mar Lozano‐Casanova, Silvia Escribano, Isabel Sospedra, Antonio Oliver‐Roig, Miguel Richart‐Martinez

“…The aims of this study are to: (a) identify different parental feeding styles in a Spanish sample using LCA; (b) explore the characteristics of the classes of different parenting styles, taking into account sociodemographic and psychological variables; and (c) compare the classification of parental feeding styles by assessment method: LCA versus the median split cut‐off point to determine high and low levels for each dimension. …”
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